I could hear Gary watching television in the next room. It was s some period drama, with duchesses and arranged marriages and plummy English accents.
I was trying to work out what it was. The heroine’s name was Georgiana. “Is it one of the Trollope novels?” I wondered. “There’s no Georgiana in Austen, is there? Also … why isn’t he inviting me in there? Why is he watching it alone …. oh! I know what it is.”
It was The Duchess. We saw it in the theatre when it came out in 2008, and I’m certain he’s forgotten all of it … except for the lesbian love scene.
I came out to tease him. He denied watching it for the lesbian scene. “No! I just like this movie. But there are lesbians in it too?”
I rolled my eyes. After I walked away, I heard him say “Awesome!”