[US Entertainment] 1994

Josh is not a good-tempered person, and he doesn't understand what is going on in Richard Gere's mind, but his opponents have come to provoke him, and Josh is not a soft-footed cat, so how can he be afraid?

After saying goodbye to the reporters, Josh happily went up the stairs.

He knew very well what the reporter would write, but Josh didn't care. He was not the Virgin and he didn't believe in Jesus. If someone bullied him, Josh would definitely fight back unceremoniously.

"Our warriors are here." Steven Spielberg raised his eyebrows with a playful expression. "Schindler's List" was a big hit at the box office. The director was naturally in a good mood. What happened downstairs had already been heard in his ears, but the director didn't take it seriously at all. Instead, he smiled and waved to Josh.

"It's normal for young people to be angry." Beside Spielberg, a middle-aged man in a dark suit and rosy cheeks said nonchalantly, "Richard Gere should control his stinky mouth, no one wants to do it for him." Wipe your ass."

Last year, Richard Gere’s speech at the Oscar Awards Ceremony has been talked about so far. Although the Chinese film market is called a desert by Hollywood, after the reform and opening up, China has gradually begun to recover. Financial analysts on Wall Street believe that the Chinese economy The potential is endless, and Hollywood is still imagining the day when it will sell movie tickets to China.

As the controller of Universal, Ron Meyer naturally has such a premonition. If the Chinese film market can flourish in the future—even after 30 or [-] years, Richard Gere will definitely pay for his actions. cost.

As Spielberg's friend for many years, Lon Meyer naturally does not have the majesty of Universal President in front of him, not to mention the box office of "Schindler's List" is very good, and "Jurassic Park" has just made a lot of money for him. Meyer was smiling all the time, and looked at Josh with kindness.

What's more, there are no simple people who can control a film company. In the eyes of Ron Meyer, the fight between Josh and Richard Gere is just a small conflict between children, and there is no need to pay attention to it.

Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson were naturally there too, and Liam smiled and patted Josh on the shoulder: "Richard Gere doesn't like you, the whole crew thinks you can take away the statuette, Josh, you can."

"thank you for your well wishes."

Although Josh only played a supporting role in "Schindler's List", his influence is no less than that of the leading actor Liam Neeson. A Golden Globe Award for supporting actor has already made him the most watched actor of the year. One of the most famous movie stars, not to mention that he is still so young.

What's more, from "The Uninhibited Sky" to "My Cousin Vinny", to "Scent of a Woman" and "Schindler's List", no matter if he plays a leading role or a supporting role, as long as Josh plays It's like a kind of magical power that all the movies can sell well!

Hollywood is a place full of superstitions. After the box office success of "Scent of a Woman", some people have noticed Josh's "magic power", and after "Schindler's List" was released and became a big success, This remark was even more heated up.

Because no matter from which point of view, these few movies are not the type of hits, but these few movies can be sold well, and each of them makes the movie company a lot of money.

What is even more surprising is that in addition to the outstanding box office results, these films have also attracted much attention in terms of awards. In the eyes of many people, Josh is just a young actor with some talent, and there is never a shortage of young actors. His type, Johnny Depp, River Phoenix and even a younger Leonardo DiCaprio are all talented, and Josh is not necessarily much better than them.

But these people ignore that Josh has only starred in four movies so far, but he has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards. Many actors who have appeared in hundreds of movies in their lifetime may not have as many nominations as him.

This number has to be shocking.

So even though Josh is still young, many powerful figures in Hollywood have already regarded him as a target to win over. They have no doubt that Josh will become one of them in the future, just like Tom Han who has transformed from obscurity to the backbone of Hollywood. like that.

During the conversation with Spielberg, Lon Meyer did not forget to hand out a business card to Josh: "Universal is planning a new commercial film series. If you are interested, you can give this to you." broker."

Josh smiled and took it.

Steven Spielberg shook his head: "Josh will have two more films released this year. He is a young man with great ideas."

Lon Meyer didn't care at the time. There were many young people with ideas, but few people were not tempted by the opportunity of a blockbuster male lead. Even if there were, they were just some self-aware guys.

"Are both of your films released this year?" Liam Neeson asked curiously.

Seeing Josh nodding, Liam gave a thumbs up: "It's really courageous. When it will be released this year, Natasha and I will go to the cinema to support it. It's best to release it in both the United States and the United Kingdom. If I was still in the United States at that time If so, I will watch it in the United States, and if I go back to the UK, I can still watch it in the UK."

Josh smiled slightly: “Then why not buy movie tickets in both the United States and the United Kingdom?”

"Poverty makes me powerless." Liam spread his hands and showed a narrow smile.

Josh shrugged, sometimes he was really speechless to this guy.

After chatting for a while, the celebration banquet was finally about to begin. They took a car together and stopped at a private hotel not far from Universal Pictures. Steven Spielberg and Ron Meyer walked in front. Josh and Liam was behind, and producers Kathleen Kennedy, Ben Kingsley and others also participated in the celebration banquet. The whole group was very low-key.

After all, "Schindler's List" is only the first week of its large-scale release, and no one knows what the follow-up development of the movie will be.However, the media has already known that the crew is holding a celebration banquet, but this is understandable-even if the box office performance is not considered, the impressive record of "Schindler's List" in the awards season is enough to make people happy.

In such an occasion, Josh will never be the protagonist, and he does not want to be the protagonist.

After eating and drinking all night, Josh was paralyzed on the bed when he got home, without any strength at all.

The next day, the confrontation between him and Richard Gere was finally printed in the newspaper by the media.

Richard Gere: No Josh Walter Oscar win

Josh Walter: Richard Gere Must Have Had Multiple Statues

"Josh Walter slams Richard Gere nomination for Zero Egg"

"The Battle of the Two Handsome Guys, Young and Old"

"Josh Walter's tongue got the better of him, and how Richard Gere coped"

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Josh's remarks in the interview were moved to the newspapers by the media intact, and Richard Gere naturally saw these reports.

The face of this old Hollywood handsome guy immediately flushed red.Richard Gere is well-known in the film and fashion circles, but when it comes to Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, he is far inferior to Josh, let alone actors of the same age and status.

It’s not that Josh hit Richard Gere’s weakness. After all, Richard Gere has never had the will to compete for an Oscar. He’s not Tom Cruise. Pursuit, Richard Gere just felt humiliated, humiliated by a kid who was 20 years younger than himself and had no hair yet!

But the bad thing is, what Josh said was not wrong at all.

Richard Gere is really not qualified to judge whether an Oscar winner can get a statuette - he himself is not liked by the academics, and his nonsense at the awards ceremony last year has already offended many members of the academy. So the reason for provoking Josh is very simple——

The monk had always hoped to win over potential actors from the younger generation of Hollywood. After finding Josh, Josh actually expressed his dissatisfaction with this behavior in public:

"Why do Americans take care of everything in all places? We pay so much tax every year just to fund these people? A group of slave owners used to oppress slaves. Now that those slaves are freed, the slave owners go to the United States to raise funds and want to Return to the original position?"

"We have so many people who don't eat healthy food every year, our cattle eat corn from the factory, we have soldiers from the Vietnam War, soldiers from the Gulf War, and they have died because of the government's foreign wars. , why should the interests that belong to them be handed over to outsiders?"

Richard Gere was so annoyed that he publicly declared before the Oscars that he was not optimistic about Josh winning the Oscar.

Of course, Josh didn't care about his thoughts at all. In his opinion, Richard Gere was out of his mind to hang out with that kind of people and ruin his career.

Josh didn’t take it seriously, but some people did.

On the third morning after this incident, the headline of the "National Enquirer" appeared the words "Interview with Richard Gere". man."

"What's wrong?" Josh asked curiously.

"After he married Cindy Crawford, the National Enquirer paid a fortune to buy pictures of him and Cindy Crawford playing naked/naked in their swimming pool from the paparazzi, Cindy Crawford Lawrence even took the Enquirer to court, and it shocks me that they are now like a family."

"Have you seen that photo?" Josh was suddenly curious.

"Cough, cough... Now is not the time to discuss that." Arnold raised the newspaper, "Guess what Richard Gere said?"

"I don't care what idiots say at all." Josh said coldly.

In fact, the "National Enquirer" hacked him tirelessly almost once a day. If Josh cared, he would have been pissed off.