Shaking a stack of pieces of paper in his hand, Drew curled the corners of his mouth and asked, "Didn't you feel that someone just stuffed something into your pocket?"

"I thought these girls were eating my tofu," Eric couldn't have felt it, but he didn't take it too seriously, and reached out to take the piece of paper from Drew's hand, only to find that it was a photo with contact information written on it.

In the past two years, Eric's movie protagonist has no longer faced ordinary actors for auditions, only to meet the requirements of the famous actors to send audition invitations, and he is not very involved in the selection of supporting roles, so he has not encountered this kind of thing for a long time, looking at the photos of these young and beautiful girls, for a while there is a long-lost freshness, it seems that a few years ago, he just made a name for himself in Hollywood with "Home Alone", and encountered similar things when he held a party at his home in North Hollywood at that time.

Eric was getting together with Drew to comment on the photo of the girl in his hand, when the door to Drew's office was pushed open, and Elizabeth, dressed in a smart black professional suit, walked in: "Eric, I heard Elle say you're here, and I thought she was wrong." ”

"Good morning, Liz," Eric tucked the stack of photos to Drew, hugged the girl and kissed her, "You're so beautiful today." ”

Although Elizabeth enjoyed Eric's hug very much, she felt that she was stared at by Drew's burning little eyes, so she could only rub Eric's cheek a little uncomfortably, then pushed him away, stroked a strand of blonde hair on her forehead, and said: "The audition is about to start, I'll take you to meet the creators of "Buffy"." ”

"Well, let's go over then," Eric nodded. The three of them left the office together. Walk through an open-plan office area. Walked into a spacious room that was used for an audition.

Several people in the room who were talking in a low voice saw the three of them enter, and they all stood up, their eyes focused on Eric.

"Eric, this is David Greenwater," Elizabeth said, pointing to a middle-aged white man with black-rimmed glasses who thought he was about forty years old, "and he's very good at youth and horror genres, and he has filmed a few school comedies since the 80s, and he directed two episodes of The X-Files last year, and we asked him to be the director of the first season of Buffy." ”

"Hello. Mr. Williams," David Greenwalt smiled and reached out to shake Eric's hand, "Nice to meet you, I'm your fan." ”

"Thank you," Eric smiled and let go of the other man's hand, but he didn't find the man's shadow in his memory, but when Elizabeth had just said that David Greenwalt had filmed the X-Files, the other party was presumably the director of the Fox television network.

"This is Mr. Joss Wheddon, the writer of 'Buffy,'" Elizabeth quickly pointed to a second person.

Eric shook hands again. At this time, Joss Whedon was in his early thirties, and he looked shrewd. It looks much more pleasing to the eye than the beard Eric remembers.

He briefly introduced several other creators, and everyone sat down in turn behind a long table.

Eric turned down the middle seat he had originally assigned to himself, and chose a vacant seat on the far left, he came here for fun, and he didn't want to get involved in this audition.

Looking at the stack of cast sheets handed to him by Tina Fey, Eric picked it up and returned it directly: "Tina, I don't want this, how many scripts have you made for "Buffy"?"

Everyone in the audition room paid attention to this, Tina Fey didn't dare to say anything, took the things handed over by Eric and put them back in the folder, pushed his glasses, and said, "The first six episodes of the script have been completed, and the plot of the later script is still being discussed." ”

"Then bring me the script for the first six episodes. ”

Tina Fay looked at Drew and Elizabeth, who were sitting in the middle, quickly nodded to Eric, walked out of the audition room, and returned a moment later to hand over a printout to Eric.

The audition started at ten o'clock on time, Eric casually flipped through the script of "Buffy" in his hand, and when he met the audition girl who felt pleasing to the eye, he stopped to watch the other party's performance for a while. In addition, listening to the tone in which Drew asked questions to the auditioners with the other creators in a serious manner, Eric finally realized that Nizi, who always pretended to be a little adult, had really grown up.

Buffy As a TV series project that TG focuses on developing this year, it also represents the ambitions of several women in TV dramas, in addition to Eric, the nominal producer, Elizabeth and Drew have personally served as producers, although TG has developed to surpass the scale of many old Hollywood film companies, but because it is backed by Fireflies and Fox, TG is not involved in distribution at all, so production has become the company's only core business。

Because it was the last round of auditions, the corresponding process was much more detailed, and after only five girls in the morning of two hours, TG was very considerate in entertaining the girls who had not yet auditioned in the restaurant of the Fox Building.

Instead of joining in the fun, Eric had lunch with Elizabeth and Drew in the TG break room, and Tina Fey, who was supposed to go to the restaurant with the rest of the company's staff, was stopped by Drew.

After the waitress who had come to deliver the food left, Elizabeth couldn't wait to ask, "Eric, what do you think of those girls in the morning?"

"It's all good, you just have to look at the selection, I don't have an opinion," Eric said casually as he tore open the wrapper of his lunch.

This is from the heart, although Hollywood has countless TV series filming every year, but TV series like "Buffy", which has not yet started production and have already determined a good future, are the objects of competition among many agencies and actors. Previously, "Buffy" has gone through two rounds of elimination, and now there are only sixteen candidates left, and to be able to reach this stage, the strength of the actors is basically not much of a problem, and now it only depends on how the main creative team chooses.

At this time, in addition to the actor's own performance at the audition, it also began to test the actor's other soft power. If the actor's agent has enough connections. Privately, you can contact the producer who has the right to speak. Then there is a great possibility that the actor will be selected. Of course, this is often the time for directors or producers who have the right to speak to reap private 'benefits'. Young actors who are eager to become famous will basically automatically send them to the door when they encounter hints, and even if they find out that they have been deceived afterwards, they can often only consider themselves unlucky.

Thinking of this, Eric smiled and said to Elizabeth, "Liz, this is a great opportunity for you." ”

Elizabeth was a little confused at first, but soon understood. Seeing that Eric was joking about the original incident again, he threw him a roll of his eyes helplessly, and lowered his head to eat lunch.

"Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I've seen Julia," Eric changed the subject when he saw that Elizabeth hadn't argued with him as before, "This Nizi is really a step to knock a stick, I asked her to start making movies around this time last year, and she really made a tepid one, and then it didn't move." ”

"Hehe......"

Not knowing what came to mind, Elizabeth burst out laughing when she heard Eric's words.

Tina Fey looked up in confusion. Some didn't understand why Elizabeth was laughing.

Drew grinned and said to Eric, "You are actually to blame for this." If you go to Beverly Hills and teach Julia a lesson, she'll be diligent. ”

Eric looked at Drew's grinning expression, and some of the fox wondered that this little girl also knew Julia's ...... What's up?

Despite this, Eric said, "Alright then, I'll go over and have a look tonight." ”

The afternoon audition began quickly, Eric continued to play soy sauce boringly, and several other creators of "Buffy", who originally thought that the whole audition would be dominated by Eric, saw this situation, and gradually relaxed, thinking that this audition would be so uneventful, and the figure of a tall girl who walked into the audition room immediately attracted Eric's attention.

Another 'acquaintance'!

Eric sighed at the coincidence in his heart, and looked up and listened carefully to the girl's self-introduction.

"Hello everyone, my name is Charlize Theron, I am 18 years old and I am from South Africa......"

At this time, although Charlize Theron has grown to more than 1.7 meters tall, and there is still baby fat on his face, he looks a little green, but the natural laziness in his eyes has already had the stunner atmosphere of a few years later. The girl was skillfully introducing herself, her eyes inadvertently swept over Eric who was sitting in the corner, her eyes stared for a moment, there was a brief surprise, but she quickly relaxed, but then her eyes involuntarily glanced at Eric's side.

Eric also noticed Charlize Theron's momentary gaffe, when he came over in the morning, he didn't see each other in the corridor, it was obvious that the other party came to the audition after that, it is estimated that because of this, Charlize Theron didn't know that he was also sitting in this room, after all, the girl who finally made it to the last round of auditions knew the fierceness of the competition, of course, it was impossible to take the initiative to reveal any information to the latecomers. And some of the audition girls who knew Eric in this room before took the initiative to try to communicate and interact with Eric more or less during the audition, although there were no results, it can also be seen that these girls are scheming.

After Charlize Theron introduced herself, Elizabeth, who was sitting in the middle, asked, "Miss Theron, your profile shows that you have been studying ballet since you were six years old and have participated in a ballet company in New York, so what made you give up this profession and become an actor?"

Charlize Theron was quick to say: "Because I injured my knee while dancing last year, and it took me a few months to recover, and I felt that dancing might not be for me during the recovery process, and my dream since I was a child was to be an actor, so after the injury, I started studying acting at a drama school in New York while working part-time." ”

Another voice quickly asked: "Don't you think it's a pity to hold on for twelve years and suddenly give up like this, maybe if you persist for a few more years, you may become the brightest new star on the Broadway stage?"

Charlize Theron's expression was momentarily hesitant, and Eric was curious to see how the other party would answer, apparently Charlize Theron had not prepared for this question in advance.

Although this question has little to do with this interview, Charlize Theron also knew that he could not refuse to answer, and after thinking for a while, he said: "I don't feel sorry, it is a pity and a sad thing for a person to realize that what she is doing is not what she wants, and to force herself to persevere and waste time." ”

Seemingly very pleased with Charlize Theron's answer, he was asked a few simple questions, and the audition went into the acting stage.

Most of the scenes in the performance are scenes in the script in front of Eric, and Buffy's character in the first season is still a little immature and young, if you strip away her identity as the 'chosen one', then she, like most high school students who have entered adolescence, is naïve and rebellious, full of yearning for hazy love, but has the lack of confidence of most girls in the face of the boy they like.

It's just that because Eric's impression of most of Charlize Theron's screen roles in his memory is basically similar to the fierce picture of the queen holding a pair of wrenches and knocking on a man's leg bone.

So when Charlize Theron watched Buffy see his favorite boy leave, asking Giles with some unconfidence, 'Do you think this dress will look fat?' Eric finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Some of the abrupt laughter was not only intended for Charlize Theron's performance, but also for everyone else in the audition room to watch.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Eric quickly waved his hand, "I just think...... Well, it's okay, you guys go ahead. ”

……

Leaving the Fox headquarters building, Charlize Theron was distraught and kicked a lamppost in front of the building, but the irritability did not dissipate in the slightest.

It's all to blame on that damn guy.

Charlize Theron believes that there is absolutely nothing wrong with her initial performance, after all, she has been preparing for this audition for so long, not only has she watched the movie version of "Vampire Slayer Buffy" many times in a row, but her agent has also found some more detailed information for her through some private channels. But because the guy smiled abruptly during the audition, it was difficult for her to continue the audition calmly, so there were several mistakes in a row.

Although the auditioners were not too obvious, when she left, she still saw the disappointment on the faces of several people. (To be continued......)