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Two days later, Raymond received a call from Joe White himself—as for why it was called Raymond instead of Grace, it was because when Raymond left his contact information after the 'audition' ended that day, in order to To avoid accidents such as "Director Joe White, who originally wanted to hire her, backed down immediately when the phone call didn't arrive", he left his own contact information first--I am very happy to hear the other party say enthusiastically With Grace joining, Raymond is not surprised at all. He refers to the fact that Grace passed the audition, but the subsequent reaction is not for Grace, or proud, but in a subtle way. The tone said: "Are you sure?"

Joe White didn't think much about it, "Of course!" Grace has no acting experience, which is a minus item, but from another perspective, she is very talented and has a raw aura, which is enough to make up for the lack of any acting experience in the past. Inexperienced in acting.

After hanging up the phone, Raymond decided to observe a moment of silence for the crew of "Atonement" for three seconds before he was ready to tell Grace the good news.On the way to Grace's room on the third floor, Raymond suddenly realized a problem. It seemed that after the audition that day, Grace had been staying at home. Although the university was on vacation, as far as he knew, Grace had several An interdisciplinary project.Of course, it's also possible that the project has already been completed. It's not surprising, he's just surprised that Grace has never been so...loving her family?When Raymond thought about it, he felt that he might have had an illusion. He shook his head and put such unreliable thoughts behind him. Let's think about Grace's upcoming filming.

After a while, Raymond knocked on Grace's door with a strange expression: "Grace, can I come in? I have something to tell you." Then, Grace's clear voice came from the door: "Come in."

Raymond opened the door and came in, walked up to Grace who was nestled in the single sofa and didn't know what to think, cleared his throat, and tried his best to let his tone be filled with pure joy: "Grace, dear, you Guess who I just received a call from? It was the director of "Atonement", Joe White, he called and said that you passed the audition, and you can enter the crew after signing the contract, congratulations."

Grace maintained her original sitting posture, propped her head on the fingertips of her left hand, and pointed out solemnly: "You asked a question for me to guess, but you gave me the answer before I answered it. It's not fair. But , even if you didn’t ask and answer yourself, I know what happened, so did he tell you that after me he interviewed other actors, professional actors?”

Raymond: "..."

Raymond didn't want to know how Grace knew what Joe White didn't mention on the phone this time, but past experience told Raymond that what Grace said was probably right again, he really didn't want to know , damn, he still couldn't hold back, "Can I ask how you know that? If I remember correctly, you saw Joe White for the first time that day - don't look at a goldfish anymore Look at me, I know I'm talking nonsense again." He shouldn't use common sense to treat Grace, knowing that Grace has never met his ex-girlfriend, and she interpreted his ex-girlfriend's sexual orientation and sexual fetishes. It's clear.

"I'm so glad you're so self-aware, Raymond." Grace drew out her 'admiration', and Raymond couldn't help complaining: "For God's sake, Grace, your venom these two days Did they all come towards me alone? I didn’t do anything—wait a minute, aren’t you still furious? It’s just that I exposed you as a human being.”

"Do I have it?" Having said that, Grace's face was written with 'I'm just retaliating' and 'What are you doing to me'.

Raymond stared at Grace for five seconds, and squeezed out a sentence from the back molars: "Grace, you are a little devil!"

"Oh, thank you." Grace replied in a light tone. To be honest, Raymond's comment after becoming angry from embarrassment belongs to the top ten words with the lightest meaning among all the comments of all the people interpreted by her. Of course, she is not boring. To actually make a list.

Raymond punched empty: "..."

However, Raymond, who has been fighting wits and courage for so many years but has never been successful, has not always been so passive and beaten. He occasionally has to cause trouble for the little devil Grace, so after lunch in the restaurant at noon , the head of the Wood family, Grace’s grandfather, Donald Wood, talked about this matter. He is a hale and hearty old gentleman, with deep blue eyes full of wisdom precipitated by years of experience. When he looked at Grace With obvious tolerance, or rather indulgence.

It is conceivable that the old man's attitude towards Grace's filming is not as disapproving as Raymond thought in advance——

Donald smiled kindly, and asked his dear granddaughter: "My dear, you have never shown any interest in acting before, so this time it was a whim?"

"Well, it is." Grace didn't lie, she would have chosen to do that at the time, it was indeed a split-second decision, but she wasn't interested in acting, but it did fit into a 'whim' the definition of it.Grace paused and added with a 'businesslike' attitude, "I think this will be a novel experience, well, I sincerely hope it is, otherwise it would be a waste of my time."

Donald winked playfully at his granddaughter: "Oh, dear, I can help you pray to God. Or you can consider coming down to the West End, dear?"

The West End that Donald mentioned refers to the West End of London, which is one of the world's two major theater centers as famous as Broadway in New York. It is an international stage for performing arts and synonymous with the British theater world.Donald Wood is not only a member of the London Theater Association, but also one of the largest theater operators in the Theater District.

Grace said with a blank face: "Go to God and pray to ban "Les Miserables"?" She was oppressed by two unscrupulous brothers in the past, and she couldn't escape the tragic accident of "appreciating" "Les Miserables" with Mommy and Daddy. , now she doesn't want to 'repeat the same mistakes' at all!

Donald was taken aback for a moment, but when he realized he could only shake his head helplessly, "You child."

Grace shrugged and ended the subject on her own initiative: "Hope you had a great time at the golf course with your friends, Grandpa."

The wise old man didn't ask how his granddaughter knew about it, he just snorted: "Very well, it seems that you have no intention of going with the old man." After speaking, he strode away, alas, we are still old friends Solid, if only the old Hiddleston guy wasn't that good at golf.

When Donald left, Raymond, who had been trying to reduce his presence just now, couldn't help but ask, "Why—" How could this be?Grace swallowed the rest of the words after meeting Grace's half-smiling eyes, Grace crossed her fingers on her chin, and completed Raymond's unfinished sentence: "You want to ask why Donald didn't tell me to go shoot Take issue with the movie, right?"

Raymond nodded with difficulty.

"I think this is easy to understand," Grace said for granted, "when two equally unbearable things are put together, people will naturally choose the easier to accept one of them under comparison, and will because of The discrepancy between these two things produces a sense of pleasure that I don’t know the so-called, and then the mood index will rise accordingly.”

Raymond: "...Can you speak English?"

Grace said kindly: "I'm going to shoot a movie, and I'm going to be a special consultant for Scotland Yard."

Now Raymond understands. Obviously, among the two things, Donald is more likely to accept that Grace will make a movie, at least her life will not be endangered during the movie.The last time I worked as a special consultant for the London Metropolitan Police Department, when I encountered the bombardier, everyone was worried. Thinking of this, Raymond became serious, and he asked in a dry tone: "Can I Think you're not going to tell Mr Green about it, I mean Angus?"

——Angus Green, Grace's biological brother, lived in the United States all year round.In fact, it should be said that the Green family originally made their fortune in the United States, and the family business headquarters is also in the United States, and Grace did not grow up in the United States, but grew up in her deceased mother Elizabeth Green's natal family in London, the Wood parents , and went to university in London, the same university as Raymond, Oxford University.Compared with the more unrestrained and sunny America, Grace still prefers the cold and gloomy London with its gray blue sky.

Grace looked at Raymond suspiciously: "Did you just try to get away with it in front of me?"

Raymond: "..." Yes, but isn't he doing this to avoid stepping on Grace's minefield again?Who made the relationship between Grace and her father so rigid, he naturally told Grace that he was on her side, and most people would do this, okay?

Grace obviously couldn't understand Raymond's good intentions, she thought for a while and said: "I admit that the relationship between me and my father is, well, very complicated in 'English', and I have to say it's very complicated. The complication was unilaterally created by my father. I remember the last time we had a conversation after the Bombardier accident in London, I once again sincerely suggested that he see a psychiatrist to save his helpless Curable desire to control. As always, Mr. Green did not take my advice."

Of course, the problem between Grace and her father, Roderick Green, is not only Roderick's desire to control.

The corner of Raymond's mouth twitched, so the rigid relationship between their father and daughter is definitely not due to Mr. Green's unilateral reasons, and he also wanted to sincerely suggest that Grace should see a psychiatrist or something to save her. Terrible emotional intelligence.But hell, he didn't have the guts, so he said dryly, "So you're not even going to tell Angus?"

"why?"

Grace's question was straightforward, but Raymond was speechless. Therefore, without the courage to suggest to Grace to save her from the appalling situation, Raymond resolutely became Grace's temporary agent and legal counsel—he is now Studying for a bachelor's degree at Oxford Law School-and assistant and driver, followed Grace to the crew of "Atonement".

Grace plays Briony in the movie "Atonement", and the role is mainly concentrated in the second half. Originally, she only needed to join the crew when it was her turn.However, because of the need to be consistent with the previous 13-year-old Briony's performance style, and because Joe White wanted to talk to the main actors before the filming officially started, this party came about.

"Keira Knightley, who played Cecilia, was born in [-] and became popular because of the Disney movie "Pirates of the Caribbean". In [-], he starred in Joe White's novel "Pride and Prejudice". "The film adaptation of the same name—you haven't seen any of these, it doesn't matter, you just memorize her information and have a preliminary understanding of her." Raymond is obviously very professional, he got "Atonement" For the cast list of the movie, I found out the information of the actors who played against Grace, and instilled it in Grace.

Grace was noncommittal about this: "If you want me to have a preliminary understanding of the cast and crew, I think the best way is not to look at the official information in your hands. I think I will understand them naturally when I see them. Human beings are really Interesting creature, isn't it?"

Raymond was silent.

After Raymond's silence, they arrived at their destination and happened to meet Benedict face to face.Benedict was obviously impressed by Grace. He was still hesitating, but Grace smiled at him and sent him a sincere greeting: "Nice to see you again, Mr. Cumberbatch."