John Wilson

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This Cultural Life · Kristin Scott Thomas · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

But also your life could have been so different if she hadn't grabbed you by the scruff of the neck and thrown you towards that audition.

I think that was a very, I mean, a total turning point.

Yeah.

Your next choice for This Cultural Life, Kristen Scott Thomas, is the musician Prince, who, in 1986, cast you in the lead role of a film that he directed and starred in called Under the Cherry Moon.

How did you land a lead role in a Prince film?

Well...

I was actually doing something which was I was much more drawn to theatre and I didn't really want to be a film actress.

I wanted to carry on in the theatre and I was doing a play by Marguerite Duras in a field in Burgundy.

I got my first review, which was the best review I've ever had.

Downhill since then.

And then I listened to my aunt's phone and said, they want local actresses who live in France to play bit parts in the Prince movie.

Do you want to do it?

Of course I wanted to do it.

You know, I was listening to Prince on repeat all summer.

So I trotted along to that.

And suddenly there was a sort of kerfuffle around the camera and they said, would you like to audition?

for the lead and i you know i nearly fell over of course i would audition to the really so i auditioned did a little bit of the lead bit and they said and would you like to meet prince this evening so yeah but i mean it was sort of unbelievable another kind of enormous turning point and i went off and did the film and learned so much i didn't even know you had to do the same thing twice when you did a close-up or a you know a wide shot or a close i didn't know you had to match things

Under Cherry Moon, Prince plays one of a pair of brothers who are sort of... They're kind of doing cocktail bar pianist and they're taking out old ladies.

They're kind of on the make, aren't they?

They're on the make and I'm a very rich girl.

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