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“I wish there was some way I could help”

“You are helping, right this very minute”

“Good, I’lad to hear it,” he said “So, how do you feel about the lines you have to memorize?”

“Actually, that’s going to be easier than I anticipated Alex is in a lot of scenes, but he really doesn’t say much”

“Do you think you ht’s video call into dinner and a ether over FaceTime”

A huge smile spread across my face, and I told him, “That sounds perfect” We spoke for a few more minutes, and by the time the call ended I felt so much better

Chapter 8

Monday ot me to wardrobe, hair, and makeup with time to spare I knew my lines forward and backward I was ready

Or so I thought

I soon foundactors in Hollywood When the assistant director introduced me, Harper Royce was friendly, but everyone else seemed pretty indifferent They’d all been told ahead of time that Trent Chambers was out, and they really didn’t care about the total unknoho’d been brought in to replace him I hadn’t expected them to

Gage Lang arrived on set and greeted ave us all a brief run-down of what he wanted froathered in front of the beach house, and filht on schedule

It should have been easy All ere doing was cli a conversation The dialog wasfriendship between these characters But so my lines Because of the way the shot was framed with all five of us in it, every time I messed up, we had to take it from the top

By our tenth take, I could feel the annoyance rolling off the other actors

By our twentieth, I was pretty sure they all wanted to kill me