Yes, poor Perry King, who plays the boy that Raquel's supposed to be madly in love with. At the peak of her being difficult, she wouldn't even look at him. So there's this poor boy trying to play his scene and Raquel won't even look at him. It's very sad. And then she changed... it all changed again. During post-production... oh yes, she walked off and then she said to James, 'You must apologise, I'll come back if you apologise'. And she came back and they arranged this public apology in front of everybody, which the sound recordist recorded, so that exists somewhere. That whole tape exists, where James says, 'Listen everybody, just come a moment and listen. If I offended... Raquel, if offended you in any way yesterday, I am sincerely sorry, and I apologise unreservedly', or something, it was all written down, what he had to say. Then Raquel said, 'I accept your apology', and just shook hands and the whole thing took off again.
But it wasn't... but that wasn't the end of it. She continued to be difficult and then she changed sides completely. At the end of the film when the film was finished and being edited, then she... the producers tried to take the film away from James and re-edit it and then Raquel changed sides and said, 'If you do that I won't do any publicity for you'. But it was re-edited and it was shown in London in its re-edited version, and they made a complete hash of it, and of course, it died after one week. Of course, in many cases, when that happens, when they re-edit a film to make it more commercial, it doesn't do anything of the kind. Then, of course, there's the question of sneak previews, which I don't think that film underwent, actually. But on a later Merchant Ivory film I shall talk about sneak previews, because they were absolutely disastrous. And they're something the Hollywood people believe in like it was the bible. Absolutely extraordinary.