Chapter 322 It's Not Good

"Eric, look, the situation is not what you think, Carol Bouquet, Natasha Kinski, Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani these European first-line actresses will either refuse I got an invitation, or I’m interested in the story, but I hope you can cut out the passion scene as much as possible,” Jeffrey said in the office, handing Eric a stack of emails.

Eric took it over and silently checked the other party's receipt one by one. After a while, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It seems that I really thought it was too simple."

"Of course, it is very difficult to want a first-line actress with good acting skills to star in "Instinct", even these European actresses, although they can really accept the scale of this movie, but if they are interested in coming If Hollywood develops, they won't take this kind of film easily, otherwise it will have a great impact on their image in Hollywood. If you don't have the intention to develop in Hollywood, let alone, your taste for non-films is not in line with shooting habits. Most of the European actresses in literary films."

"By the way," Eric suddenly lowered his head and looked at the e-mails in his hand: "Carol Bouquet's agent wrote back saying that the other party is very interested in this movie, please contact us to see if we can make She flew to Los Angeles for an interview."

Geoffrey looked at Carol Bouquet's profile and smiled: "Eric, the image of this French actress is indeed the most suitable for Catherine Chumei's setting, but the other party just took it in March this year. It's even more difficult for me to convince me to win the French César Award for Best Actress."

"Then it's packaged and bound. I just plan to have the heroine of a movie that she can try. It's also a big production, and the investment will not be less than 60 million US dollars."

"How come I don't know," Jeffrey suddenly became interested: "Tell me?"

Eric smiled and shook his head: "This is a secret first, and it doesn't have to be my next movie. I have asked Stan and the others to do the special effects of "Ghosts" and prepare "Jurassic Park" The pre-technical development of "The Ghost Story" has not been finalized yet. Maybe I will start preparing for "Jurassic Park", or maybe I will shoot some other simple special effects. Movies, gain experience."

"Okay, then I won't ask," Jeffrey said. "However, Disney is very unhappy with the progress of "Ghost Story". He wants you to start shooting as soon as possible."

"It's not that they don't know my speed, although special effects will be used in this film. But they are not too complicated special effects. I will shoot the parts that need special effects first and give them to Stan for post-production, and use them for a month. No, according to the plan, it will be completed in mid-June, and there is still nearly a month of publicity time, which is enough."

"That's what I told them," Jeffrey said with a smile, "but, Eric, I think we still have to prepare some alternatives,

Many local second- and third-tier actresses have handed in information, you might as well choose from them, I think there are still many good ones. "

"Give me a copy of their information when we leave, and I'll pick and arrange a simple audition," Eric said.

The two were talking. Jeffrey's assistant knocked on the door: "Mr. Hansen, Mr. Williams, Mr. Roger Spottywood and Mr. Don Johnson are here."

"Let's go," Jeffrey said to Eric: "Finally, the director and actor have now been determined."

Eric and Jeffrey came to a small reception room. The three people in the room quickly stood up. Eric saw Melanie Griffith appear here. Somewhat surprised, but soon relieved, Melanie Griffith is Don Johnson's wife.

To be honest, Don Johnson has always been a TV actor before, and is far less famous than her wife Melanie Griffith. It is estimated that Melanie Griffith came together to cheer her husband up. People have been married for just over a year. The marriage is still in the honeymoon period.

Eric only chose Don Johnson as the male lead in "Instinct" because of a certain movie in his memory. As for the original Michael Douglas, Eric felt that the other party was too old. Although his acting skills were good, Eric did not. I always felt that the other party's momentum was weaker, and he did not fully express a hot-tempered detective like Nick.

Shaking hands with the couple, Eric suddenly thought of another person. According to the time, Eric's rebirth should not affect the appearance of this person, that is Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Dakota Johnson's daughter, Dakota Johnson, in parallel time and space, Dakota Johnson starred in a very famous movie called "Fifty Shades of Grey". Speaking of which, the Melanie Griffith family also It is barely considered a Hollywood movie family, but it is far from being comparable to the Coppola family or the Fonda family in terms of influence.

"Mr. Williams, is there any problem?" Don Johnson asked curiously when Eric looked at the couple with interest.

"Oh, sorry, suddenly remembered something."

Eric smiled and turned to the other person, Roger Spottywood, a middle-aged man in his forties with a thin face and eyes. The most famous movie of the other party in his previous life should be "007: Tomorrow's Empire".

But now, although Roger Spottywood is forty-five years old, as a director, he has never been sullen, and there are no outstanding movies. After Jeffrey recommended him, Eric deliberately looked for the other party's movie to watch it. , found that the other party was very good at such feature films as "Instinct", and more importantly, Roger Spottywood was not only cheap, but also did not ask for the final editing rights, so Eric quickly decided.

After greeting each other, the three of them sat down.

"Mr. Spottywood, you've been working on the script for several days. Let me tell you what you think about this movie."

"Of course, Mr. Williams," Roger Spottywood nodded, "I think 'Instinct' ostensibly tells the story of a perverted murder case, but it's actually describing a A kind of primitive desire, a kind of wild passion, it can be seen from the script that Nick, the detective, is actually the same kind of person as the murderer Catherine Chumei, and they all have the most hidden deep in their hearts. Primitive destructive tendencies, therefore, when Nick was undercover, he accidentally murdered innocent tourists. Moreover, after the rock singer was killed, Nick determined from the very beginning that Katherine Chumei was the real murderer, and After that interrogation, Nick's inner desire was aroused because of Katherine Chumei's provocation, and then he was rude to Beth..."

Although Roger Spottywood has been a director for ten years, he has not been sullen, but. However, a lot of effort was put into understanding the script, and several people in the conference room nodded their heads.

Eric also realized. Roger Spottywood is estimated to be the same as Jonathan Demme at the beginning. Jonathan Demme became famous with Eric's "Island", and now he has become a first-line director in Hollywood. It is estimated that Roger Spottywood also wants to seize this opportunity. Although the script of "Instinct" is very different from Eric's other movie scripts, it is still a script written by Eric himself, and it will cause controversy in the future. , then the firepower must be on Eric. As long as the film is successful, his director can go further.

Several people have been discussing all afternoon. Regarding all aspects of the filming of "Instinct", after get off work, Eric returned to the Sharphorn Manor with a thick stack of candidate actress files.

Pushing the door into the villa, a petite figure greeted him.

"Hi, Vicky, when did you come back?" Eric asked, hugging the girl and kissing her.

"The plane got off at 10:30 in the morning. It feels really bad. I don't want to take the plane for so long in the future." Virginia took Eric's arm and complained. The girl went to Europe to attend a movie awards ceremony. The other party originally wanted to invite Eric to go, but Eric couldn't make time, let's talk about it. If he attended any awards in person, he would definitely be exhausted, and Jonathan Demme was nervously filming "Silence of the Lambs", and in the end he could only let Virginia run.

"Actually, I also hate taking long-distance planes. The experience of going to Venice was very bad," Eric said with a smile: "Since I'm back, let's stay here. It just so happens that I'm going to New York in a few days, can you help me? I watch the house."

"I'm not going to help you with the housekeeping," the girl said angrily: "By the way, in the afternoon, a person named Michael Krause sent a sample of your new book. I have read it, the story is written It's wonderful, just a little short."

Virginia said, left for a while, and a moment later brought a hardcover book, with the cover design specially explained by Eric, and the word "Matrix" written in the middle of the green digital stream.

Eric looked at the cover and nodded: "Yes, I didn't expect it to be published so soon."

After walking to the sofa in the hall and sitting down, Eric opened it and looked at it.

Virginia gently put away Eric's coat and office bag, then walked over and sat down beside the man. Eric naturally hugged Virginia's waist.

Virginia giggled a few times, then lay down on the sofa, leaning against Eric's thigh, feeling a pair of big hands get into the neckline and gently kneading, and soon her face turned red, and her chest rose and fell slightly faster.

"Is your next movie set?" Eric asked casually.

"Not yet, I have received a lot of scripts, all of which are horror films. "Cry on the Island" has just passed. If I continue to act in horror films, it will be difficult to transform in the future, so I want to try other types."

The girl said, opened the book in front of her, and looked at Eric with bright eyes.

"Okay, let me pay attention to you," Eric said casually.

"Well, why don't you help me write a script?"

Eric smiled and squeezed lightly on the girl's face: "It's greedy, can you act in "Instinct"?"

Virginia happened to have seen the script of "Instinct", glared at Eric angrily, and provocatively said, "I will play it if you want me to play it."

Eric pretended to be angry and turned Virginia over and slapped the girl's butt a few times, and Virginia snorted softly on Eric's legs.

"Okay, get up," Eric said helplessly.

"It hurts, you're so nasty, you're not considerate at all." Virginia twisted her blushing cheeks and complained, but quickly got up.

"I don't have a script that is very suitable for you at the moment, so you should try to let Kapoor help you choose it, or find some and let me look at it," Eric explained, seeing the girl nodded, Then he continued: "By the way, help me get the leather bag just now, I still have some things to deal with."

"It's off work now," the girl said, and she got up and took the briefcase.

Eric took out a stack of the actress' documents and put them on his knees and read them one by one. From time to time pick one that feels good and set aside.

"What are these for?" Virginia asked curiously, taking a look at a document.

"The shortlist of actresses for "Instinct"," Eric said: "Almost all the first-tier actresses in Europe have rejected them, and Hollywood's first-tier actresses are basically not accepted. I can only choose from the second and third tiers. ."

"Actually, many of the second- and third-tier actors have good acting skills."

"Of course, but. I don't have time to pick pearls in the sand now. Of course, the first-line actors who can use insurance should try to use them as much as possible. In this way, there is a certain guarantee at the box office."

Virginia sighed softly, and soon felt that she was really lucky: "Eric, then you are busy, I'm going to make dinner, what do you want to eat?"

"You can do whatever you want," Eric said without looking up.

The girl knew that Eric was telling the truth, and Eric was never picky about food. So he got up and walked to the kitchen.

Eric just picked half of it, when the phone behind him rang. Eric got up and took the cordless phone and pressed the answer button. Jeffrey's voice came from inside: "Jeffrey, what's the matter?"

"..."

Jeffrey on the other end of the phone talked for a while, and Eric thought for a while before saying, "Okay. Let's talk on the phone. You can hand over my phone number to Carol Bouquet."

"..."

"No problem, then I'll hang up." Eric pressed the hang up button, put the cordless phone on the coffee table in front of him, and continued to pick out the list of actresses in front of him.

More than ten minutes later, the phone rang again. Eric picked it up, and a female voice with a somewhat non-standard English pronunciation came from the opposite side: "Hello, Mr. Williams, I'm Carol Bouquet."

...

Half an hour later, Virginia came out of the kitchen and called Eric to eat, and saw that Eric was still holding the phone in his hand, walking around in the open space by the floor-to-ceiling windows. She danced and said something, but she didn't dare to bother.

After a while, Virginia saw that Eric hung up the phone and threw the cordless phone on the sofa.

The girl walked up to Eric and asked thoughtfully, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, a French actress I invited before, Carol Bouquet, wanted him to star in "Instinct", but she still refused."

Virginia wanted to make fun of her misfortune, but she didn't expect that there were still actors that Eric couldn't invite. However, looking at Eric on the sofa, she quickly held back her emotions and comforted: "Then choose it slowly. Anyway, it's not that no one is willing to play. Well... Carol Bouquet, the spokesperson for Chanel No. 5 a few years ago?"

"Yes, and a Bond Girl," Eric nodded.

"I think about it a little bit. It is said that she was a very individual woman. After she acted as a Bond girl, she did not want to continue to be a vase, so she returned to France to act in literary films."

"Don't talk about her, just refuse," Eric said disappointedly. Anyway, most Hollywood movies are like this. There are constant twists and turns when casting roles, even if it is Steven Spielberg or James Cameron. No exception, remember that it took Cameron several months in his previous life to persuade Fox to agree to let Leonardo play the role of Jack in "Titanic".

"Then let's eat first," Virginia said.

Eric nodded, stood up and walked towards the restaurant.

It was past ten o'clock at night, Virginia was wearing pajamas, leaning against the big bed with a pillow in her arms, watching Eric still walking around and calling the list in his hand.

"...I don't care about this. I didn't arrange enough time for them tomorrow morning. If they can't come, they can only say sorry...Tomorrow I will decide on the heroine of "Instinct"...Yes, On the spot, there was a call from New York an hour ago, Royce and the others have been waiting in New York for a week, and the two protagonists have passed, I can't waste any more time, just like this, I hang up. "

Taking a deep breath, Eric closed the line, put the phone on the landline by the bed, and fell down on the bed a little tired, and stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around Virginia's soft body. Greedily sniffing the body fragrance of the girl, the irritability in my heart dissipated a lot.

Virginia's little hand gently massaged Eric's temples, and said softly, "Eric, do you have to be in such a hurry? You are already so good, why bother yourself."

"These were originally only plans for the first half of the year, but unfortunately, more than three months of time were wasted because of the incident at the beginning of the year. It will only become like this now," Eric explained. The tone is a little weak: "I always feel that time is too tight and I want to do too much."

"I wish I could help you, but unfortunately I don't know anything," Virginia whispered.

Eric smiled and hugged the girl's waist tighter: "Actually, you can help me and be my big pillow. I like to sleep with women in my arms."

"Is it just hugging to sleep?" The girl said in an ambiguous tone, reaching out to turn off the lights in the bedroom, and the room suddenly became dark. Because the sound insulation is very good, although there is wind outside, there will be no sound of waves, and the surrounding is silent.

"Yeah, just hug and sleep," Eric said with the girl in his arms and his head resting on Virginia's full chest. Before I knew it, the eyelids had started to fight, and soon fell asleep.

The girl was stunned for a while, and then she pulled the quilt to cover the two with pity.

...

In Firefly's audition room, a woman in a simple coat sat down on a chair, her long legs raised with ease. He took out a cigarette from his pocket, with a faint, indifferent smile on his face.

"No smoking here, Miss Chu Mei," the assistant behind the camera said to the line.

The girl glanced at the assistant's position with all kinds of charm, and said, "What are you going to do, sue me for smoking?"

The girl finished. He took a sip on the cigarette and exhaled a faint green smoke.

After a brief silence, the assistant said again, "Can you tell me about your relationship with Mr. Buzz?"

"I have been in a sexual relationship with him for more than a year. I like to have sex with him. He is not afraid to try new things. I like that kind of man and can give me a lot of happiness," the girl was smoking Yan, while unabashedly telling his desires.

"Have you played s丨m?" the assistant asked again.

The girl still kept smiling: "You guessed it right."

"Will you tie him up?"

"Won't,"

"Have you never tied him?"

"No," the girl denied again. "Johnny likes to use his hands, and I like his hands."

After the girl finished the line, the assistant was about to continue, but Eric interrupted: "Okay, let's go here."

The girl sitting in the chair suddenly showed a disappointed look, and at the same time she felt some complaints in her heart. Firefly gave too little preparation time. She received an audition invitation in the morning and came in a hurry, with less than an hour of preparation time.

However, although she complained in her heart, the girl did not dare to reveal it in front of the youth, otherwise, there would be no hope at all: "Mr. Williams, I think I can try again."

"No need," Eric said: "Miss Nelson, although your appearance is very suitable for the role of Catherine Chumei, but your performance makes me not see too much of Catherine's breath, you just acted too restrained Now, like walking a single-plank bridge carefully, I understand that this may be because you didn't prepare enough time. But, the most fatal point, I failed to see the potential in you, a kind of femininity that can release Catherine The potential of the field, so I can only say sorry."

Eric explained it so patiently. Although the girl was still a little unwilling, she didn't ask for anything. After getting up and thanking her, she opened the door and left.

After the girl left, Jeffrey couldn't help but say: "Eric, I think your mood is not right, you are too impatient. Why don't we take a break for half an hour, and give those actresses too With another half hour of preparation time, there are only 11 people left anyway, and we have enough time to complete the audition."

Eric sighed and looked at his watch. There was indeed enough time. He had just eliminated eight auditions on the spot. If he continued like this, he would gain nothing today, and the heroine of "Instinct" would continue to be stranded.

"Notify them to rest for half an hour," Eric stood up and said to Jeffrey, "I'll go out for a breath."

"Well, let's go," Jeffrey nodded.

Eric opened the door and went out. The audition girls who had been waiting on the corridor benches stood up involuntarily when they saw him coming out.

"Half an hour's rest, you can go to the conference room over there to prepare again," Eric said to the girls, and then walked to the other side of the corridor.

The remaining women glanced at each other, and several of them were eager to catch up, but in the end none of them moved.

Go to the bathroom at the end of the corridor. Eric was just about to go in and wash his face to clear his face, when a woman suddenly came out of it. It just hit Eric, and because he didn't stand firm, he fell and came to the ground. Eric also took a step back.

The girl was originally a little angry, but after seeing Eric, she stood up in a panic: "i'm-, Mr. Williams, I didn't mean to."

"It doesn't matter, it's my fault." Eric shook his head, looked at the girl with very special eyes, and said, "Your name is Joanna Pakula?"

The girl's eyes lit up and nodded quickly: "Yes, Mr. Williams, I didn't expect you to know me, by the way. The audition over there..."

"Half an hour's rest, you can prepare more," Eric said, his heart moved slightly, and said, "Miss Pakula, can you say it again?"

"What?" the girl heard the audition pause. She had no intention of going back, she keenly felt that this was a good opportunity.

"That's right, your first sentence just now."

Joanna Pakula thought for a while, and said, "i'm-..."

"Yes, that's it, say it again." Eric leaned against the wall at the corner, lowered his head and took out a cigarette to light it.

When Joanna Pakula heard Eric ask her to apologize continuously, she felt a little uneasy in her heart: "Mr. Williams, I really didn't mean it just now."

"Wrong, not this sentence," Eric shook his head.

"i'm-, i'm-, i'm,..." The girl held the small red leather bag tightly in her hand and repeated it over and over in her mouth. She felt that the young director in front of her was really perverted. Accidentally bumped into him, and tossed myself like this. For a time, Joanna Pakula felt that today's role must be missed by her, and she wanted to summon the courage to leave, but she still had a trace of expectation in her heart.

"Okay, stop," Eric finally interrupted the girl's repetition: "The accent is wrong, it doesn't sound good."

"..."

"I read your profile last night. You are from Poland and were once an actor of the Polish National Theatre?"

"Yes," the girl nodded.

"Why did you come to the United States? A national-level theater is better than being a third-rate actor in Hollywood, right?"

Joanna Pakula was silent for a while before saying, "Because of political reasons..."

Eric nodded and didn't ask any further questions. He wasn't interested in politics at all. He carefully looked at Joanna Pakula in front of him, who was the same as Sharon Stone, the heroine of the original version of "Instinct". Years old, but in comparison, Sharon Stone is much older than the girl in front of her. If you say that the girl is in her early twenties, some people believe it.

"I can't tell, you are thirty-three years old," Eric said with emotion.

Joanna Pakula's expression was a little sad. Women don't always like to pay attention to their age.

What's more, when I think about the situation over the years, I feel a little sad. She was placed under house arrest in 1980 because of the political turmoil in Poland. She finally immigrated to the United States, but the man who helped her immigrate didn't care about her anymore. , but married another woman.

In recent years, she has been wandering in Hollywood alone, feeling like a lonely ghost. Although she played the heroine in a low-cost horror film last year, the film only received a pitiful one million yuan. The box office did not bring any improvement to her career.

The more she thought about it, the more sad Joanna Pakula became. The more she thought about it, the more sad she became. She glanced at the man in front of her. It was clearly his fault, and she had to apologize repeatedly. Tears welled up in his eyes unconsciously.

"Uh, what's the matter with you?" Eric saw that Joanna Pakula was in tears, and suddenly felt at a loss. He touched his pocket and finally found a tissue and handed it over: "Don't cry. ."

The girl wiped her eyes with a tissue, but the more she wiped it, the sadder she became, and gradually she couldn't help choking: "You hateful Americans, that bastard back then, sent me to the United States and left it alone, you...you Also a bastard, I just bumped into you accidentally, you bullied me like that, you bastards, all, all bullied me."

Eric raised his hand in a panic. Seeing the girl chattering in a non-standard accent, he finally became impatient and raised his voice: "Okay, stop."

The girl's voice was stagnant, she wiped her tears, she became more awake, and suddenly realized what she was in now, and soon regretted it. This opportunity was completely lost.

When the girl stopped crying, Eric asked, "By the way, I didn't watch it carefully last night, why do you want to play this movie?"

"what?"

"I mean, Instinct," Eric continued.

"So what's the matter," Joanna Pakula asked softly, puzzled.

Eric thought for a while and said, "I don't want you to act in this movie. You should act in some mainstream movies. Since you can enter the Polish National Theatre, there must be no problem with your acting skills."

"Do you think I don't want to be in mainstream movies?" Joanna Pakula said. "But where do I get that opportunity, I've auditioned so many times, and I haven't had a single success. They've always been able to find a variety of Reject me for various reasons, and I can't compete with local actors."

Eric thought for a while, and said, "Well, don't participate in today's audition." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is me. maximum power.)