‘I’m making my film, Becks,’ said Siobhan. ‘You know the one where, like, if Watership Down was actually a laugh? I honestly think I might get Aniston. Like, comedy Aniston. The best Aniston.’

‘I’m pleased for you,’ she said, believing it too.

The industry had felt like another country then. Its vanities, its ways, its hungers – they had dropped away. On the surface, at least. And Becky had left that behind. So when Siobhan asked her what her next move was going to be, and the reply was that she had been taking long walks, Becky had to work to convince her ex-colleague that this was actually true.

‘But you were doing so well!’ said Siobhan.

Then Amber’s face, drunk or drugged, out of it and miserable, trapped, on its side against Matthew’s rug, stared back at Becky.

‘No, I wasn’t,’ she replied. ‘Not the way I should have been.’

It was only later that Becky realized she might have sounded like she just wasn’t moving up the ladder fast enough but then she thought, Siobhan will get it. They hadn’t made plans to see each other. But nor did it feel impossible that, one day, they might.

Becky watches Emilia’s credit float up the screen.

The film has attracted four-star reviews across the board. Emilia is a name in the Best Actress race, although some pundits have debated whether the ‘Kingfisher scandal’ will still bite her in the ass when it comes to the voters.

Emilia has been canny. Of course she has; her advisors are well-paid to help her navigate things like this. In interviews she has been at pains to emphasize that she refused to do the film while Kingfisher was involved, but after they exited she felt able to at least discuss it with Sharon, who she credits as a ‘visionary director and an unequivocally feminist voice’.

The divorce of Kingfisher and Medea had been messier in real life. Once Matthew’s trial was announced, the project was dead so long as he was attached to it. Becky had been fired for gross misconduct. Matthew’s legal fees must have been extraordinary, thinks Becky. The company’s back catalogue and existing projects were quickly sold off, no doubt much of it going on the divorce from Antonia, all done within a few short months.

And then there was whatever he paid his exceptionally-skilled barristers to defend him from the rape charge. All in, it probably cost him more than Medea’s total budget.