Kate-Beckinsale tries to calm her feelings, but it is obviously not an easy task, she runs as fast as she goes, along the coastline of the Venetian beaches, running faster and faster, the lack of oxygen in her brain makes her forget about the irritability for a while, and focus on adjusting her breathing to maintain her rhythm. However, her breathing became more and more disordered, and the restless emotion made her can't help but accelerate suddenly, and after destroying the rhythm of running, her breathing began to become more and more rapid, forming a vicious cycle.

In the end, Kate had to slow down, and then supported her knees with her hands, and the whole person bent over, gasping for air, hot sweat running down her cheeks and falling on the concrete road, accumulating more and more.

After pausing running, chagrin and anxiety took over the brain again in an instant. As long as she thinks of the bad box office of "Van Helsing", she has no way to calm her mind.

At the beginning of the century, she chose to leave Britain and come to the United States to develop, but at the stage of the rapid rise of her career, the box office fiasco of "Pearl Harbor" hit her hard; Last year, a "Legend of the Night" finally brought her career as an actor back to the dawn again, but the clumsy performance of "Van Helsing" once again blocked her.

Kate doesn't have much ambition for her career as an actress, she always maintains a normal heart, but the continuous setbacks have made her life a mess, and this feeling of stumbling is really frustrating. This is Hollywood, this is the real society, not all efforts can be rewarded, and not all efforts can achieve results.

Salty sweat slid down her eyelashes, stinging her pupils, forcing Kate to immediately tug at the towel around her neck and start rubbing her eyes. But at this moment. There was a jolt from the armband strapped to her arm, and Kate realized that it was her phone ringing, which immediately made her scramble. I had to open my armband with my eyes closed and take out my phone. Connect the phone and put it to your ear......

The sequence of movements seemed clumsy, first the towel was almost lost, then the change in the armband fell out, and she was stung by sweat when she tried to open her eyes, and she almost pressed the reject button when she pressed the answer button...... The pent-up annoyance in her heart began to burn again, which made Kate grit her teeth fiercely and couldn't help but start to get angry with herself.

But after the phone is connected. Kate still suppressed her feelings for the time being, and said to the earpiece with the last remaining patience, "This is Kate, please speak." ”

"Kate, it's Cole." The voice on the other end of the phone shook Kate's spirits, this was her agent, and Cole hadn't contacted her for nearly a month recently, as if the whole world had quieted down, and that sense of forgotten panic gradually turned into stress. Kate was overwhelmed. However, before Kate could catch her breath, Cole continued. "You're in town now, aren't you?"

Kate only had time to say "yes", and then Cole continued, "You can come to Century City, there's an audition here." The address is Room 401, 21 Green Ridge Street. Remember two points, speed as much as possible, dress the best formal clothes, and you must pay absolute attention! I will send you another text message to confirm the specific information, what other questions? ”

"Uh...... Not at the moment. Kate's brain was visibly deprived of oxygen, and she felt like she couldn't keep up with Cole's rhythm at all. I could only reluctantly nod and agree, and then Cole hung up the phone directly. Clearly, the situation is urgent.

Standing still, Kate's chest was still heaving rapidly. The sluggish brain was stunned, and finally came back to her senses: she actually got another chance to audition! And Cole's tone was not only very cautious, but also re-emphasized the importance, even more solemn than the original audition for "Pearl Harbor", which made Kate's heart beat wildly - but this time it was no longer irritation, but euphoria.

Looking back, there was an endless sea behind her, Kate suddenly felt a little dazed, standing in place and not knowing what to write, stunned for a few seconds, then reacted, turned around and ran in the direction of Santa Monica Boulevard. It's never easy to find a free taxi on the streets of Los Angeles, and most of the time you have to call to make an appointment, but this time, Kate ran less than a hundred yards when she saw a taxi stop on the side of the road, and a passenger happened to be in the car.

Kate ran over quickly, but she didn't want to, as soon as she ran to the door of the car, another business man in a neat suit also walked to the door of the car. Kate's speed was even half a step slower, which made her suddenly embarrassed, out of politeness, she should have backed off and gave in, but now that the situation was urgent, she couldn't care about it.

As she hesitated, the man smiled politely, his turquoise eyes like the quiet and mysterious lakes of the Rocky Mountains, and then the man took a half-step back and motioned for her to get in the car first. Kate didn't have time to be polite, so she could only nod politely at the other party, "Thank you, thank you very much." After saying that, he quickly got in the car, reported his address to the driver, and the taxi quickly started again.

Kate let out a long breath and relaxed a little. After thinking about it, he turned his head to look behind him, and the man still retreated to the side of the road, standing straight, took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, covered the lighter with his right hand in the raging sea breeze, and lit the cigarette, and his slender knuckles loomed in the smoke...... Then, the taxi turned into Santa Monica Avenue and was nowhere to be seen.

Go home, take a combat bath, change clothes, go out again, take a taxi, and arrive at Green Ridge Street.

When Kate stood in the elevator of the office building, her messy brain finally calmed down. In fact, at this time, she still didn't know anything about the upcoming audition, she didn't know who she was going to face, she didn't know which work she was working on, and she didn't know what role she was auditioning for...... The lack of information made her a little nervous, and the repeated obstacles to her career in the recent period of time made her feel bottomless, she had to secretly clench her fists and cheer herself on, "You can do it, you can do it!" ”

The elevator opened, and Kate took a deep breath, although it had been forty minutes since she received Cole's call, the passage of time had left her with little time to calm down and think, and she could only improvise. However, after stepping out of the elevator, Kate couldn't help but be stunned, she almost thought she was in the wrong place.

The hallway in front of me is cluttered with all sorts of boxes and plastic foam, making it look like a construction site. The office on the left hand side is empty, there is nothing, it is completely the absurd appearance of the scam company after it was investigated; On the right-hand side, there was a bustle of people coming and going, but the busy scene was typical of a new company being renovated.

This is the place to audition? Even the dark, damp stage dressing room in London's West End is far more reliable than it looks.

Kate took out her phone and reconfirmed Cole's text message, the address and floor were not wrong, so what the hell was going on. At this time, a worker came over with a large box and threw it in the corridor, Kate hurriedly stepped forward, "Good afternoon, is this Chaos Pictures?" ”

"Yes, walk in and turn left." The worker seemed to be surprised by this, answered skillfully, and then walked in first. Walking to the door, the worker turned around and saw Kate stunned in place, whistled, attracted Kate's attention, and turned his head, "Your companion is there." ”

Kate raised her voice to say "thank you" and walked over quickly. Walking through the door, the office that is gradually taking shape is presented in front of you, the sunlight penetrates the entire glass wall, unhindered and sprinkled, full of vitality, and when you look to the left, you will find a small group of people standing next to it, all of whom are acquaintances.

"Hey, Kate, you're here too." The bald head standing in the direction of the doorway was the first to say hello, which immediately sent Kate's dangling heart back into her chest - at least she wasn't in the wrong place.

"Jason!" Kate walked up briskly, nodded hello to Jason Statham (-Statham), and then Jeremy Renner (Y-R) Neil MacDonald (Neil-Ugh), who was standing next to him, greeted each other, and then was stunned, this combination was really unexpected, making Kate a little confused.

Jason is Kate's British hometown, who has starred in works such as "Two Big Smoking Guns" and "Death Express", and is considered a good action actor in recent years. Jeremy is a newcomer, not even a third-tier actor, and the "anti-terrorism SWAT team" with Colin Farrell last year also had mediocre results; Neil has always been active on the small screen of TV dramas, and even planned to give up acting for a while, but later Cole won him an audition for "Band of Brothers", which made him a success, and he was able to work with Tom Cruise on "Minority Report" the year before.

First of all, they are all artists of Keerqi, there is no doubt about it; But none of the four of them have been a huge success in their careers, and more often than not, they appear in action movies.

"Is this an action commercial blockbuster?" Kate couldn't help but ask curiously, but the three of them thought about it seriously and nodded suddenly, which made Kate look at the three people speechlessly, "Really?" You're kidding, right? She just guessed casually, the clue couldn't be more obvious, and the three of them hadn't guessed it before.

Jason scratched his bald head, "We don't know anything, we're here and waiting when we get here." Then he looked left and right at the busy people around him, and he couldn't help but lower his voice and said, "I suspect that this is not a scam company, and it doesn't feel right." ”

Before he could finish speaking, Jason immediately shut up and pretended to look elsewhere as if nothing had happened, and Neil and Jeremy quickly looked away.

As soon as Kate turned around, she saw a man with a cold aura all over her body standing behind them, his cold face raised his eyebrows slightly, and even if he didn't have to speak, he conveyed a mocking message of "you must be joking", which made Kate look away in amazement. (To be continued.) )

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