Cannes: Scott Thomas' glorious dip into darkness

CANNES, France (AP) — To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of “Only God Forgives,” director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas — how else? — with the flattery of his own mother.

“That’s how he got me to do the film,” Scott Thomas said in a beachside interview Wednesday. “He said, ‘You’re my mother’s favorite actress.’ So I had to. It was a good trick.”