Hollywood Domination Chapter 42: Cesare-James-Jeanne game

Actually, Jenny's idea is also very simple - since Dietrich wants to mess with her, it is a very normal idea to 'if one plan fails, another plan', and she probably also guessed that Dietrich hates her The reason is definitely not a whim, it’s just a matter of teasing you if you don’t like it, Dietrich probably has a very urgent need, hoping that she will perform poorly on stage, or simply not competent for this role.

Then, instead of letting her figure out how to **** Jenny, who is passively defending herself, it's better to give Dietrich an obvious opening and let her figure out how to use it to **** her, while Jenny just It is good to take precautions against this.

Judging from Dietrich's character, she would definitely not be able to do something like putting drugs directly in the food. After all, handing you a cigarette at a party and sprinkling drug powder in the food are two different things. For matters of nature, the latter may be tasted and cause a big fuss, and if the amount is too large, it is easy to cause death. She does not have the guts, and Jenny does not want her to think about how to make her physically disabled. She gave Dede Li's preparation method is very simple: allergies.

Peanut allergy is the most common allergy in the United States, and dozens of people die each year from severe peanut allergic reactions. A few days after the cigarette incident, Jenny specifically mentioned her peanut allergy, and told everyone that she had a severe allergy and was hospitalized for several days because she accidentally ate a toast with peanut butter. Still in school, with student insurance, or you're guaranteed to go bankrupt because you can't pay your bills.

At that time, she could almost see the voice of the lamp lighting up in Dietrich's head: If she didn't want Jenny to go on stage, just put some peanuts in her food a few days before going on stage.

Then the whole thing is very simple, it is nothing more than being careful every day, and don’t give Dietrich a chance—of course, it’s not a problem even if she finds a chance to put peanut products, anyway, Jenny is completely lying, she is not allergic, At most, it will make Dietrich doubt her claim of peanut allergy, but then again, many people's allergy resistance is also strong and weak. When unlucky, they will be allergic to a little bit. Heaps were fine, so it was unlikely that Dietrich would find out that Jenny was lying to her.

Then, use some means at an appropriate time to create opportunities like tonight.

For Chen Zhen, the small matter of creating opportunities is nothing more than wet and dirty. She married into her ex-husband's family poor and for nothing. Was it given to her by the ex-husband's family holding it in both hands?

This matter is actually quite simple. Take some small bottles with you. If you find an opportunity, as long as you are bold enough, there is no risk. Many people with severe peanut allergies are even allergic to cooking utensils that have been in contact with peanuts and have not been cleaned, which is difficult to tell. For example, tonight, if Cesare and James hadn't been there to witness the whole process, even if Dietrich handed the lunch box to Jenny, and Jenny developed an allergy after eating, who would say it was her problem? The rest room was not monitored, and the people coming and going in the public refrigerator were entirely likely to be the Bully incident caused by other people who were jealous of Jenny. After all, Dietrich was definitely not the only one who knew that she was allergic to peanuts, and the salad was in the refrigerator. For at least half an hour.

Essentially speaking, this is the same as the cigarette incident, with less investment, low risk, and almost no possibility of threatening criminal suspects. It suits Dietrich's taste very well, and it is also a feast carefully prepared by Jenny for Dietrich. .

Now, she can safely say that Dietrich absolutely enjoyed her meal. Even Cesare and James couldn't deny it—neither of them worked up the courage to try the salad.

"You can test it." Jenny said, "but I'm sure of my opinion-I'm a person with a bland taste, so my sense of smell is very sensitive. I can smell the peanut oil from the vegetable leaves."

This salad does not contain peanut allergens, and there is a label on the top of the lunch box. Jenny pointed it out to the two, and continued, "So, we now have a chain of reasoning and a suspect. What is missing now is motivation Yes. James, can you tell me why Dietrich is dealing with me, Chesa?"

James combed his hair with both hands, looking extremely broken, but Cesare was still so calm, he leaned back on the chair, and said casually, "It's very simple, I think anyone who has watched your rehearsal will have the answer, Really, James?"

James let out a long moan, "Shit, ****!"

He let out a sigh of relief, did not answer Cesare's words, but raised his head and stared directly at Jenny, and asked coldly, "So, what do you want me to do?"

There is a little electric current between him and Jenny, and the intensity of this current is different between men and women. James' arrow towards her is thicker, and Jenny's arrow is thinner, but it still exists. When the two are talking, they can Feeling the existence of that UST (see note), so it is always a bit awkward as the background color, but now this embarrassment is completely replaced by deep irritability and alertness, James' cuteness has completely disappeared, he pulls the protective cover , also revealed the shrewdness and coldness of the Cesare type.

For his mistakes, he did not mean to apologize. Judging from his tone and body language, he has already started to compete with Jenny for the dominance of this conversation. It is obvious that he wants to be one of the three people's word counts ' that person.

"The question now is not what I want to do, but what should you do, James, you tell me how can I work with a person who has been trying to kill me? I am your main star this season, she is not, I She's the victim, she's the perpetrator." Jenny said, "Tell me what you want to do, James."

James cursed again, "No, Jennifer, I know what you want me to do - I can't fire her -"

He rushed in front of everyone and increased his voice, "Listen—I—speak!"

If Jenny and Cesare started to argue excitedly at this time, his words would be very intimidating, and would feed back his aura and make him more aura, but the problem now is that neither of them made any movement , just looking back at James calmly, it made James feel a little bit empty, he shook his head, his momentum weakened, but he still analyzed, "Now the three people in this room all have a common wish , that’s what makes the show work, right?”

Both Cesare and Jenny remained silent, James continued, "I'll take it as if you all agree, so here's an unpleasant fact: Dietrich is the best Velma at this stage, unless you I can invite Catherine Zeta Jones, otherwise she is the best Verma I can find. The Verma in Group B is Ann. You can see how good she is. The substitute Samantha is too ugly——Jenny , there is a reason why Dietrich is Velma in Group A. She is the strongest among the three people in the troupe who can dance Velma. If she and you have a sense of imbalance, the performance of the other two will only be worse. We need It is a good musical, with a good box office and good reputation, not a solo show with no reputation. No matter how strong your personal charm is, Velma is the second heroine of this play. Of course, she does not need to be very eye-catching , you can pass it, but it must not be too bad. So this is the fact, whether you admit it or not, now the troupe needs Dietrich."

"So you want this to be over?" Jenny said.

"In addition, you have no direct evidence against Dietrich." James ignored her, and he said in an emphatic tone, "Even if you call the police, it will not constitute a valid accusation. You have no witnesses or physical evidence--"

All eyes fell on the conference table. James strode closer to the conference table, picked up the lunch box, threw the lunch box out of the window with a few strides, and continued talking. "So the best and only way is for me to get Dietrich to stop targeting you, and let this matter go away."

Jenny looked at her manager, "Cesare?"

Cesare crossed his hands and placed them flat on the conference table, "For now, this is the most beneficial solution for both parties."

James relaxed immediately, and he waved at Jenny and pointed at Cesare, "Listen to your agent, girl, he's an old hand, let him help you make a rational decision, for God's sake, this It's the eve of the show! We can't afford any disturbance!"

Judging from his complaining tone, James even blamed Jenny for creating a disturbance that day, shaking Dietrich's state, and leaving him a mess to clean up.

"Six months." Cesare ignored James, he continued, staring at James. "I'll give you six months, James."

James' complaining tone stopped, "You mean—"

"This is Broadway, six months is enough time for you to find a new Velma." Cesare said, "If you can't find Broadway, you go to the West End of London, where "Chicago" is also playing, there There is also Wilma. I will give you six months, and when Jenny comes back next year, she will not see this Wilma again."

James stuck his tongue up and down his cheeks, making a strange look, he looked at Cesare, then at Jenny, "But you have no evidence."

"It seems that we may not be able to reach an agreement tonight." Cesare didn't put any more pressure on him, he flipped his hand and looked at his watch, "It's already late, we still have scripts to discuss. How about this, Let this topic hang here first, and we will discuss it later. Now the three of us go to the rehearsal room to find Dietrich, Jenny, tell her that you have decided to have dinner with us. Can you accept this arrangement, James?"

James breathed a sigh of relief, and he nodded. "I have no problem."

Jenny and Cesare looked at each other. He actually had no expression, just that handsome mask, but she seemed to feel something, but words couldn't describe it. "I have no problem either."

"Okay, let's go now." Cesare said, "It's already eight o'clock, it's time to have dinner."

As soon as they walked out of the manager's room, all three of them showed smiles. They came and went, talked and laughed, and behaved completely normal. Jenny really went to the rehearsal room to comfort Dietrich, and told the teacher that she had cramps. In addition, James had something to do and wanted to go to dinner together, and asked Dietrich if she had eaten, and complained that her salad had not been touched at all, and it would not be fresh tomorrow, etc. After taking care of everything, the three of them actually went to Jim's kitchen to have a meal together.

The meal was very embarrassing, James glanced at Cesare suspiciously from time to time, and Jenny didn't want to talk at all. They cleaned up the dinner faster than ever before and went their separate ways. James returned to the troupe, while Cesare invited Jenny, "Let's go for a walk together?"

"Sure." Jenny shrugged.

Broadway at night is very bustling, neon lights are flickering, they walked straight along Broadway Street, and soon arrived at Times Square - in fact, this is a crossroads, the place is not big, Cesare led Jenny After wandering around twice, I found an open space and stood still, "Can you tell me why you chose to close the net today?"

His tone was unusually calm. Jenny felt that Cesare was a bit 'bully and fearful'. When everything was running normally, he was unbearably domineering, but when a problem occurred, he communicated well and lost his temper. , His patience is like toothpaste, it can only come out after squeezing.

"Because both of you are here." But it is undeniable that this attitude is quite pleasing, and her confrontational psychology has also weakened a lot, "This is a rare opportunity, and I can prove it to both of you at once. Personally, I was right."

"Mm, you are right." Cesare let out a charming guttural voice 'Hmm' from his throat, "Your performance today, or the arrangement during this period is very exciting, if we are in In the world of "24 Hours", maybe you will be promoted because of it."

Jenny said, "It seems that you don't agree with my approach?"

"Let's analyze it." Cesare said, "Now we all know—everyone who has seen the rehearsal knows that Dietrich's motive for doing something to you should be that she had a very serious relationship with you on stage. The phenomenon of "suppression" may directly lead to her being dismissed. Maybe she realized this problem in the third audition, but others didn't see it at the time. So her purpose is to make you take drugs, so that you are not in a good state. I will not suppress her scenes, or make you unable to go on stage at all, and disrupt the rhythm of the promotion, so that your pressure will be greater, and your status may also be affected. Generally speaking, it is to not be suppressed by you. I said Right?"

Jenny already kind of knew what he was going to say. "Hmm."

"Then if you had taken my advice and let this go," Cesare said, "now we wouldn't have this conversation and the conflict just now, would we? Tomorrow you would perform normally, and then you Suppressed her play, and became famous in one fell swoop, and everything went smoothly."

"It's also very likely that I was calculated by her in another way, and then I couldn't play the role." Jenny pointed out.

"Okay, then let's adjust our strategy. You still use the method of peanut allergy to deal with her." Cesare adjusted his words politely, "She has been trying to give you peanut products, and finally you ate one. , but it didn’t happen, she thought it was the wrong dosage, and she did it again—in this repeated game, you started the show normally—and then went back to the track I just said, you suppressed her play, and she didn’t achieve her goal , wasting your time, and you're doing fine. You get famous, you leave her behind, you stay on good terms with James, and James works hard to get you a Tony nomination, and then you tell James, you need a better Verma, this is for the good of the show, for next year's Tony Awards, if Broadway can't find it, you suggest that he go to the West End of London to see-won't the result of doing so be better than it is now? You still keep James Dietrich still fails, still loses the part of Velma, and she's going to be on Broadway forever and never see it, while still bewildered as to why she's messing with you Failed."

Jenni was silent, Cesare looked at her sideways, and asked calmly, "If you had answered my call at that time, would you have listened to me?"

Obviously, what he wanted to analyze with her on the phone was the pros and cons. Of course, after Jenny didn't answer the phone, Cesare judged that even if he contacted her through other channels, Jenny would not be obedient, so here he is. give up. This is tantamount to blocking Jenny's possible counterattack, "Since you can see it so clearly, why didn't you say it earlier."

However, Jenny didn't mean to raise an argument. She shook her head and said, "No, I have actually considered the countermeasure you mentioned."

"Then why you didn't accept it?" Cesare asked calmly.

"If I do this, will you believe me when I talk to you about the cigarette incident?" Jenny asked back.

Cesare immediately said, "I probably understand what you mean."

"Trust is mutual, Cesare, you let me trust you, then I need you to trust me." Jenny said, "I think this relationship of trust between us is more important than the friendly relationship between me and James." Important."

"Then you can also let me witness this tonight, without having to drag James." Cesare said, but he was not critical, just a discussion tone. "Are you going to pull James to prove that you are right?"

"Of course I want to vent my anger." Jenny admitted, "but it's not the only purpose. I'm a little dissatisfied with the ending you just described to me——Dietrich's ending wasn't bad enough. I, if I use that method, I will trample her so that she will never be able to raise her head. This is a matter of principle, and there is no room for negotiation."

Cesare thought for a while, "OK, I can accept this reason—it's better than you just wanting to vent your anger."

"So, we're alright?" Jenny asked. "Will you trust me a little more in the future? Will you take it seriously when I tell you someone is messing with me?"

"I would trust your eyes more," said Cesare, his fingers thoughtfully playing with the cuff button of the other hand, "but I'm afraid my advice to you is still very— ——'Wen Tun', it won't be much different from before."

"Really?" Jenny asked.

Cesare took her on a walk again, and they walked slowly along Broadway, and walked into another scene of feasting, "Jenny, I am 27 years old, and I have been in this business for six years. How often do I have to deal with an incident like Dietrich tricking you into taking drugs in a year?"

Jenny shook her head, her knowledge reserve in this area is blank.

"Calculate, it is not an exaggeration to say, one every half a month." Cesare shrugged, "Of course I am not in charge of everything, most of my clients have their own managers, they They will come to me when they can't figure it out. But according to the statistics of my customer base, the frequency of this kind of incident is about once every half a month. Take Renee Zellweger as an example, something like 'OurRoxieisBetter', every year It could happen five or six times, but most of the infighting is only known to her and her team.”

Jenny already knew what Cesare meant. "If you have to fight back for everything, it's too exhausting."

"If you have to fight back for everything, then you're completely out of business." Cesare agreed, "In fact, I think Renee's coping strategy is very good. Not responding is the best response. The Oscars don't have a 'Best CatFight', and any fight not related to your career is a waste of your precious energy. Those people are nothing more than trying to hold you back, and your career success is theirs Failed. So if you ask me now, 'What should I do if Dietrich wants to **** you?', my answer is still 'Let this go, and you concentrate on rehearsing'."

He turned to face Jenny, "Now, will you listen to me?"

Jenny said stubbornly, "If it doesn't violate my bottom line, I will."

"What's your bottom line? To trick you into taking cocaine?" Cesare asked.

Jenny nodded.

For the first time tonight, Cesare had a 'real expression' on his face again. Of course, he usually smiles, but just like James' cuteness, this may be regarded as one of their It was a kind of social camouflage, the real Cesare spent most of the time as if they were meeting for the first time, immovable and expressionless.

But now, he was really smiling. It was a complex smile. He looked at her with unspeakable emotions, and Jenny could vaguely discern some sympathy. "You've just entered Hollywood, Jefferson, and you'll understand later."

Jenny understands what he means now—it is nothing more than that this kind of thing will happen so frequently that she doesn't bother to worry about it one by one. She still doesn't understand Hollywood, just like a child, not really sensible and so on.

She wanted to refute, or express her position, but was interrupted by Cesare's actions - he suddenly reached out and took out his wallet, took out a banknote and handed it to her.

"What are you doing?" Jenny asked first before responding, and she couldn't help laughing. "You're really a serious gambler, aren't you?"

"The established rules must be followed." Cesare said, and Jenny smiled, and took the one dollar and stuffed it into her pocket.

They didn't say anything superfluous, but the atmosphere had eased a lot. After a while, they passed a subway entrance, and Jenny stood her ground, deciding that it was almost here tonight.

Before parting, she asked, "Then, let's let this matter pass?"

"Of course not." Cesare said, he glanced at her with a 'don't be stupid' attitude, "You didn't hear me? Let this topic hang here for now, we'll discuss it later,"

"And then—" said Jenny, a little confused. "The result you intend to achieve is—"

"After that, of course, after the performance." Cesare said naturally, "The result I intend to achieve is the result you intend to achieve, remember? Jenny, I am your manager, not Dietrich Yes. You wish her to die a miserable death, of course I will fulfill this wish for you."

Jenny was completely overwhelmed by his style of emphasizing both kindness and power, and acting both hard and soft. With Chen Zhen's level of behavior, she had the urge to kneel—this person is only 27 years old this year. Where the **** is he? Learned these wrists?

"Of course, you need to know." Cesare said, "How much later this will be depends on your performance. If you have Renee's popularity today, James would not hesitate to call Dai Derry fired, brought in a new Velma overnight. In Hollywood, on Broadway, in the West End—on every set in the world, status is justice. The more important you are, the sooner justice will be done, so ——"

"So, 'Be good and don't let me down'?" Jenny said with a smile.

"Yes." Cesare said, he looked at a billboard near the subway station, Jenny looked over with him, under the reflection of neon lights, Jenny's figure shone brightly in the billboard . "Perform well, blind the eyes of audiences and drama critics, let them cheer for you, let me push you to a higher peak - and then realize the 'after' for you."

"Okay." Jenny said, "Trust me, I won't let you down."

Cesare looked at her, the corners of his lips slightly raised.

"I trust you," he said.

Jenny said, "I believe in you too, and I know you won't let me down."

She looked at the billboard. From this angle, there was a theater just behind the billboard. Jenny could almost imagine the scene of tomorrow night—posters headed by her were neatly pasted at the entrance of the theater, and people were talking and laughing. Entering the theater, the words "Chicago" flashed on the LED screen...

She murmured, "Everything depends on tomorrow night."

The author has something to say: Note: 1. When A and B play against each other, A’s performance completely overwhelms B. This pair of plays is actually not a good thing

2 It is very expensive to see a doctor in the United States. It would be better if there is medical insurance, but medical insurance is also very expensive and the terms are complicated. When you go to the hospital once, there may be a bill of 1W, and the medical insurance can only claim 3,000, and the remaining 7,000 will be paid by yourself. Then you can negotiate the price with the hospital (yes, it’s amazing), and then get some discounts or something, and pay in installments slowly...

3UnresolvedSexualTension, unresolved sexual tension, referred to as UST

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