While working together at Sunless Sea developers Failbetter, Lottie Bevan and Alexis Kennedy harboured a secret admiration of each other. Neither was willing to utter it out loud for fear of disrupting their professional dynamics - Bevan was a producer, and Kennedy was her manager. For either to make a move on the other felt like career suicide. But that changed when, one day, Kennedy didn’t want to share his food.
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Failbetter has a healthy culture of socialising, you see, so Kennedy suggested the team go to watch the latest James Bond movie together. At first, everyone was up for it, but as the day went on most people dropped out. By the end of the day only Bevan and Kennedy were committed to 007.
“We ended up on this date that wasn’t a date,” Bevan remembers. “We fancied each other, but nothing had happened and we obviously hadn’t talked about it.
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