Jun 21, 2010 20:52
of myself in about the dorkiest way possible.
I was watching "Becket" - 1964, Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, and I was drawn to one of the early female characters - a Welsh girl serving Becket, who kills herself rather than submit to the King. I thought I recognized her, and it turns out she's Sian Phillips, who played the Reverend Mother Gaius Mohiam in the David Lynch version of "Dune." She was bald in the latter, and it was shortly before she died. But something about the lines of her mouth, and the way she spoke. She really is Welsh, which is why she (and Burton) enunciate so clearly...
God, I'm a nerd!