Valerie Leon as Tanya, The Lotus Eater
in the 1978 film "Revenge of the Pink Panther"
"I took whipping lessons for my role as Tanya, The Lotus Eater in The Revenge of The Pink Panther. I think word got around, because when I arrived at my dressing room there was a queue of men waiting. I can’t imagine why??!!" -- Valerie Leon
Scene from "Revenge of the Pink Panther"
Clouseau: "Madam, l demand to know exactly what is going on in here."
Madam Wu: "Well, just about anything your little heart desires. But first, why don't you relax?
Give Benson your hat and your coat, have a drink, get to know the girls. And then, when you are up to it, you can choose from a wide variety of exciting little diversions."
(Madam Wu notices Clouseau is wearing women's shoes and stockings)
Madam Wu: "But I see that you already have a preference."
(Ringing the gong)
Madam Wu: "Allow me to introduce, Tanya, the Lotus Eater."
(Valerie Leon makes her unforgettable entrance decked out in leather and cracking a bullwhip)
Clouseau: "l warn you, Tanya the Easter Lotus, I am opposed to the women's libs. Man is the master and a woman's place is in the hoooommmmme!"
(Whip swishes and cracks)
Clouseau: "Ooh! Ow!"
(The detective shrieks and screams as Tanya closes the door and proceeds to teach Clouseau, with the aid of her whip, that she is the boss.
From the book "Female Domination" by Elise Sutton;
Ryan is now a professional musician but when he was a teenager, he had an intense submissive experience while he was watching the 1978 film “Revenge of the Pink Panther”. In this film, there is a scene where the Peter Sellers character investigates a crime that takes him to an oriental brothel. He is mistaken for a cross-dresser so the owner of the establishment thinks she knows what the good detective desires sexually. She summons for the house Dominatrix and the next scene is a humorous scene where the Dominatrix is trying to whip the naive French Detective. The scene lasts for maybe a minute but it triggered something within Ryan.
Ryan never heard of a Dominatrix before but seeing this short image of a leather-clad woman wielding a whip caused him to become excited and overcome with a submissive feeling.
(The detective runs out of the room, Tanya follows with bullwhip squarely in hand as the other ladies of the house laugh with amusement. She wraps the whip around his feet and pulls him to the floor and begins to subdue him.)
Clouseau: "Take your hands off me, you fool! You are under arrest! Anything you say will be taken down...
You have the right to remain silent, but let me tell you this; I am not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill transvestite."
(end of scene)
Too bad for the audience as Valerie Leon's few minutes on the screen were perhaps the most memorable of all the Pink Panther films.
