I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 139

[Chapter 136 What qualifications do they have to refuse]

Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio.

A long list of movie names floated in his mind, Eric shook his head, threw the swirling images into the corner, and continued to look down as if nothing had happened. Except for the two superstars in his previous life, he didn’t see any other superstars. Familiar with it, of course the original Chris O’Donnell was blown away by the flapping butterfly wings.

Of course, even if it appears, Eric will not give this role to Chris again, because the other party’s presence in the original version is too weak, although Al Pacino’s performance is too eye-catching, but its own performance The lack of bright spots is also an important reason.

After reading the thirty documents quickly, Eric asked Martin Brest for a pen, and ticked the names of Matt Damon and Xiao Lizi. After hesitating for a while, Eric asked for a pen. In the end, it was decided to choose Matt Damon. Matt Damon is just eighteen years old this year. He has a sunny and handsome appearance and completely matches the image of Charlie.

In comparison, Xiao Lizi’s current image is a bit more ruffian.

Drawing a circle on Matt Damon’s name, Eric said to Martin Brest, who had been watching his movements: “Martin, the role of Charlie Simmons is handed over to Matt Damon, as for the Leonardo DiCaprio, give him the role of Charlie’s classmate George. Besides, I don’t care if they have an agency or an agent now, if they want to get the role, they must join UTA.”

“Eric , what if the two don’t agree to join UTA?”

Eric gave Martin a strange look: “What right do they have to disagree?”

Martin was slightly taken aback when he heard Eric’s natural tone, and recalled Matt The information about Damon and Xiao Lizi quickly laughed: “Indeed, there is no reason for the two little rookies to refuse.

So, in such a few words, the two roles were settled like this, “Cry on the Island” And “Scent of a Woman” are both Firefly’s film projects, and the two crews also have exchanges with each other, so Martin Brest already knew the procedure for Eric to determine the role of “Cry on the Island”, he and Jonathan Demme felt the same, and believed that Eric just wanted to show his dominance over the movie before taking the final decision on the role in his hands.

Although Martin felt that Eric’s actions were a bit sloppy and childish, he did not refute anything. In the eyes of Martin, who was about to turn 40, Eric was indeed just a child, and it was understandable to do such a thing.

What he and Al can do is to carefully screen out suitable candidate actors. No matter which one Eric chooses, they will ensure that the other party is competent for the role.

Eric didn’t mean to make any excuses. The reason he did it was exactly what Martin and others thought.

If he is a middle-aged man in his 40s and 50s, maybe he can show his mind by delegating power, and he can gain more admiration from others.

But since he is only eighteen years old now, if he does this, it will only make people think that he is young and easy to fool, so he has to show his strength everywhere, for movies, and for women as well.

It took forty minutes to get from the Columbia studio to Malibu, and Eric quickly circled all the cast members, partly by following Martin’s advice and partly by following the impressions of some actors in his mind.

At an intersection on the Malibu Coastal Highway, Martin’s car stopped, and Eric put on his sunglasses and baseball cap and got out of the car: “Thank you for sending me here, Martin, bye.”

“Goodbye,” Martin rolled down the window toward Eric smiled vaguely, beckoned, and then told his assistant to drive away.

After Passat turned around and left, Eric turned around and walked to the small villa not far away. When he came to Virginia’s house, Eric took out a key to open the door and walked in.

It was already evening, and the lights were already on in the villa. Eric had just walked to the door, but the door of the villa opened first. Virginia wore casual home clothes and appeared in Eric with two large bags. before.

“Ah!” Seeing Eric suddenly appearing in front of her, Virginia was obviously taken aback, and the bag in her hand fell to the ground.

“Eric, you…why are you here?” The girl hurriedly picked up the trash bag that had fallen on the ground and put it next to the door, and opened the door a little to let Eric in.

Eric smiled and hugged the fragrant adult body, and kissed Virginia on the cheek: “Why are you so nervous, isn’t it hiding a man at home?”

“I just didn’t expect you to come to me these days.” Virginia rolled her eyes gently: “Even if I hide a man, what can you do to me?”

Eric squeezed Virginia’s With a face, he said solemnly: “Well, there are still quite a lot of punishment methods. For a woman who cheats, in some countries in the Middle East, she will be sentenced to stoning. Everyone works together to stone a woman to death. In Eastern China, in ancient times there was a To plant a pig cage is to strip a woman naked, put it in a big cage, and then throw it into a pond to drown.”

“Ha, how could such a barbaric thing happen?” Virginia shivered a little.

“So, I appreciate the way some places in India punish cheating women. It’s very humane.”

“Oh,” Virginia showed a curious look.

Eric smirked: “In some places in India, if a woman is found to be cheating, the village chief will call up the strong men in the whole village and serve the woman one by one, ensuring that the woman who is served will never be seen again for half a lifetime. I miss a man.”

“Wow, that’s disgusting, and a strong man. You’re only eighteen years old. How did you learn so much mess.

” .

“Then, Mr. Erudite, do you have a way to punish the man who betrayed his girlfriend? Let me listen to the most brutal one?”

Eric was choked, coughed twice, and said, “Uh… this is really true. No.

”

“Cut,” Virginia rolled her eyes and wrestled from Eric’s arms: “Stop talking nonsense, you go first, I’ll throw away the garbage.”

“I’ll come, it looks quite heavy, “Eric grabbed the plastic bag, not knowing what was in it, it was really heavy.

“Just throw it into the trash can at the door,” Virginia saw that Eric had grabbed the bag and did not stop it, and pointed to the door.

Eric threw away the garbage and went back to the house. Seeing Virginia’s figure busy in the kitchen, he walked in, hugged the girl from behind, and looked at Virginia adding sugar cubes to the coffee cup. And milk powder: “Actually, I don’t like drinking coffee too much. I would rather drink plain water. I heard that drinking plain water is one of the secrets of longevity.”

Virginia smiled and continued to add coffee powder to the cup: “You are so young, How can you think of longevity, are you afraid of death?”

“Of course not, I’m not afraid of death, I’m just afraid of regret.”

“Regret, what regret?”

Yes, what regret?

Eric put his chin on the girl’s shoulder and thought about it. His regret in his previous life was that he couldn’t watch his child grow up, and that he couldn’t make a movie of himself in the end, the one he was reborn. At that time, China’s film industry was in a stage of explosion.

Although he has gone to the fourth, he still has not given up completely. He also discussed with a few friends that the film world is so good, maybe he can spend a few years, come up with a good book, and use the network accumulated over the years to make an investment. Make a movie of your own.

It is a pity that the plan has not been implemented, and it came to this time and space inexplicably.

It’s less than a year now, and the achievements he made in his previous life were completely a super winner in life, and it would be too hypocritical to talk about regrets.

“Why didn’t you speak suddenly?” The girl carefully poured the boiled water into the coffee cup, turned her head and asked.

“It’s alright, just thinking about what regrets I would have if I suddenly hang up now.”

Virginia put down the kettle, turned around and raised her face to take a serious look at Eric’s expression: “Eric, if If you’ve been thinking about death and other issues recently, I suggest you find a psychiatrist as soon as possible, are you under too much pressure?”

“Of course not,” Eric hurriedly saw the deep worry in the girl’s eyes Denied, wanted to explain, but didn’t know where to start.

“Let’s go to the living room and talk,” Virginia handed a cup of coffee to Eric, picked up the cup herself, and the two walked to the living room together.

Sitting down on the sofa, Virginia asked, “Why did you come to me today, don’t you live with Aniston?”

Eric smiled bitterly: “Such an embarrassing thing happened, Jane It’s weird for Nikon and me, she’s gone to Burbank to rent a house by herself now.”

If it hadn’t happened to fall down the stairs, Eric would have even more headaches, how could he persuade the little girl to come back .

He woke up from a coma that morning. Taking advantage of Aniston’s weak mind due to worry and sleepiness, Eric successfully fooled Xiaoyi into the cast list of “Friends”.

But then he made another big mistake when he put Aniston and Drew on either side of his bed to sleep.

As a result, at noon, he ate with Jeffrey and Kapoor, and when he returned to the ward, he found that both girls were awake.

And the scene was quite chaotic. The pillows and quilts were kicked to the ground, and the scaffolding of a water bottle was also pushed to the ground. The two girls were like two crazy little wild cats, twisted together on the hospital bed, their clothes were messy, and the scenery was half-obscured. While chatting with each other, they pushed each other and tried to drive each other out of the hospital bed. It seemed that it was not a bed, but Eric himself.

Eric only managed to persuade the two baby bumps away, and then Aniston wiped his tears and accused Eric of being biased, and Drew persuaded Aniston to break up with him with sharp teeth, long pain is worse than short pain Yunyun, after some remarks, it successfully aroused Aniston’s rebellious psychology, and the little girl swore in public that Drew would never be cheap.

Eric was secretly happy when he saw Aniston’s swearing appearance, but then Aniston did not live in the villa, but rented an apartment in Burbank by himself, although he did not live in the villa. When I mentioned anything about breaking up, I started a cold war with Eric, and then “Dark War” started. Eric was busy and had no time to coax the girl, so he could only call Xiaoyi Niu a few times every day. A harassing phone call proclaims a sense of existence.

Hearing Eric’s explanation, Virginia’s face also turned red: “You should spend more time with her, just coax the little girl more, and you shouldn’t always be so strong.”

“Okay, let’s not mention this headache. Don’t you want to go to the UK the day after tomorrow? I’ll always come and see you. I talked to Jonathan, and “Cry on the Island” will not be delayed as long as the production is completed before September. The Venice Film Festival is just fine, so he’s going to keep improving while filming, I guess you’re going to be in the UK for a long time.”

Virginia took a sip of her coffee and blinked: “You’ll come to the crew to watch… …visiting the class?”

Eric shook his head: “I’m not sure, the schedule of “Dark War” is in July. If the filming goes well and the film can be closed in mid-May, I will go to the UK. If the filming does not go well, it will be very Maybe not.”

“Oh,” Virginia nodded noncommittally.

After chatting for a while, Eric patted his stomach: “That, Vicky, I’m hungry.” The

girl quickly stood up: “What do I want to eat, can I drive to the supermarket?”

Eric stopped In response to the girl’s behavior: “Don’t be so troublesome, just make something.”

“Okay, we still have pasta at home,” the girl said, walking towards the kitchen.

After Virginia was busy in the kitchen with an apron on, Eric got up and walked to the second floor. He came to the balcony. The sun had completely set, and the sky was getting dark. The sharp corner of Malibu in the distance, due to the sky, can only see some dim outlines, where construction has begun and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

In addition to imitating the super sea view mansion in “Iron Man”, several other villas will be built in the manor of more than one hectare to entertain guests or hold banquets and the like.

Eric has seen the complete design draft of the entire manor. Because the other villas are located in flat terrain, the cost of construction is far lower than that of the sea-view mansion, but in the design draft provided by Frank Gehry, several buildings are very natural. Integrating together, with the green belts, tennis courts, apron and other facilities in the manor, it gives people a natural feeling.

Of course, correspondingly, the entire manor cost more than 20 million US dollars. Anyway, there is a special accounting firm to supervise the financial status of the project. Now that you have made up your mind to create an ideal luxury manor, as long as the other party does not swallow the project funds Or other tricks, then you can get luxury, and make money just for spending.

After dinner, although Eric was very tired, he patiently accompanied the girl to watch soap operas on the sofa for a while.

“Eric, I heard that Firefly is planning to shoot a TV series?”

“Yeah,” Eric’s big hand moved on Virginia’s chest: “By the way, this is a sitcom that needs many big stars in the future. Do you want to make a cameo?”

Virginia breathed lightly, and replied with hazy eyes: “If you let me go, I’ll go.”

Eric

said: “Jenny is one of the protagonists.”

Genia smiled and held down Eric’s big hand on her chest: “Oh, then I’ll go too, you are responsible for coordinating everything, anyway, it’s all caused by you slut. I want to see it. If your girlfriend can’t help bullying me in public, will you

care?” “I don’t care,” Eric said with a smile: “According to the ancient oriental tradition, your identity is that of a big girl who has been married to his wife. Bullying is a matter of course, of course, if you have the ability to complete the maid’s counterattack, I’d be happy to see it.”

Although Virginia didn’t understand what was going on with the room maid, it didn’t prevent her from understanding Ai Rui .

The meaning of Ke’s words gently bit on Eric’s arm, leaving a series of faint tooth marks: “You are such a bastard.”

Eric had touched enough, and withdrew his hand to hug the girl: “Okay, don’t watch it, let’s go upstairs to do something happy.”

Virginia only felt herself rising into the air, waving her little hand and said, “Well… ah, don’t worry, turn off the TV first. , really.”

Eric grabbed the remote control and turned off the TV, picked up the girl and slapped the other person’s buttocks, and then walked upstairs.

After a ridiculous night, Eric got up refreshed at seven o’clock the next day, had a hurried breakfast, and let Virginia drive himself to the set.

Although it was a night away, after starting the opposite scene that was not finished yesterday, Cruise and Hanks quickly entered the state, and the remaining few scenes were all done in half an hour. Joe Pesci, who missed the bad news of “Home Alone”, also made an outstanding appearance. When he heard Sean let Andy go, he shook his head and looked excited, almost like the image in his memory. , Joe Pesci’s voice is more joyful than Huang Qifa in the original version, the crew members on the scene can’t help laughing, and Hanks also clearly expressed his concern that he might be suppressed.

For the next period of time, the filming of “Dark War” is still slowly advancing according to the plan. A few days later, the crew of “Cry on the Island” departed for the UK. In addition to the actors, the crew of “Cry on the Island” The staff were basically set up by Jonathan Demme alone, and Eric did not intervene. After all, Jonathan Demme has been in Hollywood for more than ten years, and he has more contacts in this regard than Eric.

Eric didn’t take the time to send each other off, but Jeffrey, as one of the producers, went with the crew to the island in the English Channel and stayed in the crew for a few days before returning.

In mid-April, “Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman” was officially launched. At the same time, after more than ten days of shooting, “Dark War” completed all the indoor scenes and started the most difficult exterior scenes, although all scenes were installed in Eric In my mind, but when I was shooting seriously, I found that it was not as easy as I thought.

[End of this Chapter]