Chapter 160 160 - First shooting

    Since my bleached hair was very characteristic of the image I was creating for my career as an artist, Angelina thought that using Jack with hair like mine might confuse the audience into not distinguishing the actor from the character, so she asked me to use a temporary black dye on my hair.

    It was a special dye that was washed off with water to bring my hair back to its natural color, which I didn''t mind and let the makeup and costume department take care of.

    Even though my character wasn''t that big and important to the show, since I was a guest artist, the makeup team that took care of me was the same team that took care of the main cast.

    So a coincidence happened while they were doing my makeup.

    "Looks like you really made the cut, kid!" Phil said excitedly as he walked into the makeup room. When I opened my eyes and saw who was talking to me, I smiled at him and nodded. "Yeah! Ms. Parker was very pleased with my performance and decided that I could play ''Jack'', boss."

    "Jack..." He thought for a few seconds. "Harley''s boyfriend?! Ohhh, it looks like we''re going to have some scenes together haha, I''m curious to see how you''re going to act. The boy went from being the emotional support behind the scenes to the girl''s boyfriend in the show..."

    "I will be under your care." I said in a humble way because Phil was not only much more famous than me, but he was also a much better actor than me.

    Acting with him was not only a great opportunity for my career, but also a great learning opportunity for me as an actor.

    "Don''t worry...just tell me one thing, how is your improv?" He asked as he sat down in the chair next to mine, preparing to be made up as well.

    "Improvisation? Hm... I''m used to dealing with unforeseen events on stage while I''m singing, but I''ve never had to deal with anything like that for acting, apart from my teacher''s exercises at school," I explained. I explained.

    "On stage while singing... you didn''t tell me you were a singer!" He asked in surprise.

    "That''s why I thought his choice of actor to play Jack was a good one, Phil." Angelina entered the room carrying a clipboard. "He is a D Rank singer who helped his friend audition for Harley, after seeing his level of acting and knowing that his career was the same as mine for Jack, I felt there was no better choice than him for Jack."

    Hearing this, Phil''s eyes lit up.

    "What an incredible coincidence!" He said. "I love improvising in scenes, so keep an eye out for our interactions."

    Phil seemed like a nice guy, even though he was a B-rank performer, he didn''t have even 10% of the arrogance of most of the D-rank performers I''ve met so far.

    Angelina gave us the order in which the episodes would be recorded, which fortunately for me would follow a chronological order.

    Since I didn''t have much experience with acting, recording the scenes in a messy order was something I was still struggling to get used to.

    My drama teacher had given me some exercises in school, but nothing too in-depth.

    Sure, it wasn''t the door of a real house, but at least it was a real door.

    In front of me, Laura, or rather Harley, opened the door and looked at me excitedly.

    "You came Jack!" she said excitedly, showing the true level of performance she had that day, with an act so convincing that it seemed as if she had really become Harley.

    "Yeah babe, I said I''d come." I smiled, acting a little more cheeky and confident as I approached her.

    Harley got nervous when she saw me approaching her and quickly moved out of the way of the door as she ducked her head in embarrassment. "Ow Jack... don''t act like that in here, my mom might show up any minute..."

    "Hehe..." I replied as the script said and walked past her, looking at the house curiously.

    I had to dose the amount of curiosity I showed Jack to be just right, so that it wasn''t unnoticeable, but also so that it wasn''t so disguised that the audience wouldn''t even notice Jack''s traits.

    As I walked through the living room, two kids ran past and bumped into me. "Be careful, Lucas! Don''t run into the house!" Martha yelled as she came towards us, freezing at the sight of me. "Who are you?" she asked suspiciously.

    I was about to answer when Harley stepped in front of me and answered for me. "He''s Jack, Mom, my boyfriend, the one I was going to invite to the barbecue today."

    Seeing Harley explain who I was and then looking at me even more suspiciously, Martha just nodded slightly and finally said something. "Alright, welcome Jack, but you should know that in my house you always have to be under supervision, don''t go into rooms alone and even less behind closed doors, understand?"

    "Even in the bathroom?" I asked, feigning shock.

    This question was off-script, which surprised Laura and Julia, who were sitting across from me, but Julia''s professionalism was high enough that she didn''t let it show and answered. "Even in the bathroom." She said as she narrowed her eyes and looked at me even more suspiciously.

    I just raised my hands in surrender and nodded as I turned back to the script. "All right Ms. Duncan."

    Martha nodded at me and went back to running after the two children who were nearly destroying the house with their play.

    I just followed Harley as we chatted about something and the focus of the shot shifted to something else.

    "Cut!" Angelina shouted, causing everyone to sigh as they looked at her expectantly. "Well done Noah, good that you weren''t nervous about your first scene and even managed to improvise a bit. You should know that improvisation is very welcome on my set, just keep everything in character and it won''t be a problem."

    Hearing that she approved of the small change I had made to the script, I was happy and excited about the rest of the scenes I was about to shoot.

    Even Laura was happy to see this and wanted to continue shooting with me.

    The difference in the quality of her acting from the scenes she had previously recorded to the one she had just recorded was stark!

    And I wasn''t the only one who noticed, the other actors also noticed the difference in Laura''s performance and even Angelina was pleased.