cuckold

He is also hell-bent on making Orgon a cuckold.

And as Martin, Whishaw is as Britishly brittle-yet-vulnerable as only he can be, the stoic, sad-eyed cuckold trying to rise above and move on from the fray.

In recent years, I’ve played a lot of alpha-dominant males so I thought it would be interesting to play the cuckold, the jilted lover, if you will.

FEB 2002: During a group photograph at an informal EU summit in Spain, Berlusconi raises two fingers behind the head of then Spanish foreign minister Josep Pique in the traditional Latin gesture for a cuckold.

A lesser movie would have reduced him to a complication or, worse, a comic-relief cuckold, and the waves of laughter I heard at the movie’s Sundance premiere sounded, in some ways, like a response to that lesser movie.