I'm watching the DVD of "A Little Romance" and just wanted to say that Ashby Semple, who played Nathalie, was just plain WONDERFUL in this movie! She was so funny. I wonder if she ever did another movie? If she didn't, it's Hollywood's mistake for not putting the terrific little natural comedian in more roles.
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After the movie was over, Semple received offers for other movies but her mom didn’t want her involved in the business. After high school, Semple attended Harvard, where she was a founding member of an improv comedy group, and graduated with a major in literature.
She founded two theatrical groups and taught screenwriting and acting in New York before becoming an English teacher at Harvard-Westlake.
Semple worked as an actor, director, and teacher at the Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles (of which she still is an associated artist).
Sources:
www.hw.com/students/chronicle/ 2003-2004/Issue%206/Features/features22.pdf
www.hw.com/students/chronicle/ 2003-2004/Issue%201/Pages/Page%203.pdf
oh well, she is kinda cool.
I am watching this for the first time, and I do kinda love her.
I agree. Her performance was one of the most natural and real comedic performances I've ever seen. She must say "god!" 15 times, but it never gets old or even tired. It's a real shame that she never did another movie.
shareI agree. She was actually my favorite character in this movie. I was dissapointed that her character and Daniel's friend sort of dissapear from the movie around the middle of the movie. I thought they would have made an interesting couple.
shareI was also loved/obsessessed on "A Little Romance" when it came out, and I still know every nuance in this movie, as it was extremely big in my life back then. In 1983 I was working in a pub in North London, and, honest to god, Ashby Semple came in (we used to get a few actors/musicians in there because there was a TV studio nearby). I don't know what she was doing there, and I didn't say anything to her because I was totally starstruck. I still remember that she ordered a tomato juice. And she sounded just like Nathalie when she said it!
share"I could have had a V-8! OH GOD!"
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.