Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 451 Helen Returns to America
Pat Morita followed Ronald's advice, went back to grow a beard and practice his English, trying to speak worse, like an immigrant.

Ronald promised him that at least he would try to get him another audition in front of Weintraub.

After that, Ronald still focused on getting familiar with the preparations left by Avelson and his team.

Evelson picked all the veterans who had worked with him for many years.Including director of photography James Crabe, and art director William Cassidy.They are all teams that have worked with Avelson since "Rocky".

Since the "Rocky 4" and "First Blood 2" that Avelson went to prepare are in the very early stage of preparation, the script has not been completed yet, and it will take a long time until the crew is established.So the two most important players in the team did not leave with him.

Ronald chatted with them individually, expressing that he admired the style of their previous works, and that he would direct "Longwei Boy" with the same realistic photography style as "Rocky".If the two have no better choice, I hope they stay and continue to work on the crew.

Art director Cassidy quickly agreed and agreed to continue the work of scouting.

Calaboo, the director of photography, was a little hesitant. He asked Ronald, "What do you think of the rainbow parade in San Francisco?"

"Rainbow parade?" Ronald remembered that when he went to San Francisco, there were people from all over the country with different orientations singing and dancing on the streets of San Francisco.He immediately understood the other party's worry.

In the film industry, there are some people who are more tolerant, but there are also die-hard conservatives.And Ronald's attitude towards this kind of thing is very indifferent, as long as he can do a good job, he doesn't mind.

"I think the laws of America protect the freedom of individuals, and personal affairs do not have any influence on me."

"Then I'd love to stay. I liked the cinematography style of your last movie. Let's talk about 'The Dragon Boy'. What kind of style do you want? Use those colors as the main color tone?"

The crew quickly returned to normal, and Ronald kept scouting and auditioning, returning to the rhythm of the shooting season.He works more than ten hours a day and does not rest on weekends.

However, at noon today, Ronald still took half a day to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport.

Because today is the day Helen Slater, and the rest of the "Supergirl" crew return to Los Angeles.

Helen and Maureen Tiffy, who played Supergirl's best friend Lucy in the movie, walked out of the cabin at the same time.Outside the passage are two men who have been waiting for a long time.

Ronald carried Helen around a few times, in order to keep fit to play Superwoman, Helen is now close to 120 pounds, Ronald felt a lot heavier when holding her.

"Hi, Maureen," Ronald greeted Maureen Tiffy after dropping off Helen, the actress he had a special relationship with.While filming "Fame," Ronald was dating Antonia, a member of the cast and a classmate who played Antonia's character.

She later dated Michelle Pfeiffer, who starred in "Grease 2," in which Maureen Tiffey played Pfeiffer's best friend.

Now "Supergirl", Maureen plays Helen's best friend again.

For this kind of best friend who has been a girlfriend before, Ronald dare not neglect, "Excuse me, who is this?"

"This is my husband, Alexander Cassini, who is also a screenwriter and director." Maureen Tiffey hurriedly introduced her husband to Ronald.Maureen has been dating her current husband since she became famous, and she just got married not long ago.

Now Ronald is hot, and Helen said that he recently directed a Hollywood medium-sized production.It pays to deepen the relationship a bit.

"Hi, nice to meet you." Ronald greeted Maureen's husband, chatted with him, and left with Helen.

The two returned to the apartment, and Ronald let Helen take a hot bath first, then take a nap, waiting for the night's activities.

"Supergirl" is a huge production. After the filming is completed, a party will be officially held, allowing friends from the media to take the opportunity to report on the film.

Helen put on her pajamas and lay down in bed. The new quilt and sheets gave off a pleasant smell.

"Will you stay with me for a while?" Helen hid under the blanket, her cheeks were flushed, and said to Ronald.

"Okay, I have to tell you one thing. I told the producer, Weintraub, to let you directly participate in the second round of auditions for the heroine of 'The Dragon King', Ali."

"Huh?" Helen was a little surprised when she heard the news suddenly, "Why did I play this role? Isn't it just a girl next door vase?"

"Why, you don't want to act?" Seeing Helen's expression, Ronald felt a little disappointed.He wanted to spend as much time with Helen as possible, so this time he asked Weintraub for a favor without telling her in advance.

The film and television industry often shoots for several months, so the two can only rely on international long-distance and international flights to get together. Ronald really wants to make a movie with Helen, so that the two can live together on the set.

"No, I want to play some characters that are challenging for acting. In the story you told me last time, Ali was relatively flat. She didn't have much character development and transformation. It was just a part of Danny's life journey. Important station."

"This?" Ronald was a little unhappy, Ali is not a character who has no room for acting skills.Although she doesn't have many roles, she is the starting point and ending point of the conflict in the whole movie.

The conflict between Danny and Johnny, Danny wanted to learn karate, and finally participated in the karate competition and won the championship, all because of Ali.The audience's eyes will stay on her for a long time.

"However, Helen is now the leading actor in a big production, and her manager may have made other arrangements for her." Thinking of this, Ronald felt relieved a lot.

Helen sensed Ronald's unhappiness, "Even if I want to make a movie with you, but I signed a three-film contract with Alexander and Ilya Salkind, the producers of the Superman series. If they don't If you agree to let me take the film, I can't sign the contract. And the preparations for the second part of Supergirl will begin soon."

"Well, I made up my own mind." Ronald promised to find someone else to play Ali.

"Damn Salkind, why did you have to go to the British Pinewood set to shoot Supergirl?" Ronald felt that he might be separated from Helen again.

Helen slept for a few hours and woke towards evening.The pair attended a press dinner for the completion of filming of "Supergirl" together.

Helen answered questions from several reporters, and Ronald stood by as a foil.The Hollywood reporter seemed to have discovered their intimate relationship, took a lot of photos of the two, and asked Ronald what he thought of "Superwoman".

Ronald said that he hadn't seen the movie yet, but he thought it must be another masterpiece of the "Superman" series.

This sycophant made the Salkind father and son at the scene laugh out loud, and hurried up to chat with Ronald for a while.Knowing the relationship between Ronald and Helen, they invited him to attend the internal screening of the rough cut, and also invited Ronald to participate in the marketing of future releases.

Ronald agreed to watch the rough cut, and when it was released later, he said that he had a director project recently, and he wanted to see the schedule when he wanted to see it.

Helen who was interviewed was still wearing a second-hand evening dress she bought from a second-hand store, a white dress and a red top coat, and she looked very cute.She herself loves the suit.

Ronald felt that although she was beautiful in everything she wore, the color, cut and texture of second-hand evening dresses did not quite match her azure blue eyes and milk-white complexion.

Fortunately, Giorgio Armani has already agreed to contract the dresses for himself and Helen for next year's awards season. When Helen stands with him, it must be very charming, and he will kill a lot of film for reporters.

In his mind, he imagined Helen wearing a backless and low-cut dress, Ronald couldn't help laughing, and Helen turned to look at him.The two looked at each other and smiled, feeling very warm.

"Why did your eyeballs turn green?" Ronald always liked to fascinate himself with Helen's big eyes.

"The color of my eyeballs will change according to the environment," Helen smiled.

"Oh," Ronald nodded. He didn't know much about the eyeballs and hair colors of Caucasians. His own eyeballs were amber, and he didn't pay attention to whether they would show different colors during the day and night.

Ronald continued to watch Helen chatting with crew members and reporters. He found that Helen hardly ate and rarely drank the champagne in her hand.However, she was full of energy and dealt with several groups of reporters one after another.

When Ronald returned home, he waited for Helen to take a shower and change clothes.He opened a bottle of Coppola red wine from Coppola's winery, poured two glasses, and grabbed some salami that Coppola recommended.

Having not eaten all afternoon and all night, Ronald prepared some snacks for Helen.

"No, I've eaten enough." Helen refused the sausage, and only lightly took a sip of the red wine.

"I see you haven't eaten tonight?" Ronald said.

"I want to keep in shape and lose weight." Helen pinched her stomach again, but fortunately there was no fat there.But there is obviously more muscle and fat in the thighs and face.

"Aren't you going to continue to play Superwoman? This figure is just right." Ronald knew that the biggest fear of actresses was getting fat, and the same was true of the two ex-girlfriends, who always dared not eat delicious food.

"When I watched the samples every day, Faye Dunaway always said that I am too fat, I don't care, I want to lose weight."

Unexpectedly, it was the hatred between the actresses in the crew.Ronald knew exactly how Faye Dunaway's thin, skeleton-like figure was achieved.Quickly comfort Helen.

"It doesn't matter, your figure is very standard. I used to be on the school's wrestling team. If you really want to lose weight, as long as the calories consumed by exercise exceed the calories you take in."

"Really?" Helen looked at Ronald and obediently ate a few slices of salami.

"The taste is not bad, let's change to exercise." Helen pounced, hugging Ronald's neck with both hands, and hanging her feet on his body.

Ronald kissed affectionately, hugged Helen like this, kicked open the bedroom door, and got ready for a good exercise.

"Don't say it, it's really a bit fat to hold it like this." Ronald didn't dare to speak out his heart, and quickly took actions to help Helen lose weight.

The two were lying on the bed sweating profusely. Ronald got up and reached for the remote control. He wanted to lie on the bed and watch TV with his girlfriend. Reunited with parents.

"I'm going to take a shower, my body is sticky." Helen got off the bed and walked to the door.

Ronald watched TV for a while, and remembered that he forgot to prepare bath towels for Helen.He also jumped out of bed and took out the new bath towels he had prepared from the closet, and walked over to deliver them to Helen.

"Vag... vomit..."

Outside the bathroom, Ronald seemed to hear the sound of Helen vomiting.

Ronald's heart moved, this is not a good sign.Karen Carpenter, a female singer whom both he and Helen liked very much, was called a fat girl because others made fun of her slightly fat figure.In the end, I got anorexia, and died of health problems.

Ronald began to suspect that Helen was also afraid of eating meat and getting fat, because she vomited all the meat she ate.

"Helen, are you okay? I'll bring you bath towels." Ronald knocked on the door outside the bathroom and said loudly.

"It's nothing, I'm just not used to red wine with this kind of raw salami, my stomach feels a little uncomfortable, just spit it out."

"It's fine, I'm a little worried about you."

"It's okay, maybe I was on a long-distance flight, and I drank some champagne and red wine, and I felt a little dizzy." Helen opened the door, took Ronald's bath towel, dried it quickly, changed into pajamas, and went to bed.

She put her arms around Ronald and soon fell asleep soundly.

Looking at her beautiful face, Ronald was a little worried. Helen might also suffer from anorexia.

As soon as Helen got on the plane back to New York, Ronald called Helen's father, Gerald.

"Gerald, this is Ronald, and Helen has already boarded the plane. I am calling you because I recently encountered something that I should be worried about." Ronald said that Helen vomited The matter was spoken to Gerald.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, "I know, when Helen was 13 years old, she suffered from severe anorexia. I thought she was fine after all these years."

"Could it be because of the Superwoman thing? I heard from her that some people said she was fatter in the movie."

"Hey, it's all about me and her mother."

Gerrard confirmed Ronald's concerns on the phone.When they were divorcing, Helen had symptoms of anorexia with artificial vomiting after eating.Later, he sought medical treatment in many ways but was not cured until a famous psychologist was introduced by the family doctor.

The psychiatrist finally found the root cause of Helen's repeated vomiting.As soon as she encounters something she can't handle (such as her parents' divorce), she will blame herself, thinking that it is caused by her gaining weight and not pleasing her parents.And her solution was to make herself thinner.

Originally, as Helen got older, she was able to understand that it was not her fault that her parents divorced, and later she became less taboo about eating and gaining weight.Unexpectedly, there were signs of recurrence again this time.

"I'm worried, Gerald. I want to catch her on the next plane to New York."

"Not for now, I will contact her with the famous psychiatrist. Don't worry. We will keep in touch. If the situation is not good and you need to come, I will notify you."

(End of this chapter)