I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 257

[Chapter 252 Black Pot]

? After Li Zimmerman took a shower and changed her clothes in the bathroom, Eric had just finished reading a pair of newspapers and glanced at the girl who was a little overwhelmed. Eric said: ” Li, can you go downstairs and help Jeffrey and I pack two breakfasts, anything will do.”

“Oh, um,” Li Zimmerman nodded quickly, picked up her handbag and walked out of the room. With a sigh of relief, at least, Eric didn’t directly ask her to leave.

“You still look a little reluctant?” Jeffrey asked teasingly.

Eric didn’t care about Jeffrey’s tone at all, and smiled: “Of course, the experience last night was wonderful.”

“Okay, let’s get down to business. What do you think of these reports?” Jeffrey said helplessly. Pointing to Eric rummaging through a pile of newspapers.

“Well, actually I was about to tell you about this, but I think you might…”

Eric smiled: “Maybe what, you don’t mean to say, I always treat Robert as an outsider, right? ”

Isn’t that so?”.

Eric denied: “Of course not, although I do mind the 15% of the shares he took, but. Now that the two companies have merged. I will definitely treat him as my own. As long as Robert doesn’t pick first I will never do it first.”

Jeffrey, who is already quite familiar with Eric, gave Eric a rare look of contempt: “Your words are really unconvincing.

” No, I’m telling the truth,” Eric retorted: “Jeffrey, my goals are much bigger than you think, and if I start arguing with people over their interests now, then I’ll have a hard time. Going forward.”

“What’s your… goal?”

“Hollywood!”

Jeffrey was stunned, not understanding.

He asked, “What?”

“Hollywood,” Eric repeated, with a youthful and frivolous tone in his tone, and said: “I want one day, when people mention the word ”, the first thing that comes to mind is not Los Angeles, not a few big movies. Company, not any movie star remembered on the Walk of Fame, but me. Eric Williams. Hollywood is me, I am Hollywood!”

Eric’s heartfelt words sounded very contagious.

Jeffrey stared at Eric and wanted to say something against Eric. He

opened his mouth, but turned it into a blessing: “Then, I hope you can succeed.”

“It will,” Eric said solemnly. Nodding: “So, Geoffrey, do you think that my goal is so far and the road is so long, will I stop and fight with a companion who may help me go faster for a few mouthfuls of dry food?”.

Jeffrey shook his head with a wry smile: “I see.” The

two briefly discussed some countermeasures, and Li Zimmerman knocked on the door and walked in with some breakfast.

“I think I’d better go back to my room to eat,” Jeffrey said unbearably, looking at the man and woman leaning against the sofa opposite, and without waiting for Eric to speak, Jeffrey directly put himself The one I picked up and walked out.

“Don’t worry about him, let’s continue eating,” Eric said, seeing the girl’s expression.

“I won’t disturb you, will I?”

“Of course not, everything has been said. By the way, you said last night that besides modeling, you are still performing on Broadway?”

Li Zimmerman nodded: ” Yeah, I love acting. By the way, Eric, I have a show on Broadway next month, will you come back?”.

Although the girl looked at Eric expectantly, he could only shake his head: “Sorry, Li, I have to go back to Los Angeles immediately after “Home Alone” is closed.”

Li Zimmerman groaned in disappointment, lowered her head and fiddled with the salad in front of her.

Although I really want to take the initiative to seek some opportunities, the girl who knows the rules of the industry knows that if she takes the initiative to ask Eric for something, she will only get an empty promise.

So this kind of thing can only be said by Eric’s side. If the other party doesn’t mention it from the beginning to the end, she can’t complain. It’s just an ordinary one-night stand.

After all, Li Zimmerman has also heard that it was Eric who selected himself, a little-known newcomer among a bunch of supermodels. Whenever he thinks of his shared roommate who is also a model from Elite Model Management, he hears that he got it. The face of this character is so complacent, the girl is proud for a while.

Because as a newcomer who has only been in the industry for less than a year, when she heard that she had this opportunity, she didn’t even think about fighting for it, because she felt that she couldn’t compete with the large group of supermodels and supermodels, and it was her roommate who encouraged her, The two submitted their resumes together, and she was selected inexplicably.

But at the same time, because of the jealousy caused by her good fortune, she and her roommate soon became friends. After listening to the other party’s sour sarcasm these days, she stopped talking to the other party and planned to move out as soon as possible. .

Compared with this opportunity, a friendship that is not very reliable is nothing, not to mention that the roommate did not regard himself as a friend wholeheartedly, and often used his posture to promote himself because he entered the industry earlier, and considered himself a senior.

To put it bluntly, the competition between models is so fierce that it is difficult to have a real friendship, except… lesbian.

Eric sniffed the faint fragrance of the girl’s body, ate breakfast, and asked, “Do you want to develop in the direction of a professional actor?”.

Li Zimmerman was overjoyed and nodded quickly.

“Just in time, I’ll give you another chance.” Eric said, “You should know about “Friends”, right?”

“Of course I do. I also know that you wrote the sitcom yourself. I follow it every week.” Maybe because she heard something familiar to her, the girl said excitedly: “I like Ross the character the most. , I think he’s a dull perfectionist, which is much better than her sister’s obsessive perfectionism, and Phoebe…” The

girl Brabra said a few words, and quickly Realizing that something was wrong, he quickly closed his mouth and looked at Eric awkwardly.

Eric smiled and said, “Thank you for liking this show. It’s like this. There’s an episode of Friends where there’s a power outage in New York and Chandler and a famous model are locked in the lobby of a bank teller machine. The story is about an episode long, I can recommend you to try it.”

According to the original script, this episode should take place in the seventh episode of the first season, and Chandler meets a Victoria’s Secret The lingerie model, but Victoria’s Secret is not well-known now, so Eric replaced the girl’s identity with a famous model, and the script was revised.

This episode has also been postponed to episode 20, which has definitely not been filmed yet.

Li Zimmerman couldn’t help but confirm: “Really. Eric, do you think I… Really?”.

Eric nodded again. There will definitely be many similar roles in the movies or TV series he is preparing in the future. Instead of cheapening an unscrupulous casting assistant director to sneak in a little actress, it is better to use it as a favor.

The influence of “Friends” is much greater now than the first season of the previous life. Therefore, being able to make a cameo in one episode is equivalent to being familiar with more than 20 million viewers in the United States. This is comparable to shooting several magazine covers. Much stronger.

Of course, Eric can only give Li Zimmerman so much.

She must have shown her face twice in a popular TV series and a big-selling movie. It is easy for a girl to get some more roles. Whether she can go further in the future depends on the girl’s own efforts and luck.

Seeing Eric’s affirmative look, Li Zimmerman immediately jumped up and kissed him hard on the face.

“Okay, okay,” Eric licked his face with a warm little tongue, and quickly pushed the girl away: “Don’t make trouble, let me finish breakfast.”

After dinner, Allen came to talk to Ai as usual. Rick’s schedule for the day, when Allen finished talking about his business, Eric pointed to the girl next to him: “Ellen, please contact the Los Angeles side, I remember that there was a model role in the 20th episode of “Friends”, Leave it to Miss Zimmerman.”

Allen quickly recorded the matter on the memo, looked at the woman beside Eric, hesitated for a moment, and then said, “Eric, with John Annies. Did Mr. Dun say it directly?”.

Eric almost forgot about it. Apart from Eric, the most powerful person in the “Friends” crew is John Aniston as the producer. Not only would Aniston not let the girl get that role, but she would definitely call and scold herself.

After thinking for a while, Eric beckoned Alan to come over, leaned into Alan’s ear and said, “In this way, you can say that it was recommended by Jeffrey. He has been single for so long and is a little old, so it’s not easy to find a girl. , let Jin John worry more.”

Allen’s mouth twitched, and he still asked: “Eric, do you want…to let Mr. Hansen know?”.

“Don’t worry about it, I’ll tell him.”

Allen said in his heart that it would be strange if you were willing to tell him, but he just nodded helplessly, closed the memo, and left in a hurry.

“Eric, I didn’t expect you to be so bad.” After Allen left, Li Zimmerman glared at Eric angrily. Although Eric came to Allen’s ear and said it, there was no voice. Pressed to the point where she couldn’t hear: “I’m just a cameo in one episode, and I won’t conflict with your little girlfriend.”

Eric smiled: “If you don’t say that, You can’t even get the role.”

Li Zimmerman asked inexplicably: “Why, didn’t your Firefly invest in “Friends”?”.

“Yeah, but the producer of “Friends” is my little girlfriend’s father.”

…

Although because of Eric’s prearrangement, public opinion did not one-sidedly crusade the “Home Alone 2” crew for destroying the ecological environment of Central Park. act’.

However, it still had a big impact.

While some sane people believed the opinions in the newspapers that Jeffrey PR, there were also many people who believed in the opinions in other newspapers.

Therefore, in the next two days, the issue of whether the “Home Alone 2” crew should continue to lay artificial snow for filming in Central Park caused a huge debate, and even quickly spread to all parts of the United States, forming a hot topic.

And Eric’s $500,000 donation from Jeffrey in advance to the Central Park Preservation Commission also played a big role.

When the reporter interviewed Tim Frick, the chairman of the Preservation Committee, whether the filming of “Home Alone 2” in Central Park had a major impact on the environment, Mr. Frick said a lot for the “Home Alone 2” crew Good words, list the series of measures taken by the crew one by one.

And said the “Home Alone 2” crew is a very responsible crew.

Of course, Tim Frick didn’t hide the fact that the committee accepted the $500,000 donation from the crew, otherwise it would be even more troublesome to be caught by the media.

But Tim Frick couldn’t say that this was the crew’s compensation for the damage that artificial snow might cause to the vegetation in the park, otherwise it would be slapped in the face.

Instead, the crew saw that some of the public facilities in Central Park were outdated, so they donated the money to let the park replace a batch of new public facilities.

Because the interview with Tim Frick was broadcast at prime time, many people saw the news. Coupled with a series of public relations from the “Home Alone 2” crew, the format gradually became clear.

In the end, the Manhattan District Government issued a statement saying that it would send a special monitoring team to supervise whether the crew used artificial snow during the filming in Central Park in accordance with the rules promised in advance. Moreover, this monitoring team also Several volunteers will be selected among citizens to ensure the impartiality of the monitoring group.

After this statement was issued, the “Home Alone” crew immediately issued a statement, stating that they would not only cooperate with the work of the supervision team, but also be willing to undertake the expenditures outside the Manhattan government budget.

The two sides made a show of goodwill, and News Corporation also made a secret effort at this time, and finally this matter was properly resolved.

And the so-called environmental protection organization didn’t stop the crew from filming.

In late October, “Home Alone 2” was successfully closed. In addition to rushing back to Los Angeles for the later stages of the two films, the release date of “Frightening Island” has also arrived.

This is the first shot of Firefly Thanksgiving-Christmas. If it can get a good start, it will have a certain box office gain for the next few movies. Therefore, Eric also attaches great importance to this matter.

(To be continued…)

[End of this Chapter]