"So, I heard that you and Chesa have been at odds lately. Baidu: Real name +" Lilian said.

They sat down in the suite's reception room, the waiter served them afternoon tea, and Jenny handed over the tip.

"Ah," she said after the waitress left, somewhat embarrassed, "yes—speaking of which, if I 'break up' with Chesa, you're still convenient—"

She compared herself to Lillian, and Lillian hurriedly said, "Of course, I asked you out today to ask you if you were willing to break up with me-"

She didn't say any more, but smiled at Jenny, who picked up her coffee cup and jokingly touched hers, "For friendship, cheers." ”

"For the sake of friendship." Lillian said, taking a big sip of her coffee. "Thank God I really need this right now."

Recently, Lillian has finished her shift internship and entered the stage of specialist skills training, although the working hours are relatively fixed, it also means that there is a lot of new knowledge to absorb and learn, in short, if you want to be a doctor, busyness is the norm, which is a common phenomenon all over the world.

Jenny chatted with her about the internal affairs of the hospital, but the topic was a little absent-minded after all, and she saw that Lilian wanted to talk a few times, and simply lifted the veil herself, "Are you trying to ask me, what the hell is Cesare and I arguing about?" ”

"Nope." Lillian said honestly, "I wanted to ask if you've started looking for a new agent." ”

Jenny was startled, "Wait, wait—why are you asking me that, is Cesare already trying to kick me out?" But this can't be, didn't he just help me negotiate the contract for "The Notebook"? ”

Jenny guessed right, with her joining, the new line is still very happy to restart "The Notebook", and before she went to audition, the new line also hinted at her that if she and Ryan. If Gosling doesn't call, the filmmaker is willing to give up Ryan. Gosling, with Jenny as the main character, reconfigures the main cast - this is very telling.

The audition results were satisfactory, Jenny's cash asking price was not high, and she was willing to take a certain amount of risk with a share, which was in the hands of the new line, and the plan of this 3/North America 10 was also successfully negotiated, and it was Jenny who signed the performance contract yesterday.

"No, Chesa didn't say that," Lillian hesitated, "It's only between you and me, don't tell Chesa - you know Uncle Ino, do you?" Ino. Martin, CEO of CAA. He's a friend of my uncle, and at my uncle's family gathering last week, he asked me to ask if you want to change agents, and if so, he'd take over. ”

Jenny was completely confused by now - not because of Eno. Martin is interested in taking over her business, she is definitely a hot commodity in CAA now, as long as there is no actress with extremely similar positioning, there is no doubt that senior agents are willing to sign her. Even if the salary of the Pirates of the Caribbean series still has to be given to Cesare, but the three series and one award put there, her worth will definitely not fall below five million in 3 to 5 years, and if she can push it, she can go up further, compared to Cesare who will give up Bale and choose her as a newcomer freak, most agents must want to directly accept a popular star who already has a foundation, and the annual draw alone can directly bring hundreds of thousands of dollars in income.

Well, Ino. It was intriguing that Martin would take over, but it was Cesare's business, and Jenny only thought about it for a moment before asking cautiously, "How did Eno know about this?" I didn't tell anyone, and if Cesare didn't even say anything to you, how did he know? - Cesare couldn't have spoken to Ino without consulting me, could he? ”

Lilian seemed to be completely confused by her, Jenny looked at her expression, and had to calm down and analyze with her, "If Cesare wants to give up representing me and find another agent, he should first tell me that our brokerage contract stipulates that my consent is required to change agents, and if that happens, Ino doesn't need to let you probe me, he can talk to me directly." If Ino doesn't know anything, just because I see that I'm red and want to dig into the wall, then of course I won't look for you, Ino will come to you to ask me The only possibility is that he knows the contradiction between me and Cesare, and feels that our problems are irreconcilable, and I will have to find another agent sooner or later, so let you ask me what I mean before the public replacement, I must leave anyway, this is not harmful to Cesare's interests, he is optimistic about my profit prospects, so he wants to have one more force for himself, he thinks this is a two-way choice, That's why I asked you, right? ”

"Yes." Lillian began to understand, "yes, that's what he hinted at, and it seems like he's clear about the contradictions between you. He gave me the feeling that your departure from the Cesa was a foregone conclusion. ”

"Then the question is," said Jenny, "where did Eno know about this?" Cesare and he spit out my bitter water? Do you think that could happen to Cesare? And my relationship with Cesare has not broken down, and if he had spoken directly to Cesare, he should have known that. Cesare saw Prada and decided that the project could be profitable if we got the right writer and director, so we were working together until the next selection disagreement. So he didn't talk to Cesare directly, but from an unusual source, but there were only two of us in the office at the time, and I didn't talk to anybody—"

Her brow furrowed as she spoke, ", Nissa—I bet she's eavesdropping, and Cesa has to be made aware of this." ”

Seeing that Lillian didn't object, she picked up the phone and dialed Cesare. As soon as the other party picked it up, Jenny said, "Listen, Ino. Martin already knew about our previous conflict, and I didn't tell anyone, so the problem should be on your side. ”

Cesare paused visibly on the other end of the line, "How do you know?" ”

"Martin just released kindness to me through some channels this morning." "I was busy exercising at the time, so I don't have time to think about it now." ”

"Okay." Cesare was still a little suspicious, "-I thought you had an appointment with Lillian for afternoon tea." ”

"She's stuck in traffic." Jenny shrugged, "I suggest you start screening with the people around you, for example, the one I've already mentioned once, do you understand?" ”

“…… I understand. "By the way, the filmmaker sent you a list of several directors for reference, I emailed you, did you see that?" ”

"I'll see now, you wait a minute." Jenny took off her phone and looked at the mailbox, and compared it with the list in her heart, "Oh, it's okay to be the first in order, I trust the vision of the new line." ”

"Good." "Then I think you should be able to start shooting next week." ”

"Okay, goodbye."

"Goodbye." After finishing the business, the tone of the two people saying goodbye was still a little stiff.

"I don't know how your brains move." After Jenny hung up the phone, Lillian was visibly relieved, and it was obvious that she had concealed the source from Jenny, and reminded Cesare that she was very satisfied, "I really didn't think that much, Uncle Eno asked me to take the talk, I really thought you would leave Cesa-"

"If that's the case, would you still be willing to be my friend?" Jenny laughed and said that she had always been concerned about this, "I probably wouldn't have been able to do it if I had a different relationship with you - Cesare was the one who discovered me anyway, he got me to where I am now, and I haven't made much of a commission for him, and now he might be going to run." ”

"Work and private life are to be separated." Lillian shook her head, "Besides, I don't think it's all up to you—of course I only know a little bit about it. But I think there's definitely something wrong with Chesa. ”

A shadow crossed her face, "He's a very difficult person to communicate with, I know that very well. ”

Complaining to a person's girlfriend that his performance at work is actually not very good, but Jenny and Lillian really have a common language now, and she almost wants to hug Lillian and cry with her for a while, but on the surface, she still has to make her own introspection posture first - in fact, this is still a remnant of Oriental thinking, but it is difficult to change habits, maybe Jenny is used to Western thinking in the workplace, but among friends she still likes to take Oriental 'face' into consideration, and admitting her mistake first seems to be beneficial to save Cesare' "I also have things that I don't do well, it's true, I shouldn't have to go toe-to-toe with him...... Although I don't think it's useful to soften my body either. ”

"As long as you insist on these two films, it's useless." Lillian said listlessly, "Actually, Chesa was very upset when you called that night, maybe he was a little uncomfortable when you had to take the script back and read it for yourself during the day, but at the time he was like- well, so do I, we don't think you have the ability to pick out really good scripts from so many scripts, you might just want to try it, Cesare thinks you're going to pick and choose and come back to him for advice, so he didn't watch the movie with me that night, but rewatched some of the scripts that he thought were good, I've picked out a book for you.,It seems to be called "Bridal Bachelorette Party" or something.,He's quite happy after picking it out.,So you can imagine the change in his mood after the phone rings.。 But to be honest, I didn't expect you to actually convince him to change the film in the end, and generally few people can change his mind after Chesa has made up his mind. ”

Jenny took Lillian's hand from the bottom of her heart, "You know - really- your words have put me at ease too much. ”

She didn't tell a lie, whether it was Jenny or Chen Zhen, they had never claimed their rights and interests so strongly, including her divorced □ family was actually pretending to be pitiful - in fact, it was not pretending, it was more of a negotiation, she was able to get more than 30 million or even more, because she had a good relationship with her in-laws, and her in-laws knew that she was not the kind of person who spent money vainly, and valued her eldest grandson very much, and she was also afraid that after the death of the two elders, her ex-husband would fail and bankrupt the family business, or' If you have a stepmother, you will have a stepfather', so Chen Zhen made it clear that she would not remarry, so she simply transferred some more property to her, so that she was independent of the family business, anyway, she has a house and a car, and there are already a lot of luxury goods, and there are dividends every year.

It can be said that the negotiation between her and Cesare that day was the first time in her life that she took such a tough stance, so like every first time, she was not at all satisfied with her performance that day, and always felt that she could do better. So now that she knows that even if she does better that day, she will eventually go back to the old path of 'if you don't agree, you can only break up the gang', and this burden is immediately reduced a lot.

"Yes." Lillian laughed, "So you didn't want to break up with him in the first place, did you?" ”

"If there was a safer path I would definitely take, Cesare is indeed a genius agent, of course I don't want to give up such a good partner, but ......" Jeanne searched for adjectives, "but he is also inflexible, I don't know if you understand what I mean, in fact he is very soft and hard, and you have only two choices in front of him: listen to him, or break off the cooperation." Negotiation is basically ineffective for him, everything is like this for him, change his name, go to "Oprah", sign a ......"

She suddenly remembered that Lilian didn't know about her and Josh, so she changed her words, "Sign the performance contract and refuse the invitation to act, he will do it first, and then come back to tell you, then for you, if you don't agree, the cost of this conflict will be very large, and the consequences will be very serious, and your relationship with him will fall into a big crisis, or even separate." You know he and I had a statement beforehand that I would trust him and listen to him, and I said yes, but I didn't expect him to use this kind of ...... Well, this scoundrel...... No, high-pressure tactics to weaken my voice. Of course, this kind of cooperation will be very harmonious at the beginning, because he has always made the right decisions, and I didn't have any capital at that time, and all these contradictions will be covered up in the high-speed rise period, but I'm afraid that Cesare is looking at human nature too simply, I'm not just talking about me, I think anyone who sees the attitude of other famous movie stars towards their agents after becoming famous will be envious. ”

Jenny changed her position, and the more she talked, the more she felt that she had found the crux of the problem, "Actually, I feel like even if I didn't...... Well, even if it's not me, it's Bale, and Bale is very obedient, the relationship between them will still break down, either Cesare made a bad decision and Bale's dissatisfaction finds an opportunity to explode, or Bale decides that she can get a similar quality service from someone else, but she will be in a much better mood, you know what I mean? This kind of relationship will never be sustainable unless you meet someone who just wants to act, give her anything, and have no career pursuit, but I don't think any actor will not have the role and film he wants to play on the basis of being able to play so many roles. Cesare sees success as a math problem, but I don't think the film industry is a place where math can be completely effective, and at least math doesn't help a person make a good movie. ”

Lilian had been listening to Jenny's emotional catharsis, patting her hand comfortingly from time to time, "Yes, of course...... I can understand your feelings. ”

"Do you really understand?" Jenny asked, a little skeptically.

"I definitely understand a lot more than you think." Lillian grimaced, "Chesa should be glad he has the same dazzling virtues outside of these unbearable places, otherwise I doubt he'll be able to keep any clients or girlfriends." ”

"Yes, he is a man who has both strengths and weaknesses." Jenny laughed too, and after spitting up with Lillian, she felt much better. "Actually, if I wasn't...... There will be complaints, but I still won't consider leaving him. ”

"You're not?" Lillian asked curiously, "So the shortcomings you just mentioned don't matter to you, do they?" ”

"That's just a complaint, and in the long run, Cesare's approach to film selection is actually very safe, and if you don't have a good eye, let him help you choose. He may not be able to make genius choices, but he chooses the right ones, and you can slowly build up these 'pairs' and one day rise to a great height," Jenny said thoughtfully, "It's actually a good strategy, but it's not enough for me." ”

"You mean—" Lillian looked a little confused again.

"It's a great achievement, Cesare has been making the right choices for her, but Bale didn't get 'The BJ Diary' and Legally Blonde because they're not just the right choices, they're genius choices." The right choices can be calculated, but the choices of geniuses are not the case - when they are still scripts, no one can say why they are so geniuses, I read more than 20 scripts of older unmarried women yesterday, in fact, the core is almost the same, so it is not the responsibility of Chesa not to choose these two scripts, he also has a very safe path, by accumulating the right choices, in twenty or thirty years, I will also be very rich...... But if I want to speed things up, I have to keep making genius choices on top of the right choices, for example, at least one of the two films I make a year can achieve the best market effect like Legally Blonde, causing a certain little miracle...... If I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have been able to achieve my goal in 10 years, so it's not that Cesare's train of thought is too much of a problem, it's just that the rhythm of the two of us can't be reconciled. Either he believes that I can make genius choices, like "The Notebook" and "The Devil Wears Prada", and I believe he can make good choices, or our partnership lasts until the choices don't match. ”

She shrugged, "Not now, of course, but I think it might happen one day, and I wouldn't be too surprised if Cesare realized and started looking for another dreamgirl." ”

"So, even if you get these two films right, you don't think Chesa will agree that you can make a genius choice?" Lillian asked.

"I think so." Jenny said that in fact, a lot of her ideas were also mature as she spoke, "You know what? I think Cesare was actually the one who couldn't build trust, and I didn't mean that this time, it's normal for him not to trust me this time, but I think even if I proved my choice right this time, he won't trust my instincts next time. Because intuition is something that can't be incorporated into the system of calculations, and that's my intuition—"

"And he doesn't trust anything that he can't control." Lilian Mu said expressionlessly. "Yes, that's a problem for him -- a problem that has always existed."

Jenny suddenly felt as if she had touched some of Liliane and Cesare's feelings*, and she was a little embarrassed, "honey......"

Lillian didn't talk to her very often about these emotional matters, and now she was no different, and she changed the subject with a smile, "Do you know what Chesa thinks of your performance that day?" ”

"How?" Jenny was indeed curious.

"He wonders if you have a mental illness." Lillian forced a smile, "He even told me to advise you to get a check-up or something, he thinks you might be a little sick that day." ”

Jenny burst out laughing, "I'm not surprised. ”

"Actually, I don't think so," said Lillian, "you're an adult, it's your own acting career, of course you can make your own decisions, if you really want to act, no one can stop you, what era is it?" Is it the McKinsey period? Hollywood is back in the days of big studios? Agents and studios decide everything, and stars are just pawns for them? No, you can act if you like, that's normal. If Chesa doesn't agree all the time, then break up the gang, which is also normal. Besides, these are all initial projects approved by Chesa, if you were too fierce that day, it was because he was rude to you all the time, causing you to be too stressed when you resisted, and if he was kind to you from the beginning, you couldn't give up the opportunity to communicate softly, I know you - and you see I communicate well with you. ”

Her words turned to concern, "But I heard from Chesa that you're going to put the proceeds of the last two plays into Prada, isn't that a little too radical, Jane?" Are you really going to do that? Even if you watch it well, movies are risky. ”

"Hmm...... Thank you for not describing me as crazy," Jenny was a little embarrassed, "I was a bit of a fanatic that day, and it wasn't for nothing that Cesare would have misunderstood - it was the biggest financial decision I've ever made on my own." ”

"But you're not going to change your mind." Lilian observed.

"But I'm not going to change my mind." Jenny said.

"Because—"

"Because I want to achieve my goals as quickly as possible and as best as possible." "If you want to do that, you have to be a little crazy." Actually, it's the way Cesare learned to think - I'm sorry, Lillian, that's all I can explain. ”

"Okay." Lillian didn't seem to understand it yet, but she was relieved. "At least I know you're still very sane, and even if the investment fails, you can make that money back quickly."

"Thank you for your concern, dear." Jeanne smiled, "And I have to sincerely thank Cesare for your concern, though I think he must be bothered by my sudden inadequacy right now." ”

"Let him be annoyed," Lillian said in a sneering tone, looking a little annoyed at the mention of Cesare, "enough talk about him today, let's talk about your fitness trainer, if I start working with him as a personal trainer now......"

The conversation quickly shifted in the other direction.

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In order to catch up with Jenny's schedule, the filming will be completed within this year, and "The Notebook" has not made drastic changes to the script, Jenny has watched the finished film again, and she is sure that this should be the final script in that world. It only took a week for the new line to quickly assemble the crew, and it was ready to start filming, and what made Jenny feel very strange was that she had seen it against the list, and the actors and crew with names and surnames were almost the same as the version she had seen.

This, of course, also gave her a little more peace of mind, which is the same feeling she felt when she starred in "Pirates of the Caribbean", the closer the elements are to the original, the more likely it is to succeed. - However, compared to the time of "Pirates of the Caribbean", Jenny is now a little more stressed and nervous.

It's not because she took the risk of breaking up with Cesare to get this film, and if the film fails, it will be very shameless, but because "The Notebook" is her to bear the box office, Ryan. Gosling was just a nobody at this time, and although she was favored by the new line, no one would put box office pressure on her. Judging from the new line's courteous performance towards her, they completely put their box office expectations on the popular Jenny, and Jenny herself is really not very interested in romance films.

Therefore, the road towards the ideal is destined to be tortuous, although Jenny's ideal is to stand on the podium one day with her own ability, but now she still plans to use the empathy golden finger to perform this play, after all, love scenes, the plot can be simple, the budget can be low, as long as the picture is beautiful, the spark between the male and female protagonists is strong, and each other's acting skills are good, it is a good film. And "The Notebook" is a very typical film with beautiful pictures, simple plot, melodious rhythm and strong sparks of the male and female protagonists.

Judging by the character analysis, Jenny sees herself as replacing Rachel. McAdams doesn't have a negative impact on the film, Rachel is a pretty blonde girl, and so is she, Rachel has good acting skills in this play, but not to the point of breaking through the sky, then she can do better than her through rehearsals and practice. However, another decisive factor is that the non-empathy golden finger cannot be surpassed - Rachel and Ryan began to fall in love after the end of this play, and it is common sense to speculate that they must have been attracted to each other during filming, and this pure natural strong sexual attraction makes their love scenes extremely believable and infectious, adding countless charms to this movie. This one...... If you don't open the golden finger, you can't compare the original work.

Jenny didn't think that she was also attracted to Ryan, although the public thought that he was a very charming man, but it didn't fit her aesthetics, she didn't think Ryan was the male god in her previous life, and this life is no exception, and she did have a strong immunity to Gao Fushuai after her ex-husband, so whether Ryan will have a good impression of her or not, she estimates that she is unlikely to give back.

Of course, Ryan didn't seem to mean this, and the two of them didn't feel that they were too close to each other from the very beginning, for the simple reason - Ryan was addicted to sugar, and Jenny was on a diet all year round. However, this one is indeed worthy of being nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor, although the relationship between them is cold, but during the official shooting, he looked at Jenny with affectionate eyes, and even the most demanding directors couldn't find a trace of fault.

When the filming of "The Love Notebook" started for a month, the salary negotiation of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3" finally came to an end, Jenny successfully signed a contract of 2 for 10 million, as for the salary contract of 3, it is a guarantee of 10 million, reserving the right to increase the price once, and Depp won two films with a total of 40 million, plus 8% dividends, Disney still did not promise him 10%. Josh signed two sequels for 20 million, which is on par with Jenny's lowest income.

It's a very generous contract, and there is not much dissatisfaction in everyone, and of course all kinds of methodical preparations - determining the schedule, starting the filming date, and starting the pre-promotion, which also means that it is finally time for Jenny and Josh's 'love song' to officially kick off.

"You don't need to let girls take the initiative in this kind of thing, do you?" In her trailer, Jenny said, "The public still wants to see the man more aggressive, so I'm afraid you have to come first." ”

Josh scratched his hair, "Okay, you have a point, but I really think it's weird to practice this in a trailer." ”

"A little more twisting, and you'll be completely like a high school girl who has tasted the forbidden fruit for the first time." Jenny said impatiently, deliberately snaring her voice, "Eon, dear, wait any longer for my boner to fade!" ”

Josh was already familiar enough with her to know that she was joking, and he couldn't help but laugh a few times, "Okay, okay - wait, isn't the trailer door closed?" ”

Jenny believed it, "Really? ”

Of course, her eyes moved to the door, and Josh hurriedly seized the opportunity, stepped forward to grasp Jenny's chin, and kissed it fiercely.

The author has something to say: Note: 1 Jenny doesn't know that the love notebook was filmed in this world in 02, so explain it here, the actors' union is one of the unions with the highest unemployment rate among members, and more than 40% of Hollywood actors are in a state of long-term or short-term unemployment, this number is higher for elderly and middle-aged actors, as for the staff, many people can only follow one or two crews a year, and the director likes to use familiar faces, and there will generally be a team, so it is normal to have many familiar faces.

2Most of the real stars who appear in the article will not have a relationship with Jenny, the reason I explain, in fact, it is because of the relationship between the author's brain, I myself was stunned by thunder when I read some beauty and entertainment articles written by male authors, such as Jessica in the hard-hit area of YY. Alba, Natalie. Portman or something, it's just ooc to the extreme, this is no longer a problem that can be solved by ignorance, many of the entertainment written by male authors are because of this, so poisonous that I directly abandon the text, and forget about a fictional person, at least I don't know, it's the people I know, I can't bear it, anyway, I can't imagine that Alba and Natalie are like that in reality, and I only know a little about them. So don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself, if I describe Ryan as Jenny smitten, I believe that many girls who like Ryan will come in and spit out with a smile, then if I write that he will give up in chaos, it is estimated that these girls will have to be bricks, and the creative restriction is one, and second, I can't open such a brain hole myself, so most of the reality stars who appear in the article will not have a relationship with Jenny.

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Well, yesterday's content really sparked a lot of discussion|

I'll add a few words to yesterday's chapter to make the call clearer

But I didn't expect everyone to think that Jenny couldn't find another good agent, but that's impossible? Jenny signed to CAA, Cesare is just a senior agent, they separated Jenny is nothing more than a change of agent like Bell, with her current hardware and momentum, there must be a lot of senior agents rushing to ......