1:28:00
You can't teach me how to be a woman!
1:28:02
I'm not teaching you how to be a woman,
but how to be Desdemona.
1:28:05
I don't want to be Desdemona.
I don't want to act ever again.
1:28:08
No! You claimed the role. Hold onto it
till they pry your fingers from its neck.
1:28:12
And you hold this theatre in your hands.
So stand still, dry your eyes and strip!
1:28:15
Muss your hair before the scene.
1:28:18
Not like that, that's puffing it
to make it look attractive.
1:28:20
No, no, no, no lip paint. White cheeks.
1:28:23
Pale lips. Blood drains down with sleep,
not up to the face.
1:28:26
Now, the way Betterton does the last scene,
there are 32 lines, cutting 17.
1:28:33
You're the woman, I'm the man.
Start on the bed.
1:28:37
Not like that! That's like me.
1:28:41
Is that how you sleep?
1:28:45
How am I supposed to know how I sleep?
I'm sleeping while I sleep!
1:28:48
Don't act with what isn't there!
1:28:50
The man's been a festering boil
1:28:53
- for three fucking hours, hasn't he?
- Yes.
1:28:55
He's come to your room, woke you
and told you to pray before you die.
1:28:58
- So, what's the line?
- Talk you of killing?
1:29:00
Ay, I do.
1:29:01
- Then heaven have mercy on me!
- Good girl. Keep going.
1:29:04
They are loves I bear to you.
1:29:06
Peace, and be still!
1:29:08
And I mean that.
1:29:10
But Othello is advancing on her.
1:29:12
Am I?
1:29:13
You see me moving?
You take two steps back on the first line,
1:29:16
then stumble on the last line.
1:29:18
I can't remember the stumble.
1:29:19
Peace, and be still!
1:29:21
By my life and soul,
send for the man and ask him.
1:29:24
"Send for the man and ask him."
1:29:26
Easy to say, isn't it?
"Send for the man and ask him."
1:29:29
Cassio's name gives her the willies.
1:29:31
- But she doesn't say the name "Cassio".
- Aha!
1:29:34
I'm lost.
1:29:35
If lago wanted to poison the Moor's mind
with a lover for Desdemona,
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he had to pick someone who made sense.
1:29:40
It couldn't be... Jo-Jo the Mute Boy.
1:29:43
lago picked Cassio because, in truth,
Desdemona does fancy him.
1:29:47
So, when Othello mentions him,
she must say, "Yes, call for Cassio."
1:29:52
But his name doesn't come easily.
1:29:55
But she doesn't say his name!
1:29:58
Yes.