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the actress (theresa rebeck)
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42
Film, Theatre & Television
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01/03/2012

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this looks great. right here. is this great or what? ...wait a minute. this is...no wait. no, wait. right here. no, wait.
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nina!
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right here, that's what i'm saying, right here. ...this is incredible. the ocean? i mean, it's incredible, right? oh, you were so right. this was just what i needed, just a break from everything. four days at the beach, it's just brilliant, you, absolutely, the sound of the waves, i mean, that is a meditation all its own. a meditation. sun. water. birds. you'd have to be nuts not to see the beauty in this. it's so relaxing.
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i told you.
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that's what i'm saying, you told me and you were right, i said you were so so right. i mean, i did not want to do that stupid workshop. that play just sucked, yet another opportunity to play some idiot doing things that make no fucking sense whatsoever, for no money, that no one is ever going to produce. i mean, someone should put these poor playwrights out of their misery. who fucking needs it.
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this is better.
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please! are you kidding? look at this! i so needed this. after that pilot season, oh my god, you know they keep saying this is the worst one yet and then the next one is just worse. it's like how do they keep getting worse? but they do! it's so fucking demoralizing.
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nobody got anything.
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nobody got anything! who are they hiring anymore? it's like they go out and look and look and look until they find the worst actors out there and then they're the ones they give all the jobs to!
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it sucks.
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it so totally sucks.
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this is better.
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this is so totally better, are you kidding? because i am just completely disgusted with it. i mean, i didn't even get close this year. last year i at least got close, that cops and public defenders in manhattan show. i almost had that, but no, they had to hire a move star...oh shoot. why am i thinking about that again? six callbacks. i thought i was going to have heart failure.
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they do that to everybody.
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no, i know, i just...you know how when something that disappointed you just comes up again, all of a sudden? oh, shoot. on such a pretty day. why does that happen? i thought i was over that. ...i really wanted that. i would have been good in that.
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it didn't make it on the air anyway.
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thank god, that script was just the stupidest thing i ever read in my life. and that cow they hired, please god help me, she can't act her way out of a paper bag, that's why her movie career dried up! i mean, does it make sense to hire someone who is total fucking failure as an actress, just because she was bad in a couple of movies in her twenties?
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you want to take a walk?
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no, i'm relaxing, this is so relaxing, just being here. don't you think this is relaxing?
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yeah. no, yeah.
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i am so relaxed. those fuckers. those fuckheads. who fucking needs it. i am a fucking artist, i do not fucking need this kind of fucking rejection every day.
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nobody does.
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i know. fuckers. this is so relaxing. ...and i was not going to do that workshop anyway. that play is idiotic.
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nina.
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i mean, how many fucking bad plays can you do before you just get completely fucking demoralized?
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i know but you know. i mean... you know?
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because fuck.
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you want a soda or something?
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i would love a soda.
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here. ...god that tates great. you know that is a damn good fucking can of soda. sodas on the beach. sometimes i am really just grateful. because this is... i mean, life is... i mean, look at that stupid bird. that is so beautiful. look at him, just...
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oh yeah.
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right?
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fuck yes. this was a fantastic idea, coming out here. as opposed to what, hanging around the city and doing some loser workshop of a bad play, this is a no fucking brainer.
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...this is a good soda.
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i mean, i'm an actress. you know? i am an interpretive fucking artist. give me something to interpret, why don't you, then you'll see something. all i ever do is audition for shit, total shit, that's all anyone is doing anymore. television, film, the theater, all of it, it's completely unwatchable.
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maybe you should take some time off. i mean, maybe that would actually be good for you.
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what is that supposed mean?
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i mean...
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you mean stop?
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no, no, that's not what i mean. i just mean, i don't do it anymore and it's fine.
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what do you mean, you don't do it?
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come on nina, i don't-- i mean, i don't do it. i haven't been on an audition in five months.
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it was a shitty pilot season, everyone knows that.
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that's not what i mean.
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no one got anything.
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listen, i don't feel bad about it. you don't have to make me feel better.
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i'm not.
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blah blah blah bartender blah blah... and it felt kind of good, you know, it actually did. i like being a bartender. i like not thinking about what i'm not all the time.
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everybody needs to take time off once in a while.
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i'm not taking time off. i'm a bartender. i'm a bartender, sitting on a beach.
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well, i don't know how to respond to that.
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you don't have to respond.
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so, what, you want me to say i'm a caterer sitting on the beach?
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that's not what i'm saying.
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no fucking way. i think i'm a little better than that, if you don't mind.
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that's not what i'm saying.
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i don't know what you're saying.
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it's just, i thought it would be good to get away.
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i said it was, what have i been saying?
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i know you have, i just...
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i should have done that workshop.
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no, come on.
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there were a lot of people coming to see that. after the shitty pilot season i just had, i cannot afford to just turn down work.
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come on, nina, that's not what i meant at all.
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well, what did you mean? you meant i should just admit i'm not an actress--
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no--
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i should just give up my entire identity--
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no come on--
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well, i'm just not ready to do that all right? i still have a dream of being an artist. i'm not going to apologize for that and i'm not going to just give it up. i can't just give that up.
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don't do it. come on.
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i'm sorry if you don't understand that.
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i do understand that, nina--
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i am not giving up everything i have work for, you know how hard i work--
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yeah but that's what i'm saying. we can--
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maybe it never meant the same thing to you.
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ok maybe it didn't, but you do. you do, and a baby--
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i just can't be asked--
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come on, honey. come on. i think we should have it.
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do you know what it does to your figure? it's hard enough to get work. it's hard enough!
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i can take care of us. i love you. come on. i love you.
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that's not the point. ...is this why you asked me to do this? a couple of days away at the beach, so you could, you could hound me about this?
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i just thought it would be good to get away.
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i should have done that workshop.
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