Behind the Scenes - Herophine

34 - WEEK 1

The days passed, Hero and I pretending that nothing had happened between us, but at the same time, when our eyes met, our bodies leaned towards each other. Despite that, Hero kept making his jokes and made me laugh his way, as before, but still, we tried not to spend too much time together...

Sometimes Roger brought his daughter Beatrice to watch the shootings, even creating a contract for her to sign, where he asked not to tell anyone what she would see on set.

Dylan Sprouse was arriving in Atlanta to shoot the scenes for Trevor and Tessa. Trevor is an employee of the company where Tessa works, who approaches her with other intentions, not only as a friend, creating a love triangle between him, Hardin and Tessa. I was anxious to meeting him, everyone spoke highly of him.

We had already shooted most of the argument scenes, which were very beneficial because of the mood that we brought to the set. Hero was very focused on Hardin, his character, he suffered from childhood nightmares, due to a fact between his mother and father who was drunk. Hardin saw a heavy scene when he was a child. He saw some guys going to charge his father at his house, but they didn't find him, since he was at the bar, however, they find his mother, who suffered the consequences. For the shooting of this scene, we met on this day the actor John Jackson Hunter, little Hardin, who was a boyish grace, and very similar to Hero in some ways.

When we went to lunch, I spent most of the time with Shane, Anna, or Jen. In between shootings and when we met at the hotel, Anna showed Hero and me what was going on in "real life". The audience went crazy with the characters from After 2. They posted on the official social networks, she read the comments and showed us the messages, Hero and I were happy when that happened, the fans really like the story, and it was noticeable that they expected that everything went well in the filming so that the film had the best possible result.

There were also some bad comments from fans, mainly criticizing some character choices, due to the skin tone, different from the book, with the change of sex of another character, or with the change of some actors. Anna had spoken out asking for respect, but there were few negative comments compared to the thousands of positive comments on social media.

The actress Karimah Westbrook, for example, was one of the people who were criticizing. For her character, Karen, Landon's mother, it was necessary to change the actress because of the old Karen's schedules, which were not compatible with the shootings of After 2. But Karimah is incredible, I had the opportunity to shoot a scene with her during the week and I'm sure the audience will love!

The shootings were not made in the order of the scenes that appear in the film. For example, first I would shoot the scenes at Tessa and Hardin's apartment and on another scheduled day, next week, we would shoot at the club scene where Tessa stays with a random man and then meet Hardin for a hot night. Whoever read the book knows that the club comes before the apartment, when Tessa finally runs into the arms of her beloved, after so many mistakes made.

We shot the scenes in the apartment, Anna had posted a picture of Hardin sitting on the couch all in black, as usual, and another picture of a scene we did with Louise Lombard, Trish, Hardin's mother, who had returned from England to spend Christmas with him. The scenes were really good. And then came the couple's first scene, where they would finally love each other after so long apart.

While Hero touched me, I felt my body coming back to the day we had sex, I quickly got goosebumps and felt Hero calmer and more relaxed with me on the scene than in the first movie. It was much easier to do, we looked at each other and I remembered everything. I remembered Hero touching me for real, I remembered his kisses, closed my eyes and everything came again.

Hero on top of me, his scent, his hair, his mouth, I felt in his arms again, everything flowed perfectly, I threw myself on the scene, I just wanted to enjoy every second of that feeling inside of me, which also touched the character who was doing.

The producers and directors weren't expecting something like that, the whole set was silent and focused on every move we made, on every line that came out of our mouths, I felt that this time they saw something different on the scene too. It seemed that we spoke to each other by looking, between kisses, and then the mood was really heating up, something inside me wanted more and more, and then we heard:

"And... Cut"

We don't stop. I felt Hero's tongue in my mouth, we continued our kisses, even hotter, and then we heard more people talking:

"Cut", "can stop", "wow"...

And then we stopped, looked at each other and got embarrassed, we saw around and got out of bed, I wanted to put myself in a hole and not get out of there, but the whole set started to clap. Anna and Roger were puzzled, and then I looked at Hero, who was as embarrassed as I was, and we laughed, maybe nervous, maybe happy, who knows, all I know is that the scene was a success!