You're the Worst (TV Series)
We Were Having Such a Nice Day (2019)
Aya Cash: Gretchen Cutler
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[Gretchen and her mother, Vanessa, get into a fight while getting their hair done]
Gretchen Cutler : You think this marriage is a mistake, and you weren't gonna say anything?
Vanessa Cutler : [sighs] Do we have to talk about this? We were having such a nice day.
Gretchen Cutler : Actually, we do have to talk about it, and we're not having a nice day. This is a terrible day. You are my mother, and yet you refuse to ever talk to me about anything real!
Vanessa Cutler : I was just telling you all about the new Oriental family next door.
Gretchen Cutler : Anything real, Mother! You're so afraid you might hear something unpleasant.
Vanessa Cutler : [sighs] You always have to be so provocative.
Gretchen Cutler : It's the day before my fucking wedding, and you know nothing about me!
Vanessa Cutler : What don't I know about you?
Gretchen Cutler : [scoffs] Seriously? Let's see: uh, in high school I had more sex in your bed than you did. Granny's Homer painting that's been in the family for decades? Fake. I sold the original to buy acid. I said that my piano teacher "bad-touched me" to get out of a recital.
Hairstylist : I'm gonna go have a cigarette.
[leaves]
Vanessa Cutler : Congratulations, Gretchen. You've driven the help away again.
Gretchen Cutler : The hamster didn't escape. I forgot to feed him. Abortions? Yup! I didn't graduate from college.
Vanessa Cutler : I know all of this, Gretchen.
Gretchen Cutler : Bullshit. No way! You would have tried to stop me.
Vanessa Cutler : When could I ever control you?
Gretchen Cutler : When did you ever try? Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, all the terrible shit I did was a cry for help?
Vanessa Cutler : Your father and I didn't want to indulge you.
Gretchen Cutler : Why not?
Vanessa Cutler : You wouldn't have figured out how to take care of yourself.
Gretchen Cutler : I can't take care of myself! I have been suffering in the dark with a severe goddamn mental illness for my entire life!
Vanessa Cutler : Oh, stop it! Just because you're blue now and again does not mean that you have an illness!
Gretchen Cutler : You caught me drowning my American Girl dolls! Why didn't you do anything?
Vanessa Cutler : This is really too much.
Gretchen Cutler : [choking up] I tried to kill myself, Mommy. I did. When I was seventeen. I really wanted to die. I really did. I sometimes still do.
Vanessa Cutler : You're right. Nothing we did was ever enough for you.
Gretchen Cutler : [crying] Don't you think that if I had talked to someone when I was thirteen or seventeen or twenty-six, that I would be better now? That I wouldn't be this person?
Vanessa Cutler : What do you want? Do you want me to hold you and tell you that I'm miserable too? That I haven't felt love for your father, for anyone, in twenty years? That I would kill to have an affair, but I'm too scared of what people might say? Or worse, that no one would have me?
Gretchen Cutler : [quietly] Yes.
Vanessa Cutler : Well, I don't. Everyone's fine.
[Gretchen sighs and buries her face in her hands]
Vanessa Cutler : Life is good, Gretchen. I don't know why you have to make it so difficult for yourself.
Gretchen Cutler : I don't make it difficult. It is difficult.
[Vanessa gets up and walks over to Gretchen]
Gretchen Cutler : To be honest, it feels like...
Vanessa Cutler : No one wants to hear these things. If you insist on sharing them, you'll just push everyone away.
[Vanessa pats Gretchen twice on the head; Gretchen gets up and picks up a lighter and a pack of cigarettes]
Gretchen Cutler : [her back to Vanessa] You're wrong, Mommy. Maybe it'll push you away, but not Jimmy.
[Gretchen leaves]
