A FATAL FEUD
Ivan Drozdov: Years later and I’m still shocked at how Dreadbase took off. Evidently it was just the right film at the right time.
Oisín Connellan: Noisín was everyone’s latest obsession.
Nadine Heywood: Noisín? No, nobody called us that.
Amos DuPont: I saw the magazine coverage before I saw Dreadbase. Not really my thing. I didn’t realize it was the same Nadine I’d lived with until Lewis Stamper mentioned it. Quite the transformation. I didn’t know she had it in her.
Nadine curls into Oisín as he opens his coat, using the fabric to shield her from the chasing paparazzi, but it’s clear they’re both laughing, that for now at least this attention is a delight they’ll half-heartedly protest.
Zoe Holland: Nadine was all anyone at CADS could talk about. There were regular screenings in the auditorium. She wasn’t even that good in it, and she was clearly blowing the director. I mean, the character’s name is Adeline. That’s practically, like, an anagram or something.
Lewis Stamper: Harper was livid. She was weird that whole year—ungrounded but committed to acting like she hadn’t been before. You couldn’t even mention Nadine or the film without her behaving like you’d insulted her.
Oisín Connellan: Nadine and I spent a year in LA together.
I was even picking out rings. And then Harper appeared on the scene, and it was like Dreadbase incarnate—Nadine possessed by this monster.
All she cared about was digging up dirt on Harper, wearing a hotter outfit than her …
God, even now just saying her name has me exhausted.
Nadine Heywood: I was so excited by all the opportunity.
I think I did four or five films that year.
Harper appeared right when I was chasing all that success.
All I’d ever wanted, and there she was to take it from me.
That’s what I remember of that year. Not Oisín.
Her. So sure, that’s what happened to us: Harper.