Now, looking back, I know better.
I know it had nothing to do with the season or the cameras or my new role at all.
It was just my body reacting before my brain could at the proximity ofhim— like it always had.
“Well now… would you look who it is.”
The voice splintered my joy like a bolt of lightning to a frail, unsteady tree. I stopped mid-sentence where I was planning the schedules for my stews, pen hovering above the page in a hand that felt foreign, a hand that was already shaking.
I swallowed, looking up even when it took all my effort to do so, my heart kicking back to life from where it had halted in my chest.
And there he was.
Finn Fucking Pearson.
“Hello, Firefly.”
PRE-PRODUCTION CONFESSIONAL
CLOSE QUARTERS
SEASON 4
FINN PEARSON: HEAD CHEF
PRODUCER
Tell us a little about yourself.
FINN
I’m Finn Pearson. I’m twenty-eight years old from Dublin, Ireland, and I’m a chef.
PRODUCER
Can you expand on that? Tell us a little about your experience.
FINN
Ever since I was a kid, cooking has been my love language. In fact, I don’t think there’s a better way to show you love someone than by cooking for them. When I graduated secondary school, I boarded the first flight to the Netherlands to enroll in a culinary arts program. From there, I found myself in Switzerland,Italy, France… I was just traveling and soaking up every bit of knowledge I could from some of the best chefs in the world. One day, I got a job offer for a yacht in the Mediterranean. It’s damn hard being a yacht chef. You’re the only one in the kitchen, for starters, which means you do it all — the planning, the food prep, the cooking, and most of the cleanup, too. But feck, it’s fun — can I curse?
PRODUCER
It will be censored, but yes.
FINN
It’s fecking fun, being on a boat in an exotic corner of the world. The hours are long, but the money is deadly. I was hooked from the first charter.
PRODUCER
You’ve taken a break from yachting for a couple of years, is that correct? This will be your first season in a while?
Finn drinks water, adjusts in seat.
FINN
That’s correct.