The `Much Ado About Nothing` actor Emma Thompson has recently opened up about campaigning to win an Academy Award and how it made her "seriously ill."

"Both times I had to do the Oscars, I got seriously ill," Thompson said in an interview with Radio Times. "I found the pressure and glare of it too much. It`s astonishing. And then afterwards, you want to lie down in a dark room. You think, `Please don`t ask me any questions or make me talk about myself.` I quickly developed a sort of allergy to that part of the job," reported Deadline.