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What movie character you happen to have a crush on, even though the character clearly shows dozens of red flags? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 5 months ago by Trollivier to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's still not the full story. The full story is that Helena Bonham Carter is English and didn't know what grades "grade school" referred to in the US, so she didn't realize just how beyond the pale the line she was saying actually was until afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Which meant she was perfectly blasé about it while she was saying it