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Chapter 812 Convincing Kate, the Devil, to return home
Kate Brecht and two assistants arrived at Xiahua Film and Television North America Company on time at three o'clock.

Zhou Xia and others accompanied him, while Peter was introducing the American dramas produced by the company in the past few years, several small independent films, and several blockbuster films that participated in the investment.

The visit to the company took about 10 minutes to end. In the end, Zhou Xia sat down with Kate and assistants in the reception room and talked about the movie.

"The scripts for the scenes are all horses drawn by the director himself?"

Just as the two parties sat down, Ketbrecht looked at Zhou Xia calmly and asked.

"Yes." Zhou Xia replied succinctly, looking at the Great Demon King, who was in his 40s, but still radiant and graceful, who looked like he was only in his 30s.

There are many actresses called queens in the entertainment industry, but there is only one "devil king".

Powerful words, contagious body movements and explosive expressiveness are the source of Cate Blanchett's aura beyond ordinary actors. Her queen fan, her domineering has won her such a title .

Of course, the Great Demon King was also a little white rabbit before, with the shyness and sweetness of his youthful years.

"The script is very detailed, the composition and picture are very good, and many details, costumes, props, buildings, etc. are very real. I really like such a detailed shot script, like a cartoon."

After Kate finished speaking lightly, her voice raised a bit: "But Terris's role is very important. I wonder if the director has a suitable candidate?"

"Yes, I will invite Rooney Mara, but the company will still entrust a casting company to conduct a wider range of casting."

"Rooney Mara, um, yes."

Kate nodded slightly and didn't say anything. She looked at Zhou Xia seriously with lake-like eyes: "The director is so young and has been making commercial movies before. Why would he want to make a same-sex movie?"

Zhou Xia smiled slightly, understood what the other party meant, shrugged, and said unabashedly: "For the award."

"Hahahaha." Kate couldn't help but let out a hearty laugh, without the serious look just now.

Seeing this, Zhou Xia felt much more relaxed. The Demon King has a strong aura, just like what he felt when he clinked glasses and chatted with Emperor Gong at the premiere of "Return".

"This reason is very good, but I still want to hear the director's more in-depth analysis of the story, the main characters, etc."

After Kate laughed, although her expression was relaxed, she still wanted to know Zhou Xia's personal opinion on the whole movie.

Zhou Xia is the winner of the Venice Golden Lion Award and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. His director level is beyond doubt.

But she is worried about whether such a young male director can grasp a more delicate and accurate female emotion for a movie about female homosexual love.

"Actually, my intentions have been basically shown in the script. The movie will be unfolded from the perspective of Tetris. Through her, a girl who came to New York to pursue her dream, but can only work as a salesperson in a toy store, she falls in love with the graceful and luxurious. Carol, the married woman, and then secretly fell in love with, liked, and fell in love with her, and the story gradually unfolded.

Carol is Terris's future self. From the very beginning, Carol has been looked up to, and the initiative has always been in her hands. Tris is a child, full of admiration and worship for her, Passively accepted.

Their love is unequal, not only because of their class status, but also because of the spiritual gap. This gap was monitored by her husband when Carol was deprived of custody and visitation rights in the divorce proceedings, and she left Terris. Finally, Tetris realized.

This is why Carol wrote the letting go letter. She was forcing Tris to grow up, and Tris did it. When we met again, Tris became an excellent photographer and learned to reject others. Rejecting Carol, the relationship between the two of them..."

Zhou Xia talked eloquently, telling Kate his views on the movie and his understanding of the characters.

From time to time Kate would ask for details, and parts of the script that she didn't understand.

Two hours passed quickly.

"About the passionate part, it won't be long or intense. The main theme is beauty, showing the love between the two, and not exaggerating too much."

After listening to Zhou Xia's answer to the last question about the filming of the passion scene, Kate stopped asking, and stretched out her hand with a smile: "Zhou, I'm relieved to hear you say that, and I hope we can have a happy cooperation."

"Well, I hope to have a happy cooperation." Zhou Xia also stretched out his hand, and finally persuaded the big devil Kate.

Fortunately, he was well prepared, otherwise he might not be able to answer some questions well during the two hours of inquiry.

After that, the two sides had a brief chat about the schedule, and the meeting was considered over.

After sending Kate and her assistant out of the reception room, they saw Sisi and Yufei both coming to the company, as if they wanted to get to know Kate.

Thinking of what happened last night, Zhou Xia decisively called them over and introduced them to Kate.

Both of them were very happy, and hurried over to meet Kate and took a photo together.

It's not that the two of them are chasing stars or something, it's actually a kind of admiration and liking for seniors with good acting skills.

After sending Kate away, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. Zhou Xia and the others had a flight back home at ten o'clock in the evening, and there were still several hours left.

Zhou Xia was not staying at the company either, and went to the Avenue of Stars with Sisi and Yufei.

Accompanied by the photography team of Xiahua Video Network, they took the opportunity to film the introduction of the three of them about some Hollywood attractions. It is precisely because of this that Zhou Xia dared to go to the streets with the two of them in a fair and honest manner.

After shopping for two hours, I took a group photo at the place where I left Xia Xia’s seal in the square of the China Grand Theater the day before yesterday, and had a delicious meal together before returning to the villa and preparing to leave for China.

Before packing everything up and leaving, Zhou Xia tried to contact Sophia again when he was waiting for Sisi and Yu Fei downstairs.

To his surprise, the call was connected this time.

"Hello, Sophia." Zhou Xia endured his temper and said as calmly as possible. He couldn't understand the other party's attitude of refusing to answer the phone.

"Hello too, Zhou, congratulations."

"Thank you, are you and the child okay?" Zhou Xia knew that the other party was congratulating him on his movie box office, but he was most concerned about other things.

"We are all fine. My father has already told me about you. Thank you for coming to accompany me to wait for the birth. It is very important to see your father when the child is born."

When Sophia's calm voice came, Zhou Xia was slightly taken aback. He suddenly understood why the other party didn't answer the phone.

This is dissatisfaction with his irresponsible attitude, and the previous dissatisfaction is gone, and I feel a little guilty.

"Well, that's what it should be, you can rest assured. Also, the child's upbringing..."

Before Zhou Xia could finish speaking, Sophia's voice sounded: "I respect my mother's idea very much, if you can't prove that you can give your child a healthy and happy living environment, I will no longer support you to obtain custody .”

"Sophia, how do you want me to prove it? Didn't we agree before?" Zhou Xia couldn't help feeling a little annoyed again, why bother with this issue?

Doesn't the biological father make the child happier than an adoptive family?

"Zhou, I don't want to talk about this issue anymore. Except that you are too busy with work and have not started a family. The education and air in your country are not good for children's growth."

Zhou Xia was directly shocked by these few words, and wanted to quarrel, but thinking of the other party's current situation, she held back.

"Since you have nothing to say, that's it. I hope you will have a good arrangement at that time, and we don't want to give the child to an adoptive family."

After Sophia said this, she hung up the phone.

Zhou Xia was speechless while holding the phone.

According to Sophia and his mother, Fira, he still wants to marry for this child, have a stable family, and preferably immigrate to the United States.

Isn't this blackmail?

"Yiyi, whose call is it that you're so upset?" Zhou Xia was cursing herself when Sisi came down from upstairs with her small box.

"It's okay, I'll help you."

Seeing Yu Fei following behind, Zhou Xia reached out to pick up their boxes. Their assistants ran in from outside and quickly took the boxes to load the car.

The three of them went out together.

All three of them took leave from the film crew to come to the United States to promote the film. Now that the film's release is on track, they hurried back to China to avoid delays in filming.

"Yiyi, if you want me to say that you should stay in the United States for another two days, our movie will definitely be the top box office this week, and there will be a lot of American media interviewing you in the future, and you will be able to promote the movie well by then, unlike us, yes The publicity didn't help much, so I hurried back to China."

The three of them headed for the airport in an extended Lincoln, and Sisi said to Zhou Xia looking at the night view of Los Angeles outside the car window.

"Sisi is right. With Director Zhang on the set, why are you in such a hurry to go back?" Yu Fei who was next to her also said.

"Don't you all know that the filming of "Carol" will start at the end of October at the latest, and there are other films. I can relax a bit if I finish filming Jade Immortal earlier."

"Other dramas? "Detective Chinatown 2"?" Yu Fei said.

"No, it's postponed, another one." Zhou Xia didn't mention "I'm Not the God of Medicine" that was in preparation.

But when they heard Zhou Xia being so vague, Sisi and Yufei became more interested, and immediately started asking questions.

(End of this chapter)