Acting the Part
By Scarlet Blackwell
I straighten my shirt and smooth my hair. This is it. Twenty-seven years old and my big break in acting. A firefighter in a prime time show. There’s only one fly in the ointment—said character is gay and I’m not. But that’s okay. I can do a few kisses for fame and money, can’t I? Sure. Except…the first time my firefighter meets his new cop lover, they roll around naked a little bit. Well, I can do that, too, can’t I? Nothing explicit, not for prime time.
Tony, the director, seems like a great guy. He was so enthusiastic at my casting. He’s short, rotund, and bald. He greets me outside his trailer on the lot, wan December sunshine filtering down. Looks like Christmas in California isn’t going to be too bad at all. “Hey, how’s it going, you had a chanc
