Allô Allô, uma retrospectiva... (X) - Kristen Cooke

"Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once". Esta é talvez a frase que mais impacto causou durante toda a série.

A Michelle of the Resistence era interpretada pela actriz Kriten Cooke.

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Kirsten Cooke (born 4 October 1952, Cuckfield, East Sussex, England) is an English stage actress who trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Almost all of her acting work has been in the field of comedy.

She is best known for her role as Michelle Dubois in the British television series 'Allo 'Allo, produced by the BBC. Before then, she was an occasional member of the ensemble of comedy actors that appeared in Dave Allen's sketches across several of his BBC series. More recently, she starred in several episodes of the BBC children's comedy series ChuckleVision.

Her other television credits include Woolcott, Rings On Their Fingers, The Dawson Watch, and The Upper Hand. She has now gone on to play the role of "Molly" in the British television series Down To Earth. She also appeared as a panelist on Blankety Blank ^[1]

Michelle Dubois is a fictional character in the situation comedy 'Allo 'Allo. The part was played by the actress Kirsten Cooke.

She is a young, dark-haired woman who usually dresses in the unofficial "uniform" of the Gaullist French Resistance, a tan trench coat and black beret. Unlike the other French characters, she speaks fluent English, and is the only local person in Nouvion who can communicate with the two downed Royal Air Force men who are hidden in the town (the only other character to do this is Officer Crabtree). Her undercover alias is that of the post mistress in the other village, who has a lisp.

Her recurring catch-phrase (delivered in a faux-French accent) is: "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once." She also has a habit of jumping out on Rene with her gun drawn, and asking him "are we alone?", even when in a crowded cafe, and has an obsession with secrecy and disguises.

Although, unlike most of the other women in the show, she is not even remotely attracted to René Artois, she pretends to be in love with him at one point to get him to cooperate with her schemes; René himself is not enthusiastic about the Resistance or the Germans, and would much prefer, given his own inclinations, to just run his cafe and have affairs with his waitresses.

Although Michelle is devoted to the Resistance, there have been episodes when her morals are doubtful. In one episode she shoots the ceiling of René's café to make the customers pay 400 franc for a bottle of wine instead of 200. In another episode she takes some money from the till of the café. She even takes small sums of money from the Resistance and spends it on a hairdresser visit. In another episode she even threatens René and Edith with a gun for money.

Her catchphrase "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once" was the most used catchphrase in the show and had several variations, the most recurring one being "Look very carefully, I shall show you only once", which was first used when showing off her legs to René and Monsieur Alfonse. Due to the shows popularity "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once" has also been used infrequently on other show, especially those set in World War II France. A notable example is a Seventh season episode of Goodnight Sweetheart when the main character Gary Sparrow, disguised as a French General, made contact with a member of the French Resistance.