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I too saw the Brideshead serial.

It was rather surprising when Charles ran off with the sister rather than Sebastian.

It made Jeremy Irons an international star and the king of the subtextual performance. You can always feel the undertow pulling at Irons. I thought Anthony Andrews was just as good and had the more difficult part to play. He has to go from the heights of antic charm to a complete, sorrowful dissipation convincingly though just playing a character, who is known by the audience, to be Catholic and homosexual in Thirties England gives one sufficient freight to carry.

I think Laurence Olivier and Claire Bloom had small roles as Sebastian's parents as well.