Cherry
Aaron scene from Cherry, practice script
- Men
- Playing age Teens
- 2 pages
- Two-person scene
- Comedy
A comedy scene from Cherry for an actor, playing age teens (13–19), with Wild Bill.
The setup
WILD BILL PERRY Male, 18 years old. Wild Bill is Aaron’s roommate at Brown. Good-natured, lively, a hard partyer, more worldly and experienced than Aaron, Wild Bill grows increasingly impressed with Aaron’s complicated love life. Not a stereotypical jock, suave, intelligent, and sexy. He could be from a New England prep school or from New Jersey, the mid-west or Texas. Not a California type... LEAD STORY LINE: 17 year old AARON MILTON is a talented engineering student and even more talented artist who’s pushed by his overbearing mother SUSAN into accepting a scholarship to an intensive engineering curriculum at Brown University. Intrigued by a fellow art student, LINDA SUMMERS, a woman in her 30s with a 14 year old daughter, BETH, Aaron becomes involved in their very messy personal lives and discovers to his surprise that it’s okay to flout rules that stifle, but that doesn’t mean forgoing personal responsibility...
Cherry: Aaron scene
INT. PERKINS 209 - NIGHT
Aaron and WILD BILL "decorate" their room. Aaron hangs an antique poster of Harry Houdini wrapped in dozens of chains.
WILD BILL
Chicks or dicks?
AARON
What?
WILD BILL
You into chicks or dicks?
AARON
(defensive)
Chicks.
WILD BILL
I’m just fucking with you. Look, you know the doorknob deal?
AARON
No.
Wild Bill sips a Bass Ale as he dusts off a bust of Freud.
WILD BILL
Say, you’ve got someone in the room and you don’t want to be disturbed. The doorknob’s the deal. Just put a
WILD BILL (cont’d)
necktie around it and the other person knows - occupado - come back later.
AARON
What about a note on the board?
WILD BILL
What, "Busy fucking?"
AARON
No, it could be code. I don’t know... "Zebra. Tango. Niner."
WILD BILL
Fuck, don’t tell me I’m gonna have to break in a virgin.
AARON
What? I’m ... I’m not a virgin.
WILD BILL
Man, we gotta get that new car smell off you before you scare off all the chicks.
AARON
I’M NOT A VIRGIN.
WILD BILL
Okay. Don’t get freaky on me. Just remember the necktie. Trust me. My brother’s a junior at Columbia and this is what works.
AARON
Fine.
Aaron pulls the Eagle Scout shrine from under his bed, takes a deep breath and rips the backing off with a loud crack.
AARON (cont’d)
How about this?
He pulls out his metal-encrusted Eagle Scout scarf.
WILD BILL
Pretty perverse, Milton. Good choice.
Excerpt for study and audition practice. Watch the show or film for context.
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