Peyton’s eyes turned wintry. She went up to her and gritted her teeth as she said, “Why did you know that?”
Who was she? Why did she know so much?
Samantha stared at Peyton without a change in expression, “What? Did I step on your tail?”
“I don’t know what are you talking about.” Peyton looked around. It was crowded and she had to control her temper.
It was the filming set and there were a lot of gossipy people around. She wanted to know really badly why but she couldn’t afford to cause a scene with Samantha in public right now.
She needed to keep her angelic and pure image in public. She couldn’t be like Helena, being bashed by the internet like it was nothing.
“You know what I’m talking about. There’s no need to say it out loud.” Samantha glanced at her in disdain.
She then fixed her clothes and walked towards the filming area.
The director was nice to her. They probably thought that she was inexperienced and gave her some advice in person.
The first scene was the main scene, it was also the first step the main character took to fight back.
Samantha had to do it well.
“Director Solomon, this actress isn’t all that pretty. The character Lillian in the story should be an extremely beautiful person.” The person talking was Emilia, a person who argued with Samantha not long ago.
She wasn’t an extra, but she was getting older. She was more than 30 years old and could only play minor roles.
“Your scenes do not start until later, why are you here already?” The director avoided the topic. Emilia wasn’t a famous actress and her personality sucks. She licked boots and talked down to people of lower status than her. The director didn’t want to have anything to do with her.
Helena wasn’t pretty, but she was chosen by Gabriel. These actresses sure had free times on their hand, it was just a show and they made it seemed like a killing field.
Director Solomon wasn’t interested to talk to her at all.
“Hey, what are you saying, Director. The early bird catches the early worm.” Emilia felt embarrassed. Why did the men around her tend to talk good about Helena?
She was just an internet star who got her role from pillow talk. Her face looked plastic, she didn’t deserve the role.
Emilia was in the entertainment industry for so many years and never got the leading role. Some people were just luckier.
The more she thought about it the angrier she got. She glanced at Peyton who was standing at the side.
She ended her conversation with the director and walked up to Peyton.
“Peyton, you are so much prettier but you are not the main character. It’s so unfair.” Emilia wasn’t feeling pleasant and she tried to take it out on Peyton by intending to cause ridges in others’s relationship.
She couldn’t talk back the last time she argued with Helena. This time, she wanted to set a trap.
Peyton smiled, “Emilia, don’t say that. Many people are deserving of the main character role, not only me.”
She smiled but her heart was pitch black.
Who did Emilia think she was? She wasn’t even in the position to talk to her.
Emilia felt happy seeing that Peyton was talking politely to her, she smiled, “Peyton, you are pretty and you are a good actress. This role should’ve been yours.”
“It’s fine.” Helena had the guts to snatch my role. I would make her pay for it.
The payback was going to happen very soon.
Samantha was stopped by the director for the third time already at the set.
“Helena, what’s going on? Your expression is not right!” the director was a straightforward person. There was annoyance in his voice seeing that Samantha unable to get things right.
Samantha sat on the grass and her wrist was cut by the dry grass. She glanced at the extras around the set.
Great!
She was bullied even during filming!
She tried hard to avoid the extras’ hand and made a mistake during the filming.
She thought she was being too sensitive, but these people were really touchy, touching her here and there…
The script stated that they had to only tear her clothes apart, but they kissed her forehead and face!
She wanted to say something, but they were as cunning as foxes. She didn’t have any proof!
She was so mad.
The filming was stopped so many times, and the people on the set were starting to get annoyed.
“Playing the main character with this level of acting? No way.”
“Everybody knew she got the role from pillow talk.”
“If it was Peyton Moore, it would be okay in one go.”
“What is she doing? Just go home and warm her sugar daddy’s bed if she’s not going to act well!”
Samantha’s face turned dark listening to the people talking.
“I’m sorry, Director. One more time, I will not disappoint you,” she said as she pursed her lips, she was apologetic.
The director looked at her in annoyance, “Be more serious.”
Samantha wanted to curse. She was serious, but she was being sexually harassed!
How dare they did that?
“Action!” the director said.
The extras leapt onto her and sexually harassed her again.
Samantha glared at them and slapped one of them in the face.
“What are you guys doing? Didn’t the director explain to you guys beforehand? Is this how this scene should be?”
Samantha was boiling in rage.
The extras made an innocent face, “Ms. Powell, I don’t know what are you saying…this is what the director tells us to do.”
Samantha was going crazy, and she yelled, “The director told you to harass me during filming? Trespassing my personal comfort and sexually harass me?”
The people around the set were dumbfounded. She kept making mistakes because she was actually being harassed?
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