Although he was careful to borrow an ordinary car from an employee in the digital field, Firefly Studios has many crews filming at any time, and of course Nicole is not the only star who appears here, and Eric and Nicole still can't escape the paparazzi's scrutiny in the end.

The bodyguard drove the car to a stop outside an Italian seafood restaurant in Venice Beach a few kilometers away, and as soon as Eric and Nicole got out of the car, five or six paparazzi jumped out of the car they were following and excitedly pressed the shutter at Eric and Nicole.

Eric saw the other three bodyguards get out of another car and quickly stepped forward to block the paparazzi from the perimeter, and immediately realized what the problem was. The professional characteristics of the tall and sturdy bodyguard who was sitting in the driver's seat just now were too obvious, and the paparazzi, who had a keen sense of smell outside the studio, saw that in an inconspicuous car, it was such a full-time security guard who could be recognized at a glance, of course, he could realize that there must be some important person sitting in the back seat, and it was not surprising to keep up.

Nicole expertly put on her sunglasses, blocking out the flashing lights around her, before smiling apologetically at Eric, who knew that Eric didn't like to be in gossip magazines, and if she hadn't insisted on it, she wouldn't have encountered such a thing.

"Let's go," Eric put on his sunglasses and put his arm around Nicole's shoulders, and the two walked briskly towards the restaurant.

When the paparazzi saw Eric's movements, they were even more excited, and they asked loudly without hesitation while taking pictures.

"Eric, are you dating Nicole?"

"Will Nicole be the heroine of your next movie?"

"Do you have any plans to get married?"

“……”

Eric and Nicole walked into the restaurant without saying a word, and the paparazzi were blocked by the restaurant's security guards, and Eric vaguely heard a paparazzi arguing angrily.

"Eric. I'm so sorry. "After entering the door. Nicole whispered.

Eric let go of Nicole's shoulders and said with a smile, "You know, I'm the kind of guy who doesn't have to worry about a lot of debt, as long as you don't mind." ”

Nicole smiled and shook her head, "Of course I don't mind." ”

A blonde waitress with a few cute freckles on the tip of her nose led the two to a seat with a wide view of the sea, and then handed the menu to Eric and Nicole with some excitement, but her eyes fell directly on Eric: "Mr. Williams, Miss Kidman." Welcome, what do you want to eat?"

"What do you have here?" asked Eric casually.

The waitress stared at Eric's side face and recommended, "We have good pan-fried sea bass here, sea bass that just flew in from Peru in the morning, as well as baked shrimp with cheese butter and Italian seafood noodles." ”

Eric flipped through the menu, glanced at it for a few moments, closed it, looked up and asked, "Where's the wine?"

"We have good white wines here, a top quality Souis dry white wine from Verona, and it is best to eat seafood with white wine. The waitress didn't dodge when she saw Eric looking up, but looked him boldly into the eyes. Said with a smile.

"Then order a bottle of dry white," Eric didn't know exactly what Verona was. It is estimated that it is a place name in Italy, and after saying this, he looked at Nicole, who was seriously flipping through the menu: "Nicole, what do you want to eat?"

……

It took a while to finish ordering, and after the waitress was far away, Eric showed a 'palpitating' expression: "I'm really worried that girl will suddenly say that our fried Williams here are also good." ”

"Hehe, don't talk nonsense, maybe it's your movie fan," Nicole said with a smile.

As he was talking, the beach not far from the floor-to-ceiling window was lit up again, the beach was a public place, neither Eric's bodyguards nor the restaurant security guards could drive it away, Eric looked at the paparazzi holding the telephoto camera a little helplessly, and said: "It's awards season, what's the use of taking pictures of us two idlers who don't have any nominations." ”

Nicole motioned to the waiter in the restaurant to close the curtain of the floor-to-ceiling window next to her, blocking the view from a distance, and then said: "I have also seen some articles mentioning you in the newspaper these days, and the tone is sour, but you really don't have the idea of filming an Olympic movie?"

"Not yet, you know Woody Allen, right?"

Nicole laughed and said, "How could you not know that there was such a big fuss last year." ”

Instead of gossiping around with Nicole about Woody Allen's, Eric said, "Then you should also know that he never showed up at the Oscars, even when he won Best Director for "Annie Hall." I agree with his attitude towards the Oscars, he said that if a director shoots his own work to win a film award, then he will subconsciously be bound by the rules and give up what he wants to express. Woody Allen is one of the few film directors who can be very popular at the major film festivals in North America and Europe, and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that he is not bound by the rules and concentrates on making his own things. ”

"It's a very interesting director," Nicole commented lightly after listening to Eric's words.

"Speaking of which, although it is now at a low ebb, Woody Allen will definitely make a comeback in a few years, he can always shoot the heroine in his film very beautifully, are you interested in working with him?"

"No, I'm thinking about concentrating on making commercial films now, and when I earn enough money that I can't spend in a lifetime, I can do something I want to do, such as winning an Oscar for Best Actress or something, and when I become famous, I will have two or three children and concentrate on being a good mother. ”

"At that point, a lot of people will definitely say, wow, Nicole Kidman is out of breath and can only make a living in some small productions. ”

Eric said with a smile, but recall carefully, although for more than 40 years since the 70s, several generations of well-known Hollywood actresses are very keen to participate in Woody Allen's movies at a low price, but Nicole has indeed never worked with Woody Allen, and the only time that the cooperation intention was disclosed in the media "Encounter with Strangers", only a month after the news was revealed, Nicole quickly resigned. The final heroine of that movie became Nicole's best friend, Naomi Watts.

"Whatever they say. What about you. Now "Jurassic Park" should be almost finished. But I haven't heard anything about your plans for your next movie?"

"There's no plan," Eric shook his head honestly, "Jurassic Park is a phase of completion if it meets expectations, and I always have to stop and take a break." ”

Eric's box office expectations for Jurassic Park are known only to a handful of people like Stan Winston, Roland Emmerich and Cameron, none of whom have revealed the news, and Nicole certainly can't know: "I don't quite understand, what is Phase I?"

"It's the first phase of my own work, and I'm going to focus more on the production side in the future. For example, the sequel to "Jurassic Park", I don't plan to direct it myself, and I also have the original plan for several disaster films, and I also plan to find other directors. These films are often filmed all over the world, and I can't always be out of Los Angeles for a few months a year, and of course, I'm sure I'll still direct the films myself, but that depends. ”

Nicole snorted, suddenly remembered something, and was about to speak. The waiter brought the dishes ordered by the two of them. Nicole curled the corners of her mouth as she watched the waitress serve Eric herself, and earnestly asked Eric if he needed anything else. After these people left, he continued: "I almost forgot one thing, the movie "Night Interview with the Vampire" should have been made by you yourself, right?"

"yes, what's wrong?" asked Eric, picking up the cutlery and fiddling with the bass in front of him.

Nicole said, "Has the role of the movie been decided?"

""Interview with the Vampire" is a collaboration between Firefly and David Geffen's production company, David Geffen has taken the position of producer, and he is mainly responsible for this matter, Firefly is only checking the script and budget for the time being, and several main creators of the film have not yet submitted the list of actors. Eric said, remembering the two male protagonists of the original "Interview with the Vampire", looked at Nicole, and asked, "Did someone find you, Tom Cruise?"

"No, Tom Cruise is such an arrogant person, how can he come to beg me, Paula talked to Pat about it, she hoped that Cruise could get the role, but the other party didn't ask us to help communicate about it, although Cruise's first few works were not satisfactory, but he is still an A-list actor after all, and I heard that David Geffen also intends to let him play the leading role," Nicole said the last sentence, and winked at Eric with a little evil smile.

"Your mind is so wicked," Eric said softly with a laugh, as everyone knows, David Geffen is known as the most powerful gay man in Hollywood, and Cruise's sexuality is ten times deeper than that of Kevin Spacey, the number one cabinet in Hollywood.

"So, since it's not Tom Cruise, why are you mentioning this?"

"It's a new artist signed by Pat, the qualifications are good, of course we won't ask for the male number one, and Pat wants him to try the role of the male number two. ”

Eric joked, "Men who play vampires have to be very handsome, and you speak for such people." ”

Nicole smiled and waved her hand: "You are also very handsome, he is my Australian countryman, of course I have to help." ”

"Fellow Australians, I can't say yes to that," Eric said as he narrowed his eyes and dragged his voice.

Nicole laughed a few more times, picked a garnished red cherry from the plate to Eric's plate, and said as if soothing the child, "Okay, give you a cherry, and I'll say yes to you, and I'll ask Pat to call David Geffen when I go back, and I'll say you nodded." ”

Eric picked the cherry into his mouth and said, "Okay, you can arrange it, as long as he can pass the audition, if it doesn't fit, I will definitely not agree." ”

"Of course," Nicole nodded.

Eric looked at his lunch and said, "What are you going to do in the afternoon?"

"I just finished promoting "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" from Europe a few days ago, and I've been off lately, so I'll stay in the studio with you in the afternoon, okay?"

"No problem, I just had to edit a dailie for Jurassic Park, you can help me get started. “

"Well, then I'll learn it too, maybe I can change careers to be a director or something in the future. ”

Eric summoned the waiter, handed over the credit card, and then said to Nicole: "You just obediently be your actor, the director is not something anyone can do, and greed is not a good thing." ”

"Then why do you seem to know everything?" asked Nicole, holding her chin with one hand, curiously.

Of course, Eric couldn't tell the girl that he had been in the directing department seriously for four years in his previous life, and after graduation, he had been in the circle for nearly twenty years, although he had not been able to shoot his own movie from beginning to end, but after twenty years of accumulation, the basic skills were definitely very solid.

At this time, facing Nicole's curious eyes, Eric raised his chin and said cheekily: "I'm a genius, how can you little fish and shrimp compare." ”

"Hehe, that's arrogant," Nicole smiled as she tossed a tissue over.

The next day, of course, the gossip tabloids were a lively scene again, but although Eric and Nicole were arrested, neither party responded to it, and as long as the other party did not go too far, they did not pay attention to the comments in the media.

The production of "Jurassic Park" entered the final stage, Eric spent a long time in the post-production center of the studio every day, Nicole stayed with Eric in the name of rest, and stayed with Eric for the next few days, working as Eric's temporary assistant, and after work, the two of them returned to Jianjiao Manor together, in order to avoid trouble, Eric simply took a helicopter to and from work every day.

The paparazzi gathered outside the Firefly Studios were expecting to catch some more explosive scandals, but after seeing the black Bell 230 rise and fall in the studio for several days, they could only curse helplessly a few times and slowly disperse.

Red sleeves during the day, accompanied by people at night, although he had to work overtime for a few hours a day for the later stage of "Jurassic Park", Eric's life was still very comfortable, and occasionally some thoughts appeared in his mind that he seemed to have forgotten something, but he was soon thrown away without a trace.

Eric felt that if something was forgotten, Allen, who was in charge of his schedule, would definitely remind him in time, so he didn't pay too much attention to it.

After more than a week, Eric received another call from Kapoor, and listening to Kapoor's helpless complaints, Eric suddenly remembered that he had forgotten the appointment to meet Charlize Theron. (To be continued......)