Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"What did I say to you? Don't provoke others, don't provoke others, do you think your father is an omnipotent person? You want to kill your father and bury you after stabbing such a big basket. Brother's acting career?"

"I do not have……"

Martin Xin didn't expect that Emilio dared to lie to himself. He was so angry that his heart began to ache, and his hands began to tremble slightly.

"Martin, sit down first," said the woman, Emilio's mother, Janet, also a former actress.

She asked Laurentis for a glass of water and for her husband to take a tablet.

Then she stood up and pinched Emilio's ear.

"Emilio, what are you mad at your father? How dare you provoke...? To break his story? You don't know, Coppola himself called to warn today, if it wasn't your father's Face, you are now ruined."

"Sorry, Mr. Laurentiis, that's how we Latins teach our children, don't take it off." Janet found out that this was the office of the big producer Laurentiis, and Dino was watching the three of them with interest. Man, quickly apologized for his untimely episode.

"It doesn't matter, Mrs. Xin, in the eyes of us Neapolitans, this is a good mother who loves her children and a good wife who loves her husband." Laurentiis stood up and hugged Janet, then gave them the conference room next to them. Home use.

Martin Xin took the medicine and his heart felt much better. Sitting in the conference room, he taught this ineffective eldest son word for word.

"Who gave you the bad idea to reveal Ronald's private life? Do you know his status and connections in the industry?"

"I didn't..." Emilio wanted to be stubborn.

Janet next to her came again to pull her son's ear.

"Come on, save me some face, Mom. I haven't acted yet, how do you know?"

"You idiot, don't you know that the PR agency you're looking for is the one that Tom Cruise and Ronald Lee often use?"

"They don't have a work ethic!" Emilio turned his anger back on the PR firm.

"How can I have such a stupid son as you. How many times have I told you that Ronald is the director, and he is not in competition with you."

"I feel uncomfortable seeing his arrogant look."

"You have to be patient, my son. If you're talking about Tom Cruise,

Or Sean Penn, I'm still giving you a high look. "

"I..." Emilio looked confused.

"You still don't understand this, Emilio. Listen to me, go and apologize to Ronald in person, don't make excuses, put away your stubbornness, and apologize sincerely and admit defeat. Otherwise you will be the next two years. It's very likely that no one will ask you to act."

"You're an actor, and you should have some acting skills." Martin Sheen values ​​this eldest son very much. He can be said to be an important part of his own Estevez family and a continuation of the Hollywood actor family like the Douglas family.

"Oh, of course", it turned out to be acting, and Emilio felt half of the awkwardness in his heart, thinking that if he apologized, he would be able to continue to get the script invitation, and it seemed that it was not so difficult to accept.

"It's not uncommon for an acting career to have its ups and downs. I remember when your mother and I first had your brother, we were still moving around in the slums of New York, and we were often evicted because of lack of rent. We only found one on Staten Island. cheap house.

All of this, after I played 'Catch 22,' it improved dramatically, we got a foothold in Hollywood, we moved to Los Angeles, you and your brothers and sisters, you and your brothers and sisters could afford St. Mo Nika High School.

Temporary honor or disgrace is nothing, you are already on the threshold of success, as long as you take a step forward, you can become a star. Now people talk about my displacement in New York as an anecdote of my efforts. As long as you become famous, who will know that you once bowed to a young director? "

Emilio was moved by his father's description, and he looked up at Martin Sheen's earnest gaze and nodded hard.

"You haven't told anyone about Ronald's plan to attract the media, have you?" Martin Sheen was still a little worried about this stupid son.

"I only told the agent, they won't talk nonsense. And Carlos... I didn't even tell Demi." Emilio still gave his brother out, Carlos is Charlie Sheen's real name.

"That's good. In the future, don't mention this to anyone again." Martin Xin felt a little more comfortable, and the eldest son was not stupid enough to despair.

"Oh, well..." Emilio's heart filled with the conversation just now, I didn't say Ronald's name, it shouldn't count...

"Okay, have you figured out how to apologize to Ronald in person?"

"I..." Emilio was at a loss for words.

Martin Sheen looked at him and knew that young people's self-esteem couldn't stand this kind of bowing down to their peers.

"Hey, I don't have much to teach you about acting. Listen, son, I say one thing, you repeat it."

"Ronald, I'm sorry...I formally apologize to you for my stupidity"

"Ronald, I'm sorry..."

"Idiot, you have to look into his eyes," Martin Sheen looked at Emilio, who lowered his head, and hit him lightly on the head.

"Again, Ronald, sorry..."

"Ronald, I'm sorry..."

...

"Very well, Ronald, you and Pfeiffer go up and show everyone one more time."

Messner asked all the students to go up to practice, and some students who were models were not very comprehensible. Through the microphone, he simply called Ronald and Pfeiffer, who had done the best and most tacit understanding, again.

"This time, Ronald, you speak first."

Ronald stood two steps away from Michelle Pfeiffer, just the right distance for a theater performance. If it's a movie performance, you can shoot over-the-shoulder dialogue shots.

He looked at Pfeiffer, who also smiled at him.

"You smile beautifully."

Messner asked not to think too much about the lines and focus on the other person's reaction. So Ronald directly spoke what was in his head.

"I have a great smile."

Michelle Pfeiffer repeated it, almost laughing.

"You have a great smile," Ronald repeated. He liked Messner's acting class very much. This exercise was like a game, focusing on the tone of the other person's speech, and then reproducing it as it is.

It's much more interesting than Lee Strasbourg's emotional memory method, a class of students who cry.

"I have a great smile, ha." Pfeiffer's smile, which Ronald deliberately imitated, was also amused.

"You smile beautifully, haha."

"That's it, very good. You have to pick up the slight changes in the other's lines and the subtle changes in emotions at any time. Then repeat it again." , save yourself a lot of things.

"I smiled beautifully," Pfeiffer saw all the students looking at herself and Ronald, and her embarrassment relapsed. Pairing with an ex-boyfriend like this, saying these ambiguous lines, he is already a married woman.

"You smile beautifully," Ronald heard Pfeiffer's embarrassment. Actors who act like have to be emotionally involved, which is embarrassing, and Pfeiffer is naturally embarrassed. He didn't put embarrassment into his repetition this time.

"I smiled beautifully." Pfeiffer felt Ronald's kindness, otherwise the two would continue to talk more and more embarrassingly.

"Stop..." Messner interrupted the duo's repetition, "Ronald, you've lost a little of Pfeiffer's mood here, do you feel it?"

"Ah, yes," Ronald was caught on the spot by Lianxiang Xiyu, "Michelle's last repetition, there was a little..."

"What's it like?" Messner was old, but when it came time to teach his students, he was full of energy and passion. He looked at Ronald, and made an expression of anticipation in his clothes.

"A little embarrassing."

"That's right. Very well, you all did a great job, go on..."

With a wave of his hand, Messner took a throat lozenge and put it in his mouth. Teaching students like this is a real pleasure.

"That's it for today, we'll see you next time." Messner summed up everyone's performance again, and then announced the get out of class.

"Michelle, it's really nice to see you today." Ronald said goodbye to Pfeiffer.

"Me too, will you come often in the future?"

"I'm a little busy, so I might miss class. Is anyone picking you up?"

"Horton will come and pick me up."

"Okay, that's it, goodbye."

"Oh...so you know Ronald, but you never heard of it." A classmate named Jennifer next to him took Pfeiffer's arm in admiration.

"I met him when I was in New York, and he was just a screenwriter and a crew assistant."

"Oh..." Jennifer looked at Ronald, a little contempt for Pfeiffer, why didn't you catch such a director? In my words...

...

"Ronald, Martin Sheen called, he will personally bring Emilio to apologize to you, I hope you will hold your hand high."

It was the agent Nisita who came to pick Ronald from the door.

"How did you startle him?" Ronald asked.

"I asked Coppola to speak to him, and Francis may have taken things seriously."

"Ronald, I'm sorry...I formally apologize to you for my stupidity"

In caa's office, Emilio was held by his parents and apologized to Ronald.

Except for Ronald and his closest agent, Nisita, the communication channel between the two sides, no outsiders were present.

Ronald looked at Emilio, who was hunched over and shrunken in fear, and felt a little bit in his heart. Is your status already enough to make the other party so afraid?

No, Ronald has just been trained by Messner, and his ability to pick up the other party's emotions has improved a little. Emilio's scared look just now seems to be inconsistent with his heart.

"Ronald, I also apologize to you. You know, when I had Emilio and his brother, I was tossing around the slums in various boroughs of New York. Emilio often changed schools, and I didn't go to a school for half a year. school, and then found a house on Staten Island to settle in."

Emilio's mother Janet next to her, seeing that her eldest son was so sullen, Ronald didn't speak, she was anxious, and she didn't care about her son, she also apologized to Ronald.

"There's no need for that, Mrs. Sheen." Ronald couldn't look at his mother who was servile for her children. When she mentioned Staten Island, she couldn't help but think of his Aunt Karen.

"I can forgive your recklessness, but I have conditions." Ronald said what he negotiated with his agent.

"First, the revelations you planned will stop immediately." Nisita helped the client to explain the conditions, "Second, all personal matters about Ronald, no matter how much you know, can't be spread to any third person, friend. Not even small talk."

"Third, if someone else broke the news and attacked Ronald, we would all consider you not keeping your promise."

"I can do it all, Ronald. No, I mean Mr. Lee, I promise to do all of these," Emilio promised immediately.

Ronald looked at Martin Sheen.

"I promise, I'll watch him." Martin Sheen nodded as well.

"Well, I won't pursue this matter. Say hello to Francis for me, what is he doing now?"

"He's preparing for his new film, and he's still looking for a male lead."

Ronald and Martin Sheen chatted a couple of times to debunk the paragraph. Emilio ignored him.