“Americans: What are their assumptions about the British? ” he mused in a 2008 interview with the Guardian. “They’re probably inspired by Monty Python, rock’n’roll and Victorian England. If you have these things about your character, they will go away, okay, I know what it is.
However, unlike Sellers, he did not have the range of a Dr. Strangelove or the sensitivity of a Being There. And unlike Moore, his well-established comedic persona meant you wouldn’t trust him as a Bedazzled-style romantic failure, let alone as the Elf in Santa’s Workshop. (Though you can pretty much imagine him as an Arthur, we’ll get to that in a moment.) As for Connolly: well, perish the thought of him in Mrs. Brown. Instead, studios ended up paying him millions to essentially play himself.
Who is it, for example? “One day I was watching the news and I saw pictures about war, and I think it was Darfur, or Zimbabwe, or Rwanda, or one of them, and I thought said, “It’s not good, is it? ?’ And I made a few phone calls and it turned out that wasn’t the case.
Or this: “I would rather have my testicles spread out like a wafer and then cover them with a layer of honey and then have wasps come and sting me and then cover them with another layer of vinegar and then wear them like a hat bathed by a Nazi – I’d rather have her than spend another second with her.
