Original Screenplay Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell) Eight pages into the script, Cassandra (Carey Mulligan), seemingly very drunk, is taken home from a club by Jerry (Adam Brody) for "one more drink." When he tries to have sex with her, his nearly unconscious date suddenly snaps to attention and catches Jerry in his bad behavior, leaving him stunned and embarrassed.
When he kisses her, it is completely one-sided, and yet he thinks it's the best kiss of his life," says Fennell. "It's not like a porno-disgusting kiss, it's worse.
It's like, romantic." (1) The scene, of a man undressing what he thought was a very drunk woman in his bed, only to look up and see her, stone-cold sober, saying, "What are you doing?" was Fennell's first.
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