Selene smiled at her, keeping her calm demeanor. Meanwhile, Michelle forced her smile. It was so obvious the cameraman was tempted to zoom in on her face.
The audienceughed a little at Katherine’s joke.
"What can I say? Everyone loves good entertainment," said Mace and the audience chuckled again. "Now, director Jeunes, how do you feel regarding <i>The Sinner </i>which will be released in the next three months?" Mace asked the director.
"It’s going to wow everyone. Everyone will love it," Director Jeunes replied confidently, which had Mace grin.
"All of your movies always wow people and I’m sure this one won’t disappoint," replied Mace.
"Now, Selene? How do you feel after acting in your first movie? Why did you decide to be an actress anyway? I mean, with your beauty and slender figure, you could have chosen something else, like modeling," Katherine asked Selene with a big smile.
Selene returned it before she replied.
"I feel amazing and I’m excited to see myself on the big screen. It’s always been my dream to be an actress, and Michelle has been my favorite idol since the first time I saw her on TV. I know I might be older than her by a year, but there’s nothing wrong with being the fan of someone younger than you right?" Selene asked, chuckling a little and so did Katherine and a few others.
Michelle stared at Selene while still trying to keep her forced smile from faltering. She was on stage, in front of a lot of people, her career was at stake and thest thing she wanted was to go berserk in front of so many people with cameras.
"What about what has been going on on the inte? If you don’t mind answering," Mace asked.
"I don’t."
The smile was still on Selene’s lips. Her aura was so soft and pure that even Mace couldn’t help butpliment her silently.
He continued, "It was the incident regarding you and Michelle. The sword..."
"Was real," director Jeunes finished.
He was aware they hade for an interview and questions about the incident were going toe up.
Before Mace could continue, director Jeunes added, "It turned out that someone snuck a real sword into the set. It seems the person who did that wanted Selene to use it on Michelle despite knowing it was a real sword and it could hurt her."
Michelle tensed up from where she sat. She had not been involved in the investigation of the culprit, and hearing director Jeunes figure that out all by himself made her heart jump.
’It’s a good thing I asked that costume guy to quit and leave the city,’ she thought to herself.
"My goodness! Who could do such a thing to both Michelle and Selene?" Katherine gasped.
"Michelle is a suspect when ites to searching who did it," Martha suddenly stated. Everyone’s head turned towards her. "I mean, it only happened after a few weeks Michelle’s video clip was released, and then this happened."
The audience murmured at each other in agreement, while Michelle stared at Martha. <i>Not re </i>but <i>stare</i>. She was trying not to lose her temper but Martha had only made things worse.
Martha kept a smile on her lips before she looked at Michelle.
"Isn’t that right, Michelle?" She asked her so calmly, as if they were talking about the weather forecast.
Selene couldn’t help but silently praise Martha for what she had done.
Since the interview was live, Selene had nned to provoke Michelle, knowing how easy it was to do so if someone pressed the right button.
But Selene didn’t have to do anything anymore. Martha had done all the work for her.
’Thank you, Martha,’ thought Selene.
Michelle was a little speechless. She nced at the camera which was facing her; recording the moment.
"That’s not true, Martha," said Michelle. "Selene is my good time frie—"
"I wasn’t asking about your friendship status with Selene. I was only asking if you were the one that had the sword swapped or not?"
Martha’s fans, whether watching her on screen or live, couldn’t help but be amazed. Martha had always been known for her action-packed roles in movies, and seeing her exhibit the same vigor and determination in real life was truly inspiring.