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Welcome to Big Taters. My name is Sarah.

Can I start you guys off with an order of our Freedom Tots?

Sarah, you know the rule about stuff, don't you? I'm sorry, I just, I was just

checking on something.

Yeah, well, check it on your break.

Mario, where's she even hiding that thing?

Put the car in drive, Charlie.

You're here for one reason, and one reason only.

Because... You know the lines. Keep your eyes open.

I stopped going to church when I was 16.

So I know.

I really haven't been able to take my eyes off of Erin. Word on the street,

there's a rumor going around that she's some sort of bicycle. But sadly, I'm

sitting here and realizing that I've never gotten to take a ride. Hello, hi.

are you? Good to see you. Hey, Tara.

Hi. Good to see you. Hello.

How's it going? Glad you came.

Yeah. And I'm glad you brought your wonderful roommate.

I got Danny.

I said you were wonderful.

You coming?

Hey, um, I honestly don't know what it is.

Oh, don't be coy.

You're coming.

Yeah, I come and I'll tell you all about my new project.

Yeah, it's really good. We've been working on it for like the last two,

months now. Cool.

I'm playing Simone. She has the best lines in the whole thing. I've been

it and Aaron has been providing some very insightful feedback.

I am honestly actually kind of surprised to see you here. I thought you were

avoiding me. Aaron.

Why would you think that?

Because I stole your role.

Okay, uh, Danny, do you want to help me in the kitchen?

Yeah. I'm kidding.

I'm kidding.

Don't worry.

I didn't even know that you auditioned for it. And it was just a stupid

commercial. Honestly, it was kind of a horrible experience anyway. The director

was a total perv. You should be glad that you didn't get it.

Okay. I'm gonna get a drink. Sarah?

Oh my god, Sarah!

Did you do something with your hair? No. Are you coming to the performation?

You totally have to. Everyone's going to perform something.

Perform? Yeah, we'll finally get to see those acting chops that we've heard so

much about.

I like your shoes, Sarah.

Take the mic from me. I'm no ginkgo, but I am Poe.

The Rose Bowl's got a whole table of them. I had to find the film, but it

great.

Danny and I are making a dark room so we can do all the props and things.

That's cool.

Well, we were going to do a gallery show, but it's just so much easier to

that shit on Instagram.

There's just a way bigger audience.

Hey, Sarah.

Hey, you all right?

Yeah.

Hey, listen, so about this script that we were talking about earlier, I was

wondering maybe you and I could get together sometime.

What's going on?

Oh, um, this ad for a role, they just called me in for an audition.

Oh, that's great. Yeah.

Congratulations. Thank you. What's the role for?

Um, it's...

This movie called The Silver Screen.

Oh, my God.

I hope that's a working title.

What? It's really cool.

Chloe did not get fed up and just

take off.

She's not out on another one of her benders.

She's not out on another one of her benders.

Something happened to her.

I, uh... I went to her... I...

I went over to her trailer and I...

Sorry.

I, uh... I went to, um... I, uh...

I went to, uh...

Oh.

Sarah Walker?

I'm Sarah Walker.

I'm Sarah Walker.

Hi, Sarah.

I bought a headshot. That won't be necessary. We have your digital file.

Yeah, of course. I just thought you might want a hard copy.

What you do in this room right now will render that headshot null and void.

When you exit this room, you will either have made a lasting impression or blend

into the sea of thousands of forgotten girls who pass through these halls every

day.

Photograph won't change that.

Okay. Well, hopefully you'll see something in me because I know I'd be

this. I grew up on scary movies and I'm an actor, obviously.

So I think I'd be pretty good.

Don't tell us, Sarah.

Tell us.

Chloe didn't get fed up with the shoot and just take off.

She's not out there on one of her benders. Something happened to her.

to her? Like what?

I went to her trailer.

After everyone said that she took off. And I found this.

And?

Her dad gave her this, Chad.

On the morning of her birthday before he left for work.

When they still lived in Long Island. So?

So her birthday is September 11th.

Her dad died that morning in the World Trade Center. She would never leave

without this.

No way. Not ever. Okay, so she wouldn't leave without it.

I mean, that still doesn't mean something happened.

Well, that's not all.

When I was in her trailer, I heard a shuffling, and then I saw something out

the corner of my eye. Don't say it. Don't tell me you're believing these

now, too. I turned.

I saw her, Chad.

Saw who?

Chloe. So she's still here.

Thank you, Sarah.

No problem.

We'll be in touch.

Okay.

Do you have any notes for me? I can do it again, different, if you didn't like

what you thought. It's all we needed, Sarah.

Thank you.

Maybe we didn't see all we needed from you after all.

What was that you were doing in the washroom, Sarah?

What?

Your fit.

Um... No, I was laughing.

Sarah,

you have my attention.

I was disappointed in myself.

So you punished yourself.

No. I don't... It's just something I do. I don't know.

Would you do it again?

For us?

Now?

What?

I want to see your fit, Sarah.

I've never done that in front of anyone before.

All right, then. Thank you for coming in.

How'd it go?

I don't know how this should go. What happened?

Uh, not good.

I think they made fun of me.

What?

I really want to talk about it right now.

Okay. Well, hey, everyone's coming by in a little bit.

You should come hang out with them.

I kind of want to be alone.

Our little tater tot full of birthday cheer.

Our little tater tot has lived another year.

I love birthdays.

David, what are you doing standing there staring at me?

I told you to go defrost those chicken strips like an hour ago. They're like a

block of ice.

Jesus Christ.

Hi, this is Sarah Walker calling you back. You just called me?

Hello, Sarah.

Yes, we tried to call. Yes, yeah, I'm so sorry about that. Please don't cut me

off, Sarah.

We'd like to see you again.

Yes! Yeah, yeah, I would love to come in again.

Great. I'll email you the details.

And Sarah, this will be different from the last time. Oh, well, good, because I

only have so much hair on my head.

Uh -huh.

Well, thank you. Thank you so much, and I'm sorry that I cut you off. Yeah.

What's going on with you lately?

Listen, Sarah.

Tater's girls are all family.

So if one of you isn't on the ball, then it affects the whole family.

You wouldn't ever want to hurt your family now, would you, Sarah?

I don't really have a family, Carl. I'm talking about your big Tater thing.

The phone thing.

All these auditions that you're going on.

I know it's important to you, but this is your job.

You gotta prioritize.

Yeah, maybe you're right. I know that I am.

I think I may have to quit.

No, I don't... You didn't understand what I was trying to say. This job is

getting in the way, Carl.

I have a talent.

A real talent, and I'm not going to take that for granted anymore. No, that's...

You're twisting my words around, and that's not what I meant. Let me...

Let's start over.

You have a gift.

No.

This. This place.

Sarah. There are a million other girls who would beg for a steady job like

I am not a million other girls.

You can go right in.

Close the door behind you.

Step forward, please.

Stand right on that pink marker.

It's so dark.

Lower your hand.

Thank you for seeing us again, Sarah.

Of course. Yeah, this is my top priority.

Today we'd like to try something different with you.

Of course.

Um, sure. I didn't get any news... Would you mind disrobing for us?

Excuse me?

Would you mind disrobing, please?

Um, the ad didn't say anything about nudity. Does the role call for that?

It doesn't.

Sarah, you've already proven that you can memorize lines.

Now we need to see you bear.

Let your inhibitions go.

Didn't I do that last time?

That's the reason you're here, Sarah.

The only reason you got a callback.

Sarah, you know who we are.

You know the pictures we've made, yes?

completely thorough.

It's okay, Sarah.

I told you this would be different.

Sarah?

Relax yourself.

Sarah, if you can't fully let yourself go, how can you ever transform into

something else?

That's what we were looking for Sarah.

Thank you.

If I can take one more goddamn photo of you two idiots jumping, I swear to God

I'm going to drown myself.

Hey, Sarah.

Hey. Hey, how'd it go?

Tracy told us that you had a call back.

Oh, yeah. They wanted to see me again.

Yeah, I read the ad.

They're all freaking silly, though.

Yeah, but it's Estrella's Pictures, so it's legit.

Estrella's, huh?

Wow, that is legit. They're the real deal.

Yeah. Good job.

Thank you.

Do you think it's kind of a long shot, though?

What's Estrella's Pictures?

They're a production company. They've been around forever.

They fell off a little the last few years, but they're coming back, huh?

Maybe you could put in a word.

Production? A little PA work or something?

What about our film?

You're still going to make our film?

Well, I haven't gotten the role yet, so... Let's try.

Oh, Trace! Hey!

How'd it go?

Great. I think it went great. Oh, yeah? Yeah. You didn't feel like they were

making fun of you this time? No. You know, I don't think they were making fun

me the first time either.

Oh. Okay.

Awesome. Anyway, I don't want to jinx it. Of course. You and your

You should go throw on a bathing suit. Come join us.

Oh, shit.

Shit.

Here,

here, here. You're okay. You're okay. You're okay. You're okay.

Sarah, if you can't really let yourself go, how can you ever transform into

something else?

Hello? I have some good news for you, Sarah.

He wants to meet you.

He who?

The producer.

I don't know what this is. Jesus Christ, can we not watch another one? Wait,

wait.

Watch what he did.

I'm not trying to be rude, but this is fucking stupid.

Oh, yeah.

That guy rocks.

Do you know how many times I've wanted to do that? It's crazy.

Wow. That's right, you have that thing.

What thing?

She's got a meeting with the producer.

At Astray?

Yeah. Told you you'd get it.

Don't you think you're a little overdressed?

This? This is nothing.

It's a little much.

Look, you look amazing.

Go kick some ass.

Just remember to be yourself in here.

Sarah.

Thank you for coming. Thank you for having me.

You are just as beautiful in person as you are on the audition tape.

Thank you. I didn't realize I was being taped.

Well, I am excited, Sarah.

We audition a lot of young women in this building, but very, very few ever

make it to this room.

Wow, that's great.

Yes, we've had our share of winners.

Some pretty big names have passed right through here.

Going way back.

So, did you like our little yarn?

Absolutely. I loved it. I read it three times.

Good.

I have high hopes for this picture.

Yes.

It's kind of my love letter to this town.

Ambition.

The blackest of human desires.

Everyone has it.

But how many act on it?

That's what intrigues me.

That's what lights me up, as they say.

There's something primal there.

And that's why you're sitting right here in this room.

But, I mean, it's a horror movie as well.

Of course.

The two are not mutually exclusive.

This industry is a plague, Sarah.

A plague of unoriginality.

Hollow be thy name.

Shallow be thy name.

Yes, it's a plague, all right.

And what does every plague have a lot of?

Rats? Precisely.

Yes, thousands of them. Hungry little rats, hungry for the cheese.

You cut through the fog of this town and you get death.

Plastic parishioners worshipping their deity of debauchery.

But that's what I find interesting, Sarah.

That's what I want to capture in this film.

The ugliness of the human spirit.

Yeah, okay, I mean, I can see that.

So why do you do it, darling?

Why do I do what?

Why do you pull your beautiful hair out?

Um... I... It's just a habit.

I started doing it when I was a little girl, and... It helps me focus on the

moment.

The moment.

Well, this is a moment.

Yeah. Yes, it is.

The role of Celeste is a really big deal for a young actress with no other

credits to her name.

Your face would be on the poster, the poster on a wall, a wall in a lobby, a

lobby of a movie theater, a theater with a marquee.

The Silver Scream.

Now, you know that doesn't happen very much anymore, right?

This is a great opportunity for a young actress. A great opportunity for an

actress with ambition.

That's me.

I'm your girl.

I will do whatever it takes for this role.

Good.

Because we want to offer it to you.

We think you could be great in this role, Sarah.

I think you could be great in this role.

I agree.

Truthfully, I think I am this role. I mean, this character has a dream and she

has so much potential.

Sarah, forget about all that.

This world is about the doers.

The people who don't just talk about what they're going to do. They just do

And that's you.

Thank you. Thank you for saying that.

I work so hard.

You know, every week it's a new class, a new audition, and I just never...

Um... If you

want me to read more with other actors,

um, or another audition... Sarah,

this... Is the audition.

I told you before.

Very, very few actresses ever get to this room.

Sarah, you're at the gates.

All you need is for me to open them for you.

I can make you a star, Sarah.

You know I can. Whoa, no.

Open the door!

How'd it go?

Not good.

Maybe I should submit my headshot.

Seriously?

I'm kidding.

Are you alright? Honey, I'm kidding.

It was a joke.

Coming in.

Hey.

Don't cry, hon.

What happened?

Everything was going so well.

I'm so sure I was gonna get it.

I quit my job for this.

You quit your job for this?

Come on, you don't... You don't mean sex.

I mean, you didn't say specifically what. Oh, my God.

Are you being serious?

What a fucking creep, okay? Do people still even do that?

Well, no one out there does.

And I sure as heck don't.

And you don't.

Okay?

Okay? Okay.

Okay.

Wait.

You don't wish that you did it, do you?

It was a gateway part.

Sarah, it was two auditions.

I mean, seriously, who gets hired for a lead role that quickly? Doesn't that

seem a little suspicious to you?

Listen, Danny was just telling me how badly he wants to have you in his movie.

You should talk to him.

up to now.

I can make you a star, Sarah.

You know I can.

So... I just wanted to say that I'm sorry.

I know that you were trying to help me, and I twisted your words.

I twisted them, and... Look, Sarah.

I get it.

Really, I do.

I'm not an idiot.

I know what town we live in.

I mean, you think you're the first... waitress I've ever had that was destined

for stardom, I've had my share.

But they all understood that being a tater's girl is what paid the bills

they chased the dream.

Now, I'm not sure you see how the two are connected.

I mean, I don't know what else you want me to say.

Do you want me to beg for this job?

Well, you don't got to be a jerk about it. I mean, I've already had, like...

20 applications since you quit, so... I'm sorry.

I didn't mean it like that.

Look, I... I want you to see this place for what it really is.

Yeah, I know. You think it's cheesy.

Too self -aware. Not ironic enough for you. The menus, the specials, all those

clever meal names, calling the little kids tater tots, saying, see you later,

tater gator, when the customers are leaving.

That's all me.

All right?

It may not be cool to a young woman your age, but it's me.

Okay.

Look, just promise me that until your star is on the sidewalk out there,

try and value me and what I'm trying to do here.

Can you do that for me?

Are you a tater's girl?

Yeah, I can do that.

I'm a tater's girl.

It's true.

I guess my point is that I just feel like the austerity lifestyle, sort of

eastern lifestyle.

Hey.

Back to plumbing it like the rest of us? Hey.

Hey. Hi.

Do you have like an amp for that?

This

is

good. Very interesting.

Good music.

Hey, you, get off my lawn.

It's my, uh, property you're sitting on.

You're loitering.

I could have you arrested.

It's a crime.

It's where I live.

You live there?

Yeah.

Why?

See, it's L .A.

Why should I spend $1 ,500 a month on an apartment when, um, I'm just gonna

spend all day in the car anyway?

So this is your car, too?

It's my car. It doesn't run.

But it did when I had that epiphany.

Tracy told us what happened.

Told you... told you what?

That the producer at Estrella got...

Inappropriate.

Maybe it's worth it.

But it started back up at Big Tater's yesterday.

I kind of feel like I'm selling my soul already, so may as well be for something

I love.

Well, no, I mean, if you want to do what you love, why not just do it?

You work at this restaurant. You work at Big Tater's. I live in a van.

So what?

Those things aren't mutually exclusive from us being able to do what we want to

do.

We've got all these people, all our friends.

They're just sitting around trying to figure out what to do, trying to figure

out how to make something.

Maybe we shouldn't be sitting around anymore. Maybe we should just get

and make something.

I'm going to send you my script.

You're going to dig it. Trust me.

And we'll work around your precious big tater's schedule.

You'd direct me?

Yeah.

I'd be your leading lady?

Sure. Simone?

If you want.

Then yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'll be in your movie.

All right.

Okay.

I've been trying to talk to you about it for a week.

Fuck Astraea's pictures. We're gonna make our own movie.

All right.

Do you have any champagne?

It's the start of a night we're never going to forget.

This world is about the doers.

The people who don't just talk about what they're going to do, they just do

And that's you.

Hi,

this is Sarah Walker calling.

I made a mistake. I never should have left that office.

I want to meet him again.

582 Canyon Drive.

Be there in one hour.

Come in, Sarah

There

won't

be a third opportunity, Sarah

Your house is beautiful.

Do you want me to read a scene?

Do you want to discuss the role some more?

I'm sorry that I left the other night.

I really could be great for this part.

Words, Sarah.

Just words.

What would you be willing to do to convince me, to make me believe in you

again?

Would you forego your eyes?

For a new pair of eyes, eyes that see with our vision, would you give up your

body to become a vessel for our voice, for my

voice?

Will you give your old life away for a glorious new life?

Yes.

Then show me.

The gateway is open, Sarah.

All you have to do is be willing to step inside forever and

never look back.

Kill your old life, Sarah.

Bury it in the earth and join us in the

sky.

Show me the girl I thought you were.

Let me see the real Sarah.

What is it?

Oh, Jesus Christ, Sarah.

Go home. You shouldn't be here right now.

No, I'm fine.

Not fine.

What are you doing?

Get the fuck out of here and don't come back.

This is Sarah Walker calling.

I'm not feeling very well.

I mean, I'm fine.

It's fine. I just...

I don't know what's happening right now.

So, um... If someone could...

If someone could please call me back when you get this,

please?

Um... Thank you.

Hey, I'm sorry. You all right?

What are you looking at? Come here.

Are you okay?

You all right?

Danny,

get drunk with me.

I'm all right right now, man. But I love you. I love you very much. Suit

yourself or we won't be able to sneak booze into the bowl.

It's easy to sneak booze in. All you have to do is flirt with the dude at the

door. You really don't want to. Yeah, yeah.

I'll give that a shot.

Dude.

She's gonna roll!

Okay, I think maybe we need to get her home.

Get her, like, uh, some water or something.

Yo, whoa, put that away! No, no, no, no, no, this is Golden. No, I'm gonna make

a tumbler. It's gonna be called Thick Slutty Sarah. It's fun to know.

Let's just keep it funny, everybody.

Relax. Why are you defending her, Danny? Go after her. She's sick.

Okay.

Sarah, if you can't fully let yourself go, how can you ever transform into

something else? You're at the gates.

All you need is for me to open them for you.

Maybe we didn't see all we needed from you after all.

Your face would be on the poster. The poster on a wall. A wall in a lobby. A

lobby of a movie theater.

A theater with a marquee. Kill your old life, Sarah.

Bury it in the earth and join us.

I have to get ready for work.

Are you okay?

Betty, what?

Do you smell that?

I think it's coming from you.

Yeah.

Sorry. No offense, but, I mean, that... That's you.

Are you on your period?

What? Fuck you.

Alright, that's enough, okay? I've had enough of your shit. What the hell's

going on with you?

You told them.

You told them. Who?

About my audition.

And the producer.

Right?

I'll bet you all got off on it too, right?

No. Seeing me fail like that?

Sarah, those are your friends.

Nobody wanted that for you. They're your friends!

When you surround me with these losers.

Do you hear the words that are coming out of your mouth right now?

They're like venom to me.

Like cancer.

All of you guys. Just all of you. You, Danny, Aaron.

Just like living off of me.

Oh, living off of you?

The last time I checked, I covered your right for the past two months.

this month either because you're so obsessed with this job that just wants

fuck you instead of the job that actually pays your bill.

Now it's our apartment again, so do me a favor, Trace, and fuck off!

We want to show you something.

I hope that's a working title.

Are you a teenager?

Danny was just telling me how badly he loved me.

Are you a teenager?

Daisy told us what happened. Danny was just telling me how badly he loved me.

You know what you have to do.

Thank you.

You expected to be painless.

That it would be easy. That you'd simply wake up one morning with everything you

ever wanted laid out before you.

I told you, Sarah.

Dreams require sacrifice.

And so do we.

I can give you what you want, Sarah.

But you need to embrace who you really are.

It's... Time to become one of us.

It's time to be remembered.

I can't get over how comfortable your bed is.

More comfortable than the five -year -old futon you've been dragging around

since college.

I gotta pee.

You want anything?

Yeah, I want some water. And a treat.

Okay.

Bravo. Sarah?

Get the shit out of me.

Don't!

Sarah, what are you doing here?

You let him put that revolting thing in you.

And he gives you the role of Simone back.

You were watching us?

You think I had to fuck Danny to get a role in his movie?

That's sad.

That you see the world like that.

Sarah, you know that me and Danny have hooked up before, right?

Did it ever occur to you that maybe we just like each other?

Sarah, get the fuck... Get the fuck out of here!

You know what's sad?

You.

All of you.

A role in Danny's little film.

All sad.

What's sadder is that you think I want any of it.

That I'd sink so low.

Why would you have to fuck Danny for a role when you've already fucked some big

-time movie producer?

Yeah, Tracy told us about the stack of cash from Australia's Pictures.

Oh my God.

Sarah, did you... Did you actually suck some old producer's cock for a

role in a movie called...

The silver screen?

Wow.

That's sad.

It's the gateway part.

From here, it sounds a lot like prostitution. Stop!

Sarah,

what happened to you?

Don't! Don't touch me! Sarah! Don't touch me, Sarah! Stop! Stop it! Stop!

We need to get you to a...

Thank you.

what's up

Come on.

Sarah? What are you doing here?

Hey, did you see Aaron?

Yeah.

We talked.

Okay, what'd you talk about?

You.

Did she tell you how worried we are about you?

Since you ran off the other night?

You know, Tracy came by here. She said the two of you had a big fight.

We're all pretty concerned.

Look, Sarah, whatever is going on...

We can help you.

You know, just talk to me.

You?

Help me?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm your friend.

No, you're not.

None of you are.

Sarah, of course we are.

Sarah?

Jesus, what's wrong with you?

There's only one thing in this whole world that I want.

And they're gonna give it to me.

They see the real me.

Yeah.

Sarah, are you here?

Sarah?

Are you in there?

Sarah?

All right. This is just weird.

And a fire hazard.

Look, I'm sorry, okay?

I shouldn't have told everyone what happened.

It's your business. If you wanted them to know, then, well, you would have told

them.

Anyway, I needed to say that.

Hey, are you okay in there?

You're hurting me.

Come

lie next

to me, Trace.

Like old times.

Things are changing for me, Trace.

It's okay.

I'm happy for you.

I just wanted to say goodbye.

Where are you going?

Just say goodbye to me, Trace.