Losing a child is every parents’ worst nightmare and the pain was etched on director Thomas Vinterberg’s face as he accepted his Oscar for the film Another Round.
The Danish director was thrilled with the win but filming was tinged with sadness as his daughter Ida died in a car accident just four days into shooting aged just 19.
Thomas shared with the audience: ‘Four days into shooting, the impossible happened. An accident on a highway took my daughter away, someone looking into a cell phone.
And we miss her and I love her. ‘Two months before we shot this movie, and two months before she died, she was in Africa; she wrote me a letter. ‘She had just read the script and she was glowing with excitement.
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