I liked that you are trying to portray how the industry looks from inside out.

Your style is a bit difficult for me as you use several expressions that I was not familiar with. But I am learning.

I was a bit confused about the gender of Penny. My first guess was that Penny is a girl. But in the following snippet, you are calling her "an actor" instead of "an actress".

Alexa saw the shoot, appalled at how the actor was treated. Shouted at, positioned by hand and made to do flaps and hops facing this way and that.

More so, later on in the scene, there are all the references for her or him being gay. Considering the popular nowadays concept of fluid gender, I was confused.

Otherwise, as I said, this story paints a more statistically realistic picture and I enjoyed that thoroughness. Good job!