00:00Listen to Soames, maybe the nicest thing he does for Irene is he buys her the ballet slippers.
00:05I'm convinced we could be happy, but if you find we cannot,
00:09though God help me, I'll move heaven and earth to make us so,
00:12I will release you and you will be free.
00:18That's very generous.
00:19What meant more to her, do you think?
00:21Like the shoes and being seen or giving kind of the exit opportunity?
00:25She's so bewildered in that scene.
00:27At first she's like, oh, it's just like a really nice new friend that I've made
00:31and he's kind of made like such a beautiful impression of having an interest in my passion.
00:38In those days it was like, okay, you're a bit of a lady of the night if you like ballet.
00:44So I think the fact that this very prestigious man has taken an interest in it,
00:49it's kind of like, oh my gosh, I've never had this kind of reciprocation before about this.
00:53And then obviously the lead to the promises that he's making, it's like, I didn't expect,
00:58because she thinks that he fancies a mom, a stepmom.
01:01So this is like, there's so many emotions in that scene that it was just like, it was really fun
01:06to play.
01:07But yeah, obviously, as we know, that promise kind of takes us through their whole relationship.
01:13So it is a really prominent part of their relationship.
01:16And Josh, do you think he was sincere when he made that promise initially?
01:19I think in the moment he was sincere.
01:21And it was only later on that he came to realize that the idea of losing her is untenable,
01:26that, you know, to the extent that he'll have to go back on that promise.
01:28But in that moment, I think he does mean what he says.
01:31And he is really just saying anything he has to say to get her to agree, I think, at that
01:36point.
01:37He's really just so desperate that he's just like, look, I'll say whatever I've got to say here.
01:40But he does mean it.
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