Chapter 36

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

After the speeches, everyone returned to their booths. For the publicity of the show, they were going to shoot some short videos according to the script written by the crew.

Lydia was going to shoot the scene of Maria dancing.

After Maria had turned bad, she completely let go of herself. During her adult college years, she often went to bars to dance for money and even started selling herself.

Filming Maria dancing was sort of a challenge for Lydia and it was also a prelude to drawing the audience’s curiosity to the rest of the story.

When Seve sent her a video of the dance, Lydia had already rehearsed it. However, she had never been on camera with this dance.

Since Lucia had very few scenes in the play, she did not need to shoot this promotional video. Lydia asked Lucia to help record it, so that she could look at it later and improve on her movement.

The environment in the theatre was very chaotic. Lydia found a small space and began to dance. The dance was not difficult. After all, Maria had never formally learned to dance.

Lydia finished the dance easily. Then she watched the video over and over again to revise her posture.

Not long after, someone called for Lydia and asked her to go out and shoot the video. After she went out, she was taken to a caravan. She went up to take a look and saw that Irene Dunbar was eating cake in the air-conditioning.

The young director who was in charge of shooting the short video told Lydia the content of the video. “Miss Lydia, we’ve arranged for you and Miss Dunbar to shoot a short video together this time. The content of the video is a very exciting part of the show. It is the scene where Maria’s sister, Chloe, who is also the female lead played by Miss Dunbar, accidentally goes to a bar and finds Maria flirting, so she went up to argue with Maria.”

“Oh…” Lydia remembered that scene where Chloe slapped Maria more than a dozen times. Later, Maria couldn’t take it anymore, so she took a beer bottle and cut Chloe’s face. She even rushed and beat Chloe up.

Judging from Irene Dunbar’s posture, it was obvious that she didn’t intend to film the scene where Maria hit Chloe. She only wanted to use Chloe’s name to hit her openly!

What a good plan!

However, Lydia did not intend to accept it, she said, “What I’m going to shoot today is Maria’s dance. I haven’t rehearsed this beforehand, so I won’t.”

“Won’t?” Irene Dunbar’s mouth was about to reach the sky. “I specifically went to ask the director just now. The director said that your acting skills are very good, and your ability to perform on the spot is also top-notch. Now, isn’t this little test a piece of cake for you?”

“It’s fine if you want to shoot it, but this scene is connected. Once the emotions get up, it’s not easy to suppress them, and it’s also very wasteful. Why don’t we shoot the rest of the scene together?” Lydia opened the transparent refrigerator next to her, she took out a bottle of beer from it. “Don’t worry, I won’t smash the beer bottle on your forehead.”

Irene Dunbar’s expression suddenly became very bad. “Lydia, who do you think you are? It’s your duty to cooperate with the production team’s publicity.”

“Of course I’ll cooperate. And I’ve made a better suggestion. Originally, we would shoot one video each, and there would be at least two videos. Now that we’re shooting one video together, there will be one less video. If we shoot the second half of the video, there will be two videos. And I firmly believe that my performance in the second half of the video will definitely be better than the first half.”

The tense atmosphere made the people beside them break out in cold sweat. The young director had not expected this newcomer to be such a fussy and difficult person.

If it had been anyone else and they could get the chance to shoot a short video together with a big star before the filming officially started, they would not have cared about the content at all.

Lydia looked at the time and said, “Irene Dunbar, hurry up and make a decision. We don’t have much time.”

Irene Dunbar was so angry that she threw the cake in her hand onto the ground. She cast a sharp look at the young director. “You can’t even handle such a small matter? Why are you using such a disobedient actress?”