"So, when you apply to come to New York as an exchange student, you are ready to start chasing your dreams?" Angela, who was neatly dressed beside the round table, picked up the teacup with two fingers and took a sip. The gentle movements were extremely gentle. With grace and temperament, the opposite Ivanka is also ashamed.
However, no one would have thought that just a quarter of an hour ago, this beautiful and moving lady was still crying with grass clippings all over her face, stained with mud spots on her clothes, and a look of grievance, as if she would cry loudly at any time
"Yes, the master tapes have been sent to the three companies, but there is no news so far." Avril said, puffing out her cheeks, she has already tried to do the best she can in the current situation, but there is no news at all. Not too disappointing. But she hurriedly continued after glancing at Angela secretly: "Of course, I will come to New York because Angela is now at Harvard, so it will not be as difficult for me to see her as it used to be."
"Of course, it's more difficult for me to see you now." Angela still couldn't hold back.
"I just want to... I'll come to see you after I become a signed singer." Avril was aggrieved with her hands rubbed and her mouth flat, but she would only do it in front of Angela.
"Becoming a singer? My dear, do you know how many girls in the United States want to be singers. Do you know how many people have become singers?" Angela still said rudely, the little girl in the last few minutes before She pinched her waist a lot, "If you don't sign a record contract for one day, you won't come to see me in an open and honest way, you must be too cruel!"
When she said this, Weiwei became even more uneasy, and her little face became more and more devastated. Angela couldn't help but regret it in her eyes, but it was hard to put down her face for a while. Fortunately, Natalie came out at this time to smooth the game. : "Angie, Weiwei just wanted to surprise you, and she didn't say that she wouldn't come to see you if she couldn't successfully sign a contract. Besides, what's wrong with chasing your dreams with your own abilities?"
"Darling, of course there is no problem, I absolutely believe that Vivi has that ability - don't doubt my vision, but opportunity is also important in addition to ability," Angela squinted her eyes and shook her fingers, "I remember the movie released last year. "Never Compromise"? Mr. Albert Finney, who plays the old lawyer, has been in the art for 40 years, and he has been nominated for four Oscar performance awards, but so far I still haven’t won the first prize. Although one is acting and the other is singing, the essence of ability and opportunity is still the same.”
After a while, Angela sat up straight and stared at Avril with her arms crossed: "I know what you are thinking, Vivi, I also understand it, but it would be too rude for you to regard me as such a fool!"
"I'm sorry," Avril pouted, "I originally planned to treat the signing as part of the surprise."
"I accept your apology." Angela nodded with a smile, but she didn't know what to think.
"Then are you satisfied with my gift?" The little girl immediately looked at her with wide, round and bright eyes.
"Although it is a little flawed, it is still very good, but I think you can be better." Angela blinked, "I will recommend you to some musicians when I go back to Los Angeles in a few days, what should I do next? But it's your business."
Certain musicians naturally refer to John Burns, the music director of the Hollywood Records. Vivi's strength is of course needless to say. She wrote the song herself before, and now she is a half-glossy pristine. Jade, as long as it is polished a little more, it can exude its own brilliance, so Angela only needs a small push on it.
And because of the production of "The Pianist" this year, I am afraid that the new album can only be postponed to next year. Although the Hollywood record company is currently developing well, the combination of Britney and Christina is also quite popular, but they are only barely comparable to Angela. - It's just a combination of the two. And it's just in terms of popularity, in terms of musical literacy, they are much worse.
So Angela, as the iconic character of the record company, and the fact that she has always cooperated well, the other party has given her a lot of right to speak. As compensation, she will recommend the future rock queen to them. Of course, if they are wrong, then It can only be said that they deserve to be unlucky.
"So, it won't be long before I hear Wei Wei's album?" Scarlett said in surprise, holding her face. Although Avril was dissatisfied with her "betrayal" of herself and because she couldn't catch up before, she couldn't get revenge. Glancing at her, but still proudly said with a small chest: "As long as you give me a chance, I will never lose to Angie in music."
"I would believe it if it was just rock and roll, but generally speaking about music..." Scarlett extended her voice, and the sarcasm in her tone made Avril immediately bit her lip and waved her fist fiercely to express a threat, but also It's just a threat. Although the little girl has a good relationship with everyone, the closest person besides Angela is Scarlett.
"That's not necessarily true, Manny," Natalie looked at Angela with a grin, "Vivi refers to the singing career, and someone has been criticized more than once for being too lazy to make music, and now she has broken the Oscar The youngest record in history to be nominated for best director, it is conceivable that he will be surpassed in the singing career sooner or later."
"Yes, Angie was nominated for the Oscar for best director, and this time there are also nominations for best score and best screenplay. She can always make some seemingly impossible achievements." Avril recalled and nodded. The head, although it seemed to be admiring, but at the same time a little depressed, Scarlett next to her immediately called out her thoughts: "Forget it, Weiwei, you are just disappointed that you can't compete with Angie in music. Just down."
"That's not necessarily true, Nat," Angela smiled and shook her head at Natalie, clearly not paying attention to what she said: "Even if I only release one EP a year until college, I can still keep it up. position in the music world."
Lavigne jumped up before Natalie could speak: "Will you release an EP on rock and roll?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she realized that she had taken Scarlett's complaints seriously, but Weiwei was too lazy to care about the snickering Scarlett, who stared at Angela without blinking, while Angela looked at her with a grin. Pointing his finger on his face, he spit out a word that made the little guy roll his eyes: "Guess!"
"Look, look, some people are scared." Following Natalie's teasing, a few people suddenly roared, but at this time Liv, who was exchanging modeling experience with Ivanka, interjected: "You are talking about Angie's Music?"
"That's great, Liv, you've been Angie's MTV heroine, right?" Avril's eyes lit up and she immediately grabbed Liv's arm, "If I also release an album in the future, you're willing to be my MTV the heroine?"
"Of course there's no problem," Liv said in surprise. "I've played roles in Angela's and my father's MTV. Speaking of which, MTV is still very interesting. Unfortunately, Anji never asked me to do it again."
"Then it's okay to settle down like this." Avril said, looking at Angela intentionally or unintentionally provocatively.
Angela looked at the little guy angrily and funny, and the expression on her face suddenly changed to look at Liv with a little prayer: "Liv, you won't abandon me just like that?" The tone was so ambiguous as if they were breaking up lover.
"But, you haven't seen me on MTV for a long time." Liv pouted and couldn't tell it was intentional.
"It seems that you said try not to collaborate with the same singer twice, right?" Angela puffed out her cheeks and stared at Liv, as if she had been beaten.
"Yeah, that's why I agreed to Weiwei." Liv opened her eyes wide and her lips curved downwards. She swayed her shoulders boyishly, her blue eyes full of mischief.
"You have to do what you say, and stick to the principles if you have credibility, right Liv?" Weiwei, who formed a united front, smiled proudly.
"I really can't stand the three of them. It's a child-like quarrel." Natalie rolled her eyes and whispered to the others, "When will you be more mature?"
At this moment, Angela rolled her eyes and suddenly put her arm around Ivanka's shoulder: "Ini, will you play my MTV heroine? "Angel's Gaze" hasn't been filmed on MTV yet."
"I don't know anything." Ivanka immediately turned her head away and didn't even look at her, the anger from before has not disappeared.
"Please, Ini, don't you just watch them laugh at me, shouldn't friends help each other?" Angela immediately pretended to be teary-eyed and pleaded in a milky voice. What kind of genius does he look like, he's just a scumbag kid.
Fortunately, the maid who came with the phone relieved Ivanka: "Miss, your phone."
"My phone?" Angela picked it up, "Hi, I'm Angie, who are you... Jessie?"
Angela stood up in surprise, then covered the microphone and smiled at everyone: "Sorry, excuse me."
Then, without waiting for an answer, he pulled up the chair and walked quickly to the vestibule. Several girls looked at me, I looked at you, and then neatly shrugged their shoulders and started talking about other topics. Only Natalie glanced at Angie. Pulled back.
"I'm so happy to hear your voice, I thought you wouldn't call me anymore." Angela said with a smile, walked into the living room to look left and right, and walked across the corridor to the kitchen.
At this time, there were only two maids in the kitchen chatting and baking snacks at the same time. Seeing that the young lady came in and hurried forward to ask what she needed, Angela immediately waved her hand: "Sorry, I want to answer a private message here. Telephone."
The maids nodded, walked out of the kitchen and closed the door, and then Angela continued into the microphone: "Of course, of course, your acting skills must have improved... Hey, how could I lie to you, do the ratings still have a website? Can't the message on the website explain the problem? But it is indeed a little worse than "Death is Coming"."
She bent her mouth and stared at the cabinet in front of her, but her focus was not on it but scattered everywhere: "Don't tell me you can't even take such a blow... Take your time, don't worry."
There seemed to be something funny over there, Angela burst out laughing, then turned around and looked out through the glass window, tapping her fingers on the wall: "Tell her, be honest with me, in a few days It's the Oscars ceremony and I'm definitely coming back... Thanks, to be honest, I didn't expect to be nominated for Best Director... Of course not, the nomination is already pretty good, the chance of it being awarded to me is only 0.01%, I wouldn't expect it... Of course, I'll get it sooner or later."
Angela walked back and forth slowly in the kitchen, saying a few words from time to time and then chuckling, obviously very happy.
"Didn't I say, I'll be attending the Oscars in a few days, see you then." Just as he was talking, there was a knock on the door, followed by Natalie who pushed the door and walked in, making a gesture of grabbing a snack for her. .
"Okay, okay, I see," Angela nodded to Natalie calmly, "don't worry, I didn't forget, although this is the first time I can't attend your birthday party, but what? , guess how I'll get the latest Jessica Adventures into your hands... well, that's it, I love you."
"You two are in such a good relationship." Natalie, who was holding the cookie on the plate with a clip, glanced at her.
"It's not like you don't know, Jesse and I have always had a good relationship." Angela, who put away the phone, shrugged.
"Well, I don't have any comics from the Big Adventure series." Natalie said in a deliberately mournful tone.
"Oh, someone is jealous." Angela hugged Natalie's waist from behind, closed her eyes and took a deep breath into her hair, "Should I be happy or worried?"
"Let me think about it, why don't you worry?" Natalie turned to look at Angela who was close at hand, her eyes flashing inexplicably bright: "Because... your reaction is fast."
"Oh?" Angela blinked, and suddenly buried her head on Natalie's shoulder and sighed deeply.
"What's wrong?" Natalie was baffled by Angela's actions, she grabbed her shoulders and pushed them away, and asked with concern, "What happened?"
Angel pulled Natalie for a long time before straightening her body and sighing softly, "I'm under a lot of pressure, Nat."
"A lot of pressure?" Natalie wondered.
"Yes, for the next movie I will direct, I don't know what the situation will be if it is announced." Angela frowned and raised her hand.
"What is it?"
Angela didn't answer directly. She looked at Natalie hesitantly for a while before saying, "You won't say it, will you?"
"If you don't want to say it, forget it." Natalie spread her hands.
"No no no, Nat, it's not that I don't trust you, I'm just afraid..." Angela smiled bitterly, "I'm just afraid that if I say it... you'll think I'm crazy."
"Is it that serious?" Natalie was a little surprised.
"Yes..." Angela bit her lip, "The next movie I'm going to direct is The Pianist."
"The Pianist?" Natalie looked at Angela blankly, but her mind couldn't turn around for a while.
"Yes, The Pianist." Angela nodded vigorously, "The autobiographical novel that topped the best-selling list last year."
"Last year ranked..." Natalie tilted her head and thought for a while, her expression gradually changed from dazed to thinking and finally to shock.
"You mean...you mean..." She opened her mouth and closed it, opened her mouth wide and closed it again, and repeated this three times before she asked in a slightly shifted voice: "You mean that book of The Pianist? !"
"Yes, Nat, that's the "The Pianist"!" Angela calmed down at the moment, and embraced Natalie with open arms, "I know you're shocked, but don't worry, only a few people know about it now ."
"Wait, wait, Angie, do you know what you're doing?" Natalie grabbed Angela's arm and looked at her seriously, "Do you know what the subject is?!"
"I know, I know what I'm doing, Nat," Angela looked at Natalie equally seriously, "I know what you're thinking, I'm just a 19-year-old girl, and my experience and ability are not enough to bear With such a heavy subject, if there is a problem in the production due to lack of thought, then you will not only face one or two criticisms."
After a pause, she continued: "I had prepared a large set of rhetoric before, but then I think about it, it's useless, because when people have made their own judgments about something in their hearts, they don't have any rhetoric. I can listen, that's why I asked the film department to keep it a secret - at least until I start the film, because after that I'll prove it with facts."
"No, Angie, you are too arrogant!" Natalie frowned tightly, "Maybe you can play the editing effect of "Memento", maybe you can think deeply about the social problems of "American Beauty" , but this, the heaviness of this subject matter is beyond your imagination!"
She gasped slightly because of her excitement: "Remember when I told you how I felt when I acted in "Annie Diary"? Although everyone said that my performance was excellent, I know clearly that I have done far It's not enough, some things are always separated by a layer of frosted glass without personal experience!"
"Nat, listen to me, Nat," Angela cupped her cheeks and looked back into Natalie's eyes with a serious expression: "Do you believe me?"
Natalie looked at those emerald green eyes, opened her mouth but didn't know whether to say yes or no, her face showed a sad look.
"I've finished the script, I've started to select actors, and I've sent people to Poland and Germany, which means that the film is already in secret preparations," Angela said word by word, "Everyone I thought that my experience and my age were not enough to control this subject, but don’t forget that I am a genius lady and I am good at creating miracles, so this time I can also use facts to prove that I am right! So please believe that I can do it well. "
"I don't know, I don't know..." Natalie murmured, while Angela lowered her head and pressed her lips lightly on her lips.