Understudy: The Big Speech - WIP 02 (v06)

Extract from David Nicholl's 'The Understudy' from the chapter 'The Big Speech

Transcript

1. Understudy WIP v06
2. Scene 1 Panel 1 Slugging INT. BEDSIT - DAY
3. Scene 1 Panel 1
4. Scene 1 Panel 2
5. Scene 1 Panel 2
6. Scene 1 Panel 3
7. Scene 1 Panel 4
8. Scene 2 Panel 1
9. Scene 2 Panel 1
10. Scene 3 Panel 1
11. Scene 3 Panel 2
12. Scene 3 Panel 3
13. Scene 3 Panel 4
14. Scene 4 Panel 1
15. Scene 4 Panel 2
16. Scene 4 Panel 3
17. Scene 4 Panel 4
18. Scene 4 Panel 5
19. Scene 4 Panel 6
20. Scene 5 Panel 1
21. Scene 5 Panel 2
22. Scene 6 Panel 1 Slugging INT - CORNER SHOP - DAY
23. Scene 7 Panel 1
24. Scene 7 Panel 2
25. Scene 8 Panel 1 Dialog Nora: Stephen, this really is the best slightly brown toast I've ever had...
26. Slugging INT - BEDSIT - IMAGINATION
27. Scene 8 Panel 2 Dialog Nora: ...It kind of changes everything... I'm definitely going to leave my husband...
28. Scene 8 Panel 3 Dialog Nora: OH MARRY ME STEPHEN!!!
29. Scene 9 Panel 1 Slugging INT - CORNER SHOP - DAY
30. Scene 9 Panel 2
31. Scene 9 Panel 3
32. Scene 9 Panel 4
33. Scene 10 Panel 1
34. Scene 10 Panel 2
35. Scene 10 Panel 3
36. Scene 10 Panel 4
37. Scene 10 Panel 5
38. Scene 10 Panel 6
39. Scene 10 Panel 7
40. Scene 10 Panel 8
41. Scene 11 Panel 1
42. Scene 11 Panel 2
43. Scene 11 Panel 3
44. Scene 11 Panel 4
45. Scene 12 Panel 1 Slugging EXT. LONDON STREET - DAY
46. Scene 12 Panel 2
47. Scene 12 Panel 3
48. Scene 13 Panel 1
49. Scene 13 Panel 2
50. Scene 14 Panel 1 Dialog NORA You do know I'll have to leave you eventually, don't you?
51. Slugging INT - BEDSIT - IMAGINATION
52. Scene 14 Panel 2 Dialog NORA You do know I'll have to leave you eventually, don't you?
53. Scene 15 Panel 1
54. Scene 15 Panel 2
55. Scene 15 Panel 3
56. Scene 15 Panel 4
57. Scene 16 Panel 1
58. Scene 16 Panel 2
59. Scene 16 Panel 3
60. Scene 16 Panel 4
61. Scene 16 Panel 5
62. Scene 17 Panel 1 Slugging INT. HALLWAY - DAY
63. Scene 17 Panel 2
64. Scene 17 Panel 3
65. Scene 17 Panel 4
66. Scene 18 Panel 1
67. Scene 18 Panel 2
68. Scene 18 Panel 3
69. Scene 19 Panel 1
70. Scene 19 Panel 2
71. Scene 19 Panel 3
72. Scene 19 Panel 4
73. Scene 19 Panel 5
74. Scene 20 Panel 1
75. Scene 20 Panel 2
76. Scene 21 Panel 1
77. Scene 21 Panel 2 Dialog ofscr, recording, Stephen singing: The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...
78. Scene 21 Panel 3 Dialog ofscr, recording, Stephen singing: The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...
79. Scene 22 Panel 1 Dialog recording, Stephen singing: The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...
80. Slugging INT. FLAT - DAY
81. Scene 22 Panel 2 Dialog recording, Stephen singing: The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...
82. Scene 22 Panel 3 Dialog recording, Stephen singing: The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...
83. Scene 22 Panel 4 Dialog recording, Stephen singing: The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...
84. Scene 22 Panel 5 Dialog recording, Stephen singing: The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...
85. Scene 22 Panel 6 Dialog recording, STEPHEN singing: The Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round...
86. Scene 23 Panel 1
87. Scene 24 Panel 1
88. Scene 24 Panel 2
89. Scene 25 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: Hey
90. Scene 26 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: uh...
91. Scene 26 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: ...hey... uh...
92. Scene 27 Panel 1
93. Scene 27 Panel 2
94. Scene 27 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: What are you doing?
95. Scene 28 Panel 1
96. Scene 28 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: Learning about numbers
97. Scene 28 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: No really, Nora- What are you doing?
98. 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.
99. 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.
100. 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...
101. Scene 29 Panel 1 Dialog Recording: if you're happy and you know it, shout we are!
102. Scene 29 Panel 2 Dialog NORA Offscr: We are...
103. Scene 29 Panel 3
104. Scene 30 Panel 1
105. Scene 30 Panel 2
106. Scene 30 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: don't you dare!
107. Scene 30 Panel 4
108. Scene 30 Panel 5
109. Scene 30 Panel 6
110. Scene 30 Panel 7
111. Scene 31 Panel 1
112. Scene 31 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: Well... it's a look
113. Scene 31 Panel 3 Dialog Stephen: It certainly is
114. Scene 31 Panel 4 Dialog Offscr Recording: If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet
115. Scene 31 Panel 5
116. Scene 31 Panel 6
117. Scene 31 Panel 7 Dialog STEPHEN: //breathes deep// Of course, another question...
118. Scene 32 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN contin: Might be, what gave you the right to start nosing around in my stuff?
119. Scene 32 Panel 2
120. Scene 32 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: LOOK /Sammy/ - I understand. You're not happy and I know it. But I wasn't "nosing around"
121. 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...
122. Scene 32 Panel 5 Dialog NORA contin: ...and I sort of stumbled upon... these
123. Scene 32 Panel 6 Dialog NORA contin: ...and I sort of stumbled upon... these
124. Scene 32 Panel 7 Dialog STEPHEN: That still doesn't give you the right to--
125. 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.
126. Scene 32 Panel 9 Dialog NORA: ugh...
127. Scene 32 Panel 10 Dialog NORA: Y'know...
128. Scene 33 Panel 1 Dialog NORA contin: Y'know most guys would just have porno hidden in the back of their wardrobes...
129. Scene 33 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: Would that be better or worse?
130. 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...
131. Scene 33 Panel 4 Dialog NORA contin: ...You're very good by the way
132. Scene 34 Panel 1
133. Scene 34 Panel 2
134. Scene 34 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: It's the role I was born to play
135. Scene 34 Panel 4
136. Scene 34 Panel 5
137. Scene 35 Panel 1
138. Scene 35 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: I think this is the moment where you say "there's a perfectly rational explanation for all this"
139. Scene 35 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: There is.
140. Scene 35 Panel 4 Dialog NORA: I'm all ears...
141. Scene 35 Panel 5 Dialog NORA contin: ... as indeed, are you
142. Scene 36 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN ofscr: OK, well...
143. Scene 37 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN... well...
144. Scene 37 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: THIS...
145. Scene 37 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: This I do partly for the money, and partly because I enjoy-
146. Scene 37 Panel 4 Dialog NORA ofscr: DO?
147. Scene 37 Panel 5 Dialog STEPHEN: Sorry?
148. Scene 37 Panel 6
149. Scene 37 Panel 7
150. Scene 37 Panel 8 Dialog NORA: You said "Do" not "did"
151. Scene 37 Panel 9 Dialog NORA: You said "Do" not "did"
152. Scene 37 Panel 10 Dialog STEPHEN: I've been filming the sequel...
153. Scene 37 Panel 11 Dialog NORA: I thought you said it was a tough indie crime thriller.
154. Scene 37 Panel 12 Dialog STEPHEN: ...set in a woodland...
155. Scene 37 Panel 13
156. Scene 37 Panel 14
157. Scene 38 Panel 1
158. Scene 38 Panel 2
159. Scene 38 Panel 3
160. Scene 38 Panel 4
161. Scene 39 Panel 1
162. Scene 39 Panel 2
163. Scene 39 Panel 3
164. Scene 39 Panel 4
165. 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?
166. Scene 39 Panel 6
167. Scene 39 Panel 7
168. Scene 40 Panel 1
169. Scene 40 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: In my defence, I actually think I'm pretty good
170. Scene 40 Panel 3
171. Scene 40 Panel 4
172. Scene 40 Panel 5 Dialog NORA: You are, but isn't there a scale issue here?
173. Scene 40 Panel 6 Dialog NORA: You are, but isn't there a scale issue here?
174. Scene 41 Panel 1
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179. Scene 42 Panel 5
180. Scene 43 Panel 1
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186. Scene 43 Panel 7
187. Scene 44 Panel 1
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189. Scene 44 Panel 3
190. Scene 45 Panel 1
191. Scene 45 Panel 2
192. Scene 45 Panel 3
193. Scene 46 Panel 1
194. Scene 46 Panel 2
195. Scene 46 Panel 3
196. Scene 47 Panel 1
197. Scene 47 Panel 2
198. Scene 47 Panel 3
199. Scene 47 Panel 4
200. Scene 47 Panel 5
201. Scene 47 Panel 6 Dialog STEPHEN: I didn't steal anything
202. Scene 47 Panel 7 Dialog NORA: So what happened then?
203. Scene 47 Panel 8 Dialog STEPHEN: OK...
204. Scene 47 Panel 9
205. Scene 47 Panel 10
206. Scene 47 Panel 11
207. Scene 47 Panel 12
208. Scene 47 Panel 13 Dialog STEPHEN: Do you... please...
209. Scene 47 Panel 14 Dialog STEPHEN: would you mind turning this thing off?
210. Scene 48 Panel 1
211. Scene 48 Panel 2
212. Scene 48 Panel 3
213. Scene 49 Panel 1
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215. Scene 49 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...
216. Scene 49 Panel 4 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...
217. Scene 49 Panel 5 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...
218. Scene 49 Panel 6 Dialog STEPHEN: ...Well I was in your bedroom... and I...
219. Scene 49 Panel 7 Dialog STEPHEN: ...I saw Josh's award...
220. Scene 49 Panel 8 Dialog STEPHEN: ...and I was picking it up...
221. Scene 49 Panel 9 Dialog STEPHEN: ...Just to look at it...
222. Scene 49 Panel 10 Dialog STEPHEN:
223. Scene 49 Panel 11 Dialog STEPHEN:
224. Scene 49 Panel 12 Dialog STEPHEN:
225. Scene 49 Panel 13 Dialog STEPHEN:
226. Scene 49 Panel 14 Dialog STEPHEN:
227. Scene 50 Panel 1
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229. Scene 50 Panel 3
230. Scene 51 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: ... and uh...
231. Scene 51 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: ... I clearly wasn't thinking straight, because...
232. Scene 51 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: ...I sort of stuffed it under my coat...
233. Scene 51 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN: ...and the next thing I knew I was in the taxi on the way home...
234. Scene 51 Panel 5 Dialog STEPHEN: ...and I still had this... thing
235. Scene 51 Panel 6 Dialog NORA offscreen: ...So let me get this straight...
236. Scene 52 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: ...You stole my husband's Best Actor award.
237. Scene 53 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: Uhm! Not "stole" just...misplaced it in my flat. Temporarily.
238. Scene 53 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: Not "stole" just...misplaced it in my flat. Temporarily.
239. Scene 53 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN: Not "stole" just...misplaced it in my flat. Temporarily.
240. Scene 54 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: You "temporarily misplaced" my husbands Best Actor award in your flat because you'd been taking antibiotics?
241. Scene 54 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: You "temporarily misplaced" my husbands Best Actor award in your flat because you'd been taking antibiotics?
242. Scene 54 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: You "temporarily misplaced" my husbands Best Actor award in your flat because you'd been taking antibiotics?
243. Scene 55 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: Well...No...
244. Scene 55 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: ...Not just because of that... it was booze mainly, but--
245. Scene 55 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: And Josh's Affair?
246. Scene 55 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN: A--ff-fair?
247. Scene 55 Panel 5 Dialog NORA: Affair's....
248. Scene 56 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: Affairs a stupid word- this woman, these... women he's been seeing.
249. Scene 56 Panel 2 Dialog //sigh...//
250. Scene 56 Panel 3 Dialog NORA: Did you know about it?
251. Scene 57 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: -UH ah--
252. Scene 57 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: NOOOO-ho-ho-ho!
253. Scene 57 Panel 3
254. Scene 58 Panel 1 Dialog NORA What was that?
255. Scene 58 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN What?
256. Scene 58 Panel 3 Dialog NORA “No-ho-ho”?
257. Scene 58 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN It means I don’t know
258. Scene 59 Panel 1 Dialog NORA You didn’t know STEPHEN
259. No
260. Scene 60 Panel 1 Dialog NORA I think you’re lying STEPHEN
261. What makes you think I’m lying?
262. Scene 61 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…
263. Scene 61 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…
264. Scene 62 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN OK. Yes.
265. Scene 63 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: Yes you did know?
266. Scene 64 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN Yes.
267. Scene 65 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: So did you lie to me, or was it just the antibiotics talking?
268. Scene 65 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: So did you lie to me, or was it just the antibiotics talking?
269. Scene 66 Panel 1
270. Scene 66 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN No.. no I lied to you...
271. Scene 67 Panel 1 Dialog NORA: You lied to protect JOSH?
272. Scene 67 Panel 2 Dialog NORA: You lied to protect JOSH?
273. Scene 67 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN offscreen: No
274. Scene 67 Panel 4 Dialog NORA: No?!
275. Scene 68 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN: I lied to PROTECT you!
276. Scene 68 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN: I lied to PROTECT you!
277. Scene 69 Panel 1 Dialog NORA (laughs bitterly)
278. Scene 69 Panel 2 Dialog NORA How does that “protect” me, Stephen?
279. Scene 69 Panel 3
280. Scene 69 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.
281. Scene 69 Panel 5 Dialog STEPHEN contin Also I thought it was none of my business.
282. Scene 70 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...
283. Scene 70 Panel 2 Dialog NORA contin ...you absolutely stink.
284. Scene 70 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN (GASPS)
285. Scene 71 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.
286. Scene 71 Panel 2 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.
287. Scene 71 Panel 3 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.
288. Scene 71 Panel 4
289. Scene 71 Panel 5 Dialog NORA Why not?
290. Scene 72 Panel 1 Dialog NORA Why not?
291. Scene 72 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN Because...
292. Scene 72 Panel 3 Dialog NORA Because what?
293. Scene 72 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN Because...
294. Scene 73 Panel 1 Dialog ...
295. Scene 73 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN Because I’m in love with you
296. Scene 73 Panel 3 Dialog STEPHEN Because I’m in love with you
297. Scene 73 Panel 4
298. Scene 73 Panel 5 Dialog NORA You are?
299. Scene 73 Panel 6 Dialog STEPHEN Yes
300. Scene 73 Panel 7 Dialog NORA In love with me?
301. Scene 73 Panel 8 Dialog STEPHEN That’s right...
302. Scene 74 Panel 1 Dialog STEPHEN ... in love with you. I think I love you, Nora...
303. Scene 74 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN ...In fact I know I do. I love you very much.
304. Scene 75 Panel 1 Dialog NORA For how long? STEPHEN
305. Always. Since we met.
306. Scene 76 Panel 1 Dialog NORA (sighs) How do you know? STEPHEN
307. Know what? NORA That you love me.
308. Scene 76 Panel 2 Dialog STEPHEN Because it’s agony
309. Scene 76 Panel 3 Action Notes Nora considers silently for a moment. Turns back to look at the paused projection on the wall.
310. Scene 76 Panel 4 Dialog
311. Scene 76 Panel 5
312. Scene 77 Panel 1
313. Scene 77 Panel 2 Dialog NORA I see
314. Scene 77 Panel 3
315. Scene 77 Panel 4
316. Scene 77 Panel 5
317. Scene 77 Panel 6
318. Scene 77 Panel 7
319. Scene 77 Panel 8
320. Scene 78 Panel 1
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324. Scene 79 Panel 1
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328. Scene 80 Panel 1
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330. Scene 80 Panel 3
331. Scene 80 Panel 4 Dialog STEPHEN What are you doing?
332. Scene 80 Panel 5
333. Scene 81 Panel 1 Dialog NORA I'm going Stephen. Going home.
334. Scene 81 Panel 2 Dialog NORA I'm going Stephen. Going home.
335. Scene 81 Panel 3
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337. Scene 82 Panel 1
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340. Scene 83 Panel 1
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