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But Rourke’s attention was focused on something behind Landon. Just when Landon was starting to get annoyed that Rourke couldn’t listen long enough to get her name, Rourke called out, “Audrie! Over here!”
Landon’s heart immediately started beating a little faster. He didn’t dare turn and look, though. He was afraid his expression would give him away.
“You can sit here,” the script supervisor said. She pushed her chair back and stood. That would put Audrie two chairs over from Landon, which meant she wouldn’t be sitting next to him. That was probably for the best. “I need to go look over the sides.”
Sides were the name for the pages they were shooting at any particular time. Landon had to learn the lingo pretty quickly once he began working with his brother. His brother had picked it all up in film school before making an independent feature that had won some awards and put him on the map.
“Landon and I were just talking about you,” Rourke said.
By then, Audrie was seated and had just lifted half of a sandwich, preparing to take a bite. Rourke’s words froze her movements. She looked over at Landon, brows arched in a curious expression.
“Really?” she asked. “What were you talking about?”
“He needs us to round up some Christmas cards.” Landon cut to the chase.
He wanted to let her know it was nothing personal. He hadn’t mentioned to his brother he’d been flirting with her all morning or anything.
“Christmas cards?” Audrie looked around the table, obviously trying to make sense of it all. “Isn’t it a little early in the year for that?”
She was joking, of course. He knew that. Nobody else cracked a smile, though, so he suspected the joke was lost on them.
“We’re doing a big scene toward the end of the movie where we cover the barn in cards,” Rourke explained. “We can order some online, but I want to see what we have locally first.”
“Keep money in the community,” Landon added.
That wasn’t Rourke’s intent, but it couldn’t hurt to throw it in. He had a feeling Audrie would appreciate the gesture.
“We need as many as you can find,” Michael said in his usual gruff, no-nonsense voice. “Thousands, if possible.”
“We’re going to wallpaper the building in them,” Rourke said. “Michael has a vision for the scene.”
With that, Rourke flashed Audrie that smile of his. It had lured in more than a few women over the years.
Rourke could be quite charming when he wanted. It was why women tended to fall all over themselves to impress him. It was only worse now that he had the power to put people in movies. Of course, he never used that power. He wisely relied on casting agents and recommendations to staff his productions.
“Right now, we just need a stack, if that’s all you can find,” Michael jumped in and said. “We’re shooting a scene where they’re writing out their cards and discussing them.”
“It’s called planting a seed,” Rourke explained. “Later, when they show up in the barn and it’s covered in Christmas cards, the viewer will say, ‘Aww. I remember when they were talking about those earlier in the movie.’”
“A bunch of romantic dialogue goes with it,” Michael said. “It all makes sense when you read the script.”
“Can you do it?” Rourke was looking at Audrie, who had unapologetically started eating her lunch.
She looked over at Landon, who smiled at her. It had been a long morning. She deserved to savor her lunch without someone piling a work meeting on her.
“I’m thinking maybe Landon could go with you,” Rourke said. “He knows what we need.”
Landon had no idea what they needed. He could imagine, though. He’d been on the set a few times now. He saw how Michael worked. He tended to go over the top. So, if Michael said every square inch of that barn would be wallpapered in Christmas cards, he didn’t just mean the walls. He meant hanging from the rafters, probably covering the floor.
“The brighter the colors, the better,” Rourke said.
“No reflective cards, though,” Michael blurted. “The camera doesn’t like that. The lights cause a glare.”
Rourke sat back in his chair and looked around again. “Yeah, no gold, glitter, silver, anything like that.”
“Got it.” Landon looked over at Audrie. “But I know you might have some customers this afternoon in addition to what you have to do on set.”
“They won’t take long.” Audrie smiled over at him. “If you could wait until after my three o’clock, though, it would be ideal.”
