In a festive sofa advertising campaign, the actor claims the bard once exclaimed: ‘People usually are the happiest at home.’ One problem – the oft-cited line is pure bunkum
What was Shakespeare thinking when he wrote: “People usually are the happiest at home”? Not only is it a banal observation, it isn’t even in iambic pentameter. Could he really have been so inconsistent? One minute he was fretting over the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”, the next he was knocking out platitudes unworthy of a Hallmark greetings card.
But we know he did say it because all over the festive period, Owen Wilson, the scruffy-haired star of The Royal Tenenbaums and the rebooted Starsky & Hutch, has been telling us so. In the hope we will go out and buy some living-room furniture, he has been fronting a campaign in which he expresses amazement that, four centuries ago, Shakespeare came up with such a cool advertising slogan.
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