Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)

Sarah Shahi: Zahra Bankston

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Quotes 

• [after watching Alex's speech about his and Henry's relationship] 

  Zahra Bankston : Great job. I'm proud of you.

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : Is it still possible I've cost my mom the election?

  Zahra Bankston : Yes. But it's also possible that you just won her the election. We'll find out next week.

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : I hope Henry was watching. I could feel him watching. He does this thing when he's worried. Furrows his eyebrows. It's the cutest thing.

  [sighs] 

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : God, I miss him...

  Zahra Bankston : [exasperated]  Oh, my God.

  [Zahra goes to her desk and gets her phone] 

  Zahra Bankston : I just have to do everything around here.

  [on the phone] 

  Zahra Bankston : Shaan Shrivistava, this is Zahra Bankston. Look, I know we said we'd only use these phones in an emergency. Well, welcome to that emergency. I've got the First Son in my office, mooing over the Prince like a cow in labor, and I'm not gonna get any work done until you put these two lovesick homosexuals on the phone with one another. I don't care what any of those wrinkled white men at Buckingham Palace have to say about it. I want you to march your skinny, perfect ass over to the Prince, hand him your phone, or so help me God, you will never

  [whispering] 

  Zahra Bankston : see me naked again.

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : Wait, what?

  Zahra Bankston : [to Shaan]  I thought you might see it my way. Yes, we'll hold.

  [to Alex] 

  Zahra Bankston : You might be lousy at keeping secrets, kiddo, but I'm not.

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : Zahra, I could kiss you!

  Zahra Bankston : Touch me and die.

• Zahra Bankston : And as for you, Little Lord Fuckleroy, you get your ass back to merry old England right now. I want you chewing on a goddamn crumpet by sunset. And if anyone sees you leave this hotel, I will Brexit your head from your body. You got me?

• Zahra Bankston : You can hate Prince Henry all you want, but the minute you see a camera, you better act like the sun shines out of his ass and you have a vitamin D deficiency.

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : You know...

  Zahra Bankston : And there is no getting out of this!

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : Oh, yeah? What if I set myself on fire?

  Zahra Bankston : We'd ship the ashes to Heathrow.

• [after discovering Alex and Henry have been together] 

  Zahra Bankston : How long has this been going on?

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : Since New Year's.

  Zahra Bankston : Oh, God! And who knows about this?

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : Literally no one but you. And the Secret Service.

  Prince Henry : And Percy.

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : Right, and Nora.

  Prince Henry : Oh, and I told my sister.

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : Aw, I didn't know that.

  Prince Henry : Yeah, she was really happy for us.

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : Oh, I can't wait to see her again. She's really...

  Zahra Bankston : Okay! Shut up, okay? The both of you! I need to think.

• Zahra Bankston : [being asked to hide what she knows from POTUS]  Oh, gee kid! I'm sorry to interrupt your process of becoming, but you're the one who decided to put your dick into the heir to the British throne!

  Prince Henry : Technically, I'm the spare...

  Zahra Bankston : [still exasperated]  Not talking to you, sir!

• Ellen Claremont : Darling, you've done some pretty stupid things in your day, but this...

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : [cutting in]  Takes the cake?

  Ellen Claremont : You hear that, Zahra? He's opening with a joke.

  Zahra Bankston : Maybe he can host the Correspondents' Dinner next year.

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : Oh, I'd be down.

  Zahra Bankston : No.

• [getting the fact sheet on Prince Henry to memorize] 

  Alex Claremont-Diaz : He's not six-foot-two. And does he get a fact sheet on me?

  Zahra Bankston : Yes. And I can assure you that making it was one of the most depressing moments of my career. And I once saw Mitch McConnell eating a banana.