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Rob stood by the long table and looked at both sides. It was not suitable for him to sit on either side, because there were only five people in total. If they were sitting face to face, one of them would definitely face the air. So he walked to the side of the long table, asked for a chair and sat down, "I'd better sit here."

In this way, Hugo and Joseph sat on one side, Brad and Martin sat on the other side, and the positions were immediately appropriate. Originally, Hugo thought that there were at least five people who auditioned, but now it seems that there are only two people, he and Brad, and of course the current first alternate Tom Cruise.

Opposite Hugo is Brad, Rob on the left, Joseph on the right, he and Brad's eyes met, the two young men exchanged a smile, and then quickly looked away. Hugo can see the high-spirited fighting spirit in Brad's blue eyes, that energetic and confident attitude is full of sparks, although Hugo and Brad have not yet burst into a life-and-death struggle. The spark stage, but there is no doubt that the two met again after "Dahe Love", and no one wants to lose in the competition.

Martin, as a senior agent, sat down and said, "This is your first work in two years. I heard that you have been preparing for a long time, but our expectations are broken. I And Brad was revisiting 'When Harry Met Sally' last month, right?"

Brad knew the last question was addressed to himself, and he picked it up immediately, "Yeah, I was still asking Martin at the time, saying that if you make a movie in the future, it would be great if I could win an audition. ."

Hugo watched the two people on the opposite side sing the double reed proficiently, and Hugo and Joseph had only been together for two months and obviously lacked tacit understanding. He didn't look nervous at all, and even took time to turn his head to look at Joseph. Said "Look at how good Martin's ability is", but was stunned by Joseph.

"Directing is always in a hurry, isn't it? I don't want my directing career to be just one 'When Harry Met Sally'." Rob said with a smile on his face, looking up and down the menu. In fact, his words were very gentle, not blunt or ironic, but such an answer made Martin and Brad both stiff, and they could only laugh and nod.

Seeing the unfavorable appearance of the two people on the opposite side, Hugo and Joseph laughed unscrupulously.

"Let's order first, I've missed their grilled chicken breast for a long time." Rob read the menu very carefully, looking like he was really hungry. "Actually, the chicken noodles are also very good."

Hugo originally wanted to take the initiative to speak up. After all, it would not work to be a passive gourd during the audition, but looking at Rob's appearance, it was obvious that he did not intend to cut into business at the beginning, so he also read the menu carefully. The United States is an immigrant country, and they do not have their own special dishes. When I saw this menu, Hugo saw fried chicken or fried chicken, which made Hugo miss the rich and diverse dishes in China before. .

"Hugo, how is it, do you have any dishes that you feel satisfied with?" Rob took the initiative to raise the topic. It seemed that Brad showed it just now, so he planned to give Hugo a chance.

"Well, I don't know. I saw Mrs. Nott's famous fried chicken." Hugo was actually reading the menu, so he seemed to be a little choppy when answering questions. He was reading the detailed explanation under the dish." I was thinking, since this is really Mrs Knott's special fried chicken?" Since the shop is called Knott's Berries, this dish should be one of their signatures.

Hugo's words made the four men next to him chuckle, including the two competitors on the opposite side, although Martin's smile was more disdainful, Hugo couldn't help but also showed a smile, "Okay, I know, I Not being a food expert, I admit the sad truth."

"If you're curious, then order it and try it." This is the comment given by Rob.

Hugo really ordered this dish called "Mrs. Nott's Famous Fried Chicken". After experiencing the appetizers and salads, when Hugo saw the main dish, he was really dumbfounded. There were only four miserable wings on the plate, "Uh, are you sure this is enough to eat?"

Although Hugo lowered his voice, except for Joseph on his right, the other three also heard it. Brad's eyes were full of smiles. Today's focus should be on the audition. Eating is not the protagonist. But Hugo is right, as the main dish, this plate of "famous fried chicken" does not seem to fill the stomach, but Hugo seems to have misplaced the focus. But it is undeniable that Hugo's honesty has a kind of frankness, not the kind of rustic, ignorant vulgarity, which makes people not only unhating, but also can't help laughing.

It's just that Martin Baum, as an agent, doesn't think so. He said with a smile, "If you can't eat enough, you can continue to order." This sentence is full of irony, as if Hugo made a special trip. The same as mixed food.

Rob is not surprised by such a scene. In Hollywood, there is no success without competition. Humility and politeness cannot see the future. Martin's war of words is just sprinkled. But Rob didn't want to sit here and watch them bicker, so he took the initiative to say, "The Rodney. King affair is going to be in court next month, right? I've seen it two weeks in a row." The Los Angeles Times' front page is reporting on this, and it's probably going to be very lively recently."

Although Rob seems to be chatting, everyone here, including Hugo, knows that this is an audition, and the conversations other than chatting are more than chatting, and the Rodney-King incident involves court debates. It can be seen as a variant topic of Rob's audition for "Yihai Xiongfeng".

Brad is obviously more experienced than the Hugo who crossed over, not only audition experience, but also "experience" as an American, so he quickly picked up the topic, "We have to uphold the justice of the law, don't we? The actions of those four police officers must be punished."

Hugo didn't know what the "Rodney-King incident" was talking about at first. He had only been there for two months. He was not familiar with news events in the United States, but with Brad's answer, Hugo quickly understood, because even he, an outsider, knew about this incident, which caused uproar in the United States, and even had immeasurable influence on a global scale.

"But it was Rodney King who was at fault, wasn't he?" Hugo said. "It was the media that dominated it all. They convicted the four white police officers, created public opinion, and made things happen. It's the way it is now, isn't it?"

Hugo's point of view was completely different from Brad's. This suddenly made Brad suddenly raise his head and look at Hugo full of puzzlement and anger. Even Rob did the same, with an expression of disbelief on his face, Make Hugo feel like he has done something heinous.

Here's the thing, Rodney is a black man with a criminal record. He got drunk with two black buddies in March last year, but Rodney still insisted on driving his friend home, and he met him. Patrol. car, the patrolman sounded the siren and asked Rodney to stop.

Rodney's mates realized that the police car was coming and told Rodney to stop, but the drunk Rodney pretended to be crazy and began to play a speeding war on the highway. In fact, Rodney knew that he was a parole with a criminal record. If he was caught for drunk driving again, it would definitely be bad, so he began to flee for his life.

But Rodney was still arrested. The police stopped, and after the patrol car requested support, the police set up a net, and successfully surrounded it with more than 20 police cars. After getting out of the car, Rodney's two partners immediately put their hands behind their backs and accepted the police's arrest, but Rodney knew that he was doomed, so he simply broke the jar and started using various Various provocative gestures angered the police. Check.

The police were gradually surrounded. The police gave a verbal warning, but after that, four police officers were ineffective. The police stepped forward to try to capture Rodney, but the tall Rodney was not afraid at all, and began to fight with the four despite fighting to the death, one of the officers was even knocked down, which stimulated the other three officers to use * ********* pressured, but the burly Rodney actually stood up again and had a minute-long confrontation with the officer, who had to brutally beat Rodney with a baton, and finally Successfully subdued Rodney.

Surprisingly, this beating scene was filmed by a resident named George Holliday (George. Holliday). He secretly filmed a total of 81 seconds of live video, which did not capture Luo. In the provocative part of Denis, there is no picture of Rodney knocking the police officer to the ground, only the picture of Rodney fighting with the police officer, and then the police officer brutally suppressing it.

The next day, George sent the video to KTLA, a local TV station in Los Angeles. The KTLA TV station, which had been frowning because of the declining ratings, was a treasure. After the president's decision, the editors cut the 81-second original video. Cut into sixty-eight seconds of TV footage, it creates the illusion of white police officers beating up defenseless black citizens.

This video was repeatedly broadcast hundreds of times on major TV stations in the United States, and it became a racial discrimination incident that caused a sensation in the United States. Sensitive black people feel that their lives are under serious threat, reminiscent of the horrific scenes of the Gulf War not long ago, which developed into riots that caused a sensation in the United States and the world.

In the past year, the Rodney-King incident has become a thorn in everyone's heart, and its sensational level is not comparable to this year's US election. The court debate that will kick off next month is also gathering everyone. Sight.

Brad, Martin, Rob and others obviously watched the 68 seconds of the original video, even though they were all white, they knew the vileness of this incident, but Hugo said something completely different. , which is tantamount to stormy waves. Looking at everyone's surprised expressions, Hugo innocently said, "Don't you guys watch CNN news?"