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Matthew Richard "Matt" Lucas (born March 5, 1974) is an English comedian, screenwriter and actor. He is perhaps best known for his acclaimed work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain and spoof interview series Rock Profile, as well as for his portrayal of the surreal scorekeeping baby George Dawes in the Reeves and Mortimer comedy panel game Shooting Stars. In 2009 Lucas played Chancellor Donold David Dongalor, on the BBC/Comedy Central series Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. More recently, Lucas and Walliams have written and starred in another spoof show, Come Fly with Me. In May 2007, he was placed eighth in the list of the UK's 100 most influential gays and lesbians, in fields as diverse as entertainment, business, politics, and science, by British newspapers The Independent and The Daily Mail.
Beatrice and Benedick have been arguing for three years. Everyone can see it is love. They are the last to know. The comedy is in watching them figure it out. A sun-drenched contemporary romantic comedy that treats Much Ado About Nothing as what it is — Shakespeare's most sophisticated examination of two people who are in love and refuse to admit it because they are both too intelligent and too proud. Set between contemporary Tuscany (where the play's opening scenes unfold at the villa of Leonato) and London (where the characters' shared history is established through brief flashback). The film follows Shakespeare's text with fidelity while giving the specific comedic world of the Tuscan summer sequence its full contemporary warmth. The Hero-Claudio plot — the play's more serious romantic thread — is treated with the full weight the text gives it: a woman falsely accused of sexual dishonesty on her wedding night is not simply a plot convenience but the film's moral test. Act One — The Villa Messina in Tuscany. The soldiers arriving. Beatrice and Benedick's first exchange — the film's first great scene. Act Two — The Gulling The double deception — each told the other is secretly in love with them. Benedick's soliloquy in the garden. Beatrice overhearing in the orchard. Act Three — The Wedding Hero's public accusation. Beatrice's 'Kill Claudio.' The film's pivot from comedy to something much more serious. Act Four — The Resolution Hero's vindication. The second wedding. Beatrice and Benedick's final, grudging, joyful capitulation.
