Ellie Parker Page #4

Good, take it and

put it in your mouth.,

"You eat it, girls!

You eat! You must eat!"

Take a big handful.

The other handful. Another handful.

Good. Big peas.

Spit out the peas. Good.

- And when I...

- Take the peas back, off the plate...

stuff them in and spit them out.

Ellie, don't hold back.

Spit them out.

Mush the food. Keep mushing.

Turn that f***ing cell phone off.

Is it? Mush it!

And we would say: "Mom, mom,

no, we already had dinner!"

We had dinner tonight.

Don't you remember?"

Nice.

Now, get up.

Don't get indulgent.

Gesture.

Good, again.

Ellie, quiet.

Do the opposite. Opposite.

Good, good.

And now the opposite of that.

Go! Angry!

Give me a hug.

Very good.

Yeah, Ellie!

Okay, lastly, we're all gonna

work at animals for about 5 minutes.

A kangaroo. Et's see you hop,

shake your butt.

I'll be right back.

You think Meryl Streep

had to do this sh*t?

You look very preoccupied.

I'm fine.

You're still there.

What's the matter?

Are you bummed

he didn't offer you a line?

Everyone had these big

personal events. Mine was lame.

I'm an idiot.

That's ridiculous, Ellie.

You were very, very good today.

Easy for you to say.

Yours was huge.

You burned your house down

with your brother.

You never even told me that.

No wonder you're such

a good actress.

You have all this sh*t in your life

that you can just draw off from.

It's deep.

And I'm just like

this shallow bird bath.

- I made it up.

- What?

I made it up, my personal event.

You made up your personal event?

Come on, Ellie! You know I like to

practice my American accent in class.

Sometimes I make things up

so I can practice my acting!

What's the point? It defeats the

purpose. The whole point is to...

use something that really happened in

your life and put it in your acting.

Oh, bullshit. I think the

whole method thing is a wank.

I think sense memory

is so self-indulgent.

No, see, it's not. You draw

from your life experience...

and you personalize it and put it

into your work. It makes it real...

and it makes it honest.

And that's how

you make a scene work.

Bullshit, Ellie! Sorry!

How many times are you gonna cry

about your drunk mother? It's boring!

It's far more real, truthful and

honest if you use your imagination.

And it's limitless.

Okay. Et's try something.

Et's put your theory to test.

Et's see who can cry first.

- On the count of three.

- All right.

One, two...

three.

I'm starting to get one.

It's not real. It's crocodile.

Yeah, it is. It's real, right now.

It's gonna spill out in a second.

- You're not crying.

- Yeah, one on the left eye.

You see, that's dignifying 'cause I

don't have to use any loud whaling...

and it looks like I'm holding back.

- My nose is going too.

- I'm drawing from my own pain.

You don't understand, see? Ook

at this. You think that's faking it?

I think that gets

a little embarrassing.

It's dignifying about holding back

and letting one just spill out...

gently. It's something real, Ellie!

You don't understand.

That shop! You see that shop?

- I wanna go there.

- What?

I wanted to go there for so long.

I'm so glad that that's there.

- Oh, hang on. What...

- Hang on, I can't park here.

I didn't bring my wallet.

Oh, I need a set of tea trays.

- I'll be right out!

- It's okay, we're fine.

Just looking around.

I hear Australians.

You guys are everywhere.

If he says "good day",

I'll kill him.

Good day.

- May I help you?

- Oh, my God, hi!

- I didn't realize you worked here.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hi, how are you?

- I'm good, how are you?

- I'm good.

My car is gonna be fixed

by the end of the day.

And I have a dentist

appointment on Thursday.

Sam, this is Chris. Chris, right.

He crashed into me last week.

No, no, I'm Tom,

I'm Chris's twin brother.

And he look really crashed into.

I heard about you.

Wait.

Funny.

No, I really am Tom,

his twin brother.

Happens all the time. People think

we're the same person, but we're not.

We have different hair.

And he drives a Honda Civic, and

I don't drive because I'm epileptic.

So...

- Oh, my God.

- What?

Wow, you guys look a lot alike.

- Yeah. So, how is your car?

- It's good, it's getting fixed.

You paid... No, your brother paid

for it, and it will be fixed.

I know he felt real bad about

what happened and...

He's a terrible driver, just awful.

He's always banging into stuff.

I'm a better driver than he is

and I don't drive, I'm epileptic.

But it's good to meet you.

I'll tell him I saw you.

- Yes, yes, say hi.

- Sure. It's weird.

- I know, it's weird.

- Yeah, he really...

- I have to go, I got that thing.

- What thing?

Sorry, we should go.

She's got a thing, so...

- Well, good luck on your thing.

- Thanks.

- Bye.

- Bye.

Oh, my God!

Sh*t! Sh*t!

Hi, I'm sorry, I just...

I am Chris, I lied.

I'm sorry. I was embarrassed because

I told you I was a cinematographer.

I'm really embarrassed. You busted

me where I work and I feel really...

I'm really ashamed of myself,

I'm really sorry. I just...

I didn't want you to get away.

- Are you an epileptic?

- No, I lied about that too.

- Oh, no!

- Wait, wait!

- Wait!

- I just...

I go to AFI and I'm going to be

a cinematographer. And I'm just...

I'm really sorry.

I really like you and...

Okay, don't worry.

You're crazy, but it's okay.

I feel really bad.

Can I make it up to you?

Isten, my band's playing tonight.

Well, my friends' band, Dogstart.

They're really good. And I'd

love it if you went with me.

- Okay.

- You too. You both can come.

So, I have your number. I'll call you

when I get out. It could be great.

She's a very popular girl, you know

that. You're luck she's available.

- Thank you, Sam.

- Really, very.

Bye!

Just your type. Sociopath.

Oh, my God, this is really fake.

for me anymore. At least not orally.

Really? Have you tried Norco?

- Were you just talking about Vicodin?

- Pretty good. Yeah.

I love Vicodin.

I'm like Marilyn Monroe.

- Really?

- Oh, my God, wait! Acting class!

- Right.

- What are you doing here?

- Of course I'm here.

- Yeah, right. I love your glitter.

- It's what drag queens wear?

- Can I have another vodka?

Hey, you guys were great tonight.

That was really cool. How you doing?

- This is my friend Ellie.

- Hi, hi.

- And this is Sam.

- That was so great. Really good.

- One second.

- Are you in the band?

- He's in the band too.

- You're in. Nice to meet you.

You know what's really funny? So many

people who want to say hello to you.

- Yeah? From where?

- Sydney, from the Matrix.

- So many, so many people.

- We're Australian.

- Come with me, please.

- Yeah, sure.

What's up?

- Who?

- I'm so glad you took him out.

- Anyway, the concept was fantastic.

- So good. How did you get in acting?

What? What?

What are you doing?

You're really, really drunk

and you're embarrassing yourself.

- What are you talking about?

- You don't... What are you smoking?

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