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First Light
War/Historical Fiction
146 minutes

The casting call is in One.

They spend months in the district. Months of pouring over all the headshots, reviewing the tapes, flying promising young actors out to Saturn City. Months of getting chewed out by the director because those disticters can't act for shit.

It's a medium budget film. A war film. About how the Capitol triumphed over the dissenting during the rebellion. Like clockwork, some studio makes one of these every few years. But this one is supposedly grittier. It's supposed to be darker. More realistic. The horrors of war. The necessary evil that allowed order to be established, that paved the path for the unification of Panem.

Well, they need someone from District One to play a Capitolite.

Specifically, they need someone from District One to play a Capitolite because they need a kid for this role, a little girl, between the ages eight to ten. And a Capitol citizen has the right to child entertainment laws, which means the maximum number of working hours is capped at a headache-inducing six. God. What a scheduling nightmare.

But a kid from One?

Yeah.

Three months in, the casting associate's worn out. The casting associate wants to go home. He's been seeing auditions for about six days a week. The caliber isn't very Capitolite, and the director has a bit of a temper. Shit, they all have a bit of a temper.

But three months in, dreary Tuesday, the girl that'll eventually get casted shows up.

Third coffee of the day. He's got the beginning of a tension headache. One of the assistants brings the little tablet with the next candidate queued up. He stops rubbing his temples to take a peek.

What the hell is this.

There is no resume, no agent. A no name nobody with a mediocre face. He's about to yell them all for wasting resources, but the door swings open.

Truth is, the associate really doesn't think much of her. She's wearing shoes that are too small and a dress that's swallowing her up. She has eyes that are too big for her face and limbs that are too big for body. And she's this brooding thing in the room. Something very untrained, unpolished, a little ugly as does the cold read. He sits up a bit in his chair. He leans forward and rests his chin on a fist to watch. She's suddenly crying.

During the audition, she cries.

A kid that can cry on command is a million dollar trick.

First Light gets middling reviews. But the girl gets the attention of a couple of critics. She appears in the third act as an orphan that the protagonist stumbles across. A soldier on the frontline. Had a daughter her age. He decides to take her to safety across the war-torn Capitol. This is during the last few harrowing hours before victory. It's very moving, it's a little haunting, the two of them walking through the tall tombstones that used to be buildings.

She's convincing as a traumatized child. A highlight of the film. That's what Top Critic Roman Bray from the Cinema Seen writes. Three stars.

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Cass is about nine when her mom remarries.

And her mom looks like a cupcake in the dress, but Cass nods and smiles and says she looks very bridal.

She learned that “very bridal” was supposed to be a compliment from all the magazines she'd read in the dressing rooms of different boutiques. Very bridal, you look like a bride. You look like how you should be.

Too bad she's marrying a loser.

Chett wears a lot of polos. He has two cars in his driveway and a big old mcMansion that they moved into. He very pointedly suggested that maybe Cass should take the room all the way in the back of the house. Tween girls need privacy. It's out of the way from everything else. It's perfect for her.

Maybe they started off rocky when they had dinner all together for the first time, and she broke his family heirloom of a salad bowl. He had to say it was okay, all that mattered was that she was alright, except he said it all in a very strained voice, and his face was turning red from holding onto that smile.

But Chett is reliable. That's what her mom says. He's not like all the other shitty boyfriends. He's not like her dad, who when they got married, rode around on a stupidly loud motorcycle and played in a no-name rock band and drank beer for breakfast. They were kids, nineteen years old.

But at least he was cool. He probably still is cool. Hasn't visited since Cass was around six, but that's because he's really very busy with that rock band of his. He still sends her cards on every holiday.

Chett and her mom get married. Fairytale ceremony. White-picket fence dream.

Things go south very fast.

Not between Chett and her mom.

Between Cass and the both of them.

Because suddenly, he's making all these comments about her. Suddenly, her mom's siding with him on everything. Three months into this new little family, they're arguing about something or the other at the dinner table, and he spits out quit being such a bitch, Cassandra, and her mom doesn't say anything. Sits in silence, pretends she didn't hear it.

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Order & Law
Drama / 12 seasons

S12 E7 · Paradox

Detective Meyer returns to an old cold case involving the murder of a family up in Northern District Twelve. Soon, she realizes the neighbour's daughter might be a key witness in uncovering the truth.

District Six Med
Drama / 4 seasons

S4 E15 · Liar Liar

Dr. Gonzales and his team investigate the mysterious illness of a middle school student. The doctors wrestle with the confounding symptoms, just as more students from the school begin to fall sick.

Stuck in the Middle
Sitcom / 3 seasons

S3 E1 · The New School ID

Moira starts her first day in high school and is determined to change her image, while Lorcan and his friends fight over the attention of a new girl. Jamie thinks about possible careers after graduation. Meanwhile, Julia tries to adjust to her new job as store manager, and Marcus attempts to finally get the team to the Exy championships this year.

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During the year after First Light, her filmography is mostly television work, episodic appearances here and there.

She plays a precocious little genius that helps the detective solve a cold case during an episode of the long-running procedural drama, Order & Law. In District Six Med, she's an ailing tween with a mysterious illness, the case of the week for the cast of doctors to pick over. She makes a guest appearance on a sitcom as the short-lived schoolyard crush of the youngest son.

Cass is thirteen years old. She's been jetting off to set, accompanied by an agent and a manager that ACE Kids hired to look after her. She goes home to One after a couple of months in the Capitol, between Order & Law and District Six Med, and that's when she finds out her mom is pregnant.

Surprise. She's getting a baby brother.

A week later, she lands the younger version of blockbuster superhero, Piranha. Her brother is born while she's in District Four filming.

It's funny how unrecognizable home is after just a year. New pictures on the mantle, a nursery for the baby. She returns again, and her mom is someone that makes casseroles now. Hosts barbecues now.

Cass picks through the ground mystery meat at dinner, staring at Chett, baby Paul, her mom. Whatever happened to the waitress who wanted to be a singer, who took her kid out of school to go to the performing arts theatre when they had discount tickets and let Cass hangout in the staff room of the nightclub she worked at.

What happened to her.

How come she never made Cass a casserole when she was a little kid.

When Cassandra finally gets her big break as the co-star on a horror movie, the agency tells her family that they're going to need her in the Capitol for a whole year. It's a big budget film with A-listers. It's a big deal. Her mom could accompany her, but she doesn't have to, in fact, don't even worry about it. Cass will be taken care of, just have to do the paperwork here and sign the film contract here. Here's the pen. She's going to be the star.

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