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Love Is A Stranger
Find out who the main characters are in the screenplay for Love Is A Stranger
Aveline De Clare
Refined, glamorous and charismatic, Aveline De Clare is the ultimate Black Widow. A lonely soul, she is in perpetual search for love and company. Sincere, she is not out to trick others but, rather, offer opportunity.
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Living in solitude with her black cat, she ventures among the rich and wealthy with her port folio of property and network of global contacts.
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She is not brash, vulgar or arrogant with her wealth, preferring to keep a low profile though this doesn’t diminish her influence.
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Her love for Johnny is real but she knows, like her past lovers, it will end, but that doesn’t stop her offering body and soul to help him achieve his desires.
If ever there was an anti-hero, she is it.
Johnny Lyle
At twenty-seven, Johnny has achieved little of significance as he builds a never-ending port folio of art to apply for college.
Working as a door-to-door salesman selling toiletries, he lives along in his sad, one-bedroomed flat wishing for something to happen.
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Maligned by his mother who suggests the accidental death of his brother befell the wrong sibling, he dutifully visits such is his love for his parents.
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In meeting Aveline, he willingly accepts her offer which he sees as the opportunity to fulfil his dreams and leave his life of drudgery.
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He knows no-one is forcing him to make his choices.
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A gentle, unassuming character, he accepts what fate has provided him without complaint, but that doesn’t mean he lives without hope.
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His love for Aveline becomes real and he relishes what she has to offer but ultimately there is a sadness in him that leads to tragedy.
Diane
Diane is diametrically opposite to Johnny. The 20-year-old may hate her job in the local corner store but she is striving for more. Selling marijuana to make additional money, she has a get-up-and-go attitude and doesn’t suffer fools.
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Living next door to Johnny, she has a secret attraction to him but it falls on deaf ears despite her attempts to charm him with invitations to spend time in her flat.
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As Johnny’s life takes an upward trajectory, Diane’s begins to unravel as she loses her job and flat, heading towards an unhealthy association with drug dealers which only exacerbates her feelings that Johnny needs saved.
Bob Lyle
Johnny’s 70-year-old father, Bob, is a reserved soul looking for a quiet life which involves spending time in his garden shed tinkering around. He has a contemplative charm and enjoys the company of Johnny who he would like to spend more time with.
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Their relationship is authentic and touching as he informs Johnny that his mother is in the early stages of dementia. Despite Johnny’s offer to help, Bob’s love for his wife is true as he indicates he will manage, but he show’s his inability to be able to live without her when he commits suicide not long after her death.
Marjorie Lyle
Johnny’s 67-year-old mother Marjorie is a broken woman after the accidental death of Johnny’s brother. Showing signs of bitterness and anger when she insinuates that it was Johnny that should have died, it becomes apparent later that the onset of dementia may really be behind her cutting remark.
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When Bob says to Johnny “Your mum loves both of you. It’s unconditional.” he highlights that her boys really are the apples in her eye.
Quinten Barnaby
Quinten Barnaby is gregarious and camp and revels in working for Aveline in running her gallery. Flamboyant, he is clearly in his element but he shows a business quality lurks beneath the surface when he suggests to a client to not miss the opportunity to claim what might be one of Johnny’s last works, with a smile.
