According to people I know who saw it when it first came out, it was on the level of him saying that [in 2026] he’d had an affair with a wife’s friend. A regrettable peccadillo, not a giant moral failure.
No one in the movie treats him differently after, and it’s never mentioned again.
That would’ve been shockingly bad taste even then - they were probably going for shock value.
I’ll check it out - got me curious.
Edit: Peter O’Toole and Barbara Hershey in the 80’s? Sign me right up!
According to people I know who saw it when it first came out, it was on the level of him saying that [in 2026] he’d had an affair with a wife’s friend. A regrettable peccadillo, not a giant moral failure.
No one in the movie treats him differently after, and it’s never mentioned again.
And yes, Barbara looks really good.