In the first instalment of a fictional new series for AnOther, the author of Which As You Know Means Violence, Philippa Snow, focuses on Bree Daniels, a call girl played by Jane Fonda in the 1971 neo-noir film Klute
Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Imagesin a new series of flash fiction for AnOthermag.com, critic and essayist Philippa Snow looks at the interior lives of female characters on screen.
Then, say each of these auditions had been taped, which in a way they had, since Bree liked to remember them and analyse her performance. If Bree was turned away from her scene partner, i.e. whichever middle-aged man had cast himself that day in the potential movie of her life as the love interest or the husband or the pervert stepfather, it was as if she only had to act a little, as if she were doing a voiceover job or being a stunt double instead of a real actress.
This afternoon, Bree had found herself sitting in line with maybe 20, maybe 30 other women, all entirely silent, clutching headshots and attempting to arrange themselves to look especially pretty, and that session with her therapist had crept back into her mind.
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