Kristin Scott Thomas
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I wish my mother had been like that.
Was she glamorous, your mother?
My mother was incredibly beautiful.
I wouldn't say she was glamorous.
She was incredibly beautiful.
I mean, sort of extraordinarily beautiful.
But she didn't really have any money.
She had a certain style, I suppose, but she didn't have any money to be glamorous, do you know?
Can we talk about boarding school?
Oh, if you want.
It was really tough.
It was tough because it was just bad timing, basically.
So when I first went, it was just after my mother's second wedding.
We'd been bridesmaids at this wedding and then we had to... My stepfather was sent away to see... He was going to see.
And my mother moved with him down to wherever he was posted.
It was deemed that it was a good idea to put us into boarding school, so...
So daddy dies, mummy gets married to someone else, and then you're plonked in a boarding school, which was perhaps not the best idea.
How old were you?
I was eight.
My sister was seven.