“Sometimes I think it must be hard being an actor faking it all
the time, and then I see a movie like this,” Aiden said, shaking his head. They
left the cinema and he grabbed Donilee’s hand pulling her through the crowd.
She had to take two and a half steps to his one, but she managed to keep up
with him as he led the way to his car in the far reaches of the parking lot. He
always parked in the boondocks in the hope no one would hit his new car.
She laughed and breathlessly commented, “It wasn’t exactly
Academy Award material, you know. That makes a difference.”
“Come on, Donilee, anybody could have played that role, even me.
He was just a plain ordinary guy, doing plain ordinary things in a plain
ordinary way. You call that acting?” he said derisively.