The young male assistant was holding the phone and still talking on it:
"She went to sign a new movie..."
The film needed to go abroad for a contract, and it happened to be headed to the capital of Italy.
Chen Jiao didn't understand what was going on, but Tao Cen pursed her lips. She had received news that Cesare had to stay in Rome due to some delay, so the start time of "The Lost City" was delayed to the middle of this month.
She turned over and sat up. An assistant beside her immediately brought her a cold drink with a straw. She took a sip of the juice and looked up at the sea in the distance:
"Besides The Lost City, does Cesare have any new movies coming up?"
As soon as Tao Cen finished speaking, Chen Jiao took a breath of cold air:
"No, it's impossible."
Earlier, Chen Jiao was still mocking Tao Cen for overcoming Jiang Se and getting the opportunity to work with Cesare, but now Tao Cen has already asked about Cesare's other filming plans.
"What's impossible?"
In fact, Tao Cen's heart was not as calm as it appeared at the moment. It was just that she had been in this line of work for a long time and was good at hiding her emotions. Her big sunglasses blocked half of her small face. She kicked her jade feet twice on the beach, and the sand penetrated between her toes.
"She even got Federer's endorsement. Cesare has a good impression of her and once said in front of the media that he would not rule out the possibility of working with her." She raised her head and raised the corner of her mouth with a smile:
"Why do you say it's impossible?"
Even through her sunglasses, Chen Jiao could sense the unhappiness in her eyes. She lowered her head in fear and trepidation:
"Sister Tao, that's impossible. Think about it. The news released by Borgia and Roundabout is that they have signed a contract with Cesare for the Lost City trilogy. The first two parts will be shot first and then released. The last part will start shooting based on market response."
She swallowed her saliva, worried that she might say something wrong and anger Tao Cen:
"In this case, even if we shoot two movies back-to-back, The Lost City took such a long time to start filming. If Cesare starts filming a new movie, he won't have enough time to prepare."
Let’s not talk about the issue of investment for now. It is easy for a director like Cesare to get investment, but the more famous the director is, the more picky he is about the script. The early script preparation and crew preparation process cannot be completed in a short period of time.
In terms of time, Cesare simply didn't have the time to prepare for this.
Not long after the completion of "Lost City 1", he was preparing for the filming of "Lost City", and the shooting time was about 180 days. Even if he wanted to make a new movie, he would not be able to spare the time.
"Maybe it's just a coincidence that Jiang Se signed in Rome..."
Chen Jiao said this and looked up timidly.
Tao Cen didn't believe it was a coincidence. She turned to look at the male assistant who had answered the phone earlier. The male assistant seemed a little uneasy:
"Mr. Zhou refused to say more."
Tao Cen called the company herself to ask. Her way of asking questions was different from that of the assistant.
She has been famous for many years and has a unique status in Century Galaxy. Zhou Sheng, who had been a little reserved in her words before, answered all the questions honestly when faced with Tao Cen's questions.
"Janser has indeed signed on for Cesare's movie, not The Lost City, but another one, The Redemption of God."
Zhou Sheng's voice rang in Tao Cen's ears, "'God's Redemption'?"
Tao Cen muttered to himself, and after hanging up the phone, he threw the phone away and fell on the beach chair.
"God's Redemption?" Chen Jiao heard her say this and quickly said:
“I haven’t heard of any director wanting to shoot it.”
Tao Cen didn't want to talk to her anymore. She had never heard of this movie.
But she clearly remembered that a few years ago, when Cesare was about to shoot "The Lost City", the first actor he thought of recruiting into the crew was Jiang Se.
At that time, he made a special trip to China and met with Jiang Se in private.
If I hadn't received the news at that time and accidentally snatched Jiang Se's role, I'm afraid it would be hard to say who would shoot the first and second parts of "The Lost City" now.
After the incident, Jiang Se remained silent and did not make any sarcastic remarks when they met. When Chen Jiao was in private contact with Cesare, she was worried that she would snatch the role in "The Lost City", but Jiang Se was contacting Cesare about another movie.
In other words, the friendship between the two was enough to support them in talking about some private topics other than those that were well known to everyone. This close relationship was far beyond what Tao Cen could achieve by giving away two music tickets with great effort.
Tao Cen didn't know what "God's Redemption" was, but she heard a piece of news after joining the crew of "The Lost City".
Cesare was willing to take on the "Lost City" trilogy because of an exchange of interests. He was simply getting investment for another film at the cost of making three commercial films.
Is the "God's Redemption" that Jiang Se signed a contract for the same movie that Cesare tried so hard to make
On one hand, there is a commercial film shot under contract, and on the other hand, there is the film that Cesare is actively preparing. Anyone who is not stupid should know which is more important.
Tao Cen, who had been in a good mood after successfully signing the contract for "Lost City", now felt speechless. Even Jiang Se's calm performance after her role in "Lost City" was snatched away that day, in Tao Cen's opinion, she might have other plans.
She was so complacent that day, thinking that she had gotten a stepping stone to enter Europe and the United States. But in Jiang Se's heart, was she just picking up a piece of useless thing to her
When Tao Cen thought of this, he clenched his teeth.
"Immediately find a way to withdraw the news that you mentioned earlier about contacting Huaxia Information."
She felt extremely angry. Chen Jiao could not compare with Xia Chaoqun in terms of vision and means. However, she had mastered the unconventional method of praising the powerful and bullying the weak.
It would be fine if her previous thoughts were not true, but if Jiang Se really signed a contract to join the film crew that Cesare had been preparing to shoot, it must be something he valued very much.
The more Chen Jiao mocked Jiang Se with the news she released today, the more he would be ridiculed in the future.
"Withdrawn? But Sister Tao..." Chen Jiao was a little anxious. She was about to speak when Tao Cen threw the cup in his hand, and the juice in it splashed out, splashing on her feet, wetting the silk scarf tied around her waist, and sticking tightly to her beautiful legs.
She raised her arm and slapped Chen Jiao hard.
The sound of the waves and the laughing crowd drowned out the clear voice. Chen Jiao turned her head away, covering her face and shaking all over.
"Does it hurt?"
Tao Cen asked, and Chen Jiao didn't dare to speak.
"Let me ask you, does it hurt?"
She asked again, and Chen Jiao put her hands down. Five finger marks appeared clearly on her cheek. She took a deep breath, shrank and shook her head:
"It doesn't hurt..."
Before she could finish her words, Tao Cen raised his hand and slapped her in the face again.
Chen Jiao didn't dare to dodge, and Tao Cen slapped her in the face, with greater force than before. After the slap, the palms of her hands were burning with pain and had turned red.
"Does it hurt?"
The assistants surrounded her and blocked her from hitting someone, fearing that someone might take a secret photo of her.
Tao Cen was still asking Chen Jiao this question. Chen Jiao didn't dare to speak, for fear that she would be beaten again if she said something wrong.
She is an agent, but in front of Tao Cen, she is not even as good as the assistant or nanny who has been with her for many years.
Although Tao Cen's personality was not very enthusiastic and he didn't listen to her much, he had never lost his temper with her like this before. In fact, Chen Jiao still didn't understand why she was angry.
"I did this just to help you regain the face you lost back then..."
In the early days, the news media spoke very harshly of Tao Cen.
There are many people who say that her "The Accident" is not as good as "The Devil", regardless of the box office reputation, and some people compare her with Jiang Se. What is Jiang Se? In terms of debut age, qualifications and the movies she has filmed, which one is as rich as Tao Cen
Even among the female stars who earn the most money in the company today, Tao Cen dares to say she is second, and no one dares to say she is first.
But Jiang Se was just lucky enough to work with Liu Ye in the filming of "Devil", and was fortunate enough to meet the person in charge of the Federer brand in the capital, so she got the Federer endorsement. However, a lot of media lamented that Tao Cen was far inferior to her earlier.
It was precisely because of these reasons that Chen Jiao wanted to save her face after Tao Cen took on the role in "Lost City", but she did not expect that Tao Cen would ask her to remove the news.
"Who told you to act on your own? I just asked you, does your face hurt?" Tao Cen shook her hands. If Chen Jiao still said it didn't hurt, she would fight again. Chen Jiao held back her tears and saw her raised chin and tightly pursed lips. She gritted her teeth and said,
"pain."
"Hmph." After hearing her words, Tao Cen leaned down and looked at Chen Jiao. She was still kneeling on the beach with red cheeks.
"You feel pain in your face now, but when the news spreads that Jiang Se has signed Cesare's script for "God's Redemption", my face will hurt more than yours now after "God's Redemption" is released!" She said it clearly, word by word:
"And this slap on my face was done by you on your own initiative. You found a reporter from Huaxia Information and made a big fuss about today's news and threw it at me!"
Chen Jiao was stunned. She didn't expect Tao Cen to say such a thing. Jiang Se actually signed a contract with Cesare's crew. She was a little panicked. After hearing the news, she also understood why Tao Cen was angry. If the news was true, the news posted online by China News Today would become Tao Cen's laughing stock in the future.
"Save face?" Tao Cen lowered his sunglasses a little, revealing a pair of sarcastic eyes:
"You can't earn your reputation back in this way. Learn from Jiang Se and Chao Qun!"
Back then, she snatched the role in "The Lost City" away, and Xia Chaoqun and Jiang Se did it silently. But today, this slap in her face really hurt!
Tao Cen touched his cheek and poked the corner of his mouth with the tip of his tongue.
It is not easy to remove news that has appeared in Huaxia Information, especially since Tao Cen is a very popular female star in China. She has many fans and her every move is supported by people.
Especially her collaboration with Cesare, many people felt very honored. Earlier, she was in the same company as Jiang Se, but she was overshadowed by Jiang Se in terms of movie box office and advertising endorsements. Fans have been holding their breath for a long time, so they took this opportunity to naturally forward the news.
By the time Chen Jiao came to her senses and tried to deal with the matter after being scolded by Tao Cen, it was already too late.
She is still worried and anxious, but Tao Cen's fans are still rejoicing!
Yang Lirong is one of Tao Cen's die-hard fans. In her own words, she loves Tao Cen to the point of obsession.
She had been paying attention to Tao Cen, who was still a newcomer at the time, shortly after Tao Cen made her debut. Over the years, she has watched every one of Tao Cen's films, accompanying her from a young newcomer to her current international debut.
Yang Lirong also went from being a student to a working professional.
Some time ago, Tao Cen and Jiang Se were both nominated for the 'Best Actress' at the French Film Festival. When "Devil" surpassed "Accident", Yang Lirong really felt sorry for Tao Cen.
She even left messages on Tao Cen's social media pages every day to cheer him up. To show her "loyalty", she never went to see "Devil" once during its release. Whenever she talked about this with others, Yang Lirong proudly said that even if Jiang Se's "Devil" had a global box office of over 5 billion, she definitely didn't get a penny from it!
But even so, "Accidental Events" lost too much to "Devil" at the box office. Yang Lirong cried twice when she mentioned this to her boyfriend in private.
During the French Film Festival, when Cesare praised Jiang Se and said in public that he would not rule out the possibility of working with Jiang Se in the future, Yang Lirong was worried about Tao Cen and scolded Cesare for having no vision. So when it was confirmed that Tao Cen would join "The Lost City", Yang Lirong was the happiest.
After she found out about the news, she immediately sent it to the people around her, then she opened Jiang Se's official website, ready to post the news there so that Jiang Se's fans could see that Tao Cen was not out of fashion as they said, and was still very popular.
Yang Lirong was very lucky. Jiang Se's social account rarely updated messages. As soon as she opened it, a new message popped up, and the time of posting was shown to be right now.
She was stunned for a moment and subconsciously opened the message.
The message Jiang Se posted was neither friendly nor cute, just like her cold personality, it was simple and neat: looking forward to the reunion with old friends!
Below the message was a photo of her and Cesare, both of them posing in front of the Pantheon, smiling at the camera.
The picture posted by Jiang Se caused a lot of speculation and made many netizens who paid attention to this incident for the first time quickly remember the photo that Jiang Se released with Xia Chaoqun a few months ago.
At that time, she half hugged Xia Chaoqun, and Xia Chaoqun pulled her wrist to look at the Federer watch on her hand. After some fans recognized the Federer brand, they speculated whether Jiang Se was going to cooperate with Federer.
However, in the eyes of some Chinese people who know his brand, Federer is out of reach. They have always favored influential European and American stars who hold a very important position in the entertainment industry. Before this, they have never cooperated with Chinese stars.
Therefore, those who initially speculated that Jiang Se would cooperate with Federer were actually just speaking casually, and more people speculated that Jiang Se was just trying to take advantage of Federer's popularity.
However, while the onlookers were still mocking him, Federer later announced that he had signed Jiang Se to be the first spokesperson for China, shocking the domestic and international fashion circles and the onlookers.
It also caused those who saw the photo and thought that Jiang Se was going to cooperate with Federer and ridiculed him to stop and no longer dare to speak out.
What does it mean now that Jiang Se released this photo with Cesare
Many people recalled that during the French Film Festival, when domestic and foreign media interviewed Cesare, Cesare said meaningfully that he did not rule out future cooperation with Jiang Se.
Is this a sign that Jiang Se will soon collaborate with this famous Italian director? (To be continued)