Stephen Hawking's wife for 30 years attacks The Theory of Everything

The mistakes in an award-winning film about the late physicist Stephen Hawking are actually "immortalized," according to his first wife.

Jane Hawking, married to the scientist for 30 years, said she had pleaded with producers of The Theory of Everything to correct inaccuracies but had been ignored.

The 2014 film, starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones and based on his memoir, Traveling to Infinity, retraces his life with Hawking since their first meeting in 1962, according to the Daily Mail.

But some biographical details have been adjusted or left aside to reduce race time, she was informed.

It was "infuriating" that these representations are now considered a fact, Hawking said.

"I knew that if there were mistakes in the movie, they would be immortalized, what they were," she added.

"I found it very irritating and I did not want that to happen – never believe what you see in the movies."

She was speaking yesterday at the Henley Literary Festival to promote her second novel, Cry to Dream Again.

She explained how the film showed the couple's romantic meeting at the University of Cambridge, while it was taking place in their hometown of St Albans.

She also explained that a large part of their lives had been devoted to scientific conferences around the world, but that was totally excluded from the film.

Despite her request, she included a montage showing the considerable effort required to travel with Hawking – at this point, severely handicapped by a motor neuron disease – and their first baby, Robert.

Mrs. Hawking had three children with the physicist, who left her as a caregiver in 1990, before the couple's divorce in 1995.

She said the film was emotionally "very faithful to life" and that her ex-husband, who died in March of this year, was happy with it, even though he would have liked it to be more scientific.

But she added: "The facts have been distorted in the interest of limiting the race time to two hours.

"For example, I was not a student in Cambridge when Stephen and I met and we met in our home town, St Albans, when I had just left school and Stephen was starting his schooling. PhD studies in Cambridge. "

Hawking also mentioned that her parents, who helped the couple, "barely have access to the film".

She said: "It was particularly sad because the first one took place on the occasion of my father's centenary."

She added, "The movie actually shows only a part of our lives in Cambridge.Our many trips abroad have been totally ignored – for example, our honeymoon was spent at a conference of physics at Cornell University, in upstate New York State.

I'm sorry to say that none of these long trips – with all the expense of organizing, packing for a family with a severely disabled limb, transporting them, driving them, as well as the usual daily care – does figure really in Theory of everything.

"I asked for a frenetic version of fast forward – even so that all the suitcases, wheelchairs and passengers of the car represent this aspect of our lives – but it was said that this it was not possible due to lack of time. "

She also spoke with emotion about Hawking's death and said, "In 1963, Stephen was two years old to live and he fought this terrible disease until this year.

"It was as if a giant had been shot and taken, and we thought it was immortal, I think it's okay for all of us."