This is a very famous Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills called "Scarpetta". It is located in the Montage Hotel. Sofia Coppola brought Dunn here once, and it left a deep impression on him.
Dunn brought Natalie closer to the restaurant, and she was dazzled by the exquisite layout.
The high vault, the beautiful sky garden, and the Mediterranean fountain embellishment elegantly show all the characteristics of the golden age of Hollywood.
"Coming here, I feel like I'm a big star!" Natalie whispered beside Dunn.
Tang En was very calm, "Don't worry, I can guarantee that you will be a big star in the future, no worse than anyone!"
Natalie's eyes lit up at once. She raised her white jaw and looked at him, "Don, I remember your words."
Tang En smiled, "Of course!"
After she came to the seat and ordered the dishes, Natalie pursed her lips when she saw Tang En was worried, and said jokingly: "Tang En, the whole of the United States that your private life is spread by the newspapers knows, you don't really think that I don't understand anything, do you? "
"Nate, I don't want to lie to you." Tang En's face was slightly condensed, rarely solemn, "Part of the reports in the gossip tabloids are nonsense, and some are true. But this doesn't mean anything, in my heart, You are not like them!"
"I know."
Natalie winked playfully and smiled lightly.
"you know?"
Natalie rolled her eyes, "Of course I know. I've never been in a relationship, but I can still see if you're sincere or if you're trying to lie to me."
Dunn was instantly delighted, "Nate, are you serious?"
"If it's false, do you think I'll come out with you?" Natalie rolled his eyes at him, and then said narrowly, "I heard that couples in love will lose their IQ, you...you're too exaggerated. Bar?"
"Cough cough..."
Tang En was a little embarrassed. He was despised by an underage girl and said angrily, "Nate, I'm serious, I'm not joking!"
Natalie raised her hands, "Okay, okay, I was wrong, there are a lot of directors Walker, don't have the same knowledge as a little girl like me."
Dunn laughed dumbly, "Nate, I never thought you would be so cute."
"Are you complimenting me?" Natalie asked embarrassingly.
Tang En laughed, "Of course I'm complimenting you. Have you forgotten another sentence? In the eyes of lovers who are passionately in love, no matter how big a disadvantage is, it is an advantage."
"You really are mocking me!"
Natalie gritted her teeth and glared at Dunn fiercely.
Tang En couldn't help laughing at her cute and charming appearance, and he was a little confused, so he couldn't help standing up, and then leaned over to Natalie across the dining table.
Natalie was startled at first, and then her face turned crimson. She subconsciously wanted to hide, but subconsciously she wanted to taste the taste of the first kiss.
After a little hesitation, he felt Tang En's fiery breath on his eyelashes, his heart was like a deer, he quickly closed his eyes and sat up straight, as if accepting a solemn ceremony.
When dealing with Natalie, Dunn naturally couldn't ask for it as unscrupulously as he did with other Hollywood actresses. He pecked her soft lips lightly, and then sat back.
Tang En pursed his lips lightly, feeling the moist and soft aftertaste.
But coincidentally found that Natalie Portman, who was sitting opposite, was also repeating the same action as him, pursing her lips, and seemed to have a deep aftertaste.
At a certain moment, the two of them met their eyes and faced each other for a while, then they smiled at each other.
"I thought it was sweet!" Natalie lowered her eyes shyly, took a sip of juice, and smacked her lower lip, "It's sweet now."
Dunn almost laughed, this Natalie is too cute.
"Nate, looking at you, I feel... I feel like my heart has melted." This is what Tang En said from the bottom of his heart. If he heard others say it, he would definitely get goosebumps, but in this situation, he would I feel everything is as it should be.
Natalie blinked her eyes beautifully, "You...have said this to many girls?"
"Never!" Dunn immediately shook his head and sighed, "Nate, this is Hollywood, there are some things... You should also understand that it's not my problem."
The reason why Natalie was disciplined so strictly by her mother was because of the smog in Hollywood. Of course she understood what Dunn meant and didn't like such dark topics, and instead asked, "Have you ever been in love?"
"No."
"Really not?"
"If you haven't counted it yet, then it's not."
Natalie sighed softly, "It seems that we are all poor people."
Tang En raised his eyebrows, "Why do you say that?"
Natalie leaned on her chin with one hand, and fiddled with the straw in the juice with the other, her voice illusory, "Those classmates of mine, many of my classmates began to fall in love at the age of 12 or 13, when they were 13 or 14... I won't talk about that. Now, I always feel that the youth of the two of us is quite lacking."
"On the contrary, I think it's our luck." Dunn showed a gentle smile, "Nate, think about it, such beautiful memories of first love are of course reserved for the most appropriate and suitable person. Isn't it a very romantic thing for us to exchange our first love for each other?"
"Pfft!" Natalie couldn't help but burst out with laughter, "Tang En, I understand, you're trying to trick me again, right? I won't be fooled!"
Tang En looked embarrassed and scratched his head, "This... Nat, you really misunderstood. I don't mean it at all."
"Humph! Don't try to lie to me!"
Natalie turned her head away, snorted, and then she couldn't help but "giggled" and chuckled.
At this moment, a young girl with a delicate figure came over in surprise, "Nate? Is that you, Nate?"
Natalie looked up, and a bit of joy appeared on her face, "Sister Drew? What a coincidence, I met you here."
Dunn looked up, and the corner of his mouth trembled slightly. He knew this woman—Drew Barrymore, who was a problem girl who caused a sensation in Hollywood back then, but now she has broken her bad habit.
Drew Barrymore took Natalie's little hand, looked her up and down, and said with a smile, "The last time we met, we were filming "Everybody Says I Love You" together. You've grown into a big girl."
Natalie smiled sweetly and sweetly, "Sister Drew, you are getting more and more beautiful."
Drew Barrymore smiled happily, "Is this your boyfriend?" He glanced at Dunn's face and was stunned.
Dunn Walker!
In Hollywood, who doesn't know each other?
Dunn quickly stood up and stretched out his right hand, "Hello, Miss Barrymore, I'm Dunn and Nate's good friend."
"It's really you?" Drew Barrymore exclaimed exaggeratedly. It's not like a big star, it's like a fan meeting an idol, but it's a pity that his acting skills are a bit poor, "Director Walker, I like your movie very much. Not to mention "Titanic", "My Great Greek Wedding" is also very exciting!"
"Oh? Have you seen "My Great Greek Wedding"?"
Drew Barrymore was a little proud, "Yeah, I've been to the UK some time ago, and I saw it there. It's really good."
"thanks."
Dunn's gentle smile drew his hand back appropriately.
This woman, her hands are so tight!
Drew Barrymore didn't have any embarrassment on his face. Looking at Natalie, he said enviously, "Nate, you have to seize the opportunity. Director Walker is the dream man of all Hollywood actresses."
The expression on Natalie's face was much lighter, "We just met."
Drew Barrymore winked at her, "Take your chance!"
Then he secretly gave Tang En a wink, took out a business card from his high-end handbag, and said with a deep meaning, "Director Walker, if you have work-related matters, you can call me on my personal phone. We can communicate deeply."
Tang En said calmly, "Okay."
When Drew Barrymore left, the smile on Natalie's face faded, and she was a little puffed up, "Dawn, she was seducing you just now, right?"
Tang En looked at her curiously, "How did you see it?"
Natalie gritted her teeth and said, "She gave you a personal call, but she said she wanted to talk about work. Isn't it contradictory? The personal call is about personal relationships, and the work is handled by the agent."
Tang En said with a smile, "Nate, you are really smart."
"Hey!"
Natalie lowered her head in disappointment, and lost her appetite for a table of delicious food, "Dawn, is this the case in Hollywood? Back then, when Drew and I filmed "Everybody Says I Love You" together, the relationship was good. Well, she took care of me like a big sister, but I didn't expect...she would seduce my boyfriend."
"Boyfriend?" Tang En looked at her playfully.
Natalie's expression froze, and she said loudly, "It's a good friend, you heard it wrong!"
Dunn didn't bother about this topic and sighed, "Nate, in Hollywood, everyone wants to be a big star, but how easy is it to say? For many actresses, this is just a shortcut."
"What about me?" Natalie found the ambiguity in Dunn's words, "Didn't you say I can be a big star? Do I want to..."
Dunn interrupted her quickly and patted his chest, "Nate, remember, you are different from them! Behind you, I will always be waiting!"
……
This night Natalie and her mother have been talking about a topic for a long time - the shortcut to a big star.
Natalie is Shirley Hirschler's greatest hope in life.
Since moving to the United States, Shirley Hirschler has seen the luxury and arrogance of the upper class, but she understands that relying on her doctor husband, she is at most a middle-class family.
The only hope is on her daughter.
From the age of 4, Shirley Hirschler took Natalie to learn dance; when she was 10 years old, she brought her daughter to Los Angeles from New York, looking for the opportunity to be a child star, but the effect was not good.
The Jewish nation is a matrilineal inheritance, which means that it is useless if the father is a Jew. Only if the mother is a Jew, the child is a Jew. Shirley wasn't Jewish, so Natalie wasn't technically Jewish, at best of semi-Jewish ancestry.
In order to allow her daughter to gain more Hollywood recognition, and to give her daughter a good background, Shirley Hirschler changed her daughter's surname early so that she could follow her grandmother's Jewish surname "Portman".
Such a change really paid off.
Gradually, Natalie finally made a few movies in Hollywood and gained some fame, but she was confined to the image of "Lori".
Shirley Hirschler is very smart. She disciplines Natalie strictly, making her study hard, be a Hollywood clean-up, be a dazzling white lotus, and preferably get admitted to a famous university.
If the opportunity is still lacking, you can go back to Israel and learn Hebrew, the native language of the Jews, to gain the favor of more Hollywood Jewish bosses.
but……
Now it seems that everything does not have to be so complicated, because there is a big man - Dunn Walker.
This is a shortcut!