Kristin Scott Thomas Makes Directorial Debut with 'My Mother's Wedding'

Kristin Scott Thomas has made her directorial debut with 'My Mother's Wedding', now released in the UK. The film follows three sisters, played by Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, and Emily Beecham, reuniting for their mother's third wedding in the British countryside. Scott Thomas also stars as the twice-widowed mother. Co-written with her husband John Micklethwait, the story is partly autobiographical, drawing on Scott Thomas's own childhood experiences of losing her father and stepfather, both Royal Navy pilots, in flying accidents. These memories appear as black-and-white animations throughout the film. Scott Thomas, a five-time BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated actor, trained in London and Paris and has a career spanning four decades. She describes the film as exploring sisterhood, motherhood, and the evolving nature of being a woman. Later this year, she will appear in a West End production of Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard'.