The director, Paul Lancaster, stood to the side with wide eyes, waving his arms in excitement. "Vivian! This young lady is the Vivian I've been picturing!"
Just a few days earlier, Nina Sinclair had come to the set to audition.
The moment Paul Lancaster laid eyes on her, he was deeply disappointed.
The Vivian he envisioned was beautiful, yes—a girl of seventeen or eighteen—but not with the kind of forced youthfulness Nina Sinclair was putting on.
He didn't give her a second thought after the screen test and announced the result right then and there.
When Nina Sinclair heard the outcome, she threw a huge tantrum.
Paul Lancaster had told her at the time, "You don't understand the essence of *Rivers and Mountains*, nor do you understand what kind of character Vivian is."
After all, no sane person would show up for an audition in the mountains wearing a pair of red high heels.
