The film, 'Military Wives,' follows a group of women who form a choir to cope with their spouses' deployments to Afghanistan. 'It's a story that speaks to a huge number of partners, spouses and wives of the military,' actor Sharon Horgan says.
Scott Thomas: I grew up on a military base, rather like the ones we see in the film. I think part of the reason for me being drawn to this film was this, treating this aspect of the incredible sort of sacrifice that families of personnel in the military have to make.
Constantly being on the move, constantly being uprooted and being required to settle somewhere else. Having to change jobs all the time. I mean, to hold the fort, having to deal with the family, having to deal with absence, and the fear — and all of that mixed in with tremendous pride and a great feeling of service. Which is something that I think we forget about, is this feeling of national duty, which is something that I think is actually admirable.Scott Thomas: Well, I was unfamiliar with Sharon's work. But I managed to binge on . When we met, we decided we'd sort of have lunch or something, but we talked about everything under the sunAnd then we just sort of turned up for work one day and got on with it. Personally, I really enjoyed it — I don't know about you, Sharon! Horgan: Well, when I first was told I was going to be working with Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, I had to educate myself, it was a pleasure. No, I was really — I was incredibly nervous, actually. I mean, the nerves went pretty quickly, because like Kristin was saying, I remember walking away from that lunch thinking, 'I told that woman far too much.' I really told her some personal details. But we really enjoyed it for a bunch of reasons. One of them was, we really enjoyed the singing, and we never expected to enjoy it so much. And the other one was that we had this great ensemble of 98% female cast around us. So it was just very relaxed, and really good fun. Without giving too much away, there's a song by Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers that figures in the last scene of the film. I cried copiously for the last 15 minutes of the film — and I guess that's exactly what you were going for. But it did remind me that in these times, when we're all kind of caught up in a worldwide crisis, there are other losses that go on, aren't there? Scott Thomas: Yeah, the power of a group. I mean, the singing was particularly spectacular, in that shen we first started, it was awful. Apart from myself, of course, who sings like an angel! And then little by little, we got — in fact, quite quickly we got better because we enjoyed it so much. ... But to get to that final result, that said moved you to tears — and I think you aren't the only one, I think that song was written with tears in mind — to get to that level took quite a lot of work. NPR's Sophia Boyd and Hadeel Al-Shalchi produced this interview for broadcast. Emma Bowman adapted it for the Web.
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