Kristin Scott Thomas Reclaims Tragic Childhood in My Mother’s Wedding

Kristin Scott Thomas Faced with the tragedy when she lost two fathers at the age of 11. Now she recovers this sorrow with her beginnings as a director, My mother’s marriage.

“I wanted to integrate my experiences as a child”, shares exclusively Scott Thomas, 65 years old US Weekly. “Each profile that has been written on me, contains a paragraph on the tragedy of my childhood and I want to somehow recover it as an adult and as a grandmother. And I wanted to be able to say:” Well, yes, I had a tragic childhood, but look where I am now? “And I think that’s what I try to say in this film is that terrible things can happen, but don’t hang on to that.

Scott Thomas lost his father, a Royal Navy pilot, in service when she was only 6 years old. His mother later remarried another Royal Navy pilot, who would continue to die in service five years later. This experience – as well as the exam of the public who accompanied him – led Kristin to write, direct and play in my mother’s marriage. The family dramatic follows three sisters (Scarlett Johansson,, Emily Beecham And Sienna Miller) Who reluctantly meets for their mother’s third marriage twice as large (Scott Thomas).

My mother’s marriage is now in theaters. Here, said Scott Thomas We Learn more about how she drew from her own tragedy, the experience of working with colleagues solid actors and more:

US Weekly: How did you choose the games of the film to remain authentic for your life, and what to do fictitious?

Kristin Scott Thomas: The only bits that are really true are the bits that are in animated sequences. These are my memories that I have somehow given to the film. The rest is sort of invented. So, it was really great, in fact, to be able to take these events that I lived as a little person, then to create another story around him. Not my story, another story. It was really exciting, to make a different world.

We: Why was it important to make it a project also focused on women?

KST: What I examine is the importance of men in our lives, in particular Father figures. I think that’s what I looked at without giving conferences on this subject. Just to say: “Look, you are really important”, because we are talking about maternity and things like this, but it is also important to understand the absence and presence of a male element in the lives of women. I wanted to take a look at that.

We: How would you describe each of the girls when we meet them for the first time in history?

KST: I always like to say that the three girls are in romantic disarray. It is catastrophic, their romantic life, and they are somehow slightly upset that their mother, in the sixties, has time for her life. You know, she is super happy, and everything goes well, then they are a little disappointed with her choice because they have the impression that he is not as good as their father. So you know, “Why does she take a gradient?”

We: Is there a girl you identify the most?

KST: To be honest, we are Magpies, the actors are magpies. We take a little here, a little over there, we fly this, we steal this. And I think that many characters I wrote are probably quite revealing about me. But I wouldn’t want to say where or how! [laughs] And [my] The character of Diana, the mother, is my goal as a mother. I would love to be this kind of brave and kind and wise.

We: Why were Emily, Sienna and Scarlett the three good actresses to play your daughters on the screen in this film?

KST: I’m going to start with Emily. I have been watching her for a few years. She is an extraordinary presence on a film and she is so original / There is no one else like her around. She has this incredible transparency, in a way, to her face. You can see each thought floating just like clouds. She is really incredible and very sensitive and very creative. Sienna, for me, as I wrote, I said: “It must be Sienna Miller.” Because I know Sienna would get what he “would slip to be an actress under the spotlight and have fun throwing it, in one way or another. I knew she would like that, even if I had never met her. So I was happy when I asked her to do it and she said yes right away. And then Scarlett, Scarlett was a big blow in the dark because I was looking for someone who had authority and vulnerability. … I wanted someone who could play a strength of character and determination and vulnerability. And Scarlett, I just thought: “She can do it. She is not English. But she can play English! So I called it.!

We: This is the third time that Scarlett has played your daughter. How has your relationship with her has changed over the years now that she is a woman [to husband Colin Jost] And mother?

KST: It is, because I met her for the first time at the age of 12. She was a little girl when I met her and now a super powerful woman with a wonderful career and a beautiful family. She is incredible. She is really great. She is quite a strength of character, but what is really great about her, which I really appreciated, because it could easily have gone to any direction is what she is a team player and how she quickly fell with everyone and got along. It was great.

We: You have also found your four weddings and a funerary costar and on a brother screen, James fleetWho plays your new husband. Has anyone made jokes about marrying your brother?

KST: No, thank God! I’m happy with that. He’s great. James Fleet, he really is. And he played my husband in another play that we did many years ago. He has always been in my mind.

We: Speaking of four marriages and funerals, this film, like my mother’s marriage, really balances marriage, love and comedy with a tragedy. What has this film taught you in preparation for this one?

KST: I think what I learned from something like four marriages is something sad and that something funny can get married, can go very, very well together in a story and that one validates the other. I think that’s what I was trying to capture. For example, with regard to my character in four marriages, the moment when she declares her love for the character played by Hugh Grant is a funny and sad moment. And everyone has a good time, then suddenly, the carpet is whipped under your feet. And, “Oh no, it’s really sad!” So I love being turned as a member of the public. I love to be surprised by something that goes comfortably fun to tearing. That’s what I really like.

We: I know you have met King Charles III several times. Have you ever talked to you about how your character with four bites bitten?

KST: No, I don’t – maybe I should talk about this next time!