Universal Studios (Universal. studios) is located in the northwest suburbs of downtown Los Angeles, where film studios first gathered for filmmaking because of the natural environment around it, resulting in a world-famous studio city. Now that the whole of Hollywood has matured, it has become a tourist attraction known as a movie-style theme park, attracting countless tourists to participate in the "Universal Studios Tour" every year. However, there are still many studios here, and studios such as Columbia Pictures and Paramount will continue to shoot here.

The six-mile drive from Joseph's house to Universal Studios would take half an hour to reach even if the road conditions were bad, but Joseph and Hugo left at half past eight in the morning because they didn't want to miss the audition at half past nine. Although today's audition for "Smell a Woman" is an open interview, even if you are late, you can just line up from the back, but they are still an hour early.

Along the way, Joseph and Hugo did not communicate much, and there was silence in the carriage, which could clearly feel the tense atmosphere between the two people. In fact, Hugo was not too nervous, but he was also nervous by Joseph's expressionless face one morning, and his understanding of Joseph was still very limited, and he didn't know what Joseph's expression meant, so he could only be passively silent.

"Why did you say today's interview was held at Universal Studios, there should be many other suitable venues." Hugo tried to break the gloomy atmosphere, looking out the window at the approaching Universal Studios, and the world-famous "Hollywood" sign on the top of the hill had come into view. Although Hugo has seen this sign many times in the past few days, and it seems that there is nothing unusual about seeing too much, but at this time, the distance between Hugo and the sign is constantly narrowing, and the impact of the head-on breakthrough is still very strong.

Joseph didn't reply immediately, which made the tension in the carriage more embarrassing, and after about ten seconds, Joseph said, "Because it's suitable here." Hugo only felt that he could clearly feel that the three black lines on his forehead were beginning to slide slowly, and Joseph's answer was equal to nothing.

The car traveled some distance, and soon saw the gate of Universal Studios, and the famous globe sign, surrounded by countless tourists, all of whom stopped to take pictures with the sign, and everyone gathered and pressed the shutter, and it was impossible to tell who was the main character of the photo.

Seeing the spectacular crowd of people in front of him, Hugo couldn't help but be speechless, he hasn't been to the Walk of Fame, Disneyland, Chinatown and other tourist attractions in the past few days, and it is estimated that the tourism scene everywhere will definitely not be inferior to Universal Studios. Moreover, this is still the off-season of January, and if it is the height of summer in July, it is estimated that the scene will be even more spectacular.

"Because today is an open interview." Joseph suddenly made a thoughtless sentence, diverting Hugo's attention from the sea of tourists outside the window, and then saw Joseph's still expressionless cheeks frowning slightly, "It is estimated that there will be many, many people coming." ”

Hugo realized that Joseph was answering his question, and at the same time the source of his concern today.

When the two of them came to the audition meeting place, they were shocked by the dense crowd in front of them, which was the real "crowd of people". In front of me was a spacious sound studio, surrounded by scaffolds, boom cameras, and pulley tracks, all of which were still in a usable state, but now these props had been pushed to the side, clearing the open space in the middle, and all the people who participated in the public interviews were standing in the studio.

As far as the eye can see, there are at least 300 actors, which makes the whole studio bustling, shoulder to shoulder, and so lively. When Hugo participated in the audition before, he saw a more spectacular scene, and thousands of actors flocked to the set in one breath, but today this is the audition for the leading role, and just for the role of Charlie, so many actors have gathered, this is the largest audition Hugo has seen so far.

I used to read news reports about what role is one out of 800 people, and what role stands out from a thousand people, Hugo still has no real feelings, thinking that it is just a number, but the group of more than 300 people in front of him is telling Hugo in the most direct way: To get the role of Charlie, you must defeat everyone on the scene!

Among the more than 300 candidate competitors, it is not so simple to stand out from such a hot competition. Moreover, it is not yet nine o'clock, and there are still more than thirty minutes before the start of the audition, who knows if the number of competitors will continue to increase.

This feeling of suffocation made Hugo speechless, and he finally understood the reason why Joseph was expressionless all morning this morning, and it seems that Joseph had already known that the scale of today's public interview would be far beyond imagination. Joseph was not only worried about Hugo's interview prospects, but he was also frustrated by his lack of preparation for intelligence work.

When Joseph won the opportunity to audition for Hugo to "Smell a Woman", not only Hugo, but Joseph himself was also very happy, because now he is the agent that Hugo can really rely on, and he also needs Hugo to be able to find a job, Hugo is his only artist at present, and they can only count on each other. But as a result, this is not only an open interview, but also a scale of 300 people, in other words, young actors in Hollywood between the ages of 20 and 25 are estimated to have a little way to participate in the interview, which means that Joseph's job as an agent is not worth it at all.

Imagine that a year ago, Hugo was the male protagonist of "Hudson's Eagle"; A year later, I had to participate in the public interview of "Smell the Fragrance and Know the Woman", such a huge gap is really unacceptable. Although Joseph did not see any complaints on Hugo's face, he was still very dissatisfied with his work.

This really frustrated Joseph!

"Joseph." Hugo's voice made the expressionless Joseph turn his head to look over, although Joseph had this rigid face all morning, but at this time Hugo had completely adapted to such Joseph, because he knew that Joseph must also be worried about the next audition, so Hugo showed a big smile, "It seems that today's audition will be in line for a long time, do you have any relationship, let's shorten the waiting time?" Wait too long, and my performance will decline. ”

Joseph naturally knew that Hugo was joking, Hugo has been devoting himself to preparing for today's audition in the past few days, even if he is not fully prepared, but he will definitely not be out of shape because of the long wait. When Hugo said this, he was actually reassuring Joseph: instead of being afraid of fierce competition, it is better to meet the challenge head-on.

Looking at Hugo's familiar but unfamiliar smile, Joseph's nervousness couldn't help but relax slightly, "You wait here." With that, he walked through the crowd, and Joseph now performed the duties of an agent.

In fact, Joseph's worries do not exist at all for Hugo, although he is now nominally Hugo-Lancaster, but for the soul of Chen Hugo in the body, first the audition of "Big River Love", and then the interview of "Smell the Fragrance and Know the Woman", this is a super pie that he can meet but cannot find before the crossing, even the public interview is the same rare, the opportunity is already in front of him, what Hugo has to do now is to use all his strength to seize this opportunity.

Therefore, Hugo's mentality is very good, whether it is a competition of thirty people or a competition of three hundred people, if you want to impress the director, you must come up with real guns, if you don't have enough strength, even if it is only three people to compete, you will not be the one who will be selected in the end. It's that simple.

The truth is so, but Hugo looked at the sea of people spreading in front of him, the dense heads of people were surging in his sight, and the noisy whispers surrounded him from all directions, this real sense of tension still made Hugo involuntarily nervous, and it was not so simple to break through the fierce competition.

Hugo took a deep breath, but the scorching air in the studio made him feel very uncomfortable, and the tension not only did not ease, but showed signs of intensifying. Anyway, his current position was only a few steps away from the door of the studio, and Joseph would not be unable to see him when he returned, so Hugo decided to go to the door to get some fresh air.

Hugo turned around, and only took two steps when he saw two familiar faces coming at him, a man with straight blond hair and a man with curly black hair. The two men's original cheeks were almost nervous to the point of deformation, but as soon as they saw Hugo, the expression of the straight-haired blond man suddenly changed, and he pretended to raise his chin arrogantly and pointed his nostrils at Hugo, "Isn't this Hugo Lancaster, who was just eliminated in 'Big River Love'?" ”

Hugo's originally depressed mood couldn't help but stretch because of this expression and this sentence, and the corners of his mouth outlined a faint arc, "If I'm not mistaken, this is the hero of 'Big River Love', or is it you?" Hugo said as he looked at the black-haired man standing next to him. The black curly-haired man reacted half a beat slowly, and before he could speak, he was hit in the heart by Hugo's shot, and his cheeks turned red directly.

Everyone knows that Paul, the actor of "Big River Love", has been confirmed to be played by Brad Pitt, and Hugo is completely rubbing salt in the wounds of the two people. But Hugo seemed to be completely unaware, showing an apologetic expression, this expression looked in the eyes of the blonde straight-haired man and the black curly-haired man, which immediately made the two of them feel a lot more comfortable, and thought that Hugo was going to soften, but Hugo's next words made the two of them almost explode.

"Sorry, your name is ......"