After finishing the call with Leo, Jenny stretched, looked at the closed door with some vigilance, bent down and opened the bottom layer of the chest of drawers, carefully pulled out the charger under a few magazines, and after connecting the mobile phone, she covered a dress at the socket at the foot of the bed, and sprinkled a few books as a cover, then patted the clothes, opened the door and went to the crew cafeteria - in this crew, mobile phones are a taboo, if they are discovered, even if she is the biggest coffee in the group, I am afraid that she will be confiscated.

"Hey, J.J."

“j.j。”

It was lunchtime, and many crew members had already come to the cafeteria in groups of threes and twos, and when they saw the books Jenny was holding, they couldn't help but smile: when the staff returned to their rooms at night, they could take out their mobile phones to make a call, or watch TV, but Jenny's room didn't even have a TV, and in this alpine pasture in the wilderness, all she could use to relieve her boredom was books.

Holding a copy of "That's You", Jenny walked to her seat with a plate of pan-fried steak with salad, and after getting a glass of water for herself, she sat down facing the vast pasture, cutting the steak, while absentmindedly glancing at the romance novels that were so vulgar to her that they belonged to the forties and fifties of the last century, and after only a few pages, she put the book aside and simply enjoyed her lunch in front of the green grass that reached to the horizon.

Although the seat next to her was empty, no one would come to eat and chat with her, this was Salvi's rule, of course, this also included depriving her of all modern entertainment such as laptops, iPads, etc., as far as the official rules were concerned, Jenny was now only able to contact fifteen minutes a day on the phone, and Mary would give her a briefing, and she would give instructions that if Mary thought that there was nothing worth a briefing that day, then there would not even be such a call. For example, the phone call with Leonardo just now, it was a bit of a twist, first Mary conveyed his desire to contact her, and then Jenny made an appointment to let him call, for this reason, she also specially chose the time before lunch, so that the noisy voice can drown out her voice, otherwise, Jenny is really not sure that her cheating will be 'exposed'.

Restrict modern electronic devices, separate dining seats, and of course, don't go out...... Although Salvi couldn't block cell phone signals at the Ben Auhau farm they filmed, he managed to create such a realistic atmosphere for the actors' doors that it felt like they had stepped back in time to the beginning of the century. It's only been a little over a week since she came here, and Jenny is almost used to thinking that she really lives on a country farm in the early 20th century, especially when she runs a few miles along the road every morning, throwing the house into a small black dot behind her, surrounded by the endless frosty meadows, there is really a feeling that this meadow has never changed since ancient times, and she has not even cultivated it deliberately, and her perception of which era she is in has gradually blurred, and even found a little. The feeling of antiquity's life.

"Hey." Halfway through the steak, Heath walked up to her and said hello and put down his plate - again, his dining area was restricted, and basically, the two of them could only eat with each other. "Looks like you have a good appetite today."

"Hey—" said Jenny, putting down her knife and fork, "I'm so bored, and one might have a great appetite when he's bored." ”

If there is no assistant with him during filming, many actors will gain weight because the food is too good, with the help of Mary, Jenny has always controlled it very well, but this time Mary couldn't follow, and her exercise volume expanded again and again because of boredom, Jenny also began to relax a little bit of her diet control - she didn't have any concerns about the intake of beef, and her recipes had always ensured the intake of animal protein, mainly in the amount of salt and sugar, and she could only be less particular about it if she didn't eat it and starved to death. began to eat the crew's food like everyone else. And this release is a little bit difficult to control - just like she said, if you are very busy, maybe your mind is not on eating, but you are so bored that you can't help but have to eat a few more bites, plus you are isolated from the world, you can hardly see the media, and you don't need to be on camera, no matter how determined and self-vigilant you are, it seems that it is not effective. Fortunately, she showed no signs of gaining weight, and her girth did not change, so Jenny let it go.

"The hunger in your brain is transferred to your stomach." Heath glanced at the cover of the novel and commented, "This is another Cinderella and Prince story, right?" ”

"Yes, it's kind of like a mix of Jane Eyre and Cinderella." Jenny said bitterly, "You know what? In addition to these, there are books on farm farming techniques in the library - I don't have many options. ”

Heath gave a sympathetic glance, and the two looked at each other and smiled, and a sense of closeness naturally followed, which Jenny guessed was one of Salvi's intentions. - Actually, she and Heath are both very professional actors, even if they don't know each other well, the effect of the play should not be bad, but 'not bad' is obviously not enough for Salvi, what he needs is the natural outpouring of emotion, the whole devotion...... In short, this guy is a perfectionist through and through, and in order to achieve the results he wants, he will not care about the completion guarantee and the progress of the shoot.

"You've been gone all morning today, haven't you?" Jenny took a bite of the leaf and asked as she chewed, "Or walk through that field over and over again?" ”

"Yes, over and over - over and over again." Heath sighed, he poked the mashed potatoes on his plate, "I just wish we could shoot another shot in the afternoon." ”

Jenny couldn't help but laugh - in fact, she had mixed emotions right now, because while Heath's current bitterness was indeed funny, it still made her shudder to think that it might be a reflection of her future. At present, it is only a walking shot, and if it is a fighting shot, it will take a shot for a day...... Well, it can only be said that Salvi also has a lot of city, and when he filmed "Monroe", his progress was neither fast nor slow, and he never made her feel that there was anything wrong, and now that he has the capital, he began to torture the producer. With the progress of a few seconds of footage a day, Jenny estimated that if he had filmed "Monroe" like this, she would have been crazy when she was a first-time producer.

"Do you regret not playing "Codename Shero" now?" She jokingly asked Heath, "If you keep going like this, I'm afraid you're going to quit - if you think there's a problem, you should still communicate with Salvi in time, he's not the kind of stern and irascible director." ”

Heath's personality is more sensitive, and she has always had sleep disorders, and she is afraid that this interpretation will bring him too much pressure, causing him to lose sleep again, which in turn will lead to alcoholism. He has said before that during the filming of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Batman: The Dark Knight", he felt very frustrated several times and was almost crushed by insomnia.

"No—" Surprisingly, Heath shook his head, "though it's a bit masochistic to say that, I promise you, when I revisited that stretch for the thousandth time, I really—"

He clenched his fist and expressed his frustration, "But when Salvi says yes, you go and see the shot that he thinks is good, and the comparison with the previous one...... You know, I'm a very well-prepared actor, and whenever I get in, I already have a play in my mind, I've already got into that role - like a clown, Ennis...... Many people may think that those performances are sincere and comfortable, but in fact, when you see a shot that Cesare is happy with, it is a different kind of feeling, and it will make your previous acting skills look ...... Pompous. ”

The tiredness just now has faded a lot unconsciously, and Hiss showed a gentle smile, he looked very satisfied, "So that shot will make all your hard work meaningful, I think the person who needs to be sorry is me, not him, it's not that his requests are too weird, it's just that I can't give him what he wants in a few shots." ”

His expression touched Jenny a little, and she said after a while, "I don't think anyone needs to be sorry, you guys are just- you still need to run in, and you're still looking for a point of convergence between the two sides, which has to be familiarized with with constant experimentation, maybe that's how Salvi has been shooting your one-man shots, in fact, it's more time-saving on a large scale." ”

"Maybe." Mr. Heath said he didn't seem to care much about time — like the rest of the crew, they were paid a weekly wage, so the length of time the film was filmed didn't matter to them, and the longer the time and perhaps the income was more stable. Jenny laughed self-deprecatingly: she couldn't get rid of the producer's fault.

"See you in the evening." She said hello to Heath, "Have a nice afternoon." ”

Heath snorted, and Jenny smiled and walked back to her room—she decided to take a good nap.

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The temperature in New Zealand at the end of July wasn't too high, but the sun was already shining, and after a long nap, Jenny decided not to waste the afternoon sun and took an impromptu hiking walk. She took a bottle of water, a blanket, and a book, and walked out of the house, past a dense group of trailers, and then walked along a sheep's intestine path until she couldn't see the house, and then sat down under a redwood tree, and exhaled a long breath looking at the blue sky in the distance.

Salvi is always very good at dispelling her uneasiness, this large ranch covering thousands of hectares, where the Lord of the Rings series was filmed, is almost an independent small society - in order to prevent the sheep from getting lost, there is an electronic fence around the ranch, and the specially hired security company will check the credentials of the people who enter and exit, and the people who enter and exit the ranch are surprisingly few and simple, because it takes more than an hour to drive out of the ranch to enter the city, and there is really nothing fun in that city, Even if someone could get around, he would have to find a house on foot on the ranch first...... You know, there are many parts of the ranch that don't have a signal.

So, for Jenny, living here does make her feel safe, which is one of the reasons why she loves Yosemite and here, in Los Angeles, whether it is a cliff manor or a big dream, the shadow of stalker is always everywhere, the frenetic crowd also makes her nervous, going out alone is always an unrealistic fantasy, for her, passers-by are not safe, social media is becoming more and more developed now, who knows if a candid photo will attract paparazzi? But on this ranch, she can go wherever she wants, do whatever she wants, of course, she is bored, but this boredom is also blissful and lazy...... Perhaps, this is the state of Cola's usual life, she is not satisfied with the boring and dull reading material at hand, curious about what the outside world is like, but at the same time, she is unwilling to break the current life, Coke's life lacks changes, but she is not depressed, in essence, she is a normal, self-satisfied small town girl.

Actually, there's nothing wrong with that, isn't it?

With her hands behind her head, Jenny fell down and felt the coolness of the land. She raised her hand and measured the sky between her fingers, thinking about the feeling of Coke. Cola was a 16-year-old girl when she first met Mantos, she must have been quite curious about love, and she had read so many romance novels, is love just like the one depicted in the book? She may not know anything about it, but she's brave enough to try. Whether it's pain or happiness, she'll take it all.

Yes, love, the longing for a new relationship...... In the world of movies, everything is so simple, Jenny thought, "That's why we love movies, you can explore another possibility and live a life that you didn't choose......"

Before she knew it, the sun had sunset to the horizon, and without its warmth, the ground was starting to get colder, and she couldn't stay flat, Jenny rolled over and sat up, just in time to see Salvi slowly coming up the gentle slope.

"Filming ended early today." She said she gave him a place on the blanket.

Salvi, who looked a little dusty in his windproof jacket and winter pants, but could still go straight to the fashion shoot, sat down on the blanket a little awkwardly and let out a heavy sigh, "From standing in the morning to now - Heath opened up in the afternoon and gave us a few sets of good shots." So I called it a day early – always to make him feel a little bit unfinished so that he could last longer. ”

Jenny couldn't help but laugh, "Love to manipulate people. ”

"That's what makes a good director." Salvi said solemnly, "What are you thinking?" ”

"I'm wondering what kind of boy a 16-year-old cola would like." "I don't know if you changed the script -- you really kept it a secret -- so I'm guessing for myself." ”

"What kind of boy do you think she'll like?" Salvi asked, ignoring Jenny's complaints.

"A boy of boys." Jenny said, "All the strengths and weaknesses of a boy, recklessness, thinking about sex all the time, being athletic, a slight lack of hygiene, but -- very hormonal feeling." ”

"It does sound like a Coke." Salvi said, "In fact, you and I are thinking the same thing. ”

Jenny flipped through the pages of the book at hand and said dryly, "I'm honored. ”

Salvi looked up and laughed, leaning back against the trunk of the tree, looking at the fiery red balls in the distance, the sun slowly setting over the top of the mountain, little by little.

"I decided to give Hiss a day off." He said, "I think you're ready to be officially on the camera." ”

"Oh?" Jenny said, feeling relaxed and freehand, lazily, "You think I'm ready?" ”

"I think you're ready." Salvi said, "I just walked over and saw the feeling of your hand raised to the sky — I knew I was washing Hollywood off of you, and you were ready." ”

"Can I see the final script, then?"

"Not yet," Salvi said, laughing, "oh, not yet—for now you're just walking through the woods like Hiss." ”