When afternoon came, the filming team of ‘War Dragon’ suddenly received a notice from the director; he felt that their progress was lagging behind. In order to speed up the timeline, it was decided that all their afternoon breaks would be canceled, and filming would stretch up to sixteen hours or more per day.
Upon catching wind of this news, the entire filming team grumbled and complained. They were already tired, yet they had to rush their filming schedule. Wasn’t the director running them into the ground with exhaustion?!
Nicole didn’t say anything about it; she had always been a workaholic, and would have liked nothing better than to film 24 hours a day. It would be good for her to wrap up this show quickly since she still had many contracts to fulfill. Once she was done filming ‘War Dragon’, she would still need to report for another show’s filming.
However, the supporting ladies were whining about it. Not only that, among the supporting cast were names that Michael was familiar with.
The general plot of ‘War Dragon’ described a former military man who changed his identity and ran a business in Africa after he was discharged from the army. By chance, he found out that a local human trafficking ring was smuggling a group of foreign girls as they crossed the African continent. They were being escorted by a band of mercenaries to the Middle East so that they could be sold off to several Middle Eastern moguls.
The sister of the male lead’s dead comrade was among this group of trafficked girls. In order to save this group of girls, the male lead waded into danger alone and ran into the female lead, who had followed the trafficking ring’s trail all the way to Africa from her home country in order to save her younger sister. The two of them joined forces to locate the girls, but they never expected a war to break out in the nation. Meanwhile, some of the girls were being escorted by the most elite of mercenaries…
Harry played the role of the male lead, while Michael was cast as the leader of the mercenaries who were hired by the trafficking ring to escort the girls. Nicole played the female lead, while Faye and Xyla played two of the kidnapped girls, Kidnapped Girl A and Kidnapped Girl B.
Faye was most displeased by this. “Why are we working such long hours? I’m quitting!”
The director glowered at them. Why did they have so many complaints even though they were just extras?
“If you’re quitting, you can book a ticket back home tomorrow. Your parts will be cut.”
If their parts were cut out from the movie, their earlier efforts would’ve been for naught; they had managed to wrangle a role in a movie with international collaboration so that they could spread their names after much difficulty. If their parts were truly cut, that would be a complete waste!
Faye shut up immediately.
All Michael could think about right then was rushing back home; he was worried that if he delayed his return any longer, one of the random Fletcher men would actually steal his wife away.
When night came, Michael returned to his hotel after a day’s filming work. He and Harry were the last actors to return; all the other actors had already gone back to the hotel earlier to rest. To their surprise, they saw someone standing in an empty spot in the gardens at the back of Nicole’s hotel. That person had a full-length mirror placed under a street lamp and was rehearsing her lines and actions.
They already had very little time to rest, but Nicole was still using whatever limited break time she had to practice her craft. It was something to commend, and it was fortunate that such a hard-working actress was cast for the lead role; that was the only reason why their filming progress was making a bit more headway than scheduled. If it weren’t for those idiotic supporting actresses dragging things out, they would have been able to make even more progress.
Seeing that Michael had returned, Nicole said to him, “Mr. Fletcher, someone was looking for you in the hotel lobby.”
Michael nodded and patted Harry’s shoulder. “You two have a major scene tomorrow, so you should practice together.”
Harry seemed a little reluctant to do so. Michael immediately said, “Come on now, Lord Winston—you’re a senior actor now. You should be guiding the newbies more.”
Harry had no choice but to practice with Nicole. Even though he had been acting for over a decade, there weren’t many people with the drive Nicole had; if he nurtured her properly, she would blossom into her own in the future.
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