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"I'm filming "Chain Reaction", and then I'm busy with "The Devil's Advocate" just mentioned." Keanu replied. lead a film project."

"The problem with "The Devil's Advocate" now is mainly in the choice of actors. From the beginning, I hoped that Al Pacino would play the role of John Milton, but Al Pacino refused after reading the script, and his The asking price was too high, so they thought they could use Kevin Spacey or Richard Gere."

"Thankfully, the internal screening of Richard Kilpie's new film was not very good. After I made up for the extra part of the salary out of my own pocket, Al Pacino finally decided to play the role."

Josie nodded while listening, and she couldn't help chuckling when she heard the results of the internal screening, and said, "Wait, although I really want to compliment you on getting the result you wanted, have you forgotten that it is also My new movie?"

According to gossip, at Paramount's internal preview, Paramount's president Shirley Lansing couldn't help but get angry because the movie was not as good as they expected. Gawley Hobright had some problems with the pace of his storytelling, and even post-editing couldn't save it.

And the character of Richard Gere is also problematic.

It's not that his same performance ends up being boring, it's that the script as a whole seems to be trying to give his characters some unnecessary sparkle, such as the righteous and generous lawyer who should be dodgy, or the prosecutor who is supposed to be fighting him Suddenly the old love rekindled.

However, Richard Gere's performance cannot support the heart of the character that is too complicated, so that the character image is split.

So the pilot version, already narrated by Shirley Lansing, was thrown back into the editing room.

"Really? This should sound a bit offensive, so I'd better apologize for it." Keanu said in a humorous tone, "I'm sorry, Josie, because I really don't want the leading actor in your new movie to play my next one." The father of the movie, and we both will be playing a young couple."

"Okay, okay, I forgive you." Josie finished with him, and then went on to say: "I heard that you rejected the sequel of "Speed", and the character in "Starship Troopers" has also become Kakashi. Spar van Dien."

This is really weird.

Ever since "Speed" became a worldwide phenomenal movie, Keanu Reeves, as a popular niche, should be the walking Franklin in the eyes of filmmakers, but he suddenly encountered a change of roles.

Keanu just smiled slightly and told Josie: "Thank you for your concern, but I read the script and found that I don't like the whole story very much, and there is no other reason."

Is there really no other reason?

Josie is a person who is accustomed to conspiracy theories, because her life in a wealthy family was full of intrigues and deceptions of big families, and it is easy to get caught if she is not careful, so she always speculates on the worst possibility, instead of trusting human beings at will. goodwill.

"Okay." Josie said half-jokingly, "But you know, I'm always on your side. If there's anything I can do to help, you must tell me, otherwise I'll be very angry."

"To be honest, this time the heroine was going to be a newcomer, but now we have you--this has done me a big favor." Keanu said.

Josie shook her head, "No, I like the script. Al Pacino is the actor I really want to work with, so it's not me doing you a favor, but you are helping me, Keanu."

Keanu didn't continue arguing with her about who helped whom, but just silently remembered it.

In fact, his situation this year is indeed not very good.

The summer blockbuster "Extreme Agent", which Keanu had high hopes for, failed in Waterloo. He himself likes the concept of some future technologies in the original novel very much. All a disaster.

Another romantic film "Walking in the Clouds" received a good response, causing a wave of travel to Napa Valley vineyards, but Keanu's performance was never recognized by film critics and did not bring him a career. Too much help - the heavy industry in Hollywood is still action and sci-fi, after all.

Then there is the action movie "Chain Reaction", which he has not officially finished.

Before the filming officially started, Keanu was injured while playing hockey, and lay there for several weeks. During this period, he encountered a series of incidents such as the project was almost aborted, "Starship Troopers" changed roles, and the physical pain recurred.

It is precisely because "Chain Reaction" and "Starship Troopers" did not go well, this time "The Devil's Advocate" made him pay special attention to it. From the beginning of the adaptation of the original novel, he has personally watched the whole project closely, and he does not want any more accidents and twists and turns.

Keanu looked hesitant, moved his lips, but didn't speak right away.

Josie has always had a keen sense, so she asked, "What's wrong?"

Keanu paused, and said, "Josie, are you willing to tell me honestly, do you like Hollywood now? What I mean is that there are villains in power in this circle, with distorted values ​​and almost no sense of morality."

"I understand what you mean." Josie pursed her lips and reminded him meaningfully, "But you can be tactful sometimes, after all, if these words are heard by other people, it may be uncomfortable for you. good consequences."

Keanu twitched his lips, mocking himself a bit.

How could he, who has worked in Hollywood for many years, not know about the worries that a little girl like her could be keenly aware of?

It was just that he had exposed his true ambitions because of similar inappropriate remarks before, which caused his respected friend David Geffen to turn against him, and those colleagues who were quite enthusiastic before suddenly avoided him.

Luckily, things around him weren't so bad that he didn't have a single friend left.

Josie pulled Keanu to sit on the ground in the corner of the rehearsal room.

Her voice and her eyes were like a gleam of light amidst the messy bass, so clear and bright.

He heard her say:

"Let's put it this way. Suppose one day I'm lucky enough to stand at the top of power in this circle. I hope that no one needs to accept unspoken rules at the beginning of their careers. Non-heterosexuals and minorities can be respected and don't have to hide. Going into the closet or falling in love, getting married or even having children to maintain the image, actors like Zun Long will have more "Year of the Dragon" and "The Last Emperor" to play, instead of stereotyped squinting eyes and Fu Manchu."

She speaks very slowly, so her words are pronounced clearly.

The sideways sitting posture is still upright. This habit makes her sit on the floor of the rehearsal room that has just been cleaned, with a kind of dignity in her bones.

But compared to the pleasing and beautiful skin, her heart is obviously more worth exploring, like a hard, clear, shining and changeable rare diamond.

Keanu noticed that Josie's eyes were a little distant, but they were generally full of sincerity—she trusted him so much, so she fully revealed her deepest thoughts to him.

He couldn't help smiling, and subconsciously blurted out: "You really... amaze me. So—do you want to change the world with me?"

Without any hesitation, Josie gave the answer decisively and calmly: "Okay. What do I need to do?"

"Not yet." Keanu said after deliberation, "In front of outsiders, you'd better not be intimate with me, I'm worried that you will get some unnecessary anger."

Now Josie understands what happened. There is a high probability that he and David Geffen had a falling out, so the change of roles in the movie and the endless negative reviews in the media are all punishments from the dark forces in Hollywood?

The two chatted for a long time in Brad's rehearsal room, and then the group of five had a relaxing and enjoyable dinner, and Josie and Keanu talked alone for another night.

They tacitly know that they will shake the haze that hangs over Hollywood, and they must kill a large number of Geffen's confidantes. From the Big Six in Hollywood to many filmmakers, the dark forces in this circle are everywhere.

A long way to go.

But, this is so exciting.

On the way back to Santa Monica in the middle of the night, Josie received a call from Edward. He had joined the filming of "Sex Book Tycoon". I attach great importance to the role of a lawyer who does not have many roles.

Thank God, or rather, thank the great inventors.

The phone has realized instant messaging, and the car has shortened the geographical distance. Otherwise, once she gets busy, Josie really doubts how long her interest in this relationship can last.

In the following time, Josie spent time at home reading the script and going to Sony Studios to film "Mr. Sweetheart", and occasionally went out with Edward who was also not on the shooting day.

That day they watched Hitchcock's "Butterfly Dream" in a remote small cinema.

At around nine o'clock in the evening, after the screening, Josie came out and got in the car. Josie said with some regret: "I had the impression that Vivien Leigh's ex-wife was the actor's ex-wife, but she wasn't there from the beginning to the end."

"No, there is Vivien Leigh on the movie poster, it's a silhouette." Edward leaned forward to fasten Josie's seat belt while speaking, "Let's go, I'll take you home."

The moment he approached, Josie silently stared at his face, and his breathing could be faintly heard in the dark and narrow compartment.

After turning around and fastening his seat belt, Edward seemed to have sensed Josie's gaze, and turned his head to ask, "Is there something on my face?"

He asked as he started the car.

The forward headlights made his side face a bit clearer, and the slightly longer bangs on his forehead almost covered his brows. By adding some clean youthful air, people always inadvertently forget that this man is already 27 years old. .

Josie rubbed the edge of his chin with her thumb, wiped it seriously, and then replied solemnly: "Okay, it's gone now."

Edward hooked the corners of his lips, shook his head and gave Josie a helpless smile - he had already discovered that she liked his smile like this.

He drove Josie home and sat there for a little over ten minutes. Before leaving, Josie found out the Shangmei diamond tiara he had given her and asked him to take it away.

"What's the matter, don't you like it?" Edward asked suspiciously while holding the blue velvet box.

Josie couldn't help but sighed before replying, "I like it, but now I can't accept this kind of gift, especially from you."

That set of moonstone jewelry from Ernest is fine. She plans to find a piece of art that the other party may be interested in as a return gift, but this diamond tiara is expensive, and the relationship between them is not just friends. , so she couldn't accept it with peace of mind.

——Once the boundary of intimacy is crossed, entanglement is not far away.

Edward spread his hands, and said half-jokingly: "If you think our relationship is not suitable for you to accept the gift from me, I welcome the official relationship in the first second, and you accept it in the next second and dump me."

"Ed, please don't be like this." Josie felt that her tone sounded like a scumbag for no reason, but she couldn't understand why he, as a man, cared so much about this matter, "You know, I don't want our relationship to be broken." complication."

Edward was annoyed and funny, "It's just a gift. And it's the first time I gave such an expensive gift to a woman, and I used the money I saved since I was working. It's fine if you don't want to accept it—you still think is my problem?"

Speaking of the last sentence, Edward's voice rose directly.

Josie rubbed her forehead in distress.

How should she tell him? This is actually a problem between two people.

The problem is that Josie wants the relationship between them to be simple and clear, without the need for superfluous things; Edward is doing whatever he wants, showing his strength almost instinctively, and he can be relied on.

However, Josie is never used to relying on others, nor does she pin her hopes on anyone other than herself.

"I thought I made it very clear last time." Josie tried to keep her tone tactful, "You have no obligation to do this for me, we..."

"I'm just pleasing you." Edward interrupted her suddenly.

He stared at Josie's beautiful and smooth little face in front of him. As time went by, she occasionally showed that cat-like docility and dependence in front of him, which seemed to gradually change for him.

But in fact, the vast majority of cats are withdrawn, independent and guarded, high-cold animals, and their lack of aggressive appearance is just their disguise.

It was he who was changed.

In order to please a woman, find out what the other person likes intentionally or unintentionally, pretend to cooperate with the other person to not be exposed, pretend that you don't care but actually really care... Oh, why does this sound a bit depressing?

But thinking this way, he heard himself say, "Josie, don't do this to me."

Those blue-gray eyes stared fixedly at Josie, his brows were slightly frowned, and the two bushy eyebrows were pushed down, giving Josie a smirk that couldn't be more fake.

He really couldn't understand.

Taming the game is very interesting when you are in a state of infatuation, but real life is not so dramatic. As rising Hollywood actors, they are destined to be very busy with each other. At least he cherishes the occasional time when two people get together.

So what about her?

Or is she really not worried about losing him at all?

The expression on Josie's face seemed to be condensed by something, she was confused and unable to adapt, her eyes were still clear, so clear that she could vaguely see his shadow.

But—nothing of the kind he expected to find.

She thought for a while, and then reminded him softly and gently: "If you feel unhappy, you can stop at any time."

Stop?

Why would he let himself do these things if he could stop so easily?

Edward sneered, turned around and threw the box in his hand casually. He was already half-pissed off by her, but he stubbornly left Josie's house.

For the next period of time, he didn't take the initiative to contact Josie. Even the tabby cat Maggie, who was originally going to be fostered at Josie's house, found another friend to take over. It seemed that he suddenly became extremely busy, so busy that he forgot about her. phone number, and never ran into her anywhere in Hollywood.

Josie was so busy with high-intensity filming and schedules that she didn't have the extra energy to solve their problems for the time being. She just quietly sent the troublesome diamond back to Chaumet's headquarters for repairs, and asked Martha to pay attention to it. Some suitable scripts.

She didn't take the initiative to do anything else.

After all, from what she has always known, the achievement and breakthrough, the desire and pursuit of power are far more interesting than men.

Not to mention that for her, "sex" is completely within her reach.

When the time came to late March, the Oscar awards ceremony finally arrived. Whether as an award presenter or a nominee, Josie was ready to attend.

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