Poisoned Cherries by Quintin Jardine

Author:Quintin Jardine [Jardine, Quintin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Hard-Boiled, Crime Fiction, Private Investigators
ISBN: 9781843952817
Google: f6dd8LLdU5MC
Amazon: B002TXZQZU
Goodreads: 1703368
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2013-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

The way Ewan looked down his slightly crooked nose at me, I thought about bending it some more, to really make him look the part. “If you put it that way, far be it from me to contradict,” he exclaimed, loud enough for Ricky Ross and Glen Oliver to look in our direction.

“Okay,” said Miles. “Now that shit’s been dumped, let’s flush it away, okay. The last thing I’m going to do, Ewan, is tell you how to act, so you afford me the same courtesy. In three out of the last five years, I’ve directed the world’s top grossing movies; that indicates, to me at least, that I know what I’m doing. So if I say we rehearse every scene, that’s what we do.

“Furthermore…” A big word for an Aussie, I thought. ‘.. . I’ve cast every featured player in this project personally. Forget what it’ll say on the credits; the agency found the bit players, that’s all. You might be getting more money than anyone else, Ewan, but every member of the cast has equal status in my eyes, and… this is the really important bit… in each others’ eyes as well. When we worked together before, you were in and out in a couple of days, so maybe you weren’t there long enough to get to understand what I’m about. My father’s a socialist politician in Australia, and that’s how I was brought up. There’s no class system in my life or on my sets; I’ve never hung a star on a dressing-room door in my life, and when it’s been done for me, I’ve ripped them down.

“For the record, Oz is here because he’s fucking good, just as everyone else is. He can play Andy Martin better than you or Scott, just as you can play your parts better than him, because you’ve each been chosen specifically for them.” He fixed Ewan with a steady eye. “So, mate, this is how it is. I wouldn’t have started this project if you hadn’t agreed to do it. Now I’m committed, but I won’t do it with a star who’s disrespectful to his fellow actors, or who tries to undermine me, as producer or director.

“If you can’t live with that, I’ll negotiate the terms of your withdrawal with Margaret.”

I felt Scott stiffen beside me; I held my breath. I could barely believe it, but Britain’s number one A-list movie actor had just been threatened with his P45.

“And who’d play Skinner?” asked Capperauld, icily. Clearly, he didn’t believe it at all.

“The biggest name in movies,” Miles replied, “Miles Grayson. I’ll make an early script change to account for the accent, and I’ll do your part myself.”

I think Ewan was about to tell him that he couldn’t do that, when he realised that he could. In the event he stopped himself at, “You ...”

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