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Al Pacino and Emma Thompson in Angels in America (2003)

Ben Shenkman: Louis Ironson

Angels in America

Ben Shenkman credited as playing...

Louis Ironson

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  • Belize: Look at that heavy sky out there.
  • Louis Ironson: Purple.
  • Belize: Purple? What kind of a homosexual are you anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color out there... is mauve.
  • Prior Walter: You're seeing someone else.
  • Louis Ironson: What? No.
  • Prior Walter: You are.
  • Louis Ironson: I'm not! Well - occasionally, I - he's a... just a pickup...
  • Prior Walter: Goddamn, ask me how I knew.
  • Louis Ironson: How?
  • Prior Walter: Threshold of revelation.
  • Louis Ironson: What?
  • Prior Walter: Fuck you! I'm a prophet.
  • Prior: Are you a ghost, Lou?
  • Louis Ironson: No. Just spectral. Lost to myself. Sitting all day on cold park benches wishing I could be with you.
  • [Extends his arm]
  • Louis Ironson: Dance with me, babe.
  • Louis Ironson: Well, oh boy. A gay Republican.
  • Joe Pitt: Excuse me?
  • Louis Ironson: Nothing.
  • Joe Pitt: Oh, I'm not... no, forget it.
  • Louis Ironson: Not... Republican? Not Republican?
  • Joe Pitt: What?
  • Louis Ironson: What.
  • Joe Pitt: Not gay. I'm not gay.
  • Louis Ironson: Oh. Sorry. It's just that sometimes you can tell by the way a person sounds. I mean, you sound...
  • Joe Pitt: No, I don't. Like what?
  • Louis Ironson: Like a Republican.
  • Joe Pitt: Do I sound like a...?
  • Louis Ironson: What? Like a Republican? Or do I?
  • Joe Pitt: Do you what?
  • Louis Ironson: Sound like a...
  • Joe Pitt: Yeah. Like a... I'm confused.
  • Louis Ironson: Yes. My name is Louis but all my friends call me Louise. I work in word processing. Thanks for the toilet paper.
  • [Joe goes to speak, but Louis quickly plants a kiss on his cheek before exiting, leaving Joe slightly shocked]
  • Belize: I live in America, Louis. I don't have to love it. You do that. Everybody's gotta love something.
  • Louis Ironson: Everybody does.
  • The Angel Oceania: I-I-I think I have a copy.
  • Prior Walter: [to himself, as Louis approaches] Oh, this is gonna be so much worse than I'd imagined.
  • Louis Ironson: Hello.
  • Prior Walter: Fuck you, you little shit bag.
  • Sir: Whadda you want?
  • Louis Ironson: I want you to fuck me, hurt me, and make me bleed.
  • Sir: I want to.
  • Louis Ironson: Yeah?
  • Sir: I wanna hurt you.
  • Louis Ironson: Fuck me.
  • Sir: Yeah?
  • Louis Ironson: Hard.
  • Sir: Yeah? You've been a bad boy?
  • Louis Ironson: [laughs] Very bad. Very bad.
  • Sir: You need to be punished, boy?
  • Louis Ironson: Yes, I do.
  • Sir: Yes, what?
  • Louis Ironson: ...Oh, uh...
  • Sir: Yes, what, boy?
  • Louis Ironson: Oh! 'Ts- yes, sir.
  • Sir: I want you to take me to your place, boy.
  • Louis Ironson: No, I can't do that.
  • Sir: No, what?
  • Louis Ironson: No sir, I can't. I don't live alone, sir.
  • Sir: Your lover know you're out with a man tonight, boy?
  • Louis Ironson: No sir, he... my lover doesn't know.
  • Sir: Your lover know you like...
  • Louis Ironson: Let's change the subject, okay? Can we go to your place?
  • Sir: ...I live with my parents.

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