Brooklyn (2015)

Eva Birthistle: Georgina

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• Georgina : Try and remember that sometimes it's nice to meet people who don't know your auntie.

• Georgina : [about their ship cabin]  This is hell. Never again.

  Eilis : Never again to America?

  Georgina : The mistake was coming home.

• Eilis : [after a night of seasickness]  I'm sorry about the smell. And the bucket.

  Georgina : Don't worry. The whole boat stinks. Even First Class. I've just been thrown out of there, by the way.

  Eilis : The bathroom door was locked all night.

  Georgina : Oh, those bastards.

  [going to the bathroom, she picks the lock and locks it from their side, then puts a suitcase on the floor] 

  Georgina : There. Won't be very comfortable, but at least it's ours.

  [one of their neighbors knocks, demanding the door be opened] 

  Georgina : Feck off. Do you hear me? Fuck off. If you'd been nice last night, we would have played fair. Now you've got no toilet. You bastards.

• Georgina : Oh, dear. We're gonna have to do something with you. They'll put you in quarantine or something if you try and enter the country looking like that.

  [cut to them in their cabin] 

  Georgina : Nothing fancy. You mustn't look like a tart. Oh, well, looking like a tart isn't going to be a problem.

  [giving Eilis clothes from her suitcase] 

  Georgina : This doesn't look too bad.

  Eilis : My sister gave me that.

  Georgina : Wear it with this and, uh... this. Don't look too innocent, though. I'll put some rouge and mascara on you. Perhaps a little eyeliner. Stand up straight. Polish your shoes. And don't cough, whatever you do. Don't be rude or pushy, but don't look too nervous. Think like an American. You have to know where you're going.

• Georgina : Are you going to live in America?

  Eilis : Yes.

  Georgina : You have papers and everything?

  Eilis : Yes. And a job.

  Georgina : How'd you manage to arrange all that?

  Eilis : I didn't. Someone did it for me. A priest my sister knows.

  Georgina : And how do you feel about it?

  Eilis : How long do letters from Ireland take to arrive? My sister Rose said she'd write straightaway.

  Georgina : They take a long time at first. And then no time at all. You have family in America? Friends?

  Eilis : No.

  Georgina : You'll meet people easy enough. Where are you gonna live? Brooklyn?

  Eilis : How'd you know that?

  Georgina : Lucky guess.