Hollywood's Secret Baby by Kaylee Spring

Author:Kaylee Spring [Spring, Kaylee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jots & Blots Press
Published: 2020-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

It’s been two days since my disastrous audition, and now I’m staring down the barrel of tomorrow.

“In all my years here, I never made it out to Disneyland,” Cory says. We’re back at his house. We didn’t get back until midnight, and Lizzie is sleeping late this morning. “And while I’m glad I saved the experience so I could share it with you and Lizzie, now’s the last day we have to get down to business.”

Filming starts up tomorrow. Which means that ready or not, the moment those cameras start rolling, I’ll be an actress. The only question is what kind of actress I’ll be. And the only answer that ends happily ever after for any of us if I’m not just good, but great. With the pressure on, my first and only acting lesson begins.

I look between Sarah and Cory. She’s holding a Bloody Mary, beads of condensation running down the glass between her fingers.

“Let’s get down to it then,” I say.

Her face is scrunched up in confusion until she realizes that by ‘getting down to it, I mean learning how to act with my personal tutor.

Which is her.

“Of course! In all this fuss I forgot the reason I came over here wasn’t just to make drinks. I need to get you ready for the cameras.”

“So where are we going to do this?”

“We’ll get started right here with the practical lesson. Then it’s off to do some field work.”

“Field work?”

“Don’t look so distressed,” she says with a light laugh. “There won’t be any test at the end of this. Acting isn’t about passing and failing. It isn’t so scientific that it can be graded like that. It’s an art, and as such, you must become an artist. And the first step to being an artist is being one. Not acting like one.”

“So to be an actor, I shouldn’t act?”

Sarah looks to Cory. “She is a fast learner.”

I can’t tell if she’s being serious or sarcastic, but I’m leaning towards the former, as Sarah has never been anything but unusually kind towards me. And after learning her story, I try to see past the fame to the very real woman she is.

“But then how do I act?”

“You act by becoming and doing. Your goal should never be to say the right line as you in character; it should be for the character to say the line. Think of it as being possessed.”

I nod at this like it’s a golden nugget of truth, but in truth I’m not sure what she means. Say the line as the character in you? Before I can begin to unwrap this mystic statement, there’s something bigger I need to know. “Who is my character, anyway?”

“Didn’t I give you the script?”

He did that first night, but I didn’t make it five pages in before falling asleep. Every day since then has been so action-packed that I haven’t even thought to pick it up and read through it.

“You did…” I say and retrieve the bound papers that have been hiding under one of my old shirts on the coffee table.

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