I’ve been informed that people outside UK generally don’t know or care (not caring is the correct response BTW.).

Still seems bizarre to me.

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    6 days ago

    Yes, he’s the dude that’s famous for not being famous enough for Americans to recognize, which pisses off British people who insist that he’s so famous everyone on earth has to know about him.

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        They famously didn’t. The entire discourse surrounding this film from the American side of the ocean was “who is this person I’ve never heard of and why is he a monkey?” and after that discourse they still didn’t go see the film. We can speculate as to the why if we want, but the reality is just that for whatever reason this man is not famous in America, he is a footnote.