The Actress: A Novel by Amy Sohn

Author:Amy Sohn [Sohn, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2014-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

“What happened with you and Rachel?” Maddy asked Dan.

They had sat in silence for a moment after Steven and Bridget left. Maddy had been self-conscious, worried that people were watching them. But Dan was still her director and this was their premiere. It was all right to talk to him.

“She wanted to get married and have babies, and I think she realized I wasn’t there yet.”

“I liked her.”

“No, you didn’t.”

“I thought she was smart, and good for you.” She could sense he didn’t want to get into it, so she changed the subject. “Hey, by the way, congratulations on your deal. Do you have a start date for production?”

“Congratulations to you as well.”

Oded and Dan had gone out with their script based on The Nest in August, with Dan attached to direct. They had changed the title to Hirshman’s Mistake. When Maddy first read the script, she almost called Edward Rosenman to have him take her name off, it was so lewd and immature, filled with fart jokes and frontal nudity. Oded and Dan wound up selling it for $1 million to Worldwide Films, of which Maddy got a third. She would be able to join the Writers Guild of America, and despite the questionable material that had allowed her to join, she was excited about it in case she wanted to write something of her own down the line.

When the film went to auction, she’d had mixed feelings. She knew that if she hadn’t been with Steven, she wouldn’t be represented by Edward and never would have gotten such a generous collaboration agreement. But Dan had been naive to think she would sign that ridiculous piece of paper. And if $333,333 was perhaps too much for the pages she had helped write, $1 was too little.

“I just hope they don’t try to fire me from Hirshman’s when The Valentine comes out,” he said, sipping from his tumbler. “I think it’s going to suck.”

“I’m sure it won’t suck.”

“I should have listened to you. If I had listened to you and stayed in Venice, then maybe . . .” He gave her an intense, longing gaze.

“Don’t think that way,” she said, and looked down at the table. She could feel him staring at her, and when she looked back up at him, his eyes were soft. She felt a rush of feeling for him, for what they had made together, for what she had left behind to be with Steven.

“Do you ever wonder what might have happened if . . . if you’d never gone to Berlin?” he asked.

“No,” she said. “I loved you, but I was meant to be with Steven.”

“Do you really believe that?” His tone wasn’t cruel, but it was deeply doubtful.

“Of course I do. Why would I be with him if I didn’t feel we were meant to be together?”

He nodded and gave her a wincing smile that she didn’t like. And then he was gone, dirty-dancing with a couple of girls who didn’t seem much older than twenty, all of whom were grinding against Oded.

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