12. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie McDowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one’s ears removed with a cheese grater.
UPDATE: According to this Snopes piece, this has been rewritten and reworked by hundreds of people, published through various online and print mediums in several countries and traced back to an internet message board in the year 2000 by a nobody, Alan Baxter in the UK. John Cleese’s name was wrongly attached to it in 2004 and reposted hundreds of times since in this format here. This is just another one of those times. Check out the Snopes page if you’re interested.
To wit, this is not John Cleese. Sorry for the unintentional trickery.
Thank you peterwknox for posting this, it’s hilarious :)
But I have to be a pain in the coolie and point this out: Andie MacDowell wasn’t playing a Brit in Four Weddings & a Funeral, she was playing an American. And I like to think John Cleese would have known that :)
