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each other, donât we, Caspian?
CASPIAN looks a bit uncertain, but he holds JULIA even tighter.
CASPIAN
Yes, yes we do. You wonât tell anyone, will you, Angel?
ANGEL shakes her head. CASPIAN and JULIA exit, leaving ANGEL looking forlorn and sad. It is clear that ANGEL has a crush on CASPIAN and would do anything for him.
Chapter Three
A nyway, this is how it happened. I didnât have much to do on the set todayâno crying or anything hard. Just Angel finding out that her cousin Caspian, who sheâs in love with, and her fatherâs archrivalâs daughter Julia are still seeing each otherâdespite being totally forbidden to do so by both of their parents. Also, Caspian is trying to get Julia to have sex with him, but sheâs not sure she wants to. She probably wonât in the end though because Kensington Heights in no way condones underage sex; we leave that sort of thing up to EastEnders . Or possibly she will say yes, but theyâll get found out and stopped in the nick of timeâprobably by Angel. Angelâs main thing is finding out stuff and stopping it in the nick of time.
So, I didnât have much to do, but I couldnât go home because I had to do some reaction shots at the end of the day. Thatâs when you look just off-camera and have to pretend youâre reacting to a line another actor has said. Sometimes the actorâs not even there! Sometimes itâs just one of the runners or something, saying it all deadpan like theyâre ordering a Big Mac and fries and you have to gasp or cry or something. I used to be terrible at reaction shots; I always wanted to laugh instead. But then Liz, our producer, would say time is money. So Iâd put a tear stick under my eye and think about what it would be like if Everest ever died, and usually it turned out all right in the end.
Brett and Martin had this big scene to do, and Brett said I was putting her off just hanging around watching and that I should go for a walk or something, so I thought Iâd go and see Liz because sheâs really nice normally. I knew that Liz was upstairs in some kind of emergency script meeting, and because one day I want to write my own screenplay with Nydia (weâve already started writing one) and direct my own film (an independent one with Justin in it because weâd be married by then), I thought theyâd let me sit in on the meeting. They have before.
I got there and the door was open a bit, and so I thought Iâd just wait for a lull in the conversation before going in, but then I heard my name! I heard Liz talking about me , Ruby. So I thought, Excellentânew story lines! I crept up a bit closer and put my ear next to the crack in the doorway, and thatâs when I found out.
âItâs just that Ruby seems to be going through a bit of a â¦a difficult stage right now,â Liz said sort of sadly.
âYes, she is a bit. Sheâs just sort of stuck between being a girl and being a woman. She does look a bit awkward, poor thing,â Simon Jenkins, the script editor (who I now know to be evil), said.
âI donât think itâs that big of a deal,â said Trudy, the showâs main writer. âSheâs just a normal girl. She gets loads of fan mail from girls just like her. She appeals to her demographic. I know that KH is partially about glamour, but not everyone can be glamorous all the time, and I thought we wanted a balance. Otherwise weâll end up like Crossroads , and look what happened to that! Itâs not as if sheâs the star of the show. I think we should let her grow a bit and then decide.â
At first it felt sort of strange listening to them talk about me, like they were talking about some other girl. Like it wasnât about me at all.
âI agree with you up to a point, Trudy,â Simon said. âBut, say what you like, it does matter what people look like on TV. The public likes looking
CASPIAN looks a bit uncertain, but he holds JULIA even tighter.
CASPIAN
Yes, yes we do. You wonât tell anyone, will you, Angel?
ANGEL shakes her head. CASPIAN and JULIA exit, leaving ANGEL looking forlorn and sad. It is clear that ANGEL has a crush on CASPIAN and would do anything for him.
Chapter Three
A nyway, this is how it happened. I didnât have much to do on the set todayâno crying or anything hard. Just Angel finding out that her cousin Caspian, who sheâs in love with, and her fatherâs archrivalâs daughter Julia are still seeing each otherâdespite being totally forbidden to do so by both of their parents. Also, Caspian is trying to get Julia to have sex with him, but sheâs not sure she wants to. She probably wonât in the end though because Kensington Heights in no way condones underage sex; we leave that sort of thing up to EastEnders . Or possibly she will say yes, but theyâll get found out and stopped in the nick of timeâprobably by Angel. Angelâs main thing is finding out stuff and stopping it in the nick of time.
So, I didnât have much to do, but I couldnât go home because I had to do some reaction shots at the end of the day. Thatâs when you look just off-camera and have to pretend youâre reacting to a line another actor has said. Sometimes the actorâs not even there! Sometimes itâs just one of the runners or something, saying it all deadpan like theyâre ordering a Big Mac and fries and you have to gasp or cry or something. I used to be terrible at reaction shots; I always wanted to laugh instead. But then Liz, our producer, would say time is money. So Iâd put a tear stick under my eye and think about what it would be like if Everest ever died, and usually it turned out all right in the end.
Brett and Martin had this big scene to do, and Brett said I was putting her off just hanging around watching and that I should go for a walk or something, so I thought Iâd go and see Liz because sheâs really nice normally. I knew that Liz was upstairs in some kind of emergency script meeting, and because one day I want to write my own screenplay with Nydia (weâve already started writing one) and direct my own film (an independent one with Justin in it because weâd be married by then), I thought theyâd let me sit in on the meeting. They have before.
I got there and the door was open a bit, and so I thought Iâd just wait for a lull in the conversation before going in, but then I heard my name! I heard Liz talking about me , Ruby. So I thought, Excellentânew story lines! I crept up a bit closer and put my ear next to the crack in the doorway, and thatâs when I found out.
âItâs just that Ruby seems to be going through a bit of a â¦a difficult stage right now,â Liz said sort of sadly.
âYes, she is a bit. Sheâs just sort of stuck between being a girl and being a woman. She does look a bit awkward, poor thing,â Simon Jenkins, the script editor (who I now know to be evil), said.
âI donât think itâs that big of a deal,â said Trudy, the showâs main writer. âSheâs just a normal girl. She gets loads of fan mail from girls just like her. She appeals to her demographic. I know that KH is partially about glamour, but not everyone can be glamorous all the time, and I thought we wanted a balance. Otherwise weâll end up like Crossroads , and look what happened to that! Itâs not as if sheâs the star of the show. I think we should let her grow a bit and then decide.â
At first it felt sort of strange listening to them talk about me, like they were talking about some other girl. Like it wasnât about me at all.
âI agree with you up to a point, Trudy,â Simon said. âBut, say what you like, it does matter what people look like on TV. The public likes looking
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