Defying Gravity
Chloe scene from Defying Gravity, practice script
- Women
- Playing age 20s–30s
- 3 pages
- Two-person scene
- Drama
A drama scene from Defying Gravity for an actress, playing age 20s and 30s, with Donner.
Defying Gravity: Chloe scene
INT. DUKE’S BAR - LADIES ROOM
Chloe stands at the sink, emotional. Studies herself in the mirror for a long moment of self- loathing, then...
CHLOE
What is...freaking wrong with you? You spend your whole...freaking life working your ass off, dreaming about this one chance - this one, damn chance - and you freaking blow it. I cannot believe what a hopeless, worthless... weak-minded... (struggles to come up with another adjective, then...) fucking loser you are.
Chloe’s eyes well in discouraged frustration, then... Her cell phone rings. She quickly pulls herself together, sniffing and wiping her tears with her hands. Quickly pulling out her cell phone to see...
CHLOE (CONT’D)
Dang.(into phone, brightly, covering) Hi Mom...no, it’s cold up here; I have the sniffles. Who? (beat) No, I haven’t called him. I haven’t had time, Mother - do you even remember why I came up here? It was not to meet your osteopath’s nephew.
And now Chloe reacts to a sound in the background - a male stream of piss rumbling into a deep bowl behind the closed door of one of the stalls. It continues to distract her as...
CHLOE (CONT’D)
Mother...Mom, I don’t care if he’s a Scorpio... Cancer women have got to be compatible with some other sign, and I am not...I repeat, not interested, in a relationship at this point in time. How many times do we...
A toilet flushes. A manly clear of the throat.
CHLOE (CONT’D) (cont’d)
Y’know...I’m done with this, Mother - I’m going. Say good-bye. Good-bye.
Chloe hangs up, as the stall door opens and Donner cowboys it out...having trouble with the buttons on his fly. Continues to struggle with them as:
DONNER
They’ve been making these things two hundred years - you’d think they could do better than these damned buttons.
CHLOE
You can get them with zippers. And this is the ladies room?
DONNER
Could’ve fooled me with that language.
CHLOE
I thought I was alone.
DONNER
Just hope you don’t kiss your mother with that mouth.
CHLOE
Okay, you’re mocking me. Screw you.
He smiles...washes his hands beside her. And now she notices...
CHLOE (CONT’D)
You’re Maddox Donner.
DONNER
That good or bad?
CHLOE
Bad being...?
DONNER
That I’m the asshole astronaut who left two people on Mars. Good being that I’m a tragic American hero who should be taken home and comforted in your arms.
CHLOE
(beat, decides)
That’s pathetic.
She grabs her purse and heads out.
DONNER
Aren’t you gonna pee?
That stops her.
DONNER (CONT’D)
Three beers tend to run right through me. But then you Cancers have large bladders.
CHLOE
Are you stalking me?
DONNER
I probably could’ve taken my leak in the men’s room.
Chloe has no idea how to respond.
CHLOE
Well...fuck you.
He smiles. And she’s out the door. Re-enters a moment later...making a bee line for the stall. Slams the door behind her.
CHLOE
Get out!
DONNER
I’ll be at the bar.
Excerpt for study and audition practice. Watch the show or film for context.
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