My Beautiful Laundrette just swept me away when I saw it back in the 80s. Up to this point, I had never seen not just positive but unabashedly sexy depictions of gay characters on screen before. Plus, you know, it was funny and intelligent and made want to see more of the director, the scriptwriters and the actors.... So, whatever became of Omar's actor?
(BTW, back then it took me a while to realize that Johnny in My Beautiful Laundrette was also Cecil in A Room with a View which if I recall correctly was released not too much later - at least in Germany it was. Daniel Day-Lewis, you were and are fantastic.)
They use that clip of her announcing the murders right at the start of the film; I hadn't seen it before, and it was something of a shock to see her so young, as it always is when you associate people with their later-day appearance.
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(BTW, back then it took me a while to realize that Johnny in My Beautiful Laundrette was also Cecil in A Room with a View which if I recall correctly was released not too much later - at least in Germany it was. Daniel Day-Lewis, you were and are fantastic.)
They use that clip of her announcing the murders right at the start of the film; I hadn't seen it before, and it was something of a shock to see her so young, as it always is when you associate people with their later-day appearance.