You have just outlined why I spent fifteen minutes attempting to come at it through April. That was, in fact, my first, best instinct. April actually lives closest to me (a short bike ride away). April was also a part of the proxy conversation Tom had with her (at my behest): "do you want to keep making slasher movies? Does your mother understand that the only way you can advance at this point is to get nekkid?"

Being on the post side of things, I've been in the same room as April exactly once - and we didn't even speak to each other. She was definitely in the room while Dick and I proceeded to school her mother about the realities of distribution six months ago, but she was not a participant in the conversation. In other words, she knows who I am, she knows what I know, she's aware of what I'm about, but we have no rapport whatsoever.

Dick and I spent ten minutes evaluating whether or not Tom had enough rapport to come at April and determined that as theirs was not a relationship based on respect, and as they had no larger relationship outside the film, and as Tom "mostly hits on her" there was no realistic way to make that work.

I spent an equal amount of time with Harry trying to determine if he could come at her to make the same points, but Harry is mostly employed by June because he's a non-threatening gay man whose screenplays invariably involve dire punishment for heterosexual sex. His relationship with April is worse than Tom's - beside the fact that it took me an hour to get Harry on board in the first place.

Long story short, I wanted to go that way but judged that I didn't have the framework to pull it off.... and building it ad-hoc ran the possibility of further clouding the waters.