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“Do you want to know a secret, Josie?”
“Yes...”
Victor shakes his head.
“I’ll never get used to it,” he says quietly. “None of this. I promised myself when I started getting successful in this industry that I wouldn’t take all of this for granted. I might seem like I do when you read things about me online and whatever, but I do think about how incredible all this is every single day of my life.”
“Are you nervous about tomorrow?” I ask him. “About your first day on the movie set? I would be freaking the freak out if I were you, but then again you are always so calm, so I don’t know.”
Victor slowly takes a long sip of his water. He’s taking his time to think – to mull my question over.
“I am nervous,” he finally says. “Yeah. You know what? I have never said that to anyone before, but I’m always nervous before filming. It can keep me up all night.”
“I’m so surprised by that,” I say. “You really never seem nervous.”
“I am a normal human being, Josie,” he says with a slight smirk. “I can be nervous sometimes. That’s allowed.”
“Come on, you’re too handsome and rich to get nervous. You’re not like the rest of us mortals.”
The man laughs loudly.
“You are funny, Josie. I’ll give you that.”
“You think this will be a good movie?” I ask him.
That makes him laugh again - a quick knowing chuckle this time.
“You never know in the movie business, and that’s why it’s so exciting,” he explains. “I really don’t know. Nor does anyone else, even those with decades of experience in this business. This movie could be the next billion-dollar blockbuster, or it could equally be the flop that bankrupts a studio and my career. We will just have to wait and see what the outcome is.”
“That would make me nervous,” I remark.
“It’s like with everything in life,” he replies. “You never know when you start something, but you put faith in it. You put in all your hope. You might start off something thinking it’s one thing, but then it turns into another wholly different thing.”
“You’re talking about movies, or about something else?” I ask him.
“Yes,” Victor replies. “And no. I’m talking about everything in life. Love. Sex. Business.”
“You’re a philosopher as well as an actor?”
“I can be many things, Josie. I’m not just a pretty face.”
“Yeah, and you can be arrogant.”
The man laughs again.
“Do you think I’m arrogant, Josie?”
I shrug and look down at my napkin. “No...”
“I bet you thought I was vain and selfish.”
“I try not to judge people,” I say quietly.
“Do you still think of me in that way?” Victor asks.
“That you’re vain, arrogant, and selfish?”
“Yeah.”
