[American Entertainment] Bright life

It's cold in London in April.

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss entered a coffee shop they had agreed upon, felt the warm aroma in the coffee shop, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.Looking around at the door, Steven Moffat didn't see the red hair that should be conspicuous, and said casually, "Aren't you here yet?"

Mark Gatiss replied: "I think she's coming, the lady we met on the corner just now, I remember who she is, Basil Saffey."

"You mean the director of "Growth Education"?" Steven Moffat obviously knew it too. Firstly, they have been collecting other people's information recently, and secondly, this matter has been picked up by the British media with great powers. , As long as you pay attention, it's hard not to know.

Mark Gatiss nodded. He scanned the cafe carefully, imagining where Holmes would be sitting in the cafe. They would be sitting in a place where they could observe everyone in the cafe. In blind spots that are not easy to be found by others, it would be even better if you can observe pedestrians on the road.

Steven Moffat said in a low voice, "You say it's a test?"

Mark Gatiss thought for a while and said: "I don't know if it is a test for us, but I think it is a test for reporters." Since it was reported that Grace Green's role in the new 007 film has ended, people are currently After the news in London, I felt that the reporters in London were all dispatched, and they all wanted to get first-hand news.

Steven Moffat touched his nose, and felt inexplicably amorous when he was told that. He was about to ask the waiter which table Basil Saffey was sitting at earlier, when Mark Gatiss used his eyes to signal him to look at a table that he didn't seem to have glanced at just now. There was a young female student with brown to nearly black hair sitting there.If Steven Moffat had said it, he would have thought it was an art student, her long hair still tied up in pencil, and she looked like she was "scribbling".

The next moment, she raised her head and looked this way.

"It's her." It was the kind of bright eyes that could see everything.

But when they walked over, the other party raised his head to look at them curiously, both his eyes and his expression were in place, as if he didn't know them, and it wasn't her who showed her true face and led them past just now.Plus, if you don't look closely, just look at this girl right now and you won't immediately connect her to Grace Green.The hair color has changed, and the outline of her face is also a little different. The important thing is that her demeanor is different, as if she has suddenly changed from a genius with a high IQ back to an ordinary person.

"How are you?" Even the accent changed.

She was so earnest that Steven Moffat wondered if something was wrong.

At this moment, Mark Gatiss spoke: "Excuse me, are you Jenny?"

The girl hesitated and nodded.

"We are interviewers at Oxford University, Gatiss and Mr. Moffat, can we sit down and talk about admissions?"

"Sit down, gentlemen."

After such a set of procedures, Steven Moffat couldn't help but twitched the corner of his mouth when he sat down. Are they playing role-playing?Wait, Jenny and Oxford University, isn't this the setting in "Growth Education"?That's fine too...

But this is the end of the role-playing game. After they sat down, Grace was what Grace would have looked like. She looked at Steven Moffat and said seriously: "I think I need to clarify , I didn’t mean to test you.”

"Did you hear—" This seemed unlikely. He lowered his voice when he spoke, and the door was still some distance away.

"I saw your conversation." Grace took up his words with a look of course, and at this moment, as Grace, she looked at Mark Gatiss who was sitting on the side.

Grace had already read their profiles before this, those of Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, and the two of them persevered in contacting her, and Sterling knew about them in advance, knowing that they were originally There are all kinds of works, but for Grace, even if they talk about their works, there is a high chance that she doesn't know about them.

And, this is not the point for Grace, the point is Mark Gatiss, who Grace knows.No, strictly speaking, she once acted him, so she was scolded by her second brother in her mind palace.

Mycroft...

Grace blinked, suppressing the undercurrent of gray-blue ice in her eyes, she didn't want to be laughed at by Sherlock again.She held out her hand to Mark Gatiss and smiled innocently: "Although I said that, I still have to add two points for Mr. Gatiss."

"Dr. Green—"

"Grace, Please."

Mark Gatiss was a little flattered, but he didn't think it was too surprising in his heart. If Grace's character model was close to the Sherlock Holmes character they had explored, it wouldn't be that way. According to the research on her news and materials before, she has the desire to show off and be dramatic, and she also hopes that others will join in... From his tentative response, and she still cooperates with the performance, I know His speculations about her character were spot on.

Steven Moffat looked at Mark Gatiss, then at Grace, who had no intention of shaking his hand—was he being sidelined?

At this moment, the waiter came over. Steven Moffat glanced at Grace from the corner of his eye and then switched to Jenny. Yes, in Jenny's state, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He thought they probably had something to talk about.

Steven Moffat, who had such a premonition, did not expect that the next conversation would be more difficult than he imagined.

After the waiter left, Grace said lightly, "Oh, he's having an affair with the boss's wife, and the boss has erectile dysfunction."

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss hadn't reacted yet, and Grace added solemnly: "Did I say one more thing?"

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss looked at each other, what happened to the other people after this disagreement?

Mark Gatiss felt that he should also be shocked. After all, Sherlock Holmes are all characters in books and in their conceptions. Although they couldn't prove it, what she said should be true.Well, in the final analysis, the feeling is not particularly deep.

Grace blinked her eyes and said quickly: "There are three waiters in this cafe, but every time a customer who looks upscale comes, it is only the male waiter who is in charge of receiving it. Obviously, the tip he received in this way It’s higher. Apparently it’s an extra pay for the sex he’s given to the proprietress—you don’t think I’m going to explain to you how I arrived at the two conclusions I just said? No, I just think I It should be euphemistically hinted from the side, Mr. Moffat is not so willing to want me to participate in the project you are doing now, or not at the beginning. I have also analogized the reason, there is a difference between closeness, isn't it?"

Steven Moffat: "…"

Grace frowned and pondered, and said after a while: "Think about it carefully, the example I mentioned is not so appropriate, I apologize."

It's not a question of just the right example, is it, Dr. Green?

Steven Moffat turned to look at Mark Gatiss. Mark Gatiss felt that he needed to explain this matter himself, so he looked elsewhere as if it had nothing to do with him.He had seen Grace's sketchbook just now, and it showed customers in the cafe, but how should I put it, he saw that there were well-dressed customers, office workers, and a couple, etc. Wait, all in all, it seems that the cafe is peaceful, but they look different in Grace's sketchbook, for example, the well-dressed guest has bills piled up behind him; Couples, there are five people sitting on the table in Grace's painting. The relationship between shoulders and backs is really complicated...Mark Gatiss finds it more interesting the more he looks at it, this is a friend who is completely embarrassed Forget it.

Steven Moffat: "..." He just said he was sidelined!Well, Dr. Green was right that he was initially reluctant to add another person to his creative team.The plan to move Sherlock Holmes' setting from the Victorian period to the modern day wasn't there this year, they were conceived on those trains away to Cardiff to do exterior work for Doctor Who, the Conan Doyle story It was never a legend about frock coats and gaslights, they were about brilliant reasoning, terrible villains and gruesome crimes.

They want to be innovative, and they want to polish a different Sherlock Holmes. That kind of feeling is a bit like raising their own child, watering him, fertilizing him, no, it is carefully sculpting his character and trying to enrich his experience. , but Grace Green turned out to be, she... how the hell does she look like a grown-up version of her own child?

In this way, it is understandable that Steven Moffat would feel uncomfortable. After all, it was a conflict, but the conflict was between different works before, but this time it is a collision between ideals and reality.It's okay if Dr. Green is not famous, but he is now recognized all over the world, and he will become more famous in the future.So when their works are created, should the Sherlock Holmes in it be said to be a modern version of Sherlock Holmes, or should it be said that he is a sexually transformed version of Dr. Green?

Isn't this cheating "father"?

This is not the worst thing, the worst thing is that Mark Gatiss took him to see the information he collected, Grace's information and past deeds - it is said to be found from her personal fan forum ——Finally, after reading it, Steven Moffat felt that he could use it as a reference to give his family's Xiali color and make his character more full.By the way, there is also Grace's performance in the 'pseudo-terrorist case', which is really Sherlock Holmes!

Steven Moffat's thoughts have changed unconsciously, and now he's been... squeezed out because of his previous thoughts, what is this all about?

With complicated thoughts, when the waiter who was used as an analogy came to deliver coffee, Steven Moffat said to Grace in a strange way: "Jenny, I'm sorry, Oxford University refused you admission."