May 14: Old Friends? Enemies? Maybe?

[Will Stanton]

"It does indeed.

Well, I wish you better luck in your line of work than what I've had in mine," she smiled, wryly.

[Nina Madaraki]

"What's wrong?" Nina asks, sounding concerned.

[Will Stanton]

"Oh, well, just it's hard work breaking into show business. I've got a dozen rejection letters for "Idle Minds"...


...aaaaand I'm kinda playing a dog in a dog food commercial. Like, a golden retriever puppy."

[Nina Madaraki]

"Aww...that's cute!"

[Will Stanton]

"A TIIIIIINY bit humiliating," she said, half frowning, half smiling.

[Nina Madaraki]

"I bet you're a cute puppy," Nina says, "Who's a cute puppy? You are!"

[Will Stanton]

"I'm a DAMN cute puppy," she smirked.

[Nina Madaraki]

"You should do Hamlet with puppies!" Nina exclaims, "That'd be great!"

[Will Stanton]

"Talking puppies, you mean?"

[Nina Madaraki]

"Oh, that'd make much more sense."

[Will Stanton]

"You wanted me just to bark the soliloquies?"

[Nina Madaraki]

"It'd be cute!"

[Will Stanton]

"But no one would understand at all!"

[Nina Madaraki]

"It'd be delightfully avant garde," Nina says with a giggle.

[Will Stanton]

"Avant Garde is NOT just a code word for 'do random shit'," Will teased.

[Nina Madaraki]

"It challenges your preconceptions of what Shakespeare is!" Nina says, "The very basis of theater! Can you accomplish the work of the greatest wordsmith without words? Without even having the benefit of human beings as your actors?"

[Will Stanton]

"That's what it would say on the marquee, true. But make no mistake, it'd just be about getting people to buy tickets to see puppies."

[Nina Madaraki]

"Exploiting the base instincts of the consumer in order to sell them incomprehensible art," Nina says, "Sounds like success to me."

[Will Stanton]

"Success yes. But could you live with yourself in the morning?

...as opposed to snarfing down doggy treats, apparently. So I'll be shutting up now," she chuckled.

[Nina Madaraki]

"Oh, dog treats aren't that bad."

[Will Stanton]

"I...haven't tried the sample, exactly."

[Nina Madaraki]

"You should!" Nina says, "It's method acting and all that jazz."

[Will Stanton]

"Well, I probably had better, or I might vomit on set. THAT'S the sort of thing casting directors remember."

[Nina Madaraki]

"Makes sense to me."

[Will Stanton]

"Though I'm almost positive I don't WANT to be remembered as 'talking dog boy', but, welp, I've got a baby."