“Becoming a mother changes your life,” Kristin Scott Thomas tells me over Zoom. The actor, who had the eldest of her three children when she was in her 20s, rose to fame just after that, earning a BAFTA for her performance in 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral and an Oscar nomination for her role in 1996’s The English Patient.

“It’s not just the arrival of kids that seizes everything up,” Scott Thomas adds. “Every single change is affected by your relationship with your children.”

With Scott Thomas’s brood now in their 20s and 30s, she’d been keen to play with the relationships that emerge across generations. And so came the idea at the heart of her directorial debut, My Mother’s Wedding , out this week: what it’s like to be a mother to grown women.

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