"Hello, Lauren." Jenny stood up and stretched out her hand, and hurried to Lauren. Weisberg said hello and said politely, "I'm Jennifer, and it's a pleasure to meet you." ”

Although she and Lauren made an appointment at the Hilton Hotel where Jenny was staying, Jenny didn't step on the order, but sat in the café five minutes early, Lauren was about three or two minutes late, and the young girl, who was also blonde and blue-eyed, was obviously a little embarrassed, "I was a little lost when I drove from home, I'm sorry to keep you waiting for me for a while, Jennifer." ”

"It's okay, it just gave me time to read." Jenny jokingly compared the book at hand, which of course was, and Lauren's eyes fell on the cover, and she laughed happily, and Jenny continued, "Of course, I've read it two or three times, and I think it's a very deep novel. ”

"Really?" Lauren's tone rose and she looked pleasantly surprised, "Thank you for the appreciation, Jennifer, you know, not everyone thinks so. ”

The waiter brought the menu, Lauren smiled apologetically at Jenny, and began to order for the time being, and Jenny also took this rare opportunity to look at Lauren carefully and without a trace.

In the last negotiation with Cesare, she behaved very *ty, which Jenny herself knows, but she is still very confident in meeting Lauren today. It wasn't a business negotiation, it was an interview, and all she had to do was make a good impression on Lauren and push her to make a logical win-win choice, and she didn't need to conquer another strong will. And dealing with fashion elites like Lauren is exactly what Jenny is good at.

After just a few glances, she made a judgment: blonde hair was acquired, she should have had a nose, of course, she was Jewish, but her image did not look typical, perhaps because of this she thought Natalie. Portman is not fit to play her heroine? Judging from her dress, Lauren is not thin, and can even be said to be a little strong, and she knows this completely, and chose a wide white shirt and dark wide-legged pants to hide this, but she is still very fashionable, so it is easy to be regarded as sloppy and casual clothing, and it looks very temperamental under the combination of some fashion items.

Of course, this information can't explain much at a glance, but Lauren has published a semi-non-documentary, semi-autobiographical novel of an allusional nature, so combined with some of the information in the book, Jenny already has some guesses and understanding of her character - Lauren is definitely not the innocent and lovely college graduate she wrote in her book, young, perhaps, this is her first job after returning from the gapyear, but she has no less heart. Including her leaving, it was not as naked as written in the book, but found another senior editor, and jumped ship with him, the cute boyfriend in the book should be the character she added in Jenny's view, and there should be no correspondence in reality, of course, the heroine's makeover Jenny also reported a certain amount of suspicion, Lauren is not very beautiful, even if she loses weight and wears heavy makeup, it is difficult to receive the dramatic effect in the movie, and she also doubts that she values the weight of the staff so much, editor-in-chief Anna. Wintour didn't treat this assistant differently.

In Jenny's opinion, this should be the case: Lauren came back from the gap year, with her resume in the English department of an Ivy League university, and got the position of assistant editor-in-chief, she may want to become a fashion editor, but after ten months of work, she can't bear the pressure of work and Anna. Wintour's high-pressure personality jumped ship and left with his good male colleagues. Anna. Wintour may not care about such a normal personnel change, what she didn't expect was that Lauren had a lot of opinions about her in her heart, so after leaving her job, she created such a Mary Sue semi-non-fiction novel, combining what she saw and heard here, half venting her anger and half selling * everywhere to imply Anna. Wintour, who took her for a handful, wrote such a novel. The real purpose of creation is not to make a profit other than to consume Wintour's fame and satisfy some of his dreams of getting ahead and making a big difference.

A direct result of this book is that if you want to join the company in the future, you should sign an additional confidentiality agreement, and you can't use Anna or internal affairs as a gimmick. And it is not surprising that Cesare did not discover the potential of this book in the first place, according to the opinion of most normal people, after reading this book, it is true that Anna. Wintour doesn't have a good impression, and people don't think of Lauren as a fuel-efficient lamp - she smears her boss in this book, and whether it's East or West, this kind of backhand and profit-making from others is not very favorable.

But Jenny couldn't tell the truth, let alone tell her honest assessment - she felt that the book itself was not even as clever as some of the third-rate pocket books she had read when she was a student, and on the contrary, she had to find Lauren's g. spot and praise her in order to make her feel that she was the best person to play Andy.

"Of course, as celebrities, we are all part of the fashion industry, but I have to say that your book has opened my eyes to a lot of things that I didn't know and didn't think deeply about." "Even we can't imagine that fashion trends are sometimes decided in such a ridiculous and simple way—it's a little scary, as if we were all ignorant, blinded people, and that these people behind it kept them in power by our ignorance." ”

"Yes." Jenny's temptation worked, and a trace of genuine excitement flashed on Lauren's face - with this sincere affection as a contrast, the previous smile and enthusiasm revealed hypocrisy: women who can do it must be somewhat accomplished in workplace politics, and the degree of intrigue in that place is a bit of an oriental house fight and palace fight. "It's to tell the hypocrisy and ugliness of fashion, I mean, it's really hard for you to imagine how many terrible profit transfers and bribery and extortion exist in these highest fashion halls, and I think it's a big dye vat that can turn people into demons......"

Jenny kept listening, but made a note in her mind: she guessed correctly, Lauren herself was actually against fashion, and her dislike for fashion was far less warm than in the movies, but mixed with Anna. Wintour's hatred. Jenny even guessed that Wintour must have hit Lauren's self-esteem, and had never looked at Lauren differently as she did in the books and movies, and if she did, maybe Lauren wouldn't have left so quickly.

Being able to touch this vein, Jenny feels that she is a lot closer to the heroine throne, after all, Lauren must also hope that her work will be turned into a movie as soon as possible, with Jenny's popularity, she can fly to New York to meet her in person, and have the same opinion as her, no matter what Lauren opposes Natalie. Portman, it's unlikely that she will refuse Jenny again - who else will she find to play if she refuses, who will be better than them? Could it be Scarlett. Johnson?

"Yes, I think the main line of this film should be on Andy's self-discovery and self-growth, fashion is just a way to show these, and Andy's perception of fashion is the end of the film. Miranda is just a gimmick and a supporting role in the end......" she picked on Lauren's favorite words and praised Andy to the sky. "Andy's decision to go from innocence to loss and finally return to his true nature is very admirable, and I think it's a very attractive character for me."

It also takes skill to compliment people, and the corners of Lauren's mouth curled up higher and higher, and she happily said, "Thank you, Jennifer, and I also think you'll be a good fit for Andy - if you're interested in playing it." ”

When Cesare negotiated with Lauren before, he only said that Jenny wanted to meet her, and Lauren was tantamount to lifting the veil that neither of them had exposed before, and the progress of the situation was very smooth, so smooth that Jenny even had some suspicions: Natalie. Why was Portman vetoed by Lauren? Although these interpretations are suspicious of sloppy horses, they are indeed a main line that Lauren tries to present in the book, should Natalie change the main line? No, Lauren was very opposed to Natalie long before she was interested in taking on the role, and it was impossible for the two sides to talk about changing the main line at that time.

"Of course I want to act, otherwise I wouldn't have flown to New York to have coffee with you." She smiled enthusiastically, "I'm worried that I'm wrong in my interpretation of Andy, so I want to talk to you, the original author." Of course, while I'm interested, I can't say that the role is me, I just want to do my best at the audition -- you know, Natalie. Portman is also interested in taking on the role......"

"I'm definitely rooting for you." Lauren blurted out, "Don't worry, the contract stipulates that the heroine needs to be approved by me, and compared to Portman, of course I will support you." Jennifer, you're a far better fit than her! ”

Compared with her reserved performance at the beginning, Lauren can be said to be a little fanatical now, and Jenny is becoming more and more curious: she is acting well, but they have only known each other for more than half an hour, does Lauren have such a strong impression of her? What did she do right? Or maybe Lauren supports her so much because she doesn't want Natalie very much. Portman comes to play, does she hate Natalie so much?

"Oh, thank you, dear, but I'm afraid you're too confident in me, and Natalie is much more famous than I am......" Jenny said gently, with a look of emotion.

Lauren shook her head, "But she won't dye her hair gold." ”

Jenny snorted in amazement, she didn't expect to get such an answer.

"She wouldn't want to dye her hair blonde." Lauren spread her hands, "But I want Andy to be blonde, it's as simple as that, so you can rest assured that even if you don't communicate with me, I will support you in the role." Of course, today's conversation did strengthen my resolve - you can play Andy so well, and you are so beautiful, why not you? Natalie may have good acting skills, but she's so bland and unremarkable, I don't understand why Fox had to choose her as the heroine, and if she's better, why didn't Josh choose her and choose you? ”

Jenny was completely knocked to the ground by her logic, and she grunted - even though she and Natalie were direct rivals, she wouldn't say that Natalie wasn't pretty enough, or that she wasn't eye-catching.

But......

Glancing at Lauren's blonde hair, Jenny suddenly had another thought—Lauren couldn't be a slight racist, right?

Racial discrimination is a concept that is almost completely ignored in China, but in the United States, a melting pot of ethnic groups, it is a very serious social problem, and the manifestations are quite complex, and it is not only the expression of looking down on other races. Like Lauren, who was born Jewish, dyed his hair gold, made his nose, wore blue-green contact lenses, and took the Germanic beauty Jenny as his beauty and the Jewish beauty Natalie as his ordinary aesthetics, it can also be said that he has a slight racial discrimination, that is, he feels inferior to his own race, and admires the general appearance of another race. This is a very common psychological phenomenon at some times, for example, some blacks will have the dream of 'bleaching', of course, there are also the opposite, white people want to dye themselves as black as blacks, and have a typical black appearance, this psychological tendency is a mental illness, but it cannot be denied that this trend of thought has always existed. In Lauren's case, the cult relationship is a bit awkward, because her race, the Germanic people, is an important part of the 'Aryan blood' that was strongly promoted in World War II, and the crimes committed by the Nazis are well known to everyone in the Western world. It is absolutely unthinkable political mistake to be a Jew and worship the blond hair and blue eyes of the Germanic people. Jews have always been very grouped, and if Lauren's psychological tendencies were true, and she did, she would have been strongly ostracized by the Jewish community, which in the field of culture and media would almost mean death.

"Thank you so much for your appreciation, Lauren." Jenny hurriedly did her precautionary work, "But I don't think Josh has anything to do with her - Natalie is a very good girl, if you may, please don't compare me to her, it will make me and her awkward." ”

"Of course." Lauren smiled knowingly, "I'll just say I'm rooting for you - though, if I were you, I wouldn't be so kind and polite to Natalie, I wouldn't tell you how cold and unfriendly her team is to this project, it doesn't bother you, let me tell you one thing, until your agent called me, I didn't even know you were in the lead actress candidate." The producers at Fox kept talking to me about how good Natalie was, but they didn't say a word about your existence. ”

This is worthy of coming out, and a few sentences make Jenny and Natalie's relationship very awkward - if they had been in a relationship before? Even now, Jenny was taken aback, "I didn't know about this at all, didn't you mention it to my agent?" ”

"No, I decided to keep it a secret." Lauren picked up the coffee cup and took a sip, "When I see you, if you satisfy me, I'll call the producer—"

She winked at Jenny, "You know what? Why not fight now? ”

Jenny probably already knew what Lauren was trying to do, and she leaned back, smiling happily, admiring Lauren's dialing.

"Karen, I'm Lauren." Lauren's tone was very angry, and as soon as the other person picked up the phone, she broke down and said, "Do you know who I just met?" Jennifer. Jefferson! When her agent called me yesterday, I almost thought I had misheard. I asked her today to be sure, she is indeed interested in starring, God, I can't believe you will be so blatant in violating the copyright contract, tell you, I will take back the copyright and sue you for breach of contract, I will tell Fox to let her fire you......"

After grabbing Karen's little tail for breach of contract, Lauren's strong attitude successfully helped her seize the initiative, Karen seemed very passive and kept explaining something on the other end of the phone, but Lauren ignored it and just said loudly, "You are in breach of contract and intend to deceive the partner." Jennifer was also very angry, saying that she was even willing to invest some of her own in the film for only three million - and at the same time, Natalie offered a high price of ten million, and I now suspect that Natalie. Does Portman even know that I don't welcome her in the role, and guess if I asked Jennifer, would she be kind enough to give me Natalie's number and let me give her a personal call, Karen? If Natalie finds out you're lying to her......"

There seemed to be some concessions, Lauren's expression softened, she made a smug look at Jenny, and began to listen to the other person's explanation with a 'uh-huh', and after a while, said in a very firm tone, "No, I support Jennifer. Jefferson, Natalie. Portman wasn't on my radar in the first place, and that was my final answer. ”

The other end of the line seemed to be broken, Jenny heard a foul word, but Lauren didn't care, she hung up the phone, and said satisfied, "I think your agent will get a call from Karen in a moment - you know, it's a difficult world, and a girl always has to struggle to get things to her liking." ”

"You're really a very good, very good young woman." Jenny said from the bottom of her heart, "Really, Lauren, losing you is a loss to Wintour. ”

Although today's sometimes scheming, sometimes naïve, and sometimes very eccentric best-selling author gave her a lot of 'surprises' and made her feel a little overwhelmed, this last trick did make Jenny put away her contempt for Lauren. She found that the United States is indeed a country that emphasizes the emancipation of individuality, almost everyone has their own strong characteristics, Lauren is vain, inferior, and touted herself with the book of her former boss, and it is not an exaggeration to call her a cowardly Mary Sue bitch, but at the same time, she has a strong sense of self-confidence and cunning skills, and she doesn't want Natalie. Portman, just don't want Natalie. Portman, as the original author with a weak voice, can also use his wrist and contract to yell at the producer, and finally kicks Natalie out and chooses Jennifer she wants.

Her methods are not very advanced for Jenny, but Lauren as a person, as well as her courage to dare to yell at the producer today, and her very calm temperament, all make her feel very inspiring, and she doesn't know what to say, but ...... Jenny felt that this trip to New York was not in vain, and she felt that she had touched the essence of Andy's character a little.

Yes, after deciding to fight for the role, she has also been thinking about how to handle the role of Andy. Hathaway was pressed by Meryl and Emily throughout the film, not because she was not talented - if she really didn't have good acting skills, she wouldn't have won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, but Andy's role is very limited, and there seems to be little room for digging except for selling her face. Of course, she sold her face and sold a global hit and a very bright box office, so Jenny decided that she would join this movie to prove her business ability even if she was just selling her face, and she was confident that she might not be suppressed with her golden finger, but an unavoidable fact is that even if she is not suppressed, the role of Andy is far less interesting than Miranda and Emily.

What if you change the persona? What if we put aside the fake, pale paper man Anne in the book and start with Lauren, the original author? Add some realistic elements to Andy, don't let her personality be so thin, let her have some real, hardly black and white character side, just like Lauren, a variety of contradictory temperaments are fused together, on the one hand, you can see through her weaknesses in human nature, and even feel that some aspects of her character are very ridiculous, but on the other hand, you can't help but admire her ability, maybe the novels she writes are very, but you can't help but admit that she is indeed quite interesting......

Of course, there is a certain risk in doing so, whether it can be sold as well as another world after the change, which Jenny cannot guarantee, even if it is sure to be changed, how to change it is a problem, and now is not the occasion to think carefully. Jenny just took note of her own flash of inspiration, and focused on celebrating their victory with Lauren, and naturally confirmed with her some of her creative journeys, even childhood anecdotes and hobbies, but now she didn't just want to deepen her friendship with Lauren, she already had a deeper purpose.

Lauren of course also wanted to have a good relationship with Jenny, and had more influence on how she portrayed Andy, and the two women had their own agendas, but they talked happily, and even better, Lauren had seen it, so they could talk about each other's childhood lives without hindrance, which also allowed Jenny to touch on the issue of race worship that she was very curious about.

"So, you went to school in a Jewish elementary school when you were a child?" "I've never been in a religious school, and I don't know what it's like," she asked. ”

"I can't say how good it is." Lauren really doesn't have a high opinion of Jewish culture, which is very strange to Jenny, because Jews have always been a very grouped people. "Actually, I don't like what that xenophobic religious elementary school taught us."

"You mean?"

Lauren shook her head, "I don't know how to sum it up, but I don't like that they keep holding on to the past, as if they are going to be persecuted by the world again and anywhere, I mean, if you're not bad, why worry about everyone hating you?" I don't understand why they always feel that they are weak and must hug each other and help each other......"

Apparently remembering some unpleasant past, Lauren didn't say any more, but clapped his hands and remembered the new gossip, "By the way, I haven't told you yet, Karen. One of the most ridiculous things about Rosenfeldt was that she kept telling me that I was a Jew, and I should choose a Jew to play myself, so why not Natalie? I told her directly that you were a kind of racism and I think even Natalie. Portman wouldn't be happy to know that the producers supported her so much just because they were both Jewish......"

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart, and Lauren's words made Jenny's heart sink slightly: she had never considered racial forces in her previous years, and Lauren's words made her realize her innocence.

Of course, if you just want to be an actor, I believe that such a role competition is not enough to bring her any retaliation, and Hollywood is also active in many movie stars of non-Jewish descent, and even non-Jewish descent still have the upper hand. But if she wants to take the Oprah route, start her own company in Hollywood, create a career, or even take 10,000 steps back and say that she has more say in the movies she makes, she has to face up to the fact that Jews have ruled almost the whole of Hollywood, not to say that she is not Jewish, she can't get ahead, but maybe at some point, this layer is missing her glass ceiling, which will make her touch some obstacles that others will not encounter.

This may have been a big problem for her to miss, and there were countless problems lurking in her future, but with all her cash in the hands of two million dollars, Jenny felt that this was not the thing she had to worry about, at least not for the present and for a long time to predict.

After breaking up with Lauren, Jenny didn't stay longer, but flew out of New York and flew back to Los Angeles. In the first class on the return trip, she has been thinking about the biggest question she should consider at this stage:

Do you want to change it? If so, how?

The author has something to say: Note:

1 Karen. I don't know if Rosenfeldt is Jewish or not, but her Jewish ancestry and the whole Lauren is a bit of a racial inferiority complex or a racial cult meme are all fiction of mine. However, Lauren was Jewish, and attended a Jewish elementary school as a child.

2 The racial problem in the United States is very serious, and racial discrimination is probably the same as our regional discrimination remarks, which is very politically wrong. I did see a similar case in an American drama, that is, someone hated their own race and wanted to become another race or something. This kind of race-related phenomenon is rare in China, but unfortunately I forgot what the name of that American drama was......

3I really think the original work is ugly to death.,I feel like it's on the same level as our country's low-level online articles.,Including Twilight, I also think it's ugly to die.,In the movies that have been released in recent years, I think the original book is good-looking, it's The Hunger Games.,So the creative mentality of Prada's original book and Lauren in the article is a disparaging attitude.,If you have different opinions,Welcome to reply to the post to discuss-

Updated, this chapter is one racist belittling another racist ahahaha...... It's just that discrimination goes in different directions......

Speaking of the next addition, I also counted the number of arrears...... Well, if you want to count the income, you may not be able to repay it every day next month, because another thing to consider is that you are constantly owing new problems when you repay your debts......

Because I'm a person who prefers to have manuscripts, but I've been insecure naked this month. Ben, I think in the last few days of this month, I will save some manuscripts to form a virtuous circle, and then wait until the beginning of next month, I will try to return all the additions. In this way, maybe I can get 15% of the 9k words on the daily update next month, and everyone can see the manuscript that has been considered, revisited and revised, and the quality is higher. What do you think?