Miss Scarlet and The Duke

Leslie Ann Warren is...

Scarlet.

Scarlet, yeah.

Yeah.

Eileen Brennan is Miss Peacock.

It's deeply intentional in its costuming choices.

It's beautiful in that.

i mean it's it's very intentional unlike most of like the choices that it does throughout it like kind of going i do remember a punch line that we're probably going to be repeating to ourselves a lot which is uh communism was just a red hair oh yeah um yeah that's like how in every ending that's true yeah every ending like someone says that i'm not a communist i'm a capitalist which that's the thing with i was going to say with miss scarlet is like you know You you assume that, you know, with everyone being like D.C. people, you know, politician type scare bullshit like Miss Scarlet is the obvious choice to be like, oh, yeah, she's probably just a fucking communist or socialist or something like that.

That's right.

We also have Miss Scarlet, who is wearing a blue dress for this entire thing, which is very confusing to me.

She has red hair.

Yeah, Miss White was also wearing black.

though.

Finally, we have Professor Plum, or as trans girls everywhere know, Professor Plum.

Okay, well, all the women in my family have taken Miss Scarlet, Miss Peacock, and Mrs.

White.

This is what I love about creativity, 'cause you take a perspective that's kinda stumped everybody else, and then you kinda start looking at it in different ways.

The first thing he thought was, "Why would adults genuinely be named Plum, Scarlet, Peacock, Green, Mustard, and White?" They would not.

So you know what they are? They're aliases.

Mm.

And then I've been watching Laugh-In reruns.

She, way back then she was doing Laugh-In segments.

Last but not least, you have Miss Scarlet.

Mm.

Professor Plum lost his medical license for having affairs with patients.

Miss Scarlet runs an illegal high-class brothel in Washington, D.C., and Mr.

Green is a closeted gay man working for the State Department.

where homosexuality was grounds for dismissal.

People will go see it more often.

Well, you know, that didn't, that didn't really help.

As far as the cast, Carrie Fisher was cast as Miss Scarlet, but had to withdraw to go to rehab.

The director, Jonathan Lynn, who also did My Cousin Benny and The Whole Nine Yards, his first choice for Wadsworth was Leonard Rossiter, but he passed away before production.

So we get introduced to all the characters, Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, Mr.

Green, Mrs. Scarlet.

Mm hmm.

I'm sorry, Miss Scarlet.

Miss Scarlet, yeah.

Mrs.

White.

they're in your face they are and obviously they do that for a reason they joke about it and stuff yes yes um but so mrs white she's her husbands have died kind of mysteriously yeah so it all seems like she's kind of behind and he