i've got about a dozen script ideas i'm sitting, none for that particular role though.
ok, here's one off the top of my head...the woman's name is Magda.
Magda has been living in New York for about 4 months working as a nanny for some well off family. The parents are nice people but workaholics. The kids are 5 and 8 yr. old girls, both relatively normal, but also very very active with school, dance, sports, piano, etc.
She befriends a native New York girl, also in her early 20s, born and raised in some well-to-do neighborhood in one of the bouroughs, now going to NYU. Her name is Diane.
The conflict: The parents have a faux-kindness toward her, they treat her fairly but also unthinkingly as a servant. She raises the kids, tutors them, does a whole lot more and the whole nine yeards, and the job is pretty thankless except for the fact that the parents let her stay with them, and pay her more money than she's ever seen before (even though it would be an average pay by our standards) . Magda enjoys the kids for the most part, and would never complain or in any way disserve the family.
However, her New Yorker friend Diane thinks she's being taken advantage of, and also thinks that the city is ripe with opportunity and Magda is missing out. Diane means well for the most part, but it also becomes more and more apparent that she's not as mature and knowledgable as she thinks she is. The problems arise when Diane encourages Magda to question authority, and starts to plant ideas that the parents are treating her poorly, and that Magda deserves more. More problems arise when Magda is pulled in two different directions, one towards the kids and reponsibility, the other towards fun and the night life.
Conclusion: Well from here Magda can either grow as a character, realize that her priorities should be taking care of the family, and ultimately persevere through the problems caused by Diane's intervention. OR - She can fall deeper in Diane's world, do the typical twenty-something experiementation phase, and ultimately lose her job...eventually Diane will move on, not thinking about the fact that she's Magda's only friend, and Magda will be sad and alone.
there ya go - it practically writes itself!
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