Chapter 321 - Why I chose you? (1/2)
”CUT!”
Grumpy mood filled the shooting spot.
”Lucy,”
”Once again, you're not being Claudia!”
Ivy's judgment only got stricter every time Lucy failed to become Claudia.
”Let's go for another take!” she says without giving Lucy any chance to recover.
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Rushing the actors, disturbed the film set. Parker and David secretly glanced at each other, concerned about Ivy's fiery temper.
”CUT!!”
They hissed on how fast the director gets provoked.
”Claudia doesn't fidget her fingers, Lucy,” Ivy exclaimed.
”Let's continue from the last scene.”
Parker saw Ivy lose to her hastiness, but being the director, he couldn't raise his voice against her in front of everyone. He patiently obeyed to wait for an opening. Until then, no one had a choice but to stay put as several rushed takes failed one after the other with Ivy exploiting Lucy's volatile state.
At one point, frustrated too much to the surrounding trash talks about choosing a non-actor crashed Ivy's control, and she yelled for another break.
However, this time, she summoned Lucy to follow her. Frank tried to tag along, but Ivy directed him to stay away. Lucy sweated with her fresh face spoiled from the smeared makeup.
Ivy walked to enter into her trailer. She let Lucy inside first before shutting the door. Alarmed from her position, Lucy took a corner, away from the angry beast. She watched Ivy strode back and forth inside the trailer to cool down her fuming head.
”Perhaps, you don't think that you could act?” she asks, rushing her words with the bubbling rage.
”N- No.”
”Did someone force you to accept the job, like that manager of yours?”
”Never!”
”There should be some reasonable explanation, right? You can't keep screwing up without reason!” Ivy exploded.
The more she tried to suppress her stress, the more she couldn't succeed from fearing that her golden opportunity would succumb to a hapless defeat.
”What is it then?”
Ivy kept pursuing Lucy to pressure her.
”Tell me what it is, and we'll resolve it now. I don't want you to step out from here to get another retake!”
Lucy resisted confessing, ”It is nothing-”
”Look, Lucy, I chose you over another girl that everyone recommended. I made a gamble. Do you know why? Because I believed in you. I saw your audition. You were gorgeous. One look at you, any girl or even a guy would get impressed,” Ivy said to catch herself praising Lucy's enchanting beauty.
Her pausing did not help further as the two relived the fire they felt for the second time but within close quarters.
Ivy gave more space between them to add compliments to Lucy's potential acting skills. Her enthusiastic raging ended with comforting Lucy's bundle of nerves. The model seems to have quieted down as her face no longer sweat to smudge her makeup.
”Is that true?” she asked the flustered director.
”Y- Yeah! David- Tha- That guy who sat through the auditions chose another girl.”
”And you didn't like her?”
Ivy thought for a minute, recalling the whole audition reviewing process. She came across several candidates to finally get impressed with Lucy.
”She fit the requirements, but I was looking for some-” she paused to look at Lucy's face waiting to hear the rest of the sentence, ”I was hoping that I could find the perfect Claudia!”
”And you found me!”