Don't leave a voicemail, seriously.

The Alec Guinness thing is interesting. Because, hmm. We first see Eames in Mombasa-- but it's not a real Mombasa, it's a kind of self-conscious hearkback-to-colonial-times envisaging thereof, right? (I do think the depiction is self-conscious and deliberate-- I guess people's mileage may vary, but I don't think it's just the Hollywood machine producing a problematically Exotic Location for the sake of exoticness. Which doesn't make the depiction not problematic in and of itself, but-- anyway, I'm digressing.) Which made me think of TE Lawrence (hence the Alec Guinness connection) and Wilfred Thesiger and all those Oxbridge types in North Africa and the Middle East in the early and mid-20th century...

...who weren't actually just stiff-upper-lip British with all the accompanying mannerisms thereof, but also queer. (Well, Lawrence and Thesiger, anyway. And Gertrude Bell was kind of gender-queer if not actually a lesbian, I think...?)

Which, ha. I don't know if it means Eames is gay or not -- I can see arguments for and against -- but my mind certainly went in that direction.