Older actors killing my brain...

Why is it, whenever I meet an actor of truly fine quality, I can never remember any GOOD piece of work they've done! Today I met Jeremy Irons on Wardour Street, very much by chance as these meetings usually are. He was walking along, obviously looking for somewhere, with two little dogs following him. As nobody looked like they were doing anything, I turned myself around and walked as fast as I could to try and catch up with him. Before he could cross the road I quickly trotted after him and stood behind him timidly asking if he could give me an autograph. I finally had a note pad with me, however, it was filled, to the brim with research notes! It was embaressing when he asked what I do (had to say I was a research student to explain all the papers and notes). He was very sweet and oh-so-darlingly handsome, it was lovely to hear his voice, if only I recorded the whole "and who should I make this to?" I've always loved his voice.

But could you believe it? During the time it took for him to find a page to the time it took for him to finish writing the note, I could not find a single movie I could use to compliment him with, noting him on his skill as an actor. I could only remember "Die Hard 3" which I don't think he'd consider his greatest work. I felt foolish, popcornish and completely airheaded. I felt even worse after he squeezed my hand and walked away when I remembered "Man in the Iron Mask", why couldn't I remember him as Aramis? I think I felt even worse when I looked his profile up on IMDb, "Merchant of Venice", *sigh* I loved him in that. Such a shame!

I had an even worse case was when I bumped into Terence Stamp. I was stopped in my tracks when I took one look at those beautiful, piercing blue eyes. I stopped him and asked him for an autograph, the first thing I said was, "it's odd I was browsing your profile on IMDb!" The quizzical look on his face was priceless! Or in my case, mortifying. So I had to explain what it was, but for the life of me, I couldn't think of any other movie to compliment him on other than his role as General Zod in Superman 2. However, I didn't help my case by saying he looked "fabulous" in "Prisilla Queen of the Desert"...

There's got to be a way of my brain kicking in when meeting handsome older actors...