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Chapter 332: The middle-aged uncle came uninvited
🕑 Added 2025-05-14 15:04:13 +0000 UTCBenedict Cumberbatch carried James on his shoulders, and the two of them walked out of the audition room together.
"I'm telling you, you can play any other role but you have to play a knight. Have you shown off enough now?"
"What's wrong?"
Tom Hiddleston, who was waiting outside the door, quickly stepped forward and grabbed James's other arm. He and Benedict Cumberbatch worked together to pull James to sit on a chair next to them.
"What happened?" Tom Hiddleston asked curiously.
Benedict Cumberbatch pointed at James and explained, "This guy swung the gun too hard and dislocated his arm."
"Forehead……"
Tom Hiddleston didn't know what to say. He had been very aware of the fact that James Mcavoy was cocky and liked to show off in the past two days, but he really didn't expect her to do it in such a ridiculous way.
"Do you need to see a doctor?"
"No need, the emergency doctor has already straightened my arm."
James smiled bitterly and waved his hand to answer Tom Hiddleston's question: "I just need to rest for a while now. It's a pity that this audition is a failure."
“Not necessarily.” Benedict Cumberbatch shook his head. “At least you’re a better lecturer than I am. Looking back, I think I was a little too deliberate.”
"Then maybe in the future you will play the knight and I will be the orator. Ouch."
James originally wanted to do a weird funny move, but ended up pulling the part of his arm that had just been dislocated and he grimaced in pain.
"See how you can still show off."
Benedict Cumberbatch shook his head. "Have you forgotten that the knight you play is Diarmuid Odi?"
James tilted his head: "I know, what's wrong?"
Benedict Cumberbatch pointed at his long face and complained, "I'm the Knight of the Shining Appearance. Can I act with this face?"
As a knight who specializes in seducing his boss's fiancée, the actor who plays Diarmuid Uo definitely needs to have extremely good looks.
Not to mention that he is so handsome that even men can't control themselves and want to touch his butt, but at least the audience will be deeply attracted to him at first sight.
From this point of view, Benedict Cumberbatch's appearance is obviously not up to standard among the three.
Benedict Cumberbatch’s appearance is certainly not bad, but it is still quite different from the traditional sense of handsomeness.
He is more of the type of actor who is more pleasing to the eye the more you watch him. Although he is not particularly eye-catching at first glance, as the story develops, the audience will find this actor more and more pleasing to the eye.
But it seems a bit inappropriate to let Benedict Cumberbatch play a man like Diarmuid or Lancelot.
Not to mention others, even Benedict Cumberbatch himself doesn't think he's good enough. He knows very well that his strength is not his super high appearance at first sight, so he has no idea about the role of Diarmuid.
"Anyway, I blew this audition."
James said somewhat dejectedly.
“It’s not the end yet.”
Benedict Cumberbatch consoled him, "Didn't you perform very well in the literary part before?"
"I think you scolded very well!"
When he thought about Benedict Cumberbatch's scolding and sarcasm towards him during the audition, he became very angry.
"What do you know?"
Benedict Cumberbatch straightened his costume and said, "This is called acting!"
James gritted his teeth and said, "I think you are dumping all your previous dissatisfaction on me!"
"Can't you two just say less?"
Tom Hiddleston smiled bitterly and shook his head. He and Benedict Cumberbatch helped James up again and walked towards the makeup room together.
"I'm feeling really depressed today. Shall we go have some fun later?"
"Shut up and take good care of your injuries!"*2
In the next few days, James stayed in London temporarily because of an injury he suffered during the audition.
Although it was just a simple dislocation, the arm was put back in place immediately.
However, according to the doctor's advice, James cannot engage in strenuous exercise for the time being, so he asked his agent in the United States for a week's leave.
When James told this to his agent, he was scolded by him.
He was so scared that he hung up the phone immediately when the other party took a breath, not wanting to keep calling for even a second.
For the next week, James could only stay quietly in his room to recuperate, which was a torture for him who liked to be lively and active.
Fortunately, Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddleston were there to keep him company, so he wasn't bored to the point of wanting to commit suicide.
But every time the three of us get together, there isn’t much we can do.
The most common entertainment activity is playing cards and chatting.
Perhaps because they all cared a lot about the audition results, every time the three of them started chatting, no matter what topic they started with, they would eventually return to the topic of the audition results.
Every time this happened, James would scream and sigh.
There is only one central idea - I will definitely not pass the audition this time.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddleston also knew that the other was depressed, so they also tried to comfort each other in their own way - by messing up his hairstyle.
After all, they didn’t even know whether they were selected or not, so of course they would feel dissatisfied when seeing James dancing like that.
Fortunately, the worst scenario in the three people's minds did not happen.
Four days later at around 3 p.m., the three of them received a call from Washimine Entertainment.
All three calls had only one main content:
They all passed the audition.
Tom Hiddleston was invited to play Waver, Benedict Cumberbatch played Kenneth, and James Mcavoy successfully got the role of Diarmuid!
This made all three of them breathe a sigh of relief, and Tom Hiddleston was probably the happiest among them.
The pay for participating in such a big commercial production would not be too low, so at least he wouldn't have to worry about his livelihood in the short term.
James called his agent who was far away in North America and asked him to start discussing the specific remuneration with the FZ crew.
This process will be quite long, after all, it involves the actors' pay, their image and various other trivial matters.
But since both parties are interested and none of the trio are big stars, it is only a matter of time before they reach an agreement.
However, Nanaya did not intend to intervene directly in these small matters. Not to mention that he was not from a legal background. If he, as a director and producer, had to take care of such small matters, then were all the other people in Washimine Entertainment just there to eat for free?
So while Washimine was engaged in a tug-of-war over business negotiations with the actors' agents, Nanaya comfortably hid in the Wettin Manor to enjoy his rare leisure time.
"Ah, I feel like I have less and less time to relax like this."
Nanaya was lying in the gazebo outside the Wettin Manor, basking in the sun while crossing his legs and complaining.
"The last time I felt so comfortable was when I was at Ryougi's house." Nanaya squinted his eyes and muttered to himself, "I wonder if Madam Ryougi has calmed down."
According to what Ori told me, Mrs. Ryougi was really angry after learning about the scandal between me and Ryan.
If it weren't for Ori and Shiki trying to stop her, I heard that she would have asked the gang to kidnap her and marry the child of Ryougi's family, who was either Ori or Shiki.
As for Nanaya's choice of marriage partner, it all lies in the hands of Mrs. Ryougi. It depends on which of the two siblings she treats as her own daughter at that time.
To be reasonable, Nanaya doesn't think it's a loss if she really gets married in the Japanese style, even though she is lazy and loves to eat, and if she doesn't pay attention to exercise, she will become a fat girl sooner or later.
But after all, she is a fair, rich and beautiful woman, and it would be great to marry her and show her off at home.
That means that when the time comes, Ori will have to watch his sister exercise to keep her in shape.
It’s a pity that this matter is not up to Nanaya and Ryougi siblings at all. The initiative is completely in the hands of Ryougi Kiyomi.
Who knows if the old lady will suddenly give Ori to herself? After all, his junior brother has been pretending to be her daughter in front of her for so many years.
"Huhu, so the relationship between you and those two little bitches from the Ryougi family has broken down, right?"
Lily, who was staying in the pavilion with Nanaya, said excitedly. She sat next to Nanaya and teased his head with a leaf she picked.
"What do you mean by a broken relationship? I just can't go to Ryougi's hometown right now." Nanaya said dissatisfiedly, "Also, she is your elder after all, so be careful with your words!"
"It doesn't matter. My brother-in-law and sister are all I need! The others are just my ordinary friends!"
Lily folded the leaves into the shape of a whistle and placed it on Nanaya's lips.
"Come on, brother-in-law, blow it for me."
"Hello."
Nanaya picked up the leaves and threw them aside. "Don't bother me. I need to have a good rest now. I was bothered by you guys during the New Year. Now is a rare leisure time."
"Lily, Dad, I'm here!"
A rude voice that made people feel cold just by hearing it was heard, and then a British uncle who had met Nanaya once appeared in the pavilion.
"Ah, father?!"
Lily was like a frightened little rabbit. She sat back at the other end of the table in the gazebo as quickly as possible.
"I heard it all. That brat is here, right?"
Wei Ting said this with full energy. Maybe he thought it was just an ordinary conversation, but to others it had the power of a Buddhist lion's roar.
"I was just talking about it yesterday, and he's coming today. It seems like he's quite courageous. I have a different opinion of such a courageous kid... Um, what are you guys doing?"
Seeing his little daughter's panicked expression, Mr. Wettin's eyes narrowed immediately.
"Ah, no... no... this is."
Obviously, Lily didn't do anything out of the ordinary, but she was still a little nervous when facing her father's questioning.
"A man and a woman alone in the pavilion... Boy, you are not going to do anything shameless to my little daughter, are you?"
Mr. Wettin's gaze reminded Nanaya of Kiritsugu, but the other party was much more courageous than Kiritsugu.
At the very least, Mr. Wettin is not as thin as Kiritsugu in terms of physique.
Although he is not as strong as Schwarzenegger who has steroids all over his body, he is obviously much stronger than Nanaya.
"No, I'm just taking a break!"
Nanaya was so frightened that he jumped off the recliner. He hurriedly explained to the old father: "Your daughter and I were just having a normal chat."
Seeing the other party holding the cane tightly, Nanaya felt that if he didn't explain clearly, the cane might become a weapon in the next second.
Nanaya even imagined the scene where the opponent's cane turned into Leviathan's Axe and then split himself in half with one blow.
"Yes, my brother-in-law and I were just having a normal chat." Lily nodded hurriedly.
"You actually call someone else your brother. Lily, you don't have to be so polite to this brat."
Mr. Wettin snorted coldly, "Forget it, anyway, I don't think you dare to do anything to my daughter, just follow me now."
"Huh?"
Where should I go?
"What kind of face is that? You came to my house to learn aristocratic history and etiquette from me, right? Come on, I have a lot of information in my study, which will definitely be very helpful for your filming."
"Hey! That..."
Before Nanaya could react, he was forcibly taken away by Mr. Wettin.
【What is going on? ! 】
Nanaya looked at Lily.
Lily stuck out her tongue and said, "I'm sorry, brother-in-law. But this is a good opportunity to get along well with dad, so you must try your best!"
"Build good relationships..."
[You must have made a mistake. I'm just here on vacation! ]
Mr. Wettin cracked his knuckles and said to Nanaya, who was dumbfounded, "It's been a long time since young people paid attention to the history of the nobility.
"I heard that you will stay here for a few days. I will explain everything to you slowly, carefully and well. In your Japanese words, you should expect and accept everything with hope!"
“…”
Mr. Wettin's brilliant smile actually made Nanaya read some of King Billy's flavor.
[I should be able to leave here alive...]
This was the only thought in Nanaya's mind at this moment.
