The Normal Heart – Scene for Director Workshop

Here is a scene from The Normal Heart performed by Scott Bender for television director, Alec Smight.

In the scene, Ned (Scott Bender) is asking his brother, Ben, to help with their committee in the fight against the 1980’s AIDS/HIV break out.  Ned is a gay man while Ben is a straight man, and they have never seen eye-to-eye on this cause.

Scott performs the scene twice, once as practiced and once with a note from Alec to be more sarcastic and joking in the beginning and let that emotion ride out.