> I know he really was in love with Julia in the beginning, there was no mistaking that.
Well, that kind of "in love" is meaningless. It's just a feeling. Maybe he did like the theatre and hoped to bedhop his way into some opportunities. He was an opportunist. He was also an idiot, treating Julia the way he did. It's sheer luck he was successful. She was not comfortable with his behaviour in his flat, and she fled. But she was tempted by his youth. It was a mess, neither something well calculated nor intensely meaningful. "It happened." Very realistic, a mix of motivations that lead to another snarl.
He didn't fall in love in any meaningful way with Avice either. The minute she's trouble, whining about her contract in this production she hates to be part of, he will be moving on to the next bit of glitter that catches his eye.
But it's true he can't have been strictly a golddigger, or he would not have returned the gifts, which were hardly trinkets. I think he said it was a Cartier watch, and the case was gold. Both would have been far more expensive than any gift he could give in return. He wanted the upper hand, so he gave the gifts back in a fit of pique. That's how I see it.
He was just a shallow young user with no insight into anyone's being, attracted to the glitter of the acting world, but not seeing below the surface.
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