Chapter 113 She Is Too Girly
The play was just a few minutes long.
After it was over, Ebony felt she did pretty well.
She looked at Lloyd, who had a frosty look, and said, "I think we did well. What do you think?"
The quilt covered half of Lloyd's body. He pursed his lips softly replying, "Yeah."
"We got our emotions right." Ebony encouraged him.
Then she patted him on the shoulder and continued, "Keep up! I feel like we will get it done on the first try."
Lloyd gave her a look silently.
Ebony got off the bed, put on her slippers, and said, "I'm going back to my room."
Lloyd didn't say anything.
When the door was closed, Lloyd frowned and leaned back. He pressed his hand to his aching forehead and laughed. He said to himself, "I dug a hole for myself."
The next day. Shooting started off with the bed scene.
Director Knapp was so moved by how smooth the filming process was. He said, "Finally we are on the right track."
There was no doubt they passed on the first try.
There were several love bites on Ebony's neck and collarbone.
While wiping them with a tissue, she smugly bumped into Lloyd's shoulder, and said, "I told you so."
Lloyd didn't say anything to her.
He silently got out of the bed and walked to the bathroom.
Director Knapp looked at Lloyd's with a cigarette in his mouth. He smiled and said, "Lloyd is still a child."
Ebony was confused.
She put on her clothes and trotted to Director Knapp's side.
She curiously asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Director Knapp gave her an eye roll, saying, "Not everyone is as carefree as you are!"
Ebony became even more confused, and she felt like she was wronged. She said, "What's wrong with me? I should get all the credit for the shooting!"
She pointed to the bed scene that was still replaying on the monitor next to her, and said, "Here, you see that? My eyes were so loving. And here, see the kiss I gave to him? It was a hard bite! Can't you tell how good my acting was?"
Director Knapp couldn't stand it any longer. He said, "Can you stop watching your own bed scene so passionately?"
Ebony explained, "I have to analyze everything! Hey, you are so weird. Didn't you ask me to find my groove? How can I do so if I don't analyze the details?"
Director Knapp picked up the thermos cup next to him and drank three sips of tea in a row. He said, "Get lost! Please disappear from my sight."
Ebony refused to leave.
She shouted, "What did I do wrong again? Tell me!"
When Lloyd came back from the bathroom, he saw them bickering.
The girl folded her arms standing by director Knapp, as if she wanted to beat him.
Lloyd frowned. He stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter?"
Director Knapp didn't answer Lloyd.
He slapped the table and shouted, "You can't get the point. What I want is the feeling. You need to put your heart into your acting, instead of the stiff data kind of things. That's all that matters!"
Ebony retorted right away, "You said I was not good enough, but why did you pass us?"
"You..."
Director Knapp clutched his chest and fell on the chair.
Now Lloyd already understood what was going on.
Seeing that Ebony was really going to drive director Knapp crazy, Lloyd took her hand and took her outside.
As soon as they went out, Ebony started to talk in anger, "Director Knapp is always like this. I obviously did nothing wrong, but he just tends to tell me off every now and then."
Lloyd closed his eyes with a headache. He said tiredly, "Acting requires skills and it's true you have the skills, but some directors need more than just skills. Our director hopes we can also resonate with the characters from their hearts."
Ebony frowned and said, "I resonated with my character, otherwise how could I pass?"
"Well." Lloyd said lightly, "In appearance, you did it pretty well, so you passed."
"In appearance?" Ebony was quite unhappy.
This was questioning her professional ability!
Lloyd looked at her and suddenly asked, "Who do you think who I am?"
"You?" Ebony subconsciously said, "You are Lloyd Vasquez."
Lloyd shook his head.
Then Ebony said, "Mr. Vasquez."
Lloyd shook his head again.
Ebony frowned and said, "Lloyd?"
Lloyd still shook his head.
Ebony fell silent.
After a while, she tentatively asked, "Brother Vasquez?"
Lloyd was lost for words.
Ebony smacked her lips and stopped guessing. She asked, "Then who are you?"
Lloyd's answered calmly, "I'm your husband."
"Ah." Ebony was stunned for a second.
Then nodded repeatedly, "Oh, yes, yes. I can't deny."
Lloyd didn't say anything.
He was too tired to explain.
He said, "Go change clothes and prepare for the next shooting."
The whole shooting went smoothly in the morning.
Ebony and Director Knapp had already made up by lunch time.
The reason was that the ma'am working in the cafeteria was afraid that director Knapp might blame her for cooking extra dishes for Ebony.
In order to get an extra dish, Ebony curry favor with director Knapp.
Director Knapp was eventually nicely coaxed by her.
As a result, she got two servings of braised pork.
"Damn it!"
Somebody suddenly exclaimed out of the blue.
Everyone else looked at the person.
That man was a propman. When he realized he had made a scene, his face flushed immediately.
He quickly apologize by saying, "I'm sorry. I was looking at my phone and saw Ebony. I was so surprised..."
Ebony asked, "Me?" There was a grain of rice on her face.
She raised her head from the lunch box and looked at the person, "Did I do something wrong again?"
The propman hurriedly said, "No, it was about your dancing. It was amazing. I'm so surprised!"
"Dancing?"
The propman said, "Yes, there is a variety show for the trainees of the men's team, and the video of you dancing with one of the trainees has become a top search!"
"Trainee?"
Ebony took her lunch box and stood up. She went to the propman for the video.
She saw Alfredo and herself were in the video.
Turned out it was that time.
Then others also took out their phones to see the dancing video.
All people exclaimed after they saw it.
"Ebony, your dancing is great! Have you been learning dancing since you were a child?"
Ebony took a mouthful of food, swallowed it, and said, "No, I never took any dancing class."
People obviously didn't believe her.
Ebony shrugged, and didn't explain.
Her body coordination was good. When she was filming a costume drama, she learned the peacock dance in just two hours.
Lloyd also took out his phone and found the video.
In the video, Ebony wore a close-fitting clothes, dancing closely with a man.
Lloyd watched it for a few seconds. His face slightly darkened.
He turned the video off halfway through.
Then he said coldly, "There is nothing to see."
Ebony gave him a look.
Director Knapp praised her by saying, "You danced so well. There are more than 10,000 comments. You are praised by many people."
"Oh?"
Ebony didn't care much at first, but she became interested when hearing people praise her.
She said expectantly, "Read it for me! What are the compliments?"
Director Knapp turn on the comment section and started to read it out for her, "Is this Ebony Gibson?"
After reading that comment, he said to Ebony, "Looks like netizens are very surprised."
Ebony nodded in embarrassment.
Director Knapp continued reading, "I don't think so. The girl is too girly, so I don't think she is Ebony."
Director Knapp and Ebony were both speechless.
The cafeteria suddenly became quiet.
Director Knapp broke the ice by saying, "Maybe the contrast is too sharp. Let's see what the next comment says.
So he continued, "Wow! Is that Ebo? The sex change operation must be very successful!"
They fell into silence again.
At this time, Lloyd said coolly, "See? I said so! There is nothing to see."
Ebony's got angry and she scolded him, "Oh! What a good husband you are!"
As she spoke, she walked over to him, raising her hand to hit Lloyd.
Lloyd raised his eyes, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her onto his lap. Then he said slowly, "I was kidding, honey."