Hollywood star, daughter of baroness and Buddhist monk, celebrates her birthday today

Uma Thurman is filming little these days, mostly in TV series, but this does not mean that her life is boring. So, according to rumors, after ending a long relationship with a French billionaire, she began it with a German one. However, Thurman's husbands are a topic for a separate story, considering that among them was, for example, Gary Oldman, then a young slob, whom Thurman married at the age of 20.

In general, young Uma could have become not an actress, but a Buddhist nun, as she temporarily became one in Tarantino's film "Kill Bill". After all, she is the daughter of a Buddhist monk who was tonsured personally by the Dalai Lama, and then a professor at Columbia University, German Robert Thurman.

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Young Thurman could have become a hippie, since she is the daughter of Swedish model Baroness Nena von Schlebrugge, who before marrying Thurman was the wife of Timothy Leary, a hippie ideologist and tester of powerful psychedelic drugs. (In Pulp Fiction, Thurman herself played this role).

With such a parental background, it is not surprising that Thurman easily agreed to the leading role in the film Henry and June, where she played the wife of the famous American writer Henry Miller, whose erotic novels are called outstanding works of the twentieth century by some, and pornography by others.

And in this film, she is not only the writer's wife, but also the lover of his lover. Add to this Paris of 1931 - and here is the answer to why the film, which was also very beautifully shot, was so loved by intellectuals, for whom 20-year-old Thurman became a sex symbol.

But it was Quentin Tarantino who made Thurman famous. First in Pulp Fiction, where she played the young bored wife of gangster Marsellus Wallace, who is entertained by his subordinate, played by John Travolta. Their dance in the Milk Rock Cafe, which went down in cinema history, was probably seen by everyone. But not everyone heard the story of Tarantino, who recalled that Uma was initially very “uptight” during the filming of this episode - and this is important in order to understand what Thurman is like in life, not on the screen.

During the filming of the film, its producer Harvey Weinstein tried to force Thurman to have sex. This was compounded by the fact that at the age of 16, she was raped by an actor who was 20 years older than the girl. She complained about Weinstein to Tarantino, but then he only joked: “Poor Harvey is always looking for something he can’t do.” And this is not the only example of this kind of attitude "in life" of Tarantino to his favorite actress, as evidenced by the following episode of their joint work.

In 2003, on the set of the first film "Kill Bill", where she received the main role as opposed to a cameo in "Pulp Fiction", Thurman refused to get behind the wheel of a car that she was told was faulty. Tarantino, as she later said, first became furious, and then convinced her that the car was fine and, moreover, demanded that Thurman drive at a speed of at least 60 km / h - he needed her hair to flutter in the oncoming wind. Thurman obeyed - and got into an accident, injuring her neck and knees.

However, after this, Thurman continued to act in Tarantino's films, and only in 2018, when the #MeToo movement had already gained momentum, did she speak out about Weinstein's harassment and the accident on the set. That same year, Thurman demanded a video recording of the episode when she got into an accident, essentially due to Tarantino's fault.

According to one version, the director helped her get this video recording out of friendship (Weinstein was supposed to pay), according to another - after she said that she would go to the police. The versions, to put it mildly, are somewhat different. Thurman continued to act, including in the scandalous "Nymphomaniac" and "The House That Jack Built" by Lars von Trier. Another confirmation that at times she is drawn, let's say, to "ambiguous" film directors (or they are drawn to her). Maybe the genes she got from her parents are at work?

At the same time, Thurman can also play in a typical Hollywood melodrama if necessary - as in the simple and touching comedy "Mad Dog and Gloria", where she played the role of the lover of a timid police photographer (standardly excellent work of Robert De Niro, who was still an outstanding actor at the time).

And yet, she has loved arthouse since her youth - for example, back in 1993, a year before "Pulp Fiction", she starred in Gus Van Sant's film "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Sometimes".

But all this is in the past...

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