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THE C WORDbyNicole TaylorBased on the book"THE C WORD" by Lisa Lynch
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.1411.EXT. SPANISH VILLA. POOL AREA. (FLASH-FORWARD TO SC109).1LIVE ACTION OVER TITLES:LISA, blonde, early thirties, lies on a lilo with one earphone in. She is in her own world, singing.Angle on PETE, LISA’s husband, coming out the villa doors.He’s mid-to late-thirties, a cheeky, handsome Scouser. Hecomes over to the pool and dips his legs in up to the knees.LISA sees him, smiles at him.PETEBloke from over the way therepopped his head in, reckons you’vegot a cracking voice.Really?LISAPETE’s eyes twinkle with mischief.No.She laughs.PETEHe laughs.They like each other, these two.Crank up music over: CUT TO:MONTAGE of London life - TITLES.1AINT. LISA'S OFFICE - DAY 1.1AA magazine office. Each individual page of a magazine issueis being pinned up onto one wall while LISA and twocolleagues, JACK and SARA, are standing in front of it,pointing out things and discussing.1BINT. PETE’S OFFICE - DAY 1.1BPETE is bantering away with TWO COLLEAGUES as they head fromthe open-plan workspace to the lift area, with football stuffover their shoulder.1CINT. LISA & PETE'S FLAT - NIGHT 1.1CPETE gets home muddy and in football kit to find LISA on thephone, happy, obviously excited at some good news. Shepasses PETE the phone and goes over and writes 'Jamie'swedding' in big felt tip letters on the CALENDAR on thefridge, embellishing it with stars - Sat 11th Oct 2008.[N.B. The fridge is covered in pics - a childhood snap ofLISA and GABBY, her and JAMIE, one of her and PETE. These along with various concert tickets and wedding invitationsfor forthcoming events - are all tucked around this calendarwhich is packed full of plans for the months to come].
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.142.LISA grabs her jacket and beckons to PETE. PETE - stilltalking on the phone - follows her out the house. The doorcloses behind them.END MONTAGECUT TO:2EXT. PUB GARDEN. LONDON. NIGHT 1.2A pub garden, strung with fairy-lights. It’s packed with asummer after-work crowd, people are sitting at picnic tables.At one sits LISA and PETE, along with GABBY, LISA’s bestfriend from Derby, GABBY’s nerdy but witty husband SAM andLISA’s university friend ABIGAIL, who’s posh and glam anddeadpan, and who probably went to Rodean.PETENew York, Washington then throughthe Blue Ridge Mountains, to NorthCarolina, South Carolina, Savannah,Georgia then Miami.LISA1,000 miles of highway, 40mixtapes, 8 skanky motels and 3weeks off work. Woop!She and PETE smack a high five.GABBYThere’s this restaurant in New Yorkright where the food comes out intest tubes and you inhale one ofthe courses off a cloth.The bell for last orders.PETE(standing up)Right any more for any more?SAM raises his empty glass, indicating he’d like another.LISABetter not. I’ve got to be in workearly to leave early.PETE heads inside to the bar.ABIGAILDoes it move around?LISA(looking down at herchest)I’m not sure.ABIGAILWell check.
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.14What now?3.LISASAM(gesturing for her to goahead as he turns away)Please.A bit gingerly LISA massages her left tit.It does.LISAI think.Impatient at the inconclusiveness, ABIGAIL leans over andfeels LISA’s tit. And feels it. And feels it.GABBY(shoving ABIGAIL off)Right let me have a go.GABBY is mid-massage as PETE returns to the table with a pintfor SAM. PETE looks at SAM who shrugs, disclaiming anyresponsibility.GABBY (CONT’D)(to SAM, still massaging)Remember that ovarian cyst I had?It just went away on its own.Finally SAM puts his pint down.SAMD’you want us to just.(go away)?PETETell you what let’s stay but mateif you just stand up I’ll have aquick rummage around your nutsack.SAM starts unbuckling his belt. Laughter. PETE smiles atLISA who smiles back. The joke was directed at her - she isclearly his favourite audience.CUT TO:3INT. LISA’S OFFICE. DAY 2.3LISA approaches her boss, SARA, late-40s, who’s walkingacross a busy magazine office en route to a meeting. SARA iswarm and melodramatic and American.LISA(intercepting her)Sara I’ve got to shoot off a bitearly for a hospital appointment.SARA leans in towards her.SARA(in a stage whisper)So long as you’re not pregnant.
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.144.Before LISA can react to this inappropriateness, SARA grabsher forearms.SARA (CONT’D)We cannot spare you.(as an afterthought)Don’t take me to a tribunal forthat.On LISA, smiling, shaking her head slightly, used to herboss’s manner and realising it’s a compliment. SARA hurriesoff to the meeting.SARA (CONT’D)(calling back)Go when you need to. Ask Jack tosend out a couple more options forthe cover.LISA goes over to her desk to pick up her bag. The guy atthe desk across, JACK, holds up a piece of paper. Scribbledon it is ‘TOP’. LISA glances down at her top, confused.Then JACK puts another piece of paper beneath it that says‘SHOP’. He thinks she’s leaving early to go to Topshop.LISA gets it and laughs.CUT TO:4INT. HOSPITAL. WAITING ROOM. DAY 2.4LISA has her head on PETE’s shoulder in the waiting room.should feel like they’ve been waiting quite a while.ItPETEThere’s a nun over there readingGrazia.LISA puts her head up.PETE (CONT’D)Every time.CUT TO:5INT. HOSPITAL. BREAST EXAM ROOM. DAY 2.5On LISA having a mammogram.CUT TO:6INT. HOSPITAL. CORRIDOR. DAY 2.6LISA and PETE follow the NURSE down a long corridor. TheNURSE strides quickly despite markedly short legs and muttonycalves. They have to hurry to keep up.PETEWhat was it like?
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.145.LISALike shutting your tit in thefridge door.PETE winces, then they have to speed up to keep up with thenurse. Then from behind we see PETE nip LISA’s arse. Shethumps him then a second later pulls her pants out of herarse.CUT TO:7INT. HOSPITAL. CONSULTANT’S OFFICE/OUT-PATIENTS’ ROOM. DAY 2.7LISA and PETE sit on two chairs across the desk from theCONSULTANT, middle-aged, handsome and reassuring, with atouch of the Gold Blend man about him. The NURSE pulls thedoor shut. LISA and PETE both note it strange that she staysin the room.The CONSULTANT turns to the screen behind him and touches aswitch. The screen lights up with a huge mammogrammedpicture of LISA’s breasts. The image looms over them.CONSULTANTLisa the shadow on the film, that’sthe lump you can feel.He gestures with a pointer to a darker area on thephotograph.CONSULTANT (CONT’D)It isn’t a cyst. The signs areconsistent with breast cancer.A two shot of LISA and PETE, reeling.The CONSULTANT continues talking -Time seems to slow.CONSULTANT (CONT’D)Obviously we’re hoping that it’slow grade. We’ll do a needle biopsytoday and that will tell us moreabout what we’re dealing with,whether it’s invasive or noninvasive. If the cancer isinvasive, you may need a course ofchemotherapy and radiotherapy, butin either case, because of the sizeof the lump we’ll need to start byoperating to remove the breast.It’s a lot to take in, but ifthere’s one thing to retain fromwhat I’m telling you it’s that thetreatment of cancer and inparticular breast cancer has comeon leaps and bounds and survivalrates have improved enormously.- but from LISA and PETE’s POV it’s mostly just lips moving a high-pitched whine drowns out what he says.
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.146.When he’s finished, the NURSE speaks - audibly, but to LISAand PETE’s ears, as though she were speaking anotherlanguage.NURSEHave you got any questions?It’s too much to take in yet. PETE looks at LISA who’s notin a position to formulate any either.NURSE (CONT’D)(understanding they needsome time)I’ll get you both a cup of tea.She and the CONSULTANT exit. PETE and LISA remain exactly asthey were - almost a still life of ‘shocked’.LISAThe holiday.PETEI’ll deal with that.Another pause.LISAMy parents.PETE hesitates.PETEI’ll give them a call.CUT TO:8INT. HOSPITAL. BIOPSY ROOM. EVENING 2.8A boxy magnolia-painted room. A nondescript watercolour onthe wall. LISA sits on the bed in a gown, her teethchattering. A NURSE stands beside her, a hand on LISA’sshoulder.CONSULTANTWe’ll get the biopsy results bynext week then we’ll get you backin on Friday to discuss the resultsand the treatment plan.The NURSE comes over and opens her gown, ready for theCONSULTANT to perform the procedure. LISA screws her eyesshut at the crunch of the biopsy gun.CUT TO:9EXT. HOSPITAL. EVENING 2.9PETE is outside the front of the hospital. It’s dusk on anearly summer’s evening. Everyone else is getting about theirbusiness, on their way somewhere.
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.147.He stands still among them and takes his phone out of hispocket. Looks at it. Scrolls down to “Jane and Ian, Derby”.And dreads what he’s about to have to do.CUT TO:10INT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. KITCHEN. EVENING 2.10The sound of LISA and PETE getting back in. Everything intheir lovely flat is the same. Tea-cups drying. Laundryhanging out. PETE walks out of shot leaving LISA standingthere on her own. She looks at these things - theseperfectly ordinary things - and then her gaze settles on acalendar that has been stuck to the fridge. It’s packed with their US road trip, Glastonbury, and in felt tip, incapital letters and with stars all over it, “Jamie’swedding”. On LISA, registering dimly that life is about tochange.CUT TO:11INT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. BEDROOM. NIGHT 2.PETE is sitting on their bed.11He is on his mobile.PETEI need to take a bit of time off.Right away.He takes a breath, trying to gather himself to say the restof the sentence.CUT TO:12OMITTED1213OMITTED1314INT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 2.14Shortly after.LISA is on another call.GABBY (O.S.)Up the duff! Knew it!LISAI’ve got breast cancer.The puff of a sudden exhale, as GABBY is absolutely shockedinto silence.A few moments later:LISA (CONT’D)Don’t be nice to me or I’ll cry.GABBY (O.S.)(gentle, devastated)So cry.CUT TO:
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.14158.INT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. BATHROOM. NIGHT 2.The bath is running.15LISA is too stunned to cry.The doorbell rings.She turns the tap off.CUT TO:16INT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. HALL. NIGHT 2.16PETE opens the door.IAN and JANE, LISA’s parents, and a mid-twenties guy, LISA’sbrother JAMIE, are standing there with an overnight case.PETE hangs back as with a wracking sob, LISA almost fallsinto IAN’s arms.CUT TO:16AINT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. LIVING ROOM. NIGHT 2.16ALISA, PETE, IAN, JANE and JAMIE sit around five untouchedcups of tea in the living room. They all look knackered.JANE is being relentlessly positive, yet sounds frightened.JANEKylie Minogue.No-one says a word.JANE (CONT’D)Jennifer Saunders.Still, nothing.JANE (CONT’D)And the other one. You know theone. Who used to be - . But turnsout she’s -. From LISACynthia Nixon.JANEShe’s fine now.She’s on Broadway.CUT TO:17INT. HOSPITAL. CONSULTANT’S OFFICE/OUT-PATIENTS’ ROOM. DAY 173.LISA, PETE, IAN and JANE are sitting on chairs across thedesk from the CONSULTANT. The NURSE is also in the room.CONSULTANTUnfortunately the biopsy confirmedthat the cancer is invasive.
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.149.PETE’s head falls into his hands and LISA registers this withalarm.CONSULTANT (CONT’D)The tumour is around fivecentimeters in length, which meanswe’re looking at a stage 2 or astage 3 cancer, depending onwhether or not there’s been aspread to the lymph nodes.LISAHow many stages are there?Four.Oh G-d.CONSULTANTIANPETE rocks back and forth, his head in his hands. JANE isstunned, white. LISA, horrified by the devastation aroundher, swallows back her own fright.LISAWhat do we do?CONSULTANTDon’t Google. There’s a lot ofrubbish about and it’ll onlyfrighten you.The NURSE hands her a stack of literature.CONSULTANT (CONT’D)(gently)You’ll have the operation first. Ido a skin sparing mastectomy whichmeans I remove the nipple and takeout the breast tissue but the skinitself will be saved.NURSEAn expandable implant goes in whichwill be gradually pumped up andthen when it’s time for the breastto be rebuilt, that expandableprosthesis will be replaced by afixed volume one. It achievesreally good cosmetic results. I’llshow you some pictures in a moment.LISA(almost to herself)Jamie.NURSEWho’s Jamie?
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.1410.LISA(like it’s the mostimportant thing in theworld)My brother. My brother’s gettingmarried in five months.(disbelieving)I won’t be able to go.NURSEOf course you will. Of course youwill. You’ll wear a wig or alovely headscarf and you will lookamazing.On LISA, blinking with absolute disbelief that what the NURSEis saying is going to become a reality. Suddenly, JANE, whountil now has been completely quiet, lets rip.How?JANEHow can this possibly be?She is vibrating with shock and rage.JANE (CONT’D)I’m 55, I’m screened every year,you’re 28 and they’re telling meyou’ve got breast cancer? How?How can that be? How can it be acyst one minute and a huge invasivetumour the next?LISA(gently)Mum stop.JANE(getting louder,panicking)I just think it’s appalling thatnobody picked this up!Please.She’s scared too.LISAThis is making it worse.JANEI have never heard of this, haveyou Ian? Never. A girl of yourage getting breast cancer. Never.LISA, desperate now, looks to PETE but he too is lost to her,his forehead in his hands. At this most terrifying momentfor her, LISA is engulfed by her family’s collective despair.It’s like a tide, rising and rising and threatening tooverwhelm her, until suddenly she can take it no longer.
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.1411.LISA(to her family)STOP! Stop it. All of you. Thelot of you. I can’t do this. Icannot handle seeing you like this.The CONSULTANT and the NURSE stay quiet and don’t seem fazed.They seem to know to just let LISA get on with it.LISA (CONT’D)Carry on as you are, carry on likethis and I’ll deal with all of thison my own, or you can just pack itin now and do it with me. Sodecide now.She is as frightened as she is angry, but above all things,she is determined. This devastation has to stop.LISA (CONT’D)What’s it going to be?CUT TO:MONTAGE17AINT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. DAY 3.17AJANE is violently ironing a pile of clothes.17BEXT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. DAY 3.17BIAN is outside violently washing his car.17CEXT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. GARDEN. DAY 3.17CPETE is clattering about in the shed at the end of thegarden.17DEXT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. GARDEN. DAY 3.17DJAMIE is kicking a football against the side of the house,again and again and again.LISA walks through all of this, seeing each member of herfamily in their own private pain and unable to help her.It’s frankly doing her head in. Needing to get away from it,she heads for her bedroom END MONTAGECUT TO:18INT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. BEDROOM. DAY 3.18- and shuts the door.Coming to sit down on the bed, LISA looks like she’s about toexplode.
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.1412.Her hands are steepled against her face and she’s breathingin and out as if she were willing herself not to cry orscream or have a panic attack.A moment, then she sees her laptop - a white Macbook. Shereaches for it then opens it - and as soon as the light glowson her face it already feels like a ‘portal’ into somewhereother than here.LISA’s desktop wallpaper is a handwritten list, headed “30BEFORE I’M 30!” and we can pick out various things she wantsto do: US road trip, own a pair of Louboutins, have a baby.LISA looks at the list til it blurs out of focus - then sheblinks.She clicks open Safari and we hear her in voice-over as shebegins to type. Her voice is shaky at first but getsstronger as she writes.LISA (V.O.)On my list of “Things to Do BeforeI'm thirty” I hadn't factored inbeating breast cancer. But them'sthe breaks.Her writing ‘voice’ sounds various degrees more confidentthan she currently feels, but she perseveres.LISA (V.O.)I can’t be the only 20 something inthe world who's had a breast cancerdiagnosis. But I am probably theone with the biggest gob. So I’mgoing to write my way through(hesitates)the Bullshit LISA types that tentatively, but it feels OK, so shecontinues.LISA (V.O.)- and come out standing tall in apair of Louboutins on the otherside.LISA hits ‘post’ and the date 30.05.08 appears on-screen inan aston [she is using blogger.com]. How does that feel?That feels OK. Her breathing is steady now. Somehow theprocess was calming.CUT TO:19INT. LISA & PETE’S FLAT. HALL/KITCHEN. DAY 3.LISA emerges from her room, ready to re-engage with herfamily and tell them what she’s been doing. What sheencounters is IAN pouring an entire bottle of Sarsons maltvinegar into the kettle.19
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.1413.LISAWhat are you doing?IANDelimescaling the kettle.For fuck’s sake.Enough.Truly - enough.LISAWe’re going out.CUT TO:20INT. RESTAURANT. NIGHT 3.20Five uncomfortable stools in a tapas restaurant. They’re allsitting there just looking at each other. LISA’s rousingwords have failed to rouse anyone. Then suddenly the doorsmashes open and a couple sitting at a table right next tothe door nearly jump out of their skin. Enter ABIGAIL.ABIGAILJesus.(to the couple, like it’stheir fault)You shouldn’t let them seat you sonear the door.Classic ABIGAIL. LISA’s family watch this whirlwindapproach. ABIGAIL sits down next to LISA and there’s thebriefest moment where she looks at her friend with new eyes,perceiving her vulnerability, how scared she must be, and theprospect of losing her. We can see in that moment thatABIGAIL just wants to hug LISA and not let go, but she canread from LISA’s expression and the general atmosphere thatthat isn’t what she needs.ABIGAIL (CONT’D)(to LISA)The blog. Yes.She kisses her on the cheek.What blog?Immediate relief from LISA.PETEABIGAILYour wife has started a blog.JAMIEWhat about?ABIGAILThe Highland Clearances and theirrelevance to contemporary Britishlife.Eh?JAMIE
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.1414.LISAIgnore her. It’s about.theBullshit. That’s where it’s going.Everything I feel. Everything Iwant to say.She looks at PETE as she says this, like she’s explaining herneed and asking him to get onboard.LISA (CONT’D)I’m going to send the link round myfriends so people know what’s goingon with me, which means that therest of the time we can talk aboutother things.Beat.IANCan your Mum and I read it?LISA hesitates.LISAYeah. But no questions and nocomments. Cos it’s all going upthere unvarnished.ABIGAILWait. This can’t just be for yourfriends. Have you Googled the word‘cancer’?PETE(stiffly, sounding awarning)The doctor told us not to.Everyone looks at ABIGAIL, afraid of what she’s going to saynext.ABIGAILGoogle ‘cancer’ and a thousandpages will come up trying to tellyou that it’s a gift.A what?IANABIGAILA gift. Merry Christmas. HappyBirthday. You’ve got cancer. Agift. So I cross-referenced. Islupus a gift? Is MultipleSclerosis a gift? Is a vaginalprolapse a gift?
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.14JANE(as if speaking fromexperience)It certainly is not a gift.Oh my G-d.JAMIEThe mood is suddenly lighter.LISA looks hopeful.ABIGAILSo please. Make your blog publicand counteract some of the crapthat’s out there.Before LISA can answer, IAN leans towards her.IANHaving an array of wigs lets youtry out different identities in thebedroom.LISA looks at him, horrified.IAN (CONT’D)That’s what we read, didn’t weJane? Before the doctor said notto look. Somebody had said that.He shakes his head.IAN (CONT’D)As if the first thing that happensto you when you get.PETE(getting on message,making an effort)The Bullshit.IANThe Bullshit is you turn into Annbloody Summers.Urgh.JAMIEDad.IANWhat? What have I said? I’m notallowed to mention the name of aperfectly respectable high streetretailer but your mother’s talkingvaginal prolapses and this one’sstarting a website about her bust.He flags the waiter down so they can order.15.
THE C WORD - SHOOTING SCRIPT - 03.06.1416.IAN (CONT’D)(playing to the gallerynow)Give over.He looks at LISA over the menu - it’s a bit of an act butit’s a good one and it does what it needs to - it tells LISAthat he’s
A bit gingerly LISA massages her left tit. LISA It does. I think. Impatient at the inconclusiveness, ABIGAIL leans over and feels LISA’s tit. And feels it. And feels it. GABBY (shoving ABIGAIL off) Right let me have a go. GABBY is mid-massage as PETE returns to the table with a pint f
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