As if that scene wasn't heartbreaking enough 😭
grin and bear her way through the revelation that her husband, Harry, played by the late Alan Rickman, is cheating on her with his secretary Mia.
Every year we're freshly appalled at the heart-wrenching moment where Harry gifts his wife Karen Joni Mitchell'sWhile the cheating partner trope is nothing new both on and off-screen, it's Dame Emma's character's show of quiet stoicism in front of the couple's, while clearly very much crushed on the inside, that has cemented this scene in the minds of audiences forever more.
And now we know that there's something more – besides Emma's excellent acting credentials – to why her portrayal was so memorable: it's because she based it on her own real life experience.
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