Dakota thought for a very long second. Then his face lit up. He stood up, adjusted his cravat, looked Chloe dead in the eye, and said in a perfect, clipped British accent:
Mumbles put his head in his hands.
The final scene required them to fall through a linen closet during a heated argument about land rights. They did it in one take. Dakota landed on a stack of towels, looked at the camera, and whispered, “Entailed to the male heir. Devastating.”
Dakota tried again. “Madam. Your… mind. It’s like a maze. And I’m lost. So. You wanna… get found?”
Finally, in a fit of exhausted inspiration, Mumbles yelled, “Forget the script! Just improvise. What would be funny right now?”
And Dakota “The Rock” Hardbody finally got the review he always wanted. A critic wrote: “His performance is a masterclass in anticlimax—in the literary sense.”