Hollywood Domination Chapter 86: Being moved by hearing the wind and being in harmony with the outside world
"So, I heard that you and Chesa are having conflicts recently." Lilian said.
They sat down in the reception room of the suite, the waiter served afternoon tea for them, and Jenny handed over the tip.
"Ah," she said after the waiter left, somewhat embarrassed, "yes—speaking of which, if I 'break up' with Chesa, it's convenient for you—"
She compared herself with Lilian, and Lilian quickly said, "Of course, I asked you out today just to ask you, if you broke up with Cesare, would you still want to be with me——"
She didn't go on, but looked at Jenny and smiled. Jenny picked up the coffee cup and jokingly touched her cup, "For friendship, Cheers."
"For friendship," Lillian said, taking a long sip of her coffee. "Thank God I really need this right now."
Recently, Lilian has finished her shift practice and entered the stage of professional skills training. Although the working hours are relatively fixed, it also means that there is a lot of new knowledge to absorb and learn. In short, if you want to be a doctor, being busy is the norm. This is the whole world common phenomenon.
Jenny chatted with her about the personnel affairs inside the hospital, but the topic was a bit absent-minded after all. She saw Lilian hesitate to speak a few times, so she simply lifted the tulle, "You want to ask me, me and What the **** is Cesare arguing about?"
"No." Lilian said honestly, "I want to ask if you have already started looking for a new agent."
Jennie was taken aback, "Wait, wait—why do you ask me like that, does Cesare already want to kick me out? But it's impossible, didn't he just help me talk Come down with the "Lian Lian Notebook" contract?"
Jenny guessed right. With her joining, New Line is still very happy to restart "The Notebook". Willing to give up Ryan Gosling and reconfigure the protagonist team with Jenny as the main character-this is very telling.
The results of the audition are satisfactory. Jenny's asking price in cash is not high, and she is willing to use the share to bear a certain risk, which is in the hands of the new line. The 3/North American 10 plan has also been successfully negotiated. To sign the performance contract.
"No, Chesa didn't say this," Lilian hesitated, "This matter is only between you and me, please don't tell Chesa—do you know Uncle Ino? Ino Martin, The CEO of CAA. He is a friend of my uncle. Last week at my uncle’s family gathering, he asked me to ask you if you want to change your agent. If so, he is willing to take over.”
Jenny is completely confused now—it's not because Eno Martin intends to take over her business, she must be a hot commodity in CAA now, as long as there is no female star with a very similar position under her, senior managers are willing to sign There is no doubt about it. Even if the remuneration of the Pirates of the Caribbean series still has to be paid to Cesare, but with the three series and one award placed there, her worth will definitely not fall below five million within three to five years. If you can push it, you can go up. Compared with Cesare who will give up Bell and choose her as a new freak, most managers must want to directly accept a popular star who already has a foundation. Achievements can directly bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue.
Well, it is intriguing that Ino Martin came to take over this, but it is Cesare's matter. Jenny just thought about it for a while before asking cautiously, "How did Ino know about this?" ?I didn’t tell anyone, if it’s the same as what you said, Cesare didn’t even tell you, how did he know?——Cesare couldn’t have talked to Ino without consulting me Say it?"
Lilian seems to have been completely confused by her. Seeing her expression, Jenny had to calm down and analyze with her, "If Cesare wants to give up representing me and find another agent, he should tell me first, Our brokerage contract stipulates that my consent is required to change the broker, and if that's the case, Yinuo doesn't need to ask you to talk about me, he can talk to me directly. If Yinuo doesn't know anything, Just because he wanted to poach me because he saw that I was popular, then of course he wouldn’t look for you. The only possibility that Yinuo would ask you to ask me is that he knew about the conflict between me and Cesare and felt that our problems were irreconcilable. , I will find another agent sooner or later, so before I make the change publicly, let you ask me what I mean. I will definitely leave anyway. This will not harm Cesare’s interests. He is optimistic about my profit prospects, so I want to He thinks it's a choice for both sides to add a new force for himself, so he came to ask you, right?"
"Yes." Lilian began to understand, "Yes, he hinted in the same way. It seems that he is very clear about the conflict between you. He gave me the feeling that it is a certainty that you will leave Chesa Already."
"Then here comes the question," Jenny said, "how did Ino know about this? Cesare and him vomited my bitterness? Do you think such a thing will happen to Cesare? And the relationship between me and Cesare has not broken down. If he talked to Cesare directly, he should know this. After watching "Prada", Cesare thinks that if he finds the right screenwriter and director, this The project still has profit prospects, so we will continue to cooperate until the next film selection disagreement. So he didn't talk to Cesare directly, but heard about it from an unusual channel, but there were only two of us in the office at the time , I haven’t talked to anyone—”
The more she talked, the more she frowned, "Fuck, Nissa—I bet she must be eavesdropping, and Chesa must know about this."
Seeing that Lilian did not express any objection, she picked up the phone and called Cesare. As soon as the other party picked it up, Jenny said, "Listen, Ino Martin already knew about our previous conflict. I didn't tell anyone, so the problem should be on your side."
Cesare paused obviously on the other end of the phone, "How do you know?"
"Martin just expressed his kindness to me through some channels this morning." Jenny said, "I was busy exercising at the time, and now I have time to think about it."
"Okay." Cesare was still a little skeptical, "—I thought you and Lilian had an appointment for afternoon tea."
"She was stuck in traffic." Jenny shrugged, "I suggest you start screening from the people around you, for example, the person I mentioned once, do you understand?"
"...I understand." Cesare said, "By the way, the film studio sent you the list of several directors for your reference, and I sent you an email, did you see it?"
"I'll see now, just wait a moment." Jenny took off her phone and looked at her mailbox, and compared it with the list in her heart, "Oh, the first one is fine, I trust the vision of the new line .”
"Fine." Cesare said, "Then I think you should be able to start filming next week."
"Okay, bye."
"Goodbye." After finishing their official business, the tone of the two people saying goodbye was still a little stiff.
"I really don't know how your brains work." After Jenny hung up the phone, Lilian was obviously relieved. It was obvious that she had concealed the source of the news from Jenny, and reminded Cesare that what he did was very serious. Satisfied, "I really didn't think about it that much, Uncle Ino asked me to bring the message, I really thought you would leave Chesa—"
"If that's the case, are you still willing to be friends with me?" Jenny said with a smile. In fact, she has always been more concerned about this. How to say, Cesare is the one who discovered me, he brought me to where I am now, and I haven't earned him much commission, so I might run away now."
"Work and private life should be separated." Lilian shook her head, "Besides, I don't think it's all your fault—of course I only know a little bit of the inside story, but I think Chesa must have done it too. The wrong place."
A shadow passed over her face, "He is a very difficult person to communicate with, I know that very well."
Jenny and Lilian really have a common language now, and she wants to hold Lilian and cry with her for a while, but on the surface it is still You must first do your own introspection. In fact, this is still a remnant of Eastern thinking, but old habits die hard. Maybe Jenny has become accustomed to Western thinking in the workplace, but she still likes to use Eastern thinking among her friends. "Face" is taken into consideration, admitting his mistakes first seems to be beneficial to save Cesare's "face", "I also have things that I did not do well, it's true, I shouldn't confront him head-on... although I also I don’t think it’s useful to soften your body.”
"As long as you still insist on choosing these two films, it's useless." Lilian said listlessly, "Actually, Chesa was very upset when you called that night, maybe during the day He was a little uncomfortable when you had to take the script home and read it yourself, but at the time he thought—well, me too, we don’t think you have the ability to pick a really good script from so many scripts, you may just I just wanted to give it a try, Cesare thought you would be picky and come back to him for consultation, so he didn’t watch a movie with me that night, but re-read some scripts that he thought were good, and he has already selected a book for you, It's called "Bride's Bachelor Party" or something, and he was pretty happy when he picked it out, so you can imagine the change in his mood when the phone rang. But to be honest, I didn't think you would actually be able to convince him to change it in the end. Generally speaking, after Chesa has made up his mind, few people can change his mind."
Jenny held Lilian's hand from the bottom of her heart, "You know what—really—your words relax me so much."
She didn't tell lies. Neither Jenny nor Chen Zhen had ever asserted her rights so forcefully, including her divorce. They were all pretending to be pitiful—in fact, it wasn't really pretending, more Still negotiating, she was able to get more than 30 million or more because she had a good relationship with her in-laws. Her in-laws knew that she was not the kind of vain spender and valued her eldest grandson very much. Failed the family business and went bankrupt, or "if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather", so after Chen Zhen made it clear that she would not remarry, she simply transferred more property to her, so that she could become independent from the family business, anyway, she had a house I have a car, I already have a lot of luxury goods, and there are dividends every year. As long as there is no big moth, the money will never be spent. If there is any leftover, the meat will rot in the pot Aren't they all prepared for the eldest grandson?
It can be said that the negotiation between her and Cesare that day was the first time in her life that she took such a tough stance, so like every first time, she was not satisfied with her performance that day at all, and always felt that she could do it better. Now that she knew that even if she did better that day, she would still have to go back to the old path of 'if you don't agree, you can only break up the partnership', the burden was immediately relieved a lot.
"Really." Lilian also laughed, "So you didn't want to break up with him at first?"
"If there is a more secure path, I will definitely go for it. Cesare is indeed a talent agent. Of course I don't want to give up such a good partner, but..." Jenny looked for an adjective, "But he also The same is not flexible. I don’t know if you understand what I mean. In fact, he is very soft and hard. You only have two choices in front of him: listen to him, or stop cooperation. Negotiation is basically ineffective for him. , Everything is like this for him, changing his name, appearing on "Oprah", signing a contract..."
She suddenly remembered that Lilian didn't know about her and Josh, so she changed her words, "Sign the performance contract, refuse the performance invitation, he will do things first, and then come back and tell you, that's good for you In other words, if you do not agree, the cost of this conflict will be very high, and the consequences will be very serious, and your relationship with him will be in a great crisis, or even separated. You know that he and I have made a statement in advance to let me Believe him, listen to him, and I agreed at the time, but I didn't expect that he would use such... um, such rogue... no, high-handed methods to weaken my right to speak. Of course, this The cooperation with him will be very harmonious at the beginning, because he has always made the right decisions, and I did not have any capital at the time, and all these contradictions will be covered up during the high-speed rise period, but I am afraid that Cesare is looking at human nature. It's too simple, I'm not just talking about me, I think anyone who sees the attitude of other famous movie stars towards their managers after becoming famous will feel envious."
Jenny changed her posture, and the more she said, the more she felt that she had found the crux of the problem, "Actually, I think even if I didn't...well, even if it wasn't me, it was Bell, and Bell was very obedient, the relationship between them Relationships will still break down, either because Cesare made a wrong decision and Bell's dissatisfaction finds an opportunity to explode, or Bell decides that she can get services of similar quality from others, but she will be in a much better mood , do you know what I mean? This kind of relationship is absolutely unsustainable unless you meet someone who just wants to act, can act anything for her, and has no career pursuit at all, but I don't think there are any actors On the basis of being able to play so many roles well, there will be no roles and films that I want to play. Cesare regards success as a math problem, but I think at least the film industry is not a place where math problems can fully work, at least math Questions cannot help a person make a good movie.”
Lilian has been listening to Jenny's emotional outburst, and patted her hand comfortingly from time to time, "Yes, of course...I can understand your mood."
"Can you really understand?" Jenny asked a little skeptically.
"I definitely understand more than you think." Lilian made a grimace, "Chesa should be thankful that he has the same dazzling advantages in addition to these unbearable places, otherwise I doubt he can Can keep any client or girlfriend."
"Yes, he is a person with equally outstanding advantages and disadvantages." Jenny also laughed, and after spit out with Lilian, she felt much more comfortable. "Actually, if I wasn't... Although there will be complaints, I still wouldn't consider leaving him."
"Aren't you?" Lilian asked curiously, "So the shortcomings mentioned just now don't matter to you?"
"That's just a complaint. In the long run, Cesare's film selection method is actually very safe. If your vision is not very good, then let him help you choose. He may not be able to make a genius choice. , but he chose all the right ones, you can slowly accumulate these 'rights', and one day rise to a very high altitude," Jenny said thoughtfully, "It's actually a good strategy, but it's not for me. Enough."
"You mean—" Lilian looked a little confused again.
"Bell has risen to the first line in his hands for five years," Jenny said. and Legally Blonde, because those two choices are not just right choices, they are genius choices. Right choices can be calculated, genius choices are not - when they are scripts , no one can tell why they are so genius, I read more than 20 scripts of older unmarried girls yesterday, in fact, the cores are similar, so it is not Chesa's responsibility not to choose these two scripts, he also has a very The safe way is to accumulate the right choices all the time, and reach Oprah's level in 20 or 30 years, and I will be rich by then... But if I want to speed up, I must Constantly make genius choices based on the right choices. For example, at least one of the two films I make in a year must be able to achieve such a good market effect as "Legal Blonde", which will cause a certain small miracle... …If I don’t, I may not be able to achieve my goal in ten years, so it’s not that Cesare’s thinking is too big, it’s just that the rhythm of the two of us can’t reconcile. Either he believes that I can make a genius Choices, such as "The Notebook" and "The Devil Wears Prada," I believe he can make good choices, or our partnership will continue until the choices are inconsistent."
She shrugged, "Of course not now, but I think it will happen one day in the future. If Cesare realizes this and starts looking for another Dreamgirl, I won't be too worried. Surprised."
"So, even if these two films were chosen correctly, you don't think Chesa would agree that you made a genius choice?" Lilian asked.
"I think so." Jenny said, in fact, many of her thoughts were mature as she said, "You know what? I think Cesare is actually the one who can't build a sense of trust. Of course I Not to say this time, it's normal for him not to trust me this time, but I think even if I prove my choice is right this time, he will still not trust my intuition next time. Because intuition cannot be included in calculations System thing, and, that's my intuition—"
"And he won't trust anything beyond his control." Lilian said expressionlessly. "Yeah, that's a problem with him—a problem that's always been there."
Jenny suddenly felt that she seemed to have touched some of the feelings between Lilian and Cesare*, she was a little embarrassed, "Honey..."
Lilian doesn't often talk about these emotional matters with her, and now is no exception. She changed the subject with a smile, "Do you know how Chesa thought of your performance that day?"
"What?" Jenny was indeed curious.
"He suspects that you have a mental illness." Lilian suppressed a smile, "He even told me, let me persuade you to go for a checkup or something. He thought you might be a little sick that day."
Jenny burst out laughing, "I'm not surprised."
"Actually, I don't think so," Lilian said, "You are a grown-up, this is your own acting career, of course you can make your own decisions, if you want to act, no one can stop you, What time is it now? Is it the McKinsey era? Hollywood is back to the era of the big studios? Agents and studios decide everything, and stars are just pawns for them? No, you can act as you like, that’s normal. If It's normal for Chesa to break up the partnership if he doesn't agree with it all the time. Besides, those are the projects that Chesa initially approved. If you acted too fiercely that day, it was because he kept being rude to you, which caused you to resist The psychological pressure is too great, so the performance is abnormal, if he is kind to you from the beginning, you can’t give up the opportunity of soft communication, I understand you-and you can see that I communicate with you very well.”
Her words turned to worry, "But I heard Chesa say that you plan to put all the proceeds from the last two plays into "Prada". Isn't that a bit too radical, Jane? Are you really going to do this? Even if you look good, movies are risky.”
"Well...thank you for not describing me as crazy," Jenny was a little embarrassed, "Actually, I was a little crazy that day, and it's not unreasonable for Cesare to misunderstand - I did it independently The biggest financial decision has been made."
"But you don't intend to change your mind." Lilian observed the situation.
"But I'm not going to change my mind," Jenny said.
"Because—"
"Because I want to achieve my goal as quickly as possible." Jenny said, "If you want to achieve this, you must be a little crazy. In fact, this is the way of thinking I learned from Cesare— —Sorry, Lilian, I can only explain so far."
"Okay." Lilian didn't seem to understand it very well, but she was relieved. "At least I know that your sanity is still very clear. Even if the investment fails, you can quickly earn the money back."
"Thank you for your concern, dear." Jenny said with a smile, "I also have to sincerely thank Cesare for his concern, although I think he must be very troubled by my sudden abnormality now."
"Let's worry about him," Lilian said in a snorting tone. When Cesare was mentioned, she seemed a little upset. "I've talked enough about him today, let's talk about your fitness trainer. You said that if I start looking for him as a personal trainer now..."
The conversation quickly moved in another direction.
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In order to catch up with Jenny's schedule, the filming was completed within this year. "The Notebook" did not make drastic changes to the script. Jenny looked at the finished film and was sure that this should be the final script in that world. It only took a week for New Line to quickly set up the crew, and the filming was ready to start. But what made Jenny feel very strange was that she checked the list, and the actors and staff members with names and surnames were almost the same as hers. I've seen that version.
Of course, this also gave her a little more peace of mind. This is the same feeling she felt when she starred in "Pirates of the Caribbean". The more elements are close to the original version, the greater the possibility of success. ——However, compared with the period of "Pirates of the Caribbean", Jenny is now a little more stressed and nervous.
It's not because she took the risk of breaking up with Cesare to get this film. If the film fails, it will be embarrassing, but because she is responsible for the box office of "The Notebook", Ryan. Gosling is just a nobody at this time. Although she is favored by New Line, no one will put the box office pressure on her. Judging from Xinxian's hospitable performance to her, they completely put their box office expectations on the popular Jenny, and Jenny herself is really not very interested in romance movies.
So, the road to the ideal is bound to be tortuous. Although Jenny's ideal is to stand on the podium with her own ability one day, she still intends to use her empathy cheat to perform this drama. After all, for a love drama, the plot can be simple and the budget can be low. As long as the picture is beautiful, the sparks between the hero and heroine are strong, and both actors have good acting skills, it is a good movie. And "The Notebook" is a very typical film with beautiful pictures, simple plot, melodious rhythm and strong sparks between the hero and heroine.
From the perspective of character analysis, Jenny thinks that her replacement of Rachel McAdams will not have a negative impact on the film. Rachel is a beautiful blonde girl, and so is she. Rachel's acting skills in this movie are good, but not superb To the point of breaking through the sky, then she can also do better than her through rehearsals and practice. But another decisive factor is that the non-empathy golden finger cannot be surpassed-Rachel and Ryan began to fall in love after the end of this drama. According to common sense, they must have been attracted by each other while filming. The pure and natural strong sexual attraction makes their love scene extraordinarily believable and infectious, adding countless charms to this movie. This... without cheating, there is no way to compare with the original.
Jenny didn't think about the possibility of being attracted to Ryan. Although the public thought he was a very charming man, it didn't fit her aesthetics. In her previous life, she didn't think where the male **** Ryan was. It's no exception, and besides, she has indeed developed a strong immunity to Gao Fushuai after her ex-husband, so no matter whether Ryan has a good impression of her, she guesses that she is unlikely to reciprocate.
Of course, Ryan didn't seem to have the same intentions. The two of them felt that their relationship would not be too close from the very beginning. The reason was very simple-Ryan was addicted to sugar, and Jenny was on a diet all year round. However, this one is indeed worthy of being nominated for the Oscar for the best actor. Although the relationship with each other is cold, but during the official shooting, he looked at Jenny with affectionate eyes, which even the most demanding director could not pick out. There is a glitch.
When "The Notebook" started filming for a month, the salary negotiations for "Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3" finally came to fruition. Jenny successfully signed the 2 contract with 10 million yuan. As for the 3 salary contract, it is Guaranteed a minimum of 10 million, and reserved the right to raise the price once. Depp won the two movies with a total of 40 million, plus an 8% dividend. Disney still did not agree to his 10%. Josh signed two sequels at a price of 20 million, which was on par with Jenny's minimum income.
This is a very generous contract, and no one is too dissatisfied. Of course, what follows is all kinds of methodical preparations-confirming the schedule, starting the shooting date, and starting the pre-publicity. This also means that the "Love Song" between Jenny and Josh has finally come to an official start.
"You don't need girls to take the initiative in this kind of thing, do you?" In her trailer, Jenny said, "The public still wants to see men stronger, so I'm afraid you have to come first."
Josh scratched his hair, "Okay, you make sense, but I really think it's too weird to practice this in a trailer."
"Try it a little more, and you'll look like a high school girl trying the forbidden fruit for the first time." Jenny said a little impatiently, her voice was deliberately thick, "Comeon, honey, if you wait any longer, my **** will be Faded!"
Josh was familiar with her enough to know that she was joking, and he couldn't help laughing a few times, "Okay, okay——wait, is the trailer door open?"
Jenny believed it, "Really?"
Of course her eyes moved to the door, and Josh quickly seized this opportunity, stepped forward, grabbed Jenny's chin, and kissed her hard.
The author has something to say: Note: 1 Jenny didn’t know that Lianlian Notebook was filmed in 2002 in this world, so let’s explain here, the actor union is one of the unions with the highest unemployment rate of members, and there are about 40 actors in Hollywood More than 100% are in a state of unemployment for a long or short time. This number is higher for elderly and middle-aged actors. As for the staff, many people can only work with one or two crews a year, and the director likes to use familiar faces Yes, there is usually a team, so it is normal to have many familiar faces.
2 Most of the reality stars appearing in the article will not have a relationship with Jenny. Let me explain the reason. In fact, it is because of the author's brain hole. Passed out, for example, Jessica Alba, Natalie Portman, etc. in YY's hardest-hit areas, are simply OOC to the extreme. This is no longer a problem that can be solved by ignoring it. One point, it’s so poisonous that I’ll just give up the article, let’s just make up a person, at least I don’t know them, I can’t bear the people I know, anyway, I can’t imagine Alba and Natalie in reality like that , and I only know them a little bit. So don’t do to others what you don’t want to be done to others. If I describe Ryan as fascinated by Jenny, I believe that many girls who like Ryan will come in and spit it out with a smile. Then if I write that he is in chaos and then abandons him, it is estimated that these The girl has to be a brick, the creation is limited firstly, and secondly, I can’t develop such a brain hole myself, so most of the reality stars appearing in the article will not have a relationship with Jenny.
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Well, yesterday's content really sparked a lot of discussion|
I will add a few words to yesterday's chapter to make the content of the phone call more clear
But I didn't expect everyone to think that Jenny couldn't find another good agent, but it's impossible? Jenny signed to CAA, and Cesare is just a senior agent. They left Jenny and changed agents just like Bell. With her current hardware and momentum, there must be a lot of senior agents rushing for her...