Lingering Doting Marriage: Big Boss, Little Sweet Heart

Chapter 2755 - 2764: Collaborating on the Script

It was already night in Yluria Country, but still daytime in Country W.

At Celestial Entertainment Company, Olivia Lewis was still in a meeting with the Director and Assistant Director of the "Time Knows" production, along with several screenwriters, discussing the script.

"Then we’ll tweak Ms. Lewis’s role a little the way you suggested, and keep the other female lead as is, how about that?" Normally a script is never completed by a single screenwriter.

It takes several screenwriters discussing and negotiating together to polish a script, and among them there will be a head screenwriter controlling the main direction of the story.

The other junior screenwriters are responsible for fleshing out the Supporting Role setups and tackling the more tedious small issues.

The role Olivia Lewis had her eye on wasn’t the actual main female lead in the script, but judging from the script, her character leaned more toward a traditional Second Female Lead.

But she herself really liked this character, and after discussing it with Sunny, she still decided to take on the role.

Over these past few days she had carefully studied the script, and now, based on her many years of acting experience, she was asking the screenwriters to revise the parts of her character she felt were not quite reasonable.

After a few days of working with her, the screenwriters found that she was seriously offering feedback from a genuine understanding of the character, unlike other big-name Stars who altered scripts purely to force more scenes for themselves, not caring what the original script was like and dragging their own writers in to butcher a good script beyond recognition.

"That works. I think the overall story and character setups are fine; it’s just the character I’m playing that could use some tweaks in the little details, to better highlight her inner conflict. That way her emotional arc with the female lead will have more tension. After all, this character is inherently the quirky, offbeat type. Since that’s her setup, we might as well really lean into it."

The head screenwriter let out a long breath of relief, hugging his beloved script as he sighed, "I wanted to really let go with her too at the beginning, but Ms. Lewis, you know how it is. A lot of Actresses nowadays are very sensitive about their character’s image. This role was destined to be quite controversial, and when we were hashing out the script we had to take the actors into account as well. We were afraid that any decent actor wouldn’t be willing to take this part, and a newcomer would struggle to pull off such a psychologically complex character. We had no choice but to make adjustments in the small details. It was the only way we could hope that the script we’ve painstakingly refined for years would actually get made."

On his stubbly face, when he looked at Olivia Lewis and the rookie Director, a trace of relieved smile appeared. "Luckily we got lucky and met Director Lynch and Ms. Lewis. Otherwise this script might have ended up in the trash."

They had taken this script to several big companies, but not a single film company believed in it; even with newcomers in the cast, no Investor was willing to put in money.

They had spent over a year writing this script, and then another year plus looking for a home for it. Altogether it had taken three full years.

To be honest, he had some savings, but the few of them still had to eat, and he had to pay salaries to his own team.

After a while, they really couldn’t afford to keep waiting.

At the time he’d told himself, give it one more month—if in a month he still couldn’t find an owner for this script, he’d give it up and move on to new work.

Fortunately, he finally ran into people who appreciated their non-mainstream script.