This was the first time Eric gave himself a gift, and Nicole raised her head curiously: "What?"
"You'll find out later," Eric laughed.
Nicole pursed her lips and gave Eric a white look.
After a leisurely lunch, Eric took the girl to the study room, took out a document bag from the bookcase and handed it to the girl who was sitting on the sofa.
Nicole squeezed it and felt it before opening it. First, a large bunch of keys came out.
"Is this the key?" Nicole asked strangely.
"The apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan," Eric explained: "There is also a check in it, which is the 8 million that I lent you some time ago."
Nicole was surprised and emptied out all the contents in the file bag. Apart from the check and the apartment title documents, there was also a stack of photos inside the apartment. Judging from the photos, this should be a duplex apartment of more than 200 square meters, with a simple interior design. Decorated in warm tones.
"So, the rumors during this period are true?" the girl said while looking at the stack of photos.
"rumor?"
Nicole said: "Many people say that you made a lot of money in this oil crisis."
"I did make some money," Eric said vaguely.
Nicole raised the photo in her hand, raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "There must be more than 'some'. The duplex apartments in the Upper East Side are not much cheaper than the mansions on the top of Beverly Hills. That...does anyone else have them?"
"At that time, I just wanted to raise as much money as possible, so I borrowed from you. I didn't expect that someone would suddenly donate generously, so I took you to invest together. This house is still earned with your principal. Yes. Only you and Vicky. I'm so miserable when I say it. You and Vicky are the only women who can give me money."
"It can be seen from this how unpopular you are," Nicole teased, and quickly asked: "Julia Roberts should be the richest one, she... a "With the Enemy" "Sleep Together" received 8 million film remuneration."
Eric shrugged: "When I went to her place, Liz happened to be there too. When they heard me talking about borrowing money, they thought I was joking and kicked me out."
Nicole froze for a moment. I laughed happily.
Eric also showed a helpless look, although Julia later found out that he was not joking, but at that time he had already received a large sum of money from the Seventh University, the girl's millions were dispensable, and I don't want any more.
"Since I earned it with my own money, I'll accept it," Nicole said quickly putting the things on the coffee table back into the document bag.
"By the way, what do you want to see me today?"
Nicole, who had just collected a large pile of loose items, became resentful again: "It's really hard enough to see you now."
"Okay, let's get down to business," Eric said quickly.
"You know that last Spielberg movie?"
Eric thought about it. Asked: "Captain Hawke?"
Nicole nodded: "I have participated in the audition of the little fairy Ting Kebeier before, but there are many people competing. Can you help me clear it up."
Eric recalled the news about "Captain Hawk" that he saw in the newspaper during this period. This movie was an idea that Spielberg had since he was a child, and he has been writing scripts repeatedly over the years. It was not until recently that the newly established Sony Pictures officially launched the project. It can be said that it is another ambitious project of the wealthy Japanese. Investment institutions are very optimistic about the prospects of this film project. There is a very professional film magazine. Analyzing the movie could bring in at least $200 million in profits.
However, Eric knew that the film's final results were not as impressive as expected. The cost of production and publicity exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars, and the North American box office was only a little over 100 million U.S. dollars. And the word-of-mouth of this movie is even more messed up. Critics criticized this movie as a nonsense fantasy piled up with expensive special effects.
"Nicole, although this movie was invested by Sony, but the leader is Spielberg. I don't have any friendship with him, and he wanted to get the right to adapt "Jurassic Park" before, but I Rejected..." Eric was talking, but found that the girl's expression changed from disappointment to resentment, from resentment to grievance: "Well, you..."
"So you don't want to help me."
"Actually, this movie also..."
Nicole immediately interrupted Eric: "You just don't want to help me!"
"Listen, this movie doesn't do a good job of…"
"That's enough," Nicole looked at Eric aggrievedly, tears slowly overflowing from her eyes: "Why, why are you always so mean to me, what am I not good enough for? Why do you treat those women so hard? Well, some time ago you just arranged a comedy movie for that woman, and now many people know about it. And Julia Roberts, I am not as good as her, you prepared three box office successes for her in one go Do you know what it means to shoot three movies in a row that break the billion mark? In Hollywood, she is already unmatched, and Drew, ha, a 15-year-old producer. And me , I have always listened to you, you asked me to change agents, I quickly changed, you need money, my overdrawn credit card lent you, you know, they all have their own houses, several You bought it for them, but I still live in a rented villa. You say, what did I do wrong? I just asked you to say a few words for me, and you have to push back and forth... "
As the girl talked, she hugged her knees and curled up on the sofa sobbing.
This situation was a bit sudden, and Eric also became at a loss. He didn't expect that Nicole had accumulated so much resentment towards him.
"Okay, Nicole, don't cry, I'll call right away, and I will definitely help you take down this role," Eric walked to Nicole and knelt down, patted the girl's arm and said.
Nicole shook off Eric's hand, buried her head in her legs and continued to sob, like an angry little girl: "I don't want it, I don't want it, you bastard. You are a big bastard."
"Okay. I apologize. I did go too far before and always ignored your feelings." Eric pulled Nicole's little hand over: "Actually, I thought you were so smart and capable, you shouldn't be like them Always worried me."
"You are sophistry, you are biased," Nicole condemned without looking up.
"OK, I won't quibble. I was wrong," Eric apologized quickly.
"I don't want you to be pitiful, you bastard."
"Yeah, I'm an asshole."
After a while, Eric calmed down the girl, and made calls one by one in front of Nicole.
Although "Captain Hawk" will not bring any benefits to the girl's career, it will not bring any harm either. After all, this is an influential movie in the world, and even if it fails in the end, the responsibility is also It is impossible to push it to the heroine. Since Nicole wants to act, let's fight for it.
Made some phone calls. Eric put down the microphone: "I have contacted Spielberg, and he happened to be in Los Angeles. I will invite him to be a guest at Pointe Manor at noon tomorrow."
Nicole had already recovered from the gaffe just now, clutching a few tissues in her hand, cleaning off the makeup on her face. Hearing Eric's words, Nicole just curled her lips and remained huddled in the sofa.
"Now, let's talk," Eric said, sitting across from Nicole.
Nicole's face suddenly showed panic, like a suspect facing trial: "I... I'm going to the bathroom."
"Well," Eric nodded, watching the girl stand up and flee into the bathroom. After a while, she came out of the bathroom again. The hair bun that was originally tied up had been loosened on her shoulders. The eye sockets were slightly red, and the whole person was a little more fragile.
When the girl sat down opposite, Eric asked bluntly, "Nicole, you like me, right?"
"I... no," Nicole retorted immediately.
Eric seemed not to have heard the girl's words, and said: "In the past, it was always difficult for me to be sure about this, but today I can be sure."
"So... so what, you don't like me, you... bastard, you only play with me."
"It's not that serious, is it?"
Nicole pointed to the desk not far away: "It's right there, you put me on my knees to give you oral sex, and then asked me to swallow those disgusting things, did you forget?"
"Ahem, this, only once."
"Twice, and once at the villa in Beverly Hills," Nicole snapped back.
"Well, twice, I think we'd better not talk about it right now."
"snort!"
Throughout the afternoon, the girl acted like a resentful abandoned woman, recounting Eric's previous 'bad deeds' in every possible way, until she went to bed at night, the girl was playing with her temper.
"I don't want to have sex with you tonight, you are not allowed to cross the line in the middle," the girl wearing Eric's T-shirt as pajamas reached out and gestured in the middle of the big bed, warning.
Eric turned off the light helplessly, lay down on the other side, and said, "You know, Nicole, what you just said was actually a cold joke."
The girl in the dark snorted as a response.
Eric continued: "It is said that another couple is dating. They are staying in a hotel. The girl is more reserved. Before going to bed, she also drew a line in the middle of the bed, saying that if the boy crosses it, he will be a beast."
Eric said here and stopped on purpose.
Nicole obviously hadn't heard of the jokes that were widely circulated on the Internet in her previous life. After a while, she finally couldn't help asking: "Then... what happened later?"
"The boy really didn't cross the line drawn by the girl all night."
"Oh," Nicole responded, as if turning over, and complained, "It's boring."
Eric smiled and said: "I haven't finished yet. When I woke up, the girl saw the boy sleeping on the other side of the dividing line in a regular manner. She didn't move beyond the whole night, so she stretched out her hand and slapped the boy. Cursed: You are not as good as a beast."
Nicole froze for a moment, giggled a few times quickly, stretched out her long legs and kicked Eric hard: "Bastard, don't even think about telling ten bad jokes tonight."
Eric smiled: "Of course, this is just a very pure joke."
Nicole snorted again and said, "Sleep."
"Okay, sleep."
Both of them closed their eyes and fell asleep unknowingly. When they woke up, Nicole found that she had been held in Eric's arms at some point, and she didn't know when she didn't have a T-shirt as pajamas. Now, only a pair of panties are left on her body, and the man's big hand is still covering her chest.
"You beast," Nicole immediately cursed when Eric woke up, but her tone was more coquettish.
Eric took the girl into his arms, rubbed the girl's chest a few times with his big hands, quickly slid down the smooth waist curve, reached into the lace panties, and teased the girl fiercely After a while, Eric pushed Nicole away until the girl was out of breath and started asking for kisses, jokingly said, "Hey, it's getting late, let's get up."
"Bastard, you're playing with me again," Nicole suddenly jumped up like a kitten, pressing Eric under her body.
Near noon, a Lincoln car drove into the Angle Manor. Eric, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly greeted him. Spielberg got out of the car, and hugged Eric as if he saw an old friend: "Eric Rick, long time no see."
"Long time no see, how are you doing, Steven?"
"It's okay," Spielberg exchanged greetings with Eric before turning to Nicole who was standing next to Eric: "This is the beautiful Miss Kidman, I have seen your audition Video."
"Thank you, Mr. Spielberg," Nicole shook hands with Spielberg politely, the two exchanged greetings for a while, and Eric quickly led Spielberg into the villa.
Lunch had already been prepared by a specially invited chef. Spielberg was recently divorced and did not bring a girlfriend, so there were only three of them in the restaurant.
At the beginning, the three of them didn't talk about "Captain Hawke", they just commented on the lunch, and talked about a lot of interesting things that happened in Hollywood at the end.
It wasn't until more than half an hour later, when lunch was almost finished, that Eric tentatively asked, "Steven, the heroine of "Captain Hawk" hasn't been determined yet, right?"
Spielberg glanced at Nicole, but his eyes were a little weird, and he nodded: "Yes, Eric."
"Then what do you think of Nicole?" Eric didn't make a fool of himself. Anyway, he must owe Spielberg a favor today. Judging from Spielberg's attitude of being able to come here in person today, it should be very easy to win this role. easy.
"Miss Kidman's performance is very good," Spielberg did see Nicole's audition tape, and said truthfully: "But Eric, there are some other problems in this. Among the current candidates, another Actresses are also very competitive."
Eric thought for a while, and suddenly remembered the figure of another girl. (To be continued..)