Olivia

He was very cold and had like no interest in the rapport that we had built.

That's whenever I noticed Miranda coming to rehearsal really late every day with him.

They would show up right before start time and they were always together.

And I asked her because I honestly was just confused as to what was going on.

And she told me that she'd been going in for private coaching for like a couple hours before rehearsal every day.

And then when we would get in the rehearsal room, he was awful to her.

He would just flip a switch so fast from being obsessed with her whenever she was acting to being not angry, but coaching her in such like a confrontational way and pushing her emotional boundaries.

There were days where he'd be really nice to me in rehearsal and awful to Miranda and vice versa.

And obviously that creates competition.

I mean, despite the fact that we were so incredibly close, we also both wanted those opportunities.

It continued like that through the whole process.

And when we got to actually performing that play, on the performance weekend before the shows, Cato would pull her aside to like, quote unquote, warm up.

But it was really him being intensely emotional with her.

I clocked that it was very weird, but it was hard for me to recognize in that moment what it was because there were also times where he was intensely emotional with me and it wasn't sexual.

So I didn't want to assume.

I think if I would have been with Miranda more, it would have been easier for me to clock what was happening.

And so because of that, I think it was important that he not only put boundaries on our relationship and stop being as close with me, but also get me away from Miranda.

Now, obviously, I know that he did make a very concerted effort to make her not want to be my friend anymore.

There was a necessary distance and animosity that he had to create.

Luckily, he failed pretty miserably at doing that.