It's the Love Actually scene that broke hearts
across the country - the moment that Emma Thompson's character finds a
necklace bought by her husband (played by Alan Rickman) for another
woman and sobs to the soundtrack of Joni Mitchell - and now the actress
has revealed that she drew on her own experience of heartbreak while
filming it.
"That scene where my character is standing by the bed crying is so well
known because it’s something everyone’s been through," Thompson told
an
audience during a fundraising event in London, reports The Evening Standard.
"I had my heart very badly broken by Ken," she added, referring to the
end of her six-year marriage to Kenneth Branagh in 1995 - widely
reported to have happened after the actor had an affair with Helena
Bonham Carter, who he met on the set of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
in 1994. "So I knew what it was like to find the necklace that wasn’t
meant for me. Well it wasn’t exactly that, but we’ve all been through
it."
Thompson told The Sunday Times
in 2013 that she bore no hard feelings to Bonham Carter. "You can’t
hold on to anything like that. It’s pointless. I haven’t got the energy
for it. Helena and I made our peace years and years ago... she’s a
wonderful woman," she said. Thompson went on to marry Greg Wise - who
she met while filming Sense and Sensibility - in
2003. She once said in an interview with Radio 4: "Work saved me and
Greg saved me. He picked up the pieces and put them together again."
- Vogue
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