HOLLYWOOD star Emma Thompson has told how she hopes to "manage the fear" and avoid nausea when she returns to the London stage in a musical production of Sweeney Todd.

The Oscar-winning actress will star in the show at the English National Opera's London Coliseum next year, alongside Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel.

Terfel, 48, will play the Fleet Street barber. "If I could manage the fear without the nausea I will be happy," said Thompson.