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It cannot possibly be time to wake up, is the first thing Enid thinks.
She’s super warm and cozy in her bed, enjoying the comforts of being in an actual bed after so many weeks of being away, but the ringing of her phone is disturbing the peace.
Groaning, she grabs her phone before her brain catches up and realizes it’s not her alarm chiming but rather her agent calling her.
She groans even more when she sees the time on the top corner of her phone and notices she’s only been asleep for no more than two hours since getting back home.
She mourns for her rest because she just knows that she’s not going to be able to get back to sleep so soon after this wake up call.
Swiping with her thumb, she answers the call with, “Yoko, this better be important because I have just gotten back and you know how shitty my schedule has been–”
Yoko cuts her off.
“You got the role.”
Ignoring the cold of her not-quite-heated apartment, if she can call it that with her lack of living in said-apartment, she leaps out of bed immediately.
And she screams.
She was right, she can’t get back to sleep but she’s definitely not as pissed off about it as she thought she would be.
Enid doesn’t remember ever not being in the limelight.
Her mother and father forming both halves of top celebrity couple, Estheray, it’s no surprise there’s never been any sense of normalcy in her life, even as the least successful fifth child of theirs.
The whole industry, and more, had been fixated with her parents’ relationship from the very start when they first met on set as star crossed lovers, past the birth of their children, and onto the next generation now with their children’s careers.
Even now, paparazzi are still taking shots of them doing things as mundane as going for a walk together. Though Enid knows the paparazzi would have a field day knowing just how fake and well-prepared the mundanity is with her parents not having had a decent conversation in well over a decade. With each other or her and her brothers.
For her brothers, while they haven’t reached the level of fame as their parents, but only because their parents have a few decades on them and Enid’s sure they will get there some day, they are living the life. Coined as the Sinclairs, which always stings Enid a bit with the exclusion of her but nonetheless, they’re always the go to’s for any newest blockbuster projects or any straight rom-coms in need of a hunky man.
With how close the five of them are in age, only one or two years in between them, it’s no wonder her brothers are so popular with their good looks, athletic bodies and their lead roles in a main action franchise involving four secret agent spies. They could retire now and still live comfortably for five lifetimes. They reached that point years ago already.
And then there’s Enid, the runt of the famous Sinclairs.
Though Enid does live under the shadows of her parents and older brothers, she wouldn’t say she’s unsuccessful.
And she’s not going to complain about it because she knows this is an industry where success is dependent on connections and her family name has definitely helped. She’s not going to be silly and deny herself of that, she knows she needs all the help she can get.
Her decade and a half long career isn’t too shabby, from her starting out in commercials, modeling for stock photography to guest starring in small roles for well known TV shows and even a few roles in movies.
Outside of her filmography and TV career, her social media presence is also well above average. She’s managed to gather a fairly big following on TikTok and Instagram, even though a lot of it is through fans of her brothers, trying to get the latest news of them if she posts any photos or videos featuring them. Which she does sometimes because like said, she knows she needs all the help she can get and her brothers are too egotistical to decline.
All in all, despite the relative lacklusterness compared to her triple A-list parents and A-list brothers, she would say yeah, her career’s not too bad.
But this…
This lead role is going to change her life.
She just knows it.
The Abrams Family is a long running, well-established franchise that’s gained so much fame and spin-offs, it’s become a household name by now.
Everyone knows the names of each of the characters, whether they’ve been introduced to the franchise from its initial conception as a comic strip, any of its decades old TV series, any of its movie adaptations, both live-action and animated or other forms of media etc.
Which is why insider news of a TV reboot had sent waves with each and every actor out there trying to gain some kind of involvement with the project.
There wasn’t much shared with the leak, besides the reboot being centered around an aged up version of the daughter of the family, Winter Abrams, but the hype never died down.
With such a high profile project, Enid had initially been surprised when Yoko told her she had managed to get her an audition slot because she was so sure the lead role would have been offer-only.
Nevertheless, she’s glad she spent those three days researching the character, deep-diving into the different adaptations and characterizations of her and forming some kind of personal insight of her own to really flesh out her understanding of Winter.
She’s not going to lie, it was hard. Winter is a character she would say is totally opposite to her and definitely not one she’s carried out before.
Winter was dark and broody, to the homicidal level, a clear contrast to Enid’s own bubbly personality. In fact, it took Enid over an hour in front of the mirror just practicing her neutral and serious face, the first few tries making her laugh out loud at the unfamiliarity of it.
And now, after the initial audition, three callbacks, four line readings with different potential male love interests, she’s done it.
She got the job.
It’s going to be her first ever lead role and she can’t wait to get started.
An opportunity.
A chance to help her catch up to the rest of her unattainable family members.
Every day she’s thankful for having such a competent agent.
Though Yoko had originally been “given” to her by her mother to, “Help balance out your lack of talent,” as soon as Enid met her, she knew they would resonate well together.
Yoko was harsh and critical but more so in the honest way rather than the neggy way, like her own mother.
She somehow has a great eye on reviewing scripts for Enid. Just last year she had advised Enid strongly to trust her and to not take the fun looking project on this murder mystery thriller, which did bomb at the office eventually, and to take on a project involving some weird cotton candy monster instead, which had gained a massive cult following, contributing to Enid’s social media followers.
It’s sad to say, but Yoko’s her best friend. She’s probably not Yoko’s, because having a workmate as a best friend is a lame thing only Enid would do, but Yoko is definitely hers.
Though, at times, she does feel like wringing Yoko’s neck because as honest as she was, she can be so shifty. Including right now.
She knew something was funny when she had asked Yoko for details about the rest of the cast but she was evasive as fuck, saying not to worry and that it hadn’t been confirmed yet. Whereas Enid had heard from the director that her lead role was the hardest one to pin down so was the last one to be confirmed.
She knew something was up when Yoko had been pushy with her to sign the contract this time, normally taking the time to sit down with Enid to go through every single term and condition closely to make sure there wasn’t a loophole anywhere.
She now knows why Yoko had been so suspicious.
Because as she looks at the cast list, her eyes immediately stop on one name she recognizes all too well.
Wednesday Addams.
And she thinks, I’m going to kill Yoko.