The Script Says Destruction. The Actors Find Tenderness. | P4 Theater

A prince saves the beauty.

Is that a cliché? It seems a bit clichéd to me.

Let's try something less clichéd.

Just now—that wasn't clichéd.

But if he bends down to carry me, it might not look good.

You're thinking about so much. An actor with a director's mindset.

I've met actors like that before.

I'm like that too.

I've realized I shouldn't be.

Even when I'm acting for you, I can't help worrying about everything.

You have to trust your collaborators. Take this light, for example.

Don't worry about it. You don't need to think about the film.

Just do what you most want to do as the characters in the script.

Give me a piece of ice, please. Okay.

Why are you thinking about it?

This ice isn't big enough. Forget it. Let it go.

Wait. I keep breaking character. Sorry.

It's okay. Break character if you need to. You can always come back into it.

Does this look good? I'm always thinking about that...

I'm thinking about where we begin and where we end.

You think about it. I'll think about it.

The beginning... or what you have in your script.

You're destroying me. It begins when I realize you're destroying me.

Then I'm destroyed, and you rest. You're cold, until you freeze to death.

That's bleak. A dark beginning and a dark ending.

Let's play it naturally, not theatrically. Understood. I know.

But everyday life has emotion and violence too.

Looking at you makes me want to laugh. Why? Should I do comedy?

No, that's not what I mean.

Seeing someone you like makes you want to smile.

I don't feel like smiling that often.

I don't feel like you're destroying me.

Used to it. Used to what?

Hurting people.

Because I wrote it when I was in a bad mood.

It's actually pretty good.

Maybe we don't hurt each other. Maybe there's tenderness.

A kind of helpless love.