I was a ballet dancer in a ballet company. The company was promoting the play and I had to give interviews. In one of them I was relating how I lived the moment when I was given the main character.
I related how I was in principle playing the main character, which was kind of important in the plot but in terms of time on stage, it was a very small part. Then one day the director sat us down and announced that he had decided for one of us to play the second main character, but one that was the most time on stage. I made my mental bets, I thought “it will be either X or Z” and then suddenly I heard my name. I was flattered and shocked but saw an objective problem, because I still wanted to play the character that I was on.
It was common for two dancers to play two parts. However there was one scene where the two dancers dance on stage together, so I could not play both parts.
The director asked me to show him what part that was. We had the story board and I opened it. Towards the end, the character goes to see some kind of which that tells the future. She tells him about an ex partner who has his child, she is in danger. So he goes and sorts her out but still wants to have his romantic relationship with his current girlfriend, so he goes to her as well, and that is where they dance together on stage.
The director decided to cut out that scene so that I could play both characters.