The Best Director

As night falls in Los Angeles, in the elegantly furnished room, Danny the white Labrador is lying on the carpet and licking his feet, while Jessica is sitting on the edge of the bed, frowning and looking at the "Los Angeles Times" in her hand. version, I saw that where her eyes were looking was the part about Wang Yang's personal private life.

"From the beginning, she was my angel, and I thanked God, and I said to God, 'God, you are so wonderful! Thank you for arranging for me to meet her.' Every time I see her, I feel that this is the most wonderful thing in the world. But then, we suddenly seemed to hate each other, and every time we met, we would quarrel, where to play, what to eat. I like movie theaters, and she likes amusement parks..."

Looking at these words, Jessica's face was sullen, and she muttered in a strange voice: "Thank God, it is arranged that the girl doesn't like movie theaters and McDonald's, doesn't she?" She laughed, shook her head and said: " Hey, what are you talking about?" She read the newspaper for a while, and suddenly asked: "Danny, do you think that girl is beautiful?" The Labrador sideways its ears and looked at her suspiciously .

"Well, Danny, it looks like you don't know?" Jessica continued to read the newspaper, and suddenly said to herself: "What kind of girl is she?" He shook his head and said helplessly, "Oh, are you crazy?"

At this moment, the mobile phone on the desk rang suddenly. Jessica put down the newspaper in a sigh of relief, put on her slippers, walked to the desk, picked up the mobile phone, and saw that it was her manager, Ms. Miranda, and answered the channel. : "Hi, Miranda?" Immediately, I heard Miranda say: "Jessica, I received a message from the company that you have passed the first round of selection for the heroine of "High School Musical" and can participate in the second round of interviews." gone."

"Wow, really? Ha!" Jessica laughed happily. Although this was expected, her heart still beat faster. She held her mobile phone and sat down in front of the white dressing table. Looking at herself in the mirror, she said excitedly, "I've been looking forward to it for a long time! Miranda, when is the interview time?" Movies, practice a song, these are all auditions for "High School Musical", she can't wait.

Miranda didn't answer her question, but smiled and said, "Jessica, I have some good news for you."

"What? Isn't that good news just now?" Jessica laughed and said, "What else?"

"One better news." Miranda said in a cheerful tone, "Do you still remember the audition for "Idle Hands" more than a week ago?" Jessica said "Yes", it was her latest audition. During a film audition, Miranda had a good relationship with the director of the film, Rodman Fred, and recommended her to audition for the leading actress. Miranda smiled and said, "As far as I know, Mr. Fred will make a decision soon, and you have a good chance of playing the leading role."

Looking at her own expression in the mirror, Jessica reacted and asked with a smile, "Really? Wow, Miranda, it seems that my luck is coming." She was naturally very happy, but not much I cared, because Miranda had said "there's a good chance" many times, only to fall through the cracks every time.

Hearing Miranda laughing: "Yes, you are lucky." Jessica thought about the previous question, and asked again: "By the way, when is the interview time for "High School Musical"? Where is it? conduct?"

"Jessica." Miranda's voice softened, and she said, "If you become the heroine of "Hands of Idleness", don't bother with "High School Musical"." She explained: ""Idle Hands" The Hands of the Dead will start filming right away, and High School Musical will apparently, too, with their production schedules overlapping."

Jessica rolled her eyes in the mirror, and while grading her expression, said casually: "Miranda, I don't want to talk about this, I'm not the heroine of any movie now,

No schedule issues. "

"You need to think about it seriously. I asked Mr. Fred about "The Idle Hand" and he was full of praise for you. This time your chance is really great." Miranda said in a serious tone. serious.

"Oh, I see, I will think about it." Jessica pretended to respond seriously, and asked again: "Miranda, please tell me the time and place of the interview?"

Miranda had no choice but to answer her: "It will start at ten o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow, at the headquarters of Flame Films."

After getting the answer, Jessica was afraid that Miranda would continue to say "choice", and hurriedly said: "Oh, I know where it is, I just go there that day. I have to hang up, I have to hurry up and practice acting! Good night, Miranda." After finishing speaking in one breath, she pressed the end call button on her phone, shook her head and smiled, schedule problem? Let's wait until this problem actually arises.

"Come on, let's go." Jessica looked in the mirror, showing her clean teeth, and said with a happy expression, "Hi, my name is Jessica, nice to meet you..."

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Boom boom boom! The stairs were trampled loudly, and Jessica came down beautifully dressed. Today is the audition day for the heroine of "High School Musical". She got up early in the morning, after washing up, she began to dress up meticulously. After dressing up, she put on the clothes she had matched before going downstairs.

"Good morning, Mom!" Jessica came to the dining room and greeted her mother who was making breakfast in the kitchen with a smile. Lazy, enjoying the morning sun, squinting his eyes and said: "The weather is so nice!"

Cathy from the kitchen smiled and said, "Yeah, the weather is fine." She put a few sandwiches on the dining table and asked, "Jessica, Miranda told me that you are going to participate in "Song and Dance" today." The audition for Youth?"

"Yes, at the headquarters of Flame Films." Jessica said, walked to the kitchen and washed her hands, went to the dining table, picked up a sandwich and took a bite, and said to Cathy: "I will drive by myself, there will be no lunch at noon." I'm back for dinner." Cathy nodded, smiled and patted her daughter's shoulder, and said, "Come on, Jessica." Jessica gave her mother a cute smile and said confidently: "Thank you, Mom, I will." Then, she took another bite of the sandwich and said vaguely: "Wow, Mom, the sandwich is delicious!" Cathy laughed: "Thanks, little slick."

At this time, Joshua, who was wearing a jersey and shorts, came in panting. He had just come back from a morning run. He went to get a sandwich without washing his hands. He glanced at the well-dressed Jessica and said with a smile: " Wow, looks like someone's going on a date?"

"Oh, you're right. I've dated a very handsome and charming guy. It's so exciting." Jessica pretended to be excited and said something, then ignored Joshua. After finishing a sandwich, she went to wash her hands again, saying that Cathy said "Mom, I'm leaving." After that, she walked to the garage outside the house.

Joshua turned towards her back and shouted, "Hey, should I tell Jan?"

"Whatever!" Jessica's voice came from afar.

Flame Films is located close to Hollywood and is easily accessible by car. When Jessica arrived, it was only after 9:30. At this time, she was standing at the gate of the Flames Company, looking at the sign "Flames-Films" hanging on it, and the strange sign, and her heart was filled with inexplicable joy. This is Yang's company! What does this sign mean? She thought for a while, but she didn't have any clues. Moths and butterflies rushed to the flames, did they kill themselves? How is it possible, definitely not what it means...

Jessica shook her head and stopped thinking about it. She walked inside, came to the front desk, smiled at the receptionist, and said, "Hi, I'm here to audition for "High School Musical."

The front desk lady O'Lolali stood up and said with a smile: "Oh, the audition time starts at ten o'clock, please follow me, I will take you to the audition room and wait."

Jessica followed her, walked into the interior of the flame film company, bypassed the busy office, and she came to the outside of the reception room where the audition took place, and there were already several beautifully dressed girls sitting on the chairs waiting .

"Please wait here, the audition starts at ten o'clock." The front desk lady O'Lolali said again before returning to the front desk.

"Hi." Jessica greeted the girls politely, found an empty chair and sat down, took a deep breath secretly, feeling a little nervous, as if this was her first audition. She looked at the girls around, some of them were touching up their makeup in front of the small mirror, some were chatting with the manager who came with them, all of them were very beautiful, it was like a large gathering of cheerleaders from Los Angeles high schools, in terms of appearance, She doesn't seem to have the slightest advantage.

After looking around, Jessica withdrew her gaze, clenched her fists and encouraged herself: "Come on, have confidence, I will get the heroine!"

As the audition time got closer, the girls showed up one after another. There were more than 20 of them. At this time, Wang Yang, Sandy Parkes, secretary Foona Hasson, and the music teacher Ms. Robert who specially invited to help came over together. Wang Yang glanced at the beautiful girls and found Jessica. Jessica smiled at him, he couldn't greet her alone now, so he could only look at her, but smiled at the beautiful girls, "Hey, girls, come on!"

"I will!" "Let's start right away!" The beautiful girls responded with a smile, making the scene a little boisterous, some girls even whistled, and a beautiful woman stood up and shouted: "Jan, I love you to death!" Your "Ghost Story" is here, it's really good!" Wang Yang, who was about to enter the reception room, stopped, turned around and said with a smile, "Thank you, but it won't give you any points." Everyone laughed Got up, the beauty also sat down with a smile.

"Thank you..." Jessica looked at the closed door and said softly. Wang Yang's encouragement relieved her tension a lot.

In the reception room, for today's audition, the company specially moved a long table. Wang Yang and other judges sat behind the table. Next to the long table was an iron bracket with a broadcast-grade camera on it. This camera was leased by the company. Yes, it is ready to be used during the next audition.

"Ms. Robert, I will trouble you today." Behind the long table, Wang Yang shook hands with Ms. Robert again. This middle-aged Caucasian woman in her forties is a music teacher in a recording studio in Los Angeles. Her task today is Review girls for their vocals and musical talent. But they want to make a movie, not dig out any future music superstars, so the so-called "music talent" actually has very low requirements, as long as they are not absolutely tone deaf.

Ms. Robert is a very talkative person, she jokingly said: "It's nothing, it's my honor, Mr. Wang, I will dig out a 'Madonna' for you." Wang Yang said with a smile while sorting out the documents on the table : "Oh, I don't need Madonna, I want Hepburn."

After a while, it was ten o'clock, and Sandy Pax reminded Wang Yang. Wang Yang nodded, and picked up the audition list in his hand. There were thirty names, and the actor of "Gabriella" would be produced among these girls. He glanced at the names of the girls, he wouldn't have called Jessica in to audition first, it would have put pressure on her.

"Let Jennifer Love Hewitt come in." Wang Yang said to his secretary, Foona Hasson. Foona responded and walked out. Arranged as the first audition, is this his subconscious biased?

Soon, a girl opened the door and walked in. It was Jennifer. She has long black hair and a shawl, and under a rather tight-fitting outfit, her sexy figure and plump bust stand out. She showed a very sweet smile to several interviewers including Wang Yang, and introduced herself authentically: "Hi everyone, I am Jennifer Love-Hewitt, and I am very glad to participate in this audition."

Wang Yang visually inspected her sense of the camera. Except that her nose was too long and too high, everything else was fine. He began to ask: "Hello, Miss Hewitt, your information says that you have learned singing and dancing since you were a child. Is it?"

Jennifer nodded confidently, and replied: "Yes, I joined the performance troupe when I was five years old and started learning to sing and dance..."

At the same time, the girls in the corridor outside the reception room were also waiting patiently. Jessica was thinking about "what performance questions Xia Yang will ask later", when she was a little lost in thought, someone patted her shoulder from behind suddenly, she turned her head reflexively, and saw a girl behind her smiling at her Said: "Hi, hello, we met before, before the audition for "Idle Hands", remember?"

Jessica looked her up seriously, then remembered, and exclaimed, "Oh, I remember, yes!" They made eye contact a few times on the day of their audition for "Idle Hands," but at that time The seats are far away, so there is no talking. The girl behind smiled and held out her hand, saying, "Hi, my name is Eliza Dushku."

"Jessica-Alba." Jessica shook hands with her and said politely, "Nice to meet you." Eliza also smiled and said, "Me too."

The two chatted for a while. At this time, there was a faint sound of singing in the reception room, and the corridor immediately became quiet. No one was surprised, because everyone knew that singing was a part of the performance. Listening to the melodious singing voice inside, Jessica felt a little nervous again. She couldn't sing such a professional singing voice...

"What's the matter?" Eliza saw her nervousness and asked, "Jessica, are you afraid of singing?" Jessica shook her head and said, "It's not that she's afraid, it's just... a little normal nervousness." Eliza clapped He patted her on the shoulder and smiled reassuringly: "It's nothing, girl, relax! It's strange, on the day of the audition for "Idle Hands", you were very cool, and you didn't feel nervous when you sat there."

"The Idle Hand"? Jessica smiled and shook her head, that was completely different, she was just called by Miranda to try her luck that day; but for today's audition, she prepared for many days, and she was eager to get this role like never before. She suddenly remembered the "schedule" problem that Miranda said, looking at Eliza Dushku who also participated in the audition for "The Hands of Idle", she couldn't help asking: "Eliza, what if you were accepted by "Idle Hands"? You have selected both "Hands of Kuang" and "High School Musical", which one would you choose?"

"They were all chosen? Wow, I didn't think about it that way." Eliza sighed with a smile. Embarrassed for a moment, Jessica asked a stupid question that made it seem like she thought so. But Eliza didn't mean to be sarcastic about Jessica. She thought about it and said seriously: "If this really happened, I think I would choose..."High School Musical"!"

Jessica was a little surprised by Eliza's answer. "The Idle Hands" is a movie with an investment of 30 million yuan, and the director Rodman-Fred has proved his strength many times; "The investment is only 5 million, and this is Yang's first film film. Why did Eliza choose "High School Musical"? She asked curiously, "Why?"

Eliza shrugged and said, "I don't know. Although "High School Musical" is not favored by everyone, we all came to audition. Maybe that's why." She raised her eyebrows and smiled, and said again: "Ghost Story made $160 million at the North American box office, and I just thought, that guy's a smart guy, and his second movie should be good, and you know, Idle Hands is a horror-comedy, Actually, I don't understand this type, do they want the audience to scream or laugh? I'm still young, and I won't lose all my opportunities if I try hard, but maybe I will succeed."

"You're right..." Jessica nodded, not thinking about it anymore.

At this time, I saw Jennifer coming out of the interview room with a smile on her face. Judging by her expression, the audition process should be completed well. Then the secretary, Foona Hasson, called the next girl in for an audition, and one girl after another went in and came out again, some disappointed, some elated. Jessica noticed that the girls who left disappointed sang badly, and the girls who left with a smile sang well.

Then, it was Eliza Dushku's turn to go in for the audition, and she came out happily after a while, and laughed with a low voice to Jessica: "Wow, Wang Yang's smile is so charming! I really want to date him." Jessica smiled and said, "Oh, really..." Eliza nodded with a smile, and said again: "I feel good about this audition, Jessica, you have to work hard."

"I will!" Jessica looked at the interview room and took a nervous breath.

Eliza’s feeling is correct, Wang Yang is really satisfied with her, her beautiful face and sexy body got A for appearance; her acting is also good, she got B+; Girl Cheer Squad"; singing a B, this is the grade given by Ms. Robert. Of course, she also has shortcomings, that is, although she smiles charmingly, she tends to be sexy and not sweet enough, so her temperament is only B.

Wang Yang looked at the list in his hand, and there were less than half of the interviewees left. It was not too early or too late, and the mentality of the general interviewers was now adjusted to the best. He turned to look at his secretary Foona Hasson, and said, "Fona, let Miss Jessica Alba come in for an audition."

"Okay." Foona Hasson walked out and shouted to the girls: "Miss Jessica Alba." Jessica, who was sitting on the chair, immediately stood up and said, "Is it my turn?" ?” Foona Hasson nodded and said, “Yes, it’s your audition time.”

Jessica straightened her clothes, stroked her brown hair, and walked towards the interview room. After entering the interview room, Foona closed the door, and Jessica walked to the long table where Wang Yang and the other three judges sat, looked at Wang Yang, showed them a sweet smile, and said, "Hi, everyone, I It's Jessica Alba."

"Hi, Jessica." Wang Yang, who was sitting behind the long table, smiled at her, seeing that Jessica was a little nervous, so he was not in a hurry to start the audition, and chatted with a smile: "Jessica, sit down. How do you feel, is the environment in our company okay?"

Jessica sat down on the leather chair, nodded and said, "The environment is very good, and the transportation is very convenient."

Wang Yang thought about how to make her relax, so he looked around and suddenly had an idea. He pointed to the company logo hanging on the wall and said with a smile, "Did you see that logo?" Jessica looked over there and said "Yep". Wang Yang covered his mouth and said quietly: " That was my handwriting, and when I handed over the original to our company's designer, Miss Lisa Gero, she said, 'Is this two penguins and a crown'?" He said with a defeated look .

Jessica was immediately amused by him, and she relaxed a lot, and said with a smile, "Wow, that kind of logo is pretty cute."

Sandy-Pikes and Ms. Robert looked at each other, and they both saw a little different taste. Among the girls interviewed before, there was no lack of tension, but this young director did not help them relax.

Seeing that Jessica became more natural, Wang Yang started to get to the point, stood up and said, "Okay, Jessica, let's start the audition..." Jessica also stood up from the chair, nodded and said: " OK."

Wang Yang walked to the broadcast camera by the long table, pointed the lens at Jessica who was a few steps away, and saw Jessica in a youthful outfit on the screen of the camera. Standing there, the camera sense is top-notch. He looked at the screen and said with a smile: "Jessica, give me a left side." Following his words, Jessica turned sideways to the camera. He continued: "OK, turn to the right side; ok, look at a 45-degree angle; ok, turn around... ok, smile at the camera."

Jessica looked at the camera, smiled sweetly, and said, "Hi!"

"Wow! Very good." Wang Yang couldn't help sighing. Jessica's smile is too sweet and charming. Her appearance and temperament are like a real "Gabriella", which undoubtedly exceeds the original The actress Vanessa Hudgens, in terms of appearance and temperament, is absolutely A+, and she is also the best among the current interviewees.

Hearing his praise, Jessica's face became more confident, and the tension in her heart disappeared.