Through the VIP channel at Kennedy Airport, Eric, who only brought two entourages, got into the car that came to pick him up.
After the car started, Kapoor, who was sitting next to Eric, said, "Miss Pakula took an action movie from Universal, and she played a female agent of the FBI. Charlie told me that Miss Pakula took the role. For this movie, the lead actress was required to be filmed within a month, Universal extended the daily working hours in order to adapt to this condition... "
Eric nodded briefly and interrupted Kapoor: "Kapoor, you know I don't care about this."
Caple paused, and then said: "She just fainted because she was overworked while pregnant, which led to hypoglycemia. The doctor has already done an examination, and there is nothing serious, just need to have a good rest'..." Hesitated for a while , Kapoor added: "The child is fine."
Eric finally took a deep breath and leaned back in the chair relaxedly.
Seeing Eric's reaction, Kapoor tentatively asked: "Eric, what are you going to do?"
"Let Charlie Walker hand over all of Joan's work, and you will be responsible for it yourself, but before the child is born, don't arrange any work for her. In addition, the Universal movie is also rejected, and I will call Michael↘. Eisner discussed this matter."
Kapoor seemed to want to ask something, but he didn't say it in the end. Although the two are good friends, this matter is too private after all. However, Kapoor still felt a little strange that Eric accepted the child easily. He thought that Eric came back in such a hurry that he was making another completely opposite plan.
half an hour later. The car pulled up to a private clinic on Manhattan's East Side. Eric saw through the car window that reporters with long guns and short cannons were already crowded outside the gate of the clinic. I didn't feel surprised. "Tornado" is still being released worldwide. After more than three months, the North American box office has easily exceeded 300 million U.S. dollars, and the overseas box office is also rising steadily. Joanna, as the heroine, is currently the most concerned moment.
The security guard opened the door of the clinic, and Eric and the others drove in without getting out of the car.
"Not many people know about it. Apart from Charlie and Miss Pakula's assistant, there are only the crew director and a few employees who sent Miss Pakula here, oh, and the attending doctor of this clinic," Kapoor said to Eric when the vehicle entered the door: "We will not leak it here. I also signed a non-disclosure agreement with this clinic in the morning, but on the Universal side, you'd better talk to Michael Eisner Let's communicate."
Eric nodded, but he could imagine that Michael Eisner might have already issued a gag order to Universal's crew. The leak of this matter will not do Universal any good, nor will it cause much harm to itself. But blocking the news can actually sell him a favor.
"This is Dr. Robert Bean," several people walked into the clinic, and Kapoor introduced to Eric a middle-aged man in his forties who came out in a white coat.
"Hi, Dr. Bean," Eric said politely, holding out his hand to him.
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Williams," Robert Bean shook hands with Eric, and gestured towards the corridor: "Please come with me, Mr. Williams, Miss Pakula is there side.
Passing through the corridor, a group of people walked up the stairs to the second floor. Several people sitting on the bench outside the ward saw Eric appear and quickly got up and walked over.
Charlie Walker, who obviously had dark circles under his eyes, spoke first, "Mr. Williams, I'm so sorry."
Eric knew that Joanna must have concealed this matter from Charlie Walker, and he didn't mean to embarrass the agent. He patted the other person on the shoulder and said to everyone: "I'll talk to Joan first."
Pushing open the door, Eric saw a brown-haired girl with a ponytail sitting beside the hospital bed, chatting with Joanna in a low voice. When they heard the sound of the door, both women turned their heads.
"You go out first," Eric said to the brown-haired girl. He remembered that this was Joanna's personal assistant, but he didn't remember the name of the other party.
The brown-haired girl hummed, and hurried out of the room with her head down. The moment Joanna on the hospital bed saw Eric, her eyes became obviously flustered, and she stretched out her hand to gently pull the quilt, covering half of the bed. The face seemed to want to hide the whole person.
Seeing Joanna's movements, Eric sighed with pity and sat down by the bed.
"Eric..." Joanna watched Eric's expression worriedly, and cried out in a low voice.
Eric stretched out his hand to help Joanna trim the messy hair on her forehead, and seeing the woman flinched, he sighed again: "Why didn't you tell me earlier, Joan, are you so unconfident in me?"
"No, it's not," Joanna seemed to feel relieved when she felt Eric's gentle movements, she shook her head lightly and said, "No, it's not, it's just... just Vicky said, said..."
"It seems that it is really not a good idea to get you together," Eric shrugged helplessly as he could almost imagine what Virginia would say. Virginia has been in Hollywood for too long and is used to seeing stars Coupled with the separation and reunion between them, coupled with their relatively independent personality, they do not have much confidence and dependence on relationships and men. When Eric gets along with Virginia, although women always follow him, he can often feel Virginia's very casual attitude. It seems that after the two have a good night, he goes down It disappeared completely from her life for a moment, and Virginia would not make a fuss.
Hearing Eric complain like this, Joanna seemed at a loss again.
Eric reached out and took Joanna's little hand, patted it comfortingly, and said, "Joan, remember what I told you the night I went to San Francisco two years ago?"
Joanna was stunned, remembering certain scenes that night, her face blushed at first, and she wanted to imitate Virginia's expression and give Eric a look, but in the end she just lowered her eyes and nodded slightly.
"I wasn't joking with you that night, so don't worry about giving birth to the child, and I will bring it up with you."
"But." Joanna raised her head worriedly again: "You..."
"If you're worried. I can hold a press conference right now. Announce that I'm going to be a father."
Hearing this sentence, Joanna finally felt relieved. What she worried most was that Eric refused to admit the child, or kept concealing the identity of the child. If this was the case, the child would definitely not grow up very well. environment, because if a child wants to grow up healthily, material guarantees are definitely not enough.
"Eric. As long as you accept this child, the press conference is fine. I don't want it to be noticed by the media so early."
Seeing the relieved expression on Joanna's face, Eric felt relieved: "Well, you can do what you say, and you are the biggest now."
Joanna smiled softly, a little sweet, and stroked her belly through the quilt, with a little jerky coquettishness: "Eric, I'm hungry."
"What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you myself."
"You didn't cook well."
"Uh, okay. I'll call your assistant in, let her get what you want to eat, and I have to talk to the doctor and Kapoor about something."
Joanna nodded, and said again: "Eric, my shots in that movie will be finished in a week, and I plan to..."
"Let the movie go to hell, you can raise your baby with peace of mind, and leave the other things to me."
Joanna watched Eric get up and leave, and felt a little struggling in her heart. She wanted to enjoy Eric's pampering at this moment alone, but she felt that she shouldn't be so selfish. In the end, Joanna still held Eric's hand. Hand: "Eric, Vicky is filming too, in Philadelphia."
Eric felt that the woman seemed a little nervous again, and he took Joanna's little hand and said soothingly: "Well, I see, when she finishes filming, I will ask her to be your nanny, and by the way, take her nonsense picture Sew the mouth shut."
"No, that's not what I mean, I mean..." Joanna looked up at Eric, shook the corners of her lips slightly, and finally made up her mind, and said, "I mean, she's pregnant too."
"Ah..." Eric staggered and almost fell down.
…
Philadelphia is less than two hours away from New York. Eric arrived in New York around noon. After hearing the news from Joanna, he had to rush to Philadelphia immediately. Although two women were pregnant at the same time, Eric felt a little It was an accident, but Joanna was already lying on the hospital bed, and Eric didn't want another woman to have an accident.
As Virginia's agent, Kapoor also sat in the car with Eric in the car of tens of millions of Philadelphia. At this time, he was talking to Eric about Virginia's filming: "I contact Well, Virginia's crew is shooting on Vine Street in Old Town Philadelphia right now, so we can go right there. It's a feature film from Carlock Films, and I'm talking about the script myself. There's some thriller elements, but it's definitely nothing Thrilling scene."
Eric nodded reassuringly.
There was no GPS navigation in this era. After arriving in Philadelphia, it took Eric and others a while to find the destination. After getting out of the car, they walked into the set under the leadership of the crew members. They were almost shocked by the scene being filmed.
In the center of the studio surrounded by crew members, a two-story bus was parked on the side of the road, and the ground on the right side of the vehicle was covered with a one-meter-thick sponge pad. Virginia, wearing a red dress, is standing on the roof of the bus with her back to Eric and Kapoor, bargaining with the middle-aged man sitting on the raised boom and manipulating the camera in a hoarse voice: "Mr. Pine , definitely just this time, no matter what, I won’t fall a second time, if you can’t shoot well, use a substitute next time.”
The middle-aged man who was adjusting the camera was also a cheerful person, and he waved his hand decisively: "Don't worry, Miss Madsen, I will operate the camera myself, and there will be no mistakes. Okay, all departments pay attention, the actors are buried, and the scene notes..."
Eric resisted the urge to rub his forehead. Standing on the roof of the car, is a certain little girl really pregnant? Basically nothing will go wrong.
But you are pregnant!
But pregnant women!
It's a pregnant woman!
Pregnant women!
Is this child abuse
While there was a series of complaints in his heart, Eric couldn't help shouting: "cut!"
"..."
Everyone was stunned. The middle-aged man sitting on the crane squinted his eyes and looked at this side, and roared: "Who, who hasn't started calling cut yet, don't you want to do it?"
Virginia, who was standing on the roof of the bus and was getting ready, heard the voice, and turned her head to look over in a little surprise. After seeing Eric, she immediately shook off everyone and got off the bus along the escalator next to her. Ding, ran towards Eric.
"Kapoor, I'll leave the rest to you," Eric watched as Virginia approached, said something to Kapoor, then grabbed the woman's little hand with a dark face and walked out.
In fact, he wanted to pull his ears more... (To be continued...)