Emma Thompson was "totally blind" at the Exp Kenneth Branagh affair with this co-star

The frequent co-stars Thompson and Branagh were married from 1989 to 1995.


Between their collaborations on the screen and their real marriage,Emma Thompson andKenneth Branagh were a couple of buzzing celebrities in the late 80s and the 90s. The two gathered after having co-suffered in the BBC mini-series of 1987War fortuneAnd continued to work together several times, on stage and on large and small screens. The couple got married in 1989 and separated after six years. It was later revealed that they broke up because of the Branagh affair with one of his co-stars.

Today, the three actors have evolved, and Thompson is on good terms with the woman with whom Branagh cheated. In a recent interview withThe New Yorker, the star opened on what she felt when shediscovered the case And admitted that she had been "completely, completely blind". Read to see what Thompson, 63, had to say about his high -level divorce.

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Thompson and Branagh often worked together.

Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson on their wedding day August 20, 1989 in London
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After their first collaboration inWar fortune, Thompson and Branagh continued to work frequently during their marriage. They both acted in 1989Henry V, Who Branagh has adapted and directed. Then they both played in another of his Shakespeare adaptations,A lot of Nothing , like Beatrice and Benedick, in 1993. They also played in her 1991 thrillerAgain.

Speak withThe New Yorker, Thompson remembered the tabloid attention that she and Branagh obtained for their marriage and their employment relationship.

"I was largely embarrassed by the version of our wedding press," she said. "We did not present glamor in any way. I do not think we wanted to be a couple of power, and we certainly did not want. We were supported and ridiculed too - enough if you are famous and too paid, but it's not fun. "

They separated in the middle of his affair.

Kenneth Branagh, Prince Charles, and Helena Bonham Carter at the premiere of
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In 1995, Thompson and Branagh separated when she discovered that he had an affair with the star of her 1994 filmFrankenstein de Mary Shelley,,Helena Bonham Carter. Thompson and Bonham Carter had already played sisters in 1992Howards ends.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"I was completely, completely blind to the fact that he had relations with other women on the set," said ThompsonThe New Yorker. "What I learned is how easy it is to be blinded by your own desire to deceive you."

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Sorrow has influenced one of its most memorable scenes.

Emma Thompson in
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Thompson played on the Rom-ComLove in fact in 2003. During a scene, her character realizes that her husband (played byAlan Rickman) The trunk, after discovering that a necklace she thought was intended for her was given to the other woman.

"This scene where my character stands near the bed crying is so well known because it is something that everyone has gone through,"Thompson said at an event in 2018, as indicated byThe telegraph. She continued: "I had my heart very poorly broken by Ken. So I knew what it was to find the necklace that was not intended for me. Well, it was not exactly that, But we all experienced it. "

She was able to heal and continue.

Emma Thompson at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival
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In an interview withThe Sunday Timesin 2013 (Going throughThe telegraph), Thompson said that she had exceeded the case and hadn't had a grudge for Bonham Carter.

"It's likeMike Nichols [The director of the film and the theater] said one day, and I picked it up because I think it is a wonderful expression - all the blood under the bridge. You can't hang on to something like that. I'm just thinking ... Pfft, "she said." It's useless. I don't have the energy for that. Helena and I made our peace years and years ago. ""

She also admitted that she and Bonham Carter share certain similarities: "Being slightly crazy and a little fresh in fashion. That may be why Ken loved us both. She is a wonderful woman, Helena. ""

Bonham Carter addressed his reputation as a "serial circuit breaker".

Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh at the premiere of
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In 2002,Bonham Carter opened atThe mirror to be called "a usual and series breaker of houses". (It was said that his long -term relationship with the directorTim Burton started as a matter, although she denied this.)

"It becomes frustrating because I know history and truth. It is very injured and, frankly, some of the things that have been called me are quite defamed ... but that is part of the price of the eye of audience "," Actor said. "People will invent stories that are so much more interesting than reality."

Later, in an interview in 2020 withThe Guardian, Bonham Carter used Thompson's sentence and Nichols in reference toHis past relations. "Me and Ken were very different from me and Tim," she said. "You know, Ken avoided directing me once we were together because it can be complicated and I think he didn't want - anyway, it's all blood under the bridge."

They all possibly went to new relationships.

Greg Wise and Emma Thompson at the premier of
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Bonham Carter and Branagh were together until 1999. Then she was in a relationship with Burton from 2001 to 2014. Branagh married his current wife,Lindsay Brunnock, in 2003.

As for Thompson, she was with herMeaning and sensitivity co-starWise greg Since the end of his relationship with Branagh. They got married in 2003.

"I was half alive. Any feeling of being an adorable or worthy person was completely gone," said ThompsonThe New Yorker From what she felt after her divorce. She said Sage "picked up the songs and put them back together".


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