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Kristin Scott Thomas<\/a> has an onscreen family bond with Scarlett Johansson<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n Back in 1998, when Johansson was just 13 years old, the pair played a mother-daughter duo in Robert Redford’s acclaimed drama The Horse Whisperer. Now, 27 years later, the Marvel star is back playing Scott Thomas’ onscreen daughter for a second time in My Mother’s Wedding.\n<\/p>\n The film marks the directorial debut from The English Patient Oscar nominee. As she tells PEOPLE, Johansson was her top pick for the role of a Royal Navy captain who reunites with her two sisters (played by Sienna Miller and Emily Beecham) for the third wedding of their twice widowed mother (Scott Thomas).\n<\/p>\n “She’s an extraordinary actress,” Scott Thomas, 65, says of Johansson, 40. “I was very, very happy to find her again.”\n<\/p>\n Kristin Scott Thomas and Scarlett Johansson in ‘The Horse Whisperer’.<\/p>\n Buena Vista\/Everett<\/p>\n The two hadn’t kept in touch over the years, Scott Thomas says, save for bumping into each other “from time to time.”\n<\/p>\n “It’s very easy to lose touch when you are a film actor because you go from one project to the next,” she explains. “You swear to a never-ending friendship and then gradually something else distracts you.”\n<\/p>\n My Mother’s Wedding is an especially personal project for Scott Thomas, who co-wrote the film with her husband John Micklethwait. Similar to Johansson’s character, Scott Thomas herself suffered major tragedies in her childhood: at 5 years old she lost her father, and when she was 12, her stepfather died \u2014 both were Royal Navy pilots who were killed in service.\n<\/p>\n Scott Thomas says she “talked a lot” about her personal story with her three onscreen daughters to help inform their performances. “When you are playing family, you sort of become family,” she says.\n<\/p>\n My Mother’s Wedding.<\/p>\n Vertical<\/p>\n Johansson especially had an “immediate” reaction to the film’s screenplay, Scott Thomas remembers.\n<\/p>\n “I literally gave it to her, and 24 hours later she said yes because she was very moved by the story.”\n<\/p>\n My Mother’s Wedding is in theaters Aug. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Kristin Scott Thomas and Scarlett Johansson reunite 27 years after The Horse Whisperer in My…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-126715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114988304774945460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}