The White Lotus (TV Series)
Mysterious Monkeys (2021)
Fred Hechinger: Quinn Mossbacher
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Quotes
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Olivia Mossbacher : Dad, what's wrong with you?
Nicole Mossbacher : Your father got some very upsetting news last night.
Olivia Mossbacher : He does have cancer?
Nicole Mossbacher : No. He doesn't have cancer. He found out something about his father that he never knew before.
Olivia Mossbacher : I'm listening.
Nicole Mossbacher : Your grandfather died of AIDS.
Paula : How did he get AIDS?
Nicole Mossbacher : Apparently, Paula, he was having sex with other men.
Quinn Mossbacher : Who was?
Nicole Mossbacher : Your dad's dad.
Quinn Mossbacher : Why?
Olivia Mossbacher : Because he liked it. Why else? He was probably closeted.
Paula : Or bisexual.
Olivia Mossbacher : Dad, why are you so upset, though? You're like catatonic.
Nicole Mossbacher : Well, it was a secret that was kept from him his entire life, Liv. So now, whatever image he had of his father, of his childhood, has been pulverized.
Olivia Mossbacher : You know, he was probably a bottom. That's how you mostly get it. Receiving. Dad, do you feel like your father was less of a man or something?
Paula : He might have not been gay. A lot of straight guys like ass-play.
Olivia Mossbacher : Yeah! Maybe he was just too embarrassed to ask Grandma to use a dildo on him.
Quinn Mossbacher : Oh, Jesus!
Mark Mossbacher : Can we not, please? Uh...
Olivia Mossbacher : Even if he wasn't a top, it doesn't mean he was femme. He could've still been butch, Dad.
Paula : Maybe he was a bossy bottom.
Olivia Mossbacher : Yeah, maybe Grandpa was a power bottom.
[to her dad]
Olivia Mossbacher : Does that make you feel better?
Mark Mossbacher : No. That makes me wanna throw up.
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Nicole Mossbacher : I don't understand what happened to your father. I mean, I've been texting him all day.
Quinn Mossbacher : [engrossed in his device] I have his phone.
Nicole Mossbacher : Well, you could've told me that earlier, Quinn.
[to Olivia]
Nicole Mossbacher : You know, this is all because of you, because you won't share a giant room with your brother.
Olivia Mossbacher : Mom, it works out perfect. He can have the entire beach to himself to jerk off.
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Quinn Mossbacher : Mom, I need a new phone, stat. I'm gonna go completely insane.
Olivia Mossbacher : You already are insane.
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Mark Mossbacher : Do you wanna know me?
Quinn Mossbacher : May... maybe.
Mark Mossbacher : Do you?
Quinn Mossbacher : I don't know.
Mark Mossbacher : Maybe it's better if I'm just really real with you. Maybe that's the healthier legacy. I think it is. Yeah.
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Mark Mossbacher : Are you gay?
Quinn Mossbacher : No.
Mark Mossbacher : Hey. 'Cause if you are, it's okay. Just, like, be real.
Quinn Mossbacher : I am being real.
Mark Mossbacher : What's real is... like, gay, straight, whatever, we're just monkeys, we're just fucking monkeys.
Quinn Mossbacher : Yeah?
Mark Mossbacher : Yeah. Yeah, we're just animals. I mean, you know, we wanna be, like... superheroes and respectable fathers and pillars in our communities, whatever, but, but in fact, we're just monkeys... living in our own little monkey pods, driven by base instincts to create these hierarchies and hump each other. I thought I knew my father, you know? I only knew the part that he wanted me to see. He hid the monkey, and that screwed me up, Quinn.
Quinn Mossbacher : You think that's what did it?
Mark Mossbacher : Yeah, definitely. Hey, I thought... My whole life, I thought I was the flawed child of an icon. Like, I put him on this, like, enormous pedestal. Meanwhile, like, he's off in some bathhouse on the DL, getting manhandled by some... like, random dudes. Wow. Oh, I wish I had known.
Quinn Mossbacher : I'm sorry.
Mark Mossbacher : Yeah. But I get it. I mean, you know, you don't want your kid thinking you're some sex-crazed lunatic.