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It’s Hollywood lore that director James Cameron made even the female extras in his blockbuster Titanic wear petticoats and corsets under their dresses because he wanted the movie to look authentic and for every actor to feel the part. The late Carrie Fisher related the story of how George Lucas forbid her to wear a bra under her Princess Leia costume in Star Wars, “because there is no underwear in space”. It would seem strange that a writer might have to consider her character’s underwear when developing a scene, but that’s exactly what I had to do for Rebecca Wood in The Mystery Woman.