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“Yeah,” he says. “I have done good, haven’t I?”
“I’m really thankful for everything, Victor.”
“You really don’t have to say that,” the actor says.
“Really,” I repeat, “I’m so thankful. I know you were telling me that you are thankful, but I want to express how much I am. Hell, I would still be saving pennies back in Crystal River right now serving coffees.”
“It’s all for you, Josie.”
I pause.
“I want to ask you a question,” I say.
“Go ahead.”
“But I’m afraid you might take it personally,” I mumble.
Victor chuckles.
“I won’t,” he says.
“Okay...”
“I won’t,” he repeats. “You can ask me anything, Josie.”
I take another pause.
“Why do you really want to win the award?” I ask him.
Victor nods, taking it in. I hope this won’t lead to some outburst. He did say he wouldn’t take any questions personally.
“The best actor one?” he asks. He knows the answer.
“Yeah. Why do you care so much that you’ve gone to all this effort for it?”
Victor leans back in his chair and ponders again. He wants to take the time to answer me honestly, and I appreciate that.
“I guess because I’m super competitive,” he replies. “I have to reach the very top of my field. I have to prove to myself that I am fucking good at what I do.”
I nod.
“That’s a fair enough reason,” I reply.
“Yep.”
“And what were you like younger?” I ask. “As a teenager? Do you think you and I would’ve been friends if we had known each other?”
Victor laughs.
“You don’t want to know what I was like as a teenager,” he says.
“Oh, now I’m interested.”
“You really want to know? You will not think less of me?”
“Nope.”
“Okay,” Victor says, sighing. “If you must know, I was skinny and easily bullied. I was a kid who loved movies and nothing else. I was even beaten up a couple of times.”
