After confirming the heroine, I had a small meeting with the creator of "Basic Instinct" to finalize some scattered matters. It was already past 7 pm, and Eric was about to leave when he remembered that there was another woman in his office.
Eric pushed open the office door and walked in. The little woman who was originally sitting on the sofa and absently flipping through the magazine in front of her was taken aback. When she saw that it was Eric, she breathed a sigh of relief.
All the lights in the office were turned on at this time, the wall lamps, ceiling lamps, and even the desk lamp on Eric's desk were on.
"Why are you turning on so many lights?" Eric asked casually, walking towards the desk.
"No... nothing," Joanna Pakula hurried forward, turned off the lamp on the desk, and then turned off the wall lamp in two or three steps. The office was suddenly darker.
Eric watched Joanna Pakula's action of turning off the lights, and quickly realized that the reason why the girl turned on so many lights was a sign of insecurity, or perhaps a fear of loneliness. Rick's tone also softened: "I'm sorry, Miss Pakula, to keep you waiting so late, but there are indeed many things to be busy."
Joanna Pakula shook her head: "It's okay, anyway, I have nothing else to do."
"Or, tonight ≧ ↑, I won't go to your place, it's too late now?" Eric said, the girl's very insecure behavior just now made him feel as if he was taking advantage of someone's danger guilt.
"No... it's not too late, it's only past seven o'clock," Joanna Pakula said eagerly. Although she inevitably realized something in her heart, the girl instinctively didn't want to give up this opportunity.
She's had enough of being suspended in midair. And the young man in front of him. Apparently able to help her end it all. She doesn't expect too much. She just wanted to settle down and not be like before. She didn't receive any role for the longest period of three years. She had to rely on short-term jobs to make ends meet.
"In this case, let's go," Eric said without further delay.
When he came to the parking lot, Eric didn't drive his own car, but sat directly on the co-pilot of Joanna Pakula's car.
The girl looked at Eric who was wearing his seat belt. Taking a deep breath, he started the car.
"I didn't expect you to live in North Hollywood. My house used to be nearby, so it should be on the north side," Eric said after entering Joanna Pakula's small apartment.
Speaking of which, the apartment they originally had in North Carolina had been sold, but the mansion in Beverly Hills was not sold, but was used as another residence. Although there will be a property tax every year. However, the property tax in North America can offset part of the personal income tax. So not too much.
Joanna Pakula said: "Actually, I just moved here not long ago. I used to live in the urban area. Last year, I transferred a sum of money to make that movie, so I moved here."
Eric shrugged slightly and didn't say anything else. Obviously, the girl's previous situation was not very good. The urban area of Los Angeles is not as prosperous as the city center of the country in the previous life. Instead, it is a very chaotic community. Los Angeles has the best law and order. Of course, it is on the Beverly Hills side, the worst law and order should be the downtown area in the city center.
"Mr. Williams, take a rest first, I'll make dinner right away, soon," Joanna Pakula pointed to the small sofa in the living room, and said.
"Well, just call me Eric," Eric said casually, taking off his coat and hanging it on the hanger in the entrance.
"Okay, Eric, my friends call me Joan," Joanna Pakula said, walking towards the kitchen.
Eric looked around at this small apartment. It looked like one bedroom and one living room. Both the decoration and the furniture were quite simple. There was a sofa in the center of the living room. There are a few photos hanging on the wall at the small dining table. Eric leaned in and looked at them. Some of them should be stage stills, which should be Shakespeare's plays.
Joanna Pakula in the photo looks very young. It reminds me that the girl once stayed in the Polish National Theater. This should be the photo at that time. These photos should be more than ten years ago, but in comparison, Today's Joanna Pakula is not much different from ten years ago. Compared with Westerners who are easy to age, the girl's appearance just wants to enjoy God's favor.
Turning around, Eric walked to the side of the small TV and saw a video recorder under the TV cabinet, and there were several video tapes beside it. Eric flipped through it casually and saw a video called "Kiss The movie was introduced as a horror movie, and half of the woman's face on the poster was processed into a skeleton, with thick red lips, and she couldn't see the appearance of the woman busy in the kitchen at all.
Put the tape into the VCR, turn on the TV, and Eric sat back on the sofa.
The picture begins with the parting ways of a divorced family. The mother took a daughter on a distant train, but on the train, the evil spirit in the mother's body broke out, but the alien species spread to the daughter and died, and the girl got off the train secretly missing.
More than ten years later, the younger sister who grew up with her father was married and her daughter was an adult, but because she took down the cross from the body guard and gave it to her daughter, the younger sister died in a sudden car accident. I went to my sister's cemetery and met my sister's husband and daughter...
After only watching for half an hour, Eric had almost foreseen the result.
There was a slight sound behind him, and Joanna Pakula appeared in the living room at some point, quietly standing behind Eric, staring blankly at the TV screen.
"I don't like this movie," Eric stepped forward and turned off the video recorder, changed a TV channel, and said.
The girl didn't answer, but the sadness in her eyes couldn't be concealed. If she had a choice, she would definitely not take such a movie.
"Eric, let's eat," the girl said after a moment of silence.
"Well, let me help you," Eric got up, followed Joanna Pakula into the kitchen, and helped the girl put a simple dinner on the table.
"I don't have any materials here, I can only do this," Joanna Pakula explained.
Eric filled a small bowl of corn soup for himself, tasted it, nodded and said in admiration: "It's very good, I like it very much."
Joanna Pakula felt a little regretful looking at the shabby dishes on the table. If she had known earlier, she would have taken Eric out to eat. In fact, it would not cost too much money. Although the man kept praising him, but She was still very unconfident, and her smile was forced. (To be continued..)