"What did you say about me, wouldn't it be a secret bad word about me?" asked Rachel casually as he walked into the apartment, sat on the shoe rack at the entrance and changed the boots on his legs.

Caroline was wearing flat casual shoes on her feet, and she didn't change them like Rachel, she walked directly to the living room sofa and sat down, hearing Rachel's words, her face turned slightly red again, and she thought that it was not a bad thing to accidentally reveal that her good friend had a tattoo in that place, so she said: "Of course not, I just told him that you are good at acting in drama, and you have won an award at the Edinburgh Festival, and he thinks you are very interesting, and said that he can introduce you to him when he has the opportunity." ”

Rachel took a pair of slippers and put them on his feet, then walked over and asked with a smile, "When are you going to introduce us to him? He's a Hollywood mogul, if I could get to know him, I wouldn't be running around all day auditioning for some small role." ”

"Ah, but, I think, I think Mr. Williams is just being polite, and it would be too abrupt to bring you to her," Caroline said with a stumbling stumbling look at Rachel.

Rachel looked at the girl's timid little appearance, leaned over and smacked Caroline's face without hesitation: " Okay, I'm kidding you, I'm not that naïve, Hollywood is not the world of us little people, in fact, I don't like that Eric Williams very much, some time ago an agent from ICM came to the UK to choose a role for a Firefly movie, my agent finally handed over my information, but they just said that I was not the right age, and I didn't even give the opportunity to interview, so I was swept down, it's hateful to think about, and it is rumored that the screening conditions for actors are set by Eric Williams. ”

Caroline listened to Rachel's angry tone. I couldn't help but say, "This ...... This should have nothing to do with Mr. Williams, who is a very personable man. ”

"You're just too innocent," Rachel couldn't help but shake his head.

Caroline pouted and said, "No, I can tell what is real and what is fake." ”

"Well, I believe you. Rachel looked at the girl's eyes wide, and quickly surrendered as if you didn't believe me and was going to reason with you.

Caroline looked at Rachel's big grin and insincerity, but she didn't continue, apparently this had happened between the two of them more than once: "So, Rachel, how was your audition today?"

"Take it on the spot," Rachel said excitedly, "It's a character in 'Inspector Moss,' and there are about two episodes." After the performance, my rent for the next two months was settled. ”

Caroline was a little excited for her friend, and then remembered that she was eating and living at Rachel's place, and said embarrassedly, "Rachel, I'll help you share some of the rent." ”

"Don't mention it, you better keep it for the future, I don't have to worry about these things, and you can't stay with me for a few days, you can go to Cambridge as soon as school starts." You have to hold on and don't give in to your dad. Rachel waved his hand, said a few words, and then stood up, "I'm going to make a pot of coffee, and we'll go out to dinner together when it gets dark, and celebrate that I've got another role." ”

Caroline hummed and watched Rachel burrow into the kitchen. Some little admiration said: "I really envy you, you have always been so alone, if it weren't for the rude and pretentious guy who my father forced me to give up my studies and marry the Edward family, I might not have the courage to run away from home." ”

Rachel in the kitchen listened to Caroline's words and smiled, "What is there to envy about this. At least when you get married, your father will definitely pay for the wedding, but not necessarily in my family, so I can only save money to come by myself. ”

"I don't have to, I don't know what I will do in the future if I disobey my father this time, I heard Aunt Lisa say that my aunt finally broke with the family because she refused to obey her grandfather's arrangement. ”

Rachel came out of the kitchen with a pot of coffee and said, "You have an aunt, and I haven't heard you talk about this little talk yet." ”

"I'm not talking!" Caroline immediately retorted dissatisfiedly, realizing that this rebuttal must have been fruitless, so she had to say: " I do have an aunt, but I have never met her, what I know is what Aunt Lisa secretly told me, it is said that it seems that the year before I was born, my aunt was watching a stage play in the West End of London, and she fell in love with a very talented playwright, but the playwright was only born in a commoner, and the family was also very poor, grandpa firmly disagreed, and soon arranged another blind date for her, and the aunt made a big fuss at home, and then moved to Greece alone, and never came back for twenty years. ”

Rachel couldn't help but laugh out loud as he listened, "Caroline, are you sure this is true, isn't it made up by your Aunt Lisa who has watched too many talented and beautiful people's stage plays?"

"Aunt Lisa is just a maid in our family, how can she have the leisure to go to the stage play. ”

"It must have been made up from watching too many daytime soap operas," Rachel laughed again.

Caroline was obviously a little shaken by this fairytale story, but on the surface she refused to admit defeat, and her little head twisted: "I ignore you." ”

Rachel laughed again, reaching out and rubbing the girl's head.

The two were frolicking, the phone in the living room rang, Rachel put down the coffee and walked over to pick up the phone, and after a few words, he covered the microphone in surprise and said to the girl sitting on the sofa: "Caroline, your call, your father called." ”

Caroline craned: "How would he know I was here?"

Rachel couldn't help but shake his head and sigh at the simplicity of this good friend, although Caroline's family is not prominent in England, but it is definitely not comparable to those declining nobles, Caroline ran away, how could her parents ignore it, the day the girl lived here, Caroline's mother called and asked her to take care of her daughter.

Looking at Caroline's worried look, Rachel said, "Why don't I tell your dad that you're not there?"

Caroline hesitated for a moment, knowing that since her father knew that she was here, she would not be able to escape, so she reluctantly leaned over and took the microphone from Rachel.

"Hey. Daddy, it's my ......."

Rachel handed the microphone to Caroline, and in order not to embarrass her friend too much, she consciously walked towards the bedroom. However, although Caroline was always soft-spoken, Rachel could faintly hear the girl's voice.

Five minutes passed. Rachel heard that there was no movement outside, so he came out of the bedroom, looked at Caroline lying on the couch sullenly, and asked, "Your dad asked you to go back?"

"No," said Caroline, sitting up again, "my father said he would not force me out of school again, but he, he, he actually asked me to invite Mr. Williams to his house for dinner." It's, it's so abrupt, how can I say it, if I get rejected, I'll be embarrassed to death. ”

Rachel watched the girl kick her calves and tangle her face, and could easily figure out the ins and outs of the matter. The day after Caroline appeared at Eric Williams, the British media investigated the girl's details in detail, and the Wilson family's jewel personally served as a tour guide for others. If it's something else, even if it's not a family ugly. It must have been stopped by the Wilson family as a very unseemly act.

But after all these days, the Wilson family did not take any action, and did not respond to the media that Caroline and Eric Williams were a perfect match, apparently happy to see it happen. If Eric were just a slightly well-known Hollywood director, the Wilson family might still have their own identity, but a young rich man with billions of dollars in assets. But it was enough to make the Wilson family let go of their reserves.

Seeing his friend's head hanging down and looking confused, Rachel asked, "So what are you going to do?"

"I ...... I don't know," Caroline shook her head.

Rachel was very familiar with this good friend, and looking at Caroline's appearance, it was clear that the girl also seemed to be eager to invite Eric Williams to her home. So he encouraged: "Then you can tell him directly tomorrow, anyway, this is an invitation from your father, if he refuses, it has nothing to do with you, and you don't have to feel embarrassed." ”

"Really?" Caroline looked up, looking at Rachel wistfully.

Rachel didn't hesitate at all, and nodded firmly: "Of course." ”

"Then I'll say tomorrow that my dad invited him," Caroline blushed, "Rachel, help me think about what I should say tomorrow so that it doesn't look too abrupt......"

……

Because of its high latitudes, the days in London in June are very long, and it was already seven o'clock in the afternoon when Eric returned to the hotel, but the sky did not have the slightest tendency to get dark.

After eating dinner early, Eric went back to his room and began to process the day's accumulated emails.

The box office of the second week of "Jurassic Park" has been released, because the box office of the first week exploded, although the reputation of the movie is very good, but most institutions still predict that the box office of "Jurassic Park" in the second week will fall by more than 40%, and even the Fireflies have similar views, and some people have suggested that Eric prepare in advance to cut the number of screens in "Jurassic Park".

However, after the real data came out, many people's predictions were disappointed again.

Jurassic Park's second weekend box office was down only 37 percent from the first week, earning more than $42 million, far below the average 50 percent drop expected by most box office forecasters. In the process of large-scale release of many Hollywood movies, because there will be a big explosion at the box office in the first week, the box office in the second week will often experience a relatively large decline, and the subsequent box office decline will stabilize in a data that is in line with the quality of the movie and word of mouth.

Since "Jurassic Park" has escaped the box office crash in the second week, the box office drop of the film will definitely not be too high in the subsequent weeks of release. Firefly's internal statistics department has given "Jurassic Park" a box office valuation of $500 million at the North American box office, which is $40 million more than the first "Star Wars" part of that year.

Eric originally released a global billion-dollar rhetoric, in fact, his expectation for the North American box office of "Jurassic Park" was about $400 million, although the North American box office performance of "Jurassic Park" now exceeded his prediction, but he is not sure that the film can touch the threshold of $500 million in North America.

Because when Eric planned the North American publicity strategy of "Jurassic Park", he used the high-intensity publicity and large-scale film scheduling distribution strategy that became popular in Hollywood a few years after the original time and space, this distribution method is an evolved version of the saturated hairstyle that has become popular in Hollywood, which is more radical than the traditional saturated hairstyle, but also has great disadvantages, the most important point is to shorten the release cycle of the movie, and a traditional commercial blockbuster often receives more than 80% of the box office within four weeks of release. According to the current box office trend of "Jurassic Park", Eric is confident that "Jurassic Park" will win $300 million at the North American box office in four weeks, but what will happen to the box office trend of "Jurassic Park" in a month, Eric has no idea in his heart.

After reading the emails related to "Jurassic Park", Eric began to check other emails, and soon knew the information he wanted, which was Arnold Schwarzenegger's "The Last Action Hero".

As Eric expected, because of its poor quality and the box office squeeze of "Jurassic Park", this $80 million action film by Cullock Films only got more than $16 million at the box office in the first three days of the first weekend, and it was not even as much as the first day box office of "Jurassic Park". In the original time and space, Stallone and Schwarzenegger were planted on these two consecutive blockbusters at the same time. These two famous Hollywood action movie stars are also connected by the same fate, both born in the 40s, and only became a late bloomer in their thirties, and in less than ten years of fame, they were planted on two films released in the same summer at the same time. Although Arnold Schwarzenegger has been paid more than $20 million several times for several sequels to the "Terminator" series after "The Last Action Hero", his other films have never been able to offer high prices. Stallone's two popular series "Rambo" and "Rocky" ended because of the gradually declining box office, and there is no killer feature that can maintain its value. (To be continued......)