Birth of an actor

A door separated William from the group of people who could decide his fate.

In the room, Ang Lee smiled and said to Emma: "Your lines were so good just now, it's almost like a reproduction of the original, especially those few pauses, which suppressed the unrequited love between Edward and Elena. The emotion is beautifully restored, and I have to say, even though William Bradley is young, there is a real spark when he plays with you."

Emma Thompson gave Li Ang a faint smile.

Although Li Ang praised her together, Emma knew that she still had some reservations about her feelings when she spoke to the lines just now. She was not as devoted as that young man like William Bradley. There was a pause... It was purely because she lost her mind looking at the other party.

After the audition just now, Emma's perception of William Bradley has improved a lot, but she still doesn't want him to play the role of Edward. He looks decent, but his actual age is still too young, a full ten years younger than her. Second, as early as when writing the script, Emma substituted the image of Hugh Grant into Edward. If possible, she Still want to work with Hugh Grant.

Emma Thompson: "William Bradley is nice, but I think he's too young."

"In Jane Austen's original novel, Elena Dashwood and Edward Ferrars were about the same age, both were only 19 years old when they appeared on stage, and William Bradley's age was actually just right." Ang Lee explained : "And I think he has a very mature temperament, which can be seen from the fact that he doesn't fall behind in his lines with you."

"Choose such a young Edward, wouldn't it make me, Elena, older?" Emma Thompson said half-jokingly: "Li, you will never forget my age, right?"

Emma Thompson, who was born in 1959, is 36 years old this year, but she is considered to be well-maintained among Caucasians. Now her skin is fair and firm, and her face only slightly looks up when she laughs. Wrinkles and crow's feet—caucasian teenagers and girls, many of them have forehead lines, law lines, and eye and tail wrinkles at the age of fifteen or sixteen—plus the dressing style and makeup are very light, and they never look more than 30 years old.

"What I'm talking about is that Edward and Elena are about the same age in the original book, but I also know that in your script, it's a bit of a sister-brother relationship." Li An said with a smile: "You look 25 years old. Left and right, Emma, ​​and although William is young, he has a mature temperament, you should have felt that kind of chemical reaction when you played together just now, right? In my opinion, it is by no means smaller than the spark produced when you and Grant played together."

Emma Thompson frowned: "Li, do you have any opinion on Hugh Grant?"

Li An hesitated for a moment.

Seeing his expression, Pascal said, "You are the director, Li, so if you have any suggestion, I hope you can put it forward honestly, and don't be so reserved like other Orientals."

"Hugh Grant is a great actor, handsome, elegant, good acting skills, and well-known." Ang Lee knows the art of speaking first: "However, when he is acting, the 'star quality' is too heavy. It’s like he’s not trying to serve the role of Edward Ferrars, but he’s trying to make the role of Edward Ferrars serve him.”

Although Emma would like to say a few good words for Hugh Grant, as a British actor, she must admit that what Ang Lee said is right-the traditional British actors of academic origin always have the same problems, such as It is said that they generally have a strong sense of responsibility when making movies, and they are very egotistical. They think that they must be responsible for the movie and provoke the mainstay of the movie, so their acting skills are too British when shooting, and they often have many ideas and like to challenge the authority of the director.

Especially Hugh Grant, he is a popular lover in the UK, and he has done well in Hollywood, but he has a more star ego. As an oriental director, Ang Lee, who likes to dominate everything and make actors obey his own words, will not like Hugh Grant. Grant's performance, it's just so normal.

Although not directly stated, the director, screenwriter and heroine of the film have each expressed their own opinions, one wants William Bradley, and the other insists on Hugh Grant.

The decision rests with Amy Pascal.

As a film producer and distributor, she was originally the most powerful person in the entire crew.

"I'm sure William Bradley will surprise us." Amy Pascal, vice president of Columbia Pictures, one of Hollywood's eight major studios, considered William's American status and the company's interest in Sanity. With the investment of the film "Howard Endor" with reference to the unoptimistic box office estimate of the same style, and Hugh Grant's salary, the final decision was finally made.

The disappointment was palpable on Emma Thompson's face.

But she couldn't blame Amy, because Amy Pascal was in her position and made a choice that was more beneficial to Columbia Corporation.

……

A huge surprise hit William suddenly, making him dizzy——

The hero of "Sense and Sensibility"!

Playing with Oscar winner Emma Thompson!On the same crew as Alan Newkman and Tom Wilkinson!

William's whole body was light and light, as if he could fly immediately.

He returned home like a dream, rushed into the kitchen, picked up Madeleine who was making dinner, and danced a waltz with his feet. The spatula drove the troublesome son upstairs.

Back in his room, this dreamy feeling still lingers.

William wondered if he was living in an illusion.

Although he communicated with Amon, Danny, Madeleine and others after being notified, they only made the dream feel more and more serious, but did not bring him back to reality.

Floating downstairs on tiptoe, picking up the receiver, William made an international call: "Lance? You know what, I got the role of Edward Ferrars! Which Edward? The one written by Jane Austen!" One of the leading men in Sense and Sensibility! Uh, sorry, I forgot you never read Jane Austen's novels...but you do, you must, because I'm about to play the leading man La!"

Lance Roderick got up from his 200-year-old European-style palace bed, which was said to be the wife of Louis XVI, Queen Mary, and was as soft as a cloud, and quietly listened to William's speech. After Datong chirped incoherently, the young master suddenly broke out:

"William you bastard! You're in Los Angeles, I'm in London, and it's [-]:[-] am here! [-]:[-] am!!!"

William shook his hand and immediately hung up the phone.

Jesus Christ, Lance is still so angry when he wakes up.

Then his sanity came back completely——

Thank goodness he actually landed the role of Edward Ferrars!

……

Not seen for several months, Lance Roderick, as always, dressed like an old bourgeois.

Although Lance hated his father, Tyler Roderick's style of dressing was so meticulous that he didn't allow his suit or shirt to have an extra fold, but he faithfully inherited it from his father to his son. .

Gray blue shirt, buttoned to the top, peacock blue thin tie that is the same color as the pupils is meticulously tied, the dark blue jacket is buttoned up, only the edge of the gray woolen vest and the pocket watch chain hanging on it are exposed .

Even in London, the fashion capital where men generally pay attention to clothing, Lance's clothing is a bit too delicate. From head to toe, those who know how to dress will probably be amazed, and those who don't know how to know can also see one word-expensive.

William observed Lance in the backlight for 10 minutes. After seeing the two hit-ups go away in high spirits and return in disappointment, he walked over before Lance's face completely stinks: "Put another cane in your right hand, You can do Hollywood period dramas."

"If I have a cane in my hand now, I'll give you a few slaps first." Lance asked sullenly, "Would it be fun to watch a play while hiding in the corner?"

"You are standing by the Thames, as beautiful as a painting." William gestured for the camera with both hands: "But I forgot to bring my camera, so I can't take pictures of this beautiful scenery."

Lance was amused.

Although the hair color and eye color come from the family inheritance of the surname Roderick, Lance did not inherit Taylor Roderick's broad forehead, square jaw and strong muscles. In appearance, he is more like his mother, although the Mrs. Jeanne Roderick, who has been dead for several years, but whose beauty reputation is still widely circulated on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

This makes Lance, at a few years earlier, when the secondary sexual characteristics have begun to develop but not yet fully developed, looks like those aristocratic teenagers who are famous for their beauty in European history.

So Lance actually hates people saying he is beautiful. He once almost dropped out of school for a big guy who laughed at him for being "like a bitch". However, this hate does not include William, because William is thirteen or fourteen Time doesn't look much better than Lance:

In the seventh grade literature class, the teacher told the whole class about Greet Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind". "Beauty" was going to be played for the whole class, but before the teacher could act, someone yelled in the classroom, "Isn't William just the reincarnation of Scarlett? What about Vivien Leigh, we just watch him!" , the voice hadn’t finished yet, it caused laughter, applause, and a thunderous response, and for a long time afterwards, William once had the nickname "Scarlett". The one who booed the most was secretly pressed in the toilet and beaten into a younger brother. This nickname will follow him for several years.

But no one said it publicly, but in private, many people are still muttering: "Magnolia-like white skin, black eyelashes and raised corners of the eyes, light green eyes pure without a trace of brown, beautiful and bright Picturesque, with a girth of no more than seventeen inches . . . These sentences about Scarlett O'Hara are clearly more applicable to William Bradley."

——This is the real reason why William has been insisting on fitness since adolescence.

Because William had encountered more serious criticism than Lance, Lance magnanimously ignored his friend's little teasing at the moment.

William walked over to walk side by side with Lance, and the two walked along the banks of the Thames. William pointed to Lance and then to himself: "You are Victorian, I am postmodern."

Different from Lance's elegant clothing, William always dresses casually. A black crew neck sweater, dark blue jeans, and a leather jacket are all his clothing. It is estimated that the combined price of these clothes is not even comparable to a pair of Lance's. Shoes——but William didn't care about this. He never felt any jealousy towards Lance, who was a local tyrant and a friend.

Lance enjoyed the cool breeze blowing from the river, and asked casually: "Didn't you say that the crew has to rush to shoot, and they haven't come out to find me recently, why do you have time again today?"

William pointed to the sunshine above his head: "Thanks to the good weather, the director has to race against time to shoot outdoor scenes, and my scene was pushed to the day after tomorrow."

There is a British saying, "London only rains twice a year, once for four months and once for eight months". Although this statement is exaggerated, it can also express how difficult it is to have long-term sunny weather in London. Xun, almost all British actors have suffered from the weather. William once heard something like a joke in the crew - except for a hunting scene in a certain movie, all other scenes can be completed in the room and studio. However, in the two months from the start of the filming to the near-finishing, the crew did not encounter a day of good weather. Occasionally, the sky was clear in the morning, and the filming props crew had just arrived, and the heavy rain came down again. The erratic weather finally forced the director The script had to be revised and the outdoor fox hunting scene was deleted.

But in the past two days, London has indeed ushered in a rare good weather. The sky over the whole city is cloudless. Moreover, according to the weather forecast, the next two days will be such sunny weather - London may only encounter such good weather once a year, which is undoubtedly very suitable for shooting outdoor scenes, so under the suggestion of the British staff of the crew, Ang Lee changed the order of the script and rescheduled some outdoor scenes to be filmed today.

"How does it feel to be the leading actor?" After a pause, Lance mentioned euphemistically, "I've seen your name in the newspapers a lot lately."

"It's just that they didn't say a few good things about me, right?" William curled his lips, but he didn't care too much: "The British are always xenophobic, I can understand it, but although they didn't say anything good, they didn't hurt me too much. Reputation, this level of criticism, I don't take it to heart."