In 2016, the Mission: Impossible 2 star also opened up about the “calm” presence that the Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again director brings into her life. It was about wanting to put the brakes on, acknowledging that I had other priorities.” “My career was exploding and I wasn’t ready for it. “Finding a happy and solid relationship is always difficult, so the decision was all about making my husband feel more secure and committing to my family,” Newton said InStyle UK about her decision not to join the 2000 film Charlie’s Angels. We don’t expect to be happy every day,” she told InStyle UK in May 2011.įor the Westworld actress, a successful marriage meant making compromises when it came to her family’s future. We’ve both had a degree of pain in our lives, which I think is the best teacher there is. We are very different characters but very good friends. Newton later noted that her relationship with her husband came with its ups and downs. Over the years, Thandiwe Newton and Ol Parker kept their relationship under wraps as they focused on raising their family.įollowing their 1998 nuptials, the couple expanded their family with three kids.
