Kristin Scott Thomas Teases Second Directorial Film
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- Kristin Scott Thomas received the Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival's opening ceremony on Friday night, then sat down with Deadline the following morning.
- Slow Horses will continue: Season 6 is dropping soon and Season 7 has been confirmed by Apple, locking in Scott Thomas as MI5 boss Diana Taverner through at least two more seasons.
- Scott Thomas said playing Diana — a woman who 'looks at people' in a way she now recognizes as frightening — has changed her off-screen behavior, making her 'really, really careful to smile a lot' in daily life.
- Her second directorial project is an adaptation of a contemporary novel, with the script written and production hoped for 2027; unlike her debut My Mother's Wedding, she does not plan to appear on screen this time.
- My Mother's Wedding, which she wrote, directed, and starred in alongside Scarlett Johansson and Sienna Miller, drew on her own life — she lost her father and stepfather to air accidents.
- Scott Thomas addressed the career-defining choice to stay in France and the UK rather than move to Hollywood, citing her love of European cinema and theater, and said she has no regrets despite occasional self-recrimination.
Why it matters: The Golden Nymph cements a late-career pivot for Scott Thomas, who is now embedded in a long-running Apple franchise through at least Season 7 of Slow Horses while establishing herself as a writer-director with a second scripted project already in hand and a 2027 production target — signaling directing is a sustained practice, not a one-off, and giving Apple a high-profile European prestige asset to market across the run.
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