Hearing Eric's slightly mocking tone, the three girls pulled the corners of their mouths together, but none of them could laugh out loud.

Penelope has regretted it at this time, and even hated Kate standing beside her, if it weren't for the encouragement of this little smoking gun, she would never smoke here, you know, among the three people, she is the least addicted to smoking, and it was the first time to smoke during training, I didn't expect to be caught red-handed by Eric Williams so unlucky, although Eric Williams didn't look angry, but this bad impression must have been left.

Charlize was also remorseful at this time, and secretly vowed in his heart never to touch this thing again.

But Kate Beckinsale quickly relaxed after the initial worries, she was born in the British middle class, the family situation is much better than the other two girls, although her biological father died early, but her mother and stepfather have some connections in the British film and television industry, even if she loses this role and returns to the UK, she is not worried about not acting, therefore, after a short period of worry, Kate even secretly looked at the Hollywood legendary young man in front of her.

Although she knew that the young man in front of her was only twenty-three years old, Kate did not see from Eric any of the pride and impetuosity that young people of this age often have, and there was a calmness and indifference between her gestures and gestures that only adults who have experienced the world have.

Eric stood up when the three girls jumped up in fright, leaned on the balcony railing and looked at the quail-like three girls in the corner with a smile, and shook the cigarette case in his hand with a smile: "Who is this?"

Penelope and Charlize set their sights on Kate.

Kate, who had already relaxed, finally involuntarily became nervous with Eric's opening and the gazes of the other two women projected on her.

Eric actually expected that the cigarette in his hand was Kate Beckinsale's, and there are definitely many actresses who smoke in Hollywood. However, there are not many people who are recognized as addicted to smoking. Kate counted as one. This maverick English Rose has been photographed by the paparazzi more than once smoking in public, even in front of the camera.

Kate was about to muster up the courage to say something in the face of Eric's gaze, when Eric slowly put the box of cigarettes into his pocket, and then looked at the two girls beside her and said, "Charlie, Penny, help me watch Kate, don't let her smoke in the future." At least until the contract for "Breaking Bad" is completed, whoever tells me again that Kate is found smoking, and once I find out, the two of you will be paid ten percent lower. ”

The three girls' eyes widened at the same time when they heard Eric's words, and Penelope couldn't help but point at Kate: "That...... What about her?"

Eric smiled a slightly mischievous smile: "Kate's salary remains the same. ”

Kate finally spoke at this time: "Mr. Williams, it's all my fault, if you want to deduct the salary, you can deduct me, it has nothing to do with Charlie and Penny." ”

Eric shook his head slightly, "No. If you don't feel distressed, you will detain them. ”

From that date at the beginning. Charlize had always had some inexplicable resentment towards Eric in his heart, and when he heard some outrageous punishments from Eric, he finally couldn't help but raise his voice and shoot back: "You are so unreasonable." ”

Eric looked at Charlize's delicate face, which was still slightly baby fat at this time, resisted the urge to reach out and pinch it twice, and said, "I'm so busy, how can I have time to reason with you." ”

“……”

Eric ignored the delicate appearance of the three girls rolling their eyes together, snuffed out half of the cigarette in his hand in the trash can next to him, clapped his hands, looked at the girls who were still standing in front of him, and said: "Go change your clothes, just now Mr. Yuan said that your performance in the past two months has been very good, as a reward, I invite you to watch a movie in the evening, the premiere of "Heaven and Earth Collision". ”

The three women glanced at each other, Penelope took the lead towards the training room, Kate followed closely behind, Charlize was about to say something, but as soon as his eyes met Eric's, he immediately dodged and walked in with a little reluctant little thought in his heart.

Kate and Charlize walked into the changing room one after another, but saw that Penelope had taken off his practice clothes three or two times, leaving only the close-fitting clothes with a sense of surname, but the Spanish girl did not rush to change into the clothes she usually wore, but took out makeup utensils from her bag and drew them carefully in front of the fitting mirror.

Seeing this situation, Kate couldn't help but tease: "Penny, I don't think you need to wear makeup, as long as you wear this out, Eric Williams will definitely be fascinated by you." ”

Penelope furrowed his eyebrows unmoved, and said, "Hmph, you also said that if you hadn't instigated me and Charlie to smoke, such an embarrassing thing wouldn't have happened." ”

Kate didn't have much of a burden, and said while changing her clothes: "Don't worry, it's a big deal that I haven't smoked for a few months." ”

"Who knows if you'll be able to hold back. ”

Charlize folded the practice clothes he had taken off and put them in the cabinet, and while the other two women were arguing, he said, "Hey, haven't you ever wondered why Eric Williams came to see us out of the blue?"

Kate just put on a crop top T-shirt, carried jeans in her hand and crossed her waist with one hand in front of the dressing mirror, posing a small pose with a sense of surname, looking at the fair-skinned and charming girl in the mirror and said a little narcissistically: "Needless to say, it's too obvious, but I will never let this playboy succeed." After Kate finished speaking, she looked at Penelope with some hatred.

Penelope couldn't stand Kate's eyes and retorted: "What, you have a boyfriend, but I don't." ”

Kate complained: "Who told you I have a boyfriend." ”

"And who was that guy who called you last weekend?"

"I just met him last time I filmed "Much Ado About Nothing", and I didn't promise to be his girlfriend. ”

Charlize listened to the two girls muttering in some silence, and after changing into regular clothes, he looked at Penelope, who had just put on makeup and started to dress slowly, and couldn't help but untie the ponytail that had been tied up because of the exercises, and slanted his fingers at the dressing mirror not far away to style his hair.

Because of the summer. All three girls were dressed coolly. In addition, they are all at the age of flowers. The air of youth and invincibility exudes from all over his body, which makes Eric can't help but have a feeling of brightness.

Noticing the slight change in Eric's expression, Penelope leaned over with a slight joy in his heart and asked, "Mr. Williams, where are we going next?"

Eric pointed out the door and said as he walked, "I wanted you to show up on the red carpet to warm up for "Breaking Bad", but now forget it, the three of you will appear together." I'm afraid that tomorrow will steal a lot of the topic of "Heaven and Earth", and I will talk about it at the press conference of "Breaking Bad". ”

Penelope also ignored the two sisters behind him, and followed Eric step by step: "Then we ...... this time"

"How about I arrange for you to come straight into the venue and invite you to dinner after the premiere?"

"Okay, but I've heard that there should usually be a party after a movie premiere?"

"Do you want to go?"

"I ...... We listen to you. ”

"Heh, forget it this time, I'm going to Europe tomorrow, it's not too late to play. I won't take you to the party, next time. ”

"Hmm. Penelope nodded obediently.

Charlize and Kate, who were following Eric and Penelope, heard the conversation between the two and pouted together, but they did not object to Eric's arrangement.

Eric took the three girls downstairs, let the girls squeeze together in the back seat of his car, and got into the co-pilot himself before telling the driver to drive.

Although the premiere didn't start until seven o'clock, at five o'clock in the afternoon, a long red carpet was laid out outside the China Grand Theater on the Avenue of Stars, and both sides of the red carpet were crowded with media and fans who came to attend the premiere. Of course, Eric couldn't take the three girls straight to the China Grand Theater, but stopped at a hotel not far away where the film's creators and premiere guests were temporarily staying, handed over the girls to the staff to arrange, and started socializing by himself.

Seeing Eric appear, some of the stars who came to stand for the premiere came to greet him, and Eric responded before walking to Roland Emmerich, the director of "Heaven and Earth".

"Eric, congratulations, Jurassic Park is a surprise at the box office. ”

"Thank you, Roland, I'm sure 'Crash of Heaven and Earth' will be a great result as well," Eric said, greeting Jon Landau, who was in charge of the production of Crash of Earth, and asked, "What did you just talk about?"

Jon Landau was originally the royal producer that Eric prepared for Cameron, but Cameron would only make a movie in two or three years, so Eric asked Roland Emmerich and Jon Landau to partner up on the project "Heaven and Earth", and the results were very good.

Hearing Eric ask himself, Jon Landau pointed at Roland Emmerich: "Roland is still a little worried about the box office of "Heaven and Earth", this is his first film with an investment of more than 50 million dollars, to be honest, I am also a little apprehensive." ”

Because of the amazing box office results of "Jurassic Park", as the second CG special effects blockbuster launched by Firefly this summer, the media attention attracted is not much lower than that of "Jurassic Park", and the final production cost of the two movies is almost the same, Eric can also understand the psychological pressure that Roland Emmerich is under.

However, compared to Roland Emmerich's mind, Eric is much more relaxed, Roland Emmerich has nearly ten years of directing experience since the earliest "Noah's Ark Guidelines", and his personal style is very mature, coupled with Eric's personal checks, this version of "Heaven and Earth Collision" is definitely much better than the original in Eric's opinion.

Moreover, it is still 1993, and CG special effects have only just emerged for a few years, and the film market in North America and even around the world is still in a state of hunger and thirst for CG special effects blockbusters.

Eric didn't hide it either, and told the two of them what he thought.

Roland Emmerich also knew that what Eric said made a lot of sense, and nodded in agreement, but the apprehension in his expression did not dissipate too much.

Eric also knew that only the real box office results could make Roland Emmerich completely relieved. This is a common problem of many directors before the release of the movie. Even Eric himself before the release of Jurassic Park. I was a little nervous. So there wasn't much comfort either.

The press conference for the premiere was scheduled after the film screening, so the red carpet was much simpler, and Eric walked leisurely through the long red carpet alone, leaving his name on the signature wall, and quickly entered the screening room.

As he was about to reach his place in the front row, Eric heard a slightly accented female voice on his left: "Mr. Williams." ”

Turning his head, he saw three girls sitting side by side, and Penelope was talking. He waved at him.

Eric nodded slightly, there were many people who greeted him along the way, so the girl's actions did not attract much attention, but Eric felt in his heart that this Spanish girl really did not hide his carefulness, compared to Kate, who was a little arrogant, and Charlize, who was inexplicably resistant to him, Penelope was like a little wild cat that pounced on him without hesitation.

In my memory, a certain Hollywood big-mouthed actor gave Penelope Cruze a very apt name: trouble. In the original time and space, since this hot Spanish girl entered Hollywood, she can almost have some scandals with the male protagonist every time she shoots a movie. For this reason, a few pairs were also dismantled, and they were jokingly called Hollywood small three professional households. After Tom and Nicole parted ways in their previous lives, they showed their affection with Penelope for a period of time in a very high-profile manner, obviously under the guise of letting Penelope serve as the third Tom's sister-in-law, but the reason why the two finally parted ways again, in Eric's opinion, it is estimated that Tom felt that he couldn't stop this restless goblin, so he made such a decision.

Thinking of this, Eric was a little interested, he wanted to see what kind of little wind and waves this little goblin who had just debuted in this time and space could set off.

Eric found a seat and the host of the premiere said a few words before announcing the start of the screening.

The lights in the screening room soon dimmed, and the opening credits of Firefly Films, which had become familiar to everyone, appeared on the big screen.

After many script revisions, this version of "Heaven and Earth" has been very different from the original, and it can even be said that it is two completely different movies, many of the side plots in the original version that seem incompatible with the theme of the movie have been deleted, and after the discovery of the comet that is about to hit the earth, Roland Emmerich focuses the narrative on the three lines of the federal government, the female reporter Jeanne Lena and the boy who discovered the comet, Leo Bedman. Through skillful interspersed plots and clever suspense settings, the heartstrings of the audience in the screening hall have been firmly grasped in the first 40 minutes of the film.

During an astronomical observation, the boy Leo Bedman spotted a comet that did not appear on the chart, so he reported the news to his mentor, and then an astronomer calculated that the comet's orbit would overlap with the Earth, that is, the comet was about to hit the Earth.

An accident occurs when the astronomer is anxious to relay the news to the federal government, and the plot has a big suspense here, and then the time jumps directly to a year later.

Female journalist Jeanne Lerner is tirelessly pursuing a scandal, and finally the breakthrough point of this matter is fixed on a woman named 'Elle', in the process, the federal president suddenly appears, hoping that Jeanne Lera can stop the investigation, Jenny refuses the other party, still continues her accusations, and finally discovers that 'Elle' is not a person, but a comet, a comet that is about to hit the earth.

Meanwhile, Leo, the boy who discovered the comet last year, is still living an ordinary life in the town like many American high school students, all unaware of the impending disaster.

When Jenny was getting closer to the truth, the federal government finally planned to publicly reveal the truth to the public, and Jenny was invited to be the first to ask the president questions at the press conference.

It turned out that although the astronomer had an accident in the process of transmitting the message, the news that the comet was about to hit the earth was still discovered, and in order to solve the crisis, several major powers joined forces to build a space shuttle loaded with nuclear bombs in a year, intending to blow it up with a nuclear bomb before the comet hit the earth. However, in order not to cause panic among the people as much as possible, the governments of various countries unanimously chose to conceal the news.

This is where Roland Emmerich's ability to control the plot becomes apparent. Just like "2012" in memory, every minute makes people feel thrilling. Starting with the launch of the space shuttle rushing towards the comet. The choice of the federal government, the fate of the little people, and the struggle of human nature under the disaster undoubtedly do not hold the audience's attention.

When the scene of the huge tsunami caused by the failure of the first bombing of the comet and the crash of some comets into the earth appeared in front of the audience, many exclamations could be heard in the screening room tomorrow.

The 10-minute tsunami scene was created using the most advanced CG special effects technology in the digital field, compared to miniatures that can be distinguished at a glance. The CG footage gave everyone a sense of indistinguishability from the fake, and when the massive waves rushed into New York and the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building collapsed, exclamations like 'Oh my God' rang out in the screening room.

Eric felt the reaction of the audience in the screening room, and leaned into Roland Emmerich, who was sitting next to him, and whispered in his ear: "Roland, you can rest assured now, maybe you can take the time to discuss your next movie, what do you think of the script of "Virulence Day"?"

Except for some film critics, most of the fans invited to the premiere were more die-hard fans. Even these people have such an obvious and strong reaction to the film, then it is impossible for the film not to cause a sensation among the general audience. Roland Emmerich knows this very well.

"If you can spare time, of course I'll be fine," Roland said in a relaxed tone, "However, I seem to have heard that you have to go to Europe tomorrow, and I don't know when you will be back." ”

"This is not a problem, I have to come to everything in person, so what does it mean for me as a boss to do it. ”

The two smiled in unison.

Seeing that the movie had entered the final end, Eric whispered to the people around him, and got up to go to the bathroom.

Although most of the people in the screening room were focused on the screen, someone noticed his movements when Eric got up.

Penelope glanced at Kate, who was staring intently at the screen, carefully hunched over her seat and chased after the figure she had been watching disappeared.

Kate, who had some big nerves, didn't care when she saw Penelope get up, but Charlize kept watching Penelope's figure, until in the light of the screening room, when she saw the Spanish girl disappearing into the exit that a man had just passed, she muttered something softly, a little unwilling, a little frustrated, and a little inferior, and soon these emotions were concentrated on a certain man, so Charlize gritted his teeth and became hateful, and his mind could no longer be put on the movie.

This is the only chance, and if you miss it, you don't know when you will have to wait until next time.

Penelope thought to himself that he had passed through a small door and came to a corridor, and just happened to notice the corner where Eric's figure had disappeared, and did not hesitate to chase after him.

The Spanish girl had just chased around the corner and immediately bumped into a person, and was about to say sorry when she heard Eric's voice sound: "Girl, are you looking for someone?"

Penelope stood still, noticing Eric's playful gaze, and instead of feeling embarrassed, he boldly looked at Eric: "Mr. Williams, what a coincidence. ”

"yes, that's a coincidence," Eric said with a smile, and continued to walk a few steps forward, pushing open the door of the men's restroom, and walking in to solve the physiological problem, only to find the Spanish girl standing in front of the sink with light makeup on her face.

When the prey was brought to his mouth, Eric, of course, was disrespectful, turned on the faucet next to the girl to wash his hands, and whispered in the girl's ear: "There is just no one inside, do you want to go in and have a look?"

Penelope's body stiffened, and after a moment, he smiled seductively at Eric, with a little provocation in his wild eyes: "Okay, as long as you're not afraid of being discovered." ”

Eric let the girl into the men's restroom and placed a cleaning sign outside the restroom door. (To be continued......)