With Thibault believing Julia is Rosalind, and Julia assuming Thibault is her late cousin who isn't dead after all, the script presents plenty of obstacles besides the obvious question of how will
the Frenchmen ever return to their proper place and time.
The sword - and - sandals, «Jesus Picture» star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, sillier than
ever — an injoke reminiscent of Steve Buscemi's
ever decreasing mortal remains in the Coenography) is missing, and the gossip columnists (both played by Tilda Swinton, both underused), the sailor tap - dancing musical has an alarming case of closeted gayness (and a wonderful cameo from the Highlander
frenchman, Christopher Lambert), the Busby Berkeley mermaid picture has a star (Scarlett Johannson, in a glorious Noo Yawk accent) and whose fish tail is getting more ill - fitting by the hour due to a pregnancy scandal about to break, and a Euro - flavoured drawing - room melodrama has been saddled with an aw - shucks singing cowboy leading man (Alden Ehrenreich in a breakout performance) who is far, far out of his depth.
However, he was soon disillusioned with what he called the «sickliness» and «mediocrity» of the French artists: «If there was
ever a more ridiculous lot of males as a clan, it is these
Frenchmen.»