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Charlie is a Broadway casting director who is impressed by Lara’s audition for Our Town. Although he can’t offer her the role because his coworkers prefer a more established actress, Charlie asks Lara to meet him at a bar to discuss her career. There, he tells her about Tom Lake’s production of Our Town and offers to refer her for the role of Emily there. Lara, recognizing the cliché of an older man in the industry asking an up-and-coming young actress to meet with him alone, assumes that he is propositioning her. When she flirts with him, however, he grows flustered and turns her down. Lara finds out that Bill Ripley called Charlie and told him that she was his niece in an effort to protect her.
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Charlie Character Timeline in Tom Lake
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Chapter 5
...She gets a callback and performs well. The following day, one of the casting directors, Charlie, calls Lara at her hotel and asks her to meet at the hotel bar for...
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Hopeful that this means she’s gotten the part, Lara meets Charlie at the bar. However, Charlie tells her that even though she was excellent, she’s not...
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...few minutes of silence, Nell asks Lara if she really would have had sex with Charlie. Lara assures her that she wouldn’t have—she was just confused in the moment. Nell, who’s...
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