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The Help Page #4
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- 2011
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HILLY:
They'd be a fool not to hire you.
Jolene raises her glass.
JOLENE:
To Skeeter...and her job. Last
stop `til marriage.
Hilly kicks Jolene under the table.
12.
SKEETER:
The Miss Myrna column. Have y'all
read it?
HILLY:
Well, no! But, I bet the poor
girls without any help, in South
Jackson, read it like the King
James.
Everyone laughs. Skeeter's forehead crinkles.
SKEETER:
Elizabeth, would you mind if I talk
to Aibileen? To help me answer
some of the letters? Just until I
get a knack for it.
Aibileen clears dishes as if she hasn't heard a thing.
Elizabeth gets very still.
ELIZABETH:
Aibileen? My Aibileen? What can't
you just get Constantine to help
you?
Skeeter looks to her lap and shakes her head.
SKEETER:
Constantine...quit us.
ELIZABETH HILLY:
What?! Oh, my gosh!
Skeeter nods her head sadly.
HILLY:
I'm so sorry, Skeeter.
SKEETER:
I really don't want to talk about
it. Okay?
The girls nod.
SKEETER (CONT'D)
Anyway...I don't know how to answer
these letters.
Elizabeth looks to Aibileen.
ELIZABETH:
Well...I mean as long as it doesn't
interfere with her work.
A phone rings. Elizabeth nods to Aibileen.
INT. LEEFOLT HOME - KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS
Aibileen rushes in the kitchen and answers the phone.
13.
AIBILEEN:
Leefolt residence.
INT. FOOTE ESTATE (INTERCUT) - KITCHEN - SAME TIME
CLOSE ON:
Pink, fuzzy slippers anchoring bare, sexy legs stand on a
CELIA FOOTE (O.C.)
Ah-hem. Hello, is Elizabeth in?
Rising up a slim torso, sizeable cleavage bursts out of a
pink robe's collar.
AIBILEEN:
She having bridge club right now.
May I take a message?
CELIA FOOTE, 28, peroxide blonde, stands in all her country
girl glory.
She speaks with a thick, unrefined, Southern accent, mired in
insecurity.
CELIA:
Please tell her Celia Foote called
again. I'll call back tomorrow.
AIBILEEN:
Yes, ma'am.
Celia nervously twists herself around in the phone cord.
CELIA:
Ah-hem. Miss?
"Miss" strikes Aibileen as very odd.
CELIA (CONT'D)
I'm looking for some help at my
house. You know any maids looking?
AIBILEEN:
No, ma'am.
CELIA FOOTE:
Okay. Celia Foote. Emerson 6-8-4.
Bye, now.
Celia hands up the phone with a frown and sips from a coca-
cola bottle.
INT. LEEFOLT HOME - LIVING ROOM - MOMENTS LATER
Aibileen enters the living room with a coffee pot.
14.
ELIZABETH:
Who was that on the phone?
AIBILEEN:
Miss Celia Foote called again.
Elizabeth leans over and touches Hilly's arm.
ELIZABETH:
I've never called her back, Hilly.
HILLY:
She can't take a hint, can she?
JOLENE:
Who's Celia Foote?
HILLY:
That tacky girl Johnny married.
ELIZABETH:
Girl? I heard she's twenty-eight.
JOLENE:
Oh my God!
HILLY:
Uh-hmm, worked concessions at a LSU
game and sold him a hotdog. And,
boy, he got a whole lot more.
All the girls laugh.
SKEETER:
Could have been you, Hilly.
HILLY:
And live thirty minutes outside of
town? Anyway, I ran into her at
the beauty parlor, and she had the
nerve to ask if she could help with
the children's benefit.
SKEETER:
Aren't we taking non-members? The
benefit's gotten so big.
HILLY:
Yes, but we're not telling her.
Everyone laughs but Skeeter. Aibileen pours Skeeter a cup of
coffee. Skeeter looks up decidedly and smiles.
SKEETER:
Thank you, Aibileen.
Hilly begins squirming in her seat, obviously making a point.
Elizabeth leans over.
ELIZABETH:
Oh, Hilly, I wish you'd just go use
the bathroom.
15.
HILLY:
Ah-hem. I'm fine.
Missus Walters shouts out from the sofa.
MISSUS WALTERS:
She's upset cause the nigra uses
the guest bath, and so do we.
Elizabeth turns to Aibileen.
ELIZABETH:
Aibileen, go check on Mae Mobley.
Aibileen disappears. Elizabeth leans into Hilly.
ELIZABETH (CONT'D)
Just go use mine and Raleigh's.
Hilly hiss-whispers.
HILLY:
If Aibileen uses the guest
bathroom, I'm sure she uses yours
too.
ELIZABETH:
SHE DOES NOT!
Aibileen turns the corner in the hall and stops.
HILLY:
Wouldn't you rather them take their
business outside?
Skeeter sees a reflection of Aibileen listening off of a
picture in the hall. Skeeter tries to change the subject.
SKEETER:
Did y'all see the cover of "Life"
this week? Jackie's never looked
MORE REGAL-
HILLY:
-Tell Raleigh every penny he spends
on a colored's bathroom, he'll get
back in spades when y'all sell.
It's just plain dangerous.
Everybody knows they carry
different diseases than we do. I
double.
Elizabeth takes a puff of her cigarette and fidgets with her
cards.
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