Kristin Scott Thomas has shared a rare glimpse into her personal life, revealing that finding love has made her feel more joyful compared to a decade or two ago.
The 66-year-old actress tied the knot with John Micklethwait, the 63-year-old editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, two years back. Together, they crafted a screenplay titled “My Mother’s Wedding,” inspired by her own experiences.
During an appearance on Elizabeth Day’s “How To Fail” podcast, Kristin touched on her relationship with John when asked if she feels more joyful now compared to 10 or 20 years ago.
Kristin responded affirmatively, saying, “I do. And I think it’s because I found love, which is a truly wonderful thing to experience.”
She elaborated, “I’ve also reached a point in my career where I feel a sense of completion. I’ve explored tragedy in my work, and I feel like I’ve emptied the bag—there’s nothing left to add.”
‘I think I did that when I did Elektra. I think that’s what I thought, oh, I don’t have to do that ever again. I don’t have to weep for a dead father ever again. And so that was quite healing, I would say, playing that.’
Kristin Scott Thomas has given a rare insight into her marriage as she revealed how finding love has made her ‘more joyous’ than she was ten or twenty years ago
The screen star is extremely private when it comes to talking about her relationship, but went on to talk about what it was like to work together on her directorial debut.
The actress stars in the film alongside Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham, Freida Pinto and Thibault de Montalembert.
The plot follows three sisters who return to their family home to attend the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother, each dealing with their own personal problems.
Of working together, Kristin said: ‘It was great, it was really fun. We complement each other.
‘He manages to hold a lot of things in place at the same time whereas I’m totally scatterbrained and I find that quite difficult. I’m much better at dialogue than he is, I could hear the voices but he could build the structure.’
The couple secretly married in 2024, after five years together.
A friend told The Independent at the time: ‘They are a perfect match. Both smart, wry and curious as well as devoted to each other.
‘Everyone is delighted that they have got married after a wonderful five-year romance.’
The actress, 66, married Bloomberg News’ editor-in-chief John Micklethwait, 63, two years ago and now the pair have co-written the screenplay, My Mother’s Wedding
The screen star is extremely private when it comes to talking about her relationship, but went on to talk about what it was like to work together on her directorial debut (pictured)
Kristin has three children; Hannah, Joseph and George with her ex-husband François Olivennes, whom she divorced in 2005 after 17 years of marriage.
My Mother’s Wedding is inspired by Kristin’s own childhood trauma of losing both her father and her stepfather, who were both pilots, in separate military jet crashes.
The actress also said the loss of her mother, Deborah, who passed away after a battle with cancer, ‘hit her like a tank’.
She said: ‘My father died when I was nearly five and a half. And then when I was 11, and I just started a new school, it happens again. And that was much more than anybody could really handle, I think, by themselves.’
‘Grieving for my mother was just like being run over by a tank. I just could not, because now I was, I’d got over all those things and I’d accepted the fact that one is able to grieve and all this. And so that was a massive shock.’