Ruby Blondell
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499 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Ruby Blondell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The idea being that, you know, what is it that's drawing him?
And it kind of gives you an interplay between the two characters.
It tells you that Penelope has semi-divine specialness that's just expressed through the casting.
So there's a number of possibilities.
It depends how they do it.
But in Greek literature, especially in Aeschylus in the Oresteia, Helen and Clyde and Nestor are represented as this pair, like this duo of bad women.
Interesting.
It's like there's two ways to be a bad woman.
One is to be too, quote unquote, masculine, like Madame Nestor.
She picks up an axe and lops her husband off.
The other way is to be too feminine, like Helen.
Too much of a girl.
Too seducible.
So there are kind of two sides of the coin of bad woman-ness, which the Greeks are so obsessed with.
Ah,
Well, that would be super interesting to make that suggestion that there's, you know, there's this continuum of all the different ways of being a bad woman.
And because they're sisters, and one is half divine and the other isn't, they convey different facets of that, of the ways of being a bad woman.
That's a tough one, but I think it's because she just speaks to something so fundamental and basic.
On the one hand, the desire that people have for beauty and the most beautiful woman, which is a placeholder for their desire for sex, their desire for beauty.
babies, all that stuff.
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