Hollywood Domination Chapter 14: Interview

"Name."

"Jenny Jane Jefferson."

"Age."

"20 years old."

"Education."

"High school."

Cesare looked up at her from the folder, and Jenny said, "What? I'm an orphan, and my SAT scores are terrible. Compared to pheasant college, I might as well come to Hollywood earlier, at least now, at my age It is still my advantage."

"What accident did your relative die in?" Cesare seemed not to have heard Jenny's subsequent explanation. Jenny found that he was trying to take the initiative by various means all the time, ignoring her words, maybe just to interrupt her rhythm.

But this is an interview after all, not a wrestling. Proper sharpness can arouse Cesare's interest, but blindly targeting him may go too far at any time.

"My father is a federal felon, and I haven't seen him much since I can remember. He is in Alabama State Prison, serving a 129-year sentence without probation." She said meekly, not embarrassed by introducing her family background, although Has the memory of Jenny Jane, but Chen Zhen did not inherit her emotions, "My mother ran away from home when I was a child, and I grew up with my grandmother until I was a little over ten years old. She passed away, the bank took back the house, and I was sent to the society I grew up in a foster family until I was 18, and graduated from high school at 19—for various reasons, I entered school a year later than other children, and then I went to Hollywood.”

"Before this guest appearance, what acting experience did you have?"

"No."

Cesare raised his eyebrows for the first time, not too much, but it was considered a surprise to him, "The drama club also counts."

"I went to a public high school with a tight budget," Jenny said. "Honey, there are hardly any decent club activities there, and if there are, I don't have time to participate. I have to work, and social welfare agencies can't afford it." My pocket money."

Cesare put down the pen, and the cold and appraising eyes came back again. Jenny felt that she was like a piece of dead meat in his eyes, and he was carefully weighing her in his mind and estimating her value .

"Let's spread the matter out." In fact, Cesare was not too arrogant. Considering the reaction of most people after hearing of Jenny's life, he could even be said to be very enlightened. It's just—it's just that his indifference completely overwhelms all other advantages, and Jenny feels that he has carried out the word "businesslike" to the extreme. "Jim is almost an idiot, there is no doubt about it. But he can at least sneak into the CAA layer, and he still has a bit of housekeeping skills, so I assume you should have some acting skills."

Jenny said, "I think I just proved that too."

She called up the Monroe mode - in fact, now, she can find the feeling of Monroe without empathy, maybe this is the sequelae of too many times of empathy - leaning back slightly, eyelids drooping slightly, with a charming and graceful posture Subtle, with slightly parted red lips, his voice was a little low, "Really? Mr. Vijay?"

Facing this performance that could defeat George, Cesare just twitched his lips. "Yes, you have a good grasp of this genre."

He changed the subject, "But what I need is not just a **** vase - what I lack now is a rather scarce resource."

Jenny is a little confused. In fact, she has been confused just now—Jim himself is the agent of CAA. He can discuss with the company to sign him, or find another more convenient senior agent to evaluate himself. , give an opinion, why must it be Cesare? Why come to him in such a hurry?

She felt herself getting closer to the answer.

"I thought a broker should never have too many clients," she said, giving Cesare a chance.

"That's not my style." Cesare said, with his hands arched and flat on the table, his tone was flat, "I only need the best clients now."

"You mean the most famous?" Jenny said, "Tom Hanks? Meg Ryan?"

"No," Cesare said, "I need the most talented client now. My last major client was Jennifer Bell. You should have heard of her."

Jenny blurted out, "Pearl Harbor!"

Speaking of which, this is also a point that surprised her. In her film and television library, Kate Beckinsale was the heroine of "Pearl Harbor", but in Jenny's world, Kate Beckinsale Bell did not star in the show, but the popular girl Jennifer Bell, who has been one of the most attractive faces in the United States in the past few years, has starred in several different types of films, and it can be said that the future is promising . It directly threatened the old lady Meg Ryan.

"Yes, "Pearl Harbor."" Cesare said, "I advised her not to accept this film, but she didn't listen to me. In short, she is not my client now."

"She left CAA?" Jenny was a little strange. Generally speaking, unless the first contract period is over after success and fame, the first agency contract is not so easy to terminate.

"CAA has a system. Superstars are not only managed by one agent. This is called business crossover." Cesare said it as if it was someone else's business. Superstar (A-list) ranks, became our first-line service target. She has several agents, and those people don't care to share."

"And you care." Jenny said, she felt that she was talking nonsense, and Cesare looked like someone who wouldn't even share a pizza.

"I can't even share pizza." Cesare said, and Jenny couldn't help frowning—this was the second time Cesare and her agreed. "Of course I won't share my clients. About me, this is the first thing you have to learn: I don't share."

"OK, you don't share." Jenny said indifferently, "Remember. So, what you are looking for is Jennifer's substitute?"

"No, I'm looking for a specific object, and Jennifer just proved that she doesn't meet my requirements by taking on "Pearl Harbor." Cesare corrected her, "We will discuss this matter later. Let’s talk, let’s get down to business. What I’m looking for is not a **** actor. To be precise, what I’m looking for can’t just have one kind of acting skills and one face. When it comes to you, I suspect that you don’t have such things as acting skills. , just have two personalities, one is the current you."

He made a gesture to Jenny, as if this could sum up her current boring and mediocre, "There is also a **** you, with a certain star power, who can be popular as a certain type of actress, Even rushing to the big screen and having some B-movies tailor-made for you—not that there is anything wrong with this, but the change of face just now does not prove that you have acting skills. And I want to confirm this now."

This person is really methodical and unhurried.

Jenny thought to herself, but she didn't dislike Cesare because she was more organized than Cesare and took her time. ——Although she is not sure whether she has acting skills, but as long as she plays according to her method, she will never lose this game.

"You want to test me," she said, and couldn't help laughing. "Come here, seriously, Mr. Vijayri, you don't have to be polite at all.—Or else, the last two or three years For blockbuster movies, you can just name a few characters. Of course, I have to watch it, you know, I don’t have a lot of money, and I won’t go to the cinema for some unpopular movies.”

Cesare thought for a moment.

"Titanic, Ruth Bukett." Sure enough, he chose a movie that Jenny had absolutely no chance of not seeing.

Jenny smiled.

Actually, based on how many times she has practiced with "Titanic", she can perform her own style even without empathy, but she still turns on empathy to be on the safe side.

At that moment, Ruth's life washed away. She was ups and downs on the sea, and every breath was salty and cold. The **** of death was blowing cold mist behind her neck, and she My lover is already in danger, about to be killed by the cold. There was a thin layer of frost on his handsome face, and she could feel that his life would stay in this moment forever, frozen in this sea of ​​ice forever.

But he told her not to let go, never to give up. He said don't do that, dare you say that? You can't say goodbye. (Don\'t you do that, don\'t say your good-byes.)

"I\'llneverletgo," she murmured, summoning courage almost to anger from the bottom of her heart, and they made it through together, even though it was only a few days' voyage But all this is more meaningful than her doctor, she can never give up these things, not after Jack taught her the joy of life, for him, for herself, she must, yes, no matter how hard it is, she must Persevere until the last moment.

With tears in her eyes, she promised the lover in her mind, "I will never give up, Jack. (I\'llneverletgo, Jack)."

Then Jenny canceled the empathy, took out a tissue to wipe her eyes, she spread her hands at Chesare, "Ta-dah."

Cesare's expression finally changed subtly, but he hadn't lost his composure. He stared at Jenny for more than ten seconds, then lowered his head, muttering to himself while writing. "The acting skills are too full and there is a sense of excess. There is no doubt that he is an experienced actor. He has not received professional training, but he is very talented. After training, there is a lot of room for improvement."

Highly talented, very talented——Jenny couldn't help but say, "I don't know why you know how to praise others?"

"This is not a compliment, this is seeking truth from facts." Cesare put down his pen and suddenly raised an eyebrow, ""Harry Potter", Professor McGonagall."

Jenny panicked for a moment, but of course she has seen such a famous series, but she has never imitated Professor McGonagall. After a short operation, she has unconsciously tightened her arms and straightened her back, unable to control herself She looked at the brats in front of her with weather-beaten vigilance—God knows what trouble they could cause her? The first grade has never been the most worrying...

"Welcome to Hogwarts—" she said, but before she could finish, Cesare said, "Stop."

He ordered another one, "The Sixth Sense of Life and Death, Susan Parish."

Jenny was a little headache from the frequent switching of empathy. The most important thing is that she has no impression of this movie at all. She doesn't even remember the classic scenes. Do you want to choose the scene now? There is no time. It was rare for her to be a little embarrassed and stuck, "Uh--can you wait for me for a while? I need to adjust."

"So you still have confidence in yourself?" Cesare asked back.

Jenny nodded calmly.

"Then you don't have to try." Cesare made an unexpected decision, "I already know that you are not a big talker. What time does your afternoon filming start?"

The topic of Cesare changed so quickly, jumping from one point to another abruptly, that Jenny began to understand why Jim was so afraid of him—Jim was obviously not a well-organized and quick-thinking person.

But she is.

"1:15 pm," Jenny looked at her watch, "it's 11:25, and you still have 1 hour and 5 minutes to convince me."

For the first time since Jenny saw him, Cesare smiled, and although it was more like a puff from his nose, the corners of his lips did curve upward. "Let me tell you how we arrange it. Now you go back to the set, eat, change clothes, make up, and I leave to deal with business. I will see you perform in the afternoon. If you pass the customs, I will tell you at the dinner table. Why should you let me be your agent. Do you have any objections to this arrangement?"

"But you're not flying to New York soon—" Jenny was a little surprised.

Cesare pressed the call button on the indoor extension, "Nora, help me cancel my ticket to New York and tell them I'll go there tomorrow."

Without waiting for Nora to answer, he released the button and continued the conversation with Jenny, "I was going to New York."

"I'm worth it for you to change your itinerary?" Jenny asked back.

"You are worth my changing itinerary." Cesare stood up and motioned for Jenny to go out with him, "but remind you, this is not your bargaining chip."

Jenni did not confirm until now that Cesare was indeed moved by her so-called 'talent' - in fact, she still can't accept it, Cesare was too indifferent just now, even though he is praising her now , It can even be said that he was showing his favor to her, but she still didn't feel that he was really appreciating her performance.

"Then—" She stepped out of his office with Cesare, and walked towards the elevator, "Jim, I mean, aren't you waiting for him?"

Cesare pushed the elevator for her and walked in with her, he said. "This should be my second knowledge, Miss Jefferson."

He compared his watches, "I pay attention to the time."

The elevator doors closed, Jenny stared at the smooth metal facade, and after a while, she looked at the electronic billboard hanging on the elevator wall.

In the corner of the billboard, a blinking number told her that it was 11:32.

She looked again at the tall blond man beside her who was texting.

Cesare Vijeri has a **** good sense of time.

Note: About Hollywood's A\\B\\Clist, I will introduce and popularize it to everyone later, but this concept is rather vague and controversial, so I am also an opinion.

In addition, the investment of "Pearl Harbor" was 1.4E, claiming to compete with "Titanic", but in the end, the North American box office was 1.98E, and the global box office was 2.5E. The career of the hero and heroine is also greatly affected by this.

In addition, due to the needs of the plot, there will be some original characters in the film replacing the original actors in reality. I hope you understand, it’s not that I hate the original actors, it’s just that it’s easier to unfold the plot. I still like the actress Kate Beckinsale in "Pearl Harbor". Her performance in "Underworld" is pretty good