"Hi, hello, Miss Kidman, I'm Tom Cruise, you can call me Tommy, wow, you're pretty, even prettier than in the movies, can I call you Nicole?" Eric was chatting with Paula Wagner when he heard Tom Cruise's courteous voice behind him. ￡∝，

"Of course, Mr. Cruise," Nicole's voice rang out, with a hint of detachment in her tone, but Cruise didn't seem to realize anything and began to talk about other topics.

Paula Wagner smiled awkwardly at Eric, and secretly blamed Cruise for being too inappropriate, Nicole Kidman was Eric's female companion, and the relationship between the two was revealed.

Eric turned his head to see that Cruise was already sitting across from Nicole, so he had to say to Paula Wagner, "Then, Ms. Wagner, let's sit too." ”

"Okay, Eric, really...... I'm sorry," Paula Wagner whispered apologetically.

"It's nothing," said Eric, returning to the table and taking a seat, beckoning the waiter to come over, and a few of them began to order.

"Nicole, the pan-fried foie gras here is very good, it is said that all the ingredients are flown in directly from France, I think you can have one," Cruise looked through the menu for a while, and quickly looked up and said to Nicole with a smile.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Cruise, I'm on a diet," Nicole shook her head slightly, then ordered a salad from the waiter and closed the menu.

Cruise touched a soft nail, and the smile on his face faded, but there was more interest in his eyes.

Eric and Paula Wagner also finished their orders quickly, waiting for the waiters to leave. Cruise didn't hesitate to say, "I'm sorry. Eric. I've read the script for "Ghosts Are Not Over", but the movie that Paula and I are working on is about to start, so I'm sure I can't take that role anymore, and to be honest, I think playing a ghost sounds stupid. Moreover, I studied the entire script and found nothing outstanding. I'd better try another movie, such as the second part of "Dark War", although I can't participate anymore, but I believe that with the popularity accumulated by the first part, the box office success is still certain. ”

Hearing Cruise say this, Paula Wagner stroked her forehead with one hand and tapped it twice on one temple, apparently that Cruise's self-righteous old mistake had relapsed and completely forgot her prior instructions.

Nicole opened her mouth slightly when she heard this. Then without a trace, he picked up the juice in front of him and brought it to his mouth, blocking the taunt at the corner of his mouth.

Eric put his hands on the table. The cross kept rubbing, listening to Cruise with interest, and when the other party finished speaking, Eric looked at Cruise with interest and said, "In that case, Tommy, is there anything you invited me to come today?"

Paula Wagner was afraid that Tom Cruise would say something out of place, so she quickly took Eric's question and said, "Mr. Williams, Tommy is such a person, he doesn't like to hide anything in his heart, so please don't mind." We think the script of "Ghost Love" is still very good, but Tommy's schedule has been arranged, so we didn't have the opportunity to cooperate this time. ”

"Oh, so ...... this time," Eric continued.

Tom Cruise was about to speak, feeling a kick in his calf under the table, Cruise looked at Paula Wagner, and saw that Paula Wagner's face had a faint look of pleading, so he had to shrug his shoulders slightly and close his mouth.

Seeing that Tom Cruise finally stopped talking, Paula Wagner breathed a sigh of relief and said to Eric: "That's the case, Mr. Williams, hasn't Firefly's Flower Pictures acquired a lot of novel and movie rights since last year, including a TV series called "Mission Impossible", I want to ask, can you transfer it to us, we will definitely give a very reasonable price." ”

Eric raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "Ms. Wagner, how can you be interested in this TV series, if it is changed into a movie, this should be a spy action movie, which is very different from Tom's current screen image." ”

When Cruise heard Eric say this, he couldn't help but interject again: "Look, Paula, Eric thinks so too, so I think it's better not to mention this matter again." I've said a long time ago that I'm not suitable for this kind of pure action movie, that's the role that Schwarzenegger or Stallone should play, I'm more suitable for a feature film, even if it's mixed with some action elements, it should be like the "Top Gun" a few years ago, and our recent movie, which is mainly based on the plot, Eric, you should feel the same way, right?"

Eric smiled slightly and agreed: "Of course, I also think that Tommy is more suitable for narrative-led genre films, and if you make a rash transformation, it will be very risky." ”

The two men interrupted like this, Paula Wagner suddenly didn't know what to say, with a distressed look on her face, helplessly looked at the triumphant man next to her after getting 'recognition', and then looked at Eric with a faint smile on her face, I don't know why, she always felt that the smile on the corner of Eric's mouth was a little strange.

Bypassing the original TV series of "Mission Impossible", Eric quickly said: "Tommy, let's talk about the movie you are preparing recently, I believe many fans will be looking forward to it." ”

"That's for sure," Tom Crewston was interested, but his eyes looked at Nicole in front of him from time to time, "A few years ago, when I was working with Mr. Paul Newman on "The Color of Money", I became interested in racing, and I always wanted to make a racing movie. In the setting of the script, the racing scenes of this movie will be very grand and exciting, Paramount promised to invest 60 million US dollars in this movie, I believe, this movie will definitely be able to create the box office glory of "Top Gun" in Zào86, by the way, Nicole, there is just a lack of a heroine in the movie now, do you want to try it, from the first time I saw you, I felt that you are very suitable for the role of Claire. ”

When Nicole heard the $60 million investment in this movie, she immediately took some action, glanced at Eric, and saw a noncommittal look on the man's face, before she tentatively asked, "Mr. Cruise, can you elaborate on this character?"

"Of course, Claire is a doctor, and the male protagonist Cole met after a racing accident, and Claire was quickly moved by Cole's strength and unyielding and fell in love with the male protagonist......"

Cruise spoke with great interest for seven or eight minutes, only pausing reluctantly when the waiter was serving food to a few people, and Nicole also tried to say a few words to Cruise's rhythm from time to time.

Listening to the conversation between a man and a woman next to her, Paula Wagner looked at Eric opposite worriedly, and saw that Eric looked like he was enjoying the food in front of him as if nothing had happened, and he was slightly relieved.

"Ms. Wagner, are you still Tom's agent?" Eric ignored the talk of the men and women next to him, ate a few bites of food, and raised his head to ask Paula Wagner on the other side.

Paula Wagner didn't know what Eric meant by the sudden question, but he quickly replied, "No, I'm now in charge of C/W Zuò, so Tommy has a new agent, Pie Kingsley." ”

Eric sighed in his heart, Tom Cruise was really lucky, even though he was a stranger in this plane, but the two women who were very important to his career development still appeared by his side.

Paula Wagner can be said to be Tom Cruise's great benefactor, directly bringing Cruise from a nobody to the ranks of Hollywood A-list superstars, and then assisting Cruise all the way to establish the production company, serving as the producer of Cruise's series of films, it can be said that half of the credit for Cruise's success is due to Paula Wagner.

Later, Cruise and Paula Wagner set up Cruise/Wagner Manufacturing, Paula Wagner became the head of the company, and Cruise changed to another agent, Pin Kinsley. The ability of this female agent is also very good, taking over Paula Wagner's position, conscientiously managing the brokerage affairs for Cruise for 14 years, for more than ten years, although Cruise has a lot of things to do, and his life is also a mess, but under the maintenance of Pie Kinsley, Cruise's public image has been maintained flawlessly.

In the previous life, Cruise and Nicole's agents were once sent to Kinsley, but after Cruise and Nicole divorced, Cruise's own career did not improve much, but Nicole soared, not only successfully crowned Oscar, but also entered the 20 million salary club.

Cruise was extremely unbalanced, so he randomly found an unfavorable excuse for Pie Kinsley's public relations Oscar to fire the hard-working agent, and then let his sister, who had little professional experience, be his agent like a child's play.

It didn't take long for Cruise to taste the consequences of this, without a strong agent to negotiate and take care of his public image, a series of things followed, negotiations with Paramount broke down, the couch jumping incident, his faith was attacked by the media, and the scandal with the actress was frequently seen in the tabloids, in just over a year, Cruise's public image plummeted, and his acting career also suffered a huge blow.

In the following years, Paula Wagner was disappointed and left Cruise's production company, and then, in addition to the "Mission Impossible" series, Cruise's movies were almost one movie and one loss, because of this reason, Cruise was not strong in the face of Paramount Pictures in the "Mission Impossible" series, and the scenery of getting a $75 million salary for a movie before and after is gone. (To be continued......)