Chapter 253: back to the start

Hugo is sick.

This is actually not surprising, a long time sucking. Poisonous people are poisoned in their bodily functions. After the product is damaged, it is not so easy to regain health. Repair is always more difficult than damage. Although Hugo has been insisting on physical exercise for more than six months, his busy work and unaccustomed diet have delayed Hugo's recovery plan.

Hugo has not been ill for more than half a year. This is very rare. After he fell ill this time, Joseph realized that Hugo’s health has really been without any problems for a long time, even if it was a cold. But it also made Hugo fall like a mountain after getting sick this time.

Originally it was just a cold and a low-grade fever, but the body temperature began to rise the next day, and it was useless to take the'medicine' to rest. However, pneumonia began in two days. The recurrent fever symptoms lingeringly consumed Hugo's physical strength, see With that lively energy disappearing from Hugo’s body bit by bit, the warm smile that usually hangs on the corner of his mouth is now pale and weak due to the dry and cracked'lip' petals, that is fainted. Dark circles make the face that has no blood "color" look more haggard, and the shiny wheat "color" skin is like a dense forest filled with dark clouds at this time, and no brilliance can be seen.

Hugo stayed in the hospital for four days, the inflammation finally subsided, and then he was in the bed again. After lying on the bed for two days, Hugo finally couldn't bear the smell of formalin in the hospital, and strongly demanded to be discharged, and then returned home.

Hugo looked at Joseph in front of him and couldn't help but laughed, "Charlize, Alex, and Carl have all lost weight because of staying up all night, why are you... fat?" Joseph looked at the resistance on Hugo's face With a slowly blooming tired smile, I only felt a black line on my head, "Could it be that Charlize and the others prepared me good food, you steal too much at home?"

Although Joseph was very helpless, his worries were finally relieved, because the smile returned to Hugo's face again, unknowingly, he had become accustomed to such a sunny Hugo. Hugo, who has fallen into a depression or even a coma these days, makes him very uncomfortable and uncomfortable. He doesn't like this feeling.

"So, if you have any bad news, you can tell me now." Hugo said relaxedly to Joseph. As a result, Joseph raised his head and looked at him with suspicion and concern. Hugo curled his lips. , "With Alex, he can't hide things at all. And...you and Carl are not much better." The heaviness between Joseph's eyebrows can be found even if Hugo doesn't deliberately look at it.

This heaviness is not only worrying about Hugo's illness, but also a lingering anxiety. Hugo is very familiar with this kind of restlessness. After the failed audition for "Lover on the River" last year, Joseph couldn't even find an audition opportunity for a while. Hugo had seen it in Joseph at that time, but at that time Joseph was still more wary of rain. Therefore, the performance was not obvious. After the audition for "Smell the Fragrance and Meet the'Female'" was successful, this anxiety quietly disappeared.

Joseph looked at Hugo's "desire" and stopped, but the expression was so familiar, Hugo sneered, "Don't worry, I won't die." Hugo lowered his eyes and said in a low voice. Then, "Just keep some things in the bottom of my heart. I have been indulging in pessimism and cannot extricate myself from it. This will only stop all the time in life. Not only does it helpless, but it will only make things worse." This is Hugo felt the most during this time of illness.

A relationship is over, but it does not mean that life is over. Whether you want to redeem this relationship, retaliate against this relationship, or let go of this relationship, life must continue to move forward. Only when the spirit is raised up, everything is possible, self-pity, tears alone, loneliness and loneliness Well, it has never been Hugo's style.

Joseph was very happy to see Hugo regain his optimism, but thought that in the week when Hugo was sick, Uma did not appear from beginning to end—this is not surprising—Joseph was still a little worried, but he didn’t know. How should I comfort Hugo? In the end, he can only pull the corners of his mouth, pretending to be relaxed, "Yes, but a'female' person, there is no need to embarrass yourself."

Hugo chuckled twice, and muttered in a low voice, "Yeah...yes..." There was an unclear emotion flowing in the lowered eyes, and only Hugo could savor the bitterness of the tongue. , And then he raised his head and hid all emotions. This time, he hid successfully, "So, you don't have to worry about what happened?"

Joseph considered his own thoughts. He didn’t intend to tell Hugo. After all, it doesn’t matter whether Hugo knew it or not. Anyway, the result was already doomed. But Joseph immediately thought that Hugo also had the right to know these things. Guo is not such a fragile person, even the withdrawal reaction has persisted by gritting his teeth.

"Actually, the thing about your big-name game has subsided." Joseph first said a good news, which made Hugo smile and slightly click on his chin. This is Hollywood. The shelf life of any news will not be too long, even Woody Allen’s shocking family ugliness only raged for a while, and then disappeared. Endless news kept emerging, diverting people’s attention and enriching people’s lives. "However, the influence of the matter is not over yet."

"This is as it should be." Hugo is not surprised. The real lethality of any negative news is not the moment the news broke, but the lasting influence after the news broke, such as "water" Door'event'.

The Water'gate' incident itself was revealed by the "Washington Post (the. on June 18, 1972, and after that, the protagonist of the incident, Richard Nixon (.), did it for the first time. In response, the correct strategy actually allowed him to deceive the people and successfully achieved the re-election of the president.

But after that, one anonymous letter after another was sent to the court, revealing the secret behind the incident. After that, things became more and more complicated, and the truth of the matter was revealed step by step within two years. On August 8, 1974, Nixon, who had resigned from his family, announced his resignation, bringing the incident to an end.

Therefore, simply from the "big-name suspicion" incident, the harm to Hugo is not great. After all, this is a specious and popular thing. Unless there is true and correct evidence, it is difficult to define the so-called big-name. However, the impact of the incident on the inner thoughts of people inside and outside the circle, and the impact on Hugo's future career, is the most important role of the entire incident.

Joseph looked at Hugo’s calm expression, and his anxiety was relieved a bit. “In fact, Warner Records and Universal Music have contacted me before and asked if you are interested in making an album. However, I called them this week to explain the situation. , All the calls answered by the secretary."

The point of Joseph's words is: the album matter has fallen through. But Hugo’s point is, "Wow, the two top record companies are willing to release albums for me? Is this true or false, and when?"

"At the Golden Globes celebration party, it’s actually not really a wish. I just met them... Forget it, they just mention it. I didn’t pay much attention to it before. You know, all my thoughts were on that day. On'Death End'." Joseph said honestly, "And after that, things went from wave to wave, and I forgot." This cannot be blamed on Joseph, after all, he is a film agent. There is really too little knowledge about the music industry, and too little concern.

Hugo replied for a long time, "It seems that they are just an idea. Whether it is feasible or not has been evaluated. Even without these messy things, it will not be so easy. "Hugo has a clear understanding of his situation. He has shown a song "Sunburn" on the "Oprah Talk Show". It can attract the attention of record companies, but it's not enough. Ask them to pay for an album for him, knowing that the album is ten songs.

Hearing Hugo’s comfort, Joseph's anxiety calmed down a bit, "The movie..." At this point, Joseph paused. After thinking about it, he still didn't give himself to some producers, screenwriters, etc. The agent called to tell Hugo about the treatment he suffered when he was interested in a certain project.

Those people almost hear that they are "Hugo's agent", they will start to practice Tai Chi and go around in circles, and they are not willing to talk about the project. Of course, there are also more "radical" ones, such as relying on the TV series "Thirty Years". Marshall Heskowitz (Marshall.), the producer of the best Emmy series, not only ridiculed Joseph, but also hung up the phone rudely.

Thinking of Marshall's ridicule, Joseph could not help clenching his fist, but Joseph quickly stabilized his emotions and said to Hugo, "The progress of the movie is not good." Seattle Yewei "Mian" seems to be looking for Tom Hanks to play."

Although Joseph did not say, Hugo can also imagine what happened to him. No matter how true the big-name suspicion is, at least on the cusp of the current ‘wave’, they will temporarily avoid Hugo in all their plans. As for "Sleepless in Seattle", Hugo sighed for a long time when he heard the name of Tom Hanks. He guessed that maybe this was the deadliest, and it was the result that Tracy was looking forward to: now it rains. If there is no project in his hand, there is no alternate, and the audition opportunity has temporarily disappeared.

Although I don't know what the future development will be, Tracy has painstakingly played such a big game just to see Hugo's current miserable situation, right? It's worse than it was at the Golden Raspberry Awards a year ago. Once Brad Pitt and Uma Thurman can play the "Sugar Coated Trap", and Tracy and Lang join hands to win the "Schindler's List", then the future of Hugo's bitter life is just the beginning.

After experiencing the success of "smelling the fragrance of women" and "Yihai Xiongfeng", he originally thought that his career would rise to a new peak, but he did not expect that he was greeted by a vast abyss, and he had not yet stood at the highest point. , It's back to the original point. No wonder Joseph became anxious. Even after Hugo knew his current situation, he would inevitably let out a long sigh and vent his inner depression.