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Can't we just have some fun?

Why does everything

have to be so serious?

Maybe coming here was a mistake.

Don't say that.

Did you see that?

What?

I saw someone

over by the window.

They were looking at us.

Must've been Greg.

I don't think so.

Can you see anything?

No.

What?

I saw someone out there.

- They were watching us.

- I'm going out there.

No.

Jack please, don't.

- Thank you, Serena.

- Hm-hm.

Are you still at Paradigm?

Uh no, actually I just changed

to Shelley Drucker at ADA.

- Oh, he's great.

- Hm-hm.

- That's a nice step up for you.

- Hm-hm.

- He's a sweetheart.

- Thank you.

Hi Shelley, I'm just calling

to check on what happened

to that Will Smith movie.

Right, they

went with Shaylene Woodley.

Are you kidding?

I mean, I'm never gonna have

a chance with someone like her.

Well that's who

you're gonna be up against

if you want to be

a leading lady,

which brings me

to the horror movie.

I don't know, a-a slasher movie?

It-it's just not

my kind of thing.

Okay, do me a favor,

watch the short film,

think about it.

You b*tch.

No! B*tch!

Alabama Chapman?

That can't be his real name.

Who was the girl?

- Hm?

- The star.

It doesn't say.

I'm just gonna look her up.

All right, here she is.

Nicole Healy.

She was in six of his movies.

She died.

She was murdered.

She does have

some fan pages, though.

Are you Alabama?

Serena?

You're late.

Yeah.

People are tired

of being lied to.

What they want

is something real.

They'd rather sit at home

and watch YouTube videos

of people falling on their asses

than go to some crap movie

they know is fake.

You know, they get lied to

by the government,

by the news, by their jobs.

What they want is the one thing

they are not being given,

the truth.

I saw one of your short films,

and it looked...

it looked very real to me.

I've been working with the

same crew since I was a kid,

and we all grew up

in North Carolina together.

How many of these shorts

have you done?

We need to make a feature...

...and we're ready.

He's smart and

he's really passionate.

Not at all what I expected.

Well, I'll

have them send over a deal.

Serena, this'll be great

for you.

These guys have a million

Twitter followers,

they're financed,

they're paying you.

You're the star.

You'll be great.

The future is yours.

- All right, thank you, Shelley.

- Mm-hmm.

- I'll talk to you later.

- Okay, bye, babe.

You know, I'm trying

to get excited about this.

You should be.

Yeah?

Four weeks in the woods

surrounded by a bunch

of hot actors and crew?

Well, there's also hot guys

in New York too,

and somehow I manage

to control myself here.

Yeah?

Anyway, that's not

what you're jealous about.

Hmm?

You're just jealous I

got a juicy part in a film.

Oh yeah, probably.

- Listen.

- Hmm?

Uh, I don't want you

to take this the wrong way,

but I want to do this by myself.

I don't want you to visit me.

Are you serious?

As much as I love you,

with the way things have

been going between us lately...

you're a distraction,

and I need to focus.

You know what, how about this?

F*** you.

All right?

And just have fun, you know,

f***ing all those guys

up there...

- Excuse me?

- ...or whatever you do.

When you did

that summer stock last year,

I stayed out of your way.

- Okay.

And who knows who

you were f***ing up there.

I was f***ing no one and you

could have come, right?

No one told you not to.

I didn't want

to get in your way.

Okay, well I guess

we saw that differently.

F*** this, I'm gonna stay

at my brother's tonight.

And you know...

call me when you're back.

Whatever, I don't know,

maybe you'll figure

something out by then, okay?

Miss Brooks?

Miss Brooks?

That's me.

Uh, I figured that was you

'cause you look

like a movie star.

I was real excited when I heard

you got the part.

Uh, I seen

your Law and Order episode

like five times.

What's your name?

IBall.

Uh, my-my real name's Raymond,

but uh, everyone calls me IBall,

like iPhone or iMac.

I'm IBall.

Probably on account

of my lazy eye.

But I-I don't mind.

Nice to meet you.

You're the last pickup.

It's a long drive up there.

But you can sit

wherever you want,

you's being the star, and all.

Well

I-I'd be happy to teach you.

Watch your step.

You're doing fine.

Hi, I'm Candice.

Gordon E. Runte.

Serena.

He's from England.

He's Shakespearian trained.

Yes, it's true.

I, um, graduated

from the Royal Academy.

Just finished a touring show

of Hamlet

in which I play the Dane

to a bunch of blue-hairs

from Shropshire.

Looking forward to this,

I can tell you.

Aren't you playing an American

in the film?

Well, f*** yeah.

I play Greg from Kansas City,

a horny little fellow with a

fetish for romantic paperbacks.

I die on page 61.

You don't sound European at all.

You's all are so talented.

Yes we are, IBall.

Yes we are.

This is gonna be

the best movie ever.

I was in a beauty pageant,

and I got seen

by a casting agent,

and he got me

to take acting lessons,

but I started having an affair

with our teacher.

And then

I got a job on a TV pilot,

but the director

wanted to sleep with me.

I think I only got this job

because I agreed

to take my top off.

That's not true.

There's a lot of actresses

who would agree to do that.

Did you?

No.

But I'm just saying that

you must've done something

really great in your audition

to get the part.

It's not just that you're

gonna show your tits.

You're really nice.

You know, I once did

three performances of Macbeth

with nothing but

the cool fog of Glasgow

to cover my little Gordon.

I just don't see why Americans

make such a big fuss over it.

Because we don't

want to be exploited.

Right, Candice?

- Right.

But they can't exploit you

if you're doing what you love.

He's right, I guess.

Look, you make up

your own mind about it,

but just because

you signed something

it doesn't mean that you have to do

things that you don't want to do.

I'm-I'm pretty sure

nudity's important to Alabama.

He's a real artist, though.

He-he won't exploit you's.

Hi, it's me.

I really wish you would

pick up your phone.

Look, I hate that we got

into that fight last night.

All right, um... love you.

Hello?

Did you hear that

they cast Blake Stone

I thought he stopped

acting after his breakdown.

Sure uh, I mean I bet he's

been in a ton of stuff

you never saw.

He plays my boyfriend.

Hope he's not an a**hole.

What's that mark on your hand?

Oh, that-that-that's our logo.

Everyone on the crew has 'em.

I don't know why it came out

so shitty.

I-I-I thought

it would be better.

I'm just really honored

that they're letting me

work on this.

Serena Brooks, I'm guessing.

Uh, yeah, that's me.

- Here let me get that for you.

- Oh, thanks.

I'm Walter Sax, I play Harper.

Oh, the bad guy.

That's not for me to judge.

So have you been in many films,

Walter?

Oh, I mean I've known

these guys forever,

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