America gains both fame and fortune

Chapter 459 How Can You Bear It

While Jody in Los Angeles was immersed in acting school courses and transformed into a master of stealth photography, Martin and Nolan returned to Los Angeles after a short Latin American promotional trip.

After a week of promotion, the market-pulling effect was obvious, and the overseas box office of "The Dark Knight" was close to 4 million US dollars.

It has already broken through $4.5 million in North America, and the global box office is steadily heading towards $10 billion.

Currently, the only movies in the world that can achieve this result are Titanic, Star Wars Episode 1, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and The Lord of the Rings 3.

Martin came out of the psychological clinic and was blocked at the door by several reporters.

One of them asked: "Martin, what do you think about the disputes among fans of The Dark Knight, The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption on websites like IMDB?"

In this kind of situation, officials and leading actors had better not talk nonsense, and personally rolling up their sleeves to participate is even more taboo. Martin naturally looked confused: "I came to see a psychiatrist as soon as I got out of the airport. I have no idea what you are talking about?"

When a reporter wanted to explain, the clinic's security personnel came out and stood in front of Martin.

Martin lowered his head and got into the Escalade, and said to Bruce, "Let's go."

Bruce had just heard the reporter's question, started the car and drove on, saying, "It's said that the commotion was quite big."

Martin said, "Let's make a fuss. The louder the fuss, the more attention it will attract."

Suddenly, the Nokia phone rang.

Martin took it out and looked at it. The text message only had a few numbers and was signed JJN. It was obviously a code sent by Nicholson.

He put the phone screen in front of Lao Bu: "What does the code mean?"

Nicholson wrote so much code that it was impossible to remember it all.

Bruce didn't remember some of them, so he reminded, "Inside the storage compartment."

Martin found a piece of paper, matched the numbers one by one, and finally figured out what the code meant: See you at the old place.

He said to Old Bull, "Go to Century City."

Arriving at the east gate of Century City, Martin was about to get off the car, but remembering Nicholson's serious attitude, he found a small makeup box, carefully put on a fake beard, changed into an ordinary oversized sportswear, and carried a trendy shoulder bag before entering the gate.

After a while, a maintenance man came out and whispered, "What's Jack's favorite?"

Martin responded: "Marlon Brando."

The maintenance worker entered the emergency passage, and when Martin followed him in, he said, "Remember this, it's Ruth. If you answer wrong next time, I'll kill you."

"Are you being too frivolous?" Martin immediately found a way to counterattack: "Shouldn't you break me this time?"

Nicholson didn't want to waste time on this idiot and got down to business: "The TMZ guys went undercover in the acting school and there has been no news. The situation is a bit out of my control."

"We can only make TMZ interested, but we cannot control the specific progress of TMZ." Martin is very patient: "When we shoot a bullet, we always have to wait for the bullet to fly for a while before we know whether it can hit the target."

Nicholson put his hands on his waist, thrust his hips forward, and boasted: "I am a sharpshooter. My shooting skills are the best in Los Angeles."

Martin was about to taunt him when Nicholson suddenly held onto the wall next to him: “Hey, my waist, my waist.”

He was obviously not pretending: "Come and help me."

Martin quickly supported him.

Nicholson slowly retracted his raised hips and said, "I've been playing a little too much with Jennifer Lawrence recently, and my waist can't take it anymore."

Martin warned: "Be careful of sudden death."

Nicholson slowly moved his waist: "It's not serious, I'll be fine after a rest."

After half an hour, the two of them left Century City separately.

Martin also reminded: "Your girlfriend is only 18 years old, and you are 70 years old, live a few more years."

In the face of great love, the fifty-year age gap is not a problem at all.

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Burbank, Jen and Ben's acting school.

After the class was over, several girls left the classroom. Actress Haley, who had just been directed by Ben Affleck himself, suppressed the grief and anger in her eyes as she watched Ben disappear at the door.

This young actress has blonde hair, a pretty face, and a sexy and charming figure.

Jodi has observed her carefully in recent days. Among all the actresses in the same class, Haley has a very strong self-esteem.

Not everyone who wants to be a star completely gives up on their reputation.

Jody picked up a handbag full of lady hugs and a pile of sanitary napkins, came to Hailey, and once again comforted (arched) (angry), "It will pass if you bear it."

Haley lowered her head and said nothing.

Jody pulled her out: "Let's go out for a drink."

Haley looked at the little actors who were taken advantage of by Ben and talked about him with relish, feeling inexplicably sad, so she had no choice but to get into Jody's car. They came to a cold drink shop, ordered some drinks, and sat in front of the glass window to talk.

Hailey took a sip of her iced drink and asked, "Joe, how can you stand this?"

Jodi said, "Because he's Ben Affleck, I'm screwed if I offend him." She added fuel to the fire again: "Just bear with it and it will pass."

"How can I bear it!" Hailey's face was filled with grief and indignation: "He just taught me how to react in a love scene. He used real experience as an excuse and not only grabbed me hard, but also put his hand inside..."

Some things are not acceptable to everyone. She said angrily: "This bastard wants to ask me to go to the hotel and his room!"

Jody, who is much older than Haley, whispered, "I just never accepted this kind of invitation and refused to give in. As a result, I couldn't become a real actor..."

"I came to Los Angeles to make money, not to be insulted!"

Apart from Jodi who has been close to her these days, Hailey, who has just arrived in Los Angeles, has not made any friends yet. She can only confide in Jodi: "I am a country girl from a small place. I borrowed some money to come to Los Angeles to make big money, but after coming here, I found that it is ten times harder to really become an actor than I thought."

Jody caught the key point in her words: "Are you short of money?"

Hailey glanced at the bustling Los Angeles outside and said, "I want to stay in a big city and live an easy life, instead of working hard on a small farm for a year like my parents, and most of the income goes to the bank interest, and they work for the bank all their lives."

"I'm from the country, too." Jody said half-truthfully, "I had to work really hard to make it in Los Angeles."

Hailey was in pain: "Why is it so difficult for ordinary people like us to make money?" She glanced at Jody's brand-name bags and asked: "How did you make money and survive in Los Angeles in the first place?"

Jody is a journalist who values ​​professional ethics, so he revealed something: "In addition to being a part-time actor, I also have a regular job."

Hailey was surprised: "What profession?"

Qiao Di lowered his voice: "I'm still an entertainment reporter..."

Contrary to her expectations, Haley was not surprised. Instead, she asked, "Can you expose that disgusting Ben Affleck? Expose him and make him look bad! You know what I mean, expose him! This way I can hope to get my tuition back. I really, really need the money."

Jody straightened up, no longer a classmate, but took out a professional attitude: "Haley, I have a plan, do you want to make more money?"

Hailey insisted: "I will never sell my body."

"You don't need to sell your body." Jody said: "Ben Affleck has tens of millions of dollars in fixed assets. If we do it, you can get a large compensation."

The two of them lowered their voices and talked for a long time.

Jodi specifically mentioned someone: "Do you know Brad Pitt? All the female nannies who were violated and harassed by him received high compensation. Even those who were harassed by behavior and language received more than $20 in compensation."

She smiled and said, "I was the one who led the coverage of Pete's nanny scandal!"

After hearing the high compensation figure and seeing Jody's work permit, Haley, a country girl who wanted to make a fortune in Los Angeles, felt that she had found the code to wealth. She made up her mind and said, "Count me in on this!"

She had read the relevant entertainment gossip and guessed why Jodi came to the acting school.

As for hiding it, Haley doesn't care as long as she can make enough money!
The next day, Haley and Jodi continued to go to class, still enduring Ben Affleck's harassment.

The former even went to Ben's office alone to "ask for advice" on some performance issues.

Ben took the initiative to ask Haley out to her hotel room. After being rejected by Haley, he first tricked her by introducing her to a role, and then threatened her that she would never be able to be an actor in the future.

During this period, he also touched Haley all over.

After being in the Foot Gang for many years, Da Ben didn't learn much else, but he learned all about how to invite actresses to hotels and how to use threats and inducements.

After all, he is the man who has cleaned up Harvey's mess many times.

Although Haley refused again, Ben believed that this beautiful country girl would eventually give in if she wanted to develop in the entertainment industry.

Over the years, Ben has gotten used to Harvey's ways and thought that these were the rules of the circle. Before he could fully come to terms with it, some things have changed after Pitt's nanny scandal broke out.

After work, Casillas asked Ben to have a drink with him, and the two brothers met at a small bar in Santa Monica.

Cassie is in a mess recently and can only count on Ben: "Lawyer Cole has cut down to $200 million, and the other party is biting very hard..."

Big Ben said, "I asked Attorney Cole to delay it as long as possible. The acting school here makes money quickly."

"Don't affect your relationship with Jennifer." Cassie was also nice to Ben.

"If she is willing to sign the sale or mortgage of the joint property, why is it like this now?" Da Ben shook his head and said, "Don't worry, this little money can solve it."

Cassie asked, "Is that job at acting school so good?"

Daben laughed happily: "When I was popular, this amount of money was nothing, but at this stage, it is a job that makes money quickly and is fun."

He lowered his voice and said, "It's easy to get a date with those girls who dream of becoming stars in a hotel, except for a few who can't see the reality clearly."

The two brothers drank a cup happily.

On the same evening, Jody, accompanied by Haley herself, walked into TMZ's office building with specially equipped recording and video equipment.

(End of this chapter)