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- Jim stayed outside Mody's room all night, but the old beast didn't come home.
The next day, the brother and sister went to school to suspend school. They went to Hailun City to buy a mobile phone. They checked on the Internet about where they could live and where they could find a job. They went to the Bank of America to apply for a debit card and asked their mother to A total of 5,000 yuan left and borrowed should be deposited into the checking account and half of the savings account. This would be enough to avoid monthly management fees.
At 3:30 pm on the third day, outside the Greyhound Terminal in Logan City, Moody was about to set off.
"If it doesn't work, just come back, you know?" Jim said to her, as the passengers were getting on the long, rectangular long-distance bus.
Modi nodded silently, tightened a black shoulder duffel bag that could not hold many things, and walked into the car, her eyes shining with longing for the future.
The bus will travel for 17 hours, passing through more than a dozen cities, and finally arrives in Los Angeles at 8:30 tomorrow morning. The fare is 185 yuan, the cost of starting a dream.
As he walked up the steps to the door, Modi looked back at his brother standing there, and then stepped onto the bus.
Soon, the Greyhound bus started to drive away towards the south. Jim looked at the shadow of the car in the distance, walked a few steps, looked again, walked a few steps, looked again.
This day is January 5th.
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"Oh my god, Ye Wei! He's coming to lunch, there he is!"
The weather is sunny in Los Angeles, and the kitchen backstage of the Sweet Courtyard restaurant on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica is a mess. Although celebrities often appear on Montana Avenue, they appear in those Michelin restaurants, not this ordinary restaurant!
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? This place usually doesn¡¯t even entertain a few high-end, high-tipping diners, but now a superstar-level figure suddenly comes, viy!
Hearing Safi¡¯s excited words, Stella looked outside in shock and almost screamed, it was really Ye Wei! He was sitting at a table against the wall, accompanied by an Italian-looking girl of the same age, and a middle-aged man in a plaid T-shirt who looked gay. The three of them were looking at the menu and chatting about something.
Ye Wei!
Stella's heart was beating wildly. She had been working in Los Angeles for two years. From 18 to 20 years old, she was still an extra. The best thing she did was to play in several movies that would never be released or even be released on video. He played a small role with some lines in an ultra-low-budget independent film.
"This won't work, and that won't work. Two years have passed, and there is no sign of a breakthrough in her acting career.
In Los Angeles, if I often wander around Hollywood and Beverly Hills, I will always meet some celebrities. She has encountered this a few times, but it's no use. The more celebrities are considered lucky when they get autographs, the more people follow them around them, including nannies, bodyguards, managers, and minions, all of whom can't get close.
"And there are too many actors and actresses in this city, and there are too many film professionals in all fields. That waiter, that parking attendantshe is not special at all.
Now! Film genius, child prodigy, miracle boyYe Wei! Right there.
Stella doesn¡¯t know what this means specifically, but it must be an opportunity.
No matter how poor an actor is, he still has to subscribe to the daily and weekly newspapers of "The Hollywood Reporter", which contains almost everything happening in Hollywood, including Ye Wei's new talent show, which specializes in selecting young actresses. You can still play a girl at the age of 20! Besides, that was Ye Wei, a person at the top of the industry. He could change her career status and prospects with just one phone call.
¡°Maybe today is the turning point in her career, maybe Ye Wei is the noble person who made her take off, maybe she has been waiting for this opportunity for two years.
It¡¯s so sudden, but in Los Angeles, everything is so sudden, you don¡¯t know if you will meet a celebrity when you go to the bathroom.
Therefore, Stella is always ready.
"I'll go over and greet them." Before Safi came back to her senses, Stella said first that Safi also wanted to be an actor. She was new to Los Angeles and didn't know the situation yet.
Stella quickly arranged her white waiter dress, which was white at the top and green at the bottom, so that the curves of her figure could be shown as much as possible. She took out the makeup hand mirror and looked at it. Fortunately, she put on the sweetest smile she could. In the excitement and nervousness, I walked steadily.
There were not many customers in the restaurant, which just gave her more reasons to stop and strike up a conversation.
"Hi, hello." Stella walked to the table of three people and looked at them with a smile, as if she were entertaining ordinary guests, "Have you thought of anything?"
I already have enough experience in chatting up celebrities. If you say you are a fan, you will only get autographs and thank you. If you say you are a filmmaker, you will get other things. The key is not to show Ye Wei how much you are.The key to liking him is to arouse Ye Wei's interest in her.
She posed slightly to make her buttocks more visible. That was her best body part. Hooking up with an old man was completely different from hooking up with a viy.
Even if she doesn¡¯t get anything, she still wants to have a wonderful sex with Ye Wei, and now she feels it just by looking at him.
"I want beef ball spaghetti, vegetable chowder and a cup of coffee." Ye Wei said, looking at her as he spoke, his black eyes were clean, and there was no abnormal color on his handsome face. The girl said, "Give me the same thing as him." The man looked at the menu and said, "I want calamari couscous, seasonal salad, grilled chicken and coffee."
"I'm happy to serve you." Stella let the smile on her face glow with happiness, and glanced at Ye Wei a few more times, conveying the enthusiasm in her heart.
"Thank you." Ye Wei nodded and said.
Stella turned around and walked towards the kitchen. As soon as she turned around, she frowned and felt anxious, viy was not interested in her! She is the kind of man who has no normal interest in flirting with a beautiful woman. She is not ugly and she will be approached by others while walking on the street, but Ye Wei is not interested.
Things will not go so smoothly, Stella has long known that she can¡¯t just take off her clothes and go to bed with someone.
When she first came to Los Angeles, because she was eager to become famous, she was defrauded of money and sex. She was deceived again and again. The more low-level people were, the more careful they were. They were barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. Unlike these big shots, she wanted to devote herself. Ye Wei was also afraid that she would set up traps, extort money, go to court, have children out of wedlock, cause scandals, etc.
She didn¡¯t sleep with any big shots. She only slept with some independent producers and directors whose names no one knew. They were nothing. They might as well have received a few well-intentioned lessons:
"Do you know what kind of person a director hates the most? Someone who wants to fuck the whole crew. With people like that, the atmosphere on the set will be weird, and everyone can't work normally. Some people want to have an affair, but some people have a family. That kind of thing People are not allowed to join the crew, and there will be no next time if they do. Only porn crews want people like that," a director told her.
"Sleeping with a big shot to get a role? This kind of thing may happen, but the chance is smaller than if you rely on your own ability to get a role." An agent told her.
Another agent said: "Why can't we find the next big star on a nudist beach? You don't even know what the film industry is about. What do you want to win with your body? It's easier to be a model than an actor." Much more promising.¡±
"It's impossible to give you major roles, only small roles." A producer told her, the kind of roles that are so small that it is difficult to find them even with a magnifying glass in the image, and are better than extras.
Another producer said: "I won't sleep with you. Sleeping with you is worse than sleeping with a prostitute. If a prostitute pays you, there will be no trouble. But you are not. You can make me, who has worked hard for several years, find an investment worth hundreds of dollars." Wan's project was aborted. It cost only a thousand yuan to go to Las Vegas. I played until I vomited. Do you think I will sleep with you? "
"We want to make a movie, not make love. As horny as you are, you should make adult movies." Another director said.
At first, Stella thought these people were all hypocrites, but now she understands that everyone makes movies mainly to make money, some do it for movies, and few do it for sex. Los Angeles is not her rural place, where every man covets her beauty and acts like he has never fucked a woman; this is not where she makes money and fucks women in other ways.
Knowing that promiscuity would not improve her career, but would only make everything worse, she stopped taking this path. She went to auditions regularly and got roles with lines instead.
Speaking of which, she was almost deceived into filming an adult film. A producer of an adult film said that she could become famous and become a big star. She didn't want to do it, so she didn't go. Later she learned that once adult films were made, it would be impossible to make serious movies again.
Now, Stella is just giving Ye Wei a try. If she can really sleep with him, she will make money when she leaves Los Angeles tomorrow.
It¡¯s just that Ye Wei is not interested. The worst thing is that there are two other people who are getting in the way. Who is that girl? What's the relationship with him? I have a vague impression, who is it?
"What did he say?" When Stella walked back to the kitchen, Safi immediately asked nervously in a low voice. While asking, she peeked at Ye Wei who was chatting with her friends over there.
"He said that I would be in charge of their lunch this time." Stella said with a natural smile. Safi looked envious when she heard this: "Oh!"
But she knew something was wrong and she had to find a way to attract attention
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Los Angeles, the City of Angels!
After a 17-hour drive, the Greyhound bus was traveling in another city, which was also the destination of the journey, the Greyhound Passenger Terminal in North Hollywood.
Modi looked at the street scenery outside through the window of the bus. The excitement in his heart could not be suppressed, and his breathing became rapid. Here it is, here it is You can see the mountains rising one after another in the distance in different hometowns. It seems that there are no mountains here. , but there are a lot of palm trees, California.
She wanted to see the sign in Hollywood, go to the beach to see the sea, and also wanted to see Harvard-Westlake School
Jim has also been to Salt Lake City. Before today, the farthest she had been to was Logan City.
Looking at the palm trees on both sides of the road, the graffiti on the walls of some buildings, and the many passers-by of different ethnicities, it feels like I have entered a new world.
A new world full of hope.
Her mood was so joyful that she couldn't hear anything the driver said. Moody took her luggage bag and followed the people off the bus. She stared blankly at the sunny surroundings. It was amazing that there was no snow at all in January. After a while, she took out her newly purchased mobile phone and sent Jim a safety message unskilledly.
Then I took out a map of Los Angeles and looked at it carefully. This is Magnolia Avenue in North Hollywood
First go to Hollywood to see, then find a cheap family hotel to stay first, then find a long-term residence, find a job, preferably related to acting, and prepare for the talent show at the same time.
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Santa Monica, Sweet Courtyard Restaurant.
"Here is your coffee." Stella held the dinner plate and gave Ye Wei the coffee on the table first. She kept a sweet smile and smiled when she gave Ye Wei the cup, "Please use it slowly."
Ye Wei looked at the coffee and was about to drink it. His eyes were slightly opened, and when he saw "viy" written in cocoa powder on the coffee cup, a smile appeared on his face.
This smile made Stella¡¯s heart boil and attracted viy¡¯s attention!
"Thank you." Ye Wei turned around and thanked with a smile, then showed it to his two friends: "Look, I'm sitting on the coffee table." The two people immediately looked at each other and laughed, and the girl laughed and cursed: "Why don't I have this cup? I said I wanted the same cup as him."
"I'm sorry." Stella didn't know how to deal with it, and her smile was definitely unmistakable: "I only know him, viy, and I love your movies. In fact, I am also an actor. My name is Stella."
"Really?" The girl was quite surprised. The man sighed: "Oh, I've seen it a long time ago! You look hot, but I'm gay." Stella smiled.
Ye Wei also looked at her with an appraising look, without saying anything, just said: "Cool."
Stella had to laugh and sigh to herself: "Haha, I have been in Los Angeles for two years, but I am still working as an extra. I don't know if I should stick to it." She knew not to say too much, and disturb others while they were eating. The disgust was over, and he asked directly: "viy, I'm going to participate in your talent show, do you think I can sign up?"
Ye Wei's expression suddenly became very serious, with a sharp gaze that she had never seen before, as if he could see through her heart
"I'm sorry, your appearance is a bit too mature and does not suit my requirements for the protagonist and the main supporting role, so I don't recommend you to sign up. You will not pass the preliminary selection of resumes. But I can give you the contact of my casting team. If you submit your resume, there may be other opportunities. ¡±
Listening to his calm and cold words, Stella¡¯s face couldn¡¯t help but become sad. Generally, no one would refuse in person, but it turned out that viy was not included.
"Gia, give Stella the business card of the casting team."
"I'll look for it."
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Standing on Hollywood Boulevard, looking at the giant white Hollywood sign standing on the top of the mountain in the distance, Maudie's heartbeat was very fast, and the thumping thumping sound could be heard clearly.
She doesn¡¯t dream of becoming a big star living in the spotlight, she wants to be an actor.
Moody knows that there are differences. What are the differences? She is not very clear. Viy said to let Hollywood die, then Hollywood is not the same as actors.
But at this moment, it seems that I have reached the other side of my dream, as if I am in a dream country, where there is almost everything.
Among the crowd of tourists, she walked carefully on the Avenue of Stars and stood excitedly in front of the Chinese Theater, where "Little Miss Sunshine" premiered and where Ye Wei once walked in a dazzling variety of shops. , restaurants, theaters there are actually more than a dozen different clothing stores within two to three hundred yards.
Moody stood in front of the transparent glass display window, looking at the plastic models wearing all kinds of luxurious and fashionable clothes These clothes must also look beautiful on my mother.
Time passed, and Mody lingered on Hollywood Boulevard, buying nothing, not entering the shops and entertainment venues, just walking on the sidewalk.Watching.
"Hello, you, little lady."
A voice suddenly sounded from behind. Modi looked back and saw a white man in his thirties two steps away. He was wearing a high-end gray and black suit and carrying a brown briefcase. He looked very energetic and had a mature face. There was a kind smile on his face, looking at her.
There were other passers-by around, and Moody was a little unsure whether he called her, "Sir?"
"I would like to ask you, are you interested in acting?" The man took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over, "My name is Paul Conrad, and I am a casting director."
"OhHello, Mr. Conrad." Moody took the business card and looked at it. He was surprised and a little confused. He had heard some stories about being discovered by talent scouts while walking on the street, but he never thought that it would happen to him. , it was still the first day after arriving in Los Angeles.
The business card says Paul Conrad, Dream Casting Company, senior director, as well as address, contact number, etc
She nodded quickly and said, "I'm interested. I, I just came from Utah, and I want to develop my acting career in Los Angeles."
"That's great." Conrad looked pleasantly surprised, "That's great. Do you know Ye Wei?"
"Yes, I know." Modi nodded again and said slightly shyly: "He is my idol."
"Wei will be very happy to hear you say that." Conrad extended his right hand and shook her hand while introducing: "I am one of Wei's casting directors, the person who specially finds actors for him. Recently he has been looking for actors for several new projects, and he also has to hold a talent show.¡±
Modi was dumbfounded, and when she realized something, her face quickly turned red.
Conrad said seriously: "You are particularly suitable for the casting requirements of the heroine 'Susie' in "The Lovely Bones". Your appearance and temperament are exactly the same as what Wei described to me."
"Ime?"
"Yes, you are beautiful, slender, and have your light blue eyes. This is great." Conrad raised his right hand with emotion, "This is completely consistent with the original work and Wei's requirements. I want to take you Go see Wei and let him see if you are interested."
"I do, now?" Modi nodded immediately and went to see Ye Wei? Jim's words of "be careful in everything" suddenly flashed through her mind, and she couldn't help but say: "But"
"No, not now. You have to understand that Viy is a big shot and a busy man." Conrad said patiently, "We can't just go and see him. We need to make an appointment first and be prepared, like you want to Change your outfit, your clothes are too old-fashioned, and if he sees you like this, he won't want to see what your abilities are."
Moody asked doubtfully: "So?" - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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