(Cover) - EN Movies - Kristin Scott Thomas avoided doing a film which was a "reconstruction" of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup because it was too harrowing.

The British actress gained international recognition in the 1990s for her roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient. Kristin, who has French nationality, has also worked in the European country's cinema since the 1980s.

Kristin, 51, says her 2010 film Sarah's Key is an especially personal one for her. The stunning star learned about the wartime terror French Jews faced at the hands of Parisian authorities through her extended family.

Kristin plays a journalist in the movie who investigates the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup the arrest and persecution of Jews in Paris. She avoided doing a "reconstruction" of the actual events because it was too harrowing for her.

"I wanted to make a film [about French Jews] and at one point was asked to make a film that was a reconstruction of the events, but I couldn't do it. I would have kept thinking about my aunts who really did go through that," she revealed in the LA Times.

"My acting abilities end there one of [my ex-husband's] uncles worked in the place where they put all the bodies after the gas chamber and he actually found his own children. It was too much for me. I can't even go there." (C) Cover Media