Uma Thurman called her marriage from the 90s with Gary Oldman "an error"
There is an age gap of 12 years between the two actors.
When you are young and in love, everything seems to be good with the world. It's obviously how Uma Thurman felt when she married her first husband, Gary Oldman . The two stars would have met in 1989, at 31 and she was only 19 years old. Quentin Tarantino pulp Fiction . So even if you may know her second marriage, to Ethan Hawke , you may not even realize that it was once legally linked to the winner of an Oscar, aged 64. After the relationship of Oldman and Thurman failed, she looked back in an interview, calling their love story "a mistake". Read the rest to find out more about this little known famous couple and why the Kill Bill Star regrets being harnessed.
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They may have been introduced by Sean Penn.
Neither Oldman nor Thurman revealed how their relationship started. But according to In the style , a story goes that Sean Penn Introduced Thurman At his co-star when he and Oldman was making the 1990 film, State of grace . Another version indicates that Thurman met Oldman when she came to visit the film director, Phil Joanou ,, His boyfriend at the time . Talk to Filmmaker In 2014, Joanou confirmed that, in any case, the two actors in a way started to go out together And married "just after the film."
As the film was in production, Oldman had been married Lesley Manville For a couple of years. They separated in 1989 and their divorced was finalized in 1990.
Thurman called him a "crazy love story".
In 1996, Thurman was a huge star - and about to meet Hawke on the set of Gattaca . In an interview with Vanity That year, she talked about His first marriage for the first time.
Thurman said that "an error", adding ", but you know, what can I say? He is a really great actor. We met when I was 18. He was 12 more. was a crazy love story that ended, because it had to be done. It was my first love. I had no prior experience. "
The interviewer asked whether to meet with the older older was "a daddy's trip". To this, Thurman laughed and said, "Not unless it is to make my father crazy."
Friends said they had noticed a change in her when the two were together.
For Vanity , Friend of Thurman, director Terry Gilliam , noted that he felt like he was a different person when he was with Oldman.
"There was a big change in Uma," he said. "She seemed to be attracted to difficult people - maybe she was trying to prove something - and had somehow aged overnight, lost her youth, which she has since found."
Oldman was dealing with alcoholism at that time, although he has been sober since the late 90s. He said Los Angeles Times in 2021 on the end of His alcohol problem .
"I used to sweat vodka. It becomes such a part of you," he said. "My tongue would be black in the morning. I blamed it in the shampoos mask the insufficiency."
"Gary will always be crazy. You need a special type of woman to support it," said an anonymous source Vanity In 1997. Meanwhile, the magazine reported, Oldman once complained of Thurman, "you try to live with an angel".
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They both continued to other relationships.
Oldman was going to get married three times after Thurman. He was married to Donya Fiorentino , a model, from 1997 to 2001, then to the singer and the actor Alexandra Edenborough from 2008 to 2015. His current wife is Gisele Schmidt , a curator and a writer. They have been married since 2017. The actor has three children: one of his marriage to Manville and two that he welcomed with Fiorentino. Over the years, Fiorentino said that Oldman physically mistreated her , what he denied. (Their son Gulliver Oldman published a statement In 2018, maintaining the innocence of his father and calling his mother "a sad and very troubled person")) AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Asked about His multiple marriages , including in Thurman, by Playboy In 2014, Oldman began his response with a "groan", noted the point of sale. "Listen, relationships are very, very difficult," he said. "They are right. I mean, four times! I'm not proud to say it. One of them was for 10 minutes. I don't think it meant a lot for us."
As for Thurman, she married Hawke in 1998. They welcomed two children: her daughter Maya Hawke , now famous for its role on Stranger Things , and son Levon . They divorced in 2005 and Thurman continued to go out with a French businessman Arpad Busson . The couple was engaged twice and shared a named girl Luna , born in 2012, but they never got married. Since 2021, the star, now 52 years old, went out together CEO of Bloomberg Media Justin B. Smith , through People .
