Charlotte appeared at at least two venues in New York City in support of her recently released album in Jan./Feb., 2010, but alas, I was unable to attend her performances and, unfortunately, I missed her appearance on Letterman.
As others pointed out, she had an affair with Terence Stamp's charater. At one point in the film, the Yvan husband-character in the film says that woman get a goofy look on their face when a man recites poetry, implying they can be seduced by that recitation (or someone says that, anyway). The next scene shows the Charlotte actress-character with just such a goofy look on her face as the Terence Stamp actor-character recites Shakespeare sonnets while a little tipsy from drinking beer, and while wearing the airline pilot cap his character wears in the movie-within-a-movie.
We are led to believe that this act, combined with Charlotte's loneliness, and the fights she's been having with her husband, mostly by long-distance, leads her to have sex with Stamp's character.
This is not a very good scene. The goofy look is not funny or attractive. It is just goofy, and makes the Charlotte-character look stupid. And Stamp's recitation of Shakespeare makes his character just look like an alcoholic, past-his-prime, fading matinee-idol-type actor on his way to being really drunk.
Atai, in the director's narration, says he included the scene because he likes the way British actors recite Shakesepeare, and in the deleted scene, which is only described, but not shown in the DVD special features, Atai says it was hilarious to hear Stamp reciting Shakespeare as he makes love to Charlotte, going faster and faster until he is reciting Shapespeare like a "madman."
But unless Charlotte was equally drunk, which is not made clear, this would only make her look even less sympathetic in my opinion.
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