Emma Thompson, an acclaimed actress and screenwriter, recently sat down for an interview with the new yorker to talk about the new project she will undertake, that of a musical. But amidst the conversation about her films and career, the British actress also revealed some gory details about her personal life that left her completely upset at the time.
Speaking of one of his films, Sense and sensitivity (1995), the actress talked about the hardships she endured during filming due to being in the grip of grief and grief. She remembered having to pretend to be brave when in reality she was tormented by the prospect of her marriage falling apart.
The Cruel The star was then married to British actor and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh, only for the light in their relationship to go out with the latter cheating on her. And that left the Late at night inconsolable actress as she tried to come to terms with the whole situation.
Emma Thompson opens up about her husband’s infidelity
Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh married in 1989 and appeared in several movies and shows together Fortunes War, The Boat That Rocked, and even the Harry Potter series. However, while working on the film, Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinBranagh had gone ahead and sparked a relationship with Helena Bonham Carter who was one of his co-stars.
While reminiscing about that chapter of her life, Thompson remarked on how embarrassed and naïve she felt to have been “blind” to the fact that Branagh had “relationships with other women”, while he was still married to her.
“I was completely, completely blind to the fact that he was having relationships with other women on set. What I learned was how easy it is to be blinded by your own desire to be mistaken.
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The love in fact the actress remembers being only “half alive” after the Thor the filmmaker cheated on her. She explained how difficult it was for her to deal with it and how completely unlovable she felt as seeds of doubt and self-hatred planted themselves in her mind as a result of it all .
“I was half alive. Any sense of being a kind or worthy person was completely gone.
Although this period of his life was miserable, as the End Howards star herself pointed out, the only good thing to come out of this disaster was her relationship with her current partner.
Emma Thompson has been happily married for 19 years
Branagh’s cheating on Thompson during their marriage really broke the latter and shattered his self-esteem. But there was one outcome that turned out to be a blessing for Thompson later in life, and that was her relationship with Greg Wise.
When the Last Chance Harvey the actress had been heartbroken, it was Greg Wise, one of her co-stars from Sense and sensitivity, who “picking up the pieces and putting them back together”, according to Thompson. She approached Wise, her current husband, and expressed her love to him.
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“I learned more from my second marriage just by being married. As my mother says, ‘the first twenty years are the hardest.’
Thompson was still depressed when she entered into a relationship with Wise, but the English actor and producer helped her find her way through all her battles, and the couple now live a happily married life of 19 years with two children as well.
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Source: the new yorker
