Keith "Two-Bit" Mathews

And even though Marcia does not get as much dialogue or emotional depth as Cherry, she matters.

She helps us see another side of the Soc world, another side of Two-Bit, and another example of how close the Greasers and Socs can come to understanding each other before society pulls them apart.

Marcia may be in the background, but she's not meaningless.

We first meet her at the Nightly Double drive-in with Cherry Valance.

They may be Socs, but that does not mean they are careless or shallow.

They're willing to walk away from their own group when the boys around them are acting irresponsibly.

In a novel full of pressure to stay loyal to your side, Marcia and Cherry make a choice for themselves, and that choice is what allows them to meet Ponyboy, Johnny, Two-Bit, and Dally.

At first glance, Marcia may just seem like Cherry's friend.

Yeah, dude.

Emilio Estevez, Two Bit, he's 19.

Tom Cruise, who plays Steve, is 19, with a real snaggletooth.

Um-

[laughs]

I think he totally grabs one of her ti- like, a tit.

Well, I mean, it's all in good fun, right? It's all, it's all in good fun when, when, uh [laughs] what's his name, Two Bit, flips a girl's skirt up at the middle of the drive-in.

That's how boys had fun-