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Lying on her back on her bed with her knees pulled up, Skye picks up the full script for the movie that Natasha dropped off for her earlier in the day, getting ready to read through it for the first time. She takes a moment to just look at it, she didn't get a chance to earlier because she was busy with other things, but now she just takes some time to really look at it. This is the script of her, hopefully, big break, and she's going to soak it all in.
Her eyes are just starting to scan over the words written on the front of the script when her cell phone rings from beside her.
Glancing down, she sees an unknown number lighting up the lock screen. She holds the device against her ear as she answers it.
"Hello?" she says into the receiver.
"Hi. Is this Skye?"
"It is." Her brows furrow together. "Who is this?"
"This is Grant Ward. I hope you don't mind, but I asked Phil at the studio to give me your number so that I could get in touch with you before filming starts."
Skye lets a small smile grace her lips at the fact that Grant Ward is calling her right now and actually asked for her number. "No, I don't mind at all. It's perfectly fine. It's probably for the best, you know, considering we're co-stars now and everything."
"Exactly my thoughts. Speaking of which, have you seen the latest press release about the movie?"
"I think my Agent sent me a link to it a little while ago, but I haven't actually had the chance to look at it yet because I finally just got some downtime from the job I do to actually make money."
"Oh. Well, I've read through it and it's not very long, just the basic stuff. They announced you and me as the two leads, as well as a few of the other supporting actors, when filming will start, the hopeful premiere date, and I think a very basic premise of the movie."
"Hmm. That must be why I started gaining a bunch of new followers on Twitter and Instagram," she muses aloud.
"Probably," Grant replies. He sighs. "I remember what that was like."
Skye rolls her eyes and lets out a small laugh. "Oh, I'm sure you do."
He chuckles. "I do. It's pretty crazy to think that so many people around the world are going to be following you and your career so closely now, huh?"
She sucks in a breath. "Yeah. Just a little bit."
"Well don't worry about it too much, alright? It gets much easier to handle all of this over time. Pretty soon it won't even faze you anymore. You'll be a pro."
Skye smiles. "I guess I'll just have to take your word for it until it happens."
"Yes, I suppose so. I'm always happy to help out a fellow castmate. So, are you excited about the table read coming up?"
"Very," Skye replies. "This is the first big movie that I'm doing so I'm getting really excited for everything that encompasses it."
"Well that is a very good thing," Grant says to her. "And I promise I will try and make this table read as painless as possible for you."
She smiles. "I really appreciate that, thanks." There's a brief pause before Skye speaks up again, "Well, uh, I should probably go now," she tells him. "Going to read through the script so I actually know the whole story before we go in."
"Right, of course. I'll let you go. See you at the table read."
"Yeah, see ya."
Hanging up the call, Skye quickly saves the new number into her contacts, 'Grant Ward', before going into her text messages and finding the link from Natasha for the press release. She taps on the link, letting it open up in a web browser, and then quickly skims through the short article.
She smiles to herself as her name is listed, along with Grant's, as one of the stars of the movie.
Copying the link from the address bar, she switches over to Twitter to send it out with a message to her followers, both old and new.
*Skye: Finally got around to reading this. Very excited to be a part of this exciting adventure. First time doing a movie of this caliber, can't wait for all that's ahead of me. :)
She quickly finds the verified account for the movie, giving it a follow and then sending out another message.
*Skye: Also, be sure to follow *SecretWarMovie so you can stay up to date with all the news and happenings in real time. :)
A few seconds after sending out the tweet, she checks her notifications to see so many more than she's ever received before. There's also more follows to her account. She can't help but smile to herself. This is really happening for her. It's not just in her head.
Multiple notifications catch her eye and she stops to look at them, seeing that they're from Grant; he followed her and then quoted her first tweet while adding his own comment to it.
*IMGrantWard: Not my first time doing a movie of this caliber, but I am also very excited about this new project. Also excited to show all the inner workings of Hollywood to a newbie such as yourself. :)
Skye just laughs quietly and hits reply.
*Skye: *IMGrantWard Seriously? I'm not that much of a newbie. I've done some smaller things, just nothing this huge.
*IMGrantWard: *Skye Exactly the reason why I'm going to show you the inner workings of this industry.
*Skye: *IMGrantWard you can't see me, but I'm actually rolling my eyes at you right now.
*IMGrantWard: *Skye I'm sure you are.
Taking a moment to gather her nerves together before shutting off the engine completely, Skye grabs her things and steps out of the car, shoving her car keys into the outside pocket of her bag. She makes sure to lock her car before heading inside the building, her heart racing inside her chest.
When she gets to the main lobby, she walks straight up to the receptionist desk. "Hello," she says with a small smile, already going for her ID, "I'm here for—"
The woman behind the desk holds up a pointed finger, cutting Skye off. The woman is having a conversation on the phone and not paying Skye any attention.
She drops her smile, narrows her eyes, and tries again, shifting a little on her feet. "Excuse me. Could you please—"
The woman holds up the same finger to cut Skye off again.
Skye's eyes widen and she's about ready to tell the woman off for being so rude when she hears a familiar voice behind her.
"Hey, you."
Turning around, the smile returns to her face when she sees Grant walking toward her with a small smile of his own on his face. "Hey yourself."
"So, Rookie," he starts as he stops in front of her.
She tilts her head and furrows her brows at him. "I'm sorry, did you just call me 'Rookie'?"
He nods his head. "I did. Because that's what you are. You're a Rookie when it comes to all of this. And it sounds a lot better than 'newbie'."
She blinks. "Um, okay."
"So, Rookie," he repeats, "are you ready for the table read?"
"Well, I would be if this lady—" she jerks her thumb toward the desk "—would get off her phone and talk to me."
"Yeah, I remember what that's like. Hang on a second." He turns toward the desk and leans forward, throwing a flashy smile at the woman. Skye has to keep herself from snorting in amusement. "Hi there," he says to the red-headed woman.
She smiles up at him and then ends her call, setting the phone back in its cradle and smiling brightly up at Grant. She leans forward on her arms ever so slightly, not being subtle at all in trying to show off her cleavage. But Grant's eyes never once leave the woman's face. "How can I help you, sugar?"
"Well, Carrie, my friend and I are here for a table read for the new Shield Studios movie. Could you let us through, please?"
"I'll just need to see your ID's first," she tells them.
"Oh, of course." He reaches into his back pocket for his wallet, pulling it out and then sliding his ID out of the small pocket. Skye hands hers over to him when he holds his hand out and watches as he hands them over to Carrie.
The other woman takes both ID's and taps a few times on her computer before handing the ID's back over with a bright smile. "Grant Ward, I can't believe I didn't recognize you."
"It's alright," he says. "I don't blame you."
The woman giggles and Skye has to stop herself from laughing again. Can this woman be any more obvious?
There's a quiet buzzing and then a set of double doors just off to the side opens up, offering them entrance to the long hallway.
Grant turns toward Skye and holds his hand out in front of them in the direction of the double doors. He smiles at her as he hands her ID back. "After you."
"Why thank you." She smiles back, stepping past him and through the doors, taking her ID from him and sliding it back into her bag as she goes.
He follows right behind her, the two of them talking to each other as they make their way to the correct room.
"Okay, but that was kind of amazing back there," Skye tells him as they walk down the long corridor. "You have to teach me your ways."
He chuckles. "I mean...it's kind of my natural charm, I guess."
She snorts. "Natural charm. Sure. It's like you flipped a switch in there or something. One minute you're just acting all dorky and whatever, and the next you're acting like this total heartthrob. Like, there was no thought involved in that whatsoever."
He shrugs. "I guess I've just done it enough that it comes so naturally."
She smirks. "Or it's because it's been programmed into you, like a robot." She gasps playfully. "Are you secretly a robot?"
He laughs. "What?"
"I mean, some people say that all Hollywood actors are essentially robots anyway, so it's not that far of a stretch. And I'm pretty sure you played a robot once very early on in your career. Was that actually your life story as a robot put on film?"
He groans. "I cannot believe you've seen that."
She laughs. "Please, anyone who's a crazy loyal fan of yours has seen that."
He smirks. "So you're a crazy loyal fan, then?"
She shakes her head. "My best friend is a crazy loyal fan. I was kind of dragged into it by her."
"Whatever you need to tell yourself."
"Shut up." She rolls her eyes, reaching out to shove his shoulder, eliciting a quiet laugh from him.
"So, be honest with me, how are you feeling right now?" Grant asks her after a quiet minute.
She takes a deep breath. "Part of me still thinks that this a dream and I'm going to wake up any minute now back in my room, getting ready to make another indie film while living paycheck to paycheck. And it's not that I have anything against indie films, I've done quite a few of them and have met some really great people on those projects, like my boyfriend. I just want to branch out, you know? I want to see what else I'm capable of."
Grant smiles down at her. "I think that's really great."
"You do?" she asks.
He nods. "Absolutely. I think it's great that you want to branch out, try new roles. That's a really great trait to have in this business. Just don't try to take on too much at any one point. Or if you don't think you can handle a role, or you simply don't want to do it, don't be afraid to say no."
"Really?"
"Yeah. While there are some casting directors who don't really like that, most of them really admire it when actors have standards and things like that and aren't afraid to stand up for themselves and what they will or won't do and won't be pushed around."
She smiles. "Well, that's really good to know."
"I thought so. It's like I said on Twitter, I'm going to do my best to make sure I teach you everything that I know about being in this business. Because it definitely isn't easy. And now here we are." He stops and gestures to the large double doors in front of them.
Skye faces the doors fully and takes a deep breath in, squaring her shoulders. "Let's do this."
Grant smiles and reaches forward, grabbing the handle of one of the doors and pulling it open, allowing Skye to step through in front of him.
"Wow," Skye says once she steps into the large room and looks all around her. There are multiple long tables set up in a rectangle with chairs surrounding the outside of it; folded name cards are sitting in front of each chair, containing the names of the main actors, the director, the writers, producers, and a few others. People are milling about the room, talking and laughing with one another, a few of the people getting themselves situated in their respective seats.
"Come on, let's go find our seats," Grant tells her, stepping up beside her. "My best guess is that we're going to be next to each other, considering we're the two leads."
Skye nods. "Right, yeah, that makes sense." She follows Grant around the room, greeting a few of the people she passes by, meeting more of the cast and crew.
"You must be Skye."
"Um, you know me?" she asks the tall African American man in front of her, the gears in her head starting to turn, thinking she recognizes the man from somewhere. She just can't quite figure out from where.
"Everybody knows who you are now, girl."
"Right, of course they do. I keep forgetting that. Still getting used to the fact that more people are watching my every move now."
The man smiles. "I get it. Took me a while to get used to all of that after I booked my first big movie role as the ever so handsome Dante Marlowe, once upon a time."
Skye's eyes go wide when the information clicks together in her head. "You're Antoine Triplett. Oh, wow. I can't believe I didn't recognize you immediately. I love all of your movies."
He chuckles quietly. "Please, call me Trip, all my friends do."
"We're friends now? Wow. This is so crazy."
Trip laughs again. "I like you. I think making this movie is definitely going to be a lot of fun."
"Of course it'll be fun, Trip," Grant tells the other man with a small smile as he claps him on the back. "Making a movie usually is. Don't you remember that movie we shot on location in Africa a few years back?"
Trip groans. "I am never letting you talk me into something like that again."
"What?" Skye asks. "What happened?"
Trip shakes his head when he sees Grant go to open his mouth. "No. That is a story I do not want to be told. Ever. My head hurts just thinking about how hungover we got that night."
"But we did have some good times there," Grant reminds him.
Trip sighs. "Yes, we did. I'm gonna go find my seat now before Grant decides to bring up any more embarrassing stories about the two of us working together. It was really great meeting you, Skye."
She smiles softly. "You too." She spins to Grant when Trip walks away. "You and Trip seem close," she says.
He shrugs. "Out of everyone that's in the industry, I've probably known him the longest. We've done a few projects together over the years. He's a good guy. And by that, I mean he actually is one of the good guys in Hollywood. Not just the kind where you say they're one of the good guys and they turn out to be slime. Trip's a real gentleman."
"He definitely seems like it."
The two of them turn around and begin making their way through the room again, around the outside of the table, searching for the placards with their respective names on them.
"Ah, here we go." Grant stops and turns to face one of the tables.
Skye stops right next to him. "That's my name." She gets a little breathless at the sight of the small paper placard sitting on the table in front of her containing her name, as well as her character's name, typed across the front of it.
"And there's my name." Grant points to his placard that sits right next to hers, showing his own name and his character's name as well. "Is this your first time having a placard at a table read?"
"Never been to a professional table read before, so yeah."
He smiles at her. "Well, now you have your first placard."
She smiles back. "Yes, I do. Which means it needs to be documented." She quickly pulls her cell phone out of her bag and unlocks it, going straight into Instagram. She positions the camera at an angle so she gets the placard and the very top of the script that she had set there upon finding her spot.
My very first name placard. Things are getting real up in here, you guys. :) #SecretWarFireandEarth #SecretWarMovie #daisyjohnson #thatsmyname #onaplacard #itsofficial
Hitting the share button, after tagging the movie's official Instagram account in the corner of the photo, she waits for a moment before closing out of the app and locking her phone again.
"You good now?" Grant asks her with a small smile, his hands shoved into the pockets of his jeans.
She smiles and nods. "Yep. Just letting the moment sink in."
"Okay everyone," the director says as he enters the room. "I think we're all here now. If everyone can find their seats we can go ahead and get started with the table read for Secret War: Fire and Earth."
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'SECRET WAR' OFF TO A SUPER START
Cameras haven't even started rolling yet on this much-anticipated film from Shield Studios, but that hasn't stopped the fans from talking.
Not long after the press release for the movie came out, one of the two leads of the film, indie-film star, Skye, tweeted out, saying how she's excited about this movie and can't wait to get started on production. Shortly after her tweet, her costar for the film, Grant Ward, replied to her, saying that he too is excited and is going to show her how Hollywood really works.
If their first interaction online is any indication, then this movie is definitely going to be a great one, and the chemistry between these two is already off the charts.
There's no doubt that we're all in for a treat where these two are concerned.
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agenthaywood posted
Aaaand I'm done. I'm already so deep in the trash can for these two and all we have from them is a twitter convo.
#Grant Ward #Skye #I'm trash #why do I let these things happen to me #someone help #i need photos of them on set together #right now #someone give it to me #i need it yesterday
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