"It's a great role, Tom," she said. "It's so dramatic and filled with feelin
g. I want to do something like that. You know, something with emotional bagg
age. I think it's time Hollywood started taking me seriously."
"Yeah," Elliot shrugged again. "Well, he says that he can get me into film,
that I'm ready for the big film roles."
"All right, point noted," Roland said. "But there is the complication of Mis
s Beck not being the right age or, let's put this delicately as possible, ha
ving the right amount of intellectual stamina."
"For the first 10%, yes," Michelle said. The nurse looked slightly confused.
Below the nurse's view, I stepped onto Michelle's toes. Hard.