Emma Thompson, coming up on 20 years wedded to second husband Greg Wise, talks to the New Yorker about the ugly demise of her flashy first marriage.
Nearly 30 years after the breakup of her first marriage and almost 20 years into her second, actor-writer Emma Thompson admits she suffered from passing blindness many years back.
Branagh and Thompson split in 1995, ending six years of marriage after he had an affair with Helena Bonham Carter, his leading lady from “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” a year earlier. Branagh and Bonham Carter were a high-profile item until 1999.Column: Emma Thompson left comedy after being called a ‘man hater.’ But she never stopped making trouble
She and Bonham Carter made their peace “years and years ago,” Thompson told Britain’s Sunday Times magazine in 2013. But the “Bridget Jones’s Baby” and “Last Christmas” screenwriter did use the negative energy from her breakup to fuel her well-known “Love, Actually” performance, where she played a devoted wife who learns her husband has been unfaithful.
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