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Alan. Rickman.
I've got this bootleg videotape of Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan in the 2002 Broadway run of Private Lives. You'd think that there would be nothing better than Alan Rickman, in a 1920's tuxedo, smoking a cigarette and drinking a cocktail, speaking Noel Coward's words to romance a beautiful woman.
You'd be wrong.
All of that is Act 1.
Act 2? Alan Rickman in satin pyjamas and an undone dressing gown, dancing about with said beautiful woman in an Oriental-carpet and pillow-strewn loft, occasionally stopping to snuggle up with her on a couch.
BAREFOOT.
I'll be in my bunk.
ETA: Oh, GOD, now he's playing the piano and singing...
You'd be wrong.
All of that is Act 1.
Act 2? Alan Rickman in satin pyjamas and an undone dressing gown, dancing about with said beautiful woman in an Oriental-carpet and pillow-strewn loft, occasionally stopping to snuggle up with her on a couch.
BAREFOOT.
I'll be in my bunk.
ETA: Oh, GOD, now he's playing the piano and singing...