Please Baby Please (2022)

Karl Glusman: Teddy

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• Teddy : There's a... scale I know you're all rating me on, and now you've got me rating myself on it too. A scale for belonging. I'm... living based on where I stand on this fake fucking scale because I'm obsessed with the lot of ya. I'm terrified of each of ya. I'm in agony that I don't size up to any of ya because you're all the standard of the kind of man I got to appear to be.

• Teddy : Caught ya.

  Arthur : I, um, I caught you. Following me.

  Teddy : Following her. That bunny lives to hop.

  Arthur : [chuckles nervously]  Yeah. She thinks she's the bug dick solving some kind of great whatsit.

  Teddy : Yeah, white hot thrills. Well, I don't got her keys, though I do have her man.

  [grabs Arthur by his shirt, pulls him closer to him] 

  Arthur : Um, what y'all did to that girl was deranged.

  Teddy : What's "dee-ranged"?

  Arthur : It's, it's like whacko.

  Teddy : Like unzipped. Say, wanna lose control?

  [he unbuckles Arthur's belt] 

  Arthur : I'm, I'm, um, I'm, I'm not in control.

  Teddy : You know, there's playing it cool

  [slips his hand into Arthur's pants] 

  Teddy : and then there's just... being... cool.

  Arthur : Yeah. Um, I, I play the clarinet.

  Teddy : Play me. Play with me. See how I wail.

  Arthur : Who made you? Angel... or devil?

  Teddy : You gotta draw a line.

  [strokes Arthur's face] 

  Teddy : So you know where the line is... when you cross it. You ever crossed it Bean? Maybe with one of those boys in your band?

  Arthur : [eyes closed]  No, um... I never gave them a second thought.

  Teddy : [whispering]  You ever given them a first thought?

  Arthur : [eyes widening]  Teddy, angel, you don't have to be a killer.

  Teddy : At least I'm not an artist stiff.

  Arthur : I am stiff.

  Teddy : [smiling]  You could be my favorite.

  Arthur : 'Favorite,' favorite?

  [takes Teddy's hat off of his head, put it on himself as they embrace]