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(2022)

John Leguizamo: Movie Star

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  • Felicity : How'd you do out there?

    Movie Star : I did great. I killed it. I'm the only one who got away. I'm sorry. I'm a fuckin' failure.

    Felicity : It's okay. I've been stealing money from you.

    Movie Star : I know.

    Felicity : I know you know.

    Movie Star : I wrote a negative recommendation to Sony.

    Felicity : I know. You cc'd me on it.

  • Chef Slowik : I want you to understand something, Margot. I am a monster. No, was a monster. And a whore. But tonight, everything I'm doing is pure. Egoless. And at last, the pain is almost gone. Chef's hands. Asbestos hands. I can carry a cast-iron from a hot oven to your table with no protection. I can no longer be hurt, Margot. As Dr. King said, 'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed.'

    Movie Star : Did he just quote Martin Luther King?

  • Chef Slowik : Do you wanna know why you're being punished?

    Movie Star : Sure.

    Chef Slowik : I saw the film Calling Doctor Sunshine, and I did not enjoy it.

    Movie Star : Wait, sorry?

    Chef Slowik : It was a Sunday. My one day off in months. The most precious day. The day where I was allowed to live. And I saw the film Calling Doctor Sunshine alone in the cinema.

    Movie Star : But look, I, I, I didn't direct it. I just acted in it.

    Chef Slowik : The memory of your face in that film, and seeing you again now haunts me. Drives me. What happens to an artist when he loses his purpose? It's pitiful.

  • Chef Slowik : The next course is called Memory. And that is what it's meant to evoke. A memory. So, let me tell you a memory of mine. When I was growing up, a child in Waterloo, Iowa, Tuesday was taco night.

    Movie Star : Oh, yeah!

    Chef Slowik : Taco Tuesday!

    Movie Star : Yeah!

    Chef Slowik : And this, here, this lady here. This is my mother. As you can see, she's rather drunk. This is not unusual. When I was seven years old, one Tuesday, my father came home quite drunk. Really drunk. Also, not unusual. My mother grew angry and screamed at him, at which point, he proceeded to wrap a telephone cord around her neck and pull it tight. I wept. I screamed, I begged him to stop. To make him stop, I finally had to stab him in the thigh with kitchen scissors. You remember that, Mother, don't you? Now, I suppose I should've stabbed him in the throat that evening. But we're not so smart when we're young. It was, as you can imagine, as a very memorable taco night.

  • Chef Slowik : In this spirit, please enjoy the unaccompanied accompaniments.

    Felicity : "The bread you will not be eating tonight was made from a heritage wheat called red fife, crafted with our partners at the Tehachapi Grain Project devoted to preserving heirloom grains." This is insane.

    Movie Star : Mmm! I gotta say that the shit around the total absence of the bread is, like, really good.

  • Bryce : What is happening?

    Movie Star : It looks so damn real.

    Lillian : No, no, no, no. This is, this is just theater, right?

    Soren : What the fuck are you talking about, lady? He just fucking shot himself, okay?

    Ted : It looked very real, Lillian. Quite real.

    Lillian : This is... This is just theater. It's stagecraft.

    Soren : Is it really?

    Lillian : Yeah. This is what he does. It's part of the menu.

  • Movie Star : I told you, you weren't leaving.

  • Chef Slowik : There's a saying. 'Sometimes all you need is a good cup of tea.' I learned that growing up in Bratislava. I've found that not only does tea cleanse the palate, but it offers a soothing balm when facing some hard home truths. But before we continue, are there any questions about me or Hawthorn? Any questions?

    Tyler : Is this bergamot I'm getting, Chef?

    Chef Slowik : Yes, it is.

    Movie Star : Chef?

    Chef Slowik : Yes?

    Movie Star : Uh, I think I speak for everybody here when I say that, uh... I wanna know... I mean, we wanna know...

    Soren : Why the fuck is this happening, man?

    Chef Slowik : Well, I'll tell you. Think of yourselves as ingredients in a degustation concept.

    Soren : What?

    Chef Slowik : A tasting concept. Figuratively speaking. I think that is the best way to describe it. But none of this should be a surprise to most of you.

  • Felicity : How is it?

    Movie Star : Mmm. It's good.

    Felicity : You can't just say 'good' for the show. You have to... You have to embellish.

    Movie Star : Oh, my God. For crying out loud. It's not brain surgery, okay?

    Felicity : I know. Okay, so then, do it.

    Movie Star : It's a goddamn travel-food show.

    Felicity : Yeah, yeah. So pitch it to me.

    Movie Star : Okay, so we go to Italy, right?

    Felicity : Mmm-hmm.

    Movie Star : We shoot me in capri pants on a pastel green Vespa, driving around to get to some Giuseppe's farm with cheese. I eat the cheese, and then... There's a close-up of me. And I close my eyes, and I fake an orgasm, and then off to South Africa, and then, I maybe... I talk about how racism is not so cool, and bingo bongo, Emmy time.

  • Felicity : Then why don't you go talk to him? Go talk to him! Because you know him, right?

    Movie Star : I made that up.

    Felicity : Why?

    Movie Star : Because I'm a name-dropping whore. That's why, okay?

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