:30:01
I was worried.
:30:03
I'm used to playing
more overtly heroic women.
:30:07
Less tentative.
More alluring.
:30:10
Certainly not
frigid.
:30:12
No, yes, yes. Well, Sylvia Poston
is a mass of neuroses.
:30:18
In spite of the fact that I
could really find nothing at all
in the play to brighten her up...
:30:22
- no real passion, no seductiveness...
- Nothing?
:30:25
I still think that
she's worth playing.
:30:27
We could work it over, and
a touch here or there could be
changed to make sure you're...
:30:32
- No, no, no, no.
I wouldn't dream of you...
- comfortable.
:30:35
changing a word
of your work for me.
:30:37
God, who am l, some
vain Broadway legend?
:30:43
You... you're
a budding Chekhov.
:30:50
I'm not saying I'll distort the play.
I'm just saying I'll reread it
with that in mind.
:30:55
I mean, after all, Miss Sinclair--
Helen. May I call you Helen?
:30:58
- Yes.
- Helen...
:31:00
your instincts as an actress
are impeccable.
:31:03
And I want the character
to have dimension. I don't mean
for her to be a drone.
:31:09
- You see through me, don't you?
- Me?
:31:12
You're clever.
:31:15
You're brilliant.
:31:17
What insight
into women.
:31:20
Don't deny it.
:31:27
I don't see why
she has to be frigid.
:31:34
[ Nick ] Hey, how ya doin', doll?
How'd it go?
:31:38
[ Olive ] Ah, they're all
so stuck up.
:31:40
- Yeah? Anybody botherin' her?
- No.
:31:43
They expect me to memorize
all these lines.
:31:46
- Well, that's what you wanted,
isn't it? To be an actress?
- I know, I know, I know.
:31:50
- I got a headache.
- Cheech'll help you
practice after we eat.
:31:53
- Me?
- The girl's got stuff
to memorize, all right?
:31:57
- Yeah, but, Nick--
- Go sit in the tub, honey. Go ahead.