Ward shot up from his chair, a troubled expression on his face. "Mr. Shaw, this kiss between the leads is crucial. It's a central theme, the very soul of the entire series. We can't cut it."
Ethan Shaw, in a lazy and casual posture, toyed with the metal lighter in his hand, but the words he spoke were indisputable. "When I say no filming, I mean no filming. And there was another scene... what was it again..."
Ethan Shaw thought back for a moment, recalling what his brother had ordered over the phone that morning. "The scene where the female lead gets injured and the male lead applies ointment to her back—cut that one too."
His brother's exact words were: 'Delete all of Laura Lowell and Vivian Yardley's intimate scenes. They can't have the slightest physical contact, or I'm a dead man.'
Ethan Shaw had still been sleeping, but to save his own skin, he had no choice but to rush over to the set and personally nip this kiss scene in the bud.
