Chapter 75: Love in Hollywood
Don was in a good mood.
First, Twentieth Century Fox's fourth overseas box office receipts have arrived, totaling $54 million. Bill McNick politely said that if Donn is in a hurry to use the money, he can pay $50 million in advance for the operation of Down Pictures, and refund the excess and make up for the deficiency.
Second, he received notices from CAA, Endeavor, and Warner that Marvel Entertainment agreed to negotiate a partnership with Down Pictures.
Third, he received a call from Nicole Kidman. She took the initiative to invite Don to dinner!
Don snickered at Nicole's invitation and was surprised. He didn't expect this Australian beauty to be so active, and he didn't know if he was separated from Liangtang, and he had been empty for too long.
For the evening date, Don has infinite beauty, and the female secretary Reese Witherspoon naturally doesn't have to explain, but Natalie needs to be emotionally stable.
Nicole Kidman is the focus of the lace news, and her every move is under surveillance.
Tonight's date is a very formal restaurant.
On the occasion of this line, the surveillance of the paparazzi is definitely indispensable, and tomorrow's gossip headlines will definitely be this date.
Don naturally doesn't care, but he has to pay attention to Natalie's feelings.
Natalie was still angry about bringing Reese Witherspoon home.
Gotta get vaccinated!
By noon, estimating when Natalie might be home from school, Don made a phone call.
"I thought you were immersed in gentleness and forgot about me!" Natalie puffed and said a direct showdown.
Don snorted, "How is it possible, you don't know how important you are in my heart!"
"Do you read poetry or lyrics?" Natalie sarcastically replied.
Don laughed, "How's it going, are you okay at school?"
"Don't change the subject, you haven't officially explained it to me yet!"
Don had a headache, "Explain what?"
"What are you talking about?" Natalie gritted her teeth angrily, "You and Reese don't think of me as a little girl who doesn't know anything, I'm not in Los Angeles, you and Reese must sleep together every day!"
"Ahem......" Don En disguised his embarrassment, "Nat, I won't lie to you, and I don't want to lie to you, things ...... It's true as you say, but I think you'll be able to understand it. ”
"Don't you think that's ridiculous?" Natalie cried, "I'm your girlfriend, we're lovers, how can I put up with this?"
Donn frowned, "Nat, since this is the case, I think it's necessary for us to talk openly and honestly. ”
"On the phone?"
"Let's talk a little bit about it. ”
"Say it, I don't think you can convince me. ”
"Okay," Donn took a deep breath, "I have a few reasons, you can hear first, whether what I said makes sense." ”
"Hmm. ”
"I think the soul and the body are two ......"
Before he finished speaking, Natalie interrupted him very unceremoniously, ", next!"
Tang En smiled bitterly and sighed, "This is Hollywood, and male and female love is the norm here." I'm a director, I'm part of Hollywood. ”
Natalie frowned, "The reason is not sufficient, what else?"
"Nat, you know, I have a lot of work and a lot of pressure, and I need to vent my stress in this way, can you understand?"
"No!" Natalie said stiffly, ignoring Donn's serious words, "I've been studying while acting for the past few years, and I've been under a lot of pressure, but I've never had this experience. ”
Tang En said: "But after all, the pressure is to find a way to vent, right? For me, this method is the simplest, most direct, and most time-saving, and that's enough." ”
Natalie was silent for a long time, "Still can't convince me, do you still have a reason?"
"There are so many pretty girls in Hollywood, and a lot of them are around me and want something to do with me. I'm a young man, and I have needs. ”
"I'm young, and there are a lot of handsome guys in my school!"
"Okay, then I'll give you one last reason. Don wiped the sweat from his head and groaned slowly, "Nat, you're a smart girl. ”
"Huh, no?" Natalie was surprised, what was the reason?
"No, that's my biggest reason. ”
Natalie pouted, "I don't understand!"
Don took a deep breath, "Nat, I'm a director, you're an actor, we love each other and need each other. In the future business, we rely on each other. ”
These words were very subtle, but the intelligent Natalie instantly understood.
Swap of benefits!
During this time, she and her mother, Shirley Hirschler, talked many times about Donne.
Natalie understands that her love with Don is by no means the youthful ignorance of the schoolyard, the purity and immaculate of fairy tales, and the undying of Romeo and Juliet.
It's Hollywood love, and there's a lot of interest mixed here.
Natalie has not systematically studied acting, and she also deeply understands this truth, her acting skills are not top-notch. If you want to have a better development in Hollywood, you must accumulate word-of-mouth over the years, which is very difficult.
But with Donn, it's easy.
Don can give her not only love, but everything she dreams of.
But what about Natalie, what can she give Don but love?
Shirley Hirschler is a woman from a petty bourgeois family in the United States, who has looked up to the upper class since she was a child, racking her brains to change her fate.
With such a mother's years of nurturing and Natalie's clever brain, how could she not understand Done's great help to her future, and the change of class for her entire family?
The truest, purest and most beautiful love?
Natalie shook her head, she had fantasized about it for a while, but now she understood that it didn't belong to Hollywood.
Don ...... It's a powerful argument I can't argue, but ......" Natalie's nose was a little sour.
Don was startled when he noticed that her tone was wrong, and hurriedly reassured, "Nat, sweetheart, be strong, you're a brave girl, right?
"I know. Natalie sniffed, her tone a little low, "I just think...... Somewhat disappointed. ”
"No, no, no!" Don raised his voice, "Nat, it's all very simple, it's a matter for the two of us, the two of us just love each other with our hearts, and we have nothing to do with outsiders!"
Natalie muttered, "Outsiders?"
"Yes, outsiders! Not only that, but also interests and careers, those are all external things, and only our feelings are the only channel to maintain our relationship, right?"
"Maybe. Natalie was not in a high mood, but it was clear that she had lost the sharpness of the initial crusade against Donn's scandal, "I want to talk to my mother about this, is it okay?"
"This ...... All right. Don En was a little unsure, middle-aged women are not as easy to coax as seventeen-year-old girls, "but...... Nat, we're not going to break up anyway, are we?"
"Well, I don't want to break up either. ”
Natalie bit her lip tightly.
……
Hanging up, Don looked up in contemplation.
Although this phone call alleviated Natalie's resentment, it would definitely shatter the girl's beautiful illusions about love.
But reality is not a fairy tale, how can it not be cruel?
"Perhaps...... It's to take more time out to go to New York to accompany her. ”
Don cares a lot about Natalie.
He would never give up an entire forest for the sake of a single tree.
It's just that...... This tree is so precious!