The White Lotus (TV Series)

Recentering (2021)

Steve Zahn: Mark Mossbacher

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• Quinn Mossbacher : Are those the 75,000-dollar bracelets?

  Nicole Mossbacher : They were a gift from your father. I don't, I don't know how much they cost.

  Quinn Mossbacher : Seventy-five thousand! Why?

  Nicole Mossbacher : Quinn, it's not polite to talk about how much things cost.

  Quinn Mossbacher : And they just, like, sit on your wrist? What do you do with them?

  Mark Mossbacher : Hey. Hey! Drop it, pal.

• Olivia Mossbacher : Mom, good news. I'm looking around the hotel, and it seems like all of the white, straight men are doing just fine. They're still thriving.

  Nicole Mossbacher : Point taken. I just think it's funny that now it's okay to reduce everybody to their race and gender, but isn't that the kind of thinking that we've been fighting against all these years?

  Mark Mossbacher : I agree. I mean, for years, I was the good guy, you know? I was the one in the room, saying, like, "Hey, that's not cool," to all the chauvinists and bigots. But now I'm the bad guy, or at least, I shouldn't say anything on account of my inherited traits. I mean, why do I need to prove my anti-racist bona fides? It seems wrong.

  Paula : It's someone else's turn to eat.

  Olivia Mossbacher : Yeah. It's not all about you, Dad. It's time to recenter the narrative.

  Mark Mossbacher : That's fine by me. I don't wanna be the center of the narrative. Believe me. Let's center the narrative around, uh, Paula.

  Olivia Mossbacher : Okay. Yeah. What do you know about her?

  Mark Mossbacher : What do you mean?

  Olivia Mossbacher : Do you know anything about Paula?

• Mark Mossbacher : This is the same old tribal thinking, replacing the old hierarchy with a new one

  Nicole Mossbacher : My feeling is that most of these activists they don't really want to dismantle the systems of economic exploitation, not the ones that benefit them, which are all global, by the way. They just want a better seat at the table of tyranny.

• [Quinn asks to borrow his mom's phone for the day] 

  Nicole Mossbacher : Honey, I'd love to help, but I need to have my phone. I'm getting calls from work.

  Quinn Mossbacher : Okay. Okay, but you guys are gonna regret this.

  [angrily storms off] 

  Mark Mossbacher : Hey, remember we got scuba, bud.

  Nicole Mossbacher : We should've let him bring a friend.

  Olivia Mossbacher : He doesn't have any friends.

  Nicole Mossbacher : Of course he does. Hiroki Takeuchi.

  Olivia Mossbacher : Hiroki Takeuchi moved back to Japan.

  Nicole Mossbacher : What? When?

  Olivia Mossbacher : Like two years ago.

  Nicole Mossbacher : [gets up from the table to chase after her son]  Quinn!

  Mark Mossbacher : Who?

• Olivia Mossbacher : Do you know anything about Paula?

  Mark Mossbacher : I know that she goes to college with you. And that she's a very intelligent and appealing young woman.

  Olivia Mossbacher : But you've never really asked her one thing about herself.

  Mark Mossbacher : Well, we're not on a job interview. We're on vacation. So... I mean, besides, what do- What does Paula know about me?

  Paula : [deadpan]  Your balls are swollen.

  Mark Mossbacher : They're deflated.

• Mark Mossbacher : Man... in the moment... you're like this... You're a monkey. Like possessed. You'd do anything to get your rocks off. And then, later, you regret it. And you do regret it. There's the man, and there's the monkey. And somehow, you gotta be man enough to face down the monkey.

• Mark Mossbacher : Buddy, Quinn, yesterday... I think I said some things that I probably shouldn't have.

  Quinn Mossbacher : Like what?

  Mark Mossbacher : Well... I don't really remember exactly what I said, so...

  Quinn Mossbacher : You said having sex with mom was like eating a plate of live worms.

  Mark Mossbacher : I said that?

• Quinn Mossbacher : Dad... I think that guy was hitting on you.

  Olivia Mossbacher : Probably because he was high on our ketamine.

  Mark Mossbacher : He was just, you know, being friendly.

  Olivia Mossbacher : He looked like he wanted to fuck you, Dad.