Kristin Scott Thomas
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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?
I am. The tragic fact of my life is that I'm mostly hungry all the time. Why is that tragic? It's fabulous.
What have you had for breakfast? Omelette?
Boiled egg. Oh, yeah. Boiled egg and toast. Okay.
Any Marmite on there?
Nope, just plain toast. Not even any butter on it today.
Oh, God. This isn't sounding very fun.
No, no, no. It usually is much more fun than that, but I've got to refrain.
Oh.
Yeah. Acting. Acting.
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?
Yes. My children are all very, very French. I'm half French. Right. And, yeah, there we are. We're sort of caught mid-channel, really.
I'm really jealous of that. I listen to you talking about how you... Did you not make it in drama school? Did somebody tell you not to be an actor?
Oh, here we go. Okay. Is this okay? This is fine. Fine. So basically, I was very young and quite... Now, looking back, I realise quite sort of... I think one would say traumatised. But I went to drama school and couldn't really handle it and didn't really know what I was doing. And I was very young and I was all over the place and was far from home.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:33
2
What inspired Kristin Scott Thomas to direct 'My Mother's Wedding'?
2:33–13:06
3
How did Kristin's upbringing influence her career choices?
13:06–13:40
4
What challenges did Kristin face during her time in drama school?
13:40–40:44
5
What was Kristin's experience acting in Prince's film 'Under the Cherry Moon'?
40:44–50:34