The Goddess of Warsaw

Lena and Sienna begin working together on the biopic, and Lena comes to appreciate Sienna’s thoroughness and determination. Over the course of multiple interviews, Lena eventually tells Sienna how she and Stan masterminded the explosion on the set of The Goddess of Warsaw. It came to be touted as “the worst on-set ‘accident’ in cinema history” (301).

Lena was followed by the scandal of the incident for months, but she and Stan profited off this by making yet another movie—The Accidental Affair with Jack Lyons—which became a runaway success. Stan and Jack both won Oscars for it.

Furthermore, a few weeks after the “accident,” Stan and Lena also met with the FBI and gave them information on Müller’s blackmail, Das Haus, and the secret Nazi agenda. When officials raided the mansion, they found huge amounts of weapons and illegal explosives, which helped paint Stan and Lena as innocent in context of the “accident.”

Finally, Stan and Lena demanded movie deals, top salaries, and huge cuts of profits, among other things from the studio, in exchange for their silence on the truth about Müller. All of this catapulted Lena into immense wealth and stardom. Sienna believes that Lena is planning her final act in order to achieve the only thing that she still hasn’t gained in the industry—an Oscar.