America's Road to Fame

Chapter 46 Assistant Erica

In the end, Erica agreed to William Chen's invitation.It just so happened that her NYU lecturer appointment was coming up soon.

There are two types of teachers in American universities: one is the route from assistant teacher professor to professor. Professors are often tenured, which is a relatively stable job; the other is lecturer, university The lecturers in the school are generally appointed, and there is usually a 2-5 year employment period. After the appointment period expires, you need to seek employment from the school again.

Erica’s situation falls into the latter category. After graduating, she got a two-year lecturer’s appointment at New York University, which happened to expire in September this year. She had already received New York University’s intention to continue her appointment before. If there is no accident If not, she was going to agree to stay in the post.

Now William Chen proposed to invite her as his assistant, and Erica agreed after considering it, so she will refuse the school's appointment in the future.

Thinking that he had hired a lecturer from New York University before he went to school, er, the school wouldn't have any opinion on him, probably not, William Chen thought so.

William Chen provided Erica with an assistant position, with a basic salary of $20 a year, twice that of Erica's annual salary as a lecturer at New York University at this time.

In addition, she will spend 10 U.S. dollars a year on clothing, which is used to buy cosmetics and daily clothing. After all, as a personal assistant, she often stays with Chen William and also attends some business activities, so her dress is not necessarily certain. If it is a big luxury brand, it must have a certain style and not embarrass William Chen.

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The first time Erica accompanied Chen William as an assistant was to meet the director Andy Haring.

Chen William is no longer suitable for driving his sports car when traveling now, and he is also a little tired of it, because in fact, the driving experience of the sports car is not that good, so he directly ordered an extended Rolls Les Phantom, now finally arrived.

Normally, ordering a Rolls-Royce would take at least half a year of waiting time, but William Chen used the authority of his own American Express black card to directly buy the existing car reserved by someone else, so the time was much shorter.

Now a bodyguard is driving, William Chen and Erica are sitting in the back seat, and he can still put his hand on Erica's beautiful black silk legs to help her test the quality.

Originally Erica wanted to sit in the co-pilot, how could William Chen allow it? It wasn't for anything else, but mainly to make her less tired from the journey, and to activate the blood circulation in her legs by the way, um, That's it.

The place agreed with Andy Haring was in a reception room of Paris's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Seeing William coming in, the other party was obviously a bit cautious. After all, William Chen was accompanied by a beautiful female assistant. , followed by two strong bodyguards like Xiaoshan, which is still very bluffing.

Andy Haring first took out his laptop and played a clip he shot for William Chen.William Chen mentioned it before, give him part of the funds, first select a segment from the script, shoot it for him to see the effect.

The main purpose of doing this is to see if the shooting style of the other party is consistent with the original version of "Magic Mike". After watching the clips he shot, William Chen is still very satisfied, at least it has a similar atmosphere to the original version.

"I seem to have only given you US$1. How did you achieve this effect? ​​It looks very luxurious." William Chen asked curiously.

Speaking of the movie, Andy Haring completely lost the restraint at the beginning, and began to say vividly: "After I read the script, I went to several gigolo clubs to observe and experience carefully. When shooting this clip , After I chatted with the owner of a club, he directly charged a small amount of money and arranged for the handsome guys in the venue to assist me in the shooting, so the effect was not bad.”

William Chen was still very satisfied with Andy Haring's performance. He thought for a while and asked, "If you come to make this movie, which actors are you going to look for?"

"What's your opinion, Mr. William?"

Hearing Andy Haring's words, William Chen smiled, this is really a director who will come, and he took the initiative to ask him about the arrangement of actors.However, he was a little worried. William Chen's goal was to hope that the film would produce better results.

I don’t know how the actors in the original movie are now. Thinking of this, William Chen wrote down the names of the original actors who starred in the original movie, and after showing it to Andy Haring, he asked him: "Do you think these actors are suitable?" ?"

He didn't expect that he really knew some of the actors in it. After thinking about it, he said, "It's really more suitable, but if we want to start filming now, I don't know if their schedule is suitable."

"You are the director, I respect your opinion, try to use these actors as much as possible, if the schedule is really not suitable, then find some that you think are suitable. My only requirement is to shoot according to my script and storyboard script. After finishing, I will find someone to edit, it is best to have more time when I sign the agreement with the actors, maybe there will be a need for reshoots in the end." William Chen instructed Andy Haring.

Hearing what William Chen said, Andy Haring felt a burst of excitement. He knew that this meant that William Chen had confirmed himself as the director of the film.He said with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, Mr. William, I will do my best to make this movie well."

"Any questions about the filming? How long do you expect the film to take?"

"The movie I made before, some people are good, you can call them over to form a crew, the rest of the people, just find the economic company to fill it up, if everything goes well, I expect to be able to shoot in three months Finished." Andy Haring replied that he had studied the script and storyboards of this film, and there were not many scenes in "Magic Mike", and there were not many actors. The customers of the Gigolo club are guest stars, so the difficulty of shooting is not high.

"However, there is one thing to note, that is, this movie still has a lot of scenes of gigolos, and there will be learning of dance skills interspersed in the middle, so it is necessary to hire a few professional gigolos to let the actors learn dance skills." Andy Haring thought of this and added.

"You are the director, you can handle all these things yourself. I will give you a budget of 700 million dollars. Do you think it is enough?"

"I need to wait for the producer to figure it out, but based on my experience, the actors are not too famous, the salary will be very low, and the set is not complicated, it should be enough."

Chen William is the producer of this film, but he certainly cannot have time to follow the group for three months, so he is mainly a producer in name and will check the final editing.After that, he will specially invite a producer from Hollywood to follow the group and supervise the use of funds.

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After finishing the conversation with Andy Haring, William Chen also finally confirmed the director of "Magic Mike", and the next thing is much easier. He only needs to ensure that Andy Haring can successfully complete the film.

I hope he won't let himself down, at least he can shoot according to the storyboard script he provided, so that the final editing can be smoother, and there is no need to make up shots.

After having lunch with the other party at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, William Chen took Erica back to his office in Building 666.

Erica would come here every day before, but this is the first time she came here as William Chen's assistant.William Chen took her and re-introduced Erica's identity to the company's main management, including equity investment manager Nelson, securities investment manager John Paulson, and trading team manager Joss.

After learning that Erica has now become William Chen's assistant, they all exchanged contact information with Erica. After that, some accounts or project briefings that need to be reported will be sent to her first, and then submitted to William Chen.

Of course, these are general reports. If it is a relatively important matter, they will still contact William Chen directly.

After arranging an office for Erica in the room next to William Chen's office, some of Anne's work that directly serves William Chen, such as notifying visitors, making coffee, and tidying up the office, will be handed over to Erica Come and do it.

Naturally, after learning about this, Annie's attitude towards Erica was not so enthusiastic. Although it was not too obvious, Erica could still feel it easily.

However, she didn't care too much about it, because as William Chen's assistant, she only needed to care about William Chen alone.As for other people, as long as it doesn't affect the work, she doesn't care at all.

Not long after, Erica came to Chen William's office again and told him that Ms. Alicia had arrived.

Alicia was met by Chen William on his own initiative. Before Garrett came to find Chen William and proposed to him a new plan to renovate No. 666 Building, that plan gave Chen William some other ideas.

However, regarding the operability of that idea, William Chen still needs to demonstrate in many ways. Before that, he had already consulted Nielsen on related issues. He had worked in Deloitte Consulting Company before. I have been to many related cases, so through him, William Chen's thinking can be improved.

And calling Alicia over today is to reduce the chance of making mistakes at the legal level.William Chen saw Alicia walking into his office. She was wearing a wine red shirt and black trousers today. Although she was not as slender as Erica and Ivanta, she was still over 170 cm tall. The proportions are still good, and there is a mature and intellectual charm in every gesture.

Coming to Chen William's side, Alicia gave a clear answer to his question, and explained some of the points that need attention.After this conversation, William Chen made up for some loopholes in his plan, and felt that it was already very operable.

(End of this chapter)