Prince Philip hit the ground, waking him up harshly, in front of him, the doors to a room opened, blinding him.
"Pardon me, I'm embarrassed to say I don't know where I am." said Prince Philip, visibly confused.
"You're in King Stefan's castle" answered the green fairy.
Prince Philip got up and looking around he said,"This is where I was meant to be, odd that I can't remember how I got here."
"Why have you come ?" asked the red fairy
"My father sent me to see the king" replied Prince Philip
"Who's your father ?" asked again the red fairy
"King John of Ulstead."
The three fairies looked at each other and in unison exclaimed, "A prince !"
The fairies grabbed Prince Philipp and brought him into the princesse's chambers, where she was sleeping.
"Aurora." said Prince Philip, his voice softening after he saw her sleeping.
"Why is she sleeping ?"
"She's trapped in an enchantment, your Grace." replied the blue fairy
"Isnt she beautiful ?" said the green fairy
"The most beautiful girl I've ever seen." replied Prince Philip, looking at her lovingly.
"Don't you want to kiss her ?" asked the red fairy.
"Very much." replied Prince Phillip, still looking at Aurora.
"Go on then." said the green fairy.
"I wouldn't feel right about it." he answered, "We've only just met."
"Haven't you heard of love at first sight?" said the red fairy. "Kiss her, go on."
Prince Philip approached her and just as he was about to kiss her.
"An enchantment you say? What Kind?"
The three fairies audibly groaned at that, and in tandem replied
"Kiss her."
To this Prince Philip turned back to look at Aurora and slowly but surely, put his lips on hers.
(Break)
Honestly, kissing Elle on set was very awkward for a lot of reasons. Don't get me wrong she's beautiful so that wasn't the awkward part. It was more so the overall fact that we had known each other for less than two weeks at this point.
We had become friends of course and we had even exchanged numbers and everything but our friendship was pretty recent and that was all it was, friendship.
Of course she was a beautiful girl but at this point we were friends and I was very comfortable with that and I had a feeling that she was as well.
The scenes actually didn't take long, we only had to do three takes which meant that I had to kiss her three times, all of which were as awkward as before. Then I did my scenes unconsciously as well and we wrapped up that day beautifully. I also realised that I didn't need to practice before shooting a take, which was a great thing to know for my confidence.
"Hey Xavier, are you ready for your last day?" said Robert.
"Yeah I'm ready"
That's right, today was indeed my last day on set, the 18th. We were only going to film a few shots of me with king stefan before he attacked during the battle in the Throne room, I wasn't even really a big character but I just needed to be there for consistency.
"Before we start filming I have something I want to show you come with me," said Robert.
I stood up and went up to him, my father following closely behind. We walked all the way to a room on the other side of the studio, into a room with multiple cameras and lenses and a bunch of other tech stuff that I didn't really know about. On the other side of the room was a vault that looked very high security.
"Do you know what we keep inside of this ?" he asked.
"No I don't" I replied, hesitating.
"That's where we keep all of the dailies." he said, surprising me and my dad.
"At the end of every month, Disney comes and they take them all and bring them back to the headquarters in Burbank." he continued, "It's your last day and you've done very well, in fact so well that our production is even more in advance on our initial schedule, because of that Joe is letting you see some of the dailies, make sure to thank him before leaving."
My heart warmed at that, Joe was the highest authority on set and he had absolutely no obligation to let me see my performance.
"Thank you guys, really this means a lot."I said sincerely
Robert laughed at that, "Don't thank me yet, you see there's something we haven't told you yet."
I raised my brow at that but before I could speak Robert put the password into the vault and then he and my father opened it, he then came back out with a camera that had a Ipad sized screen on top of it.
"Here watch this" he said, clicking on a button and at that I could see my performance on the screen. It was the first day and as I felt the embarrassment kicking in, I was surprised to see that my performance wasn't actually bad, in fact it was quite….good ?
I looked at Robert, searching for an explanation, he simply said
"Those times we said we would let you rehearse? It was actually pretend, we were filming all of them, we felt that what we needed was for you to be as good as you were in rehearsals so we simply let you believe it was one to capture your best performance."
I laughed at that, this actually explained a lot, both Angelina and Elle had seemed embarrassed whenever I thanked them for rehearsing with me, now I knew why.
"I knew it !" I said laughing," Seriously some of you need to work on your poker face, it was obvious something was going on"
"I'll take note of that" he said, laughing as well," but you on the other hand, should try to remember that you're a great actor and there's no need to be too stressed whenever you're filming something okay, you're talented."
"Okay, thanks" I replied, smiling.
"Even though you did this movie, it'll take more than a year before it'll be in cinemas so you won't get all the auditions you want, the important thing is that you don't give up okay? Your time will come and this movie is just the start. Come now, you have to go put your costume on and I have to prepare for your final scene."
(Break)
"And with that Xavier Wilson has concluded all of his scenes." said Joe Roth.
Everyone around me started applauding, from Elle to Robert to the crew, it was all a lot to take in.They both came along with Angelina to me.
"You did great, kid." said Angelina.
"Thanks Angelina, also thank you for helping me get through my fear, it helped more than you know" I said, grateful.
"Your welcome, though I was honestly just hoping we wouldn't take too much time and have the production behind schedule." she replied, then she paused before saying."I hope you know that you're actually quite lucky to have had us as your first production, they won't always be this easy going, remember that alright ?"
"Alright, I'll remember it" I said seriously.
"Do you have any other projects down the line? asked Angelina.
"I'm auditioning for a Blumhouse horror movie when I come back, but it's just an audition so yeah, nothing else right now, to be honest." I replied sheepishly
"Well that's already a good start" she said, smiling. "I'm sure you'll get it."
"Thank you." I replied, grateful for the encouragement.
I then turned to Elle, who gave me a big hug before teasingly saying,
"You know you're not such a bad kisser."
I smirked at that before replying, "You are though, I wasn't receiving any response from you all three times."
She gasped,"It was because the scene required it, asshole. I'll have you know I'm a fantastic kisser."
I laughed at that and she did too, which was good. I didn't want any of this to ruin our friendship, we hadn't known each other for a long time but seeing and working with each other for the past 18 days all the time had brought us closer then most people would've thought.
"Come and visit if you're ever in LA, which I know you will be." I said, "Were friends all right."
She smiled at that. "All right"
With all of the goodbye's being said and done, I left Pinewood studios for the last time this year, but hopefully I would come back for another movie.
I went back to the hotel with my dad, where my mother and Lucas were waiting for us with our luggage. In the end we had decided to spend a week in the countryside, we had rented a nice house near Stonehenge where we would relax for a while. Well they would at least, I would only spend time there until the 23rd, where me and dad would go back to LA for my audition for the Purge.
(Break)
"Is it confirmed?" said James, eyes wide, "there's a part for a 16 to 20 year old kid in the next Christopher Nolan movie."
"I'm about 90% sure, the script isn't finished yet but it's in the final drafts and they're already starting to do location scouting, my guess is it'll be announced at the end of the year and auditions will be early 2013." said the man, he was wearing a hat, sunglasses and a big beard and was sitting in front of James in this discreet diner.
"Alrigh that's great news I have a candidate for that, what about Carrie is the remake still happening ? I also have someone in mind."
"Yeah, for this one, auditions will take place on 26th of August, second rounds will probably be a few days later."
"Do you have the audition script?" asked James.
The man pulled out a script of more or less twenty pages silently, after that he left.
James opened the script, verified it, put it down and thought
"I'll give it to Xavier, he's my biggest client right now, one of the other kids can play his stuntman."
Xavier was his biggest client and once he got him high enough on the Hollywood ladder, he could lift up his other clients as well. Of course he didn't expect Xavier to become famous overnight thanks to these movies but if he got them, then it would give him experience that would get him the bigger more interesting jobs and he needed that, it had already been a good amount of time since he became an agent and he still mostly represented stuntman and luckier extras who were aspiring actors. That needed to change faster and it started with having a star as your client.
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Yeah I dont got an excuse this time procrastination took a hold on me for the past few days sorry lol 💀 Anyway thanks for reading, I'll try to make the chapters a little longer starting now. (~2000 words. Also I'm trying to keep this grounded so he will not get all the auditions he try's out for but you will still hear about them (spoiler alert I guess💀).