She nodded and asked, “Where will I be around noon? I don’t have an actual schedule for the whole day yet.”
“Um…” Reed looked down at her laptop. “I’m not sure. Lunch, probably.”
“And if that’s being delivered to me, where would I expect it?”
“Your trailer,” Bryce said. “I can show you where that is now, if you want.”
“Thank you,” she replied, thinking that if worse came to worst, she could always sleep in her trailer if it was the one she’d specifically requested.
Samara was playing the part of Sophie – or, Stella – in the movie, or she would have asked Bryce several questions about Bray, the character based on her. Instead, she continued to drink her smoothie and walked next to her in awkwardsilence. Bryce took her down the row of trailers and pointed to one near the end.
“This is yours. It’s the exact one you asked for.”
“Oh, thank God.”
Bryce laughed a little and said, “I’ll leave you here now, if you don’t mind. I have some work to do.”
“Will Sophie be on set often?” she asked.
“Sometimes, yeah. She’s not here today, though.”
“I’d like to speak with her before we begin, if I can. I want to make sure I get her character right.”
“Oh, she’lllovethat,” Bryce said sarcastically, laughing a little. “I’ll let her know.”
“Thank you,” Samara replied.
She continued on, opened the trailer door, locked it immediately behind her, and looked around. Sure enough, it was the exact model she’d asked for. She headed straight for the bedroom, dropped her purse onto the floor, and sat on the bed.
“At least,thisworked out,” she said to herself.
The next few hours went by rather quickly. Since her trailer was the biggest, she had requested that wardrobe work with her there instead of in the wardrobe trailer, and once her final measurements had been done, she went to the makeup trailer for some makeup tests. After that, she returned to her trailer to find a Post-it note on the refrigerator, indicating that her meal had been delivered.
Samara pulled open the door, saw her favorite sparkling water and orange juice inside, but what wasn’t shocking to her at all was the high temperature in the fridge itself. It was likely that when the trailer had been dropped off and hooked up, no one had adjusted the internal temperature of the thing to keep stuff there cold. She did so herself, setting it to five, the highest setting, and pulled out the covered plate that had been left for her. It was the kale and spinach salad with grilled tofu, which she could eat hot or cold, cranberries, and vegan cheese on top. Samara cracked open the container, grabbed a fork that, thankfully, was metal from the drawer next to thesink, but when she took her first bite, she discovered that the food was that awful temperature between hot and cold that no one liked.
“Not cold enough,” she said with a grunt before she covered back the plate and shoved it into the fridge because she would have to wait for it to cool off.
CHAPTER 4
“I’m sorry she didn’t like it,” Dana said. “She wasn’t in the trailer, so I put the salad in her fridge. I’m not sure what else I was supposed to do. We’re feeding the whole cast and crew here.”
“I know, but that’s already strike one, Dana. It’s the first day,” her boss said.
“What should I have done, then? Waited for her?”
Josh sighed and put the knife down on the white cutting board as if he was already so exhausted from this movie they all just started working on.
“Maybe, yes.”
“I had no idea where she was or when she’d be back. Do you want to pay me to sit there and wait? If so, I can do that. I have some reading I can catch up on. I can scroll through my phone, too.”
“You can always track down a PA and ask them to check on her, see where she is, and take the food right to her,” her boss suggested.
“Fine. I was told to put it in her trailer, but I’ll do that next time. I thought the fridge was a good call. It’s cold. Her food was cold.”
“I’m not saying it was your fault. I’m just trying to avoid it happening again. You have her dinner to make, right?”
“It’s made already. I was about to go take it to her, but now, I’m afraid I’ll get strike two,” she replied.
