Charlotte Rampling credited as playing...
Livia Drusilla
- Livia: I came as soon as I heard. The assassin was not from Rome so we can't trace his employer.
- Augustus: Marcus Agrippa is dead.
- Livia: Yes, there is a dangerous under carriage in the young noblity.
- Augustus: Did you hear what I said, Livia? He was my dear friend, my daughter's husband, the father of my grandchildren and he is dead!
- Livia: Yes and your enemies are waiting for the right moment to kill you. This is the moment. Agrippa, your heir apparent, is dead and you too nearly died today... Where does that leave the empire tomorrow?
- Augustus: At the stumbling feet of your son, I suppose, exactly where you WANT IT?
- Livia: Why haven't you told them?
- Julia: You know?
- Livia: Yes, why does that surprise you? Go and tell them now before they embarrass us in public.
- Julia: How do I tell them their father is dead, Livia?
- Livia: They barely knew him.
- Julia: Marcus Agrippa was a good father and a loving husband.
- Livia: Oh, come now Julia! Don't play the poor young widow to me.
- Julia: You are a merciless woman!
- Livia: [pause] Perhaps. It is necessary.
- Tiberius: Mother, no! I'm your son, *not* Augustus', as Julia is his daughter, *not* yours.
- Livia: Exactly, which is why you must marry Julia!
- Tiberius: I don't love her, and she doesn't love me either.
- Livia: Love has nothing to do with it.
- Tiberius: I love my wife. I always have.
- Livia: Yes, Tiberius. You told me that when you married the stupid little thing, but she is of no use to us. You will divorce her, and marry Julia. Do that, and you'll be emperor.
- Tiberius: I don't want to be emperor!
- [pause]
- Tiberius: Besides, there are Gaius and Lucius, Julia and Agrippa's boys. They come before me.
- Livia: They're weak children...
- [pause]
- Livia: They may die.
- Tiberius: Mother, you wouldn't...
- Livia: Wouldn't what?
- [Long pause]
- Livia: I was just saying they've always had colds and fevers. They *may* die.