A Bigger Splash Page #2

What have we got in the frigo?

Oh! Scandalo. Orribile.

(CHUCKLES) Terrible.

How are you guys living?

What we have here?

Your mum... huh?

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES) It's cute.

You off to bed?

Thank you. Mm.

For having me to stay.

All right. Here you go darling.

Your pill.

Good night.

(GARGLES)

(HARRY) Good night.

(SIGHS) She's got tour dates

this winter, doesn't she?

What's she planning to do?

Well, she's kicked everything into the long

grass and it was the right thing to do.

Jesus, man. It's hard to watch.

Is she like this when you f***?

- (CHUCKLES)

- I mean, how does it work?

Does she write you a note

when she cums?

- Come here.

- (BOTH CHUCKLE)

(CRICKETS CHIRP

AND DISTANT DOG BARK)

You wish we were at a hotel.

- I didn't say that.

- You forget, I know how you speak.

- Oh yeah, that's right.

- Yeah.

Mm?

I've been teaching myself

some Italian finally.

Oh! 101 useful phrases?

Well, no, I'm not reading Boccaccio

if that's what you mean.

Vaffanculo. Go f*** yourself.

Go take it up the arse, in fact.

Cacasentenze. Someone who pretends

to be very smart,

who won't stop talking,

one who shits sentences.

And my favourite is

vomitare I'anima.

To puke your guts up.

Literally, to vomit your soul.

Wow.

(CHUCKLES) I noticed you didn't drink

at dinner. Are you all right?

I mean, does it bother you

that I'm drinking?

Do you know what

vai a cagare means?

Ah, yeah.

You know, well, there,

you got it, just drop it, all right?

Yeah, but are you all right?

Hard part's over, yeah,

rehab and all that.

Yeah.

Good night.

(SINGS) Good night!

Good night, good night!

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(HARRY IN BACKGROUND) Phil,

you've got to be f***ing kidding me.

Are you happy?

(HARRY) The head

of the label told me to my face

that he considers those masters

"Done" with a capital f***ing D.

If he's going to change his mind now...

You asked him to stay.

Why is that?

You feeling nostalgic?

(HARRY)

Do you want to play that for me now?

(MARIANNE WHISPERS)

Don't let him know we can talk like this.

You know we can't be naked

any more, right?

(CHUCKLING)

(HARRY CONTINUES TALKING

IN BACKGROUND)

(UPBEAT DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

AND PEOPLE CHATTER AND LAUGH)

(HARRY) Marianne! Over here my swan.

(MARIANNE) Oh, there you are!

What have you got there?

Oh, I've been waiting for you.

- Have you? I was looking for you.

- (MUMBLES) Sweetie. Mm.

- Please, don't stop.

- Can I play your drum?

- My drum?

- Yeah.

(HARRY CHUCKLES)

We've got to leave at 11 o'clock.

- No! Later.

- The car's coming.

- Later. Later. Make it later.

- We can't move it.

They won't be happy.

They will not be happy.

- Make it later. I'll make it worth it.

- You will?

Mm.

(BIRDSONG)

(CHEESY POP SONG

PLAYS ON RADIO)

(HARRY SINGS ALONG)

What are you doing? Quit splashing.

Look what a good job I'm doing, Clara!

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

Hey, more surprises, huh?

Where'd you find this thundercat?

I can't get her off my elbow.

(CLARA) What is thundercat?

What is thundercat?

What is thundercat?

- Nonna I'd like to f***.

- Hey!

(MUSIC AND CHATTERING

IN BACKGROUND)

Oh, yeah, you had nothing

and now you have everything you need.

Zucchini for Paul and a little heaven

for everyone else.

We're having for lunch orata al sale!

How gross! Chilli, no!

Just herbs.

Herbs only, yes. I'm your slave.

- (GRUNTS)

- Hey!

"I grew up in a Britain where racism

was woven into the fabric of society

"in a way that would be difficult

to imagine today.

"I was of a generation that challenged it

politically and physically.

"We confronted far-right thugs,

organised street patrols

"to protect black and Asian families

and stood up to police harassment.

"Patriots wish us to be equally unthinking

in our attachment to the nation in every..."

(WHISTLES)

Oh.

- Ah. What the f***'s that?

- (HISSES)

Is that a snake? Euch!

(PAUL) No.

It's just another whip snake.

Ew! Orribile! Get rid of it!

(CHUCKLES)

We have them every day.

- (CLEARS THROAT)

- Pen!

- How's the room of the ass?

- A delight.

- How's the room of the monk?

- (CHUCKLING)

(CAR ENGINE APPROACHING)

(HORN TOOTS)

Oh, they made it! Great, great, great!

Fantastic! (CHUCKLES)

You'll love them. Salty and sweet.

Oh, you're fine. It's hot

and they're communists

and you're not speaking sweetheart,

so I had to make other plans. (LAUGHS)

- Hey!

- (MIREILLE) Hey!

- (HARRY) Buongiorno!

- (MOUTHS)

(HARRY) I want to go in that car

one day, sweetheart!

- (MIREILLE) Tchuff!

- Tchuff!

(MIREILLE) This is the house

that Jonas has bought.

(HARRY) You can make a hell of a lot

more cash directing music videos

than record producing, apparently.

(SYLVIE) Oh, I shot a video with Jonas!

(HARRY) Here she is. Here's the lady.

Marianne, I'd like you to meet

some very old friends of mine

Mireille and Sylvie. Marianne Lane.

She can't talk I'm afraid.

That's rock 'n' roll for you.

It squeezes you like a lemon,

then it throws you out.

Oh, but you're going to sing again!

This is not forever.

- (CHUCKLES) And this is Paul.

- (PENNY) Guess who I am.

Oh, my dear. I know who you are.

(MOUTHING AND MUSIC

PLAYS IN BACKGROUND)

So lovely.

You're daddy's little rascal

we've been hearing about.

(CLARA SINGS BELLA CIAO)

He told me once that he'd lost six grand's

worth of cocaine out in the parking lot.

I mean, I've only seen that much

cocaine in my life maybe twice.

When he told me. I nearly had

a f***ing seizure in the green room.

I... I couldn't let it go,

the thought of it lying out there

under somebody's Dodge Caravan

or pick-up or whatever,

so I got a dozen roadies to come out

and shine their cell phones and torches

under the cars while he finished his set.

I mean, this is a stadium, remember,

so thousands and thousands of cars

and this group of roadies

going around going,

- "Where is it? Is it here?"

- And they found it?

No. They never found it.

Somebody else won that lotto.

He told me later that he had planned

to kamikaze the whole lot that night

and if he had,

then we would've found him

covered in sh*t and fizz the next day

on the bathroom floor.

Mm. But I think that losing that bag,

it saved his life... for a while.

(MIRIELLE)

To be a genius is to be unruled.

To be unruled is to be alone.

Well, er, yeah...

for the first part maybe. (CHUCKLES)

- My sister has attempted suicide.

- (HARRY) Oh, I'm sorry.

- Twice. Pills both times.

- Oh.

It's the height of vanity, you know?

You can't imagine her embarrassment

when she discovered that she lived.

(HARRY) Yeah, well, you know,

no one should be ashamed.

No. No. I tell her to call me

if she feels it coming over her again.

Now, every time the phone rings

I resent her a little more

- and I think that... (GASPS)

- Oh!

Mind your feet.

- You can't live forever.

- Exactly. None of us can.

Oh, Marianne will.

Ah, we've bored her. (CHUCKLES)

- Tchuff!

- Tchuff!

(MUSIC:
JUMP INTO THE FIRE

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