i also think el² have probably gone out for similar roles a few times? in the past when writing this character i've said "spotlight" was one of her white whale roles, at least – she's not hyper-competitive with other actresses, at least not in a negative way (in that she thrives on competition but is far more likely to take rejection as incentive to work harder than as "we like her better than you" and thus holds it far more against herself than against the others involved), so there's no resentment there, but definitely got me thinking about whether they might've overlapped other times as well!