Thea didn’t return to her room until a rather late hour that evening. After locating the script, she began reading her lines with utmost concentration. It was ingrained in her routine to review all of the scenes she frequently did the night before the official filming began. When she closed her eyes, she still tried to recall the methods she would use the next day.

The scenes that Thea needed to shoot the following morning were, for the most part, romantic scenes, including at least one ...