New Delhi, July 27 -- Kristin Scott Thomas has stepped behind the camera for the first time with 'My Mother's Wedding', a deeply personal directorial debut that draws from the most profound corners of her own life.

Speaking candidly about the film's emotional origins in a CBS interview, Thomas shared how the grief and loss she experienced as a child became the creative foundation for the project.

"When I was five, my father was killed, and my mother remarried. And tragically, he was killed five years later," Thomas revealed. "And I know that a lot of the time when I was a younger woman, I had this feeling of something missing, this piece of my puzzle missing having grown up with only one parent."

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