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After receiving Aziva Gosman's notice, Helen Herman temporarily put down other work at hand and devoted herself to negotiations with the crew of "I Am Legend", although the two sides reached an agreement on the biggest disagreement and contradiction on the salary, but a big star's performance contract, with hundreds of pages of content, is not uncommon.

Helen Herman was no longer alone in the negotiations, but brought together five other agents from within the company to participate in the negotiations, and she was responsible for the overall situation, and then each agent negotiated with the crew on some aspect of filming, living, accommodation, travel, publicity and security.

This is a commercial contract involving $20 million, and the complexity of the negotiations and contracts can be imagined in terms of the amount.

According to Helen Herman, even if the negotiation process goes well, it will take at least about ten days to complete.

"I heard you kicked Will Smith out?"

In the studio's converted training ground, James McAvoy approached Matthew and asked, "Did he do anything to you?"

"It's not me who kicked him out. Matthew put away the prop dagger and said, "I was originally the first choice of the crew of "I Am Legend", and he wanted to snatch my role, but he didn't succeed. ”

He walked towards the edge of the field, waited for James McAvoy to follow, and said, "From what I have learned, Will Smith will not do anything, this kind of role competition is just normal competition, I only compete with him for work, and there is no personal conflict, I heard that Will Smith is a smart person, he should not be stupid enough to fight me." ”

James McAvoy also came to his senses and nodded, "I still think of you as if you were me and Michael." He shook his head, "Big stars and ordinary actors are completely two different existences, and they won't go to war easily." ”

Matthew turned to him and smiled and said, "You and Michael will be popular soon, too." ”

James McAvoy shrugged, "I hope so." ”

After saying this, he reminded Matthew, "You still have to pay attention to Will Smith, even if he doesn't target you, he probably won't be soft when he can hack you." ”

Matthew nodded, Will Smith didn't know, if it was him, he would definitely not let it go if he failed to compete with others for a leading actor, and had the opportunity to fall into the ground.

Helen Herman got the news from within the CAA that Will Smith and Kevin Howie, although a little unhappy about losing the battle for the role, didn't mean to target him.

"Will has been competing for more than a dozen roles since he entered Hollywood. ”

In a café across the street from the Century City Mall, Jada Smith looked at the black man across from him and said, "If you lose every role you compete, Will will have to fight with the winner, where will there be time to do normal work." ”

Sitting across from Jada Smith was Naomi Harris, who said, "I just think it's a shame to lose the lead actor of a big project with a budget of $150 million." ”

Jada Smith has similar feelings, but Will Smith has told her a lot, which makes her understand a little, "Will is a first-line movie star, of course she will be happy to get this role, if you can't get it, there are other opportunities, and it doesn't have to be this role." ”

Naomi Harris looks at the problems facing Will Smith from her own position, and of course she can't really see it.

In the recent year, under the favorable conditions of Hollywood's black huddle, she has gradually become closer to Jada Smith, and Jada Smith is also the kind of black supremacist, and the two have a lot in common in this regard.

Will Smith's failure to audition for the actor in "I Am Legend" reminded Naomi Harris of an extremely embarrassing encounter with herself, she had a good relationship with Jada Smith, and specially asked her out to see if she could cause some trouble for that bastard, even if it didn't work out, it was just a waste of saliva.

Unexpectedly, Jada Smith and Will Smith didn't seem particularly annoyed by the failed audition.

Hearing Jada Smith's words, Naomi Harris's head turned several times before she finally figured out that an actor of her level, every opportunity to play the leading role can be said to be a gift from God, and even a supporting role like the witch in the two sequels of "Pirates of the Caribbean" has to fight for it, but Will Smith is completely different, he is one of the most popular people among the A-list stars, and it is estimated that he receives more than a dozen film contracts every year.

"I thought Will would get the role. Naomi Harris looked indignant, "I didn't expect the crew to choose that star Matthew Horner, who is much less qualified than Will." ”

Jada Smith took a sip of her coffee cup, remembered what Will Smith had said, and retold it as it was, "Originally, the preferred target of the crew of "I Am Legend" was Matthew Horner, but it was only later that the negotiations with Matthew Horner did not go well, so he sent Will an audition invitation, and at that time Will also knew that this invitation was intended to put pressure on Matthew Horner, but Will was a fan of Richard Matheson's books and was interested in the male protagonist in the original book, so he wanted to try to snatch the role. ”

She put down her coffee cup and sighed, "I still didn't get it in the end." ”

Naomi Harris still didn't give up, "Jada, you said last time that Will and CAA did a lot of work for this role, and they just threw it away, and didn't all the work they did become useless?"

"If it doesn't work, then don't fight at all. Jada Smith is not only Mrs. Smith, but also an actor who has been in Hollywood for many years, "Even if there is only one percent hope, you have to fight for it with all your might, so that you can grab the role." ”

She shook her head and said, "Naomi, you don't think that A-list stars can get their favorite roles without doing anything, right?"

Naomi Harris quickly shook her head, "No, how could I be so naïve?" she continued, "I'm just curious if the producers and directors of the 'I Am Legend' crew have a problem with their heads and would rather use a small star like Matthew Horner than a big star like Will." ”

"Matthew Horner is a star?" Jada Smith stands in her husband's shoes, although she doesn't like Matthew Horner, but she won't deny the most basic facts, she laughed and said, "Naomi, if Matthew Horner is a starlet, how many people in Hollywood can be considered big stars?"

Without Naomi Harris answering, Jada Smith said, "It is said that Matthew Horner and the crew of "I Am Legend" agreed on a salary of $20 million!

"What?" Naomi Harris didn't pretend this time, with a shocked look, "Matthew Horner's salary has reached $20 million?"

Jada Smith nodded, "Matthew Horner is a big star who can get a $20 million salary!"

Naomi Harris was dizzy for a while, what is the concept of $20 million? She may not be able to make so much money in her lifetime! It would be great if she could be paid $20 million for a film, so that she could casually go to the modeling circle and hook up with male models.

"He'......," Naomi Harris muttered, "it's just luck." ”

Jada Smith couldn't help but shake her head, and it was kind of obvious that Naomi Harris shouldn't like Matthew Horner very much.

Of course, she doesn't like Matthew Horner either, but some facts exist objectively and are not something she can deny alone.

She had discussed Matthew Horner privately with Will Smith before, this guy's experience is simply the dream of those young people who want to be a star, Will Smith told her that Matthew Horner came to Hollywood in 1999, and it seems that it has nothing to do with any big names in the circle, and it took just six or seven years to go from the lowest extra to the ranks of the $20 million club, even if you look at the whole of Hollywood, it can be said to be extremely rare.

This must not be explained by luck alone, good luck can make an actor succeed once or twice, but it cannot be successful so many times in a row.

Thinking of this, Jada Smith sighed, everyone thought that Will Smith's experience was legendary, but in comparison, this Matthew Horner all the way up is the real legend.

Jada Smith has no doubt that even if Matthew Horner is not popular in the next few years, after a dozen or twenty years, this experience will be adapted into a biopic by Hollywood.

She chatted with Naomi Harris for a while, took the initiative to pay, and left the café.

Exiting the café gate, Jada Smith just saw the huge poster of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Coffin" hanging above the main entrance of the mall, on which Matthew Horner and Johnny Depp were unusually eye-catching.

Jada Smith sighed in a low voice, "He's really too popular." ”

In fact, she said things similar to Naomi Harris to her husband, Will Smith, and what she said in response to Naomi Harris was what Will Smith said to her at the time.

Will Smith doesn't want to have sharp contradictions with other stars with similar positions because of a role problem.

Of course, this is only one aspect.

Will Smith also told her that on the other hand, after Matthew Horner reached an agreement with the crew of "I Am Legend", the most unhappy person was director Francis Lawrence, because Matthew Horner would be named co-producer, and power could overpower the director, and also reached out to the supporting actress that Francis Lawrence wanted.

According to Will, in fact, they don't have to do anything, Francis Lawrence is the director of the crew and will definitely have ideas.