David walks into his home. Abi is cooking dinner.
Abi: you are home late?
David puts down his briefcase and crashes on the sofa.
David: Just had a meeting with one of my producers.
Abi walks into the room with two glasses of wine, she hands one to David who takes a sip out of it.
Abi: Did he finally have a script worth reading?
David: It was good but nothing that we want to produce. I’m looking for something with a bit of spark a bit of life to it.
Abi: Did you speak to Mark today?
David nods.
Abi: And he turned you down?
David gives Abi a wry smile.
David: That kid has never turnt anything down in his life, I put the seeds in his head and I swear to god he won’t stop now till he writes me something. He’s just that sort of guy, I gave him a challenge and he will want to complete it.
Abi: I better start losing weight then if I’m going to be in a television show again.
David: And here I was thinking you had given up on that game.
David kisses her.
Abi: For Mark I would come back to acting. He is just the best.
David suddenly sits up straighter.
David: Talking of Mark, he is on the Walker Show today.
David gets the remote and changes the channel. Camera focuses on the Tv as it shows Mark sitting on a stage with Walker
Abi: turn it up, I love listening to him.
Scene cuts to Mark on the screen sitting with Walker.
Walker: So, after that exciting start, what do you attribute your success to?
Mark has a slight smile.
Mark: I don’t put it just down to one thing. I was well financed early on which allowed me to get it out there more. I guess the main reason though is the fact that this story has something for everyone. You can relate to nearly every character and that’s important when you want to escape into something. I tried to give people something that they could step into, that they could feed this story into their own world. That they could be the ones fighting for a greater cause.
Walker: Must help when most authors don’t look like you do.
Mark blushes.
Mark: Stop it.
Mark sits up straighter.
Mark: It can’t be denied that my youth has had an effect. Not many authors get welcomed onto shows like this. I just hope that my use of social media and really coming from an ordinary back ground will get young people more involved in literature cause it really is just a pure art, an art that at times can transport you like no television or film ever could. When you read its personal and art should be personal.
Scene cuts back to David and Abi.
David: That’s what I mean Kid.
Abi: he just inspires you doesn’t he?
David: That’s the spark that I am after.
Scene cuts back to Mark again.
Walker: A nice sentiment but it can’t be denied that your story hasn’t caused controversy. Your first novel faced a boycott by some young mental health groups and then there was that…Mark cuts her off.
Mark: if you are going to start about those online forums threatening to kill themselves over my story, then I think we should end the interview now.
Walker: But someone did kill themselves over your story.
Mark: Allegedly he wrote some stuff
Walker: And he killed five other people as well.
Slight pause. Mark’s eyes go cold and a small smile creeps onto his face.
Mark: This is the misconceptions made by the media about this type of incident. To attribute the deaths of those innocent people to myself is disgusting and damn right offensive to them. There is a serious underlying social issue which relates to the isolation and loss of masculinity for a certain group of young people. Instead of trying to solve these issues they decide to blame someone like me because what politician ever got elected saying he wanted to do something to benefit the lives of young men.
Cut to show Anni shaking her head. Cuts back to Mark
Walker: Be that as it may
Mark: Listen. The reason people yelled at me for this thing was because they don’t understand what it means to be a part of the involuntarily celibate movement. It doesn’t make good news unless it’s to demonize someone like me. If my story was about islamists terrorism and shortly after release a bombing happened. Do you honestly believe my name would have been mentioned once?
Walker looks stunned? Cuts back to David.
David: Good answer Kid.
In the background
Walker: I think that’s time for a break.
Abi stands up.
Abi: I’m going to finish dinner
David stands up with her. Abi begins to cough.
David: Still got that cold?
Abi: Struggling to shake it.
David grabs the wine from the table and then hands it over to Abi. She takes a sip out of it. Then she looks at David.
Abi: You look tired.
David: This is it. This is my last chance at getting something out into the world, if it doesn’t happen now, then I may just go back to working in a shop.
Abi: The next thing you work on will change the lives of millions.
Abi puts her fork into the food, blows on it and then feeds it to David. He smiles.
David: OH yeah that’s good.
He turns around.
David: Let me know when it is ready, I’m going to read some more of this script.
End scene
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