Greg Wise on how he and Emma Thompson coped with failed IVF: ‘We hit an existential crisis – she was not a proper woman and I was not a proper man’
Their hopes of having a second child were dashed. Two decades on, the actor remembers the grief and pain of that time Her deep grief took her away. I had to deny mine. Try to comfort her rather than myself. Such is the lot of the self-appointed saviour. Emma and I came together in the unreal space that is a film set. They are very seductive spaces, film sets. Protected spaces, as we are all outside our natural, everyday lives. And it was here that my roles as saviour in the film and as saviour in life collided. I galloped in, on my big white horse, scooped her up, and saved her. Filming finished, we hid ourselves in my little two-up, two-down house in north London. Both of us bringing along our overstuffed suitcase of grief, bulging with recent and age-old unresolved pains. This was the first shape that was created. We bonded in our grief – Emma’s present grief at the end of her…
