The call was quickly connected.

"What the hell is going on?" Nie Wei asked in a deep voice.

Hearing Nie Wei's deep voice, the staff member knew what Nie Wei was going to ask without asking, and hurriedly reported in a panicked and respectful tone: "Mr. Nie, here's the thing, Brad Pitt and his agent had a little unpleasant encounter with William's agent during lunch dinner. ”

Speaking of this, the staff member suddenly changed his words: "But you don't have to worry, after our persuasion, there are no problems between the two sides now, and the matter is resolved very smoothly, so I didn't report to you as soon as possible." ”

"What I want to know is what happened?" Nie Wei raised his voice, he didn't want to listen to those exculpatory words, he just wanted to know the actual process of the conflict.

The staff was frightened, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, and hurriedly explained what happened to Nie Wei.

"Okay, I see. After speaking, Nie Wei hung up the phone, thought for a moment, and then flipped up the information that had just been sorted out in his hand, and found the information of Brad Pitt and William from it.

Nie Wei took the two pieces of information and looked at them for a moment, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, feeling that he had guessed the reason for the conflict.

According to what the staff said, the two sides clashed because of the seating problem, but this is simply a joke in Nie Wei's opinion, there are many seats in Huayi Restaurant, and everyone who came to the interview today can definitely sit on two chairs.

So the conflict between the two sides is definitely not so simple as the position.

As for what the staff said was settled under their persuasion, Nie Wei didn't believe it even more, this was obviously just what the staff said when they put gold on their faces or were afraid of being scolded by themselves.

After all, the personalities of those European and American stars are very clear.

Nightclub flirting, alcoholism, drag racing are all daily life, and it is not uncommon to smoke leaves, and it is powerful to dare to do it publicly on TV shows, and live broadcast tearing is even more common, and it is not unusual to do it in public......

Compared with these stars in Europe and the United States, in fact, Asian artists are really at the level of good babies.

Maybe Asian stars will be afraid of the influence of public occasions and don't want to make things bigger, but for these Hollywood stars, they don't care, and even Nie Wei is not surprised to fight because of the conflict, maybe the winner will boast triumphantly with Nie Wei during the audition in the afternoon.

And the conflict at noon, in Nie Wei's view, is more like a confrontation between the two Hollywood stars behind the brokerage companies.

When I looked at the information just now, Nie Wei found out that the agency behind Brad Pitt is CAA, one of the three major brokerage companies in the United States, and the agency behind William is MA, which is also one of the three major brokerage companies.

As the strongest agency in the United States, CAA controls almost one-third of Hollywood's artists, and has countless top Hollywood stars, Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks, Nicolas Cage, and Julie Pitt and his wife, these are its artists.

Even Keanu Reeves, whom I saw in the morning, was at the peak of his popularity, and it was the company's will.

During the most prosperous period of CAA, even the bosses of the eight major film companies had to be kind to this company.

In the past, MA and another ICM were also younger brothers in front of CAA, but as time passed, the influence of CAA as a brokerage company in Hollywood gradually declined.

After all, the biggest reliance of the brokerage company is the artist, but the artist is a person, and if he is a person, he will get old, with the aging of the top stars of that generation, fresh blood cannot fill the popularity gap caused by the departure of old artists, which makes the influence of the brokerage company inevitably decline.

And MA and ICM took advantage of CAA's decline, and they also used their hands and feet behind their backs, poaching many new stars that CAA thought were nine out of ten, and even some top actors who originally signed with CAA were poached, the most representative of which was Nicole Kidman's switch to MA last year.

The top actress's 'job hopping' has dealt a big blow to CAA, and through this incident, the entire Hollywood can see CAA's external strength.

MA and ICM were originally only engaged in small actions in private, but in the past year, their conflict has become more and more superficial.

And the conflict in the noon canteen is obviously a tentative contest between the two companies behind it.

Nie Wei doesn't care about what small actions they have in private, after all, there is no conflict between the two sides, although Nie Wei has also developed an actor's agency business in Hollywood, but it is far from threatening these three companies.

The only thing that makes Nie Wei puzzled is that Brad Pitt is a top Hollywood star, and he is the male number one who comes to compete, but William is just a newcomer in Hollywood, and he only auditioned for the role of the actor's son, after all, he is only sixteen years old.

Even if it is a problem with the brokerage company behind it, between these two people, Nie Wei really can't find any conflict points.

After the audition in the afternoon, Nie Wei finally knew the answer.

After the audition, Nie Wei was about to sort out the documents at hand and go home, when the secretary Xiao Tang ran in to report that Brad Pitt and his agent were waiting in the company and wanted to invite Nie Wei to dinner.

Nie Wei naturally refused this invitation.

He is the director of the film, and he is also an investor, and he had dinner with the audition actors during the audition, which will inevitably cause criticism if it gets out.

Even if it was really just a dinner, the media reporters and the public would never think so, and they would definitely doubt that there was a private agreement between Nie Wei and Pete about this dinner.

At that time, even if Nie Wei wants to explain clearly, there is no way, choosing Pitt is another private agreement, if he does not choose Pitt, the media will also say that Nie Wei gave up Pitt under public pressure, and no matter what choice Nie Wei makes, he will be labeled as 'unfair'.

As for secrecy? Nie Wei felt that it was almost impossible, and the most likely ones to release the news were the brokerage companies that invited the director to dinner.

So Nie Wei did not hesitate to refuse the invitation of Pete and his agent.

But what Nie Wei didn't expect was that Pete would find Nie Wei's office with his agent, and everyone came to the door, and Nie Wei couldn't refuse.

"Hello Mr. Nie, I'm Butler, Pitt's agent, and this is my business card. Butler handed Nie Wei a black, gold-encrusted business card and introduced himself.

For this Butler, although Nie Wei is the first time he has seen him, he is no stranger to the other party's name.

He is CAA's top agent, in addition to Brad Pitt, there is also Oscar winner Jamie Fox, in addition to these Hollywood stars, he also has more than a dozen artists, including some potential newcomers, who have the potential to become kings in the future.

Nie Wei can't be a stranger to such a big agent, but he doesn't know what this agent asks for when he comes to the door so 'enthusiastically'.

"Mr. Nie, this is a gift from Pete and me, I hope you can accept it. After Butler said hello, he took a carefully wrapped gift directly from Pete and handed it to Nie Wei.

However, Nie Wei didn't take it, after all, he had a short hand, and when he didn't know what the other party wanted, he would become passive when he took any gift.

"Mr. Butler, the gift is aside, I'm more curious about what time you have for me, I'm sorry I have precious time, I can give you ten minutes. Nie Wei sat on the chair and said directly.

Although Butler is a big agent, Nie Wei can see that he still gives CAA face, and now watching him continue to set himself up, Nie Wei is also a little bored.

Nie Wei's reaction was not beyond Butler's prediction, and he didn't have to give it away like ordinary gift givers, and after Nie Wei made it clear that he didn't like it, he immediately stopped it.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Nie, thank you for your willingness to give me ten minutes, I think that's enough to explain my purpose this time. ”

Butler didn't waste time, and directly told the purpose of visiting Nie Wei this time.

"For your new film, Mr. Nie, we all at CAA have no doubt that you will succeed, so we very much want to get more involved in your film, in addition to Pete, we also have a lot of excellent actors at CAA, and we would like to ask you to give them a chance. ”

As soon as Butler's words came out, Nie Wei immediately understood what the other party meant.

The old routine of CAA, bundled.

CAA has many top stars, and often when someone invites them to film, when negotiating, CAA will add this kind of additional clause to bring some newcomers who are not qualified to shoot into the crew.

In this way, Nie Wei also figured out the reason for the noon conflict.

Sure enough, when Nie Wei asked Butler which role he had ideas about, Butler also vaguely told Nie Wei's character that he was the son of the actor William auditioned for.

Nie Wei smelled a hint of conspiracy from Butler's words, but it was not aimed at him, but at William, or the MA behind him.

Although Tom is the son of the actor Cooper, in fact, his role is far less than Cooper's other daughter, especially Tom in high school, who has fewer roles.

Such a role, there is no need for Butler to help lobby in person, there are many more roles in the list of roles announced by Nie Wei, but Butler just mentioned this role by Nie Wei, and when it comes to the conflict at noon, it is not difficult for Nie Wei to guess that this is completely the CAA behind Butler who wants to teach MA a lesson.

But it is obvious that CAA is also very self-aware, knowing that the main characters can't affect Nie Wei at all, so they chose such a 'soft persimmon'.

"I'll have my own considerations, and if it's okay and I still have a job, I won't send it. After listening to this, Nie Wei did not give Butler any reply, but sent the guest directly.

Butler was not angry at Nie Wei's indifference, and even took it for granted.

However, when he finally left, he still vaguely mentioned it to Nie Wei, which meant that as long as Nie Wei intended to cooperate with CAA this time, he originally intended to match up and help Nie Wei contact more top stars, or find many big-name stars to help publicize.

This is also what Butler can think of Nie Wei needs most, and the CAA behind him can do it.

Like something like bringing money into the group, Butler gave up from the beginning, Nie Wei has never been short of money when filming, and his films, each one is still very profitable, I think there will be no shortage of investment before Nie Wei fails.

As for how Nie Wei will choose, Butler has a lot of confidence, in his opinion, Nie Wei is very likely to agree to his request, after all, it is just an insignificant small role, and he can be exchanged for CAA's favor, which is a completely worthwhile deal.

Butler felt that if he was Nie Wei, he would definitely know how to choose.

It's a pity that he is not Nie Wei, at this moment, what Nie Wei is thinking in his heart, he will definitely not guess.

The first day of auditions were all male actors, and the second day auditions were all actresses, compared with the first day, the work on the second day was much easier, because there were not many female roles in the movie, and the heroine had been determined early, so including actresses from Asia and Hollywood, there were only six people in total, including two little girls.

Nie Wei felt that he would be able to complete the audition task in the morning.

Nie Wei's first audition was for two little girls, Foy and Colo.

Foy is a girl born in 2000, she is not yet thirteen years old this year, which is the age that perfectly fits the character of the movie, this girl is not a rookie, and she has also played the half-human and half-vampire daughter of the hero and heroine in "Twilight" before.

In addition, there are some acting experiences, although not rich enough, but it is also rare for her at a young age.

The other Kolo is much more famous than Foy, but Kolo was born in 97, and his birthday is February, and he is already sixteen years old this year, beyond the role setting, the only thing that Nie Wei can accept is that this girl should not have developed yet, and she looks younger than her actual age, barely enough.

In terms of resume, her resume is much more beautiful than Foy, and she has already become the star of two good box office movies at a young age, has a lot of fame, and has even been rated by the American media as one of the most promising teenage actors in the next decade.

The two of them, Nie Wei hesitated for a moment and decided to start with Fuyi.

Soon, the staff took a little girl into the audition room, and the little girl was a little nervous after entering the room, and she was stunned for a moment when she saw Nie Wei and Zhang Ziyi.

"Let's introduce myself. Nie Wei saw that the girl was a little nervous, so he took the initiative to ask.

"Mud Hao, the nest's name is McKenzie Foy, the nest is twelve sleepers, it's nice to meet the mud guys. As soon as Foy spoke, Nie Wei and Zhang Ziyi both showed surprised expressions, because she was actually introducing herself in Chinese.