Much Ado About Nothing (theater)/Trivia


 * Actor Allusion: The part of Dogberry was written for William Kempe, the actor who played Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which adds a whole new level to the "I am an ass" rant.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: The 1993 film, in which Professor Lockhart and Professor Trelawney are in a Slap Slap Kiss relationship while Neo works to break up Wilson and Selene while Beetlejuice and Denzel Washington look on.
 * Meanwhile, Professor Umbridge is mistaken for Hero. And in what bizarro awesome world did Hector MacDonald become brothers with Brian Blessed?
 * Complete irony: Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh were actually married to each other off-screen from 1989 to 1995. So perhaps their casting was a bit of Real Life Writes the Plot?
 * He also plays opposite to her in both Henry V, Dead Again, and Look Back In Anger. And all four films were also directed by him. So it's not so much Real Life Writes the Plot as it is Real Life Casts the Movies.
 * Hero's nurse was also played by Emma Thompson's mother, so real life does indeed cast these movies. They didn't refer to this lot as the "Brit Pack" for nothing...
 * Real Life Relative:
 * Kenneth Branagh (Benedick) and Emma Thompson (Beatrice) were married in real life when the Branagh film was made.
 * Emma Thompson's mother Phyllida Law plays Beatrice's maid Ursula.