The Understudy: a Novel
“Stephen was sitting in the canteen of a production facility in Twickenham, wearing a heavily padded nylon squirrel costume. An immense fiberglass hazelnut sat on the table next to his bacon roll. Opposite him, the floor manager flicked through the paper, and that’s when Stephen saw it, and groaned out loud. The floor manager looked up.
“Any chance of me borrowing your paper?”
Immune to his animal charms, the floor manager scowled, and Stephen was forced once again to accept that playing the tit...le role in a film didn’t automatically grant him any particular authority.
“For one second? Please?”
The floor manager exhaled through his nose, handed the paper over, and left. Stephen gripped it tightly in both paws.
Just as there is no such thing as a small part, there is supposedly no such thing as bad publicity. Yet this was clearly bad publicity. Photographs of celebrity street fights never look particularly impressive—arms seem to flail ineffectually, punches always seem to miss their mark; it always looks more playground than boxing ring—and this photograph was no exception.MoreLess
“Any chance of me borrowing your paper?”
Immune to his animal charms, the floor manager scowled, and Stephen was forced once again to accept that playing the tit...le role in a film didn’t automatically grant him any particular authority.
“For one second? Please?”
The floor manager exhaled through his nose, handed the paper over, and left. Stephen gripped it tightly in both paws.
Just as there is no such thing as a small part, there is supposedly no such thing as bad publicity. Yet this was clearly bad publicity. Photographs of celebrity street fights never look particularly impressive—arms seem to flail ineffectually, punches always seem to miss their mark; it always looks more playground than boxing ring—and this photograph was no exception.MoreLess
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