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Eve Polastri was always interested in acting. Ever since she was a young child, she would dance around her living room, pretending she was in a ballroom, dancing with the movie’s star.
“Mum, look at me!”
“Heh, you’re pretty good at that sweetie!”
“Watch this, watch this!”
“Ah ah, be careful of that table.”
She also loved talking to her mother about the movie star she would be with.
“I think the movie star would have blonde hair. Like honey, and it would glisten in the light as we danced.”
“That’s very vivid Eve, maybe one day you’ll meet someone like that.”
“I hope so.”
“What would your partner be wearing?”
“Hm. Probably something like a velvet suit. Really really dark red, and they would have a bright white shirt underneath.”
“Something abstract, you could say?”
“I guess so, but they would still blend with the crowd. Even if they caught my eye.”
Eve often went into great detail on the costar and would imagine them in her head, the way their body would move perfectly with hers.
She was able to think of many different movies that would complement the chosen genre. Her preferred partner would be psychopathic and sleek if it was a drama, or fun and vibrant if the movie was a comedy.
Eve’s mother was very supportive of her choice to act, and as Eve got older, she paid for a lot of the school fees and a few tutors to improve Eve’s knowledge and skills. Eve never got tired of learning and eventually, after years of schooling, got an offer to play in a small movie. It wouldn’t pay highly but it was enough to get Eve started on her career.
The directors were very impressed with Eve’s acting and sooner or later, she got offers that were raising her higher.
She soon became very famous and was widely recognised as a great actor. Yet, Eve wasn’t fully satisfied because she still hadn’t met her dream costar. She had, although, met Niko. Her husband occupied the vibrant characteristic that Eve loved, but she could tell that their frequent arguments would result in something distasteful.
Villanelle was never that in awe of acting. She could tell that she had a gift for character work and impersonations, but she wouldn’t have thought that she could make it big in the industry.
Oksana Astankova was her birth name, but future directors favoured ‘Villanelle’, because they thought it made her sound more abstract.
When she was young, she got into trouble often. Villanelle was antisocial at that age and sometimes decided to harm other students, causing her to be schooled privately.
“Oksana, you mustn’t do that to other students. Sooner or later you will find yourself in big trouble if you keep this up!”
“It’s not as if I do it for a living, you’re telling me that you can’t put up with it for a few times a month?”
“Oksana, that is a very bad attitude.”
“I don’t care.”
Her unique behaviour caught the attention of many directors and she was chosen to act in a few episodes of a series, to play as someone with DID. Her precise imitations of people gave her an advantage in portraying someone with multiple personalities or personas, and her amazing acting raised her in the career.
“Oksana? Or Villanelle if I may. We’ve found a filling role in the career of acting that we think would suit you very much. Are you perhaps interested in learning more?”
“Possibly. What opportunities would this job entail?”
“More fame and recognition I suppose. Depending how seriously you take this.”
“Alright, I’ll consider.”
Soon enough, she would be playing a wide range and variety of characters in many different movies or series. Despite the fact that she wasn’t partnered with anyone of interest or that she had found a partner for love, Villanelle still led a full life, living happily and choosing to research deeply into her roles.
Villanelle and Eve came together when they both got set the two lead roles in a romance. Eve was thrilled to lead a movie alongside someone with such experience in acting within such little time, and Villanelle was just thrilled to lead a movie alongside someone who obtained such an interest. Villanelle found it cute opposed to herself who feigned little knowledge on the subject.
They worked greatly together, always eager to help each other and they learnt quite a few skills along the way. The directors picked up on this and made sure there were more scenes of the two together in the movie, which would only result in more screen time for the both of them which was always a benefit in trying to make an appearance.
After the release of the movie, the pair would definitely have a lot of offers to consider in other acts, mainly including lead roles.
The two actresses had to portray a complex love story. It ended happily but was a rollercoaster of emotions throughout. They filmed perfect romance scenes, capturing each character’s longing and desperation clearly.
The other actors and actresses greatly admired the two and often asked for advice from them both on how to improve their acting, to which Eve and Villanelle promptly agreed and supplied.
There was also frequent teasing of the pair being flirtatious, despite the fact that Eve was happily married. Although, Eve never really did share much of Niko and herself’s relationship.
But she knew Villanelle was always there for a couch to crash on if things went south.