Birth of an actor

In Beverly at night, except for the brightly lit mansions, the whole community is dark and quiet, as if falling into a deep sleep—in order to protect the privacy of the stars as much as possible and prevent unrelated people from wandering in the community, the night competition Foley has no street lights, which can confuse malicious people who are not familiar with the terrain of the community.

Lance finally finished dealing with Taylor Roderick, rushed from New York to Los Angeles to meet William, and became the first guest to stay in William's new home.

After playing a close match on the tennis court and sweating profusely, the two took a shower, carrying beer and reading materials, and came to the top floor to enjoy the sunset while lazily reading or chatting to pass the time. Lance makes some jokes about an exasperated Tyler Roderick—mostly about the old lion's anger at the heir's loss of control, and a few threats like "you're going to have a brother soon."

"If there's anything unpleasant, you know I'd be a good tree hole." It's not that William is worried that Tyler Roderick's threats will come true, and honestly, if anyone thinks Lance values If money cares about how much money he will inherit, that would be an insult to Lance, William is worried that Tyler Roderick is Lance's father after all, that man's coldness and heartlessness will make his best friend sad ?

The worry in William's eyes made Lance look at him with funny eyes: "Don't worry about me, Will, I don't care, I don't mean to pretend or I really have any feelings for Mr. Roderick It's gone, but I know that his threat will never come true."

"How to say?"

"Although my father has countless female companions now, no one knows better than me how picky Taylor Roderick is. His standards for wives and lovers are completely different. As a lover? As long as the background is clean It’s enough to be beautiful, but a wife who can give birth to an heir? Not just any woman can meet his requirements, at least her family background, appearance and brains must be decent. As far as I know, there is no such lady. I was in contact with my father, so his words were just a vague threat."

"But how do you know that Roderick is not dating a dignified lady right now? Wait—" William raised his eyebrows and looked at his friend in surprise: "You actually monitored Mr. Roderick?"

"Surveillance is too ugly, Will." Lance said with a chuckle, "It's just that there is an active little bird that tells me about my father's actions from time to time."

"Don't overdo it, Lance." William said worriedly.

"I know, Will, so all this time I've just watched and listened, never done."

"What if, I mean, if there is a Mrs. Roderick in the future?"

"I haven't thought of getting married yet, Will."

"I'm not kidding you, Lance, don't act like you didn't understand my question."

"Compared with worrying about being replaced, my father is more afraid of the split of the Roderick Group. Although the total assets will remain unchanged, the largest unlisted group in the United States, and the few on the list of unlisted groups Ordinary companies, a Roderick on the super rich list, and several Rodericks who are on the top [-] list of Forbes America's richest people are two completely different concepts for him."

Although Lance's short but straight-forward analysis made William finally relieve his worries, but when he was relaxing, he suddenly felt lost for a moment: the boy who would not fight back when he encountered bullying and was protected by him, now He has grown into a grown man who doesn't need anyone's protection.Perhaps a successful businessman and schemer.

After sitting quietly for an hour under the quiet and incredible night sky, William looked up at the star-studded night sky and said, "It's beautiful, isn't it?"

"Yes."

"Lance."

"Ok?"

"I think I finally feel like Los Angeles is home."

"Because you bought this house?" A chuckle.

"Part of the reason. But I think the bigger reason is that I found that I fell in love with acting, and I want to treat acting as a lifelong career."

"Hasn't acting been your profession for a long time?"

"At first it was because of money, not love." William stared at the Scorpio in the night sky and said slowly: "But recently I suddenly realized that when I found a good script, I would not care about the salary. Winning awards, just wanting to get those parts and acting—I actually kind of like being an actor, don’t I.”

Lance noticed that William used a tone of affirmation instead of doubt, and he asked curiously: "So, what good scripts have you discovered recently?"

"The Truman Show, it was originally Jim Carrey's role, but Paramount was annoyed by his endless delays, and they finally chose me. I'm a little nervous, Lance, this is something I've never played. I was worried about whether I could play the role well.”

"I never worried about that for you."

"Oh?" William asked in surprise, "It sounds like you have confidence in me?"

"of course."

"why?"

"Cough." Lance originally wanted to clear his throat emphatically, but in the end it turned into an obvious sneer: "Because you even played Scarlett well, I don't think other roles can make it difficult for you."

"Oh my god, Lance!" William picked up the script in hand and threw it at the other party: "Don't forget who the culprit is!"

Lance laughed and took the script, but when he saw something written on the back of the script, he stopped looking: "What is this?"

He stared at a rabbit painted on the cover of the last page of the script and asked, the rabbit was very cute, chubby and naive, and specially dyed with a brush, although it was blue.blue bunny?This is really weird.Then next to the rabbit, there are two cursive letters B&R.

William did not speak.

Lance looked at him suspiciously, and found that his friend had a suspicious expression, and blushed in a very rare way. The thin blush was very eye-catching on his milk-white skin.

"Will?"

"Okay, I can explain." William cleared his throat, pointed to the blue rabbit drawn on the back of the script and said, "Aren't we going to set up an independent production company soon?"

"Yes."

"So, that's it."

"What is it?"

"Our company. B&R means Bradley Roderick Films, which I think you have already guessed, and the blue rabbit (Bluerabbit) is the LOGO of the title, and the cartoon title I imagined is a The bouncing rabbit knocked over the paint pot and dyed itself blue." William explained, while rubbing his nose with an embarrassed smile: "Isn't it a little too cute? I think so too, compared to Pyra Monte’s mountains surrounded by snow-capped mountains, Columbia’s goddess statue, and MGM’s roaring Lion Leo are a bit lacking in atmosphere, more like the style of animated film companies like Disney or Pixar, but it’s better than Universal or New Line The kind of title that just typed the name and has no characteristics is better. And the blue rabbit and B&R are too easy to associate together..."

Lance put the script on his face and smiled for 3 minutes, and only let William laugh until the top of his head was smoking: "We can talk about the LOGO later. As for the company name, you must use B&R ?"

"B&R or W&L are fine, anyway, it represents the two of us, or do you have a better proposal?"

"It's not bad, but don't you think B&R and W&L are not special enough? Countless companies with two founders are named like this, but I want a more special name, preferably with a special meaning." While speaking, Lance picked up a pen and wrote on the back of the script: "I have an idea, but I don't know if you like it or not."

After Lance finished writing, William took a look: "Willot Films?" He stared at the line for a long time, "Is that what I thought it meant, Lance?"

Lance shrugged. "Ever since I heard you mention that indie company called Miramax, I've been thinking—what a great idea, why don't we do the same?"

Miramax Films is an independent production company founded by Weinstein brothers Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein in the 70s. The name of the mother of the Ernstein brothers, and Max is their father. When the two brothers founded the company, they were also troubled by the name. Later, they simply combined the names of their parents and became their company name Miramax ( Miramax Films).

Later historical developments also proved that the choice of the Weinstein brothers was indeed correct. Among the independent production companies in Hollywood named after dreams, ambitions, or dry abbreviations, the name Miramax is like A unique breeze has left a deep impression on everyone who has learned about it.

And Lance's plan is probably to imitate the Weinstein brothers, combine the two names to create a new vocabulary, and then make this new vocabulary a witness to the careers of the two of them—William and Lan Combining parts of the two names, Lancelot, "Willot" was born.

"Whether it's Willot Films or Willot Independent Productions, sounds fantastic!"

Lance smiled and said: "But your blue rabbit is not suitable for the title of the company. As you just said, it is too cute, but if we set up a branch company specializing in animation in the future That idea would have worked if it hadn’t. The blue bunny jumping up and overturning the paint cans sounds about as interesting as the Pixar title.”

"Willott Films, our company is called it! What do you think about the company's LOGO and movie title animation, Lance?"

Lance shook his head regretfully: "I didn't think of any good idea, but we can hire the best designers and animators, maybe professionals can give us some inspiration."

William suddenly smiled: "Don't forget that I am the son of an artist, Lance, I have a great idea about the LOGO—" His tone became more and more excited, and he couldn't help picking up the brush to draw stand up.

The beautiful and symbolic pattern gradually took shape in William's pen, and Lance's eyes lit up all of a sudden.

……

"I like your smell." A masculine voice full of unique charm resounded in the empty library.

In the Perish mansion, Perish's youngest daughter, Susan, was taking the guests her father brought home suddenly. The unusually handsome and charming Joe Black visited the library, and Joe walking behind her suddenly said.

A striking blush immediately appeared on Susan's face. She turned her head to look at Joe Black, smiled helplessly, and then replied with some reserve and shyness: "I like your smell too."

After saying this, Susan turned around and lowered her head again, as if she didn't dare to look directly into Joe Black's eyes.

Joe Black stepped forward gently, lowered his head, and stared at the woman in front of him with concentrated eyes, as if he was researching and fascinated.

Whether it's that handsome face that is so breathtaking, or that pair of deep dark green eyes, or that mysterious temperament, all make Susan flustered while her heart is throbbing, and her gaze falls to the side. On the clock, Susan said, "My mother used to say you could use the clock to adjust your heartbeat."

Joe Black sniffed Susan's hair: "Can you?"

"I've never tried...until now." Susan finally turned around and looked into Joe Black's eyes, so close that Susan felt her heartbeat could be heard by everyone : "Joe?"

"YES?"

"Can I kiss you?"

Joe Black didn't answer. As the god of death, he came to the world for the first time, and he didn't even know what "kissing" was.

But this does not prevent him from agreeing to Susan's proposal, because before that, Susan has expressed the emotion of wanting to kiss him several times, which makes Joe Black full of interest in human kissing: "Of course, you Can."

So Joe Black's tone sounds more like at this moment: "Kissing? Please explain to me what it is."

Susan kept blinking her gray-blue eyes, she raised her head, and kissed Joe Black's lips tremblingly.

Compared with Susan's ecstasy, Joe Black's performance when he was kissed was more like doing a scientific research work. From passive to active, he fully controlled the process and end of the kiss.

"Thank you." After a long time, Joe Black whispered.Thank you Susan for teaching him what kissing is and how to do it.

"You're welcome," Susan replied.Although she didn't really know what Joe Black was thanking.

The two staged a scene of eye-catching and being chased, until the voice of director Martin Brest came from outside: "Great! Will, Claire, rest for an hour, and we will continue to the next scene after lunch!"

The quiet studio suddenly became lively, and the staff who were holding their breath just now all relaxed and started chatting.

From the moment Martin Brest's voice sounded, William's eyes had regained clarity. He quickly stepped out of the play and immediately backed away from Claire Forlani, who played Susan.

"Will." Claire Forlani couldn't help grabbing William's hand: "Can we talk?"

William took his hand out of the opponent's palm and looked around: "Don't be like this, Claire. There are so many people, Martin hasn't left yet."

"I can explain it." Claire Forlani said anxiously: "If you don't want to talk about it now, I can go to your trailer and talk, or you come to my room at night?"

"We're done, Claire, you know." Actually, it hadn't officially started at all, but it would be too cruel to Claire Forlani to say such words. William claimed to be a gentleman, and a gentleman would not be rude to a lady. Be merciful.

Claire Forlani stepped back suddenly with a sad expression, covered her face with her hands and let out a deep sob.

Not long ago, William and Claire Forlani almost had a romantic relationship with each other because of the drama, but it was all spoiled by the media frenzy and other things happening in William's life, and, when from Publicist Barbara Wilson learned that the truth was that Claire Forlani's agent secretly contacted a familiar reporter when they first started dating. Fortunately, William and Claire Forlani were on a subsequent date. When caught by the media, he completely lost interest in continuing this relationship.