[American Entertainment] Dance out of my youth

Teenage years pass quickly.

Tom Holland played Michael once a week, and two months later he started playing Billy Elliott; the next two years, he played about once every two weeks.

Grace Elliott began to participate in various mathematics competitions, and every summer she had to participate in several mathematics advanced schools and mathematics training.

The twins are doing well at Dang Hyde Prep School and have had no problems with bullying.

Grace only took ballet for just over a year, and her trampoline training stopped after she was 14.She now devotes her spare time to math and computers, and a small amount of time to boxing.

Regarding her future professional direction, she has carefully considered it after entering the 10th grade, and discussed with her parents. She will major in computer science like her father, and her main research direction is artificial intelligence.There are many research directions for mathematical geniuses, and mathematics, physics, and computer are all advantageous majors.The university to study considers British universities or American universities, and several well-known science and engineering universities are all under consideration.

The Elliott family is not short of money, so where to go to college is not a problem.British universities Oxford and Cambridge are of course on the list, as well as Imperial College, University of Surrey, University of Liverpool, etc., American universities Caltech, MIT, Harvard University, Stanford University, etc.

In the past two years, the Holland family still has contacts with the Elliot family from time to time, and the children's birthday parties are always invited to each other.

The gap between Grace and the boys is getting bigger and bigger, not only in height, but also in experience.

After this summer, Grace will be 16 years old.

A 16-year-old college student is actually not very special.

Emma Ferguson drove to pick up Grace.

"I thought you didn't have to celebrate Children's Day." Emma said jokingly.

"I'm not yet old enough to take a driver's license." Grace got into the passenger seat with a paper bag.

"That's true." Emma said with a smile, "Where are you going?"

"Kingston." Give her the address.

"Whose family?" Emma asked curiously.

"My family used to live there."

"Which handsome guy is it?"

"No. It's a boy. His birthday is today."

"boy?"

"Just a little boy, only 14 years old."

"But you're only 15 years old—15 years and 9 months?"

Grace shrugged: "You are really a Gossipgirl."

"I'll have to take a good look at what this 'little boy' you came here to give him a birthday present looks like. Was it something you bought the last time we hung out together?"

"Correct."

Emma was disappointed when she got to Kingston.

"Really a 'little boy.'"

"Otherwise? What do you think he will be like?" They didn't stop at Holland's house, and Grace left after giving Tom a birthday present.Tom talked to Grace for a few minutes at the door.

"He looks like he's only 10 years old!"

"Really?" Grace thought for a while, "He looks a little smaller than other boys, but I think that's because he's not tall."

"Yes! He's too short!" Emma suddenly realized.

"He won't grow too tall. His parents are not too tall." Especially this year, Grace's height has jumped a lot. Now she is 170cm, and Tom has not yet reached 160cm. See It seems that the gap is not a star and a half.

Emma was a little disgusted, "Let's watch it when he grows up to be 24 years old."

Grace raised an eyebrow, but said nothing.

It is said that "birds of a feather flock together, people form groups", she is no longer the same as the boy of the Holland family.Tom still reports everything to her as soon as possible. For example, he just performed the last performance of "Jump Out of My World" last week, and he will no longer appear in the show because he has grown taller and is no longer an 11-year-old The height of the boy; but compared with the general height of boys of the same age, he is still a bit shorter. Some 14-year-old boys develop rapidly and have exceeded 160cm;

For example, he signed with a professional actor agency last year and wants to become a professional actor in the future;

For another example, I met some lovely children of the same age because of my work in musicals, but some of them were not so cute, and there were also very annoying guys.

He hasn't changed his voice yet, his voice is still a child's voice, a baby voice, very cute, but still a "boy".He didn't understand yet that they were no longer friends who could hang out on their bikes together.

This summer, Grace did not attend math further school.She selected several top-ranked British and American universities among more than a dozen universities of science and engineering, and sent out applications; all schools sent her admission letters, and she chose Caltech. Wei and Juliet took her to Los Angeles to see the school.

Caltech is located in Pasadena, Los Angeles. There are no more than 200 undergraduates a year, and the admission rate is lower than that of Harvard and Yale.

The Elliot family was very calm about this matter.

"When you go to Caltech, you will have new friends," Juliet said as she packed her luggage. "You have too few friends. Go out when you should go out and play, don't always stay in the classroom or dormitory .”

"Mom, the school schedule will be very intense, and there won't be much time to go out and play."

"You should learn to play. You're still a kid."

"I don't waste my time 'playing'."

"Playing is also about interpersonal communication. I seem to have taught you too little in this regard."

Grace thought for a while, "What you said makes sense. But there don't need to be too many people who can be called 'friends'. It is enough to have a few friends who can talk to each other and go shopping together. Maintaining friendship takes time and energy. , it is impossible for one person to maintain too many friends."

"But you should be careful in choosing friends. Don't hang out with those bad kids. Play with kids who are similar to you. Don't worry about money. Dad is very good at making money. You already know that. Apart from tuition fees, You have $2000 in pocket money a month, so don’t spend it recklessly if you have nothing to do, but don’t deduct the money you should spend, because the money is not saved. If you have no money, call me or Dad.”

"Know it."

"You're underage—I'm really worried about you. How about I rent an apartment in Pasadena and come and stay with you?"

"mom!"

"Ah, I have to discuss it with my father. I might as well buy an apartment. If you are not used to living in a dormitory, you can live in an apartment. Mom is joking with you. If you let your classmates know that your mother still goes to school with you, you must Laughing at you!"

"Do we have the money to buy an apartment?"

"Oh my dear! You really don't know Dad's average annual income. Don't worry, I earn the daily expenses of the family now. Dad's money is used for investment, including buying real estate. Dad has been very busy recently. When this project is completed, We're going to see you in Los Angeles."

"Do you want to buy a house in the United States?"

"Wouldn't that be nice? We'll buy a proper apartment near your school, and then you can get used to living independently. Oops! Exciting to think about! You're spoiled by us, you can't do anything, I'm almost I can't imagine what it's like to live alone."

"I can hire hourly workers, I can do everything I don't have to."

"Dad taught you?"

"Ah."

"Papa hires people to do the housework, doesn't he? Papa is really funny, and he always thinks I don't see it."

"Dad said that our time is precious and we don't need to waste it on housework, especially cleaning the kitchen, sweeping the floor and cleaning the glass."

"Dad is right." Juliet stood up, "Get the documents ready, passport, don't forget. You can take the American driver's license test after your birthday, but you'd better practice before you go In the road test, the driver's seat in the US is on the left, which is different from the UK."

"Got it, Mom."

Traveling across the ocean to go to school in a strange country doesn't seem so scary.

At the end of August, the Elliotts sent Grace to the school, accompanied her to register and check into the dormitory.

David returned to England first, and Juliet stayed for a few more days until the school officially started.

Tom Holland also left the UK at the end of August.

A disaster film about true events began its casting search in June, first securing lead actress Naomi Watts and signing lead actor Ewan McGregor a few days later, before the studio signed up for three of the film's three actors. A boy looking for the right child actor, Tom wowed the casting director with his first audition, the only problem with him was that he had no previous acting experience in film and television, so they brought him back and put him back with the lead and heroine audition.

Nicky accompanied Tom to a foreign location.

The shooting work was exciting and exhausting. He had never worked in front of the camera and was curious about everything on the location.He had lessons with a private tutor between shoots, as well as underwater shots in a large tank.Directors and producers minimize the amount of time child actors spend in the tank.

Swimming is fun, but it's not fun when you're in the water for hours because of work.And there will be a lot of messy things in the water to simulate the real scene when the tsunami hits.

Tom is busy and full every day, until his shooting schedule is about to end, he doesn't remember that he hasn't called Grace for 3 months - she went to America, Los Angeles, it's like going to the world the other end.

Oh, that's right, it is indeed the other side of the world, and it takes more than ten hours to fly!Have to turn around.He didn't have her US number.

"Mrs. Elliott, can you give me Grace's phone number? I mean, the US number. Or, can you give her my number? I have my own mobile phone now and she can give I'll call. I miss her very much, Mrs. Elliott, have you visited her? How is she? Will she get used to life in America?" He thought, the next time he saw her would be Christmas, and she Have you picked up an American accent?Will there be any major changes?