Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 1018 Exchange of Interests
As a famous pearl fanatic, Taylor had no resistance to the string of white sea pearls in front of him, each of which was at least 15 mm in size, round and smooth, and with no discernible difference in size.

She covered her mouth and stared at Chu Xiangqian with an ecstatic expression, her eyes seemed to melt him.

Unfortunately, Chu Xiangqian knew at a glance that although this woman liked pearls, her look of surprise was probably an act.

In fact, this woman might still be plotting against me, just like in the past.

However, as a world-famous super-rich man who once ranked first in the world, let alone Taylor, for a period of time, Margaret's sister looked at him with some inexplicable meaning.

Chu Xiangqian did not expose the truth. He smiled and personally moved a chair out for Taylor, and the two of them reminisced about the past.

Only then did he clearly state his purpose.

When Taylor heard that he was asked to find a beautiful female celebrity with a good figure and introduce her to the women's congress members, he asked without thinking.

"It's all right to help you, dear, but what good will it do me?"

Chu Xiangqian liked that this woman was so direct. Of course, it was more likely that Taylor knew it very well.

Seventeen or eighteen years ago, she had just won the Oscar for Best Actress for the second time and was at her sexiest and most beautiful age, but she couldn't impress the man in front of her.

Now I am 48 years old and no longer as glorious as I used to be, so it is even more impossible for Chu Xiangqian to be with me.

In that case, it’s better to be direct.

Chu Xiangqian thought for a moment and said with a smile, "Have you heard of a script called Raiders of the Lost Ark?"

As a well-known Hollywood actress, Taylor knows a little about most things in Hollywood.

Not to mention, the script was actually roughly formed in 76, and the initial idea came from Lucas, who won the box office championship last year.

Things related to big directors tend to spread even more widely.

Of course, at this time, Lucas had only won the championship and had not experienced the second or third successful experience of becoming a big director.

But the global box office of $2.09 million also made Lucas famous.

But Chu Xiangqian said clearly, "I bought this script for $100 million last year.

The estimated production cost is 2 million.

You can be the heroine, even though she doesn't have many parts.

But you can follow producer Wrinkle Huai and work as a production assistant.

I think a $2 million movie is enough to teach you how to move from being in front of the camera to being a producer behind the scenes.”

Taylor couldn't help swallowing after hearing this.

Not to mention the production assistant, the investment of 20 million US dollars alone, although not a top budget in this era, is a rare high investment for Taylor in all his years.

The film Cleopatra cost 4400 million U.S. dollars to make, but the box office was only 2 million.

Since then, Taylor's resources have declined sharply, and he almost became a box office poison that everyone avoided.

And Taylor at that time was indeed very pretentious.

In the entire Hollywood producer circle, he is notoriously difficult to deal with.

Otherwise, he would not have agreed to let Chu Xiangqian accompany Philips for the sake of the $100 million given by Chu Xiangqian.

Then Chu Xiangqian used Huang Diao'er and a miniature camera to take photos of Philip and her having sex in a private room in the opera house.

After that, Philips went to Meiguo to look for Taylor more than once. During one of those visits, he took the initiative to contact Chu Xiangqian, saying that he wanted to go to his ranch in Los Angeles to relax.

In fact, of course, it was to go and fool around with Taylor.

Chu Xiangqian took photos of him again, and even left some video footage.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian has always been steady. Over the years, he has not had the opportunity to take out these photos and threaten Philips to help him solve the trouble.

Taylor thought that hooking up with Philips would help his acting career.

Unfortunately, Philips is just a hollow boss who looks glamorous but has little influence without Yingguo.

In the end, it was only thanks to Universal Pictures that I was able to get some art films over the years.

Otherwise, this woman only had one movie released in her previous life, throughout the 70s.

Moreover, from 72 to 80, he was out of action for a full eight years.

In this life, with the help of Universal Pictures, Taylor made 70 art films in the 7s.

She has won many awards and nominations, but she is a three-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In addition to acting skills, connections and financial investment are the biggest factors in breaking records.

Unfortunately, it never succeeded.

But two Oscar nominations also allowed Taylor to maintain her aura as a top female star in Hollywood.

It's just that there is no box office. No matter how glamorous a female star looks, her actual status in the mainstream circle is far lower than imagined.

To put it bluntly, if you can't make money for the Hollywood giants, the mainstream circles will not like you.

That's why Taylor was so excited and expectant when he received Chu Xiangqian's call.

After all, as long as Chu Xiangqian makes the move, the award is the thing he cares least about.

The box office is.

As long as the box office is high enough, Hollywood will have no shortage of awards.

Although these awards have basically nothing to do with the male and female leading actors.

But the chances of winning in technical, directing and best picture categories are still quite high.

Although the leading male and female actors didn’t win any awards, they did win box office success, and they also gained both fame and fortune.

Now I hear that she is the leading actress in a movie with a 2 million investment, and can also be the production assistant of Zhou Wenhuai.

Taylor naturally wouldn't give up.

Over the years, Wrinkle has directed more than a dozen films, most of which have been successful.

Even five years ago, when Jaws cost 900 million to shoot and grossed over 4 million worldwide, it was Chu Xiangqian who put him in touch with Spielberg, which helped him get the investment for the film.

And this movie, which grossed over $4 million worldwide, was enough to make Wrinkle in Time the most famous and powerful producer in Hollywood.

And Chu Xiangqian has already gradually gained control of most of the discourse power of Universal Pictures through Wrinkle Huai.

Shareholders of Universal Pictures also know that the real controller behind several box office hits is actually Chu Xiangqian.

However, Zhou Wenhuai is indeed a great filmmaker with excellent vision.

Many of the movies he starred in also performed well at the box office.

But the biggest difference between him and Chu Xiangqian is that Chu Xiangqian has never lost and can break box office records at any time.

Wrinkle Pregnancy has been successful many times, but it has also failed more than once.

So much so that even Wrinkles is a dominant and successful film.

People inside Universal and at the top of Hollywood will also attribute the credit to Chu Xiangqian.

If it weren't for filmmakers like Zhou Wenhuai who were born in Hong Kong, they would have both great admiration for Chu Xiangqian and fear of his practice of sending people away for family reunions at every turn.

Maybe he has already gone out to work on his own.

Of course, in terms of money, Chu Xiangqian did not do anything unfair to Zhou Wenhuai, He Guanchang and others.

Moreover, as the boss, Chu Xiangqian basically doesn't care about anything else except asking people to keep a close eye on the finances.

This also gives talented people enough opportunities and space to display their abilities.

Money, power, opportunity, and enough force to frighten people make no one dare to move.
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Taylor agreed without hesitation, but pulled Chu forward and wouldn't let him leave.

With half of her body almost hanging on him, she whispered in a seductive tone, "Stark, before you come, I prepared a gift for you that will definitely satisfy and move you."

Chu Xiangqian was stunned, thinking that it was also a national treasure of the Celestial Empire that was lost abroad.

Taylor actually didn't prepare any gifts. Or rather, before coming here, she had been expecting herself to become a gift and be picked up by Chu Xiangqian.

Unfortunately, Chu Xiangqian is as difficult to deal with as he was a decade ago.

Taylor gritted his teeth and could only recall quickly in his mind. He soon thought of the mother and daughter who had an incredibly beautiful daughter. She was just an 18th-tier actress.

Taylor called the mother and daughter under the pretext of going to the bathroom to touch up her makeup.

Waited until Taylor's home in Beverly Hills.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw a young, immature, yet eye-catchingly beautiful girl.

And when Chu Xiangqian looked carefully, he quickly recognized that the girl was Brooke Shields.

To be honest, this girl is really beautiful.

Although it is known as the eighth wonder, it is more of a media hype.

But even in Hollywood, where there are so many beautiful women, if someone can be sought after by the media and reporters for years, it will definitely not work if they don’t have enough hard power.

It is also impossible to gain the recognition of so many women.

Brooke, who was only 16 years old at the time, was not only youthful and beautiful, but also had coordinated and beautiful facial features, and her uneven eyebrows made her look a little heroic.

Those eyes that were filled with a little bit of anxiety and nervousness like a deer.

Even an old hand like Chu Xiangqian was moved by what he saw.

But Chu Xiangqian was an old fox after all. Although he had already set his sights on this girl, just by looking at her complexion and leg shape, Chu Xiangqian was sure that she was still a fledgling.

Just think about the girl who was brought by Taylor, and you will know that the price she paid must be very high.

Taylor himself is an extremely difficult person to deal with.

So Chu Xiangqian didn't plan to eat the other party tonight, but waited until the matter that required Taylor's help was over.

I have plenty of opportunities to contact and get in touch with this girl.

Moreover, in Chu Xiangqian's eyes, Brooke's super snobbish and unreliable mother is a trouble to ordinary people.

But for him, the worst that could happen is the same as dealing with Feifei's biological mother. Intimidation, inducement and money can always make the other party shut up.

If you are too greedy, you will destroy the woman.

And Hollywood has so many ways to destroy a woman.

There are many examples of people who were big stars or famous models when they were young, but later became homeless.

It is very easy to ruin a person by making him bankrupt and then letting him get addicted to alcoholism, tobacco, etc.

Anyway, Brooke's biological mother is not a good person.

When she was young, she was just an 18th-tier actress and hooked up with a wealthy Italian businessman.

I thought that being pregnant would help me get promoted, but I didn't expect that the other party had never thought about divorce.

He also gave me some money as a breakup fee.

But the woman was very ambitious. After getting the money, she not only did not have an abortion, but also fantasized about giving birth to a son.

Live a comfortable life relying on his son.

But things did not go as planned. However, when Brooke was less than one year old, the woman saw that the baby was incredibly beautiful.

They simply used their daughter as a tool to make money, and Brooke started filming commercials when she was less than one year old.

It’s just that it’s not that easy to get into Hollywood.

Even in the advertising industry, Brooke has been somewhat famous since she was a child.

But it is much more difficult than you might imagine to switch to the acting industry.

And that woman's expenses are not small.

The income from Brooke's commercials alone is much higher than that of the working class.

But it is still too little to maintain a comfortable life.

Finally, when Brooke was 10 years old, she accepted a contract with Playboy and took photos for Playboy all her life.

She just turned 11 and played the role of a child prostitute, and also had to do a kissing scene with an adult male actor.

I thought I could gain the favor of Hollywood by selling body parts.

But the fact is, as soon as the movie and magazine were released, not only the director, the investors and her as a mother were badly criticized.

Brooke herself was also greatly affected.

And the two choices that broke tradition also made Brooke

At the age of 14, I took on another role, which still required me to be on the set at all times and to be naked during filming.

It can be said that for the sake of fame and money, her mother no longer treats her as a daughter, but a tool to make money.

The entire 70s can be said to be the most decadent and dirty era in Hollywood.

Not only is the red sofa no longer a secret, some people are so brazen as to put it openly in the audition room.

In other words, as long as you are willing to audition, it means that it doesn't matter whether the audition is successful or not.

As long as the auditioner has that intention, he or she must kneel down and sing a song of surrender.

Even eat flour together.

Of course, when one’s fame reaches a certain level, one can still refuse.

Because as long as you can make money for the capital, everything else is secondary.

Hollywood and Wall Street are the same to a certain extent. As long as it can help them make money, the tolerance of capitalists is still very high.

But fame is sometimes the most unreliable thing.

There are many that enjoy glory for a few years and then fall into obscurity.

Most of the time, these stars who have been in the limelight will become addicted and their bottom line will become lower and lower.

Those who can calmly accept the sudden transition from the peak to an ordinary life are all brave.

Unfortunately, there are very few such people.

This time, when her mother received Taylor's call, she dressed her daughter up beautifully without hesitation and waited in the mansion arranged by Taylor.

And after receiving the reward, he left his daughter alone in the mansion without hesitation.

When Chu Xiangqian thought about this, he felt sympathy for the girl, after all, she was only 16 years old.

But Chu Xiangqian also knew in his heart that all women who entered Hollywood, especially beautiful women, were vain deep down.

Everyone wants to be sought after.

They all like to live under praise and the spotlight.

Even a fool wouldn't believe that they were forced to do so.

So, you can sympathize with them, but there is really no need to think about helping them leave Hollywood.

The other person may even hate you in his heart.

And this is Hollywood, a huge world of fame and fortune, with countless competitors.

Not to mention that Chu Xiangqian is only a major shareholder of Universal. Even if he controls Hollywood, there are many forces and media that are capable and willing to discredit him.

In fact, the more successful he is, the more forces will want to get hold of him.

Of course, he was just with a little girl, but no one took any intimate photos of them, even if they were reported.

For Chu Xiangqian, it will not have any impact at all.

(End of this chapter)