Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome to Tover Manners. I'm Jessie Ware and I'm here with mum in Clapham who's done all the cooking today. Thank you mum. How are you?
Well, we haven't seen each other for ages. No, we haven't seen each other for ages and I'm just back from Sri Lanka and I've got to shout out Jane Howell. Who's Jane Howell? My new best friend, the American ambassador in Sri Lanka, darling. And Theresa Mahoney, who is the British High Commissioner. Oh, my goodness. We're both Table Manners devotees, darling. Oh, well, there you go. There you go.
Stopping for pics in Colombo. Yeah, stopping for pics in Colombo. We're global, darling. Love it. What are we eating today? I've made a kind of Vietnamese chicken salad. So it's called crispy butter chicken salad. But it's kind of got a kind of Vietnamese edge to it. Great. And I've done some jasmine rice.
And then I've made just a little apple cake with some nice creme fraiche, the expensive sort.
Lovely. Well, only the best for a dame. A dame. We have dame Kristen Scott Thomas coming on today to talk about her new film that she directed and wrote and starred in. Which we've been lucky enough to see. Yes, My Mother's Wedding. Starring Kristen Scott Thomas, Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller.
Yes.
got so many other people yeah it's fantastic so she's coming over for lunch kristin scott thomas you will know from whether you've seen her on stage winning olivier's for the seagull i saw in the seagull at the royal court uh four weddings and a funeral horse whisperer english patient now her best role ever slow horses dame kristin scott thomas coming up on table manners Welcome.
Thank you very much. You look fantastic.
I do feel very welcome. Do you? Yes, it's very nice. That's good. You walked in. You're very happy that you smelt food. Yes. Are you hungry?
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Chapter 2: What inspired Kristin Scott Thomas to direct 'My Mother's Wedding'?
But I think you're French, really, so don't you only have a big lunch? I don't always have a big lunch, but I do think lunch is an important thing. And I like... It's a bit of a myth that French people go off and have huge lunches. They often have just a salad or something. But they often have wine with it, don't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But then, you know, when I first went to France, I think it was only like in the 70s that they stopped giving... wine to children in school canteens. You're kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What do you think they were giving them?
Well, they would have a little, you know, there would be a carafe of wine on the table for lunch for over 16s or whatever it was. And and but in those days, wine was a very different product. And for instance, now, I don't know what what the alcohol content on that is.
Have you got glasses on? Is it? Is it?
Oh, my God. All of us squinting. Thirteen percent. That's quite high. Much lower alcohol content. So maybe an 11 or a 12 max, probably.
And they all behave very well in the afternoon.
And they would cut it with water. But I'm not saying it's a good idea and we should bring back wine at lunch for school children. But, you know, the world's changed, you know.
Did you bring your children up in France?
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Chapter 3: How did Kristin's upbringing influence her career choices?
Where did you audition for Cherry Moon? In France? In France, yeah. Oh, wow. Was the prince over there?
Yeah, he was there, yeah. Because they were making the film in the Victorian studios down in Nice.
Oh, wow. So for people that don't know, you were in Prince's film Under the Cherry Moon. Is it called Under the Cherry Moon? It's called Under the Cherry Moon, yeah. And you thought you were going just as like for one of the girl parts. Yeah. But you got the lead. Yes. And you had to snog Prince a lot.
I had to snog Prince quite a lot, yeah.
And be in sexy cars with him.
Yeah. I had to do all of that.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Kristin face during her time in drama school?
And that was kind of like your first acting job, right? That was my first acting job. Talk about baptism of fire.
I mean, it was amazing.
But what's he singing then? What was his album out there? The album that accompanied the film was called Parade. So it was just after Around the World in a Day, is that right? Around the World of Music? I think the one with Raspberry Beret on it. Oh, right.
And that's what I had been listening to over and over again on my little Walkman that somebody brought me back from Japan because you couldn't buy them in France yet. And that's what I'd been listening to all summer when I was camping in a school because we were performing a Marguerite Duras play...
in a field in burgundy and suddenly i get this call to go to paris to go and audition for this man i'd been listening to all summer i mean it was all spooky and i go along was he in the audition no but there were lots of people around the camera a bit like that and then suddenly there's a huddle somebody pokes his head up and says would you be interested in auditioning for the lead
And when did you, you batted that imposter syndrome away at that point. You were like, let's go.
No, no, no, no, no. The imposter syndrome was very much lurking at all times. But I thought, well, I suppose I did. I pushed it to one side and I stepped forward and I said, yes, I would. And there we go. That was a wild moment. Totally wild.
Was there real chemistry there?
I mean, we were both really young. He was... I think it was 24. I was 23. All I could think about was this play that I was doing at the time, which was super intense and great and was a big success. And then suddenly to be in this complete other world of luxury hotels. I'd never even been to a hotel before that. Oh, wow. And luxury hotels and everything was sort of gold and sparkly.
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Chapter 5: What was Kristin's experience acting in Prince's film 'Under the Cherry Moon'?
Well, I thought, yeah, I just thought you won't eat heavy food.
Do you know what I really love as well?
What?
Is endive. Do you know what I mean by endive? I love endive. The white vegetable thing. Baked, you know...
I don't know whether it's braised. Braised, yeah. Yeah, I like this. So good. That's a good idea. We've never done braised endive. Who would like some apple cake? Me. Good. And I bought this fancy pants stuff because I thought you'd like it. Oh, that looks very French.
Lovely. Let's talk about France and you as an au pair. Yes. Were you having to cook for your kids? Yes, I had to cook for the kids.
And they were very worried because I was English. how rude I know um yeah no I learned a lot about um that and I was quite I was quite big on um I was quite big on kind of giving them we had they had these children had to have soup in the evenings so I had to make all these different soups So you're good at soup? Why did they have to have soup? I don't know. It was a French rule. I don't know.
That French rule in that family. And did you have... They weren't entirely French, actually. They were half German. Oh, okay. So they might have had a bit... Maybe the soup came from the German side. It might have done. Potage. Potage. Did you have goûter as well? A goûter, yes. Definitely have a goûter. Was it always Nutella?
No, it's always... In that family, it was a... This is what they... Because you can buy a pain au raisin like you can in the baker's here. A what? A pain au raisin, a pain au chocolat. A pain au raisin or a pain au chocolat.
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