novelraw Chapter 142
Chapter 142
In Josie's dressing room, Michelle and her assistant are removing makeup for Josie.
Kelly was pressing the keypad of her mobile phone with one hand, flipping through her work notebook while sending a message, and said neatly: "The day after tomorrow morning you will attend the audition for "The Trap" at Tianji Films in West Hollywood. In the afternoon, go to San Francisco’s Tianye Network to meet El, and have dinner with Mr. Horton in the evening; the next day is the audition for "Fight Club", Mr. Arnold Milkan hopes you can have lunch with the creative team, but you Say yes to Leonardo DiCaprio last week."
Josie closed her eyes and waved her hands, indicating that Kelly understood. Then she gathered the collar of her white bathrobe and asked, "What are the other arrangements for tomorrow?"
Kelly glanced at the memo and replied: "You promised Brittany Murphy and Stacy Dash to have afternoon tea at the Marmont Manor Hotel. After that, you're going to meet the costumes of "The Trap" designer."
"Then I have to ask Leo if he minds changing the lunch to breakfast." Josie said lazily, "This year is too busy. We have organized a group building for Christmas. Do you have any places you want to go? Kelly?"
Although having a generous boss makes people very happy, Kelly still reluctantly reminded Josie: "According to the plan, "The Perfect Victim" will be screened on a small scale at the end of the year."
"It's okay, it's okay to be a little earlier, anyway, it's just going out for a week, and I'll leave the ordering to Fox and Archie." Josie opened her eyes, urging Kelly to write this matter in the memo for her superior.
Kelly had to follow suit.
At this time, Josie's makeup removal was basically completed. She got up and went to the bathroom to wash her face, and then finished the basic skin care before sitting back in the chair and letting Michelle put on a daily light makeup for herself.
She has arrangements for the evening, because Sean Lennon will hold a small celebration party in a tavern in Manhattan. He released his first album "Into The Sun" in May this year, which is said to be better than Josh Jones's. more popular with critics.
——But Josh's photo was sold like crazy among teenagers, and even his appearance in the MV was highly sought after. Obviously, one of them took the niche literary route, and the other was the kind of hot pop singer.
During the period of living and studying in an apartment in Soho District, the relationship between Josie and this former suitor has greatly eased, and now they can be regarded as friends who can make a few jokes.
On the one hand, it is because he has not continued his childish behavior of showing off his feathers, so that the relationship between the two has returned to the comfort zone of friends; on the other hand, with the growth of age and experience, both parties have become more mature in their behavior It seems that the world of adults is not so black and white, nor is it so clear about love and hate.
For Josie, this is flexible and less important.
The tavern Sean Lennon chose has a petty bourgeois style.
Warm yellow dim lights, glass windows overlooking Manhattan, hoarse and deep jazz and people swaying gently with the music, the atmosphere of the scene presents the intellectual temperament of New Yorkers, without unnecessary noise and hustle and bustle.
"Well, it's not rock 'n' roll."
"But at the end of the day, Sean Lennon is still one of the Upper West Side's second-generation rollers."
"He or Josh Jones, who sells better?"
"Josh Jones' music is too vulgar, it's all saliva songs without artistry."
"Will Josie Horton come? Our magazine has been wanting to do an interview with her, but her team said she is too busy recently."
"That girl is truly a miracle. Three Oscar nominations before turning 25, looks like another Natalie Wood."
"Ha, Natalie Wood doesn't have a "Titanic" at the box office."
"Is she going to be paid $500 million now?"
"Who knows. But she is obviously going to succeed Demi Moore and become the highest paid female star in Hollywood today, bar none."
"But is she really worth the price?"
People coming and going are whispering, but when Josie in a golden fringed dress enters here, everyone has a sincere smile on their faces, even someone who once scolded her in a column or "Titanic" "Contributor.
Sean Lennon came over to say hello to Josie, but he had to hand her over to his friend, and turned to meet a critic from "Rolling Stone".
Mark Ronson was still the same, at first glance he couldn't get excited, he seemed to be in a trance with the effects of drugs, but in fact, thanks to Ms. Toan, he was born like this.
He introduced a mixed-race girl beside him to Josie: "Come here, Joe. This is a new friend, Rashida Jones."
"Hello, Josie." Rashida Jones is a little beauty with a sweet smile. It seems that the mixed race has been optimized successfully, and has inherited most of the beauty factors from the mother's line.
"Hi, Rashida." Because she received Mark's gaze, Josie acted friendly and chatted with Rashida Jones for a while.
After Rashida Jones left, Mark explained: "She is the daughter of Quincy Jones, the 'future girlfriend' carefully selected by Ms. Ann, and she is developing towards Hollywood recently."
As he spoke, he made a gesture of bunny ears on his head.
Quincy Jones is famous without repeating. The MJ album "Thriller" by the production unit is enough to make her a god, but even as his daughter, Rashida Jones can only be mixed up from the bottom of Hollywood. Acted in various TV series with occasional speaking roles.
And luckily, Rashida Jones has largely inherited the features of her former action actress mother Peggy Lipton in appearance - aside from her dark skin - there isn't much to see The shadow of her legendary father apparently made her Hollywood journey less difficult.
"I remember that she is the smartest and most beautiful of her sisters." Josie had some impression of this girl, and raised her eyebrows, "A top student at Harvard University?"
Mark shrugged, "Please, don't show such an expression. Aren't you also a talented student of Tishi? Besides, he studied philosophy and religion."
——Josie studied at the Drama Department of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which is the top film school in the United States and is known as the cradle of top directors.
"All right, my ordinary alumni." Josie teased Mark casually, and then asked, "How are the twins doing?"
Speaking of this, Mark looked resentful: "Thanks to you, Charlotte is busy helping Ms. Ann become a fashion blogger, and Samantha is secretly planning to drop out of school to make music."
"Wait a minute, this is none of my business." Josie was amused, and refused to take the blame. "It's okay to be a blogger or something, but isn't making music because of your brother's precepts and deeds?"
To be honest, the twins of the Rongsen family really don't look alike, no matter in appearance or personality.
Compared with the sister Charlotte, Samantha's face is more like a replica of Mark, with the same long face, long nose and big forehead, plus a delicate expression full of trance.
Mark shrugged, "What can I do? She can DJing in nightclubs by herself now."
They were chatting casually. Not far away, Josh Jones pushed through the crowd and walked over. He loosened the black narrow tie knot on his loose white shirt, and then greeted them while pulling his hair: "Hi, friends."
I haven't seen him for a few days, and Josh has bright white hair on his head again. Because of his frowning, he looks a bit like his father's classic image, the Thin White Duke.
"What's wrong?" Mark asked when he saw his face.
"Some boring people." Josh avoided talking, then looked at Josie and said, "You look a little tired-do you want hot cocoa?"
He took out a take-out Starbucks like a conjurer, and handed it to Josie casually.
"Thank you." Josie was surprised for a moment. She was really busy these days and didn't sleep very well.
——And, Michelle's makeup skills are so bad?
Mark raised an eyebrow lightly, and suddenly felt a little disgusted with the alcoholic drink in his hand, but as their respective friends, he would never disrupt the situation in person, but just took a sip of the amber liquid in the glass silently, feeling that the bartender might add more of lemon juice.
"By the way, the MV project you gave me last time, my agent also thinks it's feasible." Josie remembered this and said jokingly, "But my net worth is very high now, Josh , have you reported it to your producer?"
In fact, she didn't care about the salary, but that if she made a cameo appearance in Josh's MV, those crazy girlfriend fans of the other party would look for trouble.
Josh only smiled, and replied, “Don’t worry, I’m rich now.”
That's true.
Due to following the studio system of the golden age, singers cannot compare with actors in low positions, but they are much stronger in terms of making money. Even perfume has formed an industrial chain, completely without the "reservedness" of movie stars.
For example, Josie never touched any Pepsi advertisements after she was promoted to a high profile—although the other party didn’t have the guts to approach her again—now even the sponsorship and endorsement of the Blue Blood brand have to be picked and picked, and there is no real one at present. We talked about it.
On the one hand, it was because the C family’s ruthless example left a deep impression on her, and she did not think that these reserved and arrogant luxury brands would escort her carefully like Nike did for Jordan;
On the other hand, she herself doesn't really want to be limited in appearance every time she attends an important event, which makes her feel that most of the fun of the red carpet has been deprived of herself.
In contrast, Qiao Qian actually felt that Sony paid a lot of money to invite her to shoot a limited advertisement for new products, which seemed a little more attractive.
It is much more casual for Hollywood stars to accept advertising endorsements in overseas markets, and Party A also has less money, more money and a shorter cycle, so most of the advertising shoots are more enjoyable.
——But this kind of advertisement belongs to the welfare of the big stars, and other people can't reach it.
The next morning, Josie flew back to Los Angeles.
When she found Rashida Jones in the audition list of "The Trap", there was no big surprise.
The leading actor of this film has been confirmed to be played by Zun Long, so today's audition is the second female lead who does not have many roles in the film. She is a hacker lady with excellent computer skills but weak force value. She will be the heroine's friend and co-star Outside support appears in the film.
Stacey Dash wanted this role very much, but she felt that she couldn't play a genius with a high IQ, so she chose to give up after testing Josie.
Yes, this time "The Trap" wants to find a person of color to play the female lead, preferably a black woman.
But there are not many black actresses who can play this role.
Because of the influence of culture and tradition, the education level of blacks is relatively low, and their family atmosphere has created more powerful women, so it is easy to find sexy, pungent, and strong actresses among them, suitable for nerds and weirdos , Intelligent temperament is not common.
There is an issue that is easily misunderstood here, and that is the division of people of color.
In Europe, people of color generally refer to all people including blacks, yellows, Latinos, Indians, and mixed races of whites and other races.
But in the United States, as early as 1865, the definition of people of color was only blacks and people with one-eighth black blood. This was the original version of the "rule of one drop of blood".
However, political correctness is not popular in Hollywood right now, and the original intention of "Stealing the Sky" was only to hope that the cast would be more diverse, so it did not narrow the scope of the first round of auditions to people of color in a narrow sense.
The second round of auditions had already screened out most of the actresses, so the morning when Josie arrived, they watched a total of ten live auditions, each with an average time of 10 minutes.
After watching, the main creative team of "The Trap of Stealing the Sky" discussed the candidate for the second female lead in a small room.