Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 451 Helen Returns to America

  Pat Morita took Ronald's advice and went back to grow his beard and practice his English, trying to speak a little bit worse, like an immigrant.

   Ronald promised him, or at least tried to get him another audition in front of Weintraub.

After   , Ronald still focused his energy on getting familiar with Evelson's preparations and his team.

  Evilson chose the old team who have worked with him for many years. Including director of photography James Crabe (James Crabe), and art director William Cassidy (William Cassidy). They are all teams that have cooperated with Evelson since "Rocky".

  Because the "Rocky 4" and "First Blood 2" that Evelson went to prepare are in the very early stage of preparation, the script has not yet been completed, and it will take a long time until the crew is established. Therefore, the most important characters in the two teams did not leave with him.

  Ronald talked to them individually and said that he admired the style of their previous works, and that he directed "Longwei Kid", which is the same as "Rocky", which is a realistic photography style. If the two don't have a better choice, I hope they stay and continue to work on the crew.

   Art director Cassidy quickly agreed and agreed to continue Kanjing's work.

  Director of Photography Calabé was a little hesitant. He asked Ronald, "What do you think of the Rainbow Parade in San Francisco?"

   "Rainbow Parade?" Ronald remembered that when he went to San Francisco, there were people from all over the country with different orientations, singing and dancing on the streets of San Francisco. He immediately understood the other party's worries.

  In the film industry, some people are more tolerant, but there are also stubborn conservatives. And Ronald's attitude towards this kind of thing doesn't matter, as long as he can do his job well, he doesn't mind.

   "I think the laws of America guarantee the freedom of the individual, and the personal affairs of the individual are not enough for me to have any influence."

   "Then I'd love to stay. I like the photography style of your last film. Let's talk about 'Longwei Kid'. What style do you want? Use those colors as the main color tone?"

  The crew soon returned to normal, with Ronald constantly settling and auditioning, returning to the rhythm of the shooting season. Work more than ten hours a day, and do not rest on weekends.

   But at noon today, Ronald still took half a day to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport.

   Because today is the day Helen Slater and the rest of the "Supergirl" cast return to Los Angeles.

  Helen and Maureen Tiffie, who played Supergirl's best friend Lucy in the movie, walked out of the cabin at the same time. Outside the passage are two men who have been waiting for a long time.

   Ronald hugged Helen for a few laps. Helen was now close to 120 pounds in order to exercise as a superwoman. Ronald felt a lot heavy when he hugged him.

   "Hi Maureen," after dropping Helen, Ronald greets Maureen Tiffy, who he has a special relationship with the actress. While filming "Famous," Ronald dated Antonia, who was part of the crew and a classmate who played Antonia's character.

   Later dated Michelle Pfeiffer, Pfeiffer starred in "Grease 2", and Maureen Tiffey played Pfeiffer's best friend in the movie.

  The current "Supergirl", Maureen also plays Helen's best friend.

   For this kind of girlfriend who has been his girlfriend, Ronald did not dare to neglect, "May I ask who this is?"

   "This is my husband, Alexander Cassini, who is also a screenwriter and director." Maureen Tiffie hurriedly introduced her husband to Ronald. Maureen has been dating her current husband since becoming famous all over the world, and she just got married not long ago.

  Ronald is hot right now, and Helen says he recently directed another Hollywood mid-sized production. Deepening the relationship is good.

   "Hello, nice to meet you." Ronald greeted Maureen's husband, chatted with him, and left with Helen.

  The two returned to the apartment, Ronald first let Helen take a hot bath, then slept and waited for the evening activities.

   "Supergirl" is a super production. After the filming is completed, a party will be officially held, so that friends from the media will take the opportunity to report on the situation of the movie.

   Helen put on her pajamas and lay in bed, the new quilt and sheets smelling nice.

   "Will you stay with me for a while?" Helen said to Ronald, hiding under the covers, her cheeks flushed again.

   "Okay, I have to tell you one thing. I told the producer Weintraub to let you directly participate in the second round of the audition for the heroine of 'Longwei Kid' Ali."

   "Hey?" Helen suddenly heard the news and was a little surprised, "Why do you want me to play this role, isn't it a girl next door vase?"

   "Why, you don't want to act?" Ronald felt a little disappointed when he saw Helen's face. He wanted to spend as much time with Helen as possible, so this time he didn't tell her beforehand and asked Weintraub for a favor.

  The film and television industry often shoots for several months, so that the two can only rely on international long-distance and international flights to get together. Ronald really wanted to make a movie with Helen, so that the two could live together on the set.

"No, I want to play some challenging roles. In the story you told me last time, Ali was relatively flat, she didn't have much character development and transformation, just a part of Danny's life journey. important station."

   "This?" Ronald was a little unhappy, Ali was not a role that had no room for acting. Although she doesn't have many roles, she is the starting point and ending point of the conflict in the whole movie.

   The conflict between Danny and Johnny, Danny wanted to learn karate, and finally participated in the karate competition and won the championship, all for Ali. The audience's eyes will stay on her for a long time.

   "But Helen is now the star of a big production, and her agent may have made other arrangements for her." Ronald felt relieved when he thought about it.

Helen sensed Ronald's displeasure, "Even if I wanted to make a movie with you, I've signed a three-movie deal with Alexander and Elijah Salkind, the producers of the Superman series. If they don't If you agree to let me shoot, I can't sign a contract. And preparations for the second part of Supergirl are about to begin."

   "Okay, I made up my own mind." Ronald agreed to find someone else to play Ali.

   "Damn Salkind, why did Supergirl have to go to the British Pinewood studio." Ronald felt that he might be separated from Helen again.

  Helen slept for several hours and woke up towards evening. The two attended a press conference dinner where the filming of "Supergirl" was completed.

  Helen answered questions from several reporters, and Ronald stood by as a foil. The Hollywood reporter seemed to have discovered their close relationship, took a lot of photos of the two, and asked Ronald what he thought of "Supergirl".

   Ronald said that he had not seen the movie, but it must be another masterpiece in the "Superman" series.

  This flattery made the Salkind and his son laugh with joy, and hurriedly came up to chat with Ronald for a while. Knowing about Ronald's relationship with Helen, they invited him to a rough-cut in-house screening and invited Ronald to participate in future screening marketing.

  Ronald agreed to watch the rough cut, and then released it, saying that he had a directing project recently, and he wanted to see the time schedule.

   Helen, who was interviewed, was still wearing a second-hand evening dress she bought from a second-hand store, a white dress and a red top coat, and the whole person looked very cute. She likes the dress herself.

  Ronald felt that although she was beautiful in everything she wore, the color, cut and texture of the second-hand evening dress did not match her azure blue eyes and milk-white complexion.

  Fortunately, Giorgio Armani has already promised himself and Helen the dresses for next year's awards season. When Helen stands with him, it must be very charming, and it will kill a lot of reporters' film.

   imagined Helen wearing an open-back and low-cut dress in his mind, Ronald couldn't help laughing, and Helen turned to look at him. The two looked at each other and smiled, feeling very warm.

   "Why did your eyes turn green?" Ronald always likes to be fascinated by Helen's big eyes.

  "The color of my eyeballs will change according to the environment", Helen smiled.

  "Oh", Ronald nodded. He didn't know much about this set of Caucasian eyeballs and hair colors. His own eyeballs were amber, and he didn't pay attention to whether it would appear different colors during the day and night.

  Ronald continued to watch Helen's chat with the crew and the reporters. He found that Helen hardly eats and seldom drinks the champagne in her hand. However, she is full of energy and has dealt with several groups of reporters one after another.

   Ronald back home, waiting for Helen to take a bath and change clothes. He opened a bottle of Coppola red wine from Coppola's winery, poured two glasses, and grabbed some of Coppola's recommended salami.

  Without eating all afternoon and night, Ronald prepared some snacks for Helen to cushion.

   "No, I've eaten enough." Helen rejected the sausage and only took a light sip of red wine.

   "I see you haven't eaten tonight?" Ronald said.

   "I want to keep in shape and lose weight." Helen squeezed her belly again, but luckily there was no fat there. But the thighs and face have significantly more muscle and fat.

   "Aren't you going to continue playing Supergirl? This figure is just right." Ronald knew that actresses were most afraid of getting fat, and the same was true of the two ex-girlfriends, who were always afraid to eat delicious food.

   "When I watch the swatches every day, Faye Dunaway always says I'm too fat, I don't care, I want to lose weight."

   I didn't expect it to be the hatred between the actresses in the crew. Ronald knew what made Faye Dunaway's thin, skeleton-like figure. He quickly comforted Helen.

   "It doesn't matter, your figure is very standard. I used to be on the wrestling team of the school. If you really want to lose weight, as long as the calorie consumption of exercise exceeds the calorie intake."

   "Really?" Helen looked at Ronald and ate a few slices of salami obediently.

   "The taste is not bad, so let's change to exercise." Helen swooped, hugging Ronald's neck with both hands, and hanging her feet on him.

   Ronald kissed affectionately, hugged Helen like that, kicked open the bedroom door, and got ready to exercise.

   "Don't say it, holding it like this is really a bit fat." Ronald didn't dare to speak his mind, and quickly used actions to help Helen lose weight.

The two were lying on the bed sweating profusely. Ronald got up to reach for the remote control. He wanted to lie in bed and watch TV with his girlfriend. It was rare to enjoy such a time together with his girlfriend. Helen was going to fly back to New York in a few days. Reunited with parents.

   "I'm going to take a shower, my body is sticky" Helen got out of bed and walked out the door.

   Ronald watched TV for a while and remembered that he forgot to prepare a bath towel for Helen. He also jumped out of bed and took out the new bath towels he had prepared from the closet, and walked over to deliver them to Helen.

   "vomit...vomit..."

   Outside the bathroom, Ronald seemed to hear Helen vomit.

   Ronald's heart moved, this is not a good sign. The singer Karen Carpenter, whom he and Helen both liked, called her fat girl because people made fun of her chubby body. Finally got anorexia, health problems and unfortunately passed away.

  Ronald began to suspect that Helen was also afraid of eating meat to gain weight. She threw up the meat she ate.

   "Helen, are you okay? I'll bring you a bath towel." Ronald knocked on the door outside the bathroom and said loudly.

   "It's nothing, I'm just not used to red wine with this kind of raw salami, my stomach is a little uncomfortable, I just spit it out."

   "It's fine, I'm a little worried about you."

   "It's alright, maybe I'm on a long-haul plane, I drank some champagne and red wine, and I'm a little dizzy." Helen opened the door, took Ronald's bath towel, and quickly dried it. After changing into pajamas, she went to bed.

   She put her arms around Ronald and quickly fell asleep sweetly.

   Ronald looked at her beautiful face and was a little worried that Helen would not also have anorexia.

  After Helen got on the plane back to New York, Ronald immediately called Helen's father Gerald.

"Gerald, I'm Ronald, and Helen has already boarded the plane. I'm calling you because I've recently encountered something that seems to be worrying." Ronald vomited what he saw Helen Things were said to Gerald.

  The other end of the phone was silent for a while, "I see, when Helen was thirteen years old, she had a relatively severe anorexia. I thought she was fine after so many years."

   "Could it be because of Supergirl? I heard her say that she was fatter in the movie."

   "Hey, it's all about me and her mother."

  Gerald confirmed Ronald's concerns over the phone. When they were getting divorced, Helen had suffered from anorexia symptoms of artificial vomiting after eating. Later, after seeking medical treatment in many ways, it was not cured until a well-known psychiatrist who was introduced by the family doctor.

  The psychiatrist finally found the source of Helen's repeated vomiting. When she encounters something that she can't handle (such as her parents' divorce), she will blame herself, thinking that it is because she has gained weight and is not pleasing to her parents. And her solution was to lose weight.

   Originally, when Helen got older, she could understand that it was not her fault that her parents divorced. Later, she became less taboo about eating and gaining weight. Unexpectedly, there are signs of recurrence this time.

   "I'm worried, Gerald. I want to get on a flight to New York to find her."

   "No need for now. I will contact her with the famous psychiatrist. Don't worry about it. We will keep in touch. If the situation is bad and you need to come, I will notify you."

   (end of this chapter)