A/N: Hey yo I thought it would be funny to see what if the characters from miraculous were actors. Since the announcement of the live-action film, it's been a mixed bag.

I lean towards the side that its too to tell. Season 2 is not out yet. We don't know much what's going on behind that particular department, so I'm not fully against the film production. I'm actually curious to see what they have in store for us and await the news ^_^

Marinette knew Alya would not forgive her for this, She is a devoted fan of The Miraculous Ladybug comics and was against the idea that a live-action film is in production. It's just an audition, though! Her agent suggested she should at least try. It was just a way for her to get a foot in the door. Even if she didn't get the part they might mention her name to other casting directors.

Chapter 1

She walked into the room filled with other girls who looked about her age. They must be all here to audition for the same part because they seem to fit certain criteria. The post was a search for a young female actress, to play the role of a Parisian teenage girl. Must be fluent in at least French and English. Marinette believed her English was good given she's lived in the states for six years now. A little bit more practice would not hurt.

She walked in paying no mind to strike a conversation. She looked down at her outfit hoping it wasn't too casual. She's wearing jeans because she didn't have time to change to reach her part-time job, hopefully, the pink blouse and blazer would make up for it. The girl standing next to her looked gorgeous. She had long brown hair and wore a black dress with an orange blazer. Along with the outfit, she was also wearing stiletto heels that made her a head taller than Marinette. If she ever wore heels like that she would trip and fall on her face for jitters were really getting to her as the crowd in the room got smaller and smaller until she was the last one to be called. Her attention moved back and forth from her phone to the door to other room.

"Marinette Dupin-Cheng?" The same woman who was calling names the past few hours called out.

She shot up out of her chair, "Y-Yes?"

"We're ready for you, follow me please."

Marinette followed the women into the next room, her heart was pounding each beat felt like it was going to burst out of her chest.

In the next room sat four men in front of a long table. The two older males, smiled appreciably as if they were expecting to see her all day. The other two who appeared much younger looked tired. The one with the red hair seemed to perk up when she walked in; he was gripping tightly onto a piece of paper. Next, to the table, a camera on a tripod was set to face across the room. They wait patiently eyes following her figure as she walked up to the designated "x" that was marked on the floor.

The first one to speak was the one who looked like the eldest in the room, "Hello Ms. Dupain-Cheng I'm the executive producer Fu, these three others are my colleagues" He gestured to the man to his right.

"I'm Fred Halpre I am the casting director,"

"I'm Nino Lahiffe I'm the director of the film,"

"I'm Nathanaël Kurtzberg, I'm the screenwriter and author of the comic book series," He gave a weak smile toward Marinette.

Marinette looked at all four of them trying not to gape. The actual author of the comic book series was here too. Of course, he is, if anyone knew the character more than Alya it would the one who created the character in the first place. She clenched her fist tightly to calm her nerves.

"Whenever you're ready Ms. Dupain-Cheng." Halpre motioned her to start.

Marinette glanced at the four them that looked at the camera blinking red, she took a deep breath and began.

X-X

After a long day of seeing over 60 actresses, the four men were left to deliberate.

"She's rather stiff"

"Hmm I agree Fred she's a bit nervous, but don't you think that was part of Bridgette's character?" Nino piped in looking square in the eye, "Isn't she suppose to be a stuttering mess in front of what's his face Nathanaël-

"Felix," The redhead responded.

"Yeah Felix him. Swoon-worthy Felix, with the puzzling scowl. Bridgette supposes to be opposite of that guy; I think, Dupain-Cheng character definitely radiates that bubbly personality type."

"Yes but the actress not only has to be just Bridgette she has to be the hero as well!" Fred raised his voice and leaned back in his chair, " She has to be Confident, sassy and sexy. I saw none of that I say a no.

"Oh boo you, Fred, you're just saying that because you want to hire Bourgeois, to make things easier, Marinette, " Nino said hotly.

"She does have more experience," Fred counter.

"She's been leading lady in many other films!" Nino stood up, "I won't have her be the face in mine." He declared

"No that's not reasonable—

"Nathanaël you've been very quiet," Fu leaned in staring at the man at the very end of the table, "What do you think is best?"

Nathanaël blinked a bit startled to hear his own name. He didn't expect the producer to ask for his opinion while the two directors were having an argument. What did he think? He was still looking at her head shot photo after she left. Wel, the minute the actress walked in that door he found her pretty attractive actually. All the actresses he saw were beautiful, but the last one had the most delicate features. Big bluebells eyes, small thin lips, and freckles across her cheeks. The way she read her lines back to him she sounded very endearing and sincere. Something he definitely could see in Ladybug's character. He definitely wanted to see her in action again.

"I think it would be great to see her interact with um— the others," He spoke up.

The two directors settled down focused on what he meant. The producer cracked a smile.

"I agree, chemistry is essential," He folded his hands on his lap, "Perhaps there's something more Mm. Dupin-Cheng can bring to the table."

Everyone eyed the casting director, who threw his hands up in the air. "Fine, if this is what you want, I'll set up the next callback audition," He looked up at the others specifically Nino. "However I'm inviting Miss Bougeious as well to do a reading just for comparison. I know her and Monsieur Agreste have worked well together in the past."

Nino snort at the last comment, only Nathanaël heard it.

"Well is an understatement." The director muttered under his breath.

X-X

A lone man with blonde hair sat at the back table of a restaurant. A glass of beer was set on the table and he studied the menu closely even though he already made his order. He was trying to keep a low profile, hoping no one would recognize him and he could enjoy a quiet dinner with his best friend tonight.

"Sorry I'm late," the said friend arrived grabbing the chair across from him.

Adrien looked up and smiled, "How was it Nino?" he asked.

"Bro I haven't even sat down yet—

"Sorry I'm just excited you know, did you find someone?"

Nino grabbed the menu from his friend's hands and looked it over. "Do you think they have the bento box special?"

He was avoiding his questions. Adrien sighed and shook his head no. "It's 8:30 pm."

"Hmm, maybe I'll just have a spider roll then," His friend replied.

They engaged in a small talk conversation catching up, with their busy schedules it was hard to make time and meet up. Their schedules never lined up anymore like when they were teenagers. When their entrees arrived Nino finally shared the information he was waiting for.

"Fred and I weren't on the same page most of the time, Nathanaël was quiet he look tired probably from working on the script," He rubbed his beard thinking it over, "Fu was well you know, nice to everyone. It's hard to tell what he thinks."

Adrien nodded along, the whole search process to find an actress to find Ladybug sounded like a daunting task. He felt sympathetic towards his friend's ordeal but believed if anyone was going to find her it would be him.

"What about you did anyone captures your attention?"

"A couple, they're coming back for another audition. That's where you come in Chat Noir." Nino took a bite of his food and chewed slowly, "Fred wanted to settle for Chloe instead of doing his job."

Adrien frowned. He knew Chloe before her acting days, they use to model together as kids. He would definitely feel comfortable working with someone he knew, but he could not picture Chloe to take part in a superhero film. It was like picturing Godzilla in a rom-com.

Nino laughed "The look on your face shows me you're not for it either, I know she's your friend and all but Chloe has a reputation for not cooperating with directors." Nino pushed his plate away and sighed, "The pressure from the studio and the public has been really getting to me lately."

"What do you mean I thought you were psyched about this new film?"

"If social media did not exist I would be fine," Nino shrugged, "Lately it feels like Big brother is always watching me. I thought you were the only lone ladybug fan but it turns out there's a cult following and they're getting ready to put my head on a stake."

Adrien places his hand on his friend shoulder to comfort him, "Don't worry this film going to work out just fine, we'll have fun because we're working together."

Adrien waited until he saw his friend crack a smile, "Yeah I guess you're right, I mean as long as its not worse than The last Airbender will do fine."

"Airbender are you talking about Avatar the last Airbender?" Adrien asked "There was a live-action film?"

"We don't talk about it, it never existed," Nino said in a flat tone.

X-X

"Callback?" Marinette cried out.

She was sitting in the break room with her cell phone in hand, in order to calm her nerves, she slumped back down on her chair.

"That's right!" Her agent responded, "I just got off the phone with the casting director Fred Halpre, they want to see you again Mari get psych!"

Marinette couldn't believe it. The last audition she expected to get a call back from and she got one. She thought it was the people from the cat commercial, not a movie production.

"Tikki wait that's the LB film right?" She asked nervously biting her lip. Please be wrong she hoped.

"It is, and Mari there's something else you should know," Tikki said in a serious tone, "This might be a big role too, I heard from a friend that their still searching to cast for female lead—

Marinette gasped, "No," Even though her agent couldn't see it she shook her head, "No- no-no you did not tell me I was auditioning for a lead part—

"I wanted to see you try Mari, I see so much potential in you." She could hear her agent squeal in the background, "They seemed to like you as well. You must have done something to warrant their interest."

"I honestly didn't feel like I did. I was so nervous."

"Well keep it up! They want to see you next Thursday to do a read through with another actor ok?"

Marinette swallowed hard, "Yes ok I'll do my best."

"Best of luck my dear, take care kisses!"

She ended the call and started to rub her temples. This was too surreal, how could this possibly be happening? Half of her was elated, she had not received a call back audition in six months. The other half had felt a sense of dread for one particular reason.

"Are you on break still?"

"Five more minutes Alya," She spoke.

When she turned around her friend and co-worker plopped down in the chair right next to her. Marinette instantly leaned against her shoulder tried.

"Another rejection?" Alya asked stroking her hair.

"No actually..."She hesitated thinking about whether she should tell her, "I got a callback."

Alya's eyes widen "Oh my gosh that's the best news ever," She squished her friend's cheeks and planted a smooch on her forehead. Marinette smiled a bit at the shower of affection from her best friend.

"Oh and get this, apparently for that Live-Action film of Miraculous Ladybug their thinking of casting Chloe Bourgeois as Ladybug!" Alya huffed clearly annoyed. Marinette face paled processing the new information. How unfortunate she'll be competing against Chloe her old theater rival.

Alya brought out her phone to show Marinette the exact article that was posted, and all the raging comments from the fans who were clearly against it. She couldn't help but cringe at a post title 'Ten Reasons why a Miraculous Ladybug Movie won't work'. It was of course written by the Alya.

"They need to stay away from our superhero movies because they're going to ruin it!" She cried out, "If they do this, it will be an another Last Airbender movie."

"What happened to the Last Airbender movie?" She nervously asked.

Alya looked her squarely in the eye, "Obviously we don't talk about it."

Marinette nodded along wondering if she wanted to know.

"So what did the amazing Tikki set up for you?" Alya asked, glued to her phone typing away. She didn't seem to notice how conflicted Marinette appeared.

"I well it's uh- a cat commercial! Yes, a cat commercial." She looked at Alya who was grinning, this could mean that she believed her.

Alya placed her arm around Marinette, "Ooh well let me know if my girl gets's the part, then we can take the night off and celebrate." She winked.

Marinette gave a small smile, internally she was thinking if auditioning for the part in the first place was a good idea.