I am in Hollywood (18+ version)

Chapter 136: Rival show

"Hi, Tom," Eric warmly welcomed Hanks when he appeared in the studio, compared to Cruise who was always acting polite attitude when interacting with the crew, Eric preferred the mild tempered Hanks.

"Hi, Eric, I'm not late, am I?" Hanks asked as he gave Eric a hug.

"Of course not," Eric said as he gave a nod to Hanks's assistant, and turned back to hanks and said: "It will probably take us fifteen minutes to set up the scene. giving us enough time for you to do your makeup."

The two men talked as they walked up to the dressing room, but they stopped from time to time for hanks to greet the crew members.

Looking around, Hanks curiously whispered to Eric: "Where is Cruise?"

"Maybe he went to put on his make up," replied back in a hushed voice.

In their previous meetings, Tom Hanks also didn't have a good impression of Cruise, he found him too arrogant, Cruise was polite, but at the same time, he was giving him the feeling that he was just doing it to be nice.

Hanks didn't take too long to finish his makeup, he was able to come out before the crew finished setting the new scene.

After the scene layout of the pub was arranged, the photographer Nicole went to Eric who was talking to Hanks and Cruise and told him: "Eric, you'd better come and take a look."

Eric apologized to the two star and followed Nicole to the corner of the pub, where the camera was placed.

"Eric, you see here, I'll have to do a quick sweep with the camera, but I can only stand in this position to operate the camera," Nicole awkwardly demonstrated what he meant to Eric: "You see, it is difficult to operate the camera in this position."

Although Eric wasn't as professional as Nicole, he still have some shooting skills, so he stepped forward and tried operating the camera himself, finding that it was very awkward to control, Eric reached the conclusion that the best place to put the camera for the optimal operation was in the place occupied by the wall.

"Nicole, what do you mean?" Eric asked as he let go of the camera.

"I can only try a few times, this is the best shooting angle I could find if it doesn't work," Nicole pointed to the wall behind: "Then we will have to take down this wall."

"Let's try it a few times first," Eric said, he wouldn't mind demolishing the wall. After all, this is a studio, not a real location, and Columbia will certainly cooperate, but they will have to waste at least another hour.

"Okay," Nickel nodded. "let's get started."

This scene in the restaurant has three acts, the first act is where they eat breakfast separately like strangers, of course, according to the story, this is the time Andy has begun paying attention to Sean, who was completely unaware of him.

The second act is where the two pa.s.s each other, where Andy will write the number 13 on a paper and leave it to Sean.

The third act is the longest scene, where he takes more than a minute trying to persuade Sean, to let the police cooperate with him to arrest the villain, instead of him taking revenge for the death of his father.

"Running Out of Time, Act 12, Action!"

Sean stared at the newspaper while eating a cake, hearing someone open the restaurant door, Sean looked up naturally, and quickly turned his eyes back to the newspaper.

Nicole knew that Eric could have explained the reasons to Cruise in private, and not in front of everyone, after all, Cruise is a big superstar, so seeing Eric being protective of himself, he felt grateful to Eric, he didn't even mind Cruise insincere apology.

Nodding his head, Nicole replied: "I'll do my best."

Although this little incident was quickly resolved, it was destined to leave some traces in the hearts of many people. At first, the crew members were looking forward to working with Tom Cruise, but after this incident, most of them were no longer enthusiastic about working with him.

Perhaps because of luck or some other reason, in the next second attempt, Nicole was finally able to succeed, when Eric shouted 'Good,' a lot of people couldn't help but applaud.

Feeling relieved Nicole started massaging his sore left arm.

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Next, the second scene was quickly passed, and finally, the first interaction between the two protagonists was going to start for the first time.

"You're early, inspector." a young waitress warmly greeted Sean when she saw him enter through the restaurant door.

"Yes, I've got a date." answered Sean, as he came up to the bar.

Andy who was stuffing his mouth with pastry, proudly smiled when he heard what Sean words, because these days the former all-powerful police elite officer was running all over the city chasing his shadow.

Andy took a sip from a glass of water and said: "Sit down."

Sean slowly sat down in the chair opposite Andy and took a photo from the pocket of his suit put it on the table and said: "You're made some accurate predictions, Mr. Lo."

"Have you checked that out?" Andy asked.

"You've stolen the diamond and, you've avenged your dad. So, why do you want to see me?"

"l told you before, this game lasts for three days. Did you forget?"

Sean patted the badge in his pocket and said: "Not today, you're not in charge anymore, Remember, I'm the police."

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After a long dialog between the two protagonists, Eric shouted stop.

"Well, Cruise, your smile should be more sarcastic," Eric first went to Cruise, and gave him his opinions, and demonstrated to him what he wanted to see from Cruise?

Then he turned to Tom Hanks: "Hanks, when you hear Andy's ridiculing you, you should show that you are embarrassed. But you also have your own pride, so you need to add some body language, Such as nodding, to cover up your embarrassment."

"Ok, Eric, I'll make sure to pay attention," Hanks nodded.