"Michael. Clayton. If you like it, go to www.LWXS520. com" Jenny read, "This is a biographical film? Is this a celebrity? ”

"It's just that it happens to be the same name, it's a crime thriller." Cesare nodded at the script, "The script is already written, read a few pages and look at the outline." I think the role of Karen is quite suitable for you. ”

"Is this the movie we have in our plan that will push me past the top and create a new one?" Jenny didn't open it right away, but asked a little suspiciously, "--Obviously, this is a movie with a male lead." ”

"It's not the magical movie we had planned, but it's better than no choice at all." "We have to learn to adapt to change, don't we? After three months of searching, you can only learn to use the materials you have. ”

"yes, yes." Jenny sighed as well, and she muttered, "It's a man's world—women can only learn to make compromises." ”

Yes, that's a tricky question. Although in Cesare and her plan, Jenny's next film should be a phenomenal work that proves her strength and even surpasses "The Fifth Sally", and Jenny can now confidently announce that she can rank first in the hearts of major Hollywood studios, and any movie, as long as she fancies, would rather spend 20 million to invite her than spend much less money to invite others. She can piece together and pick the best cards in her hand at will in the big game of Hollywood - however, the truth is, when they are 'more demanding than 'Sally the Fifth,' there aren't many options that even Hollywood has to offer.

Therefore, although the competition for actresses is smaller than that of male actors, and the results are earlier, this does not mean that the rules of the game in Hollywood are in favor of women. In fact, actresses came out early, and that is because their predecessors fell quickly, and the predecessors fell quickly, not because they were not good enough, but objectively speaking, Hollywood provides far fewer good roles for actresses than male actors. It can be said that 80% of the films are centered on male characters, just like "The Departed" and "Blood Diamond", where the male stars are all actors, and the female stars can only act as a foil, if not a vase.

Since Jenny finished filming "Pirates of the Caribbean" and returned to Hollywood, she and Cesare have been picking her next project in the sea of scripts, not an investment, because Big Dream has no extra money to invest in new projects, their goal is simple: the plot has depth, and the heroine is of the right age for Jenny to play - the plot is centered on the heroine, and the director is reliable.

And these four requirements have brushed off almost all the candidate scripts, there are many in-depth scripts, and some directors are interested in going out, and even look forward to working with Jenny, such as Rob. Marshall's "9", which he is now operating, intends to invite Jenny to play the muse of the male protagonist Guido, a blonde goddess from the United States. Jenny has a certain interest in this role, and not only because the male protagonist of this film is Daniel, a master of methods in today's world. Wear. Lewis, the film itself is a remake of a business card, and because she owes Rob a very huge favor - but obviously, this kind of famous director, famous actor (Rob's threshold for selecting the 9 female characters in this movie is to be nominated for an Oscar, if he can win, it will be better), and the big production of business cards, almost all of them are male-centric, this kind of film can't make her prove that she deserves the honor of the Oscar double actress, and even under the burden of the double actress, even if she performs well, she can only get ' Not bad', and even the slightest mistake would have made her nailed a little more firmly to the 'Pillar of Shame'.

Like "Unstoppable," Reese may have won an Oscar for it, but Jenny assured that if she were to star in the film and play it now in 2006, the best praise she would have received would probably be 'mediocre'. At Jenny's current heights, even if it's just to maintain her current achievements, she needs a lot of hard work and luck, and given the vases she's going to be next, she really, really needs a great film to maintain her acting style.

"Life and Death Reading" ...... "She is still a little unwilling." Did they really recognize Nicole? ”

"The crew has signed a contract, Jenny." Cesare replied simply, putting down his knife and fork, "Besides, we've talked about it – 'Life and Death Reading' isn't a character for your age, and wearing old makeup doesn't apply to actresses, and we've discussed the risks." ”

Yes, for actresses, their sense of age is what everyone is diluting, generally speaking, an actress will rarely take on the role of 'mother with teenage children', even if she is a hot mom on the screen, there will be a love line, but once you take on such a role, it means that you are far from the starring throne of chick-flick. For chick movies, the heroine can't be more than 35 years old, and she can't make the audience feel the generation difference - this is something that countless actresses are trying to avoid with Botox and microplastic surgery, and as long as they still want to make big vases, then they can never be associated with 'middle age'. So for actresses, 'playing old' is an acting strategy that they rarely adopt.

Christopher can be transformed into Roger, a middle-aged doctor in his 40s and 50s, but that's because middle-aged men at this age still often fall in love with young beauties on the screen, but once Jenny becomes the mature Hannah in "Life and Death Reading", and if this film triggers a wide repercussions, then no one knows what will happen, and her box office appeal will wane? Does people have the impression that she will be a 25-year-old girl who has entered middle age? Do people think it's very strange for her to play against male stars of the same age? No one will know the answer, because before that, there were really no young movie stars wearing old makeup, starting from the age of 30 or 40 and acting all the way to old age, and Cesare thought that this was a very uneconomical attempt, not only too risky, but also extremely likely to fail.

"You're only 25 years old, Jennifer, and that character is going to be played until you're old," he threw the script back into the 'knockout' pile, "You may be a very good actor, but are you sure you can challenge the gray-haired old woman at 25?" ”

Jenny is sure - she has a golden finger, but she's not so sure either, because her impression of "Life and Death Reading" is only vague enough to remember the film as if it appeared at the Oscars that year, but there is no such film in the entertainment space, so she may have a hard time finding the right character to empathize with. In addition, she was also afraid that she would act too well, and the audience would have decided that she was a mature star who was almost 40 years old, so she could only give up "Life and Death Reading" in a huff, and then she could never find another script that could evoke 'intuition' in the script pile.

"Well, once again, forget about this movie." Jenny exhaled and began to read Michael. Clayton", just when she saw the synopsis at the beginning, her eyebrows jumped, "Ah, this is George. Clooney's movie? ”

"Yes, he'll be involved in investing in productions -- along with Soderbergh and Sidney. Pollack is also the producer of "Life and Death Reading", and I think if you like "Life and Death Reading", you will also look at it differently. Cesare rarely admits to speculating on Jeanne's preferences, and his confession provokes Jeanne to look the other way: "Both plays are sharp, and if you're 35 years old, I'd recommend "Life and Death Reading," and now, "Michael. Clayton is also good, "Life and Death Reading" explores the shame and humility of human nature, and "Michael. Clayton is about the Oscar judges' favorite three sets, the dirtiness and glitz of power, the alienation and return of human nature - of course, Karen can't compare with Hannah, Hannah has more room to play, but it can be said that Karen is an immature version of Hannah, she realizes her weakness and powerlessness, but she is not ready to deal with it, they are also helpers of the evil system, a part of evil, not fanatical about evil, but also not disgusted with it. I think this slightly colder image is a good fit for you, and once critics embrace this more powerful image, they'll be more tolerant of the martial arts routes you've found in commercial films, rather than overreacting as they did this time. ”

Cesare's analysis makes sense, judging from the number of pages and her biography, and the scenes in the entire story outline, he also has a very accurate grasp of Karen's character characteristics, which is exactly the role they need now - although Karen's role can only be regarded as a supporting role, it can be seen that Cesare has tried his best to find the most suitable script for her in today's 'good woman is difficult to cook', but Jenny is not too excited, she has not seen "Michael. Clayton", I don't know what this film has achieved in the end, and I don't know how I should play Karen, empathy? Or do you want to go on it yourself? She originally planned to reduce her reliance on Goldfinger step by step, but this time the bad reviews of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" made her a little hesitant, yes, she won the award, but that was not the real her, if she was in "Michael. The performance in "Clayton" also met with bad reviews, what should I do? Also, she didn't really want to talk to George. Clooney cooperated, and to tell you the truth, she hated this man......

"Of course." She closed the script and sighed, "If you think it's good, then we'll take it, after all, we can't leave the whole second half of the year empty and do nothing." ”

Cesare was not rejoicing, he leaned back, bit his cheek thoughtfully, and squinted at Jeanne as he wroughtly rubbed the porcelain plate with his fork.

"What." Jenny narrowed her eyes warily, "—besides, this plate is expensive, don't spoil it." ”

"I felt a familiar emotional slump coming." Cesare tossed his fork into his plate, "It's like a rehash of the past - everything was fine, maybe we had a minor setback or two, and you just suddenly seem to lose interest and passion for everything." ”

Three years ago, she and Cesare were smoking and talking at the premiere party of "Pirates 1" suddenly appeared, and Jenny couldn't help but smile, she relaxed a little, "yes...... It's my old problem, isn't it? Mood swings - I'll admit, I'm an emotionally driven animal, and this may not be a shortcoming that can be solved in one or two conversations. ”

"In the vast majority of women, that's not a disadvantage." Cesare said that he pulled his customary leather cigarette sleeve from his inner pocket, smoked a cigar for himself, and threw the cigarette sleeve to Jenny. ”

Jenny shrugged, "What to talk about?" I don't know - I can't stand the comments, but you all think I shouldn't be bothered by them, done, I'm still in a bad mood when the conversation is over. ”

There was some grumbling in her tone, and Cesare's blue eyes narrowed.

"With all due respect," he struck a match, "you really shouldn't be bothered by these comments - you haven't been scolded, Jefferson, any of your films have bad reviews, and Pirates 2 is by no means without good reviews." More often than not, you just laugh at the review, it's hard to please you with a good review, and a bad review won't frustrate you any more. All of a sudden, you're like a newcomer now, overly sensitive to every unsatisfactory review – and for me, there are a lot of reviews that aren't even bad, they're saying, 'You shouldn't have chosen this film, the director is using you wrongly', they're not denying your talent, Jenny, they just don't like your choice. Why are these comments suddenly so important? I don't know, and I don't think Mary knows - we just can't understand why you suddenly changed your style. ”

Jeanne opened her mouth, then closed it again—and that was the downside of the conversation with Cesare, the man was so pervasive that he didn't even need to lift an eyebrow, and the mere change in tone succeeded in making her admit how ridiculous her change was, at least to outsiders.

How could she explain that she cared for a reason? Jenny didn't know where to start without revealing her secrets, but she didn't want to lie either.

“…… You can just say, 'Jenny, you're doing a great job, don't care what people say, I know this, you know this.'" Eventually, she grumbled and lit her cigar and took a puff in anger. Why not always choose the easy answer, Chesa? You always like to make yourself like a bad guy. ”

Cesare stared at Jeanne for a moment, but he didn't smoke the cigar in his hand.

"Because it is your partner's and family's responsibility to support you unprincipledly." He said in a strange tone, "As your agent, I think it's my duty to make you understand how immature you are in this matter, Jefferson, it's a cold world, and if you want warmth and comfort, you can retract into your warm and luxurious shell, you have money, you have honor, you can never make a film again, and live the rest of your life luxuriously on your royalties—"

He seemed to want to extinguish the cigar on the table—an unusual move for Cesare, who was usually a polite cigar drinker—but halfway through he changed his mind and restrained himself from the brown tobacco. "But if you still want to play, and you still want to gamble on this game, then you only have two options - take your questions out, Jefferson - "

He leaned forward and emphatically took the lead, "Stop covering it up with flirtatious whining and teasing, say your problem, and let us fix it, or—"

Jenny instinctively shrunk her shoulders as Cesare spread her hands, "Or solve your problems yourself and stop acting like a child: it's your film, your script, it's your decision to act or not, Jefferson, it's your career -- stop being endlessly dependent on others." ”

He stood up, snatched the script from Jenny's hand, and looked down at her condescendingly, "Now, tell me you'll read this script carefully. ”

Jenny nodded hesitantly, and Cesare narrowed.

"I'll read this script carefully!" Jenny screamed, and she was a little angry, "OK? Now give me the damn script. ”

"Then read the script," Cesare returned the folder to her, but his indifferent expression seemed to suggest that the temper had not passed, "and then call me." ”

He grabbed his briefcase and headed straight for the garage, Jenny glared at the folder, then turned back to Cesare, and it took a few rounds for her to be sure what had just happened—she, the Oscar-winning actress, the box office superstar, the perfect client of countless agents by every measure—had just been bullied by her agent for no apparent reason.

Seriously, does she have more than fifteen complaints? More than ten sentences? Five sentences?

"You're just inexplicable!" She stood up and shouted at Cesare's back, "You're impossible!" ”

Cesare raised his hand calmly and waved, turning the corner, and Jenny stared at the empty lawn, unable to believe what had just happened.

- Is this the first time they have ever (or the second time?) Did you quarrel?

The author has something to say: Note: Both films are real, "Michael. Clayton" is also known as "Total Strike Back", in fact, Tilda. It was with it that Winston won the Olympic Award for Best Supporting Actress. Some of the relevant situations are also true, and I recommend everyone to take a look.

I've been waiting for a long time, and yesterday I said that I would update it in time, but today the toothache spread and half of my face was swollen, and I was drowsy for a long time, which was uncomfortable.

First the chair, then the toothache, these feelings are all ominous signs, can you really save the manuscript smoothly......

Anyway, let's start with it, there's a double shift tonight......