[ the script isn't anything he hasn't seen before. it's not even the kind of thing he usually would take, but it has some interesting parts to it, and it's been a while since he worked at all. and even if he could spend the rest of his life rotting in the house he's bought on a sunny, tropical island, that fate seems slightly worse even than going back into acting.
he goes into the reading session at the director's house not expecting much. after introductions they go into a readthrough. ]