A manipulative mother pressures a private investigator and former lover to track down her daughter and eliminate her boyfriend. The scene reveals a dark history involving a past murder and the mother's willingness to use criminal connections to get what she wants.
MARIETTA: I knew this would happen. Soon as that piece of filth got out of Pee Dee, I knew there'd be trouble. He's just got some kind of influence over her I can't decipher. There's somethin' wild in Lula I don't know where it comes from. You gotta find 'em, Johnnie.
JOHNNIE: He served his time for
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Wild at Heart audition scene: Marietta's Rage and Johnnie's Loyalty. Intense crime drama duologue for actors. Play a manipulative mother or loyal investigator in this desperate, contemporary scene.
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