The Big Speech: Understudy WIP 02

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Dialog Nora: Stephen, this really is the best slightly brown toast I've ever had...

Scene 8 Panel 2 Dialog Nora: ...It kind of changes
everything... I'm definitely going to leave my husband...

Scene 8 Panel 3 Dialog Nora: OH MARRY ME STEPHEN!!!

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Dialog NORA You do know I'll have to leave you eventually, don't you?

Scene 14 Panel 2 Dialog NORA You do know I'll
have to leave you eventually, don't you?

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Scene 21 Panel 2 Dialog ofscr, recording, STEPHEN singing: The
Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...

Scene 21 Panel 3 Dialog ofscr, recording, STEPHEN singing: The
Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...

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recording, STEPHEN singing: The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...

Scene 22 Panel 2 Dialog recording, STEPHEN singing: The Wheels
on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...

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Scene 25 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: Hey

Scene 26 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: uh...

Scene 26 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: ...hey... uh...

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Scene 27 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: What are you doing?

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Scene 28 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: Learning about numbers

Scene 28 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: No really, Nora- What
are you doing?

Scene 28 Panel 4 Dialog NORA: Well.... If you really
wanna know, I'm just sat here trying to work out what's weirder- you stealing Josh's Best Actor award, or you dressed up as a massive singing dancing squirrel.

Scene 28 Panel 5 Dialog NORA: Well.... If you really
wanna know, I'm just sat here trying to work out what's weirder- you stealing Josh's Best Actor award, or you dressed up as a massive singing dancing squirrel.

Scene 28 Panel 6 Dialog NORA: Usually I'd say it
was steling the award. Until I started watching this, that is. Now I'm not so sure...

Scene 29 Panel 1 Dialog Recording: if you're happy and
you know it, shout we are!

Scene 29 Panel 2 Dialog NORA Offscr: We are...

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Scene 30 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: don't you dare!

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Scene 31 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: Well... it's a look

Scene 31 Panel 3 Dialog Stephen: It certainly is

Scene 31 Panel 4 Dialog Offscr Recording: If you're happy
and you know it, stomp your feet

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Scene 31 Panel 7 Dialog STEPHEN: //breathes deep// Of course,
another question...

Scene 32 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN contin: Might be, what
gave you the right to start nosing around in my stuff?

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Scene 32 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: LOOK /Sammy/ - I
understand. You're not happy and I know it. But I wasn't "nosing around"

Scene 32 Panel 4 Dialog NORA contin: . It's just
I was cold and I was looking in your wardrobe for a sweater, or a blanket or something...

Scene 32 Panel 5 Dialog NORA contin: ...and I sort
of stumbled upon... these

Scene 32 Panel 6 Dialog NORA contin: ...and I sort
of stumbled upon... these

Scene 32 Panel 7 Dialog STEPHEN: That still doesn't give
you the right to--

Scene 32 Panel 8 Dialog NORA: I was going to
put them back and pretend that I hadn't seen them, but- well, I'm sorry, but some things are pretty hard to ignore, Steve.

Scene 32 Panel 9 Dialog NORA: ugh...

Scene 32 Panel 10 Dialog NORA: Y'know...

Scene 33 Panel 1 Dialog NORA contin: Y'know most guys
would just have porno hidden in the back of their wardrobes...

Scene 33 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: Would that be better
or worse?

Scene 33 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: It's a close call,
Steve. It's a very close call. It it was a DVD of say, you in a squirrel costume having sex with my husbands BAFTA, that might conceivably have been worse...

Scene 33 Panel 4 Dialog NORA contin: ...You're very good
by the way

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Scene 34 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: It's the role I
was born to play

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Scene 35 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: I think this is
the moment where you say "there's a perfectly rational explanation for all this"

Scene 35 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: There is.

Scene 35 Panel 4 Dialog NORA: I'm all ears...

Scene 35 Panel 5 Dialog NORA contin: ... as indeed,
are you

Scene 36 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN ofscr: OK, well...

Scene 37 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN... well...

Scene 37 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: THIS...

Scene 37 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: This I do partly
for the money, and partly because I enjoy-

Scene 37 Panel 4 Dialog NORA ofscr: DO?

Scene 37 Panel 5 Dialog STEPHEN: Sorry?

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Scene 37 Panel 8 Dialog NORA: You said "Do" not
"did"

Scene 37 Panel 9 Dialog NORA: You said "Do" not
"did"

Scene 37 Panel 10 Dialog STEPHEN: I've been filming the
sequel...

Scene 37 Panel 11 Dialog NORA: I thought you said
it was a tough indie crime thriller.

Scene 37 Panel 12 Dialog STEPHEN: ...set in a woodland...

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Scene 39 Panel 5 Dialog Sammy the Squirrel Recording: So
when I have two hazelnuts, and I get another TWO hazelnuts, what do I get then BRIAN?

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Scene 40 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: In my defence, I
actually think I'm pretty good

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Scene 40 Panel 5 Dialog NORA: You are, but isn't
there a scale issue here?

Scene 40 Panel 6 Dialog NORA: You are, but isn't
there a scale issue here?

Scene 41 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: That is one dumb
bear...

Scene 41 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: True...

Scene 41 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: FOUR HAZELNUTS!!

Scene 41 Panel 4 Dialog NORA: You owe him FOUR
HAZELNUTS

Scene 41 Panel 5 Dialog NORA: You owe him FOUR
HAZELNUTS

Scene 42 Panel 1 Dialog NORA contin: you IDIOT!

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Scene 42 Panel 8 Dialog STEPHEN: Nora, you are listening
to me, aren't you?

Scene 43 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: I'm sorry but...

Scene 43 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: ...I'm...

Scene 43 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: ...finding it impossible to
look away

Scene 44 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: Well...

Scene 44 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: Could you try, Nora?

Scene 44 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: Please? You're not making
this easy for me...

Scene 45 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: I have no intention
of making it easy for you...

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Scene 45 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: Look- Stephen, THIS... this
is fine. This I don't mind- it's actually almost quite cute in a sinister kind of way. To be honest...

Scene 46 Panel 1 Dialog NORA offscreen contin: ...I'm a
little more concerned about...

Scene 46 Panel 2 Dialog NORA offscreen contin: ...I'm a
little more concerned about...

Scene 46 Panel 3 Dialog NORA offscreen contin: ...This

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Scene 46 Panel 7 Dialog STEPHEN: I didn't steal anything

Scene 46 Panel 8 Dialog NORA: So what happened then?

Scene 46 Panel 9 Dialog STEPHEN: OK...

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Scene 46 Panel 11 Dialog STEPHEN: well the thing is...

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Scene 46 Panel 13 Dialog STEPHEN: you remember that party,
where we first met...

Scene 46 Panel 14 Dialog STEPHEN: ...

Scene 46 Panel 15 Dialog STEPHEN: Do you... please...

Scene 46 Panel 16 Dialog STEPHEN: would you mind turning
this thing off?

Scene 47 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: I'll pause it

Scene 47 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: I don't want to
miss anything...

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Scene 48 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: So that party, you
know, when I drank a little too much, and had that weird attack because of those antibiotics I'd been taking...

Scene 48 Panel 6 Dialog STEPHEN: ...Well I was in
your bedroom... and I...

Scene 48 Panel 7 Dialog STEPHEN: ...I saw Josh's award...

Scene 48 Panel 8 Dialog STEPHEN: ...and I was picking
it up...

Scene 48 Panel 9 Dialog STEPHEN: ...Just to look at
it...

Scene 48 Panel 10 Dialog STEPHEN: ...and I was... y'know...

Scene 48 Panel 11 Dialog STEPHEN: ...goofing around in front
of the mirror...

Scene 48 Panel 12 Dialog STEPHEN: ...when you came back
in the room...

Scene 48 Panel 13 Dialog STEPHEN: ...to say the cab
was there...

Scene 48 Panel 14 Dialog STEPHEN: ...remember?

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Scene 50 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: ... and uh...

Scene 50 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: ... I clearly wasn't
thinking straight, because...

Scene 50 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: ...I sort of stuffed
it under my coat...

Scene 50 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN: ...and the next thing
I knew I was in the taxi on the way home...

Scene 50 Panel 5 Dialog STEPHEN: ...and I still had
this... thing

Scene 50 Panel 6 Dialog NORA offscreen: ...So let me
get this straight...

Scene 51 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: ...You stole my husband's
Best Actor award.

Scene 52 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: Uhm! Not "stole" just...misplaced
it in my flat. Temporarily.

Scene 52 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: Not "stole" just...misplaced it
in my flat. Temporarily.

Scene 52 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: Not "stole" just...misplaced it
in my flat. Temporarily.

Scene 53 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: You "temporarily misplaced" my
husbands Best Actor award in your flat because you'd been taking antibiotics?

Scene 54 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: Well...No...

Scene 54 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: ...Not just because of
that... it was booze mainly, but--

Scene 54 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: And Josh's Affair?

Scene 54 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN: A--ff-fair?

Scene 54 Panel 5 Dialog NORA: Affair's....

Scene 55 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: Affairs a stupid word-
this woman, these... women he's been seeing.

Scene 55 Panel 2 Dialog //sigh...//

Scene 55 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: Did you know about
it?

Scene 56 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: -UH ah--

Scene 56 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: NOOOO-ho-ho-ho!

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Scene 57 Panel 1 Dialog NORA What was that?

Scene 57 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN What?

Scene 57 Panel 3 Dialog NORA “No-ho-ho”?

Scene 57 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN It means I don’t
know

Scene 58 Panel 1 Dialog NORA You didn’t know STEPHEN
No

Scene 59 Panel 1 Dialog NORA I think you’re lying
STEPHEN What makes you think I’m lying?

Scene 60 Panel 1 Dialog NORA You’re nostrils flare. And
you did this weird “no-ho-ho” thing. I don’t know where you picked that up from Seve, but I have to tell you, no human being has ever made that noise ever…

Scene 60 Panel 2 Dialog NORA You’re nostrils flare. And
you did this weird “no-ho-ho” thing. I don’t know where you picked that up from Seve, but I have to tell you, no human being has ever made that noise ever…

Scene 61 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN OK. Yes.

Scene 62 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: Yes you did know?

Scene 63 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN Yes.

Scene 64 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: So did you lie
to me, or was it just the antibiotics talking?

Scene 64 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: So did you lie
to me, or was it just the antibiotics talking?

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Scene 65 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN No.. no I lied
to you...

Scene 66 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: You lied to protect
JOSH?

Scene 66 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: You lied to protect
JOSH?

Scene 66 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN offscreen: No

Scene 66 Panel 4 Dialog NORA: No?!

Scene 67 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: I lied to PROTECT
you!

Scene 67 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: I lied to PROTECT
you!

Scene 68 Panel 1 Dialog NORA (laughs bitterly)

Scene 68 Panel 2 Dialog NORA How does that “protect”
me, Stephen?

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Scene 68 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN I– I didn’t want
to see you hurt, and JOSH promised he’d change, and there were… other reasons why I didn’t want to be the one to tell you. Also I thought it was none of my business.

Scene 68 Panel 5 Dialog STEPHEN contin Also I thought
it was none of my business.

Scene 69 Panel 1 Dialog NORA And none of my
business either, obviously. Well, all I can say is I hope you act better than you lie, Stephen, because as a liar...

Scene 69 Panel 2 Dialog NORA contin ...you absolutely stink.

Scene 69 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN (GASPS)

Scene 70 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN That isn’t a lie!
I knew you’d find out sooner or later, I just didn’t want you to find out from me. It wouldn’t have been right to tell you myself.

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Scene 70 Panel 5 Dialog NORA Why not?

Scene 71 Panel 1 Dialog NORA Why not?

Scene 71 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN Because...

Scene 71 Panel 3 Dialog NORA Because what?

Scene 71 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN Because...

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Scene 72 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN Because I’m in love
with you

Scene 72 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN Because I’m in love
with you

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Scene 72 Panel 5 Dialog NORA You are?

Scene 72 Panel 6 Dialog STEPHEN Yes

Scene 72 Panel 7 Dialog NORA In love with me?

Scene 72 Panel 8 Dialog STEPHEN That’s right...

Scene 73 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN:... in love with you.
I think I love you, Nora...

Scene 73 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: ...In fact I know
I do. I love you very much.

Scene 74 Panel 1 Dialog NORA For how long? STEPHEN:
Always. Since we met.

Scene 75 Panel 1 Dialog NORA (sighs) How do you
know? STEPHEN: Know what? NORA: That you love me.

Scene 75 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN Because it’s agony

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a moment. Turns back to look at the paused projection on the wall.

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Scene 76 Panel 2 Dialog NORA I see

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Scene 79 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN What are you doing?

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Scene 80 Panel 1 Dialog NORA I'm going Stephen. Going
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The Big Speech: Understudy WIP 02

The Big Speech: Understudy WIP 02

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