- Tiggy:Hey, why are you sitting in the dark? (turns on lamp)
- Venus:Please turn that off, please….
- Tiggy:What’s going on?
- Venus:I know what this is Alexander; why you’re with me…
- Tiggy:What are you talking about?
- Venus:You’re a man who dares to dance with the freaks and I perpetuate that deviance for you…allow you to show the world that you live outside the box but I know that’s where it ends for us and I understand, it comes with the territory of my complicated identity but my, my feelings for you are simpler….they live very much inside the box…I’m afraid, Alexander, that I may have fallen in love with you….
- Tiggy:Um, I don’t know what to say…
- Venus:Please, let me say it for you…I’m a man…. I am a man who knows she’s a woman and that’s exactly where I’m supposed to be. That’s the criss-cross I’ve come to love. I don’t want the surgery. I don’t want undo what God has given me. I, I know how beautiful I am.
- Tiggy:You are beautiful.
- Venus:Thank you. I’m going to need to put some distance between us, at least until I can climb outside the box again.
- Tiggy:Well….you’re right, baby about me, about everything. This is my criss- cross…. because when I’m with you I don’t have any secrets and then I can’t…I, I have to open myself up for this and you see everything. All the things that I hide, all the shit that I hate about myself, you see it all baby..you see it all and through all that you still love me? Wow…babe, I’ve never had that ever with anyone….in any box, you know….but when I try to get close, you know, to feel….
- Venus:Normal
- Tiggy:Yeah…
- Venus:Yeah
- Tiggy:Yes. I just…I can’t hook it up
- Venus:I understand…
- Tiggy:No, let me finish…baby….but I want to….I want to….(chokes up)…I want to feel….what it’s like….for you to be mine. And I want to be able to go anywhere, anyplace with you being mine….come on baby….why don’t you just go get yourself cleaned up, put on a pretty dress….put those flowers back in your hair because I want to hear your lilt when you say my name…because you are my sweet, my beautiful Venus….
- Venus:Okay..okay..
- Tiggy:Yeah
- Venus:Yeah, I’ll do that for you baby…my precious
- Alex…Alexander…Alexan…Alexander…my savior (They stand and hug)
- Tiggy:Oh my baby…
- Venus:Oh my angel…
- Tiggy:My little baby….
looking at Venus
“Are you sure you can get rid of that tape?”
I wanted to talk about a few moments in particular. Venus kissing Jax when she left — was that scripted? It wasn’t scripted. And it was interesting. As respectful as Charlie and all of the guys were to me, I wanted to be respectful of them. We’d done takes a few different ways, and I just leaned over and whispered in Charlie’s ear, “Just trust me.” And they yelled, “Action!” and we began the scene again, and there was this moment where it was so sincere and so sweet, I just leaned in and kissed Charlie the way that Venus kisses him. The look on his face — the shock of What was that? It was tender and sweet! – it was sooo priceless. It was just like, wow, that’s what it’s like. That’s the moment.
And the line, “How ’bout, like, an air traffic controlman?” I think that was improvised. Kurt wrote it out and then said, “Just play. You’re Venus.” I’ve gotten to a place in my career where most of the people I work for or work with encourage that. [Laughs]
So in my recap, what should I call those little tassel whips you’re working in that scene? [Laughs] Instruments of pleasure? Instruments of pleasure and pain? Maybe they’re purgatory sticks. Let’s call them purgatory sticks.
Best parts of Waltons interview with EW