Kristin Scott Thomas is rewriting her story by writing it herself.

The British dame, 65, makes her directorial debut in “My Mother’s Wedding,” a film she co-wrote based on her own life growing up in a single-parent household without a father. She also stars.

Speaking to TODAY.com on Aug. 6, Scott Thomas says that while she added “lots of artistic liberties,” there’s at one element of the movie that aligns with her upbringing completely.

“The part that is absolutely true and is my experience as a child is all the memories that Scarlett Johansson character carries in her head,” Scott Thomas says. “That all happened to me, and those are my exact memories.”

“And that was sort of the seed for the film in the beginning — wanting to explain that to my family, what I remembered about our fathe

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