novelraw Chapter 138
Chapter 138
In fact, the personal assistant of a Hollywood star is a profession that requires a lot of personal ability. It needs to be able to handle multiple tasks at the same time. In addition, it must be forward-looking, decisive, strong interpersonal skills, and high-level writing and oral communication skills.
Josie is already an easy-to-serve boss, because she pays great attention to personal privacy, but she still has strict requirements on many things, such as hotel bedding must be brand new and dry-cleaned, and tap water and cold water must not be drunk, etc.
Some Hollywood stars have far more requirements for their assistants. Not only do female singers ask their assistants to accompany and sleep when they are alone, but also female models use threats and yelling to make their assistants cry. Some male stars even ask their assistants to become popular. Smell his underarms before taking the blanket to make sure there is no smell... It's like being married to the worst man in the world and not only being around him 24 hours a day, but a career that pays very poorly in the beginning.
Of course, there are celebrities who get along with their assistants like family members, but while fame brings countless benefits, it can also make people depressed or irritable, so Hollywood stars are also occupations with a high incidence of mental illness.
"I picked three people, do you want to see their photos?" After getting Josie's affirmative answer, Kelly took out her laptop from her backpack, "Among them is a young man who just graduated from NYU, although Looks weak, but he's pretty sure he can lift at least 25 lbs, and he knows how to do Thai masha and simple tailoring."
Josie stretched her neck to look at the resumes of three qualified applicants on the screen, and then picked the boy Kelly had recommended, Ryan Gao with black curly hair and black-rimmed glasses.
"Just him," Josie said, "but an interview is still needed, and you can find time to meet him yourself,"
"OK." Kelly nodded.
The following scene was shot a few more times, so that Ernest's expressionless face almost seemed to be frozen, but now he deliberately controls his emotions and tries to avoid cursing on the set... Well, just try to.
"Patrick Atkinson, if you don't want to continue this job, you can come and tell me directly, instead of pretending to wave your terminally ill thick limbs, and finally gave me a ball to stir in the mud and feel complacent." of light and shadow."
"Thomas Davis, may I ask if you still have a twin brother? Call him for us and ask him to come over to replace you, otherwise I really don't want to take pictures of your extremely abrupt face."
Ernest trained the crew and underperforming actors for a long time by himself, and his stern gaze shot across the set from time to time, so that Heath Ledger, who was making a Hollywood movie for the first time, was a little scared , carefully approached Josie, who seemed the most at ease.
This British director, who is shooting a feature film for the first time, can't think of trouble with the biggest heroine of the crew, right?
And they have such a good relationship in private.
Heath thought silently.
He couldn't help looking at Josie, who was shaking her beautiful head casually. The long silver hair was really radiant, making her already beautiful face look like a fairy.
However, "Fairy" was complaining to her makeup artist: "...the hair extension is too heavy, I doubt my scalp will be pulled down-wait a minute, will this cause hair loss?"
At this moment, Josie sensed Heath's gaze, followed her gaze and looked back, and saw the subtle expression of the Australian boy.
She blinked and asked innocently, "What's the matter, Heath?"
Heath tried his best to ignore the strangeness just now, and then said after a pause, "Um, I just feel a little stressed."
As he spoke, he subconsciously looked away and looked at Ernest who adjusted the light by himself.
"Don't worry, Ernie didn't deliberately pick on you." Josie comforted Heath as if nothing had happened. "The reason why they were ridiculed was that they didn't do their job well. In fact, he is very easy to get along with, as long as you are serious about it." Be professional and focused enough in your role and he won't shoot at you."
In fact, Josie felt that Ernest was much less sarcastic than when they first filmed.
Heath exhaled exaggeratedly, and said with sympathy: "Okay, so here comes the question—what if my performance is not what he expected?"
"It depends on whether your character creation has made any mistakes. Usually he likes actors to have their own ideas, which will give the characters their own vitality." Josie paused, thought for a while and added: "You are excellent , Heath, acting is too much a matter of whether God appreciates the food. Some technical youthfulness is only temporary and can be overcome, but for the empathy ability of the characters, the actor's own creative ability... these It is largely determined by innate conditions."
Some people are naturally sensitive to the camera and can show their emotions unreservedly in front of the camera, but some people can't even make some basic expressions. same foot.
Just like when Josie first shot the short film, her sensitivity to the camera, her interpretation of the characters, and the subtle control of the facial muscles, these aspects are very particular about her own conditions, but it is the basics. Position, accent, manners, etc., these are easier to be trained the day after tomorrow.
However, Ernest is not the kind of director who is used to giving detailed instructions to actors. He is more observing and recording, plus immersing himself in his own world and thinking quietly.
Therefore, the existence of a director like him requires that the leading actors of the film have both extraordinary talent and self-confidence, otherwise they will easily go astray or explode their mentality. Fortunately, the leading actors who have been carefully selected this time do not need trouble with this problem.
The crew was stationed on the NYU campus for a while, and Josie flew back to Los Angeles to meet Leonard. He bought a big house in Beverly Hills, so he threw a private party to celebrate.
Of course, handsome men and beautiful women are indispensable for Hollywood parties, and Leonardo's preference for blondes has long been known. Countless young and beautiful girls squeezed their heads into this party, and there are even many Leonardo fans.
Apparently, they would do anything to see this handsome Hollywood star.
Josie was a little thankful that her fans weren't so crazy.
She left without staying at the party for long, and met Nicole Kidman and Pat Kingsley in West Hollywood, who seemed to have forgotten about the divorce recently, but since she suddenly joined With a large number of film productions, repeated high-profile exposures and public non-belief, there seems to be irreconcilable problems between this famous Hollywood couple.
And Nicole is indeed busy trying to please their mutual manager, Pat Kingsley. This lady is good at evaluating scripts and creating public opinion. You won't be so passive in marriage wars.
But the problem is that Nicole's own value is not enough to completely make Pai Kingsley turn against him, because the Tom Cruise she will face is the top superstar in Hollywood.
If it weren't for Tom himself being too controlling and relying too much on Scientology, so that there was a fundamental conflict of interests between them, I am afraid that Pat Kingsley would have almost no chance of being moved by Nicole.
But she always wants to give her something sweet.
For example, a young A-list star is planning to expand his team, which sounds like wonderful news.
However, after Pat Kingsley met Josie Horton once, he immediately lost interest in the latter.
When she got in the car, she joked to Nicole: "I have worked for a stubborn perfectionist for ten years, and I don't want to face a female version of 'Jerry Jerry' in the next ten years." Maguire' - by the way, are you sure she's keeping your desire for a divorce a secret? Don't do that next time because you never know who you're going to be competing with."
"Jerry Maguire" is the name of the actor played by Tom Cruise in "Mr. Sweetheart".
As one of the top agents in Hollywood, perhaps no one can act more like a senior nanny than her, belonging to Tom Cruise - but obviously, this is no longer enough to satisfy her desire for power and status.
Compared with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, who was once only regarded as "Mrs. Cruise", is of course not so successful in her career, but the latter's personality determines that she is easier to be controlled by her agent, and she Satisfy Pat Kingsley's vanity and sense of accomplishment to a large extent, and this is what the current Tom Cruise can no longer give her.
However, if she really falls out with Tom Cruise, it will cause very negative damage to her status within CAA and the big Hollywood family.
So she needs another superstar client.
Thinking of this, Pat Kingsley's eyes fell on Nicole who was on the side. The Australian girl has a wonderful appearance and amazing acting skills, but she lacks some of the most important audience popularity for a box office star.
But this can be made up for by relying on the laurels of the Oscar queen...or forget it, the timing is too bad now.
Compared with losing the glory brought by "Tom Cruise", she thinks that she can continue to endure her work, and this does not hinder the future Oscar actress she is cultivating, does it?
So Pat Kingsley temporarily dispelled Nicole Kidman's idea of divorce—obviously, this was not the first time—and instead advised her to have a child with her husband.
As for whether the child brought to make up for the emotional rift between the parents, or the high alimony of the divorce battle, it is unknown.
Josie put this little episode on hold for the time being, because she thought that Nicole hadn't reached the moment when she really decided to divorce, so others should not mix up the marriage that originally belonged to two people at this time, otherwise it would be difficult and thankless , are more likely to be angered for no reason.
Instead, Tom Cruise personally called Josie.
"I heard that you and Shirley had a bad fight over the last film appointment?" The superstar started talking about work, and his attitude was not at all similar to the person who yelled at his wife on the phone that day, but very kind and reasonable.
"You know, Tom, Paramount always sincerely thinks that they shouldn't pay the price that stars should, and that we take too much." Josie's tone was lightly mocking, "But they never Will remember, who's making money for them - it won't be the yelling old man anyway. Right?"
Whether it is "Titanic" or "Mission: Impossible", Shirley Lansing stumbled on these two projects, the former because of missing the North American distribution rights, and the latter because of signing with Tom Cruise. The contract did not satisfy big boss Sumner Redstone, so that despite the box office hit of "Mission: Impossible", more money went into Tom Cruise's pocket.
That's why they clamored that Colombia broke the industry rules every day, abruptly raised the salaries of top stars to an unprecedented height, and hyped in the media that the Hollywood studios were overwhelmed by the high salaries of the stars, but in fact those few A box office star still has a lot of film appointments.
Business is business.
These people love to say it, and they actually follow it—unless there's a real conflict of interest.