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Anna  \n2. Luke  \n3. Anna  \n4. Luke  \n5. Anna  \n6. Anna  \n7. Anna  \n8. Anna  \n9. Anna  \n10. Luke  \n11. Anna  \n12. Luke  \n13. Anna  \n14. Luke  \n15. Anna  \n16. Luke  \n17. Anna  \n18. Luke  \n19. Anna  \n20. Luke  \n21. Anna  \n22. Anna  \n23. Anna  \n24. Luke  \n25. Anna  \n26. Anna  \n27. Anna  \n28. Luke  \n29. Anna  \n30. Anna  \n31. Luke  \n32. Anna  \n33. Luke  \n34. Anna  \n35. Luke  \n36. Anna  \n37. Anna  \n38. Luke  \n39. Anna  \n40. Anna  \n41. Anna  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n\" I  \n1  \nANNA  \nam enough,\" I remind myself as I enter the room. The casting director is still looking at his phone.  \nI stand at the tape mark on the floor, script memorized, breath  \ncontrolled, waiting. His assistant gives me an apologetic smile that means we're running behind, or he does this to everyone, or don't take it personally.  \n\"Anna Simmons.\" He finally reads my name off the top sheet like he's reading a grocery list. \"For the role of Diane. Supporting. You have the sides?\"  \n\"It's Simons. Anna Simons.\"  \n\"Any questions?\"  \n\"No.\"  \n\"Okay.\" He sets the phone down. Looks at me for the first time.\"Whenever you're ready.\"  \nI close my eyes for half a second.  \nThen I stop being Anna Simons. I become Diane.  \nThe scene is a woman telling her best friend the truth after ten years of silence. The writing looks simple on the page and destroys you if you try to perform it instead of live it.  \nI don't perform it.  \nThe words come out ragged and real, the real that makes the assistant stop typing and look up from her notes. The casting director leans forward  \nslightly. Just slightly. But I see it.  \nWhen it's over, the room is quiet for a beat longer than it needs to be.\"That was—\" he starts.  \n\"Thank you.\"  \n\"No, genuinely. That was strong work.\" He clicks his pen. \"The character is twenty-two on the page.\"  \nI keep my face still.  \n\"You might be too mature for the best friend. They're just out of college.\"  \n\"I played Juliet last year. In a play in Santa Monica.\"  \n\"This isn't theatre.\"  \nHe says it like he's doing me a favor. Like knowing exactly which shelf you don't fit on makes standing in the aisle easier.  \nThe director comes over and leans close to the casting director. They whisper. I hear the word sexy.  \nI'm in a simple sweatshirt and jeans.  \n\"I can do sexier if that's what you want?\"  \n\"No, that was good. Thank you.\"  \nI smile at his assistant on the way out.  \nShe gives me the same apologetic glance as before.  \nThe next two women waiting in the hallway are fitness models. Or should be.  \nI get to my car. Sit in the driver's seat and don't let myself feel it until the door closes.  \nI read the character description again. Best friend. Not the sexy best friend.  \nI start the engine.  \nTHE DINER IS busy for a Tuesday.  \nI tie my apron in the back hallway and scan the floor. Table four needs water. Table seven wants the check. The booth by the window — three women with matching highlights and phone ring lights propped against their coffee cups—already has a server hovering.  \nChloe finds me at the service station between tables.  \n\"How'd it go?\"  \n\"Fine. I think they wanted sexy.\"  \n\"Oh, sweetie, they always want sexy.\"  \n\"They didn't say that. The breakdown said best friend, so I thought I was the smart one.\"  \n\"Smart and sexy. You can be a Nobel Prize winner, but you still have tobe sexy in Hollywood. It's implied. Always.\"  \nShe reads my face in about half a second. 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