"Oh, so this is a plan, why do I only feel that we are gambling on luck with a sum of money and a few hundred lives?" Cate Blanchett's tone was sharp and fast, with a faint anger, leaning forward and asking, "So, tell me, Mr. Bond, what else can you observe?"

"About you, Miss Linder," said Eric, staring at Kate with a skeptical gaze, "well, your appearance is a problem, and you fear that people will not take you seriously because of it. ”

"People always think that beautiful women don't have brains. ”

That's right, so the person in front of me disguised himself by wearing more masculine clothes, and his work was more active than other female colleagues, and even a little annoying. Ironically, her boss interpreted her deep uneasiness as arrogance, and she was denied any promotion. Also, I usually only speculate on small children, but judging by the fact that you have just ignored my sarcasm about your parents, I dare say that you are an orphan. ”

Cate Blanchett leaned back in her chair, although she still looked proud, but a few slight flickering of her eyes during the exchange of eyes with Eric showed the embarrassment and embarrassment of Vesper Lind after being undisguised, and after a moment of silence, she spoke again and fought back: " Well, Mr. Bond, judging by the meticulous way you dressed, you should have been to Oxford, and therefore thought people should dress like this, but your disdain shows that you are not a rich kid, and your classmates at school must have left you with some unforgettable memories. This means that you are sponsored to complete your studies, so you don't have a very good temper. Since your first impression of me was that of an orphan, I guess you should be too, right?"

"Okay, very good," Eric beckoned to the waiter not far away, looked at Kate again, and said, "I dare say, Miss Blanchett, if you appear in a pure green screen special effects movie in the future, you will do very well." ”

Eric was only wearing a casual T-shirt and khaki trousers today, and he was just reciting lines from memory very casually, but Kate was able to play him like James Bond in a suit without hindrance, and his acting skills were absolutely impeccable.

Cate Blanchett put away her emotions, the breath of Vesper Linde disappeared on her body, she became a little more shy, and smiled: "Thank you, Mr. Williams, for saying that, I ...... Got the role. ”

"Of course," Eric nodded, picking up the menu and ordering a random lunch, signaling Kate to feel free.

Kate suppressed the excitement in her heart, lowered her head and flipped a few pages of the menu randomly, calmed down, then she had a feeling of reading the menu, ordered lunch randomly, and handed the menu to the waiter, she raised her head, just in time to see the man opposite smiling and looking at herself, pursing her lips, she still couldn't help but ask the question that has been bothering her these days: "Mr. Williams, I've always been curious, why me?" I mean, I don't think there's anything special about me, and I'm not as pretty as the Bond girls I used to be, and I can't even figure out, how did you find me?"

"The casting of this 007 series has been started since the project was established last year, and I want Vesper Linde to play a woman with a classical and elegant atmosphere, in terms of personality, pride on the surface, fragile on the inside, and at the same time, her acting skills also need to be good enough," Eric looked at Kate and explained half-truthfully: "Most of the candidates before you didn't satisfy me, and by chance, I saw you star in a miniseries on TV called "Hartland" And then, I thought, maybe I can give it a try. ”

"Hartland" is a mini-series that Kate just starred in last year, and of course she clearly remembers the heroine she played, but in some ways it fits Eric's description, but she still finds it a little incredulous, saying, "That's all?"

Eric smiled and said, "If you have to get to the bottom of it, well, of course I know more." For example, you were a tomboy when you were a kid and liked to wear boys' clothes and even shaved your head. After graduating from secondary school, you studied drama for a while at Lady Wee College, then went to the University of Melbourne to study economics, before dropping out a year later and travelling the world. When you return to Australia, you study at the Australian National School of Drama again. He then began performing theatrical performances and won the Sydney Theatre Critics Council Award for Best Newcomer for The Dance of Kafka. While performing on stage, you're also starting to get TV or movie roles, but I also know that your first screen show was in Egypt, where you played a boxing spectator in a local TV movie to earn money for your journey. ”

Kate was only a little surprised at first, but then the more she listened, the more surprised she became, and by the end she was already dumbfounded.

"So, Miss Blanchett, if you think it's a little rash and abrupt for me to suddenly find you and want you to play the role of Vesper Linder, you are very mistaken. I know you much better than you think, and several of the movies and TV tapes you've starred in are still in my office, so is there anything else to ask?"

"No, no. However, "Kate's face flushed slightly, remembering some faint lace rumors about the man in front of her, she glanced up at Eric, wanting to say something, but she didn't know whether to open her mouth or not.

Eric still had a smile on his lips and joked, "Do you want to say that you are actually a Lace, so I don't want to beat your idea?"

This kind of inhumane privacy was punctured, and Kate's face showed a faint panic: "Ah, you know all about this?"

"That's what I guessed based on your information, they're not boring enough to investigate your sexuality, and, don't worry, I'm not going to tell you, and besides, you're not my cup of tea. The only thing I care about is whether or not your performance will satisfy me. Eric said, leaning forward, and said, "But, Kate, I can assure you, you're definitely not Lesbian, you're bisexual at best." ”

"Mr. Williams, let's still, let's not talk about this topic anymore. ”

Eric felt the waiter come over with lunch, straightened up, asked the waiter to put the lunch in front of him, smiled and nodded: "OK, back to the point, this movie will probably start in June, but I hope you can rush to Hollywood in advance, familiarize yourself with the environment, and cooperate with the pre-promotion of the movie, is there a problem?"

Although Kate's personality is not strong, she has always been very independent, and this dialogue environment in which people are completely in control of the initiative makes Kate feel a little uncomfortable.

However, she is not the kind of person who likes to be different, and she knows how rare the opportunity to fall from the sky is this time, after all, she is still just an ordinary little actor now, without the qualifications of those Hollywood superstars to be mavericks, after a little hesitation, she nodded and said: "No problem, the TV series I am starring in now can be completed before the tenth of next month, and I can rush to Hollywood by then." ”

Eric nodded and said, "That's it." ”

Kate snorted, turned her head to look at her agent Ron Latsher, who was sitting not far away, and plucked up the courage to turn to Eric and said, "Mr. Williams, my agent is over there, do you want to talk to him?"

"No," Eric shook his head, "I'll be contacted by someone about the pay and other trivial matters." Well, when you get to Hollywood, if you want to find a more professional agency, you can go to ICM, just say that I told you, and they will arrange it for you. ”

Kate said weakly, "I think Ron is fine." ”

"I'm just giving you a suggestion, of course you can keep your mind to yourself," Eric said with a smile as he picked up the waiter's poured red wine, "Well, I wish us a great time together, Kate." ”

"Good to work with, well, Eric," Kate carefully changed her name to a more intimate one, and then brought the red wine to her lips.

After lunch, Cate Blanchett took her agent to take the initiative to leave, Eric did not leave in a hurry, ordered a cup of coffee, read the report about the Golden Globes in the newspaper he picked before the meal, summoned his assistant Peter Rich, who was not far away, handed the "DOLLY" magazine to the other party, and said: "This girl on the cover, find her." ”

Peter Ritchie glanced at the baby-faced girl named Miranda Kerr on the cover of the magazine and nodded, as a top student at Stanford University, he certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to ask Eric how to find it, it would only be considered a sign of incompetence, and there was no such person in Eric's assistant office.

Still, after some hesitation, Peter Rich asked, "Mr. Williams, and then?"

There has to be a reason.

"Well, I'm going to add a shot of a tennis girl brushing shoulders with Bond in the film. ”

The corners of Peter Ritchie's mouth twitched, although Eric said it seriously, he still felt that this reason was a bit ridiculous, boss, is your method of picking up girls too simple and rude?

Despite the guilt, Peter Ritchie did not show it in the slightest and respectfully wrote down the incident.

Departing from Sydney in the afternoon, three hours later, Eric's private business jet landed in Cairns, in northeastern Queensland, Australia, but it was still more than 80 kilometers away from the "Red Alert" crew.

Several crew members of the "Red Alert" crew came to greet them in person, and two off-road vehicles took the group from Cairns City all the way north, and the advantage of the sparsely populated area was that the vehicles could gallop on the open road, and arrived at their destination in less than an hour and a half.

The off-road vehicle was parked in a small seaside town outside the Daintree Rainforest National Park, where the crew was stationed, and according to fellow crew members, the main filming location was in the hills on both sides of the Daintree River not far away.

It was the height of summer in Australia, and the sky was very long, although it was two o'clock in the afternoon from Sydney, and it was close to seven o'clock in the evening, and the distant sky was already full of burning clouds, but the sky did not mean to be dark.

After getting out of the car, Eric looked around, because of the sparse population, there was not even a decent hotel in the town, and the crew of hundreds of people could only live in makeshift board houses. The surrounding houses are also very scarce, as if to show off their lack of land, and the houses of each resident are even far away from each other.

An assistant producer named Nick Cavill stood next to him and asked, "Mr. Williams, the crew ends at about half-past seven, will you wait here or come and have a look?"

Hearing the staff's inquiry, Eric looked at the hills in the distance and said, "Let's go over and have a look." ”

"Okay, follow me," Nick Cavill nodded, leading Eric towards the green meadow knoll not far away, explaining that "the main set for the crew is on the other side of this meadow. ”

After a few minutes, everyone climbed up the grassy hill, and as far as the eye could see, a large river that glowed golden in the afterglow of the setting sun appeared in view, and on both sides of the river were large areas of gentle grass slopes and bushes, and in the distance, there was a dense primeval forest.

Below the grassy knoll is the filming location of the "Red Alert" crew, which should be a group scene today, with hundreds of people scattered everywhere, looking a little messy, and a few gunshots can be faintly heard.

Although there were hundreds of people in the field of vision, Eric still caught Catherine's figure at a glance, the woman was habitually wearing a white long-sleeved T-shirt, dark jeans, two bulging tool bags hanging from her waist, and a black baseball cap.

Before they could get down the grass, Eric and the others were spotted, and when they approached, Catherine had already greeted them.

Eric greeted Catherine, Terrence Malick and other crew creators one by one, and then said, "I'm just coming over to see, you can continue." ”

"That's pretty much the end of the day, we're rehearsing a blast scene, but the official filming will have to wait until tomorrow," Catherine explained softly as she looked at Eric with the thin script in her hand.

Despite her strong personality, Catherine has a soft voice that is very comfortable to listen to, well, at least that's what Eric thinks, he hasn't seen Catherine like when she fights with others.

"Oh, is there anything I need help with?" said Eric, standing next to Catherine, looking at the script in her hand.

"Well, come over and see if this shot is fitting in this way," Catherine said, pointing to several locations around the area, where producer and screenwriter Terrence Malick, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, John Cusack and several other leading actors also came up.

After discussing for more than ten minutes and roughly determining the shooting plan, Catherine announced that it was over, and most of the extras began to return to the town in groups over the grassy knoll, and some of the crew members left behind simply covered most of the items in the venue with a rain cloth in order to avoid sudden rain at night and wet various shooting props, and then carried the more expensive camera equipment back to the base camp.

Eric looked at the situation of everyone throwing a large amount of equipment in the field at will, and immediately reacted, the residents of the town where the crew was stationed were only a few hundred people, not even more than the number of crew members. The surrounding hundreds of square kilometers of land are even more uninhabited, except for the beasts in the rainforest, it is estimated that no one will be interested in the crew's shooting props. (To be continued.) )