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I had been having an awful day and it was getting worse. We had to redo so many takes today and I was so over it but then I got a text from Ty and the day suddenly had a silver lining. He wants to get to know me and see me again. I had debated on not texting him back but I figured some rules are meant to be broken. We had been texting back and forth between each other since lunch, getting to know more about each other.
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so why the name Madison Sherman Smith
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well my real name is Lexington May Sherman so I chose the Madison part because I wanted another name from a place and I kept the Sherman part because my step dad had given me his last name even though I wasn't his and the Smith is my dad's last name there's a lot to unpack on that one but my dad was why I decided to risk it all so of course I was bringing his name along with. What about you? I know you don't like talking about it but I have to know.
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lol well mine isn't as meaningful as yours and I don't talk about it because it's embarrassing but anyway so when I was first starting and I went to perform for the first time in front of actual people I got nervous and when I went to say my name I got mixed up and announced myself as tyrannosaurus Rex. thankfully just the Rex part stuck
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lol oh that is great and how is that more embarrassing than the time you got photographed walking around that hotel in just your underwear
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cause I got locked out of my own room by my ex that time it wasn't something I myself did. now the time I was drunk and started throwing food in the restaurant was embarrassing. and wbu miss totalled my ex's car with just a baseball bat. you are so open about that but not about you past before fame
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cause I'm big on owning my own mistakes and actions and there's a lot of incidents from my younger years that aren't mine to answer for. like my mom was not a good person and there are decisions she made that have a lasting effect on people besides me so I can't answer for it or her
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I get that. part of me wishes I had protected my real name a lot better. anyone can dig up not just mine but also my family's skeletons if they want and that's not fair to them
*delivered*
exactly. but hey I'm fixing to go shoot my last scene so I'll text you in a bit
This was one of the last scenes I was going to have to film and I knew it was going to be hell. Miss pre Madonna aka Brittany Harris aka Brit, yeah that Brit was being her typical difficult self and had already delayed filming. This wasn't my first time working with her and to put it mildly we don't get along. Every chance she got to make things difficult for me she took. From trying to mess up my costumes to trying to literally get me hurt she went for it. In the scene we are about to film I'm supposed to find her trapped in the ruble and in the stress of freeing her I tap into super natural ability I didn't know I had and the scene ends with me helping her to her feet.
' Actor's to set!' someone announced
'About damn time.' I mumbled as I walked to the collapsed building.
'You better do this right.' Brit hissed as I got closer to her
'Im never the reason we have to do multiple takes and you know it.'
'Are you sure? Cause you ruin every close up angle of me.'
'If you aren't the focus of the scene it's not your close up.'
' Quiet on set!' someone announced
The first take of the scene was pretty good but the director wanted Brit to act a bit more surprised and worried when I tap into my abilities and act less helpless. The second take was better but as I grabbed her hand to help her out she dug her nails into my palm. We did about three more takes before I decided to call her on it and everybody was pissed. I thought that would be the end of her crap but to my surprise she decided to pull me towards her at the end of take five and I tripped busting my knee open. At first everyone wanted me to clean my knee up before we did another take but I insisted that it would make it more believable. I was still angry as we started to film and I could tell I was letting a bit of it show. As it came to the last part of the scene where I pull her to her feet I made a choice that I was going to wait until she was just about to climb out of the hole and jerk her as hard as I could. Just as her knee came up I pulled with everything I had in me and she tumbled out and over.
'Oh my God, I'm so sorry.' I said as I came closer and helped her up.
'You did that on purpose. I swear you will never work in this industry again and now we are going to have to retake it.' Just as she started to storm off the director said something I didn't expect.
'Thats scene. No more retakes I like the last one and I might keep it as is.'
Brit looked completely pissed as she stormed off but I was on cloud nine sure it was already after eleven but I felt like I had finally gotten one up on her. As I got back to my dressing room I read my message from Ty and debated on telling him I was filming with his ex.
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hey how's filming going
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well it ran longer than expected. do you know who all is acting in this?
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well besides you and myself for the sound track nope
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well your ex is and she is a nightmare
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Brit? if so then she is definitely something to work with. we met while filming together and she was awful but she is different outside of work
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this is my second time working with her and tbh if I had known she was in it I would have declined
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I get that. do you spend any time with her outside of work
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hell no personally I think she is an all around bad person
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she has her good days but I'm definitely not her biggest fan
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I have never seen a good day with her lol
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lol I could understand why. so do you still want to come over
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of course. I'm big on breaking rules
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