Beloved (1998)

Thandiwe Newton: Beloved

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• Denver : Why you call yourself Beloved?

  Beloved : In the dark, my name Beloved.

  Denver : What's it like where you was before? Can you tell me?

  Beloved : Dark. I was small in that place.

  [curls up] 

  Beloved : Like this here.

  Denver : Were you cold?

  Beloved : Hot! Nothing to breathe down there. No room to move.

  Denver : You see anybody?

  Beloved : It's a lot of people down there. Some is dead.

  Denver : You see Jesus? Baby Suggs?

  Beloved : I don't know... I don't know the names.

  Denver : Well, what you come back here for?

  Beloved : To see her face.

  Beloved : Mama's? Sethe's?

  Beloved : [grabbing Denver's hand]  Sethe's.

• Beloved : Where your diamonds?

  Sethe : Diamonds? What would I be doing with diamonds?

  Beloved : On your ears.

  Sethe : Wish I did. Come to think of it, I had some crystal once. Present from the lady I used to work for.

  Beloved : Tell me. Tell me your diamonds.

• Denver : You won't ever leave us will ya?

  Beloved : No never, this is where I AM.

• Paul D : What were you looking for when you come here, Beloved?

  Beloved : This place. I look for this place I could be in.