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CLARA’S CHARACTER BIO: Clara’s life begins without insulation. She is not raised inside comfort or assumption but inside contingency. Money is tight, attention uneven, and stability conditional. From childhood onward she understands that security is something other people inherit. What she inherits instead is awareness. She learns early how to endure quietly and how to make herself useful without being seen as needy. Alongside this material precarity sits the peculiar knowledge that she was never entirely alone. From an early age her body carries the quiet fact of a twin that did not survive, a condition explained to her in neutral medical language that strips it of consequence. One body absorbs another and continues. This is not framed as tragedy, merely biology. Clara learns that disappearance can be internal, intimate, and unacknowledged. As a child she becomes observant and contained. She reads rooms the way other children read books. Attention, when it arrives, settles almost exclusively on her appearance, as if her body were already a public instrument compensating for private lack. She learns that admiration is abundant but care is scarce. Desire costs nothing. Protection costs everything. By adolescence she has a working understanding of exchange. Affection, approval, opportunity and sex appear to her not as moral absolutes but as circulating currencies. She does not celebrate this knowledge and she does not sentimentalize it. It is simply how she survives. When she later performs on camera selling reproductive certainty she does so with mechanical precision, acutely aware of the obscene distance between slogan and lived consequence. On the night in question her body begins to rebel before her mind can articulate why. She feels ill, nauseous, coughing, aching. The symptoms are dismissed as anxiety or excess, but something older is stirring. The twin, long internalized, begins to assert itself somatically. It presses outward as discomfort, as pressure, as the

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Rate $400 A DAY
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Gender Woman
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Age 18-30
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Union SAG-AFTRA, Student Film
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Role Type Principal
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Submission Due Date 01/19/2026

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Clara- Rate Change To $400 A Day

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Student Film $400 A DAY Woman 18 - 30 SAG-AFTRA, Student Film Principal 01/19/2026 New York City

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CLARA’S CHARACTER BIO: Clara’s life begins without insulation. She is not raised inside comfort or assumption but inside contingency. Money is tight, attention uneven, and stability conditional. From childhood onward she understands that security is something other people inherit. What she inherits instead is awareness. She learns early how to endure quietly and how to make herself useful without being seen as needy. Alongside this material precarity sits the peculiar knowledge that she was never entirely alone. From an early age her body carries the quiet fact of a twin that did not survive, a condition explained to her in neutral medical language that strips it of consequence. One body absorbs another and continues. This is not framed as tragedy, merely biology. Clara learns that disappearance can be internal, intimate, and unacknowledged. As a child she becomes observant and contained. She reads rooms the way other children read books. Attention, when it arrives, settles almost exclusively on her appearance, as if her body were already a public instrument compensating for private lack. She learns that admiration is abundant but care is scarce. Desire costs nothing. Protection costs everything. By adolescence she has a working understanding of exchange. Affection, approval, opportunity and sex appear to her not as moral absolutes but as circulating currencies. She does not celebrate this knowledge and she does not sentimentalize it. It is simply how she survives. When she later performs on camera selling reproductive certainty she does so with mechanical precision, acutely aware of the obscene distance between slogan and lived consequence. On the night in question her body begins to rebel before her mind can articulate why. She feels ill, nauseous, coughing, aching. The symptoms are dismissed as anxiety or excess, but something older is stirring. The twin, long internalized, begins to assert itself somatically. It presses outward as discomfort, as pressure, as the

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