Birth of an actor

"Really? You all fly by helicopter?" Jennifer Aniston, with medium-length blond curly hair, asked with a curious blue eye blink.

Seeing the disbelief on Jennifer Aniston's face, William nodded and said: "It's true, Peter refused to hand over everything to the computer, he insisted on restoring Middle-earth with natural scenery, except for the scenes shot in the studio In addition, many of the exterior scenes of the movie were actually filmed in the wild. There are many mountains in the North Island of New Zealand, and the roads are also very rough. In some places, there is no way to pass a car, so a helicopter must be used." William shrugged helplessly. Shrugging: "Honestly, I've been in helicopters more than I've been in cars when shooting Mount Victoria and Kaitock Regional Park."

The filming of "Meet the Father-in-Law" was temporarily interrupted due to too many fans onlookers. The crew members are negotiating with them to ensure that no second flash lights up while the camera is running and ruins everyone's work. A bit of a stand-by break, Christmas has just passed, and the temperature in New York today is below freezing, William sent people to a nearby Starbucks to buy a lot of coffee, and when the first batch arrived, he handed Aniston a cup, and I was pulled by the other party and asked about the details of filming "Lord of the Rings" in New Zealand.

"I thought it was an exaggeration when I saw the news in the newspaper." Jennifer Aniston continued to ask: "Is New Zealand really so beautiful?"

"It's really beautiful. I will never forget the feeling when I came to Matamata for the first time." William recalled those days spent in New Zealand. Although the time when he was not filming was very boring and monotonous, he saw more natural beauty , There will be a feeling of being healed both physically and mentally: "It has now been completely remodeled from a modern farm into a paradise in the Middle-earth world. If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, I'm afraid you can't imagine how wonderful nature is. New Zealand has The most natural scenery that has not been polluted by modern industrialization is a piece of pure land. Also, Bag End is really interesting. One room is completely hollowed out and can really live in. If you have time in the future , I really should go and have a look.”

Matamata was originally just a small town in New Zealand that produced cows. It was located in Waikato near the capital Wellington. Peter Jackson took a fancy to its natural beauty of clear water, blue sky and lush grass. Through transplanting trees and artificial transformation, Matama The tower is shaped into the home of the hobbits in "The Lord of the Rings", the last pure land of Shire in Middle-earth, which is almost isolated from the world.

I still remember that when the actors came to Matamata for the first time, got out of the car, and saw the town after the transformation, everyone thought at that moment that what they saw was the paradise described in the script. The Shire - almost exactly as described in the script, except there are no real hobbits walking around.

Jennifer Aniston: "Sounds amazing, I'd love to go."

"I will go back to New Zealand again this summer. You can go there at that time and let me entertain you as a landlord. If you want, you can also visit the film's location base, because even this year or next year "The Lord of the Rings" is finished, and before the movie is officially released, the location base will not be opened to the public as a tourist attraction."

"When I ask Brad, he should be willing to add another New Zealand to our honeymoon." Thinking of her fiancé, Aniston's tone and expression added a touch of sweetness.

Suddenly attacked by the sour smell of love, William was speechless.

Because although Brad Pitt has not yet joined the group, Aniston has always talked about her fiancé no matter where she goes or what she is doing recently, with an intoxicated look of being in love. William initially asked the producer Aniston was recommended to scare Pete, but he didn't expect Pete to scare himself before he felt disgusted, which reminded him of a word: self-inflicted.

This also made William couldn't help but sigh for himself. Aniston can love to show his love fair and aboveboard, but he has to be careful every step he takes, for fear that a moment of carelessness will not only ruin the love, but also ruin the friendship.

William's silence was seen by Aniston, but he thought that the other party was shocked because he mentioned the word "honeymoon". In fact, Aniston did say it accidentally, but now that he has said it , the other party was William again, so she didn't intend to hide it: "By the way, Will, Brad and I plan to get married this summer, you must come to the wedding, okay?"

Although Aniston and Brad Pitt haven't started drawing up the guest list for the wedding together, she knows that she invited William to the wedding, and even if her fiancé knows, she will never object-even though she always likes to complain about William Brad Pitt in private. How about Landry, the tone is more critical and dissatisfied, but Aniston knows that there is a friendship between Brad and William (although it is a weird friendship), otherwise, Brad would not take the initiative to propose Came out as a guest star in "Meet Your Father-in-Law", and secretly ordered the DVD of "The Truman Show" online...

And Aniston herself is very grateful to William. If it wasn’t for the other party, she would definitely not get the heroine of this movie. You must know that although she is “America’s Sweetheart”, there are too many American Sweethearts. Julia Roberts, Card Mellon Diaz, Meg Ryan, and Aniston, who became popular on the small screen, are extremely popular, but they are far inferior to the above-mentioned people in terms of status and salary. In the past few years, although she has filmed A few movies, but either in supporting roles or with some lesser-known actors, look who she's collaborating with now!William Bradley, Blythe Danner and Robert De Niro!

Even the agent said that according to the script and cast predictions, "Meet the Father-in-Law" will definitely not be a money-losing movie-to be honest, who has ever seen William Bradley starred in even a money-losing movie? movie?Even "Fight Club", which was highly polarized in word-of-mouth when it was released, recovered its cost through overseas markets, and over time, word-of-mouth has gradually reversed. The British "Empire" magazine is still in this month's 1999 annual global film The market summary called it "the greatest movie of our time", and the upcoming DVD sales situation is also very good.

And "Meet My Father-in-Law" not only has a luxurious lineup, but the script can withstand scrutiny. It is also the most popular romantic light comedy in the US market. As long as the director and post-editing do not make mistakes (this kind of light comedy film is difficult for the director to make mistakes), the harvest will be rewarding. A good box office and word-of-mouth are almost certain. By then, Jennifer Aniston can successfully transform into a movie actor and have even greater hopes of hitting the front line.

Therefore, although it was because of Brad that she met each other at the beginning, Jennifer Aniston has decided to get along well with William during the period of cooperation and strive for friendship. She has a hunch that with William Bradley is definitely a great thing to be friends with.

Not long after the idea was born, Aniston first realized how great it is to be a partner with William Bradley-not to mention the coffee bought according to her favorite flavor (two espresso No sugar, Aniston only asked his assistant to go out to buy it once before, William was by the side at the time, unexpectedly he remembered it immediately), when she was holding a warm coffee cup but still trembling slightly due to the cold temperature , William asked her, "Has the time and place of the wedding been decided yet?", while taking off his coat and handing it to Aniston.

"Thank you." I don't know how long I'll have to stand outside before I can start shooting again. Aniston took the coat without hesitation. As soon as I put on the thick jacket, I immediately felt much warmer, even my fingertips were not so warm. It's freezing.

Looking at William again, he took off his coat, revealing a dark blue V-neck sweater he was wearing underneath. Greg Farke's setting is an ordinary office worker, and the clothes are naturally impossible to be very fashionable, with sweaters of ordinary styles and colors , but it was worn by William Bradley, and it revealed a simple and elegant demeanor. Fortunately, Aniston is already engaged, and her fiancé is also a handsome guy who is hot and smoky. Otherwise, she really doubts that several months of shooting , Will he fall under the charm of William Bradley?

After taking another sip of coffee, Aniston told William the time and place of the wedding, and repeatedly told William to schedule the wedding.

"This is the first time I've received a wedding invitation from Hollywood." William joked, "Although you told me too early, don't worry, I won't forget—"

"Hey! Put down my camera!"

"Are they trying to hit someone?"

"Do you want to call the police?"

The two were chatting, and suddenly there was a commotion not far away. The yelling just now seemed to come from here, two staff members who looked like production assistants or director assistants and a few people standing very close to the front The fans were chattering, the assistant was full of impatience, and held a camera high in his hand, while the fans in the front row were full of anger, and there were spectators in the back row trying to squeeze forward. Time is very chaotic.

William and Aniston looked at each other, walked over together, and stopped a scene manager to ask about the situation. It turned out that the filming had not been going well. Not only the director and producer were very angry, but other staff members were also very upset. Well, these two director assistants were assigned to negotiate with the fans with cameras, telling them to leave immediately or stop taking sneak shots, but because of their mood, the way the two drove away the onlookers was inevitably a bit rough, and they even suspected that a The male movie fan is a paparazzi and wants to dismantle the other party's camera and confiscate the film. This behavior naturally met with resistance from the movie fan.

When William and Aniston walked up to the two director assistants, the atmosphere was already stiff, and it seemed that they were about to explode.

"Hi everyone, can anyone tell me what happened?" William asked in a friendly tone, and stretched out his hand, taking the camera out of the director's assistant's hand: "Also, whose camera is this?"

"It's mine!" A male fan in a brown leather jacket replied immediately, pointing to the director's assistant and saying, "This man insists that I'm a paparazzi and wants to destroy the entire roll of film. If I don't agree, he will take it away." took my camera!"

The director's assistant was suddenly taken away by someone, and turned his head suddenly to get angry. When he saw that it was William who took the camera away, the anger on his face disappeared immediately, and he changed into a embarrassed expression.

Director Jay Roach also noticed the situation here, and strode over angrily, with a look of displeasure on his face, as if he immediately asked everyone why the problem had not been resolved, Aniston stopped him first, low Said, "Will is dealing with it, he can handle it."

In fact, Jay Roach wanted to use his bodyguards to drive away all the onlookers. Now that he heard Aniston's words, he hesitated.

"There are too many people secretly filming, Jay, we are not the police, we can't really check whether they are reporters, movie fans or tourists." Aniston continued to persuade: "If you do that, tomorrow's newspapers will be lively. Why don't you give Will a try, he's so sweet, and look, the crowd quiets down as soon as he passes."

Jay Roach took a look and found that this was really the case. When William Bradley returned the camera of the man in the jacket to the other party, not only the man in the jacket was relieved immediately, but also everyone else around him. Quiet, and began to stare at him intently.

If these people’s cameras have captured any photos that are not good for the crew, you can contact the public relations to solve the problem. It's spreading fast, and as soon as there is news, the media will come here like a shark smelling blood. The crew has been filming here for most of the day, and there are definitely reporters in the crowd, and there are more than one or two. , Jay Roach is sure.

Out of trust in William, Jay Roach nodded to Aniston and turned to arrange other things.

Although the suspicion and rough treatment encountered at the previous moment made the fans around very unhappy, but when William appeared, their attention was immediately diverted. Not only did their eyes always follow him, but they also enthusiastically called his name, as if To get some response is to achieve great success.

Those fans then got not only a response from William Bradley, but a handout of coffee from him.

The coffee was delivered from the store as soon as it was made, and each cup was boiling hot, and was handed over by William Bradley himself, holding it in his hand, as if his heart was warmed.

William smiled: "The temperature is so low today, everyone has stood outside with us for a long time, it must be very cold, come and have a cup of coffee to warm up." He increased the volume: "The people behind don't need to squeeze, I have already Let the assistant go to the nearby Starbucks to add an order, everyone has a share."

Now not only ordinary movie fans, but even the brown leather jacket who was still angry just now showed surprise expressions, and some people even couldn't help but exclaim.

"It's so sweet, Will."

"I'll treasure this coffee mug! Can you sign it?"

"Is it signed on the cup? No problem." William signed his name on the body of the cup with an oily marker pen handed over by fans. , I still have work to do, and I may not be able to satisfy everyone's wishes."

Everyone showed disappointed expressions.

"If the filming can be completed on time, I have time to get along with you. I have a request, can everyone keep as quiet as possible during the filming of the crew? Easily distracted, I don't want to be NGed by the director all the time."

Many people laughed out loud, and then when they were caught by William's gaze, they immediately nodded and promised that they would not interfere with the shooting for a while, and that William would never be blamed by the director.

William added: "If you have a camera, please don't take pictures secretly, let alone turn on the flash. Although some people may think it's nothing, but once the camera records the bright light outside the lens, the entire performance of the actor will be invalid. If you do it , when this one is done, I can take a photo with you, like this—"

As he spoke, William moved his head to the side of the brown leather jacket, beckoning him to raise the camera to point at him, and then clicked the shutter.

Now even Yu Ji, who was pretending to be an ordinary movie fan in the crowd, nodded excitedly.

——Although they often take pictures of celebrities, they rarely take photos with them. Now that they have such a good opportunity, they must not let it go.

The brown leather jacket has the expression of winning a big prize.

Jennifer Aniston could hear the girls raving about William, how his sexy jaw and lip line conquered everything, not to mention those eyes, perfect as a delicious cake for eyes.

This is true, Aniston keenly noticed that those movie fans who had caused headaches to the crew before seemed to be different in an instant. Not only were they much quieter, they even began to help maintain order in the surrounding area. It was William Brand who made it with a few words.

Although this scene seems a bit unbelievable, if she is just an ordinary person, she might be too excited to get an autograph or a photo of William Bradley...even herself , On the day when the role of Pamela Burns was confirmed, didn't you also lose sleep all night with excitement?

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When more than 200 million people gathered in Times Square, New York, followed the countdown to the New Year's Eve crystal ball and shouted "Happy New Year!" "Hello in the 21st century!" The century has completely passed away, and the millennium has officially arrived.

The British "Times" listed a number of doomsday predictions in the history of human development on the first day of the new year. The influence of Christianity was further weakened in the new century, and atheists gathered to celebrate.

In Hollywood, doomsday-themed catastrophe movies have temporarily fallen out of favor. At least until the end of the Mayan prophecy, there will be no new production craze. The big studios are thinking hard about new gold nuggets. With the rapid development of technology, commercial blockbusters mainly selling special effects and enduring comedies have become popular themes produced by studios this year, because investing in these two types of themes is the safest and the least likely to lose money.

While busy predicting the development direction of film production in the 21st century, people have not forgotten to summarize the global film market in the past year, and it is recognized by the global entertainment media that 1999 is not only the year since 1994 Another, and last, film year of the twentieth century.

Just look at the movies born in this year, "The Matrix", "Fight Club", "American Beauty", "The Blair Witch", "Magnolia", "Being John Malkovich"... none of them It is not a masterpiece that breaks the old conventional filmmaking methods, but has novel narrative techniques and equally profound thoughts.

Perhaps there are forward-looking directors who have foreseen the prosperity and decline of film films, but there is one thing that Hollywood has not realized yet, but one day they will suddenly realize it—William Bradley in this The special sense of presence in a special year.

This sense of presence not only refers to his two works on the bright side, "Blood Together" and "Fight Club", excluding box office factors, a fan movie for Hollywood ten years later (especially for teenagers) It created a classic production template, which was not only called the last masterpiece at the end of the century by "Empire" magazine, but also swept the male dormitories of all universities in the United States, becoming the most perennial movie poster on the bedside of college students.

The special existence of William Brandley in 1999, also specifically refers to his actions that have not been highlighted by the media during this year, including the preparation of the "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter" series of films, mergers and acquisitions Marvel has introduced more capital from Silicon Valley and Wall Street to Hollywood, as well as some plans that are only known to a few people for the time being. It has deeply affected the next ten years of Hollywood, and even after the next 20 years or even longer, people are stunned. I was shocked to find that some important developments in Hollywood over the years have a shadow named William Bradley behind them.

However, no matter how much the media tout William's foresight and courage in the future, that will only happen in the future. Bradley's failed year, but it was definitely a year when his career development was flat and even encountered bottlenecks.

Judging from William's personal works, although "Blood Together" has achieved great success at the box office and even jumped to No. Word-of-mouth, and William sold his beauty instead of his acting skills in this movie, which also disappointed many film critics who had high expectations of him. soul".As for "Fight Club", let alone, no matter what kind of praise this film will receive in the future, at least in the year it was released, what it brought to the director and several leading actors was only a poor box office and huge controversy .

From the perspective of the development of Willot Films, although the first work "Blood Together" made the company a lot of money, the mid-term financial report has already killed many medium-sized film companies' annual profits, but in Hollywood, From the perspective of other film companies, Willlott is too risky and too bold after getting off to a good start. The US$2.7 million "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" started filming at the same time, and also acquired Marvel like a snake, trying to take a piece of cake from the giant Warner in the superhero comic film market-except for the planned Except for the second part of "Blood Together", the new films Willlot planned in the next year or two turned out to be all big commercial productions. This kind of huge ambition and astonishing action, which is not inferior to the top-tier studios, shocked the entire Hollywood. .

However, at present, most Hollywood film companies are not optimistic about Willot's development prospects, but think that this film company is too risky. The taste will not die.

Throw time back to the awards season of 2000.

The Film Critics Association Awards are always the first to be released. There are more than 40 film critics associations in North America that have established awards, but not many of them have wide influence. Film critics associations such as New York, Los Angeles, National, Broadcasting, Chicago, and Boston During the year-end selection, there was a rare uniformity of tone, and "Fight Club" was highly praised, and "Blood Together", which had a higher box office at the beginning of its release and encountered more controversy, also rarely received a few fair comments.

"The New Yorker" film critic Manola Daggis wrote: "Although the plot of the film is slightly clichéd, the picture is fresh and the soundtrack is wonderful, and director Christopher Nolan's unique lens language even handles the thin story. Rich and full of charm, the film's box office is even bigger with a small amount, and the ratio of investment to box office has reached an unbelievable 1:29. "Blood Together" has actually created a precedent for a genre of films, and has produced many small and medium-sized Hollywood films. The company lights the way forward."

Immediately after the major film critics associations announced the nominations and winners list, there are three major trade union awards in the United States, such as actors, directors, and producers, known as the "Oscar weathervane", and the American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards. The Great Film Critics Association pays more attention to the artistry of films. If the aesthetics are more high-end, then these weathervane awards often seek a balance between art and business. "Blood Together" won several awards for best cinematography and best original soundtrack. In addition to best sound editing and best film editing, "Fight Club" also won awards from the American Producers Guild and the Golden Globe Awards. Nominated for Best Picture, unfortunately failed to win in the end.

If at this time, people have not seen that "Fight Club" is not popular with major awards, when the Oscar nomination list was released at the end of February, "Blood Together" was nominated for a best original soundtrack, but "Fight Club" When nothing is gained, everyone understands—although the reputation of "Fight Club" is reversing, but because the film was released with the labels of "violence" and "anarchism", the conservative and politically correct Oscar is absolutely Wouldn't like a movie like this.

The awards season is at its most critical stage. William has not won a single performance award on the nomination list for the Oscars and Golden Globes. Although he has a Venice best actor, in the eyes of many Hollywood people who are only authoritative at the Oscars, he has nothing to do with it. The income is not too much.

Inevitably some cynicism came out.

However, because William's popularity is still in full swing, the Hollywood media dare not make it too obvious. What they can do is to add private "condiments" in different ways to William's various news.

For example, in the street shooting news of the magazine, William just finished working out in a sports suit. On the way home, he lowered his baseball cap to avoid the reporter’s candid shots. Oscar, William Bradley appeared on the street in sloppy clothes with a gloomy look", or William bought a hot dog next to the dining car and put it on the entertainment page of the magazine the next day, it was "The perfect body may disappear!William munches hot dogs on the street and gives up on himself".

In short, all the media that had disliked William, such as the "National Enquirer" and "New York Post", rarely caught William's troubles, and began to remind everyone that William went to participate Tom Cruise's Oscar nomination warm-up party—actually, it was also a canvassing party. Cruise won a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in "Magnolia" at this year's Oscars—all were covered by the next day's entertainment news. It became the key point: "Cruise lives off his acting skills, and Will becomes the best male vase of the awards season".

Some people may ask, there is no deep hatred between William and the media, at most there are some contradictions, why does the media always insist on badmouthing and discrediting him?

This may be related to the profession of entertainment reporter.

Entertainment media may be one of the most unbalanced industries in the world. They live in the fame and fortune circle of Hollywood just like the stars. They look down on many celebrities and actors in private, and have to rely on selling the private lives of the stars. To make a living, they are used to luxury and luxury in Hollywood, but this luxury does not belong to them at all. In such a living environment where they can see and enjoy but cannot enjoy it for a long time, it is difficult to maintain a normal balance of mind.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some of them are good, but what do most entertainment media generally think of the stars they usually chase?Those who are too successful in life will make people jealous, those who are well-behaved and too ordinary are not newsworthy, and those who are in bad luck and have scandals or even scandals... It's really nice to hear and see!

William has been developing very smoothly in the past few years. The movies he starred in have repeatedly broken records. At a young age, he has already been nominated for several important awards, and even has trophies. In addition, his near-perfect appearance, inspirational life experience and current With a rich net worth, it can be said that the same sex has basically only two ideas for him: to be jealous of him, or to want to be him.

Unfortunately, the number of the former is a bit more.

This is one of the reasons why William's slight unhappiness or dissatisfaction soon became known all over the United States.

However, the reality did not make this part of the media proud for long,

As this year's Oscar Awards Ceremony is about to be held, William Brandley, who has not received a single nomination, once again made a big splash, stealing the attention of the entire United States, and even the five best actor candidates joined him. They can't compare to him together, and the reason for all this is that William boarded the latest "Forbes" list.

Not a tasteless list like the Hollywood Celebrity List or the Power List, but the Forbes Global Rich List.

The top of the list is billions of dollars.