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Adele

posted 14 years ago by JimboLyn
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How much of a part does Alex Kingston have in this as Adele?

[–] myturn21 14 years ago

Minor, a bit part at most. BUT, she does have a few lines of dialog and she becomes one of the victims of Albert's horrid temper.

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They didn't do nuthin'. We were playin' pinochle, it's a rough game. - Sefton

[–] noahs12dice 14 years ago

Did he... I don't remember him doing anything to her apart from declaring he could replace her because she's all lips and tits.

[–] myturn21 13 years ago

Sorry about the long delay, hope you read this: Adele is the one whom Albert stabs in the face with the fork.

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[–] SteveResin 13 years ago

Kingston just appears now and again as a waitress in a tight fitting red dress. She has no dialogue whatsoever. The woman who gets 'forked' (see what I did there) by Gambon is a different actress.

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[–] JimboLyn 13 years ago

Thanks. It's likely one I'll never see.

Thanks again,

[–] engremore 13 years ago

I've seen a lot of incredibly violent and gory movies (hell I've lent a hand in several)but the scene where Gambon does that - re: the fork - remains in my memory as one of the most viscerally real violent acts I've seen in film. It's sudden, it's personal, and it's a hurt you can relate to. I remember watching an audience watching Carpenter's "Thing" back in the 80's - there were gasps and cringes, etc at various points, but the scene that made everyone react in unison, was the scene where I think it was Kurt Russell, slicing his finger with a penknife for the blood test. All the goopy gory alien stuff was all well and good, but it was unreal - cutting your finger with a penknife is something you can realistically extrapolate the feeling of.