Mistress America Page #5

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INT. BACKSTAGE AT A MUSIC CLUB. NIGHT

Brooke, wearing an orange VIP sticker on her suede jacket,

affixes an identical sticker to Tracy’s shirt.

BROOKE:

I didn’t go to college.

TRACY:

Oh. OK.

BROOKE:

I’m an autodidact. Do you knowwhat that means?

TRACY:

Yes.

BROOKE:

That word is one of the things Iself-taught myself.

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Brooke is pulled up onstage to sing, she tries toact like she doesn’t want to and then does it. When she

dances while she sings it’s a person who is pretending to befree.

EXT. BAR. NIGHT

Brooke, Tracy and members of the band enter one of thosesecret bars, through the back of a pizza shop.

INT. SECRET BAR. NIGHT

Tracy drinks a fancy cocktail.

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TRACY:

It has mint!

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Brooke and Tracy dance with the guys.

BROOKE:

(dancing)

What’s going on at college?

TRACY:

(also dancing)

I don’t know, everyone’s reallyexcited about the frozen yogurtmachine in the student center.

BROOKE:

I watched my mother die.

TRACY:

What?

BROOKE:

I was with my mother while she

died.

TRACY:

I don’t know any dead people.

BROOKE:

That’s cool about the frozen yogurtmachine. Everyone I love dies.

INT. WILLIAMSBURG PARTY. NIGHT

Brooke and Tracy enter some party in Williamsburg. The

hostess hugs Brooke.

WOMAN:

I heard you’re opening a

restaurant!? WTF?!

INT. WILLIAMSBURG BEDROOM. NIGHT

Brooke and Tracy are in a closet - Brooke is going through itwhile Tracy watches her.

BROOKE:

This b*tch stole my favorite pants -

they’re in here somewhere - shethinks I don’t know but I know

everything. They’re red.

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TRACY:

(vaguely)

I’ll look here.

Tracy starts going through the closet.

BROOKE:

People are always taking my sh*t.

My ex-friend and nemesis, Mamie-

Claire, stole my ideas AND myfiance.

TRACY:

Sh*t.

BROOKE:

She took this T-shirt idea that I

had, started a company f***ing soldit to J. Crew so there is that.

She’s one of those people whodoesn’t have any good ideas for herown life so she just steals all ofmine. And then she LITERALLY stole

my cats.

TRACY:

What were the T-shirts?

BROOKE:

Just really hard looking flowers.

TRACY:

Oh my God! I bought one of those T-

shirts!

BROOKE:

Yeah, flowers with like skulls andshit. Daggers.

TRACY:

That’s a great one.

BROOKE:

My fiance, Dylan, was super sexy.

And so rich. But I wasn’t going tomarry him.

TRACY:

So...wait, you broke up with Dylan?

I thought she stole him?

BROOKE:

And I never looked back. He cried

so hard. Like, whiney.

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She does an impression:

BROOKE:

“Where are you going?”

(back to herself)

I was being real, but Mamie-Clairethen goes and marries him. Theylive in Greenwich, Connecticut insome big gross house. Do you knowthat place?

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