America gains both fame and fortune

Chapter 233 Old Bastard

It's a new week, and Martin ends his vacation and starts his new job.

After a long period of preliminary preparation, the crew of "The Departed" is about to enter the shooting stage.

Before the crew went to New York to shoot, they held a script meeting and a meeting with the main creative staff at Warner Bros.

Ten minutes later, he came out of the bathroom, patted Alan's wrinkled face gently, and said, "Honey, you continue to sleep, I have to go to the crew."

"I know." Allen let go of her hand, feeling so comfortable that he didn't even want to get up. "Since you performed so well last night, I'll remind you and your boss that it's not easy to get along in a big crew, especially in a situation like yours where your direct competitor during the audition is still in the crew."

"Do you have any suggestions?" Mene asked.

Alan did not answer, but said: "I'll wait for you here, come over in the evening."

Mr. Mene was determined to recover during the day and make her beg for mercy at night: "I will be there on time at 7 o'clock in the evening."

Allen said slowly: "Scorsese only has the Oscar for Best Director in his eyes now. Anyone who hinders him from winning the award will become his enemy. So in the crew, no matter what happens, do not interfere with filming and work."

She stretched herself and said, "Except for Scorsese, the one with the most say in the crew is Leonardo. He recommended your boss to the crew. Try to get along well with Leonardo in private. It won't do you any harm."

Mene nodded and said, "See you tonight."

After leaving the hotel, he drove to the Warner Studios building, waited in the lobby for a while, and met Martin and Bruce.

"Boss." Mene took the initiative to look for him.

Martin called him: "Come on, let's go up together."

Mene told Martin what Alan had said as they walked.

Martin patted Mene on the shoulder and said, "We treat people with kindness and try to be good people wherever we are. But good people are not wimps. When bad people do bad things, we should beat them down."

Mene said, "Boss, I will do whatever you say."

Martin and Mene entered the crew's meeting room together. There were six or seven people sitting around the long conference table.

The meeting room was very messy, with a lot of things thrown on the floor and on the table.

There was a mini doll lying at the door, with half of its black cylinder exposed in a key part. A small ball tied with a belt was thrown on the ground nearby, and further ahead there was a black flower whip similar to a whisk.

Looking further inside, there are at least a dozen kinds of sex toys.

This made Martin subconsciously suspect that he had come to the wrong place, and that he was not coming to Scorsese's crew, but to Jenna's crew.

Martin's gaze quickly shifted from these to the person sitting at the first seat on the left side of the conference table.

Judging from his appearance alone, this guy looks like a born villain.

Jack Nicholson!

From the looks of the others, Martin guessed that these toys were related to Nicholson.

He stepped over the miniature dolls and came to the right side of the conference table.

According to the crew's default rules, the first seat must be Leonardo's.

Martin will either sit second or where Jack Nicholson sits now.

But he noticed that there was a cushion on the second chair, the common kind.

Some people like to put a softer cushion on their office chair or meeting chair.

Martin glanced around and saw that there was no one else's chair.

He gave up the second chair, which represented his status in the crew, without hesitation and sat in the third seat.

Mene sat on his other side.

Jack Nicholson turned his head to look at Martin, with a smile on his face, just like the evil clown he played.

Martin smiled back at him but said nothing.

The two had no past interactions.

In the next few minutes, other crew members came in one after another. Most of them were surprised to see the sex toys all over the floor. The veterans among them naturally looked at Jack Nicholson.

This is obviously not the first time Jack Nicholson has done this.

Leonardo came in at this time and couldn't help laughing when he saw the mini dolls: "Free gifts?"

Martin greeted him: "Hi, Leo."

Leonardo nodded at him and said directly: "You are very good. You made Kate so happy. Be careful that Sam will come to fight with you."

Martin knew he was talking about Sam Mendes and couldn't help laughing: "Kate and I are just friends."

Matt Damon came in from the door at this time, glanced at the seats, and saw that seat number two next to Leonardo was empty, so he sat down on it without any hesitation.

He sat in the middle, and Martin and Leonardo lost interest in chatting.

Matt Damon greeted Leonardo, turned around and extended his right hand to Martin: "You have done an amazing thing."

Whether this was referring to the Burbank High School incident or something else, Martin was too lazy to guess. He shook hands with Damon and the universal words immediately jumped out: "I am a fan of yours, a super fan. Bourne is so cool."

An honest person can't be as good as Damon. Damon followed Martin's words and said, "You are a fan who goes beyond your favorite star."

Martin hit back directly: "When fans love a star to the deepest level, some things will happen naturally." Damon laughed, and his smile was just like his appearance, extremely honest.

Director Scorsese came in last, looked at the special supplies on the floor, and said, "Jack, you're doing this again!"

Nicholson smiled with an evil tone: "It's so boring to just have a meeting. Let's add some fun."

Scorsese, who had known each other for almost thirty years, didn’t really care, so he pulled out a chair, sat down, and said, “The script reading will begin.”

Everyone took out the script and read it carefully.

The assistant director turned on the slide projector, and Scorsese combined the homework he had done himself to explain to everyone the complex relationship between the plot and the characters.

When Scorsese finished his explanation and picked up the kettle to drink water, Nicholson suddenly took out a small remote control from his trouser pocket and pressed it.

puff--

The fart sound spread throughout the entire conference room, loud and long.

The sound came from Martin and Leonardo's area, and they heard it most clearly, so they turned their heads at the same time and looked at Matt Damon in the middle.

Everyone's eyes immediately followed Martin and Leonardo and looked towards Matt Damon.

When the fart sound faded away, Matt Damon said innocently: "It wasn't me."

Nicholson quietly pressed the remote again.

puff--

A loud and long fart sound came from under Matt Damon's butt.

Everyone had a strange look on their face.

Leonardo unconsciously moved back, as far away from Damon as possible.

Matt Damon stood up suddenly, grabbed the cushion on the chair, and asked loudly: "Who did it? Who did it!"

Several people glanced at Jack Nicholson furtively.

Martin smiled at Nicholson. Normally, he should be sitting in Matt Damon's chair.

Unexpectedly, Nicholson took out the remote control, put it on the table, and said with a laugh: "I made it. This kind of meeting will be very boring and boring. We must always find some fun."

He looked at Matt Damon: "It's just a little prank, you won't bother with an old man, right?"

Matt Damon threw the cushion onto the conference table.

Nicholson didn't wait for Matt Damon to get angry, and said to Martin: "Originally, I wanted to play a joke on the Los Angeles... no, American hero, but I didn't expect the hero didn't sit in that position and chose another one."

Matt Damon turned his head and looked at Martin. Seeing Martin's face full of surprise and innocence, he could only sit back in his chair.

Mene tried to move, but Martin quietly pulled him back, turned his eyes to Nicholson, and nodded at him with a smile.

Nicholson didn't care at all; he had done similar things too many times.

Scorsese finished his water and said, "Jack, your pranks are over now. Don't show up on the set again."

Nicholson said, "I promise!"

Martin seemed to realize that Scorsese obviously had a special relationship with that old bastard.

The script reading went smoothly afterwards and everyone seemed to have forgotten about the incident.

When the meeting ended and Scorsese left, Matt Damon immediately stood up and walked out.

Martin ignored everyone else and came up to Leonardo: "Let's go out for a drink someday?"

Leonardo said something else: "I heard from Kate that you organized a great theme party that even conquered the picky old man Wes Craven."

Martin nodded: "That's what happened."

Leonardo lowered his voice and said, "New York is a gathering place for supermodels. I plan to contact a few of them and rent a yacht or a mansion to hold a party. Can you help me plan it? The general parties in the circle are boring."

Two plans automatically emerged in Martin's mind, one of which was Leonardo's favorite water gun party.

But on second thought, this guy likes this and must have played it a lot in private.

He asked, "What level of model?"

Speaking of supermodels, Leonardo is quite confident: "For Victoria's Secret Angels, as long as I send out an invitation, there will definitely be someone willing to come."

Martin asked again: "Are they willing to cooperate?"

Leonardo was not generally conceited on this part: "Of course."

Martin agreed: "I will think about it carefully during this time."

Suddenly, a big head popped out. Jack Nicholson, a guy who doesn't play by the rules, leaned over the conference table and stuck his head out like a turtle. "You two bastards, count me in, or I'll report you!"

Martin looked at the old man who looked like a villain and couldn't see through him at all.

Nicholson snorted coldly: "I just live my life as I please. I do whatever I want to do. I'm not like you who put on a mask every day."

I forgot which Hollywood star made the fart pad as a prank, but I remember there was this gossip
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(End of this chapter)