The story centers around the character of Amanda, a young woman in her early 20s engaged to a man she’s only known a few months.
Convinced by an older woman she works with that she really knows nothing about the man she’s committed herself to, Amanda agrees to test her fiance’s fidelity by tempting him with another woman. Delano said the plot takes all kinds of twists and turns from that point on.
“This character is very complex. She’s an insecure girl, a lot younger emotionally than her age, but she knows what she wants.
“You have to have a little of yourself in almost any character that you play, and when I was in high school, I was insecure, and this role brought out some of those old memories,” Delano said.
The idea for the character in the film was just that — an idea — until Dworkin met Delano through a mutual friend.
“I had some ideas in the back of my mind, but I hadn’t written anything yet, and then I met Britt and it all came back,” Dworkin said.
As a writer and producer who’s done most of his work in the psychological thriller realm, including cop dramas and the television show “Criminal Minds,” Dworkin said the concept for this film came from firsthand knowledge of how people often went into marriage for the wrong reasons.
“I saw people jumping into things and always thought that would be a great jumping off point for a character,” Dworkin said.
A character he described as “slightly out of step,” and one that Colleen Bailey, Delano’s former theater teacher at Sage Hill, said Delano was well prepared to portray.
