James stood less than ten yards away from the crowd and watched all this. He clearly watched the sharp confrontation between Hugo and the reporter. Hugo just blocked all the reporter's attacks back while talking and laughing. The reporter was not only weak in attack, but also blocked by Hugo and had nothing to say, which made people applaud.

Even though James was just a bystander, he couldn't help but want to applaud Hugo. These reporters came to surround him with the mentality of making things difficult for Hugo. Unexpectedly, the result was that he would steal the chicken without losing the rice. This made the smile on the corner of James's mouth naturally rise.

But after laughing, James looked at Hugo, who always had a warm smile, but his eyes became complicated again. Then, he didn't know whether Hugo was intentional or unintentional. He just turned around and the eyes of the two people met in the air for a moment. James looked at Hugo's smile that seemed to melt the cold winter, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but pull to both sides, pulling a smile that was even worse than crying. Then he hesitated for a moment and chose to turn around and leave.

Hugo did not notice James' departure. He focused on the reporters. The smile on his face was one of the weapons to deal with the reporters. However, if Hugo noticed, he might be confused about James' complex eyes. There were indeed too many strange things in James Franco.

After Hugo and the reporters finished their conversation, the reporters could only stand in place and watch Hugo and Leonardo leave calmly. This kind of scene is not very common, but it also makes people believe that it will not be rare in the future.

Generally speaking, the confrontation between reporters and artists is often the artists fleeing in a panic. The reporters keep track of taking pictures with their cameras, which is annoying. However, now when facing Hugo, whether it is close-knit tracking and shooting, they cannot break through Hugo's defense line, and they often end up in a dilapidated situation. Finally, they watch Hugo leave slowly and even drive as a cover. This is really frustrating.

However, in the short term, it is estimated that it is not an easy task for journalists to find Hugo's flaws. Therefore, the future confrontation between journalists and Hugo will surely become increasingly unpredictable.

The gym where Hugo and Leonardo were doing physical training together was not far from Sunset Square, and it was only a fifteen-minute walk away. When the two returned to Sunset Square, Hugo saw Nicholas McCross sitting on the plastic chair in front of the convenience store at the intersection. Although Nicholas did not say hello, Hugo knew that he came for himself.

Hugo thought for a while and asked Leonardo to go back first. He walked towards Nicholas with his sports equipment backpack, and then sat down in the plastic chair opposite Nicholas. Nicholas was not surprised at all when he saw Hugo, and did not say hello or be polite. He smiled and joked, "I heard that you just said the nine reporters speechless."

"I swear, absolutely not." Hugo raised his right hand and expressed his innocence. "I just briefly discussed some questions with them that I cannot understand, just as the job of your reporter is to ask questions." Hugo's rebuttal immediately made Nicholas chuckle, but Hugo glanced at the phone on the plastic round table and sighed, "The news spreads so fast now."

Nicholas also noticed Hugo's eyes and smiled and pointed his chin, "Our newspaper also sent people to surround you, but I think it's better to wait for you here than to surround you. Now it seems that I missed the excitement."

The group of reporters who were surrounded just now were all people who attended the "Speed ​​of Life and Death" reporter meeting. They also knew that the news must be timely, so they rushed towards Hugo, but no one expected this result.

Hugo shrugged, "If you want, we can continue to discuss the topic just now. Maybe they can't answer questions, you can give me an answer."

Nicholas leaned forward and picked up his phone to play with it. "I heard a little about it just now." Nicholas just had a simple communication with his colleagues at his newspaper and did not understand the specific content, but he still heard about Hugo's questions. "I think things are actually very simple, and you also know the answer, but you just want to tease those reporters on purpose."

Hugo smiled with a pursed lips, without answering, not admitting but not denying it.

"You know that when people judge the prospects of a work, they are nothing more than those standards, costs, scripts, directors, casts, etc. If a work does not have these factors, it is naturally puzzling. So when you choose some works that do not meet these expectations, it will naturally cause doubts." Nicholas did not intend to explain seriously, but just summarized it with a smile, "especially when you can now work with a director of Steven Spielberg with a level of $15 million, but choose an action movie with less than 30 million. The screenwriter and director are just debuts, which is really incomprehensible."

"So, you can't understand either?" Hugo didn't intend to explain, and asked with a smile.

"Please, Hugo, I can't write an article for your answer." Nicholas was very dissatisfied with Hugo's response. "People responded to these questions and kept praising their crew, praising the script for being very good, praising the team for being very good, or praising the experience for this time will be very different. Can't you give such a response the same?"

"Is there any need? You have finished what I want to say." Hugo's words made Nicholas feel powerless and could only laugh. Looking at Nicholas' expression, Hugo couldn't help but be very curious, "Why do you think it's the right decision for me to choose 'life and death speed'?"

Although Nicholas said nothing, Hugo could feel it. Nicholas still planned to sing the opposite tune with all other media like before and choose to support Hugo. This made Hugo feel very curious. You should know that before "smelling the fragrance and knowing women", Nicholas always disliked Hugo.

Nicholas raised his eyes, looked at Hugo seriously, and then showed a smug smile, "Because this is my intuition." But as soon as this came out, he was broken by Hugo's sneer, which immediately made Nicholas feel very depressed, "Hey, you should at least give me some face."

"Agents and actors may rely on intuition to choose works, but journalists cannot rely on intuition to write news. I am not a young man who has just entered the industry. If I believe you, then I am a real fool." Hugo's counterattack made Nicholas feel very powerless.

Nicholas felt that it was very magical. He was the real witness in the past two years, witnessing Hugo's growth from a young and ignorant step by step to his keenness, directness, calmness and elegance. This greatness and spectacle witnessed with his own eyes made Nicholas feel that life is really colorful, but when he was really frustrated by Hugo's counterattack, Nicholas still felt very unhappy.

"Hey, you know that I am just accustomed to praising you now, and you still ask so many questions, really! You just want to expose me." Nicholas muttered dissatisfiedly, "How do you want me to write news?"

After the ups and downs of the past two years, Hugo has a new understanding of reporters, that is, they are used to questioning or praise them in a habitual way.

Before the Golden Raspberry Award, Hugo had failed three consecutive works in a row, and the "Death Poetry Society" that had achieved great success before was not able to win the Oscar nomination for Hugo. In the end, the Golden Raspberry Award gave a fatal blow, so the reporters all formed an inertial thinking: the works Hugo chose failed habitually.

This directly led to the media's constant doubts during the "Smelling the fragrance and knowing women".

Originally, Hugo had already gotten rid of the idea of ​​habitual failure through the success of two works, but the works Hugo took next were full of uncertainty, such as "Seattle's Night", "Schindler's List", "Pulp Novels", and "Speed ​​of Life and Death" that were not sure about it, so the inertia of doubt continued.

This is actually a fixed mindset. People always think that Hugo will fail. In fact, the same is true for Michael Jackson. There were countless negative news about Michael in the 1980s. He even specifically interviewed Oprah Winfrey at the beginning of last year to clarify one by one. So when the case of the child broke out, people's first reaction was that "all this is true."

It’s like the bad things in the class are done by children with poor grades, and it is absolutely impossible for children with excellent grades. This is the same truth.

Similarly, once this inertia is broken and reversed, the questioning inertia will evolve into a complimentary inertia. For example, as long as the works shot by Steven Spielberg are guaranteed, the works starring Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson are worth looking forward to. For example, the works participated by Tom Cruise will inevitably have an advantage in box office... This habitual compliment will continue.

Therefore, Hugo's "speed of life and death" this time continued this inertia, and people habitually raised doubts. Moreover, there are indeed countless so-called "loopholes" worthy of reporters' introduction, so they will naturally not miss this opportunity.

Hugo looked at Nicholas who was complaining in front of him and suddenly smiled, "You said, if I think the box office of 'life and death speed' will definitely be more than 100 million US dollars, what do you think?"

Nicholas looked at Hugo in front of him and his voice stuck in his throat for a long time before finally saying, "You are crazy!"
Chapter completed!