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London (CNN) --
We're in the middle of awards season, but the experience may not be as light-hearted or glamorous as viewers might think.
Emma Thompson has two Academy Awards to her name, but revealed that the Oscars left her feeling "gravely ill."
The British actress, who plays Miss Trunchbull in "Matilda the Musical" on Netflix, responded to a question about whether she has found it "difficult to deal with fame" in an interview with the Radio Times.
He won an Oscar in 1993 for his leading role in the film "Howards End" and another for the screenplay for "Sense and Sensibility" three years later.
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The 63-year-old, who also starred in the Ang Lee-directed film, wrote the screenplay based on the classic Jane Austen novel.
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The “Nanny McPhee” star told the mag: “Both times I had to do the Oscars I got really sick.
I realized that the pressure and the stares were too much for me.
It's amazing, and then you want to lie down in a dark room.
You think, 'Please don't ask me questions or make me talk about myself.'
She added: "I quickly developed something of an allergy to that part of the job.
I'm lucky, I think it must be horrible if you play roles like James Bond."
Thompson did not elaborate on his illness or the circumstances of any of the events.
Emma Thompson attends a special screening of 'Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical' at Darling at the Park Lane Hotel on December 7, 2022 in New York City.
(Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
A fuller interview was made available on the magazine's Radio Times podcast, in which Thompson said he felt fame can be a "highly toxic condition" but that being grounded helps.
He said he splits his time between his home in Scotland and one in north-west London.
"I've lived in a limited environment, in the sense that I've lived on the same street in London my whole life," he told the podcast, adding: "You can't just strut around in a cab in Louis Vuitton... like that. That helps."
Last year, Thompson described how the collapse of her marriage to Kenneth Branagh in 1995 affected her mental health.
It came after she discovered that Branagh had been involved with his "Howards End" co-star Helena Bonham Carter.
“I was half alive.
Any sense of being a lovable or dignified person was completely gone,” she said.
In 2003, Thompson married Greg Wise, her "Sense and Sensibility" co-star.
The couple share two children.
