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(In-joke?) The British Actress Reference?

posted 16 years ago by wellesradio
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There's a scene where the young hero tells the British intelligence officers that he finds it strange that the Professor didn't recognize Maria Tura since she was a famous actress. An older British man responds saying that it's no big surprise when someone isn't interested in theater and as an example he offers that he himself only ever knew of one actress... and that he wishes he hadn't.

I JUST KNOW he's referring to something in real life. Who was this actor who played the British man and who did he know in real life that he wishes he hadn't?
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[–] rudykawa 15 years ago

I understood as if he had an affair with an actress and it didn't end well.

[–] TheManInOil 14 years ago

You didn't get the joke. The idea is that he had known an actress who he had a fling with, and that it didn't go well - and that's all he knows of the theatre. It's not a reference to any real person or event.

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