"Eric, look, it's not what you think, Carol Buguet, Natasha Kinski, Isabelle Huppert, Isabel Adjani and other European A-list actresses have either declined the invitation or are just interested in the story, but I hope you can cut down as much as possible," Jeffrey said in the office, handing Eric a stack of emails.

Eric took it and silently checked the other party's receipts one by one, and after a long while, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It seems that I am indeed too simple to think." ”

"Of course, it is very difficult to want a first-line actress with good acting skills to star in "Instinct", even if it is these European actresses, although they can indeed accept the scale of this movie, but if they are interested in coming to Hollywood to develop, they will not take this kind of movie lightly, otherwise it will have a great impact on their image in Hollywood. If you don't have the intention of coming to Hollywood, let alone you, your taste for non-films does not meet most European actresses who are used to making literary films. ”

"By the way," Eric suddenly lowered his head and looked at the emails in his hand: "Carol Buguet's agent replied that the other party is very interested in this movie, you can contact her to see if you can fly to Los Angeles for an interview." ”

Jeffrey looked at Carol Buguet's information and said with a smile: "Eric, the image of this French actress is indeed the most consistent with Catherine Chume's setting, but the other party just won the French César Award for Best Actress in March this year, and I think it is even more difficult to convince." ”

"Then pack and bind, I just have the heroine of a movie in my plan for her to try, and it is also a big production, and the investment will not be less than 60 million US dollars. ”

"How did I not know," Jeffrey suddenly became interested, "Tell me?"

Eric smiled and shook his head: "This is a secret first, and." It wasn't necessarily my next movie, I'd already asked Stan to do the special effects for "Ghost Love" while preparing for the pre-technical development of "Jurassic Park," so. After "The Love of Ghosts", my specific work schedule has not yet been decided, maybe I will start preparing for "Jurassic Park". Or maybe I'll shoot some other simple special effects movies to gain experience. ”

"Well, then I won't ask," Jeffrey said, "but Disney is not happy with the progress of "Ghost Love", and he wants you to start filming as much as possible." ”

"It's not like they don't know how fast I can schedule films, even though the film will use special effects. But it's not too complicated special effects, I'll shoot the parts that need special effects first, and give them to Stan for post-production, which won't be used for a month, and it will be all completed in mid-June according to the plan, and there will be almost a month of publicity time, which is enough. ”

"That's what I said to them," Jeffrey smiled and said, "But, Eric. I think we still have to prepare an alternative, many local second- and third-tier actresses have handed over the information, you might as well choose from them. I think there's a lot of good in it. ”

"Hand me a copy of their profiles when you leave, and I'll pick and arrange a simple audition," Eric said.

While the two were talking, Jeffrey's assistant knocked on the door, "Mr. Hansen, Mr. Williams, Mr. Roger Spotwood, and Mr. Don Johnson have arrived." ”

"Let's get over it," Jeffrey said to Eric, "and the director and the actor have now been decided." ”

Eric and Jeffrey go to a small meeting room, where the three people in the room quickly stand up, and Eric sees Melanie Griffith appear. I was a little surprised, but I was quickly relieved. Melanie Griffith is the wife of Don Johnson.

Truth be told, Don Johnson has always been a TV actor. In terms of fame, it is far less famous than her wife Melanie Griffiths, it is estimated that Melanie Griffith came together to cheer up her husband, and the two have only been married for more than a year, and their marriage is still in the honeymoon period.

Eric only chose Don Johnson as the leading actor in "Instinct" because of a certain movie in his memory, as for the original Michael Douglas, Eric felt that the other party was too old, although his acting skills were good, but Eric always felt that the other party's momentum was weaker, and he did not completely show Nick such a hot-tempered detective.

Shaking hands with the couple, Eric suddenly remembered another person, according to the time, Eric's rebirth should not affect the appearance of this person, that is, Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith's daughter, Dakota Johnson, in parallel time and space, Dakota Johnson starred in a very famous movie called "Fifty Shades of Grey" Speaking of which, the Melanie Griffith family is barely a Hollywood film family, but its influence is far from being comparable to the Coppola family or the Fonda family.

"Mr. Williams, is there any problem?" said Don Johnson, seeing Eric looking at the two of them with interest.

"Oh, sorry, something suddenly came to mind. ”

Eric smiled and turned to the other person, Roger Spottiwood, a middle-aged man in his forties, with a thin face and eyes, whose most famous movie in his previous life was probably "007: Tomorrow's Empire".

But now, although Roger Spottiwood is forty-five years old, he has not been popular as a director, and there are no too good movies, after Jeffrey recommended it to him, Eric specially looked for the other party's movie, and found that the other party is very good at feature films such as "Instinct", and more importantly, Roger Spotywood is not only cheap, but also did not ask for the final editing rights, so Eric quickly decided.

After the pleasantries, the three of them sat down.

"Mr. Spottiwood, you've been working on the script for a few days, so tell me what you think of the film. ”

"Of course, Mr. Williams," Roger Spottiwood nodded, "I think that "Instinct" is ostensibly about the detection process of a perverted murder case, but in fact, it is depicting a primitive desire, a wild passion, and it can be seen from the script that Nick as a detective is actually a complete human being with the murderer Catherine Chume. They all have the most primitive tendency to ruin deep down, and as a result, Nick is in the process of going undercover. will be excited to kill innocent tourists by mistake. Moreover, after the rocker was killed. Nick was sure that Catherine Chume was the real murderer at the beginning, and after that interrogation, Nick's deep desire was aroused because of Catherine Chumei's teasing, and only then did he have the rough ...... to Beth"

Although Roger Spottiwood has been a director for ten years, he has put a lot of effort into understanding the script, and several people in the conference room nodded their heads one after another.

Eric is also aware. Roger Spottiwood is estimated to be the same as Jonathan Demmy at the beginning, Jonathan Demmy became famous with Eric's "Island Cry", and now he has become an A-list director in Hollywood. It is estimated that Roger Spottimwood also wants to seize this opportunity, although the script of "Instinct" is very different from Eric's other film scripts, but after all, it is still a script written by Eric himself, even if it causes controversy in the future, then the firepower will definitely be on Eric, as long as this movie is successful, he can go further as a director.

The group had been discussing all afternoons about all aspects of the filming of "Instinct". After work, Eric returns to Pointe-Corner Manor with a thick stack of alternate actress files.

Pushing the door into the villa, a petite figure greeted him.

"Hi. Vicky, when are you back?" asked Eric, hugging the girl and kissing her.

"It was a terrible feeling to get off the plane at 10:30 a.m., and I didn't want to fly for that long again. Virginia took Eric's arm and complained, the girl went to Europe for a film awards ceremony, and the other party wanted to invite Eric, but Eric couldn't spare the time, besides. If he attended all the awards in person, he would definitely be exhausted. And Jonathan Demmy was nervously filming "The Silence of the Lambs" and could only make Virginia run once.

"Actually, I hate flying long distances, too. It was a terrible experience to go to Venice," Eric said with a smile, "Since I'm back, let's stay here, I have to go to New York in a few days, and you can help me look after my house." ”

"I'm not going to help you look after the house," said the girl with disgust, "by the way, in the afternoon, a man named Michael Krauss brought you a sample of your new book, which I have read, and the story is really wonderful, but it is a little short." ”

Virginia said, leaving for a moment, and a moment later brought a hardcover version of the book, the cover design that Eric had specially explained, and the green number stream in the middle of which said 'The Matrix'.

Eric looked at the cover and nodded, "Yes, I didn't expect it to be published so soon." ”

Walking to the couch in the hall and sitting down, Eric opened it and looked at it.

Virginia gently put away Eric's coat and office bag before she walked over and sat down next to the man, and Eric naturally wrapped her arms around Virginia's waist.

Virginia chuckled a few times, then lay down on the couch, pillowed on Eric's thighs, felt a pair of big hands into the neckline and gently kneaded, and soon her face was slightly red, and the rise and fall of her chest also increased slightly.

"Is your next movie set?" asked Eric casually.

"Not yet, I've received a lot of scripts, all of them are horror films, "Island Cry" has just passed, if I continue to act in horror films, it will be difficult to transform in the future, so I want to try other genres. ”

The girl said, opening the book in front of her and looking at Eric with sparkling eyes.

"Okay, I'll keep an eye on you," Eric said casually.

"Well, why don't you write a script for me again?"

Eric smiled and gently pinched the girl's face: "It's really greedy, can you play "Instinct"?"

Virginia happened to see the script of "Instinct", glared at Eric with disgust, and said defiantly: "If you ask me to play it, I will play it." ”

Eric, feigning anger, flipped Virginia over and jerked the girl's ass a few times, causing Virginia to snort twice and soften on Eric's legs.

"Alright, get up," Eric said helplessly.

"It hurts, you're so hateful, not at all considerate" Virginia turned her crimson face and complained, but quickly got up.

"I don't have a script that suits you too much for the time being, so you should try to let Kapoor pick it out for you, or find some and let me read it for me," Eric explained, and when the girl nodded, he continued, "That's right." Help me get my purse, I still have some things to take care of. ”

"It's time to get off work," the girl said. I got up and took my briefcase.

Eric took out a stack of actresses' essays and put them on his lap, flipping through them one by one, picking out what he thought was good and putting it aside.

"What are these for?" Virginia looked at curiously, picking up a document. Asked.

"The shortlist of actresses in "Instinct," Eric said, "almost all the first-line actresses in Europe have refused, and the first-line actresses in Hollywood basically won't accept them, so I can only choose from the second and third lines." ”

"Actually, many of the second- and third-tier actors have good acting skills. ”

"Of course, but I don't have that much time to pick pearls in the sand now, and A-list actors who can use insurance should of course use them as much as possible. In this way, there is also a certain guarantee at the box office. ”

Virginia sighed softly, and soon felt that she was really lucky: "Eric, then you are busy, I went to make dinner, what do you want to eat?"

"Feel free to do it," Eric said without looking up.

The girl knew that Eric was telling the truth, and that Eric had never been picky about what he ate, so she got up and walked to the kitchen.

Eric had just picked half of it. The phone behind him rang, Eric got up and took the cordless phone and pressed the answer button, and Jeffrey's voice came from inside: "Jeffrey." Is there something going on?"

“……”

Jeffrey on the other end of the phone said for a while, and Eric thought for a moment before he said, "Okay, let's talk on the phone, you give me my phone number here to Carol Bugai." ”

“……”

"No problem, then I'll hang up. Eric pressed the AFK button, put the cordless phone on the coffee table in front of him, and continued to pick up the list of actresses in front of him.

More than ten minutes later, the phone rang again. Eric picked it up casually, and a female voice came from the opposite side with a somewhat non-standard English pronunciation: "Hello." Mr. Williams, I'm Carol Buguet. ”

……

Half an hour later. Virginia came out of the kitchen and called Eric to eat, and when she saw Eric still holding the phone in his hand, walking up and down in the open space by the floor-to-ceiling window, dancing and talking about something, she didn't dare to disturb.

After a few more moments, Virginia saw Eric hang up the phone, casually dropped the cordless phone on the couch, and threw herself on the couch looking tired.

The girl walked up to Eric and thoughtfully asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I asked a French actress, Carol Bouquet, to star in Instinct, but she refused. ”

Virginia wanted to gloat and tease a few words, but she didn't expect that there were actors that Eric couldn't invite, but looking at Eric on the sofa with a worried look, she hurriedly kept her love and comforted: "Then choose it slowly, it's not that no one is willing to play anyway." Well...... Carol Bouquet, the face of the Chanel No. 5 a few years ago?"

"Yes, and Bond Girl," Eric nodded.

"I remember a little, it is said that it was a woman with a lot of personality, after she played the Bond girl, she didn't want to continue to be a vase, so she returned to France to act in literary films. ”

"Don't talk about her, refuse it," Eric said in frustration, anyway, most Hollywood movies are like this, and there are many twists and turns in casting, even Steven Spielberg or James Cameron will not be an exception, I remember that in his previous life Cameron spent several months to persuade Fox to agree to let Leonardo play the role of Jack in "Titanic".

"Let's eat, then," Virginia said.

Eric nodded, stood up and walked towards the restaurant.

It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and Virginia was wearing her pajamas and leaning against the big bed with a pillow in her arms, watching Eric still walk around and make a phone call to the list in hand.

“…… I don't care about this, I didn't arrange it for tomorrow morning, I have given them enough time, if they can't come, it can only be said to be a pity...... Tomorrow I will decide on the heroine of "Instinct...... Yes, on the spot, the New York side called an hour ago, Royce and they have been waiting in New York for a week, and the two protagonists have also passed, I can't waste any more time, just like that, I hung up. ”

Breathed a sigh of relief. Eric took the line and put the phone on the landline at the end of the bed, before he collapsed on the bed a little tired. Reaching out and hugging Virginia's soft body, she greedily sniffed the girl's body fragrance. The irritability in my heart suddenly dissipated a lot.

Virginia gently massaged Eric's temples with her small hands, and said softly, "Eric, do you have to be in such a hurry? You are already so good, why make yourself so tired." ”

"It was all planned for the first half of the year, but unfortunately because of the incident at the beginning of the year, more than three months were wasted, and now it has become like this," Eric explained. The tone was a little weak: "I always feel that time is too tight, and I want to do too much." ”

"I wish I could help you, but unfortunately I don't know anything," Virginia said softly.

Eric smiled and hugged the girl's waist tighter: "Actually, you can help me, make my big pillow, I like to sleep with a woman." ”

"Are you just sleeping?" said the girl in an ambiguous tone, reaching out to extinguish the light in the bedroom, and the room suddenly became dark, because the soundproofing was very good. Although it was windy outside, there was no sound of waves, and there was silence all around.

"yes. Just cuddle and sleep," Eric said as the girl hugged her in his arms, resting her head on Virginia's full chest, and before she knew it, her eyelids were already fighting, and she soon fell asleep.

The girl was stunned for a while, and then pulled the quilt with some pity and covered the two of them.

……

In Firefly's audition room, a woman in a simple coat sits down on a chair with her long legs crossed with ease. He took out a cigarette from his pocket, always with a faint look on his face. A smile full of care.

"You can't smoke here, Miss Chumei. The assistant behind the camera spoke into the lines.

The girl glanced at the assistant's position in a charming manner and said, "What are you going to do, sue me for smoking?"

After the girl finished speaking, she lit the cigarette and took a puff, exhaling a faint green smoke.

After a brief silence, the assistant said again, "Can you tell me about your relationship with Mr. Buzz?"

"I've probably been in a sexual partnership with him for more than a year, I like to have sex with him, he's not afraid to try new things, I like that kind of man, he can give me a lot of pleasure," the girl smoked a cigarette and unabashedly told her desires.

"Have you ever played S丨M?" the assistant asked again.

The girl still smiled: "You guessed right. ”

"Will you tie him up?"

"No,"

"Have you never tied him up?"

"No," the girl denied again: "Johnny likes to use his own hands, and I like his hands." ”

After the girl finished saying this, the assistant was about to continue, but Eric interrupted: "Okay, let's stop here." ”

The girl sitting on the chair suddenly showed a disappointed look, and at the same time had some resentment in her heart, the fireflies gave too little time to prepare, she received an audition invitation in the morning, and hurried over, only less than an hour to prepare.

However, although she complained in her heart, the girl did not dare to reveal it in front of the young man in person, otherwise, there would be no hope at all: "Mr. Williams, I think, I can try again." ”

"No," said Eric, "Miss Nelson, although your appearance is very suitable for the role of Catherine Chumei, but your performance does not make me see much of Catherine's breath, you have just been too restrained, as if you are carefully walking on a single-plank bridge, I understand that this may be because you have not had enough time to prepare." But, most fatally, I don't see potential in you, a potential that can unleash Catherine's feminine aura, so I can only say sorry. ”

Eric explained so patiently, although the girl was still a little unwilling, she didn't ask for anything more, got up and thanked her, and then opened the door and left.

After the girl left, Jeffrey couldn't help but speak: "Eric, I think your love is not right, you are too impatient." Why don't we take a half-hour break, and give the actresses another half hour to prepare, but now there are only 11 people left, and we have enough time to complete all the auditions. ”

Eric sighed and looked at his watch, it was true that there was enough time, he had just eliminated eight auditioners on the spot, and if he continued like this, then nothing would be gained today, and the heroine of "Instinct" would continue to run aground.

"Tell them to rest for half an hour. Eric stood up and said to Jeffrey, "I'll go out and get some air." ”

"Well, go ahead. Jeffrey nodded.

Eric opened the door and went out, and the audition girls who had been waiting on a bench in the hallway saw him come out. I couldn't help but stand up.

"Rest for half an hour, you can go to the conference room over there and get ready," Eric said to the girls, and walked to the other side of the hallway.

The rest of the women glanced at each other, several of them eager to catch up, but ultimately did not move.

Coming to the bathroom at the end of the hallway, Eric was just about to go in and wash his face to clear up, when a woman suddenly walked out of it. It just happened to hit Eric, because he didn't stand firm, fell to the ground again, and Eric also took a step back.

The girl, who was originally a little angry, stood up in a panic when she saw that it was Eric, "I'm-sorry, Mr. Williams, I didn't mean to. ”

"It's okay, it's me who is wrong," Eric shook his head. He looked at the girl with very special eyes on the other side and said, "Your name is Joanna Pakula?"

The girl's eyes lit up, and she quickly nodded: "Yes." Mr. Williams, I didn't think you knew me, by the way, auditioning over there......"

"Rest for half an hour, you can prepare more," Eric said, his heart moving slightly, "Miss Pakula, can you say it again?"

"What?" the girl heard the audition pause. She had no intention of going back, and she keenly felt that this was a good opportunity.

"Yes. Your first sentence just now. ”

Joanna Pakula thought about it, though she didn't know what it meant. Still, "i'm-sorry......"

"Yes, that's it, say it a few times," Eric leaned against the wall in the corner, looked down and pulled out a cigarette and lit it.

Joanna Pakula heard Eric apologize continuously, and suddenly felt a pang of anxiety in her heart: "Mr. Williams, I really didn't mean to. ”

"No, not that," Eric shook his head.

"i'm-sorry, i'm-sorry, i'm, sorry......" The girl clenched the small red leather bag in her hand tightly, and repeated it repeatedly in her mouth, she felt that the young director in front of her was really too perverted, she just accidentally bumped into him, and tossed herself like this. For a while, Joanna Pakula felt that the role of today must be missing from her, and she wanted to muster up the courage to walk away, but she still had a trace of anticipation in her heart.

"Alright, stop," Eric finally interrupted the girl's repetition, "the accent is wrong, it's not good." ”

“……”

"I saw your profile last night, you're from Poland and used to be an actor at the Polish National Theatre?"

"Yes," the girl nodded.

"Why did you come to the United States, it is better to be a third-rate actor in a national theater than to be a third-rate actor in Hollywood, right?"

Joanna Pakula was silent for a moment before she said, "It's political reasons......

Eric nodded, didn't ask again, he wasn't interested in politics at all, and carefully looked at Joanna Pakula in front of him, who was the same age as Sharon Stone, the heroine of the original version of "Instinct", but in comparison, Sharon Stone was much older than the girl in front of her, and some people believed that the girl was now in her early twenties.

"I can't tell you're thirty-three," Eric said with emotion.

Joanna Pakula's expression was a little gloomy, women always don't like to pay attention to their age.

What's more, thinking about the situation all these years, I really feel a little sad from it, she was under house arrest in 1980 because of the political turmoil in Poland, and finally immigrated to the United States, but the man who helped her immigrate didn't care about her anymore, but married another woman.

Although she played the heroine in a low-budget horror film last year, the movie only got a meascan of more than one million at the box office, and did not bring any improvement to her career.

The more Joanna Pakula thought about it, the more sad she became, the more sad she became, glancing at the man in front of her, it was obviously his fault just now, and she had to apologize repeatedly, it was so hateful, the girl suddenly felt that the whole world was bullying her, and her eyes were filled with tears unconsciously.

"Well, what's wrong with you," Eric saw Joanna Pakula crying, and was a little at a loss, feeling through his pocket, and finally found a tissue and handed it over: "Don't cry." ”

The girl wiped her eyes with a tissue, but the more she wiped it, the more sad she became, and she gradually couldn't help choking: "You hateful Americans, that bastard back then, sent me to the United States, and left it alone, you ...... You're a bastard too, I just accidentally bumped into you, and you bullied me like that, like that, you bastards, all, all of you. ”

Eric raised his hand in a panic, and seeing the girl babbling in a non-standard accent, he finally became impatient, and raised his voice, "Okay, stop." ”

The girl's voice froze, touched her tears, sobered up a little, suddenly realized what her current situation was, and soon regretted it, this opportunity was completely lost.

When the girl stopped crying, Eric asked, "By the way, I didn't watch it carefully last night, why do you want to act in this movie?"

"What?"

"I mean, instinct. Eric continued.

"So what," Joanna Pakula asked softly, puzzled.

Eric thought for a moment and said, "I don't want you to appear in this movie, you should act in more mainstream movies, since you can enter the Polish National Theater, there must be no problem with acting." ”

"Do you think I don't want to act in mainstream films?" says Joanna Pakula, "but where did I get such an opportunity, I've auditioned a lot and never made it, and they've always found all sorts of reasons to turn me down, and I can't compete with local actors." ”

Eric thought for a moment and said, "Well, you won't participate in today's audition." (To be continued)