The funny thing about this is that the movie in question is A Beautiful Mind, in which Paul Bettany plays Russell Crowe's imaginary British roommate, who never actually interacts at all with Jennifer Connolly's character, because she actually exists and he does nothttps://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1360762210805448704 …
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Parallels to WandaVision aside, I just find this situation funny, especially because of on-set rumors Russell Crowe himself was also hitting on Connolly pretty hard and she couldn't stand him
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Also just the idea that what John Nash's subconscious mind needed when he arrived at college was imagining a naked hungover British dude passed out in his bed I guess there are worse coping mechanisms
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(And then, as is so often the case with ranting naked British dudes, he turns out to be a communist)
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This was kind of a golden age for naked Paul Bettany in movies, he was also gratuitously naked in A Knight's Tale
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Paul Bettany being distractingly shirtless in this scene and giving a very entertaining monologue about the science of hangovers was an intentional distraction they threw in for the fact that the room is a single and there's no other bed for his "roommate" to be assigned to
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I choose not to think of this as clever breadcrumb foreshadowing for his schizophrenia and just think about the other obvious subtext of this fact
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(The real John Nash was arrested in 1954 for cruising in a restroom
In later life he downplayed his sexual encounters with other men and refused to discuss them, saying they were symptomatic of his mental illness and he absolutely wasn't gay
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