Pieces of a Woman Page #6

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You don’t have to lie to me.

Hmm?

[Sean grunts] You lied to me.

You’re a f***ing liar.

– F***ing b*tch. – [grunts]

You’re a f***ing b*tch, and you’re a liar.

You’re a cheap-ass liar. You’re a f***ing clown.

You’re a clown. You’re a clown and you’re a liar, b*tch.

[sizzling]

[air hissing]

– [Anita] Hey! – [Chris] Sorry.

– [Anita] What the f***, Chris? – [Chris] Sorry about that.

– You forgot me? – Sorry. It’s slippery, watch out.

[car alert chirps]

[Anita] Just, like, excited to get into my mom’s house?

You were, like, running in. Okay.

[doorbell rings]

[doorbell rings]

[Anita] Is that my cousin?

[Chris] Oh, no way.

– [Anita] Hi. – Hey.

– [Anita] What are you doing here? – [Chris] It’s like a million years.

– Hey. Yeah. – [Chris] Incredible.

Your mom asked me to… Come on in.

– Uh, she’s in the kitchen. – [Chris] All right.

Hello. Oh, wow, yes. Duck.

– Yeah. – [Chris] Looks amazing.

Wow! Uh, you want me to baste?

– Oh, are you good at basting? – [chuckling] Yeah, I can baste.

– Here. Thank you. – [Suzanne] Thanks. I’ll use this one.

[Chris] Need help with the salad at all?

Yeah, that would be great.

– Make your salad. Don’t eat it. Make it. – Okay. It’s fresh, though.

Yes, it is fresh.

[Chris] You chop these? Thick? Thin? Any preference?

– Uh, not too thick. – [Chris] Okay.

But not too thin.

– Hi, honey. – [kisses]

– How you doing? – Good. Where’s Martha?

Um, she’ll be along.

Alone?

I don’t know.

Back in?

Are you done already?

– Good. – [softly] You planning something?

What? No, nothing.

– You’re planning something. – What?

You’re planning something.

Oh, I invited Suzanne over, just for some legal advice.

– [clattering] – [Anita] For what?

– Oh, you found my keys! – Guess so.

It was just in the bowl, which is funny.

[Suzanne] Anything else?

– Um… No, not right now. – [Chris] You okay?

– Yeah? – [Suzanne] You need a drink?

Cup of tea? Here.

[Elizabeth] No, I’m good, thank you.

– [Sean] There she is. Liz. – [Elizabeth] No, don’t call me that.

– [Chris] Hey, how you doing? – [Elizabeth] Hello, darling.

– [Sean] ‘Sup? Hey. – [Martha] These are for you.

– It’s a sun rose, I think. – [Elizabeth] How beautiful.

– Chrysanthemums! – [Martha] Oh.

I got you this, it’s a…

– [Elizabeth] This is for me? – It lights up, they said.

– [Sean] How can I help? – [Elizabeth] Oh, wonderful.

– [Chris] Whoa! – [Anita] Oh.

[Chris] Hey, watch the foot, man.

[Sean] Oh.

[Chris] When did that happen?

[Sean] Probably just now walking in. I’ll clean.

[Anita] He stepped in his own sh*t?

[Elizabeth] Come in the living room. Doesn’t it look nice?

– [Martha] Hi. – [Suzanne] Hi.

– [Martha] Yeah, looks nice. Hi. – [Suzanne] How you doing?

Nice to see you. You too, Chris.

– I’ve been staging. – [Chris] Looks great.

– Do you know what that is? – [Chris] Not really, no.

Okay. I’m gonna demonstrate. So, you see this chair all by itself?

– [Suzanne] Yeah. – It looks kinda lonely and sad, right?

So then, I find a colorful and cheerful cushion.

Put it there. And right away, you see, instant beauty.

[Chris] Yeah. You wanna sit down?

– You see it? – [Chris] Yeah. Wanna sit down?

I’ve been staging all over town.

Not for money. Just like a hobby. You know, for my friends.

– [Anita] Why don’t I go set the table? – Okay.

– [Martha] So… – [Elizabeth] Martha?

– Do you wanna borrow a brush? – A brush? No.

No? Okay. And your outfit’s adorable.

Not as dressy as I thought you’d be for the occasion.

Occasion?

– [Sean] Chris, you got a drink? – [Elizabeth] I’m gonna put this in water.

[Chris] Uh…

– Make a little toast. – [Sean] All right.

– [Chris] To you guys. – [Suzanne] A toast?

To getting out of the house.

– Making yourselves… – [Sean] I know. Cheers.

– Put yourself out there. Feel better. – Sean.

Hey. Yeah, Suzanne.

– [Sean] Cousin? – Uh-huh.

– [Sean] Yeah. Nice to meet you. – Yeah, you too.

[Chris] The other day, the uh, the guy at the church was saying something…

– [Sean] The guy? The pastor? – The pastor.

He was doing, like, a sermon.

And he said, uh…

something pretty deep.

– He said, “Time heals all wounds.” – [Sean] Whoa.

And I was like, “Yeah.”

“That’s pretty good.”

[Sean] What are you doing with your time? You still playing?

[Chris] Uh, no, it’s been a while. Uh, I’m just working.

The only type of playing I do is if they pay me over there, so…

– [Sean] At the church? – [Chris] Yep.

– Well, that’s exciting. – [Chris chuckles]

– Different scene, that’s for sure. – Different scene.

[Chris] Worshipers.

Yeah. Oh, you get that. Better than a groupie.

– Kinda the same thing. – [Chris] That’s true.

– [Sean] It was a good band, man. – [Chris] Thank you.

[Sean] Good time to be in a band.

[Chris] It was.

– [Sean] That whole grunge revival scene. – [Chris] Oh, man.

It’s crazy. When you had the White Stripes, right?

– [Sean] Stripes were there. Who else? – [Chris] Mm-hmm. They had the Hives.

[Sean] Hives, Strokes, Beck.

Nah, Beck is different. He’s softer. You guys had a grit. Harder.

[Chris] Um, what was it the Stripes did?

– [Sean] You need help? – [Chris] Stripes were like, um…

[Anita] Huh?

– [Sean] Help? – [Anita] No. I just had another glass.

What was it? They were brother…

They were husband… They were brother…

They were pretending to be brother and sister,

or to be husband and wife.

– [Sean] Stripes? – Stripes, yes.

[Sean] There was this thing.

– Who are they? – Smart.

– [Sean] The White Stripes? – Are they a band?

[Chris] You’re funny.

– [Sean] You don’t know the White Stripes? – [Suzanne] No.

– [Sean] Really? – [Chris] This is…

– [Suzanne] No. The White Stripes? – [Chris] This is insane.

[Sean] Come on, 2001, 2002, were you living under a rock?

[Chris] They did a Coke commercial. “Seven Nation Army.”

– [Sean] That f***ing song, boy. – [Chris] Yeah.

[Sean and Chris singing “Seven Nation Army” indistinctly]

– [Suzanne] Yeah, I know that song. – [Sean] Yeah.

– [Suzanne] They play it at the… – [Chris] Yes.

[Sean] So, the story with them goes, there’s a two-person band.

– [Chris] Uh-huh. – Boy and a girl. Boy’s name is Jack White.

– Girl’s name is, uh… – [Martha] Meg.

Meg. And they’re in a band, but their band is, uh…

They’re in a marriage…

They’re in a marriage, they’re telling people they’re brother and sister.

They’re actually married, falling apart in front of the world.

[Chris] So, like Sonny and Cher.

It’s like, you look at them, and everybody’s like, “Oh, my God.”

“Are they fighting?” They’re not listening to the music.

– You’re into the gossip. – [Chris] Exactly.

Not into the music.

If you’re watching a couple play music,

you’re not thinking, “What’s up with the song, this instrumentation?”

You’re thinking, “Are they f***ing? Where’d they meet? Do they got kids?”

[Chris chuckles] It’s terrible.

You look at Donny and Marie. Opposite.

[Sean] Yeah, but their music sucked, so you didn’t care either way.

[Chris] But you didn’t wanna think about anything happening.

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