Chapter 750

"Hey, honey, it's already dawn, we should get up. It's not good to stay in bed like this."

"… Let me sleep a little longer, Ed … I'm still sleepy … I'm exhausted after being tortured by you last night … I need to rest …"

"That's not a reason to not get up. Besides, you were the one who pestered me last night, swearing that you could squeeze me dry by yourself."

"I don't care, I want to sleep, don't disturb me."

Watching Sophie childishly grab a pillow and cover her head, Adriaan smiled and shook his head. He leaned over and kissed her exposed softness. Then, he got out of bed, put on his shorts and pajamas, and went straight downstairs. All the ingredients in the kitchen were prepared, and the newspapers were placed on the dining table. However, none of the servants were there. They all knew his habits.

After making a simple breakfast, Adriaan brought it to the dining table and slowly ate while reading the newspapers. After about half an hour, Sophie, who was only wearing underwear and a shirt, lazily arrived.

"I thought it would take you a few more hours to get up." Adrian said with a smile as he looked at her. Even though she was almost forty years old and had a child, she still maintained her beautiful figure.

"Because someone is always self-righteous and likes to use some unconventional methods to wake people up." Sophie pouted as if she was very reluctant. Then, she saw the half-eaten toast with bacon left on Adriaan's plate. She immediately reached out happily as if she found something good and wanted to try it.

Unfortunately, Adriaan immediately slapped her hand away, and Sophie pouted even higher.

"I've left your portion in the kitchen. Why are you fighting with me over it?" Adriaan asked with a smile. Then, he grabbed Sophie's thigh as she walked past him angrily. "Hey, what's going on, Sophie, it's only been one night, how did you become like a little girl, fussing over everything?"

"Why can't I be like this?" Sophie originally wanted to pout even higher, but after meeting his gaze, she sighed and her mischievous smile gradually disappeared. Finally, she lowered her head and wanted to kiss him.

However, to her surprise, Adriaan immediately leaned back and looked at her with a nervous expression. "Did you rinse your mouth and brush your teeth?"

Sophie was stunned for a second, but she reacted after two seconds. She immediately punched Adriaan while he laughed. Her wish of many years had finally come true. Coupled with the one-on-one roll with Adrian last night, she would not stop until she was completely exhausted. No wonder she looked like a young woman when she woke up in the morning.

"What are you reading, so focused?" After fooling around for a while, Sophie finally started eating breakfast. After watching Adrian flipping through the newspaper for a few minutes, she couldn't help but ask.

"Of course, it's a review of last night's award ceremony. It's very interesting." Adriaan said as he pushed a newspaper in front of her. "Take a look, I specially asked someone to buy a French newspaper."

"Oh?" Sophie looked curious. She immediately took it and flipped through it. After flipping a few pages, she rolled her eyes. "This is ridiculous. This is … Le Parisien? This is a local newspaper in Paris, right? Why isn't there a report from Le Figaro or Le Monde? "

"It's simple, because they only mentioned a little, announced the list of winners, and then that's it. Fortunately, I asked Yini to pay attention to it last night. If necessary, get someone to buy some local French newspapers and send them over, "Adriaan said as he spread out his hands.

"Buy some … local newspapers and send them over?" Sophie looked at him in surprise.

"It's not troublesome." Adriaan smiled. "You know, this is the age of the Internet. Basically, if there is any news, it will be on the Internet as soon as possible. These local newspapers just excerpt and put together their reports. Although they still need to print it, they can get it with a phone call. All that's left is to wait for the plane to send it over."

Sophie didn't speak. She just stared at Adriaan blankly. After a long while, she came back to her senses and lowered her head to drink her coffee. After a while, she raised her head again, and her smile became gentler. Compared to what Adriaan had done for her, the sour tone of these newspapers was not worth mentioning. In any case, she had already won the Oscar. Even if Adriaan had contributed a lot, her efforts and contributions were worthy of this honor, so why should she care about it?

Seeing her like this, Adriaan was relieved. This slap in the face to the French filmmakers was heavy. Sophie, whom they had always regarded as a vase, had actually won the Oscar for Best Actress. From the beginning of the nomination, they had been struggling and had always treated it coldly. Even if they couldn't avoid La Vie En Rose, they only talked about Ms. Piaf's life and Adriaan's directing skills. They thought that people would begin to forget Sophie after the award ceremony. Who knew that she would end up winning the Oscar for Best Actress!

One could imagine how the French critics would feel. Although they could still make an issue of the Best Short Film Award, what was the use? What's more, the nomination alone was enough to prove Sophie's directing ability. What's more, this short film had won a lot of awards at some film festivals. If they ignored the Best Actress Award and focused on this, it would only make them more embarrassed.

Therefore, several well-known newspapers had no choice but to continue treating it coldly. Although the local newspapers had been reporting casually, their words were more sour than the other. For example, Sophie had never been recognized by the three major film festivals. Unfortunately, no matter how unwilling they were, with the powerful film industry of Hollywood, the Oscars had always been more recognized by the world than the three major film festivals.

Of course, the comments of some local media in the United States were not published. Although some of the media praised her, such as the San Francisco Chronicle, which listed Sophie's experience in detail and affirmed her efforts in the end, and thought that it was very appropriate for the Academy to award her the Best Actress Award. However, there were also some media that criticized Sophie like they did with Monica.

If it was slightly better, it meant that this beautiful French girl was very lucky. After wasting ten years, she met a man who could stimulate her potential. They almost directly hinted that it was because she hooked up with the Miracle Director that she won the Best Actress Award. This was just a public relations victory. Especially with the picture of Adriaan surrounded by several Miracle Girls in front of the Kodak Theater, such a report seemed very convincing.

However, the attention of ordinary people was more focused on "What is the relationship between the Miracle Director and the Miracle Girls?" How many boats did the Miracle Director have? Why did he date these Miracle Girls at the same time? Or was he using the Miracle Girls to cover up his private life? In any case, among the Miracle Girls, only Julia Roberts and Monica Bellucci were confirmed to have dated Adriaan. The others were plausible, especially Nicole Kidman. When she divorced Tom Cruise, the rumor that the Miracle Director's "Eyes Wide Shut, Warning" was the fuse. At the same time, the father of the Miracle Girl Kate Beckinsale's daughter was also very suspicious.

However, the Miracle Girls had more or less been involved in scandals in recent years. For example, after Nicole filmed Moulin Rouge, there was a rumor that McGregor wanted to pursue her. However, these rumors were either falsified or could not be confirmed. It was so confusing that people could not see clearly. People were like this. The more plausible something was, the more they wanted to figure out what was going on. Therefore, gossip topics always attracted a lot of attention.

Of course, no one would think that the relationship between the Miracle Director and his Miracle Girls was very pure. Although Adriaan's reputation as a playboy had not reached the point where everyone knew about it, most people had heard of it.

So when the photo came out, people's curiosity was quickly aroused. All kinds of speculations emerged endlessly on the Internet. If it was the first one mentioned just now … it would be too enviable. That's right, this was what most people thought. Besides, as long as one was not married, others had no right to say who was dating and who was sleeping with whom. This kind of thing was very common in Hollywood.

What's more, Adriaan was young, talented, and had a huge amount of wealth. His rise to prominence was legendary. Why couldn't he maintain an ambiguous relationship with these women? It was still the same sentence that had been said thousands of times. If the gap between them was only a little bit, people would be jealous and hate. However, the gap between them was too big, so big that people could only look up to him, and only envy and worship him.

In short, people's attention was on the gossip, so no one talked about his second Academy Award for Best Director or the birth of the first Academy Award for Best Movie in the history of the Oscars. Basically, when Adriaan raised the Academy Award for Best Director, there was no doubt who would win the Academy Award for Best Movie. Under normal circumstances, the winner of Best Director and Best Movie would be the same work, unless the Film school deliberately wanted to balance it out.

Adriaan also knew this, so he had no problem using the Academy Award for Best Movie in his speech after winning the Academy Award for Best Director.

"They actually didn't mention anything about the genre of the movie. They only said that it was an epic work that finally got the honor it deserved. How disappointing," Adriaan sighed as he flipped through the newspaper in his hand.

"Come on, Eide, everyone knows what kind of work 'Lord of the Rings' is. Don't you think it's too stingy to let the media emphasize its attributes too much?" Naomi, who was fiddling with the camera, said with a smile, "This is not in line with what you said in your speech, that this is a very good change for the academy."

"Can't you comfort me, Naomi?" Adriaan frowned deliberately.

"Why?" Naomi blinked. "You came here today to comfort me, didn't you?"

Adriaan, who had failed to pretend, could only smile and raise his hands. At this Oscars, four of his women had been nominated for acting. Although it was customary for him to accompany the Best Actress on Oscar night, he had won Best Director and Best Movie again this year. So from the end of the award ceremony, when the winners came together to take photos, he had become the focus of many people's attention.

Although he had been the focus of attention before, he was only one of them. Now that he had won Best Director and Best Movie for the second time, he naturally became the winner of the night. After all, there were not many directors who could win Best Director twice. It was even more so at Vanity Fair's party, especially when a group of directors and producers led by Cameron surrounded him. He didn't know if this guy did it intentionally or unintentionally, but he couldn't do anything other than deal with them.

In the past, at this time, Adriaan would usually find a way to talk to his women separately after dealing with them. If necessary, he would go somewhere else for in-depth communication. But that night, he didn't even talk to Sophie, let alone talk to other women. And there were more than a few miracle girls at the party that night. Sarah, Kirsten, and Scarlet all looked at him with dissatisfaction, especially Kyla, who had missed the Oscars last year and was finally able to come this year. She was obviously unhappy when she was at the periphery.

So, after accompanying Sophie on Oscar night, Adriaan had to run around with women, using his … um … body to comfort them.

"You're not cute, Naomi, but it doesn't matter. Anyway …" Adriaan chuckled, threw down the newspaper, hugged Naomi from behind, and began to grope her.

"Eide!" Naomi shouted angrily, but she couldn't hide the coquettish tone in her voice. "If you keep doing this, don't even think about finishing today's work."

"It doesn't matter. If you can't finish, you can do it." Nicole's voice came from the door, and then she appeared at the door in a black lace evening dress.

"That won't do." Naomi shrugged. "We agreed that today's movie is about you."

She then sighed again, "She came to comfort me, but in the end, the main character is Nicole. Should I feel sad for myself?"

"She's jealous, Eide." Nicole, who was holding Adriaan's arm, giggled. "That's rare. It's rare to see Naomi jealous. She always likes to hide behind and watch coldly."

"That's not right, Nicole." Adriaan reached out and slapped her butt. "Naomi is just used to being like this. She is a delicate woman. It's my luck to be able to keep her by my side."

Hearing this, Naomi smiled softly, lowered her head and continued to fiddle with the camera in her hand. Nicole glanced at Adriaan and snorted silently. Then she walked to Naomi and said, "Actually, it's very easy to be the main character. Naomi, sign the contract like I did, and I guarantee that you can be the main character immediately. Eide wants to make an adult version of Mulholland Pass for a long time."

As she spoke, she shrugged and said, "You see, this is what happened to me. I was promoted from his private prostitute to his private high-class call girl, and then to his private pornographic actress. Hey, Ed, how much are you going to pay me? If you want to invite an Oscar -winning actress like me to star in an erotic movie, you can't do it without enough money. "

"What? Didn't you say a friendship price of one dollar?" Adriaan pretended to be surprised. "How can you break the contract?"

"That was just a verbal promise." Nicole put her hands on her hips and puffed out her chest. "Now I've changed my mind."

"Okay, you two, get ready!" Naomi laughed and pushed them. "I really don't know where Eide gets his dirty ideas from …"

She couldn't help but blush when she said the last sentence. In order to play the passionate scene between women in Mulholland Pass, Naomi and Nicole had made out several times in private in front of Adriaan, and they had done it in real life. This film had been kept by Adriaan for a long time. Just like when Nicole had made out with him in real life in Eyes Wide Shut, he would often take it out to enjoy.

Naomi was a little uncomfortable at first, but she gradually got used to it. This also meant that she had completely fallen into Adriaan's arms. So, Adriaan gave her the job of being in charge of The Dainty Wife, which was the adult version of Eyes Wide Shut. Today, he dragged them to Montecito's villa to finish the last few passionate scenes.

"Let's get ready. Do you want to say a few words to the camera?" Adriaan turned on the lights and checked the carefully arranged environment. Although his studio was small, it had done a good job of recreating the ballroom at the beginning of Eyes Wide Shut. It took a lot of time to prepare, but it couldn't be helped. He had to adjust everything by himself, and even Naomi had to help with the camera.

But that didn't stop him from having a heated confrontation with Nicole in the middle of the ballroom in front of the camera.

"What do you want to say?" Nicole looked at the camera. "Introduce yourself like Gwyneth."

"Of course, you can choose not to say it." Adriaan deliberately said so. Sure enough, Nicole gave him a sideways glance and then began to introduce herself. "Hi, hello, I am Nicole Kidman. I am now preparing to star in my first erotic film after winning the Oscar for Best Actress …"

What other women could do, she could do it too. This was the attitude of Nicole and many other women. Adriaan liked it very much, although sometimes things would develop in unexpected ways.

For example, when Nicole introduced herself to the camera, she first talked about her desire and need for sex, then started to comment on Adrian's size, size, and ability. In one moment, she boasted that he was incomparably brave, and in the next moment, she belittled him to the point that he was worthless. In short, in her words, Adriaan was both rude and gentle, both strong and incompetent, full of exaggerated contradictions.

"In short, you will soon see what kind of person he is in front of the camera." Nicole finally completed the introduction with this sentence, and Naomi was already laughing so hard that she couldn't even straighten her back. She had to desperately hit the chair to prevent herself from laughing out loud. As for Adriaan, his face was so dark that it was about to drip water.