“Being a mother has changed your life,” Kristin Scott Thomas told me via Zoom. The actor, who had the eldest of three children in her 20s, became famous after that, winning the BAFTA for her performance in 1994 Four weddings and funerals and Oscar nominated her role in 1996 UK patient.
“It’s not just the arrival of the kids,” Scott Thomas added. “Every change is affected by your relationship with the kids.”
With Scott Thomas breeding, now in her 20s and 30s, she has been passionate about relating to generations. This is the core of her director’s debut. My mother’s weddingThis Week: The Feeling of Being a Mother for an Adult Women.
My mother’s wedding Follow Catherine, Victoria and Georgina’s three sisters, who get together for their mother Diana’s wedding. Diana’s first two husbands, the girl’s father, were both naval pilots, and they all continued to fight against the loss of the devastating plane crash. Catherine (Scarlett Johnson), the eldest daughter and the navy captain, remembered them the most. Victoria (Sienna Miller), a tenacious actor who has no choice but to rely on the media feed to die. The youngest Georgina (Emily Beecham) finds herself in a complicated state of self-pity. No one is ready to embrace their new stepfather, nor Diana’s new discovery happiness-try to remind them that their father is considered flawed like all of us.
Scott Thomas, who plays Diana, reports that filming the movie with Johansson, Miller and Beecham “is like driving a very fast, great car with millions of buttons. They just turn on sixpence, are totally smart, do it smart, take notes, sometimes quarrels, and are great.” She directed for the first time: “It’s exciting, horrible, exciting, I’ve never been so happy.”
Although fictional, My mother’s weddingBreaded by Scott Thomas and her husband, journalist John Micklethwait, keen introspectiveness, comes from a very personal place: Scott Thomas’ own father and stepfather were both naval pilots who died in similar crashes at ages 5 and 11, respectively. “About eight years ago, I realized that my younger brother had absolutely zero memory of his father, and I was the eldest of five children, the guardian of memory,” she said. “Scott Thomas recalled that this trauma was a precious thing: “You stick with it and keep it for yourself, and you don’t let anyone else get along with it. But you really keep going until you do that.”
Scott Thomas recently worked on Apple TV+ spy thriller Diana Taverner, director of Counterintelligence Agency Slow horse After years of living in France, she returned to England. She moved to Paris as a teenager and soon fell in love with the French way of filmmaking: “I like to make small movies with 30 people (including actors) on the call sheet,” she said. So, in her first project as director, Scott Thomas set out to create the same comfort in her scenes, setting up a base camp near the houses being filmed. “What happened was three actresses, I always called ‘girls’, getting closer,” she said. “End, they started to look like each other.”
Spread throughout the process My mother’s wedding It is a series of animation vignettes, Scott Thomas’s scattered memory of his father. They were working with Iranian artist Reza Riahi, who hand-painted the scenes on glass. “They have beautiful deliciousness and slight transparency, which is very gorgeous and hard to recreate,” she said. She started with these precious mini movies and allowed the rest of the movie to grow from there.
