Chapter 41: Apologize in advance
As if he's seen a ghost, Tommy spreads his hands to Sandra Bullock: "How could he have died?" One of my Army alumni who served in Germany said three days ago that he had been an adjutant and accompanied his commander to drink with your father at the Freedom Night Club in Germany......"
"So, you know better than I know if he's okay." Sandra Bullock interrupted Tommy's words with a bit of sarcasm in her eyes when she saw the other party's reaction.
Tommy was interrupted by her, and seemed a little caught off guard, with a little more surprise on his face, and even turned his head to look at the decorative painting on the wall of the studio, a mess of colors and lines embedded in the wall, and a line of small words "The Girl Eating Muffins" underneath.
"Can you tell which color represents a girl? Also, where are the damn muffins? Tommy stared at the painting for two seconds, then turned his head to meet the brunette German.
Sandra said very bluntly: "I guess, if my father really died, I wouldn't get this role?" ”
"Don't doubt it, you have to be confident in yourself, I promise that even if your father dies, you will definitely get this role." Tommy straightened his face and said to Sandra Bullock very seriously:
"After all, your grandfather is still at NASA to help Americans build rockets, and I always have a lot of respect for scientists, and this respect is even big enough to accommodate his family, just like the Pentagon has great respect for your grandfather, and it also extends respect to your father, Mr. Bullock, to give your father's contractor's business, in exchange for him to persuade his father-in-law to become an American citizen, instead of running to help the French research rockets."
Sandra Bullock's eyes were more annoyed, like a cat that had been stimulated, and her gaze gradually became sharp: "Don't tell me, let me introduce you to him, maybe I, as an actor, don't have any chance to prove myself, but I can use more than a dozen reasons to reject you, because I have to reject a disgusting man like you more than a dozen times a year." ”
As she spoke, Sandra was ready to stand up and leave, not caring if she could get the role.
"Actually, your acting skills are still very good, at least for now, showing the rudeness and arrogance of the Americans to the fullest." Tommy didn't stop the other party when he got up, just sat in place and looked at the other party with a smile:
"Are you sure that I, as a media professional, need to rely on you to get your father to give me the opportunity to do business? What business? Arrange a batch of customized small movies for American GIs at overseas bases? Or the hundreds of thousands of overseas women who helped American GIs give birth to illegitimate children and launched a season of the US military's special edition of "Looking for Daddy America"? ”
"So, why don't you be honest with me why I'm here?" Sandra stood in place and looked at Tommy condescendingly, "It can't be an attempt on me, right?" Your high school teacher's girlfriend is right next to you. ”
Tommy shrugged: "I think no matter how narcissistic you are, you can't say that you are prettier than her, so let's put it this way, I insist on chasing Otilia to my hands, that is, she is my girlfriend, compared to me marrying an ugly girl, I can resist a lot of beautiful temptations, such as arranging for senior girls to comfort me much less often." ”
"I've seen pictures of my father's first girlfriend, who is more beautiful than my mother, but that doesn't stop her from eventually becoming the one who marries my father." Sandra said to Tommy with a cold face.
"Your father was a poor man, and I wasn't." Tommy looked at Sandra Bullock and said with a smile, "Sit down, don't think of me as utilitarian, girl, I'm the former president of SSD Stanford University, and I know and care about your father, based on the fact that we belong to the same fraternity, if I need to work with him, let the alumni of the fraternity help me introduce me, right?" Why should it go through you? ”
In the distance, Matt Dillon walks back from the bathroom, Tommy waves at him, Matt sits in another seat with self-awareness, and Tommy still smiles back at Sandra Bullock.
"If I insist on leaving...... although she said insist on leaving, Sandra still sat down obediently when she heard the reason given by Tommy.
Indeed, as Tommy said, if he needs to contact his father, he can do so through his alumni network, and there is no need to go through himself.
Seeing the other party sitting back, Tommy had a little more smile on his face, he pointed to Zoe and said to Sandra, "Zoe is a reporter, you already know, right?" She works for me and she will decide ......"
"I can refuse this role......" Thinking that Tommy was going to try to tempt himself with this role again, Sandra coldly interrupted Tommy.
"You won't refuse." Tommy smiled at Sandra, but in the next second, he straightened his face, leaned forward, and the words that came out of his mouth were extremely low, but full of coercion: "If you leave now, I will let Zoe investigate your father's scandal, I have been eyeing your father for a long time, and I have a lot of information about him, I can use a reporter in exchange for your father to lose all his contracting business, one reporter is not enough, just two, in the United States, young and enthusiastic reporters who are eager to become famous overnight are no less than actors." ”
Sandra's face changed as she was shocked by what Tommy said.
Tommy immediately laughed, withdrew his upper body and said with a smile, "You should really look at your expression, Sandra, how about being startled when I heard you talk about your father's death?" Why don't you turn your head sideways, look at the painting, and now tell me the answer, which color block is the girl, and where is the muffin. ”
"Your tone just now doesn't look like a joke." Sandra came back to her senses and understood that Tommy was joking to scare herself, but she still said with a cold face and dissatisfaction.
"You don't think it's ridiculous when you talk about your father's death, you believe that everything I did was for you to introduce me to your father, just as you believe that I would really frame your father? Please, how is that possible? After Tommy finished speaking, he even turned his head with a bright smile and shouted to Zoe, who was chatting with Otilia not far away:
"Hey, Zoe, I want you, a reporter with a sense of justice, to find some black material to frame Miss Sandra Bullock's father, and I can pay you a lot of money."
"Do you always have to make this kind of inappropriate and completely unfunny joke when you talk to a woman? Otilia didn't teach you how to grow up? Zoe glanced at Tommy in disgust and said disdainfully.
Tommy turned his head and looked at Sandra Bullock, "Hear that?" Except for you being scared, no one will take it seriously, I just want to say, Zoe is a journalist, and you have to play her, your father and I are both SSD alumni, this is a wonderful fate, that's all, maybe the four of us can sit down and talk, by the way, Zoe can help your father do a character interview, because Zoe works for my news network German correspondent station, and your father has also been in Germany for many years, and now the business is also focused in Germany, he knows Germany well, from the dual identity of an American businessman and a former American soldier, Talk about the recent situation in Germany, give Zoe some ideas, that's all, what do you think? I asked Zoe to interview your father, Mr. Bullock, about the night he met your mother? ”
"You investigated my father, and you told me the first time my father and my mother met......" Sandra sensitively captured Tommy's last words.
"Page 33." Tommy interrupts Sandra Bullock; "Go back and tell your father about this page, and he'll know why I know, and the SSD brothers never hide it from each other."
Sandra looked at Tommy suspiciously, "What did he say?" ”
"Isn't it time to give Sandra back to me? She's going to play me, not Tommy Hawke. Zoe also sat down from not far away, and smiled at Tommy, "Otilia is watching you, Tommy, I'm here for your own good, your lame jokes will only make the conversation worse." ”
Tommy ignored Zoe and gave an answer to Sandra: "He said in the article, that night, your mother fell in love with him at first sight, but he had a girlfriend in the country, so he ignored her, and even avoided her all night until your mother found an opportunity to get him drunk, and after that, I didn't expect her to be pregnant, what else could your father do as a responsible young officer?" Obediently take her back to China and marry her. ”
"Do you really talk about everything to your alumni?" Hearing Tommy talk about her parents' encounter, Sandra's face softened slightly: "Including each other's family lives? ”
"I talk about it occasionally, but it's not the point, so I greet your father, doesn't that sound so reasonable now? You and Zoe, me and your father, wonderful fate, and Zoe is about to go to the German journalist station to work, as an elder, please take care of my friend who is familiar with Germany, after all, Germany is not very peaceful, the profession of journalist has a very high risk, and I will give him a reward, I said, I will let Zoe help him do a propaganda character interview, I know that you are in New York, Los Angeles in the past two years used to seeing the filth of the film industry, used to being vigilant against people, I understand, but I have no intention of you at all. Tommy explained to Sandra again.
He tried to be as sincere as he could, convincing Sandra that he was only an alumnus to her father, and that there was no reason to ask him for help, just a coincidence, and then hoped that Zoe, who was about to go to work at the German press station, would learn about the situation in Berlin from the other party.
"What do I get if I introduce you to talk?" After careful analysis, Sandra felt that Tommy was indeed unlikely to have much to do with his father, this guy made movies and opened a TV station, and it didn't look like he could connect with the army, and he had a beautiful girlfriend, let alone had plans for himself.
"It looks like I'm the one to be on the alert." Tommy laughed out loud when he heard Sandra's words:
"How can I say, you can get this role? She belongs to you, so, in fact, I also invested in a movie that has a chance to hit the Oscars, if you are interested, I will ask the director to have time to talk to you. ”
"Wow, the Oscar-winning movie? It's a benefit that is hard to refuse. Sandra stared at Tommy suspiciously:
"Before you and your girlfriend came, Mr. Stephen Lane introduced your television station and said that it was full of vulgar programs and negative portrayals of your character, so I doubt your words."
"Stephen must not have told you that this vulgar and shameless guy in his mouth can make him willing to help me borrow 200 million from his uncle and uncle, and he will vouch for it." Tommy heard this girl denigrating his TV taste, slowly retracted his smile, slowed down his tone and said:
"Stephen's stupid* can say I'm vulgar and shameless, but it doesn't mean you can, with all due respect, your father is not qualified, I respect the SSD, so respect your father, and because of respect for your father, be kind to you, Miss Bullock, but I hope that you will respect me too, respect is mutual, right?"
"Maybe I'll do that when I think you deserve respect, but not today." With that, Sandra got up and walked towards the bathroom.
"This girl looks shrewd, but she's actually stupid, right, like our queen Catherine." After the other party left, Tommy asked Zoe who came over.
Zoe looked at Tommy with an idiot look: "Except for Otilia, do all women deserve nothing but verbal humiliation from you?" Don't you realize that what you just said is a bit excessive? ”
"Excessive? No kidding, compared to her father, I'm like a pure-blood gentleman. Tommy smiled and took a sip of his coffee and said disapprerovingly.
Zoe got up and walked in the direction of the bathroom, ready to comfort the enraged Sandra, she liked this actress named Sandra very much, in the previous chat, she found that this girl is very assertive, has a very cool style, tried to be independent early, but the independence is not very thorough, and she has a few credit cards that her mother gave her.
Stephen leaned over at this time and said to Tommy, "I just pricked up my ears and overheard, is this what you said about the internal news of the SSD?" It sounds like his father is good and responsible. ”
"Review the touching love story I just told in reverse, Stephen, this girl's mother performed an opera in a club, and was forcibly drunk and dragged to bed by his father, the only surprise was that the other party actually found out that the other party actually had a father who was a German rocket expert, if there is no use value, what is the difference between this girl named Sandra and the illegitimate child raised by more than 60,000 single mothers in the Federal Republic of Germany at this moment?" Tommy patted Stephen on the shoulder:
"American soldiers have everything in Germany, but they have no sense of responsibility."
"How do you know? I guess it must not have been his father's magazine appearance, and no one would talk about it, not even a trusted brother. Stephen wasn't too shocked after hearing this, but asked curiously.
Tommy picked up the phone and said as he dialed, "No, it's not much, but I have some connections in the military, by the way, Stephen, I'm going to say sorry to you first." ”
"Why apologize?" Stephen looked at Tommy in confusion.
Tommy listened to the sound of the phone dialing, and said in his mouth: "You will know right away, why should I apologize, because you called me vulgar and shameless in front of Sandra, so I am going to say that you are lustful Silver Sword in front of her father, the wording may be a little exaggerated, so I apologize in advance." ”
(End of chapter)