Dame Emma Thompson's "great challenge" In 'Cruella' was walking in heels

She told Total Film: "My great challenge was to survive the heels the Baroness wears as I hate high heels.

"There was this one scene where I Was literally standing at the top of a flight of very slippery stairs in a pair of high heels, with a glass of Champagne [in one hand] and the three Dalmatians in the other – and a huge frock with a wig that's a foot high…

"I said to Craig (Gillespie, director), 'This is not going to end well. I'm going to be pulled down these stairs.'

"I didn't fall over until I got to the bottom of the stairs… but I did fall over."

Emma also admitted it was challenging having to play a rival to Emma Stone's Cruella De Ville, because they're such "good friends" in real life.

She said: "It was quite hard for me to have any friction with Emma because we're such good friends and love each other.

"I met her long before this project so I knew that we were going to have a good time."

The veteran actress was in love with her fashion designer character's wardrobe – but didn't take any of the garments home because they were so uncomfortable.

She said: "There were some costumes that were so beautiful, I didn't want to take them off.

"But in the end, you have to take them off because you're wearing a corset underneath and the corsets are fantastically uncomfortable.

"So that saved me from, you know, rushing off with half of them."