Birth of an actor

Chapter 154 Dissatisfaction

"Has Barbara bought the entire editorial office of "Empire"?" Even William, who has become more and more flattered by self-cultivation, blushed a little when he saw this issue of "Empire". Movie magazines don’t often praise American actors like this: “Their attitude is so friendly that I can’t help but wonder if I accidentally saved the British Empire in my sleep.” When it was time, William dared to speak so unscrupulously.

"Is it overrated? I don't think so." Amon Goffman's attitude of "my actor is naturally the best" as always.

"Maybe they don't like me at all, but the British can't suppress their love for Shakespeare." The manager once again entered the self-inflated mode, and William had to find a more rational reason.However, as always, the agent chose to stand on his side without asking the reason or thinking rationally, which is quite cute.

"Speaking of the media, Will, that, Andre Acheson..."

"Did he criticize my acting skills to nothing? Or criticize the movie as bad and hopeless? It doesn't matter, but don't talk about other things, especially Gwyneth Paltrow. She can't stand this."

Although William is not interested in Gwyneth Paltrow, this does not prevent him from defending her, especially Gwyneth Paltrow has paid a lot for the film, only the few sex scenes, the scale is huge It is not something that ordinary popular young actresses in Hollywood can do. The script does not require Viola to be naked, but if the actor acts like this, the public opinion circle will definitely praise her courage and dedication. It can be seen that Gwyneth Pa Tello has truly dedicated his life to art.

And recently William had a phone conversation with Ben Affleck and attended a party together. According to the other party, Gwyneth Paltrow attaches great importance to the review of this movie, and any influential newspaper review Refusing to let it go, it seems that because of reading a few tabloids with less elegant wording, Paltrow has been chasing Affleck every day recently and asking him if he thinks her breasts are too small... What else can Ben Affleck say? What?I can only sigh, woman, woman, and then pray that the American reporter will not be too mean to her, because if he is mean to Paltrow, he will not even think about his own life.

"No, Will, what I want to say is that I probably know why Andre Acheson targeted you so much." Amon Goffman recalled with some annoyance: "I also suddenly remembered after reading the newspaper yesterday. Yeah, that was a year ago, I went to Las Vegas to meet a client, and I happened to meet Andre Acheson there, and I went to chat with him. You know, Will, though Acheson Xun has a bit of a bad reputation in the circle of professional film critics, but he is undoubtedly very good at shaping the public image, because the sharp words and sharp comments are very popular with some readers, so I want to make friends with him, let's drink together Got a few drinks, got a little drunk, and then he told me he'd lost a lot of money at the casino during the day—"

"He wanted a bribe from you, and you turned him down?"

"No, I promised him."

William wanted to tell his agent that he didn't want the other party to do this for him, buy film critics and the like, but he knew that the story of Amon Goffman must not be finished, because if Andre Acheson really Now that he got the money, he won’t be chasing William like a mad dog——Andre Acheson doesn’t look like someone who will deliberately ask for money to test whether the star agent will really bribe him People who do this kind of behavior, Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun" or AO Scott of the "New York Times" may be film critics who will not be corrupted by red envelopes.

So William asked, "And what happened, Ami?"

"Then he was all pissed off and we moved from the restaurant to the bar where we met two very hot girls and Acheson tried to buy them a drink but failed and he bet me it was actually two strippers and said If I can get them to agree to spend the night with him, instead of saying a bad word about the next movie you star in, he'll praise it so much that you're the next Clark Gable, or Greg Gregory Peck. I didn't know what to think at the time, and I was probably under the influence of alcohol. I was very impulsive and scolded him at the time, saying that I was not a pimp, but he was [-]% perverted Ghost scum, and then turned and left. I'm sorry, Will, I scolded very loudly at the time, and I guess it made Andre Acheson feel ashamed-"

"Sorry? Why are you sorry for not succumbing to this media shame? Don't say sorry to me, Ami. Instead, I want to thank you. If any reporter is willing to say in the newspaper for this reason If I speak kindly, I will die of shame."

"You are a man of noble character, Will, perhaps the most noble man I have seen in Hollywood these years. And I, I used to think that I don't care about the means as long as the end is right, But now I find that my bottom line seems to be improving a little bit, and I think this is probably influenced by you." Amon Goffman lowered his voice as he spoke, and in the end it almost turned into a murmur: "Buying As expected, Barbara has to do things like the media, she is a good hand, maybe she doesn't even need to pimp, she just needs to wear a low-cut dress and wave it in front of that pervert Acheson, and she will be able to It drove him crazy."

"I'm very proud to hear this, Ami. More and more consensus of views can help us avoid future rifts due to differences and eventually parting ways." William didn't hear the second half of the agent's words, and fortunately he didn't Otherwise, today's phone call will definitely be endless: "After understanding where Andre Acheson's hostility comes from, I am not worried about him at all. Take it easy, Ami, he It won't cause me any trouble, even if he really goes too far in the future, I have a way to solve him."

"Well, I'll keep an eye on him too. By the way, I've already settled that matter for you. The official documents will be done tomorrow, and the ticket to Kansas has already been bought for you. Are you sure you will be there this year?" Spending Christmas?" Amon Goffman's tone became a little cautious: "Didn't your relatives on your father's side no longer contact you?"

"A few years ago, they had restored a little contact. They took the initiative first. After thinking about it, Madeleine decided that it would be better to restore a little contact, because she thought my father was a kind and soft-hearted person. Even if he was betrayed by his relatives, he would not Will really hate them for the rest of my life. But it's just been sending each other Christmas greeting cards. I decided to go to Kansas this time because my grandfather invited me to Christmas for the third year. If he refused, he would be sad. , and when I was a child, I would go to Kansas every year to live for a while, where the cooking methods of pumpkin pie and roast turkey are different from those in other states, and every time I think about it, my mouth is watering."

Most of the Bradley family are alive, and Edwin Bradley is the only one of his generation who died, so it can be said that there is a big family behind William, and those uncles and aunts Most of the cousins ​​have decent working qualifications. There are doctors, lawyers and real estate agents, typical representatives of middle-class families.

However, from the time when Edwin Bradley's career fell to the bottom and before his suicide ended, these brothers and sisters of his revealed their true colors under the appearance of family reunion. The real indifference hidden under the care gave Edwin Bradley the final fatal blow. The brothers and sisters who grew up together avoided him like snakes and scorpions after he was in trouble. Not only did they never offer to help— —Actually, even if they offered to help Edwin, they wouldn’t ask for it, because that little help would be a drop in the bucket for his failure. However, isn’t one of the meanings of the existence of relatives is to support each other and even do things emotionally and impulsively? ? ——These blood brothers even kept complaining that Edwin's last investment failure caused them to lose a lot of savings. Madeleine and William always felt that maybe this was what made Edwin Bradley The final blow of utter despair.

Only William's grandfather, Arthur Bradley, hastily sold the apartment he lived in since he got married and had almost all the happy memories of his life, as well as other assets, and rushed to New York as soon as possible. Unfortunately, It was still too late for Arthur Bradley, for Edwin Bradley had jumped off Wall Street in the wee hours of the morning when he arrived in New York.

The death of the youngest son dealt a great blow to Arthur Bradley. After William and Madeleine rejected his check, the old man did not buy back his apartment, but went to the countryside to buy a farm as a pawnbroker. The farmer usually feeds horses and dogs to take care of the farm, and even picks up a shotgun to hunt in his spare time. He lives a bit of the temperament of an old western cowboy.

Arthur Bradley was the only person William liked in the Bradleys' house, and he couldn't refuse the old man's Christmas invitation every time, so he had to go to Kansas for an idyllic Christmas this year. family gathering.

"I don't think it's just you and your grandfather spending Christmas this year, think about it, if I also have a Hollywood movie star nephew, and he doesn't answer me, and the only Christmas communication is cards, I'm not going to miss this family reunion where it's possible to actually meet, and it's easy to cultivate rapport." Given that this is Bradley's family business, and as an agent, he should not interfere with the actor's private life Too many, Amon Goffman swallowed more sarcasm comments, but he couldn't help asking in the end as a friend: "How about you go directly to the private jet to make a shocking appearance? I think Bill Both Mocanick and Ron Meyer will be more than happy to lend you their private jets."

"That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid, Ami, I just want to go back and see my grandfather as a grandson, not come home as a big star. If I make a grand entrance in Kansas like I do in a movie, Although it can scare others, I don’t think grandpa will be really happy.” William rejected the manager’s proposal: “Besides, there is not that big apron in the town to park a private airliner, and the helicopter is about the same. .”

"Call me if there's anything you need me to do in Kansas."

"I will."

"By the way, did something happen to the filming in Berlin? When I was on the phone with Danny yesterday, the guy seemed terrified, but he couldn't answer when I asked him what happened, Will, everything Is it normal?"

"Everything is fine." William replied with a smile on the corner of his mouth, feeling a tearing pain on his right cheek: "You know Danny, he always exaggerates."

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"CUT!" David Fincher finally couldn't stand it and shouted: "CUT! CUT! CUT!"

William and Brad Pitt in front of the camera stopped their movements immediately, and looked back at the director obediently with innocent expressions, as if wondering: Have we screwed up again?no.

But David Fincher's next words are actually expressing: You just didn't satisfy me.

"Brad, I know you don't like Will. You said it yourself. Will, I also know that you don't like Brad. You two don't have to rush to refute. I still have this vision." David Finch waved his hand to stop William and Pete from explaining, and continued: "Since you don't like each other, why can't you play this scene well for me? Could it be that you want to punch each other sincerely and firmly?" Is it difficult? I want you to really fight and treat each other as enemies, instead of pretending to die at first sight!"

In "Fight Club", there are a lot of fighting scenes between Jack played by William and Taylor played by Brad Pitt. Flying kicks, some scenes are even very dangerous, such as throwing the opponent on hard objects or even glass, dragging the opponent on the ground to slide, or even rolling down the stairs and so on.

When he first saw the script, William realized that this was a film with a lot of violent scenes, and some scenes might even make people with low tolerance feel uncomfortable after being made into a movie, so he was very surprised at the twentieth century Why would a mainstream studio like Fox invest in such a movie, and the investment amount is as high as 6000 million US dollars?But it's strange, the script itself is still very exciting, and William can't refuse such a script at all.

Prompted by the director, William and Brad Pitt looked at each other blankly. They both knew that because of past unhappiness and other reasons, at most they didn’t hate each other, and they were far from liking each other. However, the more they understand each other, the less they want to show it. This is one of the reasons why the script requires William and Pete to fight each other, but the duel between the two seems to be trying to restrain themselves from fighting. .

'This show can't be made without unraveling the knot between these two bastards. 'David Finch muttered to himself, and then he waved William and Pete to his side, and after driving away the other staff, he said seriously: "You two need to talk, I will give you One hour, one hour, I hope to see you face each other with the most calm attitude, if you don't do it, let's talk about the problem until the problem is completely solved, I don't want to waste any more film, understand?"

William and Brad Pitt each nodded to David Fincher.

"It's [-]:[-] in the evening. I'm going to have a cup of coffee. I'll see you in an hour."

David Fincher left, and there was no other crew nearby, except for William and Brad Pitt, there were only lights and deliberately messy props around.

"How do we talk? It's too cold outside, find a cafe?"

"I think for the topic we're going to talk about in a while, I'm afraid a cozy place like a cafe is not suitable, so here it is."

Brad Pitt heard some bad feelings from William's tone, 'This should not be. Pete thought, 'Brandley stole my part, saw my ex-girlfriend naked, he even had the most part in this movie, how could he be upset with me, why can't he be jealous of me Looks more handsome than him? '

"I don't think you are more handsome than I am," said William politely.

"What? Did I just say it?"

"Every word is clear." William asked, "So, that's it?"