Kristin Scott Thomas faced tragedy when she lost two fathers by the age of 11. Now, she reclaims that heartbreak with her directorial debut, My Mother’s Wedding.

“I wanted to integrate my experiences as a child,” Scott Thomas, 65, exclusively shares in the new issues of Us Weekly. “Every single profile that has been written about me, contains a paragraph about the tragedy of my childhood and I want to kind of reclaim that as an adult and as a grandmother. And I wanted to be able to say, ‘Well, yeah, I did have a tragic childhood, but look where I am now?’ And I think that’s what I ‘m trying to say in this film, is that terrible things can happen, but don’t hang on to that. Just move forward. That’s what I’m trying to express in a light hearted way.”

Scott Thomas lost her father, a Royal

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