TWO Four Weddings and a Funeral stars are playing a bride and groom in a new movie.
But there haven’t been such happy endings for all of the cast of the much-loved 1994 British rom-com.
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, 62, and James Fleet, 70, play siblings in the Oscar-nominated drama chronicling the romantic pitfalls experienced by Hugh Grant’s commitment phobic character Charles.
Now they are making a film, also starring Scarlett Johansson and Sienna Miller, where they appear to be getting hitched.
Titled My Mother’s Wedding, it is the directorial debut of Scott Thomas and does not yet have a release date.
While Four Weddings led to international fame for Grant, the past 28 years have not always been so kind to its other stars. Here we look at what happened to them once the church bells stopped ringing…
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Scandalous affair
There has only been one marriage – and one divorce – for acting legend Kristin Scott Thomas, whose singleton Fiona declared her secret love to Grant’s character in Four Weddings.
But there was a whiff of a scandal surrounding that break-up in 2005.
Kristin, 62, was married to French doctor François Olivennes and they had three children together.
Then she fell for actor Tobias Menzies, who was 13 years younger than her.
The fling with Menzies, who later went on to play Prince Philip in The Crown, was reportedly brief.
Over the past few years Kristin has been in a relationship with journalist John Micklethwait, who co-wrote the script for My Mother’s Wedding.
Scott Thomas has had a stellar acting career, winning a BAFTA for Four Weddings and awarded an OBE for services to drama in 2003.
She has starred in movies The English Patient, The Darkest Hour, Keeping Mum, Rebecca and Gosford Park, among others.
Shock death
Hugh Grant’s sparky, straight to the point flatmate Scarlett stole every scene thanks to the brilliance of actress Charlotte Coleman.
But her life was cruelly cut short at the age of 33 when she died suddenly in 2001 from a massive asthma attack.
The actress was found dead in her London flat hours after leaving her parents’ house complaining she was feeling unwell.
Tragically she also had to cope with the death of her boyfriend Jonathan Laycock in a cycling accident when she was aged just 19.
That loss sent Charlotte into a spiral of eating disorders and depression.
Twice married
Duckface was famously jilted at the altar by Grant’s character – but actress Anna Chancellor faced no such upset when she got wed a decade ago.
Anna, 57, who comes from a well-connected family whose branches included the late British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, got hitched to former driver Redha Debbah in 2010.
She has a daughter, Poppy, 33, from a previous five-year relationship with punk poet Jock Scot, who died in 2016.
Redha is her second husband. She divorced cameraman Nigel Willoughby in 1998 after five years together.
Chancellor is a regular on television, including recent shows such as The Split and Pennyworth, but she accepts: “I will always be known as Duckface to most people.”
Famous offspring
American actress Andie MacDowell played Carrie – the woman finally able to convince Charles that love was real in Four Weddings.
MacDowell, 64, and car salesman Kevin Geagan appear to have felt the same way in 2006, because after getting engaged they never reached the aisle.
But they decided against getting hitched.
It would have been the Groundhog Day actress’s third marriage, with her having been wed to Paul Qualley for 13 years and Rhett DeCamp Hartzog for three years.
One of her daughters, Margaret Qualley, 27, starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and another Rainey, 33, is a singer.
Her son Justin, 36, didn’t go into show business.
TV darling
The 70-year-old actor has made a habit of playing bumbling posh blokes.
In Four Weddings, James Fleet was Fiona’s socially awkward brother Tom, but he is equally well known as the nice-yet-dim Hugo Horton in TV sitcom The Vicar of Dibley.
Unlike many of his co-stars Fleet has enjoyed a steady life and stream of work.
He’s been married to actress Jane Booker since 1984 and they have one son called Hamish.
Other films include Operation Mincemeat, Blithe Spirit and The Phantom of the Opera.
A familiar face on the box, Fleet has been in Coronation Street, Midsomer Murders and Bad Education.
Scary ordeal with teenagers
For the former electrician, Four Weddings was John Hannah’s first big break, launching a successful movie career.
Hannah, 60, went on to star alongside Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors and in the action blockbuster The Mummy.
While the film roles have slowed in recent years, the Scotsman did enjoy a regular role on the Marvel TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Hannah has been married to actress Joanna Roth since 2006 and they have twins Gabriel and Astrid, aged 18.
In 2019, Hannah revealed his kids – then aged 15 – had become accustomed to sneaking out of the house at night, putting the fear of God into him and Joanna.
He told the Mirror: “My daughter started it. She sneaked out at two in the morning to meet her friend, her boyfriend, and to wander around the bloody bus stop and the shops.
“And we were like, ‘how many times do we have to tell you?’. Then my son realised that she had sneaked out in the night, so he sneaked out in the middle of the night to go and meet someone he’d never even spoken to before but he’d spoken to online.
“F***ing terrifying. And that’s everything that you’ve already warned them about.”
Prostitute saga
Following the success of Four Weddings, Brit star Hugh Grant became Hollywood’s go-to romantic comedy lead.
He starred in Love Actually, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Like his character Charles, it appeared that Grant had a severe reaction to commitment.
The 61-year-old star dated a series of beautiful women, most famously Elizabeth Hurley, and had two children with Tinglan Hong.
Last year Grant admitted he cheated on Hurley with prostitute Divine Brown in his car in 1995 – which got him arrested – because he was upset after watching one of his own films, Nine Months.
He told Marc Maron’s WTF podcast: “I had a bad feeling about it. I went to see a screening. Everyone in it was brilliant, but I was so atrocious that I was not in a good frame of mind… I had a Ken Russell kind of lunch – and one thing led to another.
“I just was disappointed in myself. I don’t know what was going on. It was called Nine Months.”
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In 2018 Grant finally got hitched at a London registry office to Swedish television producer Anna Eberstein following an on-off relationship.
The couple have three children together.
