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Funny, entertaining... but..

posted 11 years ago by crozier1986
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I wanted to see what this Fiona Richmond looked like in the real world and damn.. I remember seeing one of her seedy pornos when i was a teen. and she was cheap looking, face of a man.. 3/10.

The actress playing her? 10/10. easy.

actress playing his wife? pretty, but cant compare with TE. 7/10.

In reality, Jean Raymond was very beautiful and Paul must have been blind to have left his wife for Fiona Richmond.

I get the feeling the film wanted to make him look better by having the fling with a more attractive "younger model" but this was not the case in reality. At all.

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[–] kyzasoze2003 11 years ago

The actress playing her? 10/10. easy.

Yeah Tamsin Egerton is beautiful. Funny enough she reminds me of a young Anna Friel. They tried with all the cast to make them look like the characters though most do not look anything like them. I think Paul had the fling with Fiona because she and him got along better, maybe she understood him better and maybe he did find her more attractive. There are always people who find some lesser attractive people more physically attractive to themselves and may not be attracted to the usual pretty types.

[–] andy-i-247-114680 11 years ago

Yeah, I liked the character, because he was essential Steve Coogan playing the Partrigde type. I don't know if I'd actually have liked the real Paul Raymond. He left his first son out of the will.

His granddaughter is a real rich bitch now, goes on to twitter and says things such as " on the balcony looking out onto the little people"

He really spoilt his female children and grandchildren.

[–] seawalker 11 years ago

What? Real life people being portrayed by actors much more attractive than them? Never heard of such a thing!

Of course you are correct, kind of. What is attractive changes. I don't think that Fiona Richmond was bad looking at all, but she would not get top class work if she was starting out today.

[–] Krustallos 11 years ago

In reality, Jean Raymond was very beautiful and Paul must have been blind to have left his wife for Fiona Richmond.

But it's not just about looks, is it? It's also about finding your soul-mate.

Fiona appears to have been sexually adventurous in ways his wife wasn't and she had that combination of 'poshness' and sexuality that a lot of men find very attractive. Raymond definitely had aspirations, class-wise. I think the casting of Edgerton was to give that sense of glamour, rather than to suggest that Fiona was better looking than Jean.

Personally of the two actresses I would pick Anna Friel, who I think is absolute perfection, but it's all in the eye of the beholder really, innit?

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[–] bronco_tim 11 years ago

Have to agree Fiona Richmond during 'the time' wasn't hugely attractive but read an article in the Telegraph a few weeks ago after she had watched the movie saying that the private lives of her and Mr Raymond were completely distorted for the film, neither she nor him were that promiscuous and Paul Raymond was a businessman, and a fairly caring witty boss all these three in the bed romps etc just weren't true. Whether this is the truth we just don't know as no doubt she looks back at those times with fondness and the money she made with him and her exposure (in more ways than one) propelled her upwards in the world of adult entertainment (they remained friends, Raymond went to her wedding when she married I believe in the early 80's). So to say this film is close to truthful in her eyes would only belittle herself and Raymond's family, so who knows?

The film overall was insightful of those times of the 60's and 70' when Soho really was the 'seedy' area of London and largely down tot he Raymond Empire,
Great to see a period of London that very little people of these times know about and the decor, clubs, penthouses depicted to the tee. Worth a watch.

[–] fawnalatrisch-681-234913 11 years ago

Hope you all saw me playing the part of the centrefold model doing a daring shoot for Men Only, about half way through the film!

[–] bronco_tim 11 years ago

who are you? but I do recollect the scene!

[–] eddie-83 11 years ago

I agree with you, I found Anna Friel infinitely more attractive than Tamsin. She (Anna) is totally gorgeous!

[–] Howlin Wolf 9 years ago

How would it make him look 'better'? If anything, it makes him out to be even shallower than he probably was… Men sometimes have affairs for reasons besides looks, and only he knows what attracted him to Fiona… Aesthetic beauty might be too simplistic a way of judging these things.

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