[ okay LISTEN BEN it's not like allison is doubting your cleanliness but also consider: you are a textbook outfit-repeater, and therefore you probably don't care as much about the order you do your skincare in! allison, however, cares deeply. she might be a little vain, sure, but taking the time to take care of her physical appearance is part of how she gets out of her own mind, how she detaches, decompresses. there's nothing quite like reading teen trend after duping criminals into harming, and later, killing their partners!
after allison applies her mask she visibly relaxes a little, sighing softly. ben can think what he wants, of course, but to her, masks are definitely all they're cracked up to be.
she sits up a little when ben asks his questions. they're hard to answer. there's so much she can say, and in this moment, it really hits her how much ben had missed. it's sad. she wishes she could give that back to him, but as she well knows, the past is the past, and they've now got to settle for the next best thing. ]
Private, at first. LA was so huge and new, especially when you're young and you only leave the house for your nutcase dad's pet project. And I wanted to minimze the people who would make the connection between me, new girl in the studio, and the rumor.
[ allison makes a face. the whole point of going west and starting an acting career was to leave that life behind, not bring it with her.
allison thinks for a moment. the best part? that's an interesting question, and also a little easier to answer. ]
It's so fun to just be someone else for a few days, weeks, months, even years, depending on the movie. And not just in a shitty escapist way either. I guess I just felt like I got to live so many different kinds of lives, as an actress. And when the script is good, or the director is good, you really get to make art out of it sometimes, and that's the best feeling.
Plus, once into dress up, always into dress up, right? ]
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after allison applies her mask she visibly relaxes a little, sighing softly. ben can think what he wants, of course, but to her, masks are definitely all they're cracked up to be.
she sits up a little when ben asks his questions. they're hard to answer. there's so much she can say, and in this moment, it really hits her how much ben had missed. it's sad. she wishes she could give that back to him, but as she well knows, the past is the past, and they've now got to settle for the next best thing. ]
Private, at first. LA was so huge and new, especially when you're young and you only leave the house for your nutcase dad's pet project. And I wanted to minimze the people who would make the connection between me, new girl in the studio, and the rumor.
[ allison makes a face. the whole point of going west and starting an acting career was to leave that life behind, not bring it with her.
allison thinks for a moment. the best part? that's an interesting question, and also a little easier to answer. ]
It's so fun to just be someone else for a few days, weeks, months, even years, depending on the movie. And not just in a shitty escapist way either. I guess I just felt like I got to live so many different kinds of lives, as an actress. And when the script is good, or the director is good, you really get to make art out of it sometimes, and that's the best feeling.
Plus, once into dress up, always into dress up, right? ]
[ allison winks. ]