Hollywood Domination Chapter 47: Future big shot

"You need a manager," Cesare pointed out to Jenny, "starting now, there will be more and more meetings like today, and you can't come to the Upper East Side every day, you need a full-time manager You take care of these trivial matters. Before that, I was in charge of all these matters, but I am actually just your film and television agent. There are too many areas in your career that require the participation of managers.”

"I thought you would like me to be directly under your control." Jenny laughed at him a little bit, "What if I find a rebellious manager, Chesa? Encourage me to break away from your dictatorship rule?"

Cesare glanced at her and said without emotion, "Of course, in order to avoid this, I will assign you a housekeeper from among my servants."

Jenny still couldn't adapt to his way of joking, and was stunned as always, not knowing whether to laugh or to talk back. She and Cesare communicated smoothly during negotiations and quarrels, but when they were friendly, they couldn't get rid of the embarrassment.

She started the topic, "Find a manager, what else? Next you are going to suggest that I hire an assistant?"

"Of course." Cesare said, "I've already heard what Nisha said about last night's situation, and that was only the premiere. During your six months on Broadway, you have to deal with fans every day, and the number may More and more. There's a reason entertainers like to hire assistants, and you can easily figure out why you need an assistant."

"Well." Jenny didn't pretend to be stupid, "It's impossible for me to maintain the order of the fans myself, and the security guards don't have this obligation. ——I now know what you mean when you say that I will be poorer."

"The manager will take 10% of your income, and the assistant needs to be paid monthly salary, besides, Judy will definitely ask for a raise after the first contract period, because of the workload you bring her It will grow faster than we thought." Cesare counted Jenny's upcoming expenses, "Also, I think you should update your personal wardrobe within a month, you are about to become the most attractive Broadway A new face that attracts people's attention. Some paparazzi don't mind waiting at the back door of the theater to give you two street photos."

He glanced disapprovingly at Jenny's long T-shirt, and Jenny resisted the urge to make faces at him.

"If I do what you say, I'll be poorer than when I was a waiter," she said. For the part that needs to be saved and paid for taxes, I will give you 15% of the commission, 10% for the manager, which is 25%, and then the salaries for the assistants, and the expenses for repairing and installing, etc. A premonition that will not be left."

"Yes." Cesare agreed, "but this is the minimum configuration, tell me, what do you think you can cut?"

"It seems that there is no way to save money on clothing." Jenny said helplessly, "Otherwise Judy will give advice, assistant... well, I don't want to be said to be stingy, I will hire an assistant as soon as possible. "

"You should also rent a car." Cesare reminded, "Of course, you can keep a low profile and don't choose a luxury car, but don't take the civilian route."

"Another expense." Jenny rolled her eyes, "Did you hear that? Tick, tick, tick, tick, it's the sound of my heart bleeding."

"It's good that you like to save and have healthy financial habits," Cesare said patiently, "but these are important to you. If you want to behave like a commoner, you can wait until you get the first degree. Let’s talk about it after an Oscar, and at that time, everyone will praise you as a simple and uncorrupted artist, but now you have to buy all these supporting facilities, Jenny, this is a necessary upfront investment.”

"Okay." Jenny doesn't need Cesare to persuade her anymore, in fact, she can also understand this truth-if no one is there to maintain order every time she goes to sign for fans, then it is conceivable She will be surrounded by this group of people, and it will be difficult to get out. Besides, if she has to go there and persuade them to line up, Jenny will not be a star at all. "If I don't think of myself as a star, who will think of me? I'll hire an assistant, rent a car and buy some clothes, watch my appearance. Even if it costs my retirement savings."

Cesare asked sharply, "But no manager?"

"In your mind, what are my managers doing?" Jenny asked back, "Support me to hold meetings with you, decide things that are closely related to me, and then tell me what I should do, so I don't have to go Ask why, and do it—is that so?"

"Most managers will also contact your accountant, PR, agent for you, filter some scripts for you, manage your assistants, housekeepers, and your network," Cesare replied, "but in At this stage, indeed, his main job is to hold meetings with us and tell you what to do when."

Jenny shook her head, "I'm not reluctant to give up 10%, but I don't like to be a puppet. You watched the performance last night. I can play Roxie well, but I don't want a bigger guy standing behind me." profit."

"Actually, you already have a Billy behind you." Cesare compared himself. "And you promised to be an obedient and good girl."

"Of course I'll be obedient—I've always been obedient." Jenny considered the way of expression, "Let's put it this way, if you and Judy just had a product meeting and you were deciding is the product marketing route of 'Jennifer Jefferson AkaJ.J', then as the main producer of Jennifer Jefferson, or the front-line staff, I request the right to participate in the meeting. I will not argue with you Grab the designer's job, but at least I have to be there when the product meeting is held."

Before Cesare could speak, Jenny said, "I know that my indeterminate working hours and the fact that I can't be interrupted at work will make scheduling meetings difficult, but let me point out that you are My agent and my PR, what you take from me is the commission—I think the power chain is obvious, and it doesn't change because of each other's fame, does it?"

"You are a person who is very good at fighting for your own rights." Cesare said, his handsome face was unmoved, and he seemed completely unaffected by Jenny's evaluation.

"A girl has to learn to think for herself." Jenny said sweetly to him, blinking her eyes slightly mockingly.

"Okay," Cesare announced that he had compromised, "Since you think you don't need the assistance of the manager, then we don't need the assistance of the manager for the time being."

"I just don't like being told the result," Jenny felt a little guilty after mocking Cesare every time, and she tried to make up, "It makes me feel that my participation is very low."

"You're not that famous yet," Cesare said, "and your workload isn't that great—you'll find out later. Next, let's talk about assistants."

After Cesare's guidance, Jenny decided to offer the future assistant a salary of about 4,000 US dollars, tentatively scheduled to work from afternoon to night every day, if the working hours are extended in the future, of course the salary will also be adjusted.

Also, after the premiere, she also decided to find a short-term rental apartment instead of staying in a hotel, so that she can cook for herself and not have to endure the never-fresh convenience store salads. Cesare also asked her to find a high-end short-term rental apartment, not a small room in Queens or Brooklyn, but a business apartment in Manhattan.

"That's how my money is gone," Jenny announced heartbrokenly, "I feel very poor right now."

Adding the expenses she promised to go out today, Jenny will probably spend more than 10,000 yuan, and after that, she will need to pay the assistant's salary, rent, and tax money she has saved in advance , and the expected shopping expenses, she now has less money at her disposal than when she was a waiter.

After discussing the trivial matters, it will probably be lunch time. Cesare will catch the afternoon plane back to Los Angeles. Lilian's mother strongly invites Jenny to stay, and she will have lunch with Cesare logically. He just laughed at her declaration. "In three months, we will start the second round of price negotiations, and your economic situation will ease by then."

"How much are you going to talk about?" Jenny asked curiously, "Ten thousand a week? Twenty thousand?"

"I think 20,000 is an appropriate number." Cesare said, "It would be unrealistic to go any higher."

This is a very simple arithmetic problem. Assuming that the Schubert Theater can sell all the tickets at the original price in one night, then the box office revenue of one show is about 300,000 yuan-this is the most ideal situation. Eight performances a week, 2.4 million, this is all the income of the theater this week, from advertising fees, theater staff from top to bottom, troupe director, choreographer, stage manager, lighting and choreography, and even the salaries of all actors, They are all counting on the 2.4 million. Jenny can get 20,000 yuan from this cake, which is already a very good treatment. No matter how high it is, it can only be paid by the big names in Hollywood, but for these big names, it is not a waste of money to come to perform musicals, so the price will not be too high. Therefore, in terms of the overall market price, it is quite good to be able to negotiate 20,000 yuan.

"Do you think it will work?" Jenny took a bite of the organic salad and nodded with a smile to Lilian's mother, who put a glass of freshly squeezed juice beside her bowl.

"James flew to London this morning for you, I think the answer should be yes." Cesare replied, handing the newspaper on the table to Jenny, "You can take a closer look at these drama reviews, these middle-aged It's very rare that a man is completely obsessed with you - Patric is even gay."

"This shows that the power of beauty has no borders." Jenny replied brazenly, but still quickly read the two drama reviews with great interest.

Cesare is right, Patric of the New York Post has been completely conquered by her, Jenny can vaguely recall a certain eager face at the party last night, Patrik looked He seemed really eager to talk to her.

In his drama review, he completely praised Jenny as a goddess-like figure. More than 50% of the whole drama review was very close to her. Tie Jin: "She is so beautiful, why should she have such acting skills? She has such acting skills, why should she be so beautiful?" ' and asserting that Jenny has a bright future in Hollywood and can't stay on Broadway forever,' admit it, Hollywood has been brazenly paying big bucks to steal Broadway talent, this girl will be their next target, I don't even know How long will she last on Broadway? Compared with the workload of six shows a week, it seems that the temptation of Hollywood's ease and high salary is stronger. Value your time, folks, you may only have a short time to enjoy this miraculous performance before "Chicago" comes out on DVD. ’

As for Brantley, although the title of his review is directly 'That girl is a monster', the tone of the review is obviously much more sensible than Patrik's, and the focus is still on Jenny's singing and dancing skills and acting skills, 'Her style focuses more on superb acting skills. This is not to say that her singing and dancing are not good, but compared with her natural performance, the singing and dancing part has been robbed of a lot of limelight. And her acting skills also made the atmosphere of the audience unbalanced. This is not a perfect show. "...'

Jenny looked at the printed blog content while eating her salad. Almost all of them gave her high praise, but the success of the musical was divided into two camps. All the shows were excellent. Apart from Jenny's Roxie, there were some adaptations and new highlights in choreography, all of which were worthy of recognition. The other faction headed by Brantley pointed out sharply that Jenny's past Human beauty and monster-level acting skills are like an overweight weight, completely destroying the balance of the whole play.

"I can feel that everyone wants to watch, and only want to watch Roxy, which is Roxy's success, and Andy Lewis (the director of the show) failed." Jenny read aloud, "You guessed it Could this be why James is heading to London immediately?"

"He probably made his decision after knowing the box office trend last night," Cesare replied, "As for the drama review, it's just icing on the cake. As long as you are on the stage last night, no one will doubt that your Roxy won What a success."

Actually, Jenny did not expect that the audience and the critics would react so strongly to her and Dietrich's "suppression" issue. Of course, everyone must have felt it during the rehearsal, but Brantley's The comment still scares her a bit.

"It's not surprising." Cesare explained, "The same is true for movies. Even if the work of a famous director is even popular at the preview, it may not be successful at both the box office and the critics. This is not an industry where quality control can work. Even with multiple rehearsals, professionals can never replace the market in judging audience concerns."

"So, without your hard work and help, I have accomplished my goal." Jenny couldn't help provoking Cesare a little, "So, your role in this matter seems to have changed. Is it optional?"

"Actually, James will decide to replace Dietrich, and the reason should have nothing to do with you." It is all based on the play itself. So your peanut oil plan has little effect on this matter."

Last night's premiere, of course James was also watching in the arena. He noticed the floating atmosphere in the audience, and after sitting in the audience and watching a performance, combined with this morning's drama reviews and box office changes, he should be I came to my own conclusion: Replacing Dietrich would bring the show's reputation to another level. Jenny also had to admit that even without the peanut oil incident, he would have directly decided to replace Dietrich.

But if she thought about it this way, she felt a little embarrassed: In this way, wouldn't the peanut oil incident be harmful instead of beneficial? It did absolutely nothing positive other than ruin her relationship with James. And Cesare's gentle way of thinking now seems to be very mature and upright.

Based on the age at the time of time travel, her mental age should be a few years older than Cesare's. This is also because she has the confidence of a psychological elder. When she first met, Jenny was very aggressive towards Cesare. Yes, in her heart, she is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and Cesare's dead face is the attack of the second disease. Now she feels that she is being slapped in the face by reality, so she is struggling to die.

"But the peanut oil project can make me happy." Jenny pointed out, "Since James won't let the peanut oil project affect his arrangement with Dietrich, then he won't let the peanut oil project affect his arrangement with me. You With your strategy, you can get him to try his best to recommend me to be nominated for the Tony Award, so if Dietrich even lays peanut oil on me, intending to prevent me from acting and destroying his grand plan, it will not affect him. Then My plan obviously will not affect his efforts to get me nominated for an award, a musical starring a Tony Award winner, the box office will definitely be more favorable, and it can even be followed by DVD development.”

Cesare showed a commercial smile, "You are right."

Nevertheless, his tone of tolerance made it clear that he didn't think Jenny had seen what was at stake.

Jenny stared at him unconvinced, "Don't you explain it?"

Cesare spread his hands, "Forgive me, I think you will be more emotional after explaining."

Jennie pushed the plate away, half-jokingly getting more emotional. "Are you judging my personality now?"

"Actually, I'm just reminding you that you are now falling into the trap of 'thinking about these things is a hindrance to you'." Cesare said with a sense of superiority, "But, well, There is indeed a quickest and most harmless solution to this matter - if you perform well enough to make James realize that the pressure problem is very serious during rehearsal, then Dietrich will be replaced before the performance .So in the final analysis, the whole thing is still related to your acting ability."

Jenny couldn't find a point to fight back. She stood up sullenly, "I understand Jim's words now, eating with you is the most unpleasant thing in the world."

"Just now in the study, you are right, you should regard yourself as a product."

On the elevator going downstairs, Cesare said to Jeanne. "As a front-line production specialist, you only need to concentrate on doing one thing well, Jenny—acting. This is all you need to produce. As for other things, you can leave it to professionals to consider. You Don't like Dietrich? I don't need your reasons, you don't like her, you want her to go, tell your manager, the manager will go to me, to PR, to James, to make your wish come true for you. And the premise of all this is that you produce good enough acting skills, and let Judy package it for sale after going through the roadmap I designed for you."

He said, "Jennifer Jefferson will be a well-calculated commodity. You are very important, but you are only a part of the team. Jenny, I hope you still focus on your own work so far, don't To care too much."

Even though she still felt a little bit hard about Dietrich's incident, Jenny could hear the faint warning in Cesare's words, and she quickly restrained her desire to resist, and spoke obediently. "Yes, Master Vijay, I will be an obedient slave."

"Very good." Cesare reached into his pocket and flicked a coin at her, "Be a good girl, Jefferson—don't let me down."

He got into a taxi and left Jenny's sight leisurely. Jenny stared at the yellow rear of the car, uncommonly ignorant of what happened this morning - her musical had just achieved unprecedented success, but for some reason, the contrast between her strength and weakness with Cesare seemed to be reversed, The bit of strength she had gained with great difficulty seemed to have completely disappeared: she seemed to be a complete rookie in front of Cesare.

There is not much time left for her to be depressed. Jenny is going to Broadway soon. She has a rehearsal in the afternoon and a performance in the evening. According to the schedule, she will interview the assistant candidate that Cesare found for her tomorrow morning, and then go to see the apartment and move...

Thinking of the busy schedule in the future, Jenny suddenly had a strong urge to find a small island to live in seclusion for a few days. I am more conscious of my poverty now than I have been in the past few months.

But when she walked into the troupe, Jenny began to realize that she was really becoming a star.

Security guards, choreographers, actors in group B, backup dancers in group A, stage managers... Of course they are very familiar with her. Jenny passed them countless times in the corridor and rushed to the rehearsal room. Nod to each other. And today, from the moment she pushed the door open, everyone stopped to smile at her and move out of the way.

There was some respect and flattery in their tone, as if they were suddenly eager to get acquainted with her, and they said, "Good afternoon, Jennifer."

Yes, she is really becoming something big.

The author has something to say: I'm sorry, something happened suddenly at the wedding tonight, Khan, it didn't end until after eight o'clock

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