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Fuck.
Andrew calls CUT. Everything stops. The crew gets ready to restart the scene again.
And it’s all because I screwed up my damn lines.
Everything has to be reset.
I look around at everyone and at all the extra work that now has to be done because of me.
Hayley is staring at me sympathetically.
I don’t want sympathy.
Fuck.
I’ve never done that before. Never on the first day. Never for the first line of the movie shoot.
And I have a sinking feeling in my gut...
Is it because she is looking?
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JOSIE
I watch on as Victor fucks up. He fucks up bad. And I instantly see how everything on the set has to completely restart again just because he fumbled over some words – how everyone has to redo their job just because of his one little mistake.
Oh, crap.
I’m feeling sorry for him.
But I also watch on as Victor somehow saves himself from the kind of utter embarrassment anyone else would have in his shoes simply by deploying his trademark charming smile and a laugh that immediately puts everyone on the movie set at ease. He acts like it was nothing, and everyone else laughs along with Victor, and it’s like all is forgotten and forgiven with just his smile. God, he can really command a room – a movie set – like that with just the fuel of his pure charisma.
Yeah, that’s why he’s the blockbuster movie star.
Everyone loves Victor.
And now I’m not feeling as sorry for him... the cheeky bastard.
“We’re going for another take,” the director yells out from behind the camera.
Everything is reset.
Everything is ready.
It’s now Victor’s time to shine. Properly.
And, this time, he does.
Oh, yes. He really does.
It’s the first time I've seen him act up close. Him in action. And, God, he is mesmerizing.
I stand far back behind the cameras and the monitors in the holding pen and simply watch him do some movie magic.
It’s undeniable that he and Hayley have got serious chemistry - their lines bounce off and they have such great rapport. They’re both light and playful with the scene. They clearly like each other.
The screenplay calls for them to flirt – to gradually build up the tension. They both act it so well.
