Harold Pinter's play Betrayal, in which Kristin Scott Thomas is about to star at the Comedy theatre in London, explores a love affair lived backwards. I don't want to have to be adorable. "I do feel that," she says. And it was a chance to work again with Ian Rickson. She apologies profusely when she dashes in at last, pulls off her sunglasses, settles into the booth. ", Did she find it boring playing love interests? Emma Thompson. I mean I'm not going to attempt to do an impersonation of Joan Bakewell, but it's fascinating to know it is somewhere there in background. One of the things that has disappeared with that feeling, probably not coincidentally, is the debilitating depression that Scott Thomas was plagued by, from time to time, as a younger woman and of which she has spoken eloquently in the past. I think it's my stage of life, isn't it?" You can also do leading roles that are riveting, but they tend to be – well, certainly in my world – they're the lower-budget, more arthouse films, because I'm not on the right list to be asked to do those really great meaty roles that you see Meryl Streep or Cate Blanchett doing. And then I was going to move over there and they were all going to watch me. I have been a very, very sad person in my life, but I'm not any more.". Even for a woman who suggests that her acting has always been driven by a need to scare herself, it was the most terrifying thing she had ever done. Anxiety pulses through our conversation. I'm sort of liberated from expectation." "Paris is home. Kristin, 59, whose episode airs tomorrow, grew up in a naval family. Did this dent her confidence? She sees him at weekends and of course feels guilt about not being there all the time. She once remarked – accurately – that it had become "impossible to read anything about myself without the words 'ice' or 'thaw' — and to be honest, I am bored by being judged and weighed up by 'writers'." Relationships. I can make films in France and do theatre over here. I just wanted to be at home. Kristen Scott-Thomas, that doyen of actresses who habitually play hard-faced, toffee-nosed, upper-class English aristos, here takes the role of an ex-pat Parisian doctor, randomly kidnapped by a man she doesn't appear to recognize and who gradually begins to gain some semblance of humility when it appears that the reasons for her abduction are those of revenge. Because she did have an abrasive nature, but there's so much love in that woman. In the past, Rickson suggests, Scott Thomas has sometimes been too easily defined by her bone structure and her Cheltenham ladies' college accent. I didn't like the way people approached me after films, with this image in mind, made to look perfect through a beautiful lens, my hair blowing in the wind, perfect shade of lipstick, all huge and magnified. What if I faint right now?" she asks. I didn't fall over. Keep out. British/French actress. I always remember one amazing dinner where I found myself between Harold Pinter and Peter Brook, and trying desperately to retain every second of it, and not to say anything silly. ", What kept her going? Her usual voice resumes: "That actor thing, the fraud thing, the fear of being found out. Who knows, when you write this, I may be down in the doldrums again. For a while, her success meant that she became cast in a succession of limiting roles. Robert Redford's took six months, Sydney Pollack's took five months, and I'd been asked to do this Bérénice, and I was off. She mimes flicking through it. You lose that progression with which we make sense of things, so it's more like shards of people's lives strung together.". One way of looking at the progression of Scott Thomas's own career is as something of a comparable journey (though she started from a far more liberated place). "When I was starting out, it was such a defining thing for me as an actress, it was a huge part of who I was. She was encouraged to apply to drama school, and won a place at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre, where she met "a really great teacher-mentor, a very eccentric actor, who sang a lot, and liked wacky things", as well as François Olivennes, the then-medical student who would become her husband, and father to her three children. Her two older children – Hannah, in her early 20s, and Joseph, in his late teens – have moved to Britain, and she lives in Paris with her youngest son, George, who is nine, and enjoys taking him to school, and walking their dog, and seeing friends. And as a 23-year-old actress it was very, very important. - Premiere Of "Il Y A Longtemps Que Je T'Aime" - Arrivals - TIFF 2008 "Completely. . "I can't bear it.". So very bright and attractive. I felt so lucky, as a young woman, to be there.". 76.4k Followers, 199 Following, 740 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Kristin Scott Thomas (@kristinscottthomas) No, I don't want to do that. It was a very unnerving situation for me having to say no to Harold Pinter, though. . And there's that strange waxy look that I find disturbing. @kiracochrane. They love us! If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction." ", Scott Thomas talks with affection of Pinter, whom she met several times in Paris. Here she talks about the appeal of theatre and this remarkable new flowering of her acting career, Kristin Scott Thomas: 'It's the most amazing feeling of liberation', Kristin Scott Thomas photographed at the Comedy Theatre, London. I wonder whether the experience gave her a strong sense of her own mortality, of a need to achieve as much as she could, as quickly as possible, and she says "No, funnily enough, it's given me a huge distrust. Is she completely free from that? Everybody knows something about that." He recalls how, even by the end of the Broadway run of The Seagull, after months in the play, she would still be pestering him for notes about her performance. "Which one shall we have today? With that perfect blend of English reserve and Parisian chic, Kristin Scott Thomas had a reputation for iciness. Kristin Scott Thomas is late for our breakfast at the Quo Vadis club in Soho. And I really love to make films in France because they have really great women's roles, still. People say she was mean, so you think, I want to show a person underneath that. Most of her interviewers over the years have explained her capacity for scene stealing, for always drawing your eye to her in a crowd, in terms of her cheekbones, the way the camera loves them. And aren't I fantastic!' Over the years Scott Thomas has developed a reputation for froideur in interviews, which she now puts down to this kind of self-disdain. The moment that Kristin Scott Thomas knew she didn't want to be a typical movie star, the moment it seems she switched from playing romantic leads to infinitely more interesting roles, was when a director told her she should make her character more appealing. It was an opportunity to reappraise Mimi, she says, because "she got a bad rap, really. It is a temptation, though, that she firmly resists. The acclaimed Cornish actress Dame Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, to Deborah (Hurlbatt) and Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas. I'd say the play is really a lot about that moment when a woman gains independence. The play begins with the characters locked in open recrimination and bitterness, and ends, seven years earlier, with them in thrall to furtive passion. And of course the Dame looked super stylish … We had a psychoanalyst in for a session, we went to see Pinter's widow, Antonia Fraser… Kristin responds with great intelligence to all of that." ", Has she ever been tempted down that route? "When you go from the age of eight to 18, just girls, that's enough, thank you. International Women’s Day: Stars share their words of wisdom, from Kristin Scott Thomas and Tayari Jones to Ella Eyre and Kathy Burke. The film was a disaster. There is less wastage, of time or money like there often is in Hollywood. "Is it middle age? . When Scott Thomas arrives, she slips into the booth, and fixes me with an expression that's not scary, but wary, eyes framed with a frown. In an effort to cope, her mother packed Kristin off to boarding school, where she was left to make sense of the losses on her own. I had that in spades. Her excitement at being reunited with the director is something he shares. The Oscar nomination she received for The English Patient led to Hollywood films in which she became the romantic interest of men about twice her age – Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer, Harrison Ford in Random Hearts. "The first time I went on stage in London, I have never been so scared in my life," she says. And so, before we meet, as I wait for her in Claridge's dining room – with its beautiful but poisonous-looking plants – I brace myself. They were very long shoots. Then Suzanne falls in love with the man hired to build the office. But I like to be busy, too." She thinks she "would be a basket case" if she had moved there, partly because of the pressure to have cosmetic surgery. After all, Scott Thomas's best work is not about looking doe-eyed and flicking her hair; instead it's defined by froideur, then thaw. . "It's all all over now," she says determinedly, when I ask about her sense of absence. But every time you do something, and it works, you're getting braver and braver. As a parent myself to three children that is always frightening. Kristin Scott Thomas Photos - Actress Kristin Scott Thomas arrives at "Il Y A Longtemps Que Je T'Aime" premiere during the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival held at The Visa Screening Room at the Elgin Theatre on September 10, 2008 in Toronto, Canada. Kristin Scott Thomas was previously married to François Olivennes (1987 - 2005).. Kristin Scott Thomas has been in relationships with Tobias Menzies (2005).. About. "There is one bit which we have been doing this morning where Jerry, my lover, confides that his wife is a really good doctor and works hard and looks after her kids, and my character realises she is a housewife, she has nothing for herself. I used to use it a bit as a shield I could hide behind, something to explain me, as it were. Maybe she will dislike me, or I her, or both. Kristin Scott Thomas to direct first film in movie comeback Star to take on romantic drama The Sea Change as she returns to film-making three years after saying she had grown tired of … 13 talking about this. As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. Her father, a Naval pilot, was killed in a crash when she was five. ", She separated from her husband in 2005 and is now divorced, but there was a time, years back, when they toyed with moving to Los Angeles. In Vogue 's January issue, Giles Hattersley met a woman reborn as she returns to the big screen as a vivacious Clementine Churchill. Having proved to herself she could do it for real, though, that she could properly affect people, the guilt has gone, pretty much, and with it some of the more defensive reflexes that she used to carry around with her. I'm just worried about people. I had got to the point where I was really fed up with playing characters who were quietly tearing their hearts out, and I wanted to do something less constraining. She now, she insists, eyes bright behind her round owlish glasses, is almost happy to talk ("as long as you don't say I'm scary"). But I had no confidence anyway. All of these things that were going through my head. "I don't think it was a parent literally, in my case," she says, "but you are certainly acting to please an authority in some way. She didn't enjoy it much. I didn't pretend I was sick! It's her own thing and her own space and she does it for herself.". Playing in The Seagull on Broadway was very empowering for her, and in some ways I'd say it allowed her to do these extraordinary films like I've Loved You So Long. Kristin Scott Thomas (pictured) admits she would consider having cosmetic surgery because she feels like an ‘old ragbag’ next to her younger co-stars. In 2006 Scott Thomas separated from her husband of 17 years and father of her three children, the Parisian obstetrician François Olivennes, a split which coincided with a brief involvement with her then leading man Toby Menzies. 131, Iss. All the while, she was finding ways to make sense of her grief, thinking of "advantages" to what had happened to her, such as "at least I never saw my parents argue, and at least it was quick, and at least there was no thinking, is he going to die, is he going to die, is he going to die? ", She certainly does, and she seems settled too. ", She has been asked to do Betrayal a couple of times before – no doubt in part because as an actress she has a special ability to shift quickly from innocence to experience, and in part because of the vague hint of life mirroring art – but previously she turned it down. "That sense of being such a forward-moving woman. "And then here I was, this English girl doing Racine in Paris," she says. ", She and her four younger siblings, "lived in the middle of the country, we were completely free and wild but, you know, shit happened". There's one more thing that intrigues me: for someone so riven by nerves, what drives her? And that means I can basically have two careers. I mean, I may have been terrified, but I still did it. In her more recent films she seems able to play that ability off against a new kind of vulnerability. "Some of that. Twitter. She wanted to cross over to the acting course, but was told that she wasn't talented enough; if she wanted to play Lady Macbeth, they said, she'd have to join an amateur dramatics group. Sky News speaks to Kristin Scott Thomas, who stars in a new adaptation of Daphne du … Kristin Scott Thomas is a flawless Mrs Danvers in Ben Wheatley’s conventional take on the Du Maurier classic Published: 18 Oct 2020 . She grimaces, before saying that what she "can't bear is seeing [people who look] like photocopies. Her father was a pilot for the British Royal Navy and died in a flying accident in 1964. She laughs. "François was going to get a job at UCLA, but then we didn't want to do that, because we wanted to bring our children up in Europe, rather than America." It's my nature. Kristin Scott Thomas is a 60 year old British Actress. My neighbour pretended to shoot me and I fell to the ground and, as a good Catholic, I tried to fall in the shape of Jesus [on the cross]. "I am," she says, with a look of proper joy. Having established herself in particular in The English Patient and Four Weddings and a Funeral as a kind of inaccessible beauty, did she discover a new way to connect? I don't feel the need for that any more.". You don't have to dig too deep into Scott Thomas's biography to imagine the psychology of that former need for approval. But [in general] I don't want to just be a kind of bouncing board for men to flex their muscles and look brave and courageous and understanding, while I just look bleary-eyed in the background. "I was used to cinema questions – you know, 'what's it like to work with Robert Redford? Partly, she says, doing this play makes good an old disappointment. ", "Yes," she says quickly, "but only a very little bit. For a memory of something gone, something lost. Or that she has won superlative reviews for pretty much all her films, from the very good (The English Patient, Gosford Park) to the rather bad (Bitter Moon, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Easy Virtue). Kristin Scott Thomas on the 'foul' woman she's been waiting to play. But the braver you get, the more interesting it becomes, and the possibilities become wider, and," she pauses, "well, you're less afraid of making a complete fool of yourself, I suppose. Because if I'm watching that on screen I get irritated." And it's always your children…", Her youngest son, who is 11, is back at home in Paris, at school. Actually I think in some ways it is allowing yourself to be less yourself. she says. She sits back with a sigh. And then I met him in much nicer circumstances at dinner parties in Paris with Antonia. British/French actress. . "But anyway after a night or two I had a revelation, which was just this: I could do it by myself. Dame Kristin Scott Thomas has refused to say ‘thank you’ when someone compliments her on looking good for her age. What enables her to make such big leaps – moving from Britain to Paris at 18, leaving Hollywood for the stage? It's strange having watched it because there are bits of the play, certain lines where I can hear exactly her voice as he must have remembered it. The Grand Tour host, 60, insists … Does she recognise that shift? She's referring to the death of her father when she was four, and that of her stepfather six years later. I can't tell you how fantastic that is. But partly I think it is growing older, growing up. And I like the way they work. She always used to be a dreamer as a child, "always on planet Kristin, miles away, dreaming about running down Normandy beaches into the arms of Monsieur Whoever." It suddenly struck me that I was going to stand up there in front of 1,200 people and they were all going to listen to what I said. Kristin Scott Thomas is back on the London stage in Harold Pinter's Betrayal. She was born in Redruth, Cornwall in 1960. "I just get really worried about things. People would be scared of that idea. The easy temptation, interviewing her, is to suggest this liberation in her acting was brought about by dislocations in her life. "It starts late 60s and goes through to 1977," she says. Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the actress Kristin Scott Thomas. And you see them navigating the same world as you did. She played the romantic foil to Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer, to Harrison Ford in Sydney Pollack's Random Hearts – and then she dropped it all and did a tour of Racine's drama Bérénice around France. You get on and make the film. They think we're sexy." I have been looking for a tiny flat. Unofficial fanpage. I think that's really typical of children who grow up with only one parent. "Yeah. No tricks. T he moment that Kristin Scott Thomas … JEREMY Clarkson has been left “heartbroken” after his crush Kristin Scott Thomas unfollowed him on Instagram. No editor was going to work it out. ; Name * ", The comment is typical of Scott Thomas: modest to the point of masochism. But it's partly to do with what happens when you come off stage," she says. Actors Contact Form; Any information provided in this contact form may be processed by ITG in accordance with ITG’s Privacy Notice.
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