Chapter 102: A Night with Norton
After Theolod and Norton got in the car, they suddenly remembered a very strict question.
“…… Did any of us do well in chemistry? Norton pulled his car out of the studio, and when he thought about it, he had just pulled up at a red light. He, with a Yale history diploma in his hand, is definitely good at history, but he is ...... The principle must be related to chemistry, right?
And Theorod ...... Not to mention, as far as he knows, it seems that he dropped out of high school before graduating from high school and came to Hollywood, right?
When he mentioned this, Theolod also realized that he didn't know anything about these problems - although he did have a high Yale degree in his previous life, he was from a drama school, and the chemistry and physics he studied in high school had long been forgotten, and this world, not to mention, he was a bad boy before.
"Maybe the script will write about the method of making zuò?" Norton came up with a hypothesis.
"No, it's just a simple mention in a few words in the script, and it hasn't been specific to the process." Theolod said that the whole script had been memorized in his mind for a long time, and he could recite the lines of Taylor and Jack making zuò soap with a little recall, but it was of little use.
So, how should these two guys, who have no knowledge and no practical experience, make a bar of soap? Let's not talk about whether it can be made or not, even if there are methods and steps to make zuò...... They're not going to blow up the beaker, are they?
"It doesn't matter, the road is walked out by people, this kind of thing, can you search for it on the Internet?" Theorod said the red light ahead turned green and Norton's scooter started again. In this era, the Internet has not yet reached every household, and people's first reaction when they encounter problems is not to ask for help online, but to flip through books, "I have a computer at home, but we can't do it in my house, I don't want to be kicked out of the house by Maggie." ”
"Oh yes, the computer, I forgot about it." Norton patted his forehead, "I remembered a place, my college classmate's apartment, he was in Atlanta right now, so he gave me the key to the apartment for safekeeping. I stayed in that apartment until I came to Los Angeles and before the crew started filming, and I didn't transfer my luggage to the hotel the crew had booked until this morning. He happens to have a computer at home, and it's more hands-on than a hotel. ”
"That's great, but I still have a question, Edward."
"What?"
"Did he buy insurance?"
"Haha, we should have bought it, hey, we have to believe in ourselves, don't we?"
So, the two guys who were suspected of being bear children unanimously decided to move their "real room" to Norton's friend's apartment, and the two went back to the apartment first, checked the required materials on the Internet, made a list, and drove to the largest building materials market in Los Angeles. The market is connected to a large supermarket next door, and Americans have always liked to do it themselves because of the high labor costs, so there are markets like this in almost every city, and they have almost everything inside.
Both of them are dressed relatively low-key, and there are not many people in the supermarket near the closing time of the market, so no one notices the two people who buy things in a shopping cart without moderation. After finding the items on the shopping list, they went to the supermarket next to them, bought a bunch of snacks, and pushed the cart to the cashier until the two shopping carts could not fit it.
Standing behind the cash register on Theorod's side was a white-looking man. He couldn't help but look at the person in front of him a few more times when he saw that the contents of Theorod's shopping cart were almost overflowing, and the more he looked, the more he felt that the man with the baseball cap and the long hair was a little familiar.
It wasn't until Theolod took out his credit card and handed it to him that he exclaimed, "Theo! ”
This sound has attracted the attention of the people around, but fortunately, there are not many people in the supermarket now.
"Good afternoon." Theolod reluctantly smiled at the excited fan, "My ears are pretty good, you don't have to use such a loud volume." ”
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry......" he said three apologies in a row, "My girlfriend and I like you very much, so it's a little exciting to see you, sorry, if Ann knew I ran into you today, she would have screamed too...... I, I mean, I thought, if I could, that, help me ......"
"Signature?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" The man nodded excitedly.
"Of course, if it makes your girlfriend love you more."
Theolod took it out
Theolod signed his name, and just in time to see Norton gesturing to him after settling the bill, he immediately raised his hand to the other party, pulled Norton, who was waiting outside, pulled Norton over, patted Norton on the shoulder, and said to the cashier: "Then you must not miss this one, Edward Nord, he is also a very good guy, I am glad that I can know him and work with him." ”
Norton glanced at Theorod helplessly, the other party didn't necessarily know him, but he didn't know this sentence very well, after all, he also knew that the recent unfriendly remarks were just the same as Theorod's joining "Devil's Advocate", because he was not famous, and most critics were skeptical, thinking that Finch was blind.
But the cashier surprised him: "Norton? Are you Norton? When I knew you were going to work on Fight Club, I went out of my way to find your previous films. I want to say, man, ignore those snobbish critics, you're brilliant, I now know what a great actor I missed, looking forward to your "King of Gamblers" and "The American X-Files" this September and October! Come, can you sign this place for me? ”
"Huh? Oh sure, thank you for your support. When the other party pulled the corner of his clothes in front of him, Norton reacted, he was a little scrambling to find the pen, but he had never met a fan on the street asking for autographs before, and he did not have the habit of carrying a pen with him, so he had to take the pen handed by Theorod and write his name beside Theorod.
After getting the signatures of the two of them, the cashier seemed satisfied, and after saying goodbye to them, he remembered something, and immediately stopped the two who had not taken two steps, picked up a small box on the cash register shelf, and said, "Theo, Edward, you can try this, the watermelon flavor is not bad, just take it as a small gift for me." ”
Theorod and Norton turned, and the gentle smiles on their faces instantly turned into a strange stiffness that was not just crying but laughing as they saw what he was holding.
I saw that the cashier was holding a small black box, under the white "Trojan" brand on the surface of the box, the name "Magnum" was written in a gold font several sizes larger, and next to the letter "M", a gladiator's profile face was also drawn, and below the ranking word, a "XL" was simply and clearly marked.
To put it simply, this is a box of avoidance/pregnancy/condom, and to be specific, this is the largest box of avoidance/pregnancy/condom.
Seeing that the expressions of the two were indescribably strange, the cashier looked at the things in his hand, his expression froze, and immediately threw aside the box of things that were definitely not watermelon-flavored, and took out the chewing gum on the side tremblingly: "Wrong!" It's this! This box! Don't get me wrong! I definitely didn't mean that! ”
Theolod and Norton silently pushed the shopping cart out of the supermarket, silently stuffed things into the car, silently walked into the car, the two looked at each other, and finally couldn't help it, one patted the steering wheel, the other pounded the glass, covered his stomach and laughed, laughing at nothing.
"Honestly...... Ha ha...... Which of the two of us can use the ...... Hahaha......" Norton laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes.
"I didn't use this sign before." Theolod replied, holding his forehead.
“…… Thank you, Theo, if you hadn't offered to make zuò soap today, I wouldn't have met such a lovely fan. Norton finally relented, and he buckled up, "I ran into him today, and I thought about why I chose this path in the first place." ”
"It's not because of the public's evaluation, it's not because of the praise of the media, in fact, it doesn't matter what they say, I'm just because I love acting, I love her, even if there is only one person who supports me, I will go on...... Although the previous comments didn't put me too much pressure, I'm still happy. ”
Theolod looked at Norton's determined side face, smiled lightly, looked at the sky in the distance with only red glow, and said lightly: "If you really want to thank me...... Then treat me to dinner, and let me think that the restaurant in Los Angeles is better. ”
Norton smiled wryly: "Hey, under normal circumstances, shouldn't it be you, the host, who invited me to dinner?" ”
Of course, it was Norton who ended up having a meal. The two of them had a hearty meal before returning to Norton's friend's apartment and placing all the ingredients on the long table in the living room.
Theolod and Norton put on their white coats, masks and gloves, looked at the actual steps copied from the Internet, rolled up their sleeves and got to work.
The lights in the living room of the apartment were on from night to the next morning, and no one in the crew knew about their sudden plan, except for Nattell.
So when all the crew arrived early the next morning, but when they didn't see the two leading actors, everyone mistakenly thought that the two must have had too much fun last night and overslept this morning. When they looked at the director's expression, as cold as the night on the outskirts of Moscow, they knew that they must have died a terrible death today.
"Give the hotel room a call." Finch said to his assistant with a cold face.
The assistant hurriedly called, but no one answered the room, and he called the front desk to find out that the two had not returned all night. When Finch learned the news, his brow furrowed even tighter, and then, he saw Nuttel, who had just walked into the crew.
"What about the Theo?" Finch walked up to him, a hint of suppressed anger in his voice.
“…… Sorry, I didn't know ...... either."
"You don't know? You're his assistant, and you don't even know?! Finch roared, and his words made Nattel bow his head and be speechless.
When Natel saw that there was no shadow of Theorod in the crew, he knew that something was wrong. He knew that they didn't go back to the hotel at all last night, and the crew couldn't arrange a room for him to live with the crew in the hotel, but he could call Theorod and Norton's room, however, the phone was not answered once until most of the night, and as for Theorod's personal phone, it couldn't be reached, and the phone was still turned off.
Hell, he shouldn't have let Theolod and Norton run before! Even if you are cheeky, you should keep up!
"This kind of mess is going to happen the day after the start...... Finch scolded, "Theo and Edward don't look like people who are late and don't give a message, where can they go if they don't go back to the hotel?" ”
Natl quickly called Theolod.
Theolod heard his cell phone ringing in a daze, he opened his eyes with difficulty, and just tried to stand up, only to feel dizzy and painful, and almost collapsed, but fortunately he held his body steady. He looked at his phone, and the caller was Nuttel, so he answered the phone in confusion, and just snorted, before Nattel could make a sound, an angry voice came from the other end-
'Theorod, you'd better have an explanation for your and Edward's tardiness, that will convince me!' ’
"......" Late? Interpretation? Oh no! Theorod finally came to his senses, jumped to his feet, and immediately said, "I'm so sorry, David! Ed and I will be there soon, probably ...... Twenty minutes! ”
With that, he quickly hung up the phone.
He doesn't remember much about yesterday, he seems to remember that after filming, he went out with Norton to buy a bunch of soap materials, and then ran to this apartment, and then ...... Oh yes, and then they seem to have made the first bar of soap by mistake, in celebration...... They also seem to have drunk? He also drank? Should...... It seems like...... Drinking a lot?
Theolod covered his head and recalled painfully, but he didn't pay attention, tripped over something under his feet, and a tiger pounced and smashed to the "ground", but the "ground" was not hard at all, and he snorted in pain when he hit it like this.
Theolod then noticed Norton sleeping on the floor, and he had just tripped over Norton's foot, which happened to fall on him, using him as a backrest.
"Oh...... Maggie, you've gained a lot of weight, and I'm never going to give you that much cat food again......" Norton muttered.
Seeing that this guy hadn't woken up yet, Theorod, who was pressing on him, leaned down while supporting his body, leaned over to Norton's ear, suddenly raised his voice, and shouted loudly: "Get up, Edward Norton, your Maggie was taken away by the wild cat next door!! ”
"What...... Yes! ”
"Oh......"
Norton stood up suddenly, and naturally, his forehead hit Theorod's head, causing both of them to scream in pain, but the collision finally brought Norton to his senses.
He stared blankly at the hurricane-like mess of the living room, at the bars of soap and empty snack bags on the table, and even found a few empty wine bottles and even a headless syringe in his clothes on the floor. Then, he slowly shifted his gaze to Theorod, who was sitting on the floor across from him, looking at the milky white stains on his white coat of unknown composition, at his lower body wearing only panties, at his snow-white thighs and on his neck, and at himself mechanically, and found that he was in a similar state to him, and only his underwear was left in the lower half of his body, but his purple-red marks appeared around his arms and collarbones......
"We ...... What did you do......? ”
Theolod looked at the suspicious marks on the other party's arms and collarbones, and shook his head firmly: "I'm not quite sure what we did yesterday when we got drunk, but I can be sure that I didn't you, you didn't me, and if we didn't get to the set within twenty minutes, David would have to both of us." ”