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The agreement clearly favored the studio in terreat, and points, of which there were zero for s actors and actresses get paid and are reserved for major stars Translated, that meant… not me
I had to start so, uh, I al here reading the contractsee and I couldn’t believe it Just goes to shohat’s possible when you never give up on your drea in a lead role and doing all of it without Grey Sinclair’s help
I couldn’t remember the last time I’d felt such pride in myself, if ever
As I neared the end of the document, the intercom on my phone blared to life
“Miss Olsen,” Caran
“Yes?”
“It’s Mister Trevor Billings for you”
“U tone “Thank you, Carmen”
Ugh, I forgot about the date we discussed
Before I picked up the line, I prepared myself to fend off his advances I’d mulled it over since we last spoke and decided I wasn’t ready to rekindle things just yet That said, until this contract was in place and I was on the sound stage in front of the ca Trevor believe otherwise
I pressed the flashing red button and answered
“Hey What’s up?”
“What’s up?” Trevor began, his voice laced with panic “What’s up!? I’ll tell you what’s up Thecanceled, that’s what”
My focus shifted in an instant Dropping the agreeent tone, I replied, “What? Canceled? How? Why?”
He scoffed
“Shit, I wish I knew! But I do know one thing for certain and that’s within an hour of telling the execs I’d made a choice for the picture, they canceled the project Christ, I’oddamn job at this point!”
My mouth went dry My stomach clenched as I listened to Trevor rant on the other end of the line How could any of this possibly be happening?
“Trevor! Wait, please!” I sta my chair away as I stood froet fired? I don’t understand I thought you tolddecisions Do you know anything else? Anything at all?”
“No,” he replied, as his tone shifted froht now Maddie This whole thing has blown up in my face”
As he spoke, I rounded the corner of rew direr
“Uh, so what? So that’s it?” I said, as I stopped and crossedto him with the phone in the other hand
“Yes And even if it does start back up, you won’t be in it”
“Me?” I replied “What does any of this have to do with me?”
“I gotta go, Maddie And oh yeah, about ain That’s off”
I openedin response, but before I could, Trevor hung up on htened as , I released rip on the phone and the receiver bounced on the ed it back towards the desk
Feeling lightheaded, I reached for the edge of the desk and grabbed hold of it as I made my way back around towards my chair I reached it, collapsed in a heap and proppedthem on the desk I attempted to make some sense, any at all, of what had just taken place
As I lay there conte role, an even worse thought occurred to ether, they were the equivalent of telling hi we’d built and shove it
What the hell was I thinking?
Jesus
I picked up the phone and called the only person I could talk to about this-- Katy Even though she didn’t approve of , she’d at least be a syht now As the phone rang, I propped h any scenario I could conjure up to deal with Grey once he arrived Hell, knowing him, he was probably already on his way
“Katy Brown”
“Katy,” I exhaled in relief as she answered “I need to talk to you Tonight Can you come to my apartment?”
“Yeah, sure… Maddie, what’s wrong? You sound terrible”
“I don’t want to get into it over the phone Just come over as soon as you can”
“Okay,” Katy began “I’ up, I’m on the way I’ll be over within the hour”
MADDIE
Prior to Katy’s arrival a little past eight o’clock, I’d opened a bottle of wine and downed a good glass and a half before she got there It was enough to take the edge off The fuzzy warh to at least recount the entire story to her, but not so otten any key parts