The White Lotus (TV Series)

The Lotus-Eaters (2021)

Steve Zahn: Mark Mossbacher

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• Nicole Mossbacher : Mark, your truth changes from minute to minute. You're up, you're down. One minute, you're dying. The next minute... it's a wonderful life.

  Mark Mossbacher : Okay. Well, maybe I should be more like you then. But even if I could be some self-protective corporate robot out in the world, I still couldn't pull it off at home.

  Nicole Mossbacher : Do you ever edit yourself at all? Even when you're apologizing, you're so insulting.

• Nicole Mossbacher : Paula, are you feeling better? Your migraine?

  Paula : Yeah. Much better. Thanks.

  Nicole Mossbacher : Is that why you couldn't stay for dinner last night?

  Olivia Mossbacher : Paula was disturbed by the entertainment.

  Nicole Mossbacher : The hula dancing?

  Mark Mossbacher : Oh, you're, you're allergic to fire?

  Olivia Mossbacher : It bothers her to watch Hawaiians have to dance for a bunch of white people.

  Nicole Mossbacher : Oh. I think it's just a way for them to honor their culture. And they seemed to be having a really good time.

  Mark Mossbacher : Look, obviously, imperialism was bad. Shouldn't kill people, steal their land, and then make them dance. Everybody knows that. But it's humanity. Welcome to history. Welcome to America. I mean, what are we gonna do, huh? Really. Nobody cedes their privilege. That's absurd. And it goes against human nature. We're all just trying to win the game of life. How are we, how are we gonna make it right? Hmm? Should we give away all our money? Would you like that, Liv? Hmm? Yeah, that's what I thought. Mm-hmm. Maybe we should just feel shitty about ourselves all the time for the crimes of the past? Wear a hair shirt and not go on vacation?

• Mark Mossbacher : I was just realizing that the reason I, I told Quinn is because if I can't give him a lot of reasons for him to respect me as a man, then maybe if I'm just honest about my failures... maybe he'll respect me for that.

• Nicole Mossbacher : Okay, I'm gonna go.

  Mark Mossbacher : What?

  Nicole Mossbacher : I'm not in the mood anymore.

  Mark Mossbacher : Nic, come on.

  Nicole Mossbacher : I'm fucking over this. Thank you. Why am I the fucking punching bag? All I do is everything I possibly can. And just because I fucking hold everything fucking together, everybody gets to fucking poke?

  Olivia Mossbacher : Mom, what's with the Tourette's?

  Nicole Mossbacher : Whatever, Olivia. I don't need this from my own fucking family. I'm tired of being the fucking punching bag.