The Fall of the House of Usher (TV Mini Series)

The Masque of the Red Death (2023)

Carla Gugino: Verna

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• Perry Usher : Who are you?

  Verna : I thought you'd never catch up.

  Perry Usher : Well, you don't make it easy.

  Verna : Hmm. Nothing worth having is ever easy.

  Perry Usher : You didn't answer my question. Who are you? I know everybody here. I chose this guest list very carefully and I have no idea who you are.

  Verna : You can take off your mask, Prospero.

  Perry Usher : You know my name.

  Verna : I know everyone here. It's my kind of party. It's yours too, isn't it?

  Perry Usher : You like it?

  Verna : I do. Mmm. The music. The lights. The beautiful flesh. So pretty and soft. But the smells of it. All that sweat, the perfumes, the lotions, the musk. Sex, yes. But with a dash of Rome. Tell me, and don't lie. Is it everything you wanted it to be?

  Perry Usher : Not yet. Almost.

  Verna : Nearly realized is the sweetest. It's better, I promise, in the moment just before than in the moment after. That is the truth of this world. But you did it. And it's everything you imagined. And there's still time.

  Perry Usher : To what?

  Verna : To stop it. Things like this, all things, in fact, have consequences.

  Perry Usher : Not this. I mean... .that's the whole point. You didn't read the invite?

  Verna : There are always consequences. Take you, for instance. Someone, a long time ago, made a little decision, and then another, and then a big one, and then one of absolutely no importance. And then by and by, you were born. On that day, you were the consequence of a harmless choice made by someone in a moment where you didn't even exist. And that choice defined your whole life. You are consequence, Perry. And tonight, you are consequential.

  Perry Usher : Oh, you are one crazy, trippy, hot bitch. Aren't you?

  Verna : We could have had fun, you and me.

  Perry Usher : Well, the night's young. We can have all the fun you want.

  Verna : I've always liked the bad boys. Got a weakness, I suppose. And you bad boys... you always just loved me.

  [chuckles] 

  Verna : You are a pretty, pretty little thing.