Chapter 6
Episode Nine
The Role is yours.
Since it was rush hour and traffic was really bad. When Natalie arrived, she was already late.
Lily and Nora were smiling from ear to ear as they stepped out of the audition building. They were surrounded by a crowd that offered congratulations
Seeing Natalie from afar, sweating as she hurried to the building, Nora looked at her with the same gaze from five years ago. It was the gaze of deity looking down on an ant.
A trail of dust was left behind as Nora arrogantly left in her minivan. Natalie quickly ran into the building after Nora depart. It wasn't too late. Suddenly, Natalie ran into a group of people who were chatting cheerfully as they were walking. They were panel judges for the Land Under Heaven auditions.
“Sorry, I'm late, “Natalie apologized.
Seeing that Natalie had blocked their path and interrupted them, a couple of the judges exchanged looks clearly unhappy. No one liked people who were late.
“The Assistant…” Natalie started explaining.
“Oh, you're not here to try for the female lead. Then what are you auditioning for?” The screenwriter asked with interest.
“I'm here to try out for the Supporting Female Lead.”
“Claire Marshal, as far as I know you weren't able to find a suitable actress for the supporting lead during the last auditions.”
Natalie lifted her head before the screenwriter could respond to her words. The instant Natalie lifted her head, the surrounding stood quiet for five seconds. The unfriendly assistant director was awestruck. What he saw was a girl with full lips, white teeth, waist-long ebony hair, in a crimson dress. Her brilliance could not be suppressed by such a vibrant color. Instead, it helped enhance her beauty.
She was just standing there calmly. Yet it was almost as if she was standing in a forest of floating mist.
She seemed like a fox spirit with 1000 years of cultivation. That pair of mesmerizing eyes would make a person drop their guard and fall into that endless spring of beauty just in an instance.
Although her cultivation was that of a spirit Fox, she seemed like a fairy who had never stepped on the ground. Her eyes have a lustrous depth.
“What’s your name?”
As if they been lost in a beautiful dream, many of the judges regain their senses only after director Grace Williams spoke.
“Natalie Brown,” she said with a flirtatious smile.
Director Grace spoke after exchanging glances with the assistant director, screenwriter and film producer. She explained,
“I have some recollection of you. You're one of the North Stars artists, right? You can go back to prepare. The Supporting Female Lead is yours. You will be notified when filming starts.”
“ Thank you, Director. I will prepare well.” Natalie expressed gratitude.
Natalie's target had always been the Supporting Female. She had been preparing for this role for three months by trying to completely understand Claire Marshalls character, making all the effort to impress the judges with just a single glance. Fortunately, she had succeeded despite some setbacks.
After Natalie had left, Director Grace exclaimed, “We looked all over for an actress and the moment we stopped looking, we found the perfect one. Her qualifications are too poor despite being signed to North Star Entertainment. With her acting record, I didn't even consider her for the female lead. Though I had never imagined that she would be far more beautiful than in her pictures.”
Screenwriter Logan Scott could suppress this excitement either, “Most importantly, her aura was one point. That gaze before us was too fitting. Claire Marshall was a righteous female general before she became the downfall of the nation. She could be pretty and cool Kaddish, yet she would maintain a pure demeanor and state of mind. She could never be vulgar. All the artists that came to audition before acted ruffle courtesans for me. I was fuming.”
“ Don't get worked up. Haven't we finally found the Claire we've been waiting for” Grace replied with a feeling.
At the same time in Washington DC, the first People's Hospital the VIP hospital room that little Ben was in was currently in a state of chaos.
The little guy was huddled on the windowsill with bare feet. He was frustrated and screaming at the top of his lungs, no matter how the doctors and nurses tried to persuade him according to come down.
James was controlling him like the most precious person in his heart, but it couldn't be helped that his efforts were completely ignored by the others. Timothy had just been called back to his company. With no other options left. James had to call him.