Emma Thompson thought she was going to die in an Arctic Monkeys mosh pit
'There were 90,000 teenagers and me with my 54-year-old mate'
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Your support makes all the difference.Emma Thompson has recounted her experience of being “crushed” in a mosh pit at an Arctic Monkeys gig.
The Oscar-winning star was attending Reading Festival in 2014 when she found herself in the middle of a crowd of thousands of the Sheffield rockers' fans with her 54-year-old friend.
Thompson, who described the experience on Friday night's episode of The Graham Norton Show (27 October), said: “There were 90,000 teenagers and me with my 54-year-old mate. I initially thought how nice it was until two things happened.
"First, I got into the mosh pit while the Arctic Monkeys were playing and I was so crushed in and moved up and down by people I thought ‘Oh, now is when I die. I always wondered when it would be, but I didn’t picture this.'
“Then the toilets overflowed and you had to walk through it,” the Love Actually star added. “I thought ‘This literally is hell.'
“It was grim and I am never going again.”
Arctic Monkeys have been on hiatus since 2013, but a release date for their sixth record is expected to arrive before the end of the year.
The band, led by Alex Turner, are hotly tipped to headline Glasgow's TRSNMT Festival next July following a promo that may or may not have featured the logo for their fifth chart-topping record, AM.
The Graham Norton Show airs on BBC One tonight (27 October) at 10.35pm
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