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The Independent
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Jason Isaacs says he married wife to solve emergency health insurance issue
Jason Isaacs has said that he and his wife got married to secure her medical insurance during an emergency hospital trip in Los Angeles. The 61-year-old British actor , best known for roles in Harry Potter, The Death of Stalin and The White Lotus , married his wife, Emma Hewitt, in 2001 during an impromptu ceremony at a registry office while they were staying in Los Angeles. Speaking on the Table Manners podcast with Jessie and Lennie Ware, Isaacs revealed that he and his wife decided to get married so that Hewitt could obtain emergency medical insurance to access urgent healthcare in the US, since she was pregnant and dealing with lung problems. Isaacs said: 'We were in Los Angeles. She was pregnant, Emma, she'd been sick [and] had lung problems, and we wanted to fly home.' 'And I phoned my brother, who's a doctor, and he put us on to a lung specialist. The guy said you need to go to a hospital and have a check for pulmonary embolism right now, because you shouldn't get on a plane, because she's had two courses of antibiotics. Still got lung ache.' Isaacs explained that his wife did not have insurance coverage in the US, but he had his medical insurance under his Screen Actors Guild (SAG) membership, which Hewitt could access if they were married. 'So we went to a registry office in Los Angeles, and then we went straight to ER. Then she got medical insurance,' he said. The actor explained that, after several checks, doctors found that Hewitt didn't have a clot in her lung. The situation could have been costly if she had not obtained the insurance. Jason Isaacs with his wife Emma Hewitt (Getty Images) 'In America, you don't want to go to hospital if you don't have health insurance,' he said. 'My mate Daniel, I took him there for the night once, I drove him there at 2am and we left at 6am and it was $40,000. It was like $60 for each Nurofen, $10 for the cup and $20 for the water… it was a bunch of nonsense.' Isaacs added that their two daughters – Lily and Ruby – were 'desperate' for them to have a proper wedding after never arranging celebrations with their wider family. The actor explained that they don't celebrate the anniversary of their marriage, and instead count the date they got together – at a Halloween party in 1987 – as more significant. Emma Hewitt and Jason Isaacs with their daughter Ruby pictured in 2024 (Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pi) He explained that they were both studying at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London when they shared their first kiss. 'Our real anniversary was Halloween – we were at drama school together and we went to a stage manager's party and we got behind these Venetian blinds and we started snogging. And that is, for us, the night we became the couple.' Isaacs remarked that their classmates didn't believe they would last, but they were still together 37 years later.
South China Morning Post
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Jason Isaacs' former actress wife Emma Hewitt – who he met at drama school in the 80s? The White Lotus star's partner helped him overcome his drug addiction, and now they share 2 daughters
Jason Isaacs, 61, is walking back comments he made about male nudity and Mikey Madison , after they caused uproar online. Jason Isaacs upset a lot of people with his comments about a scene in The White Lotus recently. Photo: Max and HBO The British actor, who was asked whether he wore a prosthetic penis for his character Timothy Ratliff's full-frontal scene in The White Lotus , had told CBS Mornings: 'It's interesting because the best actress this year is Mikey Madison at the Oscars. And I don't see anybody discussing her vulva, which was on [the screen] all the time.' The actor continued: 'But when women are naked, Margaret Qualley as well, in The Substance, nobody would dream of talking to her about her genitalia or her nipples or any of those things. So, it's odd that there's a double standard.' His comments created a swift backlash online, but he has since clarified that he hadn't intended to offend anyone. Advertisement 'I said the wrong words in the wrong way. I used the phrase 'double standard', which I didn't mean at all,' he told Variety in a recent interview. 'There is a [different] double standard – women have been monstrously exploited and men haven't.' The actor said that his remarks had come out wrong and that he had been tired after doing so many interviews. 'I absolutely should not have mentioned those two actresses, whom I respect enormously,' he added. 'Mikey Madison I'm a massive fan of. My point wasn't that men have had a harder time than women – that would be absurd. Women have had a monstrous time on camera forever, and I hope to God that is changing.' He said he had been asked so many times in the same day about his genitalia by journalists and found it 'a bit weird and slightly obsessive' but 'battled it off very poorly'. Jason Isaacs and his wife Emma Hewitt on holiday in Bhutan last year. Photo: Himalayan Foothills Travels/Facebook Away from screen, Jason Isaacs is a loving father and husband to his wife and partner of many decades, Emma Hewitt. Here's what we know about her. Emma Hewitt was an actress and documentary maker Jason Isaacs and Emma Hewitt at the after-party for the Burberry Winter 2025 show during London Fashion Week on February 24, in London, England. Emma Hewitt, not to be confused with the Australian singer of the same name, also used to work in TV and film. She is a former documentary filmmaker and also acted in a handful of British television productions in the early 90s including Casualty, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, and Jeeves & Wooster, per IMDB.
