Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 226: Poker Table Chat
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Link left Quentin and went to the recreation room to play Texas Hold'em with a few people.

There are many famous gamblers in Hollywood, such as Ben Affleck, Nicolas Cage, Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, director Martin Scorsese, etc.

There are two here today.

Ben and Nicolas Cage not only frequently go to Las Vegas to gamble, but are also members of the largest poker club in Hollywood.

Every time they attend a party, they will take out poker and call friends to play a few rounds.

Although Keanu Reeves, Depp, Matt Damon, and Joaquin Phoenix don't play cards as much, they are also good at it. When playing cards, they hold cigarettes, squint their eyes, and make all kinds of mysterious poses, like a group of gambling gods.

Only Link was a novice with average card skills. He lost more than two thousand dollars in less than half an hour.

Everyone was happy to see him lose money. They felt a sense of pleasure in robbing the rich and helping the poor. Even Quentin couldn't help but join in, ready to earn some pocket money from him.

Games like Betting on State Poker become more lively the more players there are, and Link doesn't mind other people joining in to make money from him.

"Link, you're quite boring. Apart from making movies, you don't know how to do other entertainment activities. I suggest you participate in more activities like this. Otherwise, it's meaningless to make so much money."

Ben Affleck was holding a cigarette in his mouth and shuffling the cards, looking very cool.

Seeing him like this, Link regretted not suppressing him more when filming "Seven Deadly Sins", making him like Leonardo DiCaprio, unable to recover even after a week of filming.

"Link can play tennis golf. It's not as boring as you say."

Sofia Coppola said holding the cards.

"Link is really good at playing tennis. I played against him a few times and almost got beaten to death."

Jim Carrey also sat at the poker table, looking at the cards more often than calling, focusing on participation.

"Link can swim, box, practice Chinese Kung Fu, and cook. He is almost a superman."

Sofia Coppola said.

Ben Affleck curled his lips and said, "Golf? Tennis? Cooking? What the hell are those? They sound boring. Link, don't you have any interesting hobbies?"

"You're talking about improper and unhealthy hobbies, right?" Johnny Depp said while smoking a cigarette.

Everyone laughed.

"Link loves beautiful women."

Nicolas Cage said.

Everyone was stunned for a moment and then burst into laughter.

"Yes, this is also a hobby, and it is very frivolous."

Ben Affleck slammed his head on the table with laughter.

"Focus on playing cards and don't talk nonsense."

Sofia glared at her cousin Nicolas Cage.

Nicolas Cage shrugged, picked up the $50 and put it in the pool.

Link looked at the cards in his hand and followed suit by betting $50. "Cage, I heard that director Scorsese wants to make a gambling movie with you. When will it start filming?"

"It's not a gambling movie, it's a love movie that takes place in Las Vegas. A great love movie, but director Scorsese is still revising the script and it hasn't been finalized yet. Filming will probably have to wait until after August." Nicholas picked up the cards and looked at them.

"I heard that Director Scorsese is very slow in making movies, and it often takes more than a year for each movie to be completed from project initiation to completion," said Jim Carrey.

"This is normal. Director Scorsese is very attentive and meticulous in making movies, and the quality of the films is very high."

Sofia Coppola took the cards, looked at them, and threw them on the table.

"You're right. Good movies are carefully crafted and take a long time to make. Only bad movies don't take time to make. A movie can be shot in dozens of days, and three or four movies can be made a year."

Quentin curled his lips, suggesting something.

Link shook his head, "Will it be hard for you not to make fun of me?"

"Look, someone confessed that he made a bad movie." Quentin laughed.

"What's so funny? It took Link seven days to shoot Paranormal Activity, and it grossed over 600 million worldwide, an average of 100 million a day. It took you more than a year to shoot Pulp Fiction, and it grossed over 100 million. Don't you feel sad?" Sofia said sarcastically.

"Hmph!" Quentin said with a sullen face, "A high box office doesn't mean a movie is good." "It took only more than three months from the initiation of the project to the completion of "Seven Deadly Sins", but the film won the Palme d'Or. Do you dare to say that Link's movie is not good?" Sofia retorted.

"We haven't seen this movie yet, so who knows if it's good or not," Quentin said.

“This movie is really good.”

When they talked about "Seven", the leading actor Ben Affleck couldn't help but open up and say, "Let me tell you, the plot design of this movie is..."

"Don't spoil the story!" Sophia knocked on the table.

"All right!"

Ben Affleck shrugged, "Let's not talk about the plot, let's talk about my performance. My acting skills reached a very high level in this movie. I never thought my acting skills would be so good. Every time I looked back at the camera after shooting, I felt that it was not the level I could perform. It's so cool. Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, and Jennifer Connelly are also good, not much worse than me."

"Link's advice is good," Sofia reminded him.

"It's also because I have good talent. If I were an actor without talent, Link's guidance would be useless." Ben Affleck chuckled.

Jim Carrey smiled and said, "Link, let's work together sometime and you can give me some pointers."

"I'm not good at comedy, so I can't give you any advice," said Link.

Jim Carrey shrugged his shoulders and said, "Actually, my ideal is to be a Broadway actor, not a comedy actor. If there is a suitable script, I would also like to make a serious movie."

"Sure." Link smiled.

"Can you please stop talking about movies? If you want to play cards, just focus on playing cards. Talking about movies will ruin your game."

Quentin lost the money this time and threw the cards on the table in frustration.

"We are all filmmakers. What else can we talk about if not movies? You are so annoying."

Sophia said.

Quentin curled his lips, "You defend Link so much, someone who doesn't know would think you are Link's wife."

"What did you say?!"

Sophia slammed the table and stood up.

"Okay, okay, why are you arguing again?"

Link quickly grabbed Sofia and told Quentin to say less.

Sofia stopped playing cards and left the entertainment room, going outside to the living room to chat with Monica, Renee, and the female companions of Cage and Keanu.

"Sophia has a really bad temper."

Quentin asked.

"You'd better not provoke her. She would hit me when she got angry."

Nicolas Cage shrugged.

Quentin glanced at Link and said, "I'm curious. Sofia has such a bad temper. How do you control her?"

“We admire each other.”

"Humph! I am increasingly confused about those women. Good and loyal men like us are ignored, while scumbags like Link are becoming more and more popular. Is this another example of bad money driving out good money?"

"Calculate!"

Ben Affleck nodded.

Link looked at the cards in his hand, the Ace of Hearts and the Ace of Diamonds. There was an Ace of Spades in the open cards, a pair of 10s, and the largest card could form three A's plus a pair, which was considered the largest full house. As long as he didn't encounter a bomb or a straight flush, the probability of winning was very high.

Link followed three rounds in a row, betting $1200, and finally played cards with Ben Affleck and Keanu Reeves. It turned out that Ben Affleck had four 10 bombs, and Keanu Reeves had a straight flush of Q, J, 10, 9, and 8 of hearts.

Keanu Reeves wins big.

Link and Ben Affleck lost more than a thousand this time.

"Link, I recently received some bad news that is related to you. Would you like to hear it?"

Nicolas Cage said as he looked at the cards.

(End of this chapter)