August: Osage County Film Clip
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[Chris Cooper as Charles Aiken] So I'm curious.
When you say you don't eat meat, you mean you don't eat meat of any kind?
[Abigail Breslin as Jean Fordham] Right. >>Is that for health reasons or—?
Well, when you eat meat, you ingest an animal's fear.
[Meryl Streep as Violet Weston] Ingest what? Its fur? >>Fear.
[laughter]
What'd she say? I thought she said— >>[chattering]
How do you do that? You can't eat fear. >>Sure you can.
I mean, what happens to you when you feel afraid?
Doesn't your body produce all sorts of chemical reactions?
I don't know. Does it? >>[Benedict Cumberbatch as Charles Aiken] It does.
So when you eat meat, you're ingesting all of that fear that the animal felt when it was slaughtered to make food.
[as Charles] Right. You mean I've been eating fear, what, 3 times a day for 60 years? [laughter]
[Margo Martindale as Mattie Fae Aiken] This one won't have a meal that doesn't have meat in it.
[as Charles] Well, I guess it was just the way I was raised,
but somehow it doesn't seem like a legitimate meal unless there's some meat somewhere. [laughter]
Oh! >>[as Mattie Fae] What is it? >>[clearing throat] >>What is it?
[as Charles] Dad? >>[groaning] >>[Juliette Lewis as Karen Weston] Are you okay, Uncle Charlie?
[groaning] I got a big bite of fear. [laughing]
[laughter]
Fear never tasted so good! >>Oh, you!