Kink Me! #17
Kink Me! #17
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No one's keeping things a secret, per se, but there's sort of this unspoken pact to keep it under wraps. Well, if under wraps means that approximately two hundred and forty-seven people already know, joke about, plot arbitrary ways to keep Bradley and Colin apart just to see what happens, and place bets on who will be the first to end up in the wrong costume because he just grabbed the nearest cast-away top and threw it on.
The last one was Bradley, of course. Merlin's tunics are far too small for him and Bradley was three sentences into complaining about the fit before he realised what happened, shut his mouth mid-sentence, and turned a rather lovely shade of crimson.
So, an unspoken pact to keep things under wraps amongst the cast and crew (and their families and significant others and a few friends). That's only -- what? -- 300 people out of six and a half billion? A drop in the bucket, really. Of course, out of those six and a half billion, there are something like 12 million or so that watch Merlin. Out of those 12 million, possibly only 4 million even recognize either of their names, and out of that four million, probably less than a million even give a shit about them. And out of those that give a shit, probably...
This actually goes on like this for quite a long while one night in a pub in Cardiff where Ian from props explains all this to some of the other guys and a bemused Anthony, who helpfully acquires extra serviettes so they can figure out all of the appropriate maths.
What it comes down to, after a long, long bit of figuring (and a little help from the bartender's calculator when it becomes clear that Ian is a bit too far gone for division), then a fair bit of estimation, a few bloody hells, and then an outright abandonment of rational maths, is that out of six and a half billion people in the world, only seven thousand six hundred and ninety-three people would even care that Bradley and Colin were fucking (or at least snogging), so they're all keeping this secret for a percentage of the world so low that it's practically unfigurable... and is it really worth it?
It's entirely possible that Ian is talking all about this because neither Colin nor Bradley are exactly doing a bang up job of keeping it quiet for themselves.
Mobile phones of the cast and crew rang continuously with calls and texts after Colin's interview with Cornith Davies that came not long after they'd started filming again. When Davies asked Colin just how close were he and Bradley really Colin choked on his water so badly that they had to go to commercial.
Katie had been on set for the interview and caught the whole thing on her phone. When anyone asks if she's an accomplice to it ending up on YouTube she vehemently denies it.
A few weeks later, both Colin and Bradley taped an interview with Miranda Regal for Wake up, UK! that would air later. She'd asked them various predictable questions: did you ever expect the reception you've received? Do you find it hard to get into character? Will Merlin's magic ever be revealed? Does everyone get along on set?
For this, Bradley had launched into a long, clever story about some mischief he and Colin had got up to, and the whole crew were completely charmed by his story (naturally) and then when Regal went on to ask if their friendship is one that would go beyond the series, Bradley grinned widely at her and announced in his boomy, self-important voice that theirs was "a romance that would last the ages."
Colin had to nudge him about a thousand times before it dawned on Bradley what he had actually just said. He blushed and quickly amended it to "bromance" but Regal and her crew smiled indulgently at him and sent the make-up girl out to dust his nose again with powder.
They're all pretty sure that Bradley James is full of shit most of the time anyway, so they've probably squeaked that one by under the radar.
Thankfully that one never made it onto YouTube.
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The cast and crew reactions are hilarious. The fact that they're actually doing maths amuses me far too much. Also, it would definitely be Bradley that ends up in Colin's tunic. The visual for that is priceless.
Thanks so much for this lovely, lovely story, anon! I'll eagerly await your next post.
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You're so welcome! [and the next part may be a couple of days -- busyness coming up -- but I'll write whenever I can.]
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