Uma Thurman Refuses to Slam Ethan Hawke

Maybe they should call her "My Super Ex-Wife". Oscar nominee Uma Thurman has been baited by the press into criticizing her fellow Oscar nominee and ex-husband Ethan Hawke but she's not biting. Uma Thurman, doing press for her starring role in the new film, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, being released July 21st, has admitted that her marriage with Ethan Hawke was a bad one, but is quoted in the July 16th edition of Parade Magazine as saying, ""I cannot participate in anything critical about my children's father. I just need to keep peace. I think it's fair to say that I haven't said one mean thing, and I'm not going to start now. It's terrible for my family."

Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke met on the set of Gattaca in 1997 and were married only a year later. Uma Thurman filed for divorce in 2004, amid rumors that Ethan Hawke had been unfaithful. The two have a pair of children, Maya, 8, and Levon, 4. In the early '90s Uma Thurman survived another celebrity marriage, having been wed to Gary Oldman, and has recently been attached to hotelier Andre Balasz.

The headlines about her failed marriage have gotten to Uma Thurman, who told Parade Magazine, "If I see one more headline about it, I'll gag. I'm just another American woman who was in an unfulfilled marriage that fell apart."

Still, the failed marriages to Gary Oldman and Ethan Hawke haven't left the 36 year-old Uma Thurman bitter about love. She's also quoted in Parade as saying, "You need to want to be forgiving. The problem is that, if you want to, you'll forgive the unforgivable. I am very perceptive about people, but then if I'm attracted to them, I'm not always looking clearly. I'm working on a decoding system - especially for men. One thing I'm proud of, which is not an easy sentence for me: I'm proud that I keep trying. It's been very helpful for me to discover that I could do that. Sure, there are challenges. Sure, there were dark things. But I have a great career and two healthy, beautiful, smart and funny children. We're an incredibly tight-knit threesome, and we have so much fun together."

Uma Thurman will star as G-Girl in the July 21st release of Fox's My Super Ex-Girlfriend, co-starring Luke Wilson (Old School) and Anna Faris (Lost in Translation), and directed by Ivan Reitman (Stripes, Ghost Busters). In the comedy, Uma Thurman plays a superhero who gets revenge on her ex-boyfriend, played by Luke Wilson. She told Parade, "I like that it’s a gender-bender flick where the woman has the edge. No one likes being rejected. It’s very smart and observant about human nature. That’s what makes the whole thing hilarious."

Uma Thurman has had a long and succesful career in Hollywood, starring in Dangerous Liaisons, Pulp Fiction, Batman and Robin, Kill Bill, and The Producers. After My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Uma Thurman will go on to star with Jerry Seinfeld and Renee Zellweger as a voice in DreamWorks animated Bee Movie and Vadim Perelman's In Bloom.

Uma Thurman's ex-husband Ethan Hawke has had just as long a career, starting as a teenager in Explorers and going on through Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Training Day, and Assault on Precinct 13. He will star later this year in Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation and Michael Almereyda's Tonight at Noon.

[Additional Sources: Parade, People, IMDB]