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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2024
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That's still not the full story. The full story is that Helena Bonham Carter is English and didn't know what grades "grade school" referred to in the US, so she didn't realize just how beyond the pale the line she was saying actually was until afterwards.
Which meant she was perfectly blasé about it while she was saying it