Chapter 17: Anna
Not long after lying in bed, the phone suddenly rang. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Hello, I'm Chris."
"Hey! Chris, I'm Joel, I received the email, your script is very good, Ethan and I are very satisfied. You can prepare as you wish. Also, when you come to Paramount Studio on Friday, we're ready to try on makeup for each character and take makeup shoots. Joel Cohen's crisp voice came over the phone.
"Friday, what time does it pass?" Chris Dao.
"Hmm...... Just arrive before 10 a.m., because you have to coordinate the time of photographers, makeup artists and actors, and it is estimated that it will be good to start work before 10 o'clock. Joel hesitated.
"Well, I'll be on time, Mr. Cohen."
"See you then, and I hope you can continue to amaze me, Chris."
"I will, goodbye, Joel."
After hanging up the phone, Chris suddenly lay down on the bed, his eyes looking at the white ceiling, and somehow a plump figure appeared in his mind. She should go the day after tomorrow!
For the rest of the day, Chris was immersed in Cabet's world, and he even envisioned a Kabet experience before becoming a hitman, continuing to flesh out the characters he created. He walked up and down the hall, muttering something and staring straight ahead, as if nothing could disturb him. There was a "rustling" sound on the ground, and it turned out that Chris had been imitating a person with a slight slope walking. Even when eating, Chris still maintains Cabet's appearance, chewing slowly and meticulously. Mozart was playing in the stereo in the room. Not to mention, it's really a bit of a lonely and autistic look.
On Friday, Chris still woke up early, ran around the park, and then punched for a while, sweating profusely, but he was very happy. I went back to the apartment and took a shower, had breakfast, and was full of energy. After calling Alan, Chris sat on the couch and turned on the TV and waited for him to drive over. Although I have the idea of buying a car, I have been preparing for the performance of "Connie Town" for the past few days, and I really don't have time to choose a car. It was only today that he threw away the script and relaxed.
"Ding Ding ......" At eight o'clock, a doorbell suddenly rang. Chris opens the door to find Alan's assistant Anna standing outside the door in a beautiful red dress.
"Hello Chris, Alan can't come here for a while, and Fanny Clarkson won't be officially at work until next week, so I'll have to pick you up from the studio today. Alan will be there in the afternoon and you will meet, I hope you don't mind. Anna greeted warmly.
"Of course not, please come in." Chris hurriedly let go of the door, since Li Ping became Chris, it was the first time that a woman patronized the house.
"Drink something, juice or coffee?" Chris asked, walking to the kitchen door.
"Coffee, thank you." Anna gently sat on the sofa and looked around, "The environment of the place where you live is really good, the room is very clean, and the room for a single man is really good." ”
"Thanks, just a quick tidy." Chris gently handed over a cup of coffee.
"Someone must be helping clean up, haha......" Anna winked and scratched the road.
"I said you were the first woman to enter this room, do you believe it?" Chris smiled wryly.
Anna was stunned and laughed, "That's really my pleasure, haha, but I don't believe it." ”
"Anna, I think we'd better talk about work." Chris wondered if everyone in the office was so gossipy, and quickly guided her to work.
"Oh, I almost forgot," Anna quickly put down the cup in her hand as soon as she heard the words of work, pulled out a few documents from her bag, and handed them to Chris, "This contract Alan asked me to show you, and he said that he had won the best treatment you have now." ”
"Yes." Chris replied softly, hurriedly flipped through the document that was only a few pages, and his eyes were already fixed on the line of numbers in the document, and the salary was 1,500,000$! Although Chris looks calm on the surface, he has already exclaimed in his heart, $1.5 million! This is an amount that Li Ping never dared to think of in his lifetime, but now he can easily get it. Chris had to shake his head helplessly.
"What, aren't you satisfied? In fact, it can be negotiated before the official signing. Anna kept paying attention to Chris's expression, and when she saw him shake her head and smile bitterly, she asked eagerly.
"No, the salary for this film has greatly exceeded my expectations, six or seven times that of my last film." Chris sighed, "I'm just feeling a little emotional. ”
"Oh, it's good if you're satisfied, 1.5 million looks good, but after removing Allen's commission and taxes, there is actually more than 700,000 left, and other people's salaries are much more than yours." Anna laughed.
"Ahh Chris was stunned and then smiled bitterly: "Anna, can't you make me happy for a while, I'm still going to buy a good car!" ”
Anna moved to Chris's position, patted Chris's shoulder with one hand, smiled and comforted, "Hehe...... You should be content, Chris, think you're not even 25 years old, your future is good, but you should buy a car, you can't ask Alan to take you every time, it's going to be very common like today. She let go of Chris's shoulders and leaned back on the couch, "Actually, if you don't mind, you can buy a used car, your publicist Ms. Peggy's service is very expensive, and your financial situation will not be optimistic." ”
"Haha, though, that's not what you should be most concerned about today." Anna teased with some meaning.
"What?" Chris asked curiously, but Anna didn't answer, and he had to lie on the couch with his head in his hands a little depressed.
After Anna finished her coffee, the two of them chatted casually for a while, and then got up and went out.
It wasn't until he walked into the Paramount studio that Chris understood the special meaning of Anna's words. From the moment he entered the Paramount Gate, all the staff members sneaked a few glances at him from time to time, making Chris wonder if there was something on his face. And when he looked at Anna with a questioning look, Anna smiled silently.
Finally, Chris, who was depressed along the way, walked into the actors' lounge that had been prepared long ago under the guidance of the staff. It was a large lounge, with a few chairs empty, and it looked like he hadn't arrived yet. Because today is just a makeup trial, makeup artists and costumers have a heavier task, and the actors just need to show up on time and let them dress up. So Chris and Anna rested for a while and couldn't help but walk around.
"Connie Town" is a western, the film is set in the late 80s, so the Coen brothers chose some of the film's shots to be shot in the film and television base. Its exterior is modeled after a small town in the American West, made of traditional cement, wood, and brick, and it looks very realistic.
The set was small, with only five or six buildings lined up neatly on both sides of the road, and "Connietown" was only filmed here for a few indoor scenes, most of which were shot in western Texas. Chris walked around twice and found that there was nothing interesting and was about to go back to the lounge, when he suddenly saw Joel and Ethan coming over with a large group of people carrying a large number of tools.
"Hello everyone, Mr. Cohen." Chris was the first to walk up and say hello.
"Hey, Chris, you're so early!" Joel shouted with a laugh. Ethan smiled and nodded.
"I don't have much experience, so I want to come over and prepare first."
"What is there to prepare, today is just a try on makeup, and then everyone will get acquainted with it again." Joel waved his hand and said nonchalantly.
"Hey, it looks like you're a good kid! But don't let the outside world affect your work. Ethan Cohen walked past Chris and whispered, winking and laughing, "I just saw Kate enter the break room."
"Ah......" Chris was stunned, and suddenly thought why everyone was so happy when they saw him, it must be because of the boiling scandal that spread a few days ago. He patted his head depressedly, secretly thinking in his heart that he didn't expect Ethan, who had always been taciturn with square-rimmed glasses, to make jokes.
"Oh yes," Joel shouted as he suddenly turned his head, "you get ready, there's going to be a group training next month, and everyone will get together to experience the real western life." After speaking, he waved his hand to him and went to measure the framing with a few staff members.