"It’s just so difficult giving other actors what they need, and at the same time, observing them," Thomas said of acting in her own directorial debut "My Mother's Wedding."

Thomas co-wrote the script with her husband, journalist John Micklethwait, which includes a particularly poignant monologue for her character telling her daughters, essentially, to grow up and move on — a mature and worthy statement that might come a bit too late. “My Mother’s Wedding” feels only partially realized.

This week’s “My Mother’s Wedding” stars Kristin Scott Thomas alongside Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller and Emily Beecham in a semi-autobiographical mother-daughter story that also serves as this

Before Kristin Scott Thomas turned 12, she lost her father and stepfather. Both were Royal Navy pilots who died in crashes. The first happened when she was 5. The second at age 11. Thomas uses these facts,