Like all working mothers, Thandie Newton, who has 2 daughters with husband Ol Parker, says challenges are the norm in her life and she rather likes it:

“I suppose it is challenging, but I don’t see it that way. I expect things to be challenging. That’s life. I don’t expect things to be as easy as sitting on a beach in Ibiza “I like how it works. It’s like a machine where we’ve all got our part. We’re just normal, decent people.”

And those challenges have extended to the love scenes that are an occupational hazzard:

“When I made Besieged in 1998 I sensed he found it challenging. I said to him, ‘I promise you this is more challenging for me than it is for you. And in light of that, I need your support. For you to be jealous or threatened by it only adds to the difficulty of what I have to do. And I need you to help and support me.’ It’s never been an issue since then.”

Her husband is a very secure man if her scenes with Gerard Butler in RockNRolla didn’t bother him (mind you he was very ill so she refused to kiss him, so I don’t think they really had hot and heavy scenes).  Would your significant other be threatened by your love scenes if you were an actor?

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