Chapter 01 - Kate Bosworth
I'm Jason Connors, I use to just be the average writer down at the Daily News, but ever since my very public relationship with Natalie Portman, I had been turned into a full time celebrity interviewer. Well, actually, in truth I was briefly fired but when Natalie offered to give me the names of several hot shot celebrity managers, I was back in the game, this time I'm a celebrity interviewer. I was more of a freelance writer than anything but I rarely sold my articles to anyone other than the Daily News. I was apprehensive about my new job at first but then I realised I my first interview was with one of the hottest actresses in the business, Kate Bosworth.
Kate is just fresh off her success from Superman Returns. It was actually Natalie that got me the interview. I never understood why she decided to give me all these Hollywood contacts, maybe it was because she felt guilty for me losing my job in the first place, after all, my loyalty to her and the relationship is what got me briefly fired. There is still this awkwardness in the air every time we meet, like we're about to now. I arrived at her place early in the morning so that she can give me the low down on the events currently hot in Hollywood and to tell me who I can get an interview with. We could've just as easily done this over the phone but or some reason both of us felt the need to see each other even though we didn't say it out loud. The break up wasn't that bad, it was actually kinda mutual..... To a certain extent. For Natalie it was straight to business, no relationship talk at all although to be honest, I couldn't keep my eyes off of her mainly because she was wearing nothing but her robe.
'When you interview Kate Bosworth, you should ask her a lot about her newfound fame as a result from Superman, and don't lurk around her separation with Orlando Bloom too long, that means no mention of any anorexia.'
'Why not?'
'She's a friend of mine, she told me the next person who starts going down that track is gonna have the interview cut short, and a little something else might get cut short as well.'
'So I guess my best option is to ask you about it.'
'Correct, but I'm not gonna say anything,' she said with a slight smile.
'But she does look really thin,' I said
'Don't,' she said sternly.
If we were still going out, she would probably have just laughed it off. Don't you just love awkward silences? You know, sure she was helping me out, but I think Natalie and me both didn't like these rendezvous. We both looked at each other, I don't know who made the move but before I knew it we were it a loving embrace, or more accurately, we were on her couch having sex.
Several days after I arrived at Kate Bosworth's apartment late one afternoon several days later, still thinking about the whole thing with Natalie, are we on or off I kept thinking. Kate turned out to be nice enough and cordially invited me in. Although she did look tired as hell. She had set up a tray of food on the balcony where we both sat and we started the pre-interview small talk.
'How are you today?' asked Kate
'Fine, how are you?' I asked looking at how tired she was.
'Throbbing headache this morning and now with this hot weather, I feel like shit pardon my language.'
'I have some aspirin if you need it,' I said reaching into my brief case.
'Thanks, probably a good idea,' she said taking a pill and swallowing it before taking a sip from her glass.
I took a sip from my own glass before realising it was alcoholic; I quickly grabbed her hand before she could take another sip.
'What?' she asked.
'What is this?'
'What? The drink, it's some left over wine from last night, I had some friends over.'
'You just took some aspirin.'
'And?'
'And aspirin and alcohol don't exactly mix very well.'
She looked at the glass and then placed it down on the table before giving a small laugh,
'This should make your interview all the more interesting.'
'Don't worry, I use a sound recorder and not a camera so I won't have any evidence of any drunken disorderly behaviour you might participate in.'
I started the interview and things were going quite well but slowly I noticed she was becoming sleepy and she started to become more incoherent. I decide to stop after several more questions. I actually had tried to leave several times already but she kinda forced me to stay.
'Were you surprised when you were cast as Lois Lane?'
'Yeah, of course,' she said as she started to slur her words out. 'I was just disappointed that I wouldn't get to root Superman.'
I raised an eyebrow at that comment. I'm leaving after this next question I thought.
'And how was the attention from the role.'
'Great, you'd be surprised how many guys I had staring at me, although each one wanted to fuck Lois Lane and not me-'
I cut her short. '-OK, thankyou Kate Bosworth for your time, all the best of luck for the future.'
'Of course I get the feeling that's what Orlando (Bloom) wanted, just a chance to fuck Lois and pretend he's Superman.'
'I'm sure the break- up was nothing sinister,' I said.