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I tell our boss that Michael can make whoever look like Olivia as long as they have the same facial structure. He tells me they'll go through talent casting and find someone to send over next week on Tuesday. We hang up.

I feel like I'm off the hook. Then, my phone rings again. It's our boss, but this time he's saying some crazy shit. Olivia's half asian and Diana our make-up artist is Asian.

I'm now supposed to ask Diana (who is also very pretty but, by the way, LOOKS NOTHING LIKE OLIVIA) if she'll do it. I think he tells me to offer her $500 to do it if she says no. I look over at her and start to ask and she says "Fuck no."

So, we shoot everything we can and there's enough time to cast Olivia's hands which took about 15 minutes but of course not enough time to cast her face.

The field shooters and producer are reassuring me that they can work with what they've got but I'm super skeptical. They promise they'll shoot whoever shows up next week from behind so you can't tell it's not Olivia. They say we're good and I trust them.

I can't be there on Tuesday, so I'm hoping for the best. We've got a huge book of faces to cast random people from and I think if we find the right person, we might be saved.

I put it in the hands of our talent department and our boss. I've got too many other things to worry about and I don't have time to babysit whatever happens on Tuesday.

So Wednesday around lunch time, I go into the edit bay to meet with our editor and start working with whatever they shot on Tuesday and everyone in the edit bay is smiling at me. I'm not sure what to say.