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Monologue Mania Day #494 Kelly's Piece (Oscar for Olivia) by Janet S. Tiger June 21, 2015
And you just don’t want to admit that you’re just as lazy as everybody else when it comes to doing the hard stuff.
(She exits leaving Olivia stunned. End of scene)
Monologue Mania Day #494 Kelly's Piece (Oscar for Olivia) by Janet S. Tiger June 21, 2015
For a monologue from this movie, see Day # 493 - Olivia's Audition)
Kelly's Piece
(from An Oscar for Olivia)
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved 2015 tigerteam1@gmail.com
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved 2015 tigerteam1@gmail.com
This
is from a movie that I will finish one day, featuring an older actress,
Olivia, who, in this scene, now has an opportunity to do something that will (possibly)
move her career forward. But it isn’t
the nicest move. But if she doesn’t get
this part, she is heading home.
This is the big turning point in her life – what will she do? Will she
Become a person she doesn’t want to be? Or will she go back to a life she hates?
A big confrontation with Kelly - a younger actress who is a bit jealous of Olivia, but also honest - helps her reach a decision.
Well, you can be all high and mighty, but the truth is, you got a lot of approval from your world for
taking care of your mother. And if you
were really honest you’d admit that you took the easy way out. You could have gotten married back
there, you could have had a life. But it would have meant work and thinking
about more than just one person at a time and it would have meant that you had
nothing to hide behind.
And you come out here and you try for- how long have you been here
– ten months? And you get two parts
right away. I was here a whole year
before I got a walk on, and I didn’t get a lead until I was 24.
But you’re upset because you lost a part to…(splutters) Jane Fonda!
I would have been happy to lick Jane’s Barbarella….but you’re ready to
quit now when the going gets a little tough.
That’s like Kim Kardashian complaining that her soup is cold!
I have been in this damned town for 15 damn years and I will stay
another one hundred and fifteen years if I think I can maybe get a good part!
You always told those stories about how you’d tell your students
to do the work – well, what work have you done – and don’t give me a pile of
crap about taking care of your mother.
I’m talking about the real work – the work that you have to do about
yourself.
(Kelly walks out, stops, looks back)
And you just don’t want to admit that you’re just as lazy as everybody else when it comes to doing the hard stuff.
(She exits leaving Olivia stunned. End of scene)
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1 comment:
Love this! Hope I can at least get to read it sometime...
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