Queen of the Lot Page #8

said to his son,

when his son complained

about his father

tipping the coachmen too little.

He said, "Look, course you can

afford to be a big spender,

you got a rich father, I don't."

Right, yeah.

Same old dialogue.

If it applies, it applies.

God damn brother goes off

to God knows where.

Where the hell does he go

at this time of night?

- I don't know.

- Is he gambling again?

I don't know Dad,

I'm not his keeper.

Right, right, right, right.

Well...

Good night.

Good night.

It was amazing, I had these

seats for the Laker game.

It was an awesome game like,

it ended I think 112 to 107,

just like that.

And they won by

a game winning shot.

It was nice.

Yeah, and at the end, the best

part was, me and my friend,

we ran up to the front and

we got to high five Kobe,

and we were on TV.

- (LAUGHING)

- PETE:
Nice.

- It was really cool.

- ELIZABETH:
Yeah.

Immediately after,

we got a bunch of phone calls.

You were on

national television?

- Yeah.

- Shut up!

MAGGIE:

Please tell me you taped it?

MICHAEL:
I think

my sister might have.

I feel really comfortable

with all of you now

and I don't want to feel

uncomfortable with you.

Hey everyone!

Sorry I slept in, is it

too late for breakfast?

Oh, get over here.

Get over here darling.

It's nice to see you

sitting next to your mother.

- Do you want some fruit?

- Yeah. (GIGGLING)

Thanks.

You guys are really lucky

that you get to go

to basketball games and stuff,

'cause if you come from like

a rural state, like Iowa,

you spend your summers

masturbating pigs.

- I had to do that with my uncle.

- (LAUGHING)

Somebody's gotta do it,

you know?

- Some of us are eating.

- It's a really natural process.

You bring...

when sow's are in heat,

there's a thing called a gilt

and there's a sow.

A gilt is a sow before

she's had babies.

And then you set up a big...

one of those horses,

you know, though saw horses,

and you put the gilt in there

when she's in heat,

and then you bring the boar in,

and then the boar

like mounts the horse,

and then you have to get gloves

and you have to...

to like... 'til it... you know?

That's disgusting.

But it's a really natural,

beautiful process, you know?

And you're helping.

- SHAELYNN:
It's a nature lesson.

- Yeah.

Shouldn't they do it

for themselves?

(LAUGHING)

Why did you have to

masturbate the pigs?

Oh, God.

I got to get in the water.

- Watch this.

- (GIGGLING)

MAGGIE:
That's true.

AARON:

See, that's a swimmer's body.

Dov has a swimmer's body.

He has like a

quarterback's body.

- You have a swimmer's body.

- I don't, actually.

I have a chaise lounge body.

I have a body that's...

That's designed to fit

the contour of a chaise lounge,

and very little else.

MAGGIE:
Am I supposed to be

doing something about this?

AARON:
I uh...

I don't know.

(SQUEALS)

(GIGGLING)

What do you want

to do about that?

Go home.

I shouldn't have even come here.

(GIGGLING)

You want me to say something?

No, I can do that too.

AARON:
Maggie.

What are you doing?

Let's play a game.

Yeah, I got a game

we can play.

(GIGGLING)

I got a really good game

we can play.

What is it?

(GIGGLING)

This is our game?

- Fine.

- (GIGGLING)

Okay, okay.

I'm gonna go get a hot cocoa.

DOV:
Are you okay?

- MAGGIE:
Yeah.

- DOV:
Don't be scared.

- I'm not scared.

- Don't be scared.

- No, I'm not scared.

- DOV:
Are you sure?

I just want to get some

hot cocoa.

MAGGIE:
What is a like

to grow up as a kid

in this amazing family

of show business people?

You know the problem

with living in a family

of people in show business,

is they're really good at

putting on a show for visitors.

It's just... It's difficult.

But it's...

You know, I mean everyone

has problems, you know?

Mm-hm.

Like your family

must not be perfect.

Do you have any issues

like that?

Well yeah, my grandfather

on my mother's side,

and my grandmother

on my father's side,

she used drugs and he drank and

I don't think it was

so much that you have...

I think, with addiction,

it's not so much that

you have an addiction,

it's that you have

feelings underneath it

you don't want to confront

or deal with, you know?

Which actually stems

more from anxiety

and issues within yourself,

you know?

What do you have issues about?

(SIGHS) That I'm ugly, that

I'm stupid, that I'm annoying.

That I suck at acting.

Did anything affect you

while you were growing up

that you think could cause you

to drink or do drugs?

Something other than

your grandparents' addiction?

Mm, I had something

happen with my brother but...

ZOE:
What happened?

It was just something

that happened when I was little.

ZOE:
And that you think

helped cause you to,

you know,

not want to be present?

- Yeah, probably.

- What was it?

I don't really talk about it

anymore.

- How about you, do you do drugs?

- Nope.

Ever?

No, I'd rather be myself.

Everybody's addicted

to something it seems.

- Really?

- I've got my addictions too.

- What are you addicted to?

- I'm addicted to failure.

(SCOFFING) Failure?

How can you be

addicted to failure?

Oh it's easy. A lot easier

than you might think,

it just takes a lifetime

and then,

it's gotcha.

Can't be what I want to be,

can't be what other people

want me to be.

I don't think I can have

a success now,

if I kill to get it.

AARON:
How are we both sitting

on the same side of the table?

Doesn't this feel kind of weird?

No, because if we don't sit

on this side of the table,

how are anybody who's driving

past gonna recognize me?

You walk around

wanting to be recognized?

- Of course I do.

- Why?

Oh, come on.

I mean that's the ultimate goal

of all of this.

For what?

When I go into

my dad's pharmacy in Iowa,

the thing that they have

up there are Marilyn mugs.

She's on purses

in car washes.

She was... she was emblemized

on items for over...

- over almost a century now.

- Oh, God.

Why wouldn't I want that?

Why would you want that?

That's a mystery to me,

why anybody would think

that their face

at the bottom of an ashtray,

five years after they're dead

is...

is a monument

to their achievements.

Don't you want to

touch people's lives?

Wouldn't you like it if they...

when they're walking by,

if they smile at you?

You really care what

these two people think about

after you're dead?

Is that gonna have any impact

on your life whatsoever

if they think fondly of you,

or not fondly of you?

If they say, "Oh, she was

an amazing actress,

so much so that I got to

have her on my teaspoon."

So why am I attracted to

somebody who's so superficial,

is completely confusing to me.

You are attracted to me?

Yes, of course I am.

How could you say that

after this weekend?

Of course I am.

I don't know what that means,

I don't know what...

I don't know what to do

with that information because...

What about your brother,

what about my career?

- Exactly, what about my brother?

- And I'm not telling you

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes