OUR KIND OF PEOPLE - 8th NETWORK DRAFT 12-21-20
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LEAH What's going on?
LAUREN Nikki is threatening me. NIKKI You're lying again. Leah gets in Nikki's face as the crowd forms around them. LEAH You need to stop bothering my daughter. Angela steps to Leah. Now her "Boston" is all the way out. ANGELA And you better step the hell away from mine. Just then, Leah clocks Olivia in the distance. LEAH
Before you start judging, why don't we turn the mirror around on you? ANGELA Okay, what now? Ever since I got here, you've been up my ass. LEAH Because you've been lying. Your mother didn't summer here. She was a MAID.
Caught in her lie, Angela turns to Leah. Checkmated, she unclips her dress, letting it fall to the floor. She stands there in her underwear, bare, vulnerable, but in her truth. All the bravado she mustered at the Gala is gone. This is more controlled, but the quietness of it makes it more powerful than we've seen Angela. ANGELA
Is this what you want? You gotta tear me down to feel tall. You want me naked? I'm fucking naked. But I ain't gonna bow down and say... (slave dialect) "Yes, Ms. Leah. Thank you Ms. Leah... I sho is happy with yo scraps, Ms. Leah..." LEAH Oh, you're showing your ass now?
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