Hollywood Domination Chapter 196: Living together?

Although Jenny has not returned to her soul compared to usual times, she still guessed Chris's intentions before he officially opened his mouth. Cut off Chris's words, partly because she... has almost nowhere to go except Chris's house.

Except for the special situation last night, it is unlikely that Cesare and Marie would live with her for a long time, unless Jenny let Nicholas come in and live with her, but that would be really strange. Jenny is confident in Nicholas and Mary's relationship, but she really doesn't want to be under the same roof as a couple if she doesn't have to, it lays down a lot of potential conflicts, and she has too many things to handle now up.

Of course, I agree with Lilian. She is already engaged and busy with work. Whether staying at her house or letting her stay in a hotel with her is not a long-term solution. Claudia is now starting her own business. Everyone has their own life, Cesare is right on this point, she should not rely on friends endlessly, in the case of a boyfriend, some things should always be resolved internally, otherwise it would be better Just say goodbye to Chris.

Since she absolutely doesn't want to live alone in the short term, compared to living in a hotel with Chris, being chased by paparazzi, harassed by paparazzi*, and spending money to hire bodyguards to find rooms for them in the hotel, it's better. The best way is actually to move with Chris to his Malibu mansion for a while. That mansion can not only completely get rid of paparazzi harassment, as Annie suggested, calm the topic, but also to be honest, it can also completely shield stalkers who may have evil intentions, so that he has no way to break in at all——Chris The house on the side of the mountain has electrified fences and probes. The part facing the sea is a private pier and beach. Even if you can approach it by boat, you will be discovered by the 24-hour security guards and notify the property's own security boat. corps and even the Coast Guard.

Yes, Chris’ mansion comes with a small security team on duty 24 hours a day... almost any blind spot that humans can think of has been blocked, because the paparazzi really want to secretly take pictures of him-this and The paparazzi have fought wits and bravery for many years to create a safe fortress with a perfect reputation. Jenny knew this as early as a year ago, and now of course she subconsciously hopes to live in the safest place. It's just that this matter is better left to Chris.

"I think it's a good choice to move in temporarily." She didn't pretend to be reserved, but asked directly, "but movein—Chris, do you mean really moving in?"

Chris gave her a guilty smile, as if he knew that his request was a bit outrageous, "You think it's too fast, don't you?"

"It's really fast," Jenny said, "after all, we - you know - haven't been dating for a very long time, and most of the time we haven't been in the same city -"

She simply didn't talk about this whimsical topic, but raised her concerns about temporarily moving in, "And even if we move in temporarily, it means that our relationship will be exposed, Chris, we How to explain it to the public? If we are going to make an open relationship public, I think Cesare and Judy will kill me."

Although she has begun to transform now, she is no longer the image of the all-American brand, and the public seems to accept the dissolution of the engagement very well, but the concept of "open relationship" is not everyone in the United States. Everyone can accept it with pleasure, but if they suddenly declare it publicly, it will definitely cause an uproar, which means more trouble, or a big stimulus to the stalker, and the last thing Jenny needs right now is trouble.

"We don't need to explain." Chris said confidently, "Why do we need to explain? Of course, you will say that because we don't explain, they will keep spying and guarding the door, making you restless—— And that's why I bought that big house, Jen, I think that's part of what it means to be successful, when we're still climbing, we need to give anybody a good explanation all the time, but Now? We've -- you can already say to the world, 'Go ahead, I don't care,' can we?"

Jenny thought for a while, and reluctantly agreed, "yeah—but—"

"You're just not used to being a-r," Chris really laughed, "Yeah, you're not used to being a superstar."

"I'm just not as...I don't know, winning or losing?" Jenny admitted, "It's not a war, Chris, most of the time everyone gets what they want, It won't hurt anyone—"

She paused, and finally made up her mind, "Okay, but you are right, now I need a safe haven more, let others guess, we can really say nothing, why do we have to Explain what?"

Chris clenched his fist excitedly and said "yes!" in a low voice, and Jenny felt that she needed to clarify something.

"But that doesn't mean I've agreed to move in for a long time," she said hastily, "if I find a suitable new place—anyway, it's only temporary."

"Fine." Chris laughed and rubbed her into his arms, "We're going to live together, sounds really exciting!"

Jenny was also happy to spend a while with him, but none of them had any further intentions. After all, it hadn't been more than 24 hours since the incident happened. After all, it was a bit inappropriate.

"Where's Chesa?" Most of the people were working in the conference room, Chris hugged her and curled up on the sofa together, he took a grape for himself, and asked while eating, "I'm surprised there is no Seeing him here—to be honest, I thought he would kill me in the shortest possible time.”

"He's going to take my place in the meeting with Fox today." Jenny said, "I would have gone too, but you know—"

Chris snorted, "So, will you get the 25 promised by Universal? Or will Fox refuse to give you that much?"

From his tone, it seems that Chris doesn't really care about losing the selection of "Avatar". Jenny thinks that most of his concerns are true. It's true that I'm not sure, because apart from her crazy confidence in the box office, the rest of the A-R should take into account the fact that their work is not fundamentally different from Andy Serkis'. Leo and Chris were very good before. Focus on the progress, but they are not frantically competing for contracts. They are more likely to crowd out each other for their slots and get the priority to read the script. It is entirely possible for Leo to decide to give up this opportunity after reading the script.

"Fox give me 20." In the past, she needed to remind herself 'Chris is your boyfriend' to overcome the discomfort in her heart and talk to him about these business secrets, but Jenny said these things now Very smooth. "It should be an initial asking price. I guess their psychological bottom line is 25-but we didn't bargain like that."

"It doesn't sound like something Cesare would do." Chris said with a smile in his tone, "But don't tell me you didn't get another bargain - that's not Cesare at all. Saree."

Jennie laughed too, "Yeah, it's not Cesare at all, is it? He's not going to back down from that without getting a bigger deal - no, we didn't say that on the payroll What... we should have taken 20/20 in the end."

"20/20?" Chris raised his tone sharply. "That's impossible—are you kidding me?"

For first-line big productions, in recent years even male stars have not been able to get this number. Julia Roberts might have gotten this number in a romance film in which she was the first lead a few years ago, but in "Ten One Arhat, the cash remuneration she received was a check for 20 dollars-of course, such cash remuneration was exchanged for a very good box office share, but even so, her share was definitely less than 20%.

"And omnichannel." Jenny said softly, "Sounds good, right?"

"I now believe you need to see a doctor," Chris ordered, "or you're hiding an important prerequisite—tell me, Jenny Jefferson, or I'll bite you off nose."

Jenny laughed, "Bite off my nose? Seriously?"

She really likes to chat with Chris about business in such a relaxed way, and teased him for a while before revealing the answer, "Of course this was paid for by an investment of 100 million. This matter, but it’s hard to say how big a bite can be in the cake in the end.”

"100 million?" Chris's eyes almost popped out of their sockets like a cartoon, he sat up and looked at Jenny seriously - and this look is the best compliment for Jenny.

Of course, today, Jenny is not short of praise and admiration, but the complicated expression from Chris, a first-line actor, still makes her feel a little smug. At least at this moment, success seems to be very worthwhile, and success comes with it. The stalker is just a nasty stain on the coat of arms of success. Jenny smiled lazily, pretending to be indifferent, "Is this worth being surprised?"

"Oh, stop pretending." Chris gave her a rare big roll of his eyes, and he leaned over to Jenny again, "But, let's be honest—there are few women in this world who can make me lose my confidence—I Hate to admit it, but you're definitely one of them, Jane."

Jenny couldn't help but smiled sweetly——Anyway, Chris couldn't see it, and her tone remained indifferent, "100 million is enough to make you lose confidence? Christopher, it seems that you have seen the world better than me. Think less."

Chris actually bit her nose, "I'm not talking about money, thanks—"

But he started to act like a baby again, "But when did you make this decision, why am I always the last to know, and Cesare can negotiate with Fox instead of you?"

"It's a company decision," said Jenny, dumbfounded, "of course it's a matter of internal management-oh, don't tell me you told me everything about your career, Chris, like It doesn’t matter what your current catch-all movie is, it’s so tempting that you give up on “Avatar.”

Chris laughed, "Well, I can't tell the truth, Chesa showed me a script, which is indeed more attractive to me than "Avatar", but the time to show my face is also not much, I haven't made up my mind yet-don't Tell Cameron that it is a script in the hands of his ex-wife, but now the project has just started, and everything is hard to say."

... "The Hurt Locker"... Jenny couldn't help turning her head and glanced at Chris: This kid's vision for choosing movies is not bad...

"Maybe you can try it," she said, pretending to be indifferent, "it might be a good movie."

Chris himself doesn't seem to have very high expectations for this project. Of course, it may also be because the loss of "Avatar" today made him not really want to talk about his next movie plan. He nodded and turned away. The topic changed, "However, isn't the investment in "Avatar" 550 million? You account for less than 20%—ah, a smart choice. If we can really talk about omni-channel sharing, the cumulative amount of 2% may not Much less than 5 million."

A shrewd light flashed across his face, Chris has always been very knowledgeable about these things, "Most importantly, this will be a stable income for the company, maybe more than a sum of five million Good. But of course, this part of the money does not belong to you."

"It's not a problem, the company can sign a supplementary agreement, if I insist." Jenny hummed, "The point is the 20% figure—what are you thinking, Chris?"

Chris said with a smile, "You did give me a big impact-I have a feeling that if I don't work harder, maybe you will be the better earner of the two of us soon. Already."

"If you only know how to spend money and don't know how to invest, maybe I will soon become the richer one among us." Jenny said, this is the first time they talked about each other's career outlook and financial management View, "But seriously, haven't you thought about actually expanding your production company?"

"I'm not very interested in being a director. Of course, I'm not interested in being a real producer, not an executive producer—" Chris said, and Jenny also smiled complacently: executive producers are usually named , many times the production manager is the one who is really in charge, "I don't have much interest at the moment, I'm not the kind of person who has a lot of stories to tell."

He said warily again, "But your imagination of me is an insult—don't worry, your boyfriend still has money to support his family."

"The problem is not whether you have money to support your family, but whether you have a healthy outlook on financial management," Jenny said, but quickly corrected herself, "Forget it, this matter has nothing to do with me for the time being. I crossed the line."

"Oh," Chris said immediately, "no, no, that's a good question."

He sat up, "Let's talk about how you imagine my view of financial management—how do I feel in your heart that I am a tragic image that will go bankrupt once I pass away?"

He didn't get everything right, but it wasn't far off, Jenny shrugged, "It's just that, judging from your performance, you don't look like someone who will carefully invest in your own property—"

"Well, I'm not." Chris also admitted, "But I'm not as luxurious as you think, of course I have real estate, but it will increase in value-usually, I don't give away previous ones Girlfriends are too expensive gifts, and party drinks are actually cheaper than you think. I won’t do the stupid thing of giving my fiancee a five million ring to chase her back, just to break up in a few months.”

He didn't forget to mock Leonardo before continuing to smile and say, "I spend a lot less than I earn, and I have a very good mother. The only thing she likes to do is how to do it." Add value to my assets, so I really don’t spend too much time on financial management, wouldn’t it be great to let someone who is good at it do it.”

"Oh?" Jenny raised an eyebrow, "I didn't know you were a good boy, Chris?"

"It just happened to be her hobby," Chris shrugged, "but you're right to say that my parents and I have always had a close relationship—we're a close family. "

Chris's family seems to be very low-key indeed, and Jenny only vaguely remembers one or two faces, and she said, "Ah—the last Oscar——"

"Yes, she did, but it was crazy that night." Chris grimaced, "And it was not the right time to introduce you to meet, she will be in town next month—"

"Wow," Jenny immediately raised her hand, "It's so fast in one day, Chris—"

"But we should be on vacation at that time." After Chris finished speaking, he said a little angrily and funny, "Relax, j.j, I'm not a wedding fanatic, it's really too fast to see my parents now."

Jenny breathed a sigh of relief, she didn't want to continue the topic of 'meeting the parents' anymore, "Talk about your childhood, Chris, we never seem to have talked about this before."

Maybe it’s because their relationship is really different now, maybe it’s because this is their first meeting after confirming their relationship and talking on the phone for a long time, the intimacy is indeed different from before, maybe Jenny is nervous now Excited again, the interest in talking is stronger than before, and some topics that have not been discussed in depth before are like a door, which is naturally pushed open. They talked about their childhoods—mainly Chris’s, because Jenny’s childhood obviously belonged to the “painful past”, and it’s hard to talk about it in various senses. The reasons for entering the industry are miscellaneous, and some friends don’t care about it. Or issues that are too personal for casual friends.

It turns out that Jenny's guess is correct. Chris's parents are happy and happy. Although he divorced when he was a teenager, the relationship between Chris and his parents has always been very close, and his attitude towards life is indeed like that raised by such a family. The child--he has an unrestrained joy in his air, and a very relaxed sense of self-confidence. He's a bit like Josh in that regard, though Josh's family is much more religious than Chris's, whose parents are both atheists, which may be important to his lawless personality.

"Of course outwardly we are all Christians," Chris skillfully crossed himself, "you wouldn't believe how sensitive people are to atheists, but actually, deep down, I don't. "

Before Jenny could speak, he held his head and acted cheaply, "Oh, please don't let me go to hell, I know I'm a hypocrite, and lying is the greatest sin—"

Jenny kicked him, "! Go to hell, you hypocrite."

They've moved into the bedroom, Chris rolling around on the rug with his head in his arms, dodging the pillows waving from Jenny, both of them gasping for breath, barely noticing the tap on the door . It wasn't until there was a loud knock on the door that Jenny smiled and got up and opened the door.

"We don't need room service—oh!"

She greeted with some embarrassment, "Chesa, did the meeting end so early?"

Cesare looked at her, then looked over her at Chris, whose hair was disheveled and hadn't recovered from the beating position, and of course the big pillow with feathers flying all over the floor—then looked at her again.

"Well, we didn't talk about anything, because Kevin thinks you are the one who can make the decision, and he is afraid that you will not be able to make a rational judgment in your current state." He said in an unspoken contemptuous tone, "—Obviously, he is right."

"Oh, but I thought you would be relieved that I got out of the shadows." Jenny was also a little embarrassed, and she laughed out loud as she said, "Okay, this is mainly Because I stayed with a childish person—Chris, don’t pretend to be dead, come here, Chesa is going to start scolding you.”

Chris couldn't lie down any longer, he turned over and sat up abruptly, begging for mercy towards Cesare, "Cesare, I really didn't expect that policeman to check my mask—— "

The three of them walked to the reception area while talking, Cesare was unexpected, and didn't reprimand Chris, but said in a matter-of-fact tone, "And you paid the price for your recklessness, didn't you?"

"Oh, I don't believe you and I don't have the same idea." Once Cesare didn't scold him, Chris became much more lively, and he crossed his legs proudly, "Cameron just wants Leo at all." That's all, admit it, Chesa, this incident is just an excuse-instead, it saved me the time to go to the audition."

Cesare nodded, and Jenny interjected, "But your reaction to this was really calm."

"It's not something that needs to be overreacted." Chris said, "It's so common, why, haven't you ever been teased by the producer?"

"Uh, I didn't?" Jenny asked hesitantly.

Chris rolled his eyes at her visibly, then turned to Cesare, squinting him. "Are you really not going to train me? Chesa?"

"Why should I?" Cesare asked back, "It's already happened, and it's not wrong. Of course, you made it public in advance, but it's okay. After all, if Jefferson lives in your house temporarily If so, you must also make the relationship public."

Jenny and Chris looked at each other, then shook their heads again, and Jenny asked, "How did you—"

"That's exactly my opinion," Cesare said, "It's the safest place to live in Hollywood, your safety is guaranteed, and the hotel staff is always too mixed."

He glanced at the two, "Of course it's nice to know that the three of us are on the same page—though, Chris, it also means that your open relationship has had to shift during this time."

"Gotcha." Chris answered briskly, turned his head and made a face at Jenny, "Actually——"

"Don't tell the truth." Jenny had a headache, she interrupted Chris, "If you go on, I'm afraid we are going to get married tomorrow——Chesa, what was said in the meeting, there is no progress at all No?"

Cesare didn't answer right away, Chris stood up and said, "Call me if you need—"

It was not until he closed the door with his backhand that Cesare said, "Actually, there is no progress at all."

After the relaxation just now, Jenny has basically recovered. She straightened up and couldn't wait to listen to Cesare's words, "Fox has initially decided to accept our investment, but——"