CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

'THREE! TWO! ONE! ACTION!" Jordan found himself shouting, he hated that he was back to the traditional way of directing becasue these humans won't learn how to stick to simple instructions. He was having it bad and he needed to deal with it as fast as he could.They were supposed to be close to shooting some of the last scenes but here they were still trying to get the characters comfortable with each other.
'My love is for you is as mellow as wine fine and as.." Adonia stuttered for a moment after realizing she had mispronouced the words and Jordan was leaning on the wall with frustration clouding his features. She would have been frustrated too if she was in his shoes, this was probably the third of fourth she was messing the whole thing up. She had no idea why it kept happening to he because she already read the script weeks ago. Something aboutn the way Jordan looked like a tiger unnerved her.
'CUT!!" Jordan yelled. He stared at her in plain disgust and Adonia felt as id the ground should upen up and swallow her in full. He was close to his anger limit and she could sense it too. This was one of the most feared men in the industry and he was called the devil for a reason, he could ruin her career with just a post. He was a worse version of Quincy when it came to writing people off, the only difference was that he didn't manipulate people and he didn't bully hem.
'Adonia, we are going to take this again for the last time and I promise you this is your last chance. If you give me a shitty performance again for the fofth time todayt, I finna throw you out of my set. I have a strict timeline that I stick to and I wouldn't let you ruin it for me. I hope I'm clear enough." He suddenly aid in a calm manner that screamed dangerous and Adonia hoped she didn't fall for the bait.
This was the scene where Claudia was supposed to confess her love to Liam and for some reason she kept forgetting her lines. She was supposed to findit easy but for reason best known to Gd, she kept missing it up and angering every other on the set. She climbed the stage back and she tried to act the part again and she messed it up again. At this point, she knew everything was messed up alreadya and the last thing she could do to herself was be patient and watch him rant through the whole angry phase. He might suspend her or throw her out of the set, one can't really say with Jordan Wilder.
'What's going on with you? You've said the wrong lines more than enough times already. This is the third time! This is not your father's home person where you can have fun and mess around. This is serious business! If you keep this bullshit behavior on, I'll make you to cut you off from the show!" Jordan screamed, deserting all the patience he had left in him. He gave the spoilt brat another chnace and she didn't even wait for long to repeat the same mistake. He hated people who wouldn't stick to corrections and Adonia looked like someone that her pride was getting into her head.
Adonia took a second to process what the director said and it annoyed the shit out of her. First of all, this had nothing to do with her family business. This was exactly why she was working her ass pof on set and tolerating all shades of bullshit, so that they won't attribute her hardwork to her father's name. Apparently, these people won't breathe if they don't drag her father into work conversations in one minute, it was a disgusting work ethic that they needed to rid themselves of. She had been trying very hard not to get on the bad side of the director but it seemed the wicked man had his mind made up about giving her more than enough trouble. She honestly couldn't deal anymore.
She was trying to say her lines properly and ensure it had the right touch of affection so she had to take a second to show her feelings as her confessed it. He wasn't even watching her acting. His eyes were on some workers that were only doing their job. If he heard that she paused her wordings, he would immediately scream at her to stop, and honestly, it was getting on her nerves. The least he could do was be considerate or take a fucking break since he was going nuts already, she hated being told what to do especially in a very rude and condescending manner.
He wasn't acting like a director but a cranky piece of shit! He was acting like an angry animal who need an outlet for his pains, that's what therapy is for not them. He didn't have any right to lash out at them like an untrained animal, this was part of the reason Adonia was extremely pissed off.
'Mr Jordan," She stepped forward in anger. She could feel her own anger rising and the last thing she wanted was being embarrassed out of the set on the director's order. She took quick short breaths to calm herself but neither was working so she just tried as possible to get her words out without it conveying her emotions. But the man kept on talking without even gviing her a chance to be herself.
'Get your act together Miss Adonia, this is not your father's house where you can behave as you please." Adonia couldn't believe he still had the guts to bring back her father into the conversation. She really hated the way the conversation was going and she needed to set him straight, he needed to realize that the earlier he stopped being foolish, the better for all of them. He was just taking out his frustration over something else on her, he needed to stop being this foolish.
'MR JORDAN!" Adonia screamed and bringing the ranting director to a halt. He stared at her and she took quick breaths before she continued. There was little to no damage control to be done since she was enraged now, 'This has nothing to do with my father!" She continued making sure to punctuate each word that came out of her mouth. The director looked anything but angry, he looked amused. Adonia wanted to wipe the smug off his face.
'Of course it does, if it weren't for your family, do you think a talentless person like yourself will get an opportunity to act in Hollywood?!" He taunted and Adonia blinked as the words repeated in her head. How dare he say that to her, she had many awards of excellence to prove that she wasn't talentless. He was just looking for a hole in her perfect life and leach to it. She knew he was trying to make her feel bad but she had no idea he would go this low. He went deep in the mud right in public. She hated him more for this. Adonia clenched her fists in disbelief, anger, and disappointment.
He just called her talentless and it wasn't true. Her vision were getting blurred with tears. She hated how quick she used to cry when issues hurt her, now he would think she was trying to blackmail him into feeling bad with her tears. That was what most of them said each time she showed emotions. She wondered why Bella chose today of all day not to come watch her. This would have been prevented. All these years, she worked hard to create a name for herself but here he was, trying to discredit her. She knew how hard she'd work to get herself to this point and no dickhead of a director could convince her otherwise.
'You're wrong Mr. Jordan, I worked hard to get myself to this point and only a day ago you complimented my acting but now you're acting up because you're in a bad mood? You know what? We all have personal shits we're going through but we don't bring it to work. BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHY? WE ALL HAVE A JOB TO DO!" She ended up screaming the last part o her words and the smug smile never left the face pf Jordan Wilder, he was enjoying this apparently. He was enjoying setting doubts and insecurities into her without any remorse and all she had to do was fall back and let the nightmares ruin her again. She would rather not and she would fight him teeth and bone.He was avile person and she had no idea he was this vile.
The hall went silent and the camera crew looked amongst themselves nervously. This was getting heated faster than anyone imagine and the last thing anyone wanted was getting caught in between and having to lose their jobs. Adonia was quite lucky and she had a father she would always run to but they didn't have the same privileges too.
'You're not even watching me act the lines I'm saying, you're only listening to my words but not the emotion it carries," Adonia explained further with the words toppling out due to the enraging feeling she was having, Jordan looked like he wasn't even ready to grant her a listening ear and he was ready to ruin her forever. No one knew if He had Adonia in mind before or he was simply frustrated at whatever she did.
'Don't flatter yourself, Miss Adonia, I've been in this industry for longer than you can imagine. I would be a total idiot not to recognize what talent is and I can guarantee it's not as pathetic as your excuse of acting!" Jordan deadpanned and most people gasped. Nobody was expecting Jordan to go down further and embarrass her. He wasn't willing to ignore her and he would put an end to her tantrums henceforth.
Adonia clenched her fists. Adonia really had no words left for this monster. Instead, she took deep breaths, she stared on and she tried to ignore him. She wouldn't say another thing, lest he says something that would make her cry. They were rumors around the industry about how quick Jordan was with comebacks but she didn't realize they were going to be painful as hell. He was really an idiot for not seeing all the efforts she was throwing into the whole thing.
'From today, you're suspended from the show!" He added before turning around to find someone in the crowd, when his eyes landed on who he was looking for, he beckoned her to come forward. The person walked slowly not knowing if she was going to be another victim of his angry outbirst. If you wanted to last longer in this industry, you need to be wary of men like Jordan Wilder, all it took was a post or a tweet to ruin the entire thing you have been working for.
Adonia sighed and let his words sink in, he'd taken it way too far. She really had no idea he was this disgusting to make sure she felt bad about her craft.
'WHAT?"
'Gabriel, one of the female understudies will replace you."
Adonia's face was plastered with disbelief as a younger girl who looked petite and slow stood in front of her.
She scoffed as she looked at the girl.
How could he do this?
'Suit yourself, Jordan!" She yelled and stormed out and headed towards her trailer.
As soon as Maxine saw her, she knew something bad had happened.
'What's wrong, Adonia?"
'I was suspended." Adonia did not hold back.
'Are you sure?" Maxine was taken aback, 'Didn't he compliment your acting yesterday?"
'He must've lost his mind." Adonia muttered under her breath and plumped down on a chair and covered her face with her hands.
She wouldn't cry..
She knew what happened was Jordan's fault but he completely crushed her pride by calling her untalented.
She knew she had opportunities an average person wouldn't have because of her influential family but it completely broke down her pride when he called her talentless.
God knew how many times she spent practicing her runway walk and much time she spent rehearsing to get the role of Claudia but now, it was gone.
She thought of how her mom would feel about it. Even though she would be supportive, she didn't want to disappoint her mom.
Her mother went through a lot to secure this role for her.
Getting suspended just like that would be throwing her mother's hard work down the drain so she decided she wouldn't tell her mother. At least, not now.
'Maxine?" Adonia removed her hands from her face and looked at Maxine who was staring at her with a weird expression on her face.
'Please don't tell my mom about this."
'Why not?" Maxine said, 'I'm sure she won't blame you for it, and besides, you'll received more gigs on acting and modelling ever since the red card interview came out. Losing this one isn't that much of a deal—"
'It is! Mom spent a lot of energy and time on ensuring I secure this one. She'll be disappointed if she learns that this happened." Adonia said.
Maxine nodded, 'If you insist. But you can't hide this from her for long, she has her way of finding out things."
'If she asks why I'm home, I'll just say I'm on a week break and will continue filming next week." Aonia said and she rubbed her head in frustration, she had no ides what else to say to console herself. She was angry at the director but more angry at hersef for not seeing that he was baiting her and
Maxine sighed as she looked at Adonia's face. 'I'm sure it'll be alright but your manager has to know somehow." Bella Diez wasn't a newbie in the industry and she knew things like this would always happen for sure, so the earlier she found out. Thhigher chance of it getting resolved.
'I'll stall Bella for a bit if she calls and tell her I'm busy and if she calls you and you better not breathe a word to her about my suspension!" Adonia warned sternly as she thought about ways to revoke her suspension wihtout having to involve her father, that would only go further to prove the stupoid director right. She was extremely tired at this point and nothing would be able to take away that humiliation she felt.
Maxine sighed again, 'Alright." She really wanted to hug her best friend or even try to make her happy or something but they needed to clear up this mess first. Before she lost her role permanently and gets kiked out of the set. No one would be willing to work with her if that happens.