Although I carefully borrowed an ordinary car from an employee in the digital field, but Firefly Studios has many crews filming at any time, and of course the star who appears here cannot be the only one Nicole, Eric and Nicole eventually Failed to escape the stalking of the paparazzi.
The bodyguard drove his car and parked outside an Italian seafood restaurant in Venice Beach a few kilometers away. Just as Eric and Nicole got out of the car, five or six paparazzi jumped out of the following car and rushed towards Eric excitedly. Ke and Nicole both pressed the shutter.
Eric saw the other three bodyguards get off from another car and quickly stepped forward to block the paparazzi, and immediately realized what the problem was. The professional characteristics of the tall and strong bodyguard who sat in the driver's seat just now were too obvious. The paparazzi who had a keen sense of smell outside the studio saw the driver in an unremarkable car. The full-time security personnel who can recognize it, of course, can realize that there must be some important person sitting in the back row, so it is not surprising to follow up.
Nicole skillfully put on her sunglasses to block the flashing spotlights around her, and then she smiled apologetically at Eric. She knew that Eric didn't like being on gossip magazines, and if she didn't insist, she wouldn't have met to this kind of thing.
"Let's go," Eric also put on his sunglasses, ≥, stepped forward and hugged Nicole's shoulders, and the two walked quickly towards the restaurant.
The paparazzi were even more excited when they saw Eric's actions, and asked loudly without any scruples while taking pictures.
"Eric, are you and Nicole dating?"
"Will Nicole be the heroine in your next movie?"
"Are you planning to get married?"
"..."
Eric and Nicole walked into the restaurant without saying a word, and the paparazzi were blocked by the restaurant's security. Eric also vaguely heard a paparazzi arguing indignantly.
"Eric. I'm so sorry." After entering the door. Nicole said quietly.
Eric let go of Nicole's shoulder and said with a smile: "You know, I'm the kind of guy who doesn't worry about debts, as long as you don't mind."
Nicole smiled and shook her head: "Of course I don't mind."
A blond waitress with a few cute freckles on the tip of her nose led the two to a seat with a wide view and a view of the sea, and then handed the menu to Eric and Nicole with some unconcealed excitement. It fell straight on Eric: "Mr. Williams, Miss Kidman. Welcome, what do you want to eat?"
"What's delicious here?" Eric asked casually.
The waitress stared at Eric's side face, and recommended: "Our pan-fried sea bass here is good. The sea bass that was just airlifted from Peru in the morning, as well as baked shrimp with cheese and butter, and seafood pasta are also great."
Eric opened the menu and looked at it, then closed it after a few glances, looked up and asked, "Where's the wine?"
"Our white wine here is good. Verona's specialty top-quality Soave dry white wine. White wine is best paired with seafood." The waitress saw Eric looking up and did not dodge, boldly looking into his eyes . He said courteously with a smile.
"Then order a bottle of dry white," Eric didn't know where Verona was. It is probably a place name in Italy. After saying this, he looked at Nicole who was carefully flipping through the menu: "Nicole, what do you want to eat?"
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It took a while to finish ordering, and after the waitress walked away, Eric showed a 'frightened' expression: "I'm really worried that the girl will suddenly say that our fried Williams here is also good."
"Hehe, stop talking nonsense, maybe it's your movie fan," Nicole said with a smile.
Just as I was talking, spotlights came on again on the beach not far from the floor-to-ceiling windows. The beach is a public place, and neither Eric's bodyguards nor the restaurant's security guards could drive them away. Eric looked at those people with some helplessness. Holding a long-focus camera, the paparazzi said, "It's awards season now, what's the use of taking pictures of us two idlers who have no nominations."
Nicole signaled the waiter in the restaurant to close the curtain of the floor-to-ceiling window next to her to block her view from a distance, and then said: "I have seen some articles mentioning you in newspapers these days, with a sour tone, But, do you really have no intention of making a film for the Olympics?"
"Not yet, you know Woody Allen, right?"
Nicole laughed and said, "How could you not know, last year was such a mess."
Eric didn't gossip about Woody Allen with Nicole, but said: "Then you should also know that he never attended the Oscars, not even when he won the best director for "Annie Hall" I agree with his attitude towards Oscar. He said that if a director shoots his own work to win film awards, he will subconsciously be bound by the rules and give up what he wants to express. Woody. Allen is one of the few film directors who can be very popular in several major film festivals in North America and Europe, I think this should have a lot to do with him not being bound by rules and focusing on his own things."
"This is a very interesting director," Nicole commented lightly after hearing Eric's words.
"Speaking of which, although it is now at a low ebb, Woody Allen will definitely make a comeback in a few years. He can always make the heroines in his films beautiful. Are you interested in cooperating with him?"
"No, I just want to concentrate on making commercial films now, and after earning enough money that I can't spend my whole life, I can do something I want to do, such as winning an Oscar for Best Actress or something, and I will be famous and have two children." Three little kids, concentrate on being a good mother."
"By that time, many people will definitely say, wow, Nicole Kidman is out of date, and can only dawdle in some small-budget literary films."
Eric said with a smile, but if you think about it carefully, although for more than forty years since the 1970s, several generations of well-known actresses in Hollywood have been very keen to participate in Woody Allen's movies at a low price, but Nicole did She has never worked with Woody Allen before, and it was the only time in the media that "Meeting a Stranger" made public her cooperation intention. The news revealed that only one month later, Nicole quickly expressed her resignation. That film eventually turned out to be Nicole's best friend, Naomi Watts, as the heroine.
"Whatever they say. How about you. Jurassic Park should be almost done by now. But I haven't heard about your plans for the next movie?"
"There is no plan," Eric shook his head honestly: "If "Jurassic Park" meets expectations, it can be regarded as the completion of a stage, and I always have to stop and take it easy."
Eric's box office expectations for "Jurassic Park" are only known to a few people such as Stan Winston, Roland Emmerich, and Cameron. None of these people disclosed the news, and Nicole certainly did not May know: "I don't quite get it, what stage one?"
"It's the first stage where I personally participated in the battle. In the future, I will focus more on producing. For example, the sequel of "Jurassic Park", I don't plan to direct anymore, and there are also several original disasters. I'm planning to find other directors. These films are shot all over the world. I can't always leave Los Angeles for several months every year. Of course, I will definitely direct the film myself, but it depends on the specific situation. The situation."
Nicole hummed, suddenly remembered something, and was about to speak. The waiter brought out the dishes ordered by the two of them. Nicole bent her mouth and looked at the waitress who served Eric herself, and then politely asked Eric if there was anything else he needed. After these people left, he continued, "I almost forgot one thing. You should have made the film "Interview with the Vampire" yourself, right?"
"Yeah, what's the matter?" Eric picked up the cutlery and fiddled with the bass in front of him and asked.
Nicole said, "Has the role of the movie been decided yet?"
""Interview with the Vampire" is a cooperation between Firefly and David Geffen's production company. David Geffen has lost the position of producer. He is mainly responsible for this matter. For the time being, Firefly only Check the script and budget, the main creators of the film have not yet submitted the list of actors." Eric said, thinking of the two leading actors in the original "Interview with the Vampire", looked at Nicole, and asked : "Did someone find your side, Tom Cruise?"
"No, Tom Cruise is so arrogant, how could he come to beg me? Paula talked about this with Pat. She hoped that Cruise would get the role, but the other party didn't." Please help us communicate this matter, although Cruise's previous works were not satisfactory, he is still a first-line actor after all, and I heard that David Geffen also intends to let him play the leading actor," Nicole When speaking of the last sentence, he winked at Eric with a bit of a naughty smile.
"Your thoughts are really evil," Eric said softly with a smile. Everyone knows that David Geffen is known as the most powerful gay man in Hollywood, and Cruise's sexuality is bigger than that of Hollywood's number one deep-closet Kai. What V. Spacey hides is ten times deeper.
"So, since it's not Tom Cruise, why are you bringing this up?"
"It's an artist newly signed by Pat. He has good qualifications. Of course, we won't expect extravagantly as the male number one. Pat wants him to try the role of the second male number."
Eric joked: "Men who play vampires must be very handsome, you actually speak for such a person."
Nicole smiled and waved her hands: "You are also very handsome. He is my fellow Australian. Of course I have to help."
"A fellow from Australia, I can't agree to that," Eric narrowed his eyes and dragged his voice.
Nicole laughed a few more times, picked a red cherry for garnish from the dinner plate to Eric's plate, and said as if to appease a child: "Okay, give you a cherry, I'll be your Agreed, I will ask Pat to call David Geffen when I get back, and just say you nodded."
Eric picked the cherry into his mouth and said, "Well, you can arrange it whatever you want, as long as he can pass the audition, if it's not suitable, I will definitely not agree."
"Of course," Nicole nodded.
Eric looked at the almost finished lunch and said, "What are you going to do in the afternoon?"
"I just finished promoting "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" from Europe a few days ago. I have been resting recently. I will stay with you in the studio in the afternoon, okay?"
"No problem, I just happen to be editing the dailies for Jurassic Park, and you can help me with that."
"Well, then I'll learn it too, maybe I can switch careers and become a director in the future."
Eric summoned the waiter, handed over the credit card, and said to Nicole, "Just be your actor obediently. Not everyone can be a director, and it's not a good thing to be greedy."
"Then why do you seem to know everything?" Nicole raised her chin with one hand and asked curiously.
Of course, it was impossible for Eric to tell the girl that he had been a director for four years in his previous life, and had been in the industry for nearly 20 years after graduation. , the basic skills are definitely very solid.
Facing Nicole's curious eyes at this time, Eric raised his chin and said cheekily: "I'm a genius, how can you little fish and shrimp compare?"
"Hehe, how arrogant," Nicole smiled and threw a tissue over.
The next day, the gossip tabloids were of course full of excitement again. However, although Eric and Nicole were caught, neither of the two parties responded to this. Regarding the remarks in the media , as long as the other party is not too much, completely ignore it.
The production of "Jurassic Park" has entered the final stage. Eric spends a long time every day in the post-production center of the studio. Staying together, being Eric's temporary assistant at work, and the two of them going back to Angle Manor together after work, in order to avoid trouble, Eric simply took a helicopter to and from get off work every day.
The paparazzi gathered outside the Firefly Studios had hoped to get some more explosive gossip, but after seeing the black Bell 230 up and down in the studio for several days in a row, they could only curse helplessly in the end. A few times, slowly dispersed.
Red sleeves add fragrance during the day, accompanied by Yi Ren at night, although he had to work overtime for a few hours a day for the later stage of "Jurassic Park", Eric's life is still very comfortable, and occasionally something appears in his mind that he seems to have forgotten Thoughts, but were quickly thrown away by him without a trace.
Eric felt that if he forgot something, Allen, who was in charge of his schedule, would definitely remind him in time, so he didn't worry too much about it.
After more than a week, Eric received a call from Kapoor again. Hearing Kapoor's helpless complaints, Eric suddenly realized that he had agreed to meet Charlize Theron One thing was forgotten. (To be continued..)