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Ralph Fiennes, John Leguizamo, Janet McTeer, Paul Adelstein, Reed Birney, Nicholas Hoult, Judith Light, Jay Shadix, Peter Grosz, Hong Chau, Rob Yang, Aimee Carrero, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, and Anya Taylor-Joy in The Menu (2022)

Paul Adelstein: Ted

The Menu

Paul Adelstein credited as playing...

Ted

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  • Bryce: What is happening?
  • Movie Star: It looks so damn real.
  • Lillian: No, no, no, no. This is, this is just theater, right?
  • Soren: What the fuck are you talking about, lady? He just fucking shot himself, okay?
  • Ted: It looked very real, Lillian. Quite real.
  • Lillian: This is... This is just theater. It's stagecraft.
  • Soren: Is it really?
  • Lillian: Yeah. This is what he does. It's part of the menu.
  • Chef Slowik: So, here you have house-smoked Bresse chicken thigh al pastor and our own tortillas made with heirloom masa, one of Hawthorn's signature dishes.
  • Ted: Thank you.
  • Chef Slowik: We change our menu constantly, but, as Ms. Bloom knows, this has been a staple since day one. It's what you once said...
  • Lillian: Put you on the map.
  • Chef Slowik: Put me on the map. Precisely what map would that be... I wonder. Anyways, because we're always innovating, and we fear irrelevance, an update to a classic. The images on the tortillas have been made using a laser-engraving machine. It's the first time we've used it. We hope this taco night evokes strong memories for us all. Enjoy.
  • Lillian: There's a neediness to the plating, you know. I mean, it's been tweezered to fuck. But the flavors are there. It's very clean. It's very, um, thalassic.
  • Ted: Thalassic?
  • Lillian: Oceanic. Thalassa was the primeval spirit of the sea.
  • Ted: Oh, Thalassa and Pontus. Yes, yes, yes.
  • Lillian: Correct. So, we are... We're eating the ocean.
  • Ted: We're eating the ocean.

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