SCENE 1: INT. INSIDE A FILMS CASTING SUITE'S WAITING ROOM.
CHARLEY:
I dunno's this sure brings backs some of me's old memries.
ALFRED:
What your father also carried Wetherall's inside his jacket pockets.
CHARLEY:
WEATHERALL'S.
ALFRED:
WEATHERALL'S those there liquorice toffes i've just handed to ya.
CHARLEY:
Im not talking bouts the toffees Alfred...i'm talkin bouts the waiting...the unexpectedness of it all...the anxiety...thinking what to say once i'm inside...all my nervous energy...en that...not bleeding WEATHERALL'S.
ALFRED:
don't you knows what you's gonna be saying Charley...well that's en awful situation to be in...your the next one in...you'll have to say something...i mean they'll be expecting you to say something...don't worry abouts it... your an old pro...something will come out.
CHARLEY:
IT'S reminding me of that time i went up for that part of D'Artanon.
ALFRED:
you came here for an interview for that Italian in town.
CHARLEY:
The Musketeer you dimwit not the new restaurant in the precinct.
ALFRED:
You were a musketeer...well i'll be damned...which one were you.
CHARLEY:
Have you seen that film The "Musketeer Finale"
ALFRED:
which one was that one then...i've watched most of them.
CHARLEY:
Oh it was many years ago now Alfred...it was set in Prague.
ALFRED:
you've been to Prague Charley...what happened in the film though.
CHARLEY:
have you seen that one where the three Musketeers rescue that pretty damson in distress...from the kings castle...then steal all his jewels.
ALFRED:
I think i have seen that one...what else happens it might help jog my memory...it aint what it used to be.
CHARLEY:
they get locked up for a while in the dungeon...then escaped through a tunnel on a boat.
ALFRED:
i think i've seen that one...what else happened Charley.
CHARLEY:
They move back to England and set up a fencing academy for destitute urchins.
ALFRED:
no i aint seen that one.
CHARLEY:
Yes it was a lovely film to be associated with...i still get the odd letter from some of my acting friends.
ALFRED:
I aint never seen any letters from your film star friends.
CHARLEY:
Christmas cards mainly...your normally in Spain for the winter.
ALFRED:
Ah Spain...i wish i was thet now...lying by the beach...drinking a cool Stella.
CHARLEY:
i wish they'd be hurrying up a bit.
ALFRED:
why's that then Charley.
CHARLEY:
I was hoping to fit in two auditions today.
ALFRED:
Two...in one day...and with you with nothing to say Charley.
CHARLEY:
Two's nothing to us old pro's...we've always got something to say.
ALFRED:
see Charley i knew you'd have something to say in the end.
CHARLEY:
It reminds me of 64 when I went up for that massive Hollywood movie.
ALFRED:
You were in a film in 64...i thought you were working in the Pig & Whistle... didnt you get married in 64.
CHARLEY:
I did...but the film was october I got married in January...i had to leave because i had the starring role.
ALFRED:
Blimey...you played the starring role...what was the film called.
CHARLEY:
have you seen the film "Mcdonald Mcadaion The First King of Scotland"
ALFRED:
Yes...isn't it about some sort of scottish uprising.
CHARLEY:
It came out at Christmas 65...i bet you hadn't even thought about your villa in Spain had you Alfred.
ALFRED:
Ah Spain...i wish I was there now...lying by the beach...a nice cool glass of Stella.
CHARLEY:
phew...
END.
