:54:00
Want to be taken as a serious actress
:54:04
My dear, before you can be taken seriously,
you must put bums on seats.
:54:19
All right, paint!
:54:21
And thus is flesh made art.
:54:29
Kynaston
:54:31
I see your wounds are on the mend.
:54:33
Yes, I was fallen upon
by a gang of critics.
:54:37
When will you be
back on stage, Mr K? Soon, I hope.
:54:41
- As soon as they'll let me.
- Physicians, eh?
:54:44
- What role will mark your return?
- What else but Desdemona?
:54:51
What do you want here, Kynaston?
:54:54
I want my pillow.
:54:55
It seems to be lost. I was wondering
if Mrs Hughes might know where it is.
:55:00
This is intolerable!
:55:02
Sir Charles, gentlemen, could you leave
Mr Kynaston and me for a moment?
:55:05
Certainly.
:55:08
You know, Mr K, the performance
of yours I always liked best?
:55:12
As much as I adored
your Desdemona and your Juliet,
:55:15
I always loved best the "britches" parts.
:55:18
Rosalind, for instance.
:55:20
And not just because of the woman stuff,
but also because of the man sections.
:55:24
Your performance of the man stuff
seemed so right, so... true.
:55:30
I suppose I felt
it was the most real in the play.
:55:33
You know why the man stuff seemed so real?
:55:36
Because I'm pretending.
:55:38
You see a man through the mirror
of a woman through the mirror of a man.
:55:41
You take one reflecting glass away,
it doesn't work.
:55:43
The man only works because you see
him in contrast to the woman he is.
:55:47
If you saw him
without the her he lives inside,
:55:50
he wouldn't seem a man at all.
:55:56
Yes, you've obviously thought
longer on this question than I.