Becoming Big

Chapter 3

My parents flipped their lids when I told them. A day before the interview with Kristen, Zac, Marco, and Maia Mitchell I am able to tell my 20 instagram followers that I got the role in the movie.

I wake up the next morning, take a shower, and get dressed. I don't know what to wear so I go to the Dress 4 Less store that I recently quit at and find a dress. I end up with nothing so I find what I can at home. Lauren texted me last night and said no fancy dresses but don't dress down. I fish through my closet and find a pair of black skinny jeans, a black blazer, and a white shirt. I pair the outfit with a long necklace and some earrings. I throw my hair up in a messy bun and slip on a hair of white flats.

I jump into my car and go where Lauren directed me to go. I arrive.

The interview is pretty tame and the butterflies that I had beforehand weren't necessary. He asks questions about the movie and cast and direct most of them to Kristen and Zac. I leave feeling better about interviews than I did when I came in. Now red carpets are my only worry.

***

A month later after many meetings and lunch dates and reading of lines

As I walk into my first day of shooting I can't help but feel like I'm back at auditions. We are in an office looking room and cameras are stations randomly around the room. The director of the movie Craig Jones is talking with Kristen and the writer is talking with a random woman of whom I do not know. She obviously has something to do with making the movie though.

I wave to Kristen and she waves back before I leave. I jog to the parking lot in front of the building and run into Zac along the way. I apologize and slow my steps to a walk. I enter my trailer which would be referred to as my dressing room that I share with Marco who is playing my little brother, Garrett, and flop down on the small sofa. I'm shoved up by my makeup artist who claims its time to get ready.

"Shooting starts in one hour, Briella. Hair and makeup is now, wardrobe next, and then it's go time," she says as she sits me down in the wood chair in front of the one mirror in the whole trailer.

"Only an hour?" I exclaim. It is so weird that the day has finally come where we will shoot the very first part of the movie. I'm anxious and prepared, yet at the same time not prepared.

"Mmhm. Now shh before you ruin your foundation."

I sit strait and let her do her thing while I sit on Twitter. My tweet from yesterday saying that I'm ready for today has over 5000 retweets, comments, and likes. I spend this time responding to the relevant and okay questions and follow guide the bucket load of people. It's amazing that just a month ago when Zac tweeted a picture of the two of us finally able to say he got the role and saying he's happy to be working with me and Kristen, I have received plenty of new followers on Twitter and Instagram. At first I thought that people didn't really care about me and only cared about the fact that I was in a movie with Kristen Stewart and Zac Efron, but reading their comments underneath my stupidest posts differ from that. They think I'm pretty and funny. I don't know how they would thing I'm funny but I guess that's how it is. My tweets describe me and they are quite a ball of nonsense and gibberish humor so I guess they could think I'm funny.

"Are you getting excited?" Valerie, my hair and makeup girl, asks.

I avert my eyes from my phone and look up at her. "Huh? For what?" I wasn't paying attention.

"Are you excited to start your first day of filming?" She asks.

I notice that Marco and a cameraman have found their way into our trailer and I blink. I didn't know cameras were allowed in here but apparently so. Zac and Kristen started filming last week. "Yes, I actually am getting quite anxious."

"What are you filming today?" She asks.

"Um, the ending scene. Interesting order if you ask me."

She nods. "So, you said you were a prankster in your interview with Kim&Kyle. Do you have any, like, pranks planed for your co-stars?"

I laugh. "I wish. Zac is too aware of everything around him though. If I tried to pull something on him he would find out and it would backfire."

She laughs along with me. For some reason her laugh seems so fake. I mean she's my makeup and hair girl, how could she act like this? But she also acts like this when cameras aren't around. When I met her she was stern vern and didn't talk to me. I think it's because she wanted Zac as her "client" but he got some dude with orange hair and twenty tattoos. 

The camera leaves then after talking to Marco.

"Am I done?" I ask Valerie.

"Yes. Your hair has to stay down. I did your makeup and you are ready to go. Your outfit is on the back of the chair."

I nod and get to my feet. I make room for her to clean up the counter and get the outfit. A simple pair of black skinny jeans, a green adidas sweatshirt, and black converse. I'm careful not to ruin my makeup as I pull on the sweatshirt.

"Call for action. Be here in 5 minutes. Square B in 5 minutes," I hear the director yell from somewhere outside my trailer.

I grab a water bottle from our mini fridge and walk outside. Here goes nothing. Let's make a movie.