Lady Honoria Lyndon
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Search complete. 35 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Lady Honoria Lyndon".
Oct 14, 2026
Felix BiedermanGUEST
Yeah.
Will MenakerHOST
The Irishman does make clear that Lady Lyndon's family is also incredibly wealthy.
Will MenakerHOST
The thing about Lady Lyndon is that unlike Barry, who is a figure who, like I said, is always arriving, as we see in the second half of the movie, can never fit in with the true aristocracy.
Will MenakerHOST
The peerage side quest goes so badly for him because he's not one of them and will never be.
Will MenakerHOST
Whereas Lady Lyndon is someone whose inertia, whose static position is what signals her legitimacy in this world.
Will MenakerHOST
So you
Felix BiedermanGUEST
think it was maybe the reverse? No, no, no.
9 MINS LATER
Felix BiedermanGUEST
This movie takes that saying and goes, oh, really?
Michael A. CohenHOST
And I [chuckles] wanted to mention one little tidbit I r- I read about this movie.
Michael A. CohenHOST
I read a lot about this film before we got together today, and apparently Marissa Berenson, who was, who plays Lady Lyndon, she's the female, uh, lead of the film, he told her, Kubrick told her, that in the months before production, she should stay out of the sun so she could-
Jonathan KirschnerHOST
[laughs]
Michael A. CohenHOST
... maintain the sort of ghostly pallor that so many of the, of the characters in this movie have, right? A lot of them have, have face paint on, but they're often-
Jonathan KirschnerHOST
[laughs]
Michael A. CohenHOST
And there is something about, he's a schemer.
Michael A. CohenHOST
He's trying to get, trying to make a, a, a name for himself, but ultimately, he is trapped by his, uh, background, by his lack of elite lineage to ultimately succeed in the world that he, that he, that he enters when he marries, uh, Lady Lyndon.
Michael A. CohenHOST
So I do...
JasonHOST
Most of it is shown is meant to be objective.
JasonHOST
And then like that, that in stuff, both with the banker telling Barry and then also the the sort of the Lady Lyndon realizing she's signing the check for Barry, like it becomes this more internal subjective, subjective view.
JasonHOST
I mean,
HaitchHOST
I was surprised that wasn't the final shot of the movie, by the way.
14 MINS LATER
JasonHOST
I haven't read the full interview, but he basically described Barry as someone who had.
JasonHOST
clawed his way into a gilded cage and proved badly suited to that role um so like you know it was like there is an element where it's like oh like none of this would have happened if barry had not like sort of routinely had um visions above his station or delusions above his station but i think like cutting against that reed is the fact that like everyone else is a son of a bitch and this is in this society too and like you know like, you know, and the final duel where Barry does act honorably and is punished for it.
JasonHOST
And like, you know, um, like Lady Lyndon's marriage to Sir Charles is really one of convenience and like one that he benefited from.
JasonHOST
And, you know, the, uh, like the, the, the Prince, like, you know, Welsh is on his, on his gambling debts.