Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1517 Actress who takes the initiative
"Jenny is not a tragic character...she is just a lost soul who finally finds herself - Robin Wright"

"I've seen a lot of people like Lieutenant Dan in my life, and I want to help them now - Gary Sinise"

"I went to Bob Gump's Shrimp Restaurant and had a shrimp dinner there and it was just as good as I imagined it would be. - Mykelti Williamson"

The media interviews that Ronald arranged for the actors of the "Forrest Gump" crew were also published in the newspapers over the weekend. Unlike "Pulp Fiction", the reporters Ronald arranged were serious and not gossipy. Their interview skills were not comparable to those of the reporters who specialized in gossip.

One notable difference is that in the interview arranged by Ronald, all the questions were about their performance in "Forrest Gump": How did you understand this role, what difficulties did you encounter when you were shaping it, what was it like to act with Tom Hanks, and what role did the director play in your performance?

This is because Ronald believes that the biggest goal of Oscar PR is to keep the name of the movie on the lips all the time. If Forrest Gump's name does not appear in three to five paragraphs of an interview, then it is not a qualified interview.

Any actor can promote themselves however they want, but when answering questions, they must relate it to the movie Forrest Gump. You can brag that your acting skills are first-rate and more suitable for receiving awards than Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart, but you have to use your performance clips in Forrest Gump to prove your point.

You can also brag about your first-rate understanding of the character, expounding on aspects that previous people have not seen, and talk to the audience about how you understand certain behaviors of the character. But the exposition must also revolve around the role you played in Forrest Gump.

Only Tom Hanks refused the interview. Firstly, he thought it was almost impossible to win the Best Actor award twice, so he didn't want to waste time. Secondly, it was also related to his personality. He was rarely seen doing any interview activities other than film marketing to talk about his acting skills.

In all the interviews, Ronald still likes Robin Wright the most. Robin Wright is a very smart woman who knows how to praise both the movie and herself. The main reason why she has no position or award nominations in Hollywood is that she has been in love and had children continuously since her debut, doing other things in life during the most precious few years for a female star.

So the interview started with her balance between family and career. Robin Wright admitted that she, like Jenny, the heroine of Forrest Gump, was addicted to certain things...well, she meant that she had almost no resistance to caffeine and chocolate.

These are the biggest taboos for actresses. She couldn't handle them well before, but after having a three-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son with Sean Penn, these can be overcome. In addition, Robin also tried to quit smoking, and only smoked one cigarette when she couldn't stand it...

Robin Wright also admitted that she didn't think Jenny was a bad girl. Most of Jenny's behaviors can be traced back to the tragedy caused by her father when she was a child. Although most of the audience didn't see this hint, if you think about it again, you can understand what bad things a wild father who was drunk and lost his wife could do in a southern state like Arkansas, where there are no neighbors within a mile around the house...

This report was written by James Grant, a well-known reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He described Robin Wright as an actress wearing a black sweater, khaki pants and worn tennis shoes. Unlike other actors who care about their image, she is very real and never shies away from problems...

The two chatted about Jenny's problems like friends. Robin thought she was not a tragic character, at least not more tragic than other girls who experienced that turbulent era in their 20s...

Perhaps the only difference is that Jenny finally presented the key events of her years on the big screen, while other hippie girls would keep their problems to themselves and only talk about them when they saw a psychiatrist.

The article also interviewed Ronald, who was quoted as saying about the actress: "Robin exudes a strength and a vulnerability at the same time. She doesn't bring her star power to the role. When you see her on the screen, you don't see this as Robin Wright's interpretation of the character, but as a real Jenny. She is a real chameleon."

Tom Hanks' comments were also included in the interview: "Robin lacks any hidden motivations in her life and work and is a very real person, which is rare in actors. She is also very interesting..."

Such praise is very rare for an actress who has not yet been promoted to the A list. It is equivalent to Ronald and Tom Hanks endorsing Robin Wright. Although she has not yet entered the ranks of the highest female stars, she is obviously more than enough in terms of strength.

This interview explains to female audiences from the heroine's perspective why some people say that Jenny is a villain in Forrest Gump and why this view is extremely wrong.

Then she flattered those women by saying that Jenny's mistakes were actually problems that every woman in this era would encounter. Jenny raised Forrest Gump's son independently with a very strong attitude until she had health problems and had to write to his father. This is the unique standard of independent women in this era.

This statement actually kills two birds with one stone. It flatters the female actors who make up the largest number of Oscar judges. It also indirectly praises the role of Jenny created by Robin, saying that she is very deserving of the Oscar nomination and praise.

If all the news about Robin Wright ended with this report in the Los Angeles Times, and all the positive news stopped there, Ronald would be very happy.

But it didn't work out that way. Robin Wright took it upon herself to accept a second interview, which was even worse than the previous one.

This interview was not in Ronald's plan. But now is no longer the era of big studios, and the producers and directors of a movie don't have much control over what the actors say in the interview.

Hollywood also has very cooperative stars. Tom Hanks never takes advantage of opportunities in movie marketing, which is something that only very rare moral role models in Hollywood can do. Robin Wright married the bad boy Sean Penn, and is obviously not a person who follows the rules.

Perhaps Ronald and Tom Hanks' endorsement of Robin Wright may have made her feel that she was born at the wrong time...

So her agent helped him contact Variety magazine and conducted another interview with Robin Wright herself.

The focus of this interview is on why Robin Wright didn't get everything she deserved in Hollywood, and some gossip about her and Sean Penn's famous Hollywood couple.

First, the magazine reporter reviewed how Robin Wright was previously cast and then passed up several very successful films at the box office.

First, she starred in the film "Sugar Coated Trap" directed by Ronald, and then played the role in the second Batman film "Batman Forever". This was all because she had to take care of her newborn daughter.

Later, because of her second pregnancy, she gave up the opportunity to play a couple with Kevin Costner's Robin Hood in "The Adventurers of Robin Hood".

Previously, Oliver Stone invited her to play the leading role in "Born on the Fourth of July", but she declined. This time the reason was that she heard that Oliver Stone had a bad attitude towards women and she didn't want to appear in his project.

But the interviewing skills of the female reporter from Variety magazine are much worse than those of the Los Angeles Times. Because in the same report, Robin Wright came to the crew of Forrest Gump and started filming just less than a month after giving birth to her second child.

If you want to give up your career because you have to take care of your children, then you should not participate in Forrest Gump. If you have your own artistic preferences for different scripts, then you should not use children as a reason to refuse.

Among all the reasons for rejection, questioning the director's character is the worst one. Although Oliver Stone is not as famous as he was when he won two Oscars a few years ago, he is still one of the most important directors in Hollywood.

The bad attitude towards women may be treated as a joke in the industry, but the lack of solid evidence in public complaints may turn into a disaster.

On the other hand, in order to show how Robin Wright perfectly balances her work and life, the interview contains a lot of content about her interaction with her boyfriend Sean Penn.

This part is another disaster.

Hollywood has never been particularly optimistic about this couple, and people in the industry have given them a nickname, "Beauty and the Beast."

The report started out with a bit of a weird tone when reviewing the relationship between the two, because Robin Wright and Sean Penn met on the set and quickly fell in love with each other. At that time, Sean Penn was still married to Madonna.

After the filming of the movie was completed, Sean Penn and Madonna divorced, and Robin Wright moved into Sean Penn's house without waiting any time.

Although both of them insisted that their romantic relationship started gradually after the filming of this movie (that is, after Madonna's divorce), Robin Wright's vivid description of her first collaboration with Sean Penn and the joy on her face made people wonder whether they had already had an extramarital affair.

The reporter used a lot of suggestive descriptions here. Because they were not reviewed by Ronald's very capable PR team, and Robin Wright was inexperienced, she fell into the reporter's trap.

Especially in his sexual relationship with Sean Penn, the reporter was clearly hinting at a lot of things, or to put it more clearly, he was trying to sow discord between the two.

For example, he portrayed Sean Penn as a "Svengali" type character. This is a music teacher in the novel "Trielby" by British writer George du Maurier. Svengali has a strong desire for manipulation. He used hypnosis and mind control to make the heroine Trielby, who was born without musical talent, become a famous singer. However, Trielby was completely controlled by Svengali and lost her free will.

He also used some leading and trap questions to get Robin Wright to admit that in the past few years, it was often Sean Penn who made the final decision on whether he would accept the role.

"Over the past few years, I've heard that Sean makes decisions for me professionally, that he's a strong force and I'm the quiet one..." Her voice trails off before she adds: "I help him with a lot of things in his personal life. With those things, they might say I 'tamed the beast.'"

This description makes readers feel that Robin Wright is a silly girl who was cheated by Sean Penn and prevented the birth of a Hollywood A-level female star. If it weren't for Forrest Gump, Robin Wright might have gone from being a very spiritual actress to the mother of Sean Penn's child...

After all, why hasn't Sean Penn proposed to Robin Wright, who already has two children? This has become one of the conspiracy theories that gossip magazines focus on, and it will be hyped up every few months.

"Robin, why are you doing this?"

"I, I didn't expect them to write it like this. It wasn't like this at all when I was interviewed. They took my answers out of context and pieced them together randomly to make it like this. I, I want to sue them..."

Robin Wright and her asshole agent were also panicking. Unexpectedly, once the interview with Variety magazine came out, Robin Wright's reputation took a sharp turn for the worse.

Many gossip magazines now have a voice saying that Robin Wright’s own experience is very similar to that of Jenny in Forrest Gump.

Robin Wright herself also grew up in a single-parent family. Her mother raised her by selling Mary Kay cosmetics. At the age of 14, Robin Wright became a model. Later, she went from playing female roles in soap operas to becoming the heroine of the theater movie "The Princess Bride".

After the filming of this movie, she was generally considered to be the next A-level female star, but just like her character Jenny in "Forrest Gump", she went through a period of not knowing who she was and wasted her gifts and talents.

"Hey, don't move, I'll let the experts help you..."

Ronald took decisive measures to prevent his bad agent from exerting any influence on him, and sent out negative news and public relations experts such as Pat Kingsley to organize a team to help Robin Wright.

Because it is obvious that someone is deliberately using this incident to attack the heroine of Forrest Gump. If it is allowed to ferment, it is very likely that these negative news will be linked to the movie Forrest Gump.

Who is the mastermind behind this? In fact, it is clear at a glance. At the same time, the heroine of Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman, accepted an interview with the same magazine, and all of her words were full of praise, and there was no mention of the actor's own emotional gossip.

At the same time, Uma Thurman, who is also a model, also took a series of photos. The white business suit, black leather jacket and skirt, matched with her bright red lipstick, were very eye-catching. Then, Uma Thurman also appeared on the evening talk show hosted by Jay Leno on NBC, and competed with Ronald everywhere.

"Obviously the damage has been done. We cannot erase the variety show reports. We can only temporarily reduce her exposure and then find an opportunity to accept interviews from more authoritative media to bring the topic back to where it should be..."

After evaluating the scandal, Pat Kingsley gave Ronald a strategy of lying low for the time being and waiting for the storm to pass before hyping up some reports about his acting skills.

"OK, let's do it." Ronald sighed.

"Wouldn't you consider the other plan I mentioned earlier?" Pat Kingsley actually had another trick up his sleeve. He took the initiative to expose the scandals of the leading actresses in two Weinstein films. On the one hand, he could attract public attention, and on the other hand, he could reach a "nuclear deterrence" balance with Weinstein, so that neither side would expose scandals.

The key point is that Ronald did find a lot of negative information about Weinstein's projects in his previous private investigations, and he and his wife Eve had a very bad reputation in Europe and London.

"Well, after all, the actress and I have no personal grudge. I don't want to involve her. This matter may be devastating to an actor's future..."

"Ronald, watch TV..." Richard hurried in and turned on ABC, which was replaying the morning news, a program that preferred to report celebrity gossip.

"Hollywood star Sean Penn reportedly had a physical altercation with his girlfriend, fellow actress Robin Wright, at home today. LAPD came to inquire about the situation after receiving a call from a neighbor..."

Due to the hype surrounding the Simpson murder case, domestic violence has become a very sensitive issue in Hollywood. Neighbors of Sean Penn and the LAPD did not dare to neglect the matter, and the incident was quickly exposed.

"Shxt!" Ronald knew something was wrong. Robin Wright probably had a big fight with Sean Penn, and when the news broadcast vehicle arrived, she took the children and left Sean Penn's residence.

All that talk of balancing work and life and taming the beast that is Sean Penn now seems like a laughable footnote to real news.

There is already suspicion of an extramarital affair and a mistress taking over. I guess the wives of Hollywood stars and the actresses who are trying to become stars' wives will gloat over this.

The image that Robin Wright had built up in the early stages was completely destroyed, and her prospects for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress gradually dimmed.

"Make an appointment for me with Harvey. I want to settle this matter with him face to face." Ronald pondered for a moment. He still had to warn this producer who had been making so many small moves in person about this matter.