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The director leaned over the near-naked actress seated on the stage and growled at her "Why are you not swaying, the script says you are to sway! Now! Sway!"

Phillipa looked up with her eyes, unwilling to move her head. The headdress of crystal feathers felt like it was going to topple off with the slightest movement.

"But, but if I move this whole headdress is going to fall off me! You said it was irreplaceable!"

"The scene calls for you to be swaying, not sitting like a statue!"

Phillipa opened her mouth again. And closed it. In that moment, a sense of clarity - possibly even enlightenment - came over her.

"Rachel?" she called out to the camera operator "Are we rolling?"
"You bet, darling! For the last ten minutes" came the reply.
"Matt? Is sound good?" Phillipa asked.
"All OK."
"Alright then. Please step back, sir."
The director stepped out of frame.

Phillipa started to gently sway. She felt the headdress start to slip, but allowed herself to get lost in her own movement.

The headdress slid off her head, and smashed upon the floor in a cloud of crystal fragments, utterly destroyed in a second.

"CUT!" the director yelled "You idiot girl! That headdress was one of a kind! It was worth a thousand of you! I'll make sure you never work in Hollywood ever again."

Phillipa smiled beatifically "Rachel, darling, have you got all that? Matt, do you?"
"Yes, dear." "Sure do!"
"Please forward the rush of that scene to the producer, will you. Uncut, please."
"Done!"
"I think, director, that you will be the one not working. Rachel, darling, come and pick me up will, you? I don't want to cut myself."

The director stared, realising that he was doomed "I will finish you!" He started forward, hands curling claw like towards Phillipa's neck.

"Ooops!" grinned Rachel maliciously as she picked up Phillipa out of the pool of smashed crystal, "The camera is still running! Sorry!"

Outside the sound stage, a couple of workmen heard a scream of utter hopeless rage. The taller one looked over at his workmate "Really getting into it in there. Going to be a smash, I bet!"

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