Dumplin' (2018)
Danielle Macdonald: Willowdean
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Quotes
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Willowdean : As far as I'm concerned, a swimsuit body is a body with a swimsuit on it.
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Willowdean : It's a protest!
Millie : What's our point?
Hannah : It's a revolt against the oppressive hetero-patriarchy unconsciously internalised by the female psyche!
Millie : [Slight pause] Oh.
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Willowdean : "The difference between winning and losing is all in the details", she said.
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Willowdean : You and I... we don't work together in the real world, Bo. You're supposed to be with someone like Bekah.
Bo : What are you talking about?
Willowdean : Oh, my God... I'm talking about this.
[Willowdean points at her overweight body]
Willowdean : How are you missing this? Do you not know what it would be like to be with me?
Bo : Never took you for the type that cares much what people think.
Willowdean : I can't, Bo. And that might make me a coward, but I...
Bo : [sharply] It does.
[pause]
Bo : Willowdean Dickson, I think you're beautiful. To hell with anyone else who's ever made you feel less than that.
[Willowdean does not respond]
Bo : Doesn't really matter what I think, does it?
[Bo walks away. Willowdean sighs, deeply saddened]
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Ellen : Callie is doing the pageant this year. Will's mom is the pageant director. She was Miss Teen Bluebonnet in 1991.
Callie : Rosie Dickson's your mom? Really?
Willowdean : Far as I know.
Callie : Hey, maybe sometime Elle Belle and I could come over and I could ask your mom some questions about the pageant. You know, just casually.
Willowdean : Well, unfortunately, my mom's not home all that much. She's either at pageant meetings or at the nursing home wiping old peoples' butts. It's what happens to a lot of ex-beauty queens.
