Chapter 2: Method Acting
"Hey Babe! I'm home!"
"I'm in the laundry room Becs!"
Beca walked to the door down the hall and found Chloe bent down in front of the dryer. Chloe stood up when she came in, and Beca pulled her wife in for a kiss. "Hey"
"So? How was it! Tell me everything!" Beca could see the excitement lighting up Chloe's eyes.
Beca had been working on this movie for several months now. She had the go ahead from a production company, and she had a director, writer, and casting director. She was happy with who they had chosen to direct. His name is Jason, and already she could tell they would get along well, the witty banter they were able to exchange rapid fire amused her to no end. Everyone else seemed to be on board with her vision for the project. Beca had been in meetings for weeks, and working on her own or with one of the others. Today they had a general meeting with all the people involved and went over everything so far.
Beca had pitched Chloe right from the start as co-star. It was one of her non-negotiable points, but she still needed to make sure everyone was on board with her wife being cast as her co-star. Her points were that no one could possibly have better chemistry than herself and her wife, one of Hollywood's hottest couples. Further, it helps with promotion having the two main characters, also love interests, also married in real life. It surprisingly didn't require much pushing on Becas part, the team seemed excited about the idea. Something about the added cuteness factor? Who knows, Beca had rolled her eyes at that.
"Well, you'll have to come in for casting for some screen tests, but hopefully it's just a formality. We'll have to get you an agent before that. I got you an appointment with my agent tomorrow morning, that okay?" Chloe nodded. They had spoken about getting Chloe an some kind of agent or publicist before. Not that Chloe did any jobs that needed one, at least since graduating college and leaving the Bellas, but being married to a high profile actor did seem to require some extra damage control. "Awesome. The rest of the characters will be casted after Kay writes the first draft of the script in the next few weeks. We also talked about demographics."
Chloe scrunched her nose up and led Beca to the kitchen, having finished laundry. "Demographics? Can you work on the salad while I start the rest of supper?"
Beca nodded, picking up the head of lettuce while she continued. "Yeah. It's like, who does this movie appeal to, and how do we make it appeal to more people. Our main audience is females who aren't straight, of all ages, but particularly focusing on teens and young adults. Apparently there's some draw for straight males too with hot lesbian love interests or something."
Chloe rolled her eyes.
"Gay males would watch it because it's a gay couple, even though female. And it has a theatrical component to it. The one group with the big question mark is straight females. This is a problem because most romantic movies are targeted at them. They have the most numbers. So the production company wants to add something that will appeal to them. They suggested a rival love interest for either myself, or for you. I shot that down tho. They are going to cast a real famous and like... buff, macho type in another important role in order to appeal to the ladies." Beca tilted her head to the side "Well, the other ladies. Non-gay females... whatever you get the picture." Chloe nodded.
"So, what's the plot going to be?"
They had discussed various ideas for plot that Beca was going to pitch in the meeting. They knew it would be highly music based, but that was no surprise. Between her background on broadway as a child, and then her experience with the Bellas, a lot of the movies she worked on involved singing somehow. Beca had even wanted to be a DJ, or a music producer, when they met back in collage. But, the acting life had chosen her, so to speak.
"You and I are going to be rival singers for competing collegiate singing groups. You are playing Ava, my character is called Samantha. It's not technically a musical since the characters are aware that they are singing."
"Acapella?" Chloe brightened.
"No, sorry babe just regular singing. The production company didn't take well to that idea."
"Phooey." Chloe pouted slightly. "Hey Becs I have an idea!"
"What's that?" Beca asked chuckling at Chloe's reactions.
"A shower scene!"
Beca groaned slightly. "Oh my God Chlo."
"No Beca, seriously! Like a tribute to the second time we met, except like relevant to the plot."
Beca shifted her eyes to the side as she thought about it. "I don't know chlo, I'll see what Kay thinks. Maybe she'll put something like that in. Anyways, the preliminary draft of the script should be out in a few weeks. And get this: I will be able to work on my mixes again! We might use them in the movie!"
"That's awesome Becs! I'm so excited for this film, it's going to be great!"
"I know, me too." Beca grinned and kissed her wife. "Okay, so the salad is done what do you want me to work on next?"
A/N: Full disclosure: I know absolutely NOTHING about the movie making process. Hell, I don't really even know that what a producer does... exactly. I guarantee that this will not be realistic. Can a non-actor become one because they are married to an actor? Eh, probably not. ️ But I'm the one with the pen, so to speak. So.
And yes, I did name the script writer after Kay (love/hate thing with her, I mean she does write my favourite movies and yet Bechloe is STILL not canon soo...) and the director after the one from Pitch Perfect 1. But that's as far as it goes. Actually I sort of visualize the director to look like the real Jason, but I don't know the personality of either Jason or Kay. So I'm not writing it to be them.