| Douglas Henshall marries Tena Stivicic In February 2010 Douglas Henshall married writer Tena Stivicic in Las Vegas. They had planned a romantic wedding in London, but because of the paperwork involved and bureaucratic problems they secretly married in Vegas instead. Tena told the Croatian magazine Gloria "Douglas and I were married in Las Vegas because we wanted a quiet wedding, with our closest friends. In addition, America has proved to be ideal due to my current status in the country where I live. All of our plans for a London wedding, were complicated, because I'm not a British citizen and we were tired thinking about all the bureaucratic procedures, so we boarded the aircraft, flew to Las Vegas and had the wedding performed there, " The wedding was very low key, neither of the couples parents were present and Tena did not wear a traditional wedding dress. Also the couple wanted a quiet wedding out of the public eye. A few selected friends attended the ceremony and the best man was actor Rade Serbedzija. However,Tena said said that she had dreamed of a modern and quiet wedding ceremony and that her wishes were fulfilled. Dougie and Tena met when he attended the premier of her play Nine Tenths, a short play from the project Broken Voices at theTristan Bates Theatre, London in April 2005, In an interview for The Times in 2008 Dougie recalled : “I went to see a play she'd written and I spent most of the play looking at her, not knowing she was the writer. Then a couple of months later we met on a blind date and have been together ever since.” In a recent interview he said of Tena : "She's about as perfect a match as I could ever find, so if it doesn't work with her it's not going to work." Does it help to be with someone creative? "It has more pluses than minuses. We're both passionate, stubborn people, both strong-willed, so we clash from time to time. It's nice to have someone who challenges me. She's brighter than me and I like that, though it does drive me nuts sometimes when she reminds me of it!" Tena says that what she and Dougie they have together is precious, even though he is her most honest critic. She says that his criticism : “is not immediately received with enthusiasm, but in the end I’ll admit he is right.” The couple are both working non-stop, but together they have to provide conditions for a normal life. “Writing, as well as acting, are not jobs in which you are working 10-6 and can then leave behind. When two artists live together, it can be hard, sometimes it is hard to find time to switch off and relax. But then again, there is a greater understanding and tolerance for those difficult, complicated parts of our characters, from which, I suppose, creativity emerges. I write plays and scenarios and he reads what I write. Tena and Dougie have worked together on various projects. In May 2008, Dougie played the journalist in a production of her play ‘Fragile!’ for BBC Radio 4. |
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