“ | I'm sorry. Did I say something to you? | „ |
~ Clarice Kensington showing off her snobbish personality. |
“ | I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE HUMILITATED IN MY LIFE! | „ |
~ Clarice Kensington's breakdown at the wedding. |
Clarice Kensington is the main antagonist of the 1995 film It Takes Two, which is based on the famous 1965 pop song of the same name by singers Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston.
She was portrayed by Jane Sibbett, who would later play an almost identical role as Vivian Berger in Au Pair.
Personality[]
Despite her middle-class status, Clarice is a greedy and opportunistic social climber who cares only about gaining more money and status. She is overly confident in her abilities, and her goals, and thus acts rude, snobbish, and arrogant towards anyone she considers as "competition" or "below" her, including Roger's daughter Alyssa, yet feigns empathy whenever Roger is around.
Clarice secretly despises baseball and children and only wants to get Roger's money when she marries him (like Meredith Blake in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap) and plans to send Alyssa off to a boarding school in Tibet so that Clarice can be the only one who benefits off his money. As her goals look fruitful, Clarice becomes increasingly controlling towards Roger so that she can avoid failure.
Biography[]
After spying on Roger and Diane (the social worker), Clarice changes the wedding date from the next month to the next day so that she can fulfill her goal. Clarice attempts to speed up the wedding so that she can marry Roger (so Diane cannot have him).
During the marriage ceremony in Manhattan, New York, as Alyssa (pretending to be Amanda) and Diane get into the church, Roger thinks about whether or not to take Clarice as his wife. After he thinks about the good times he had with Diane, Roger turns Clarice down. She then slaps Roger and prepares to do the same to Amanda (as Alyssa), but Vincenzo, the Calloways' butler, stops Clarice and threatens to pop her one.
When Clarice finds out there are two girls, she tries to slap Alyssa (as Amanda), but Diane stops her from doing so. Clarice storms out of the church, embarrassed. She is even more embarrassed when Alyssa deliberately steps on her wedding dress, causing it to tear to pieces and reveal her stockings and white panties in front of the wedding guests, even those with cameras, causing her to desperately call for her father (who just laughs), and run away, trying to hide her panties from the flashing cameras (somewhat the inspiration for the defeat of Coco LaBouche).