Video and transcript of Stede being called Zaddy 😁
Text of transcript below the cut
Take 1
Stede: I've had my fill of courting death for one day. Let's live, if possible. I mean, I just got back together with my boyfriend. Oh do you mind if I call you...?
Ed (Pantene flirtatious hair flip): Not at all, Zaddy.
Stede (surprised): Whew...yeah, I mean...I'm fairly sure we're not the only ones who want to live forever.
*Taika breaks first then Rhys. Rhys gives him a playful smack on the arm.*
Take 2
Stede: Let's live, if possible. I mean, I just got back together with my boyfriend. Oh do you mind if I call you...?
Ed (closes eyes and gives a big hair flip, hair gets stuck in beard): I love it...Zaddy.
Stede (confused): Zaddy? Any who...
*Taika immediately breaks and Rhys warns "well that's what I'm gonna say if you say Zaddy" and laughs. Taika laughing says, "I'm sorry! Okay. I'm sorry!"
I think maybe the funniest thing about the Zaddy outtake is that when Ed says "I dunno... zaddy" he has clearly not heard a word Stede has said. He is in his own little fantasy world where Stede is on a horse looking suaver than the old spice guy. He is intently pondering his next opportunity to bend and snap and make it seem casual. Despite being surrounded by enemy corpses, this guy has forgotten the Royal Navy exists. No thoughts, only zaddy.
It's a true testament to Rhys's improv skills that "zaddy" didn't break him, but an even better improvisor would have dropped to his knees right there and s---
*police sirens blare from outside, and a voice can be heard over a megaphone*
RPF POLICE, COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP
*suddenly, David Jenkins strides in from stage right, clutching a printed copy of the Wikipedia page for Stede Bonnet*
They're gay! THEY'RE SO GAY! YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!
Getting caught escaping the hospital once again. I sympathize with MC though - it's so boring to just sit there and "rest". I also love the upset caretaker Zaddy...