But just like Jesse and Tom, they find their chemistry tested at various situations that throw them together-though these usually involve a hot script and the on-set intimacy coordinator making sure that they establish boundaries even as they act out the charged relationship between Carmen and her ex-husband Victor. While both of the onscreen lovers in Daria’s telenova-set romance are actors, each comes to Carmen in Charge with different agendas: soapy ingenue Jasmine Lin Rodriguez is trying to put a humiliating breakup-via-tabloid behind her, while telenovela legend Ashton Suarez wants to stay out of gossip to protect someone far more vulnerable. From actors to the journalists who profile them to the fans who write their characters into fanfic, each interpretation has a distinctive take on the ultimate fantasy. Just like how Matafeo reversed the script with Starstruck, these seven love stories reimagine the famous person/normal person pairing from inside the Hollywood-and Bollywood, and telenovela-machine. Even better if it’s one that encapsulates the utter, ridiculous, unexpected joy of Starstruck’s morning-after “Return of the Mack” dance sequence in book form. While we wait to find out what happens to average-gal Jessie and movie-star Tom after last season’s small-yet-grand romantic gesture, the next best thing is sinking into a contemporary romance. The sweetest torture is knowing that there is a second season of Starstruck, Rose Matafeo’s genderswapped Notting Hill dramedy, but that it doesn’t have a U.S.
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