It is 18 years since Emma Thompson and Sir Kenneth Branagh, the golden couple of British cinema in the early 1990s, announced that they were separating amid rumours that he was having an affair with Helena Bonham Carter.
Now Thompson has spoken for the first time of how she has “made her peace” with her former love rival, going so far as to describe her as a “wonderful woman”.
The double Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter even admitted that the personality traits she shares with Bonham Carter may have been the reason why her ex-husband fell for both of them.
Thompson, 54, has previously described the crippling depression that she suffered when her marriage to Branagh, 52, broke up.
She has said that she knew from bitter personal experience how to play her role in 2003’s Love Actually as a wife who suspects her husband is cheating on her.
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However, Thompson struck a more reconciled note about the fall-out from her relationship with Branagh in a new interview.
“That is – as Mike Nicholls
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