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El otro día iba caminando por la calle, cuando de repente vi a un grupo de gente corriendo y gritando detrás de una cámara. Al principio, no entendía muy bien que era lo que pasaba, pero resultó ser el rodaje de una película.
Todo estaba preparado para grabar una escena. En ella, una mujer joven bastante atractiva, con el pelo largo y rubio, esperaba sentada en un coche descapotable que estaba aparcado junto a la acera. A la mísma altura del coche, salía un hombre por la puerta de una tienda. Este hombre tenía que llevar una pistola en la mano, decir una frase y saltar dentro del coche.
Pero el pobre hombre siempre confundía la frase que tenía que decir, o se tropezaba justo en el momento que tenía que saltar al coche. Así que cuando yo me acercaba por allí, el director parecía bastante enfadado y no paraba de gritar. Creo recordar que habían repetido la escena más de cuarenta veces.
Me paré a observar si volvían a intentar rodar la escena de nuevo. El actor miraba al director mientras este le pedía que dejara de intentarlo, entonces, por casualidad, al alejarse de el, se tropezó conmigo, y el director al ver nuestro parecido, se dirigió hacia mí.
Me pidió que intentara hacer la mísma escena. A la segunda vez salió de maravilla. Luego hice otra escena en la que tenia que encender el coche y salir rápidamente corriendo. Luego otra en la que yo y la rubia subíamos en un ascensor, vamos andando por un pasillo y ella me pega un tiro por la espalda con una pistola.
A fin de cuentas, tampoco era un papel demasiado largo.
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