EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Scott Thomas enjoys how she provided Scarlett Johansson , the star of her directorial feature debut My Mother’s Wedding , with a humungous Royal Navy warship to symbolize a woman working high up “in a man’s world.” With a wry smile, she says, “I think that my Naval links helped a lot.”

During a sit down with the grand dame of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses and BAFTA winner for Four Weddings and a Funeral , Scott Thomas also exclusively reveals that she’ll return to the stage in a West End revival of The Cherry Orchard , who – in opposition to Johanssen’s character – will see her play a woman who’s been brought low in that man’s world.

We begin with My Mother’s Wedding .

There are echoes of Chekhov’s Three Sisters in Thomas’s semi-autobiographical movie

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