Birth of an actor

Stan Lee is a very interesting old man. He doesn't call Tobey Maguire by his name directly, but calls him "Peter Parker", as if he has completely regarded him as Spider-Man himself.

And after seeing Leonardo DiCaprio, the eyes behind the pair of brown lenses lit up immediately, and he reached out and pinched Leonardo's inconspicuous biceps. Stan Lee In a tone that doesn't sound like a joke, "Grow some muscles, handsome boy, and then you can be Iron Man."

Leonardo asked blankly, "Who is Iron Man?"

"You could think of him as a superhero version of Howard Hughes," William said.

"Iron Man is my, uh, Peter Parker's idol," Toby said.

"In my opinion, adolescence without the company of comics is not perfect." Stan Lee patted Leonardo on the shoulder with a regretful face, and then gave a thumbs up to the remaining two people: " As for you two, I give full marks."

Toby smiled a little shyly: "At any rate, I have become Spider-Man now, and it is also necessary to supplement the comics outside the script."

In Leonardo's expression of "You guys like to read comics?!", William replied calmly: "You know, anyway, I am also the boss of Marvel, so I have to read some works of my own company. .”

——More than two years ago, William acquired the Marvel shares held by Carl Icahn, known as the "Wolf of Wall Street", and became the second largest shareholder of Marvel, and then persuaded the then President of Marvel to Isaac Parmatt, the way that Willlott financed instead of Marvel selling its superhero copyrights helped Marvel resolve the bankruptcy crisis. Therefore, William's identity as the big boss behind the scenes is worthy of the name.Since then, Marvel has become a subsidiary of Willot, but at the same time it retains a lot of autonomy. All important decisions related to the company's future development must be approved by the Marvel Board of Directors. Ermatt negotiated terms.

"OK, OK, now the three of you formed a small group of comic fans, and then I was excluded, right?" Leonardo grabbed the sandwich bitterly and took a bite: "It doesn't matter, anyway, no matter what you discussed I'm not interested in anything."

"Hey, that's my sandwich, yours is vegan!" Toby protested dissatisfied. Leonardo's action of grabbing the sandwich from his plate just now was too blatant, and he bit off almost three parts in one bite. One of the corned beef.

Leonardo munches on corned beef, "Who invented the veggie sandwich? It should go off the menu forever." No mention of eating Toby's Reuben sandwich.

William looked at the two smiling, and suddenly remembered something: Leonardo, who doesn't like comic books, didn't play Iron Man in the end, but he played the prototype of Iron Man, the first billionaire in the United States. Howard Hughes, a millionaire who is as famous as Presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt and others.That's supposed to be a Martin Scorsese movie too?It seems that it was from "Gangs of New York" that Leonardo and Scorsese formed an indissoluble bond.

Just after wolfing down the sandwich, the crew of "Gangs of New York" called Leonardo to go back and make up shots. After he left, William, Toby and Stan Lee changed tables and ordered again. .

In fact, William had long planned to meet Stan Lee, but he did not expect this scene to come so soon, and it was still in a cafe on the streets of New York, which might be discovered by the media or movie fans at any time——Stan · Lee left Marvel a few years ago and founded the "Stan Lee Media Company", which is considered to be his own company. It is not easy to see him in Marvel now.

——But later facts proved that the response speed of the New York media was quite fast. When William and the others were about to check out and leave the cafe, many reporters were already waiting outside. Quite a few photos, but now, before the media flock like vultures smelling fish, William, Toby and Stan Lee had a very interesting talking time together.

Toby usually plays the role of background board at parties, unless there are only four people in the party and they are very close friends, and although William is good at talking, he is also very good at meeting people who are equally talkative. Listen, so most of the time it's Stan Lee talking, William and Toby listening, they listen to Stan Lee complaining about Spider-Man director Sam Raimi, like: "Why are you so mean? It's just a line, I just want a line, even if it's 'be careful' or 'oh my god' or something. But he just won't give it."

I don’t know when, probably since "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" in 1989, Stan Lee has loved to play tricks in the movies and TV adaptations of Marvel comics. In the "X-Men", which was released last year and became popular, He played a hot dog vendor on the beach. Stan Lee is almost 80 years old, but he suddenly became interested in guest movies. Is it because he wanted to be an actor when he was young?

Unknowingly, William asked his own question.

"I have been working in the comics industry since Marvel was still called Time Comics. I was only 16 years old at that time, and I have never been interested in other industries since then." Stan Lee replied: "But when I am 70 years old , One day, I watched the TV related to Thor and the Hulk on the TV, and suddenly thought, 'I have not participated in the creation of comics for a long time, and the comics published by Marvel every month are not written. And my name, now that I am alive, people still remember me, and when I am dead, and people are chasing after those talented cartoonists, who will remember that I created these characters?'”

"I had to figure out a way for people to remember me forever," said Stan Lee. "Is there anything more widespread, more influential, and longer-lasting than a movie? No. So, I just Come and be an extra."

"That's a cool idea," Toby praised.

"I have a cooler idea." William said, "Have you heard of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?"

……

"Look at that long platinum hair! Mr. Bradley with his broad forehead looks so upper class!"

"There is also the movement of waving the cane, isn't it very aristocratic?"

"Did you see that smile? It's haughty and charming, with a hint of subtle concern, and man, I don't hate Malfoy at all."

In Leavesden, London, on the set of "Harry Potter" built by Willot, a group of girls ranging in age from eleven to sixteen or seventeen are discussing the Knockturn Alley studio not far away The filming took place in , and the main characters are the Malfoy father and son and Borgin Bock shopkeeper.

——While preparing for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", Willot started building a studio for the "Harry Potter" series in Leavesden, a suburb of London. After all, outdoor scenes can be collected everywhere in the UK , Indoor scenes always need a studio. At present, almost all the scenes needed for "The Chamber of Secrets" have been set up here, such as the Burrow, the Dursleys' house, the Hogwarts professor's office, the cafeteria, and so on.The crew even imitated the Oxford University cafeteria and York Butcher Street to build Hogwarts cafeteria and part of the street scene of Diagon Alley, as well as the Borgin-Bock store in Knockturn Alley currently used in filming.

The group of girls who will play Hogwarts students in grades [-] to [-] in the film will wait until two hours later for the earliest scenes, but today, as the sky just dawned, they gathered outside the studio.Because of William Bradley, of course.

"Have you been hating Felton's Malfoy?"

"Well, no, Felton was kind of cute bullying Radcliffe on set, but it's different, Felton is boyishly cute, and Mr Bradley, he's gotta I would describe it as charming." The girl who answered the question was a 15-year-old girl who played a Gryffindor fourth-year student.

This sentence was agreed by most of the other girls, and even a few small actors who played first and second graders had internal divisions. One said "I still want to date Felton" and the other said "Malfoy is A bit handsome but still no match for Victor Miller, how cool is it to be in a relationship with a vampire", and even more beside the point, "Do you think "Blood Together 2" will be released this year? Should we ask Ask Mr Bradley"

— Well, not that Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton or James Phelps, Sean Biggerstaff played Hogwarts in the movie The young (little) actors who were pupils of Tets did not stand out, in fact Radcliffe is now as famous in the UK as Harry Potter is in the wizarding world, but compared to their peers, young girls always It is easy to be fascinated by older men.In other words, every girl has a "Daddy-Long-Legs" complex.

"Do you think I can get the autographs of Hugh Grant and Colin Firth at the same time?" said an older girl. After endless reports of his various affairs, she moved on, and now her favorite is Colin Firth. But Hugh Grant, she has not completely forgotten, since in the newspapers When she saw both of them in Chamber of Secrets, she went completely nuts, and if I hadn't come home with an autograph in my pocket, I probably wouldn't have had dinner."

"I don't know, they don't look too close."

"The same goes for Mr. Bradley. Even though he is less than 20 meters away from me, I still dare not go over and talk to him."

"correct."

"Me too."

"By the way, which one of you wants to get his autograph?"

Finally, in the silence, the girls looked at each other and sighed together: "I'm so jealous of Natalie Portman." ×N Of course, this kind of jealousy is not only aimed at Rina The role played by Tully Portman is also because of the very successful life of the other party.

"Will is very talkative."

The sudden sound broke the quiet atmosphere. The girls looked at the person who spoke, and found that it was Emma Watson, the luckiest girl recognized by the entire crew. A group of people looked at each other, but no one answered or spoke up. , because to be honest, none of them knew Watson well.

But Emma Watson has long been accustomed to this-generally speaking, the luckiest girl is also the most jealous and excluded girl, and she has long been used to being confronted as soon as she walks into the crowd. There was an indifferent silence——Emma, ​​just like Hermione in "Harry Potter", finished expressing her opinion on her own: "I got a photo of him last year, he is very kind and kind, Like a true gentleman, he also allows me to call him by his first name, and if you want, I can go with you and ask Will for his autograph, and he won't say no."

——Of course, although she is similar to Hermione Granger's character in the book, Emma's handling of social relations is a little smarter, at least she didn't take the compliment she got from William, "You will grow up A beautiful and temperamental girl" is said, it will attract hatred too much.

The girls looked at each other, and the attraction of William Bradley's signature (even the group photo) overwhelmed everything. All the strangeness and barriers were put down at this moment, and the girls even found a common ground very quickly. Topic, happy and harmonious as if never jealous of each other.

"Shall we go over to say hello after Mr. Bradley finished filming the scene?" The girls discussed excitedly: "Or wait until afternoon tea time?"

"It's better to go when he is resting, maybe we can talk to him." Emma Watson suggested: "When the time comes, you will come with me and I will be the introducer, how about it?"

"good idea!"

"Excellent, thank you, Emma."

"I also brought the margarita biscuits baked by my mother today, do you want to try it?"

……

The girls were so happy that even though the volume had been lowered, the voice of a group of girls chatting was still like a group of chirping sparrows.

As long as it doesn't affect the filming, the staff of the film crew will not care about it when they hear it, and even look at it with emotion, envious of the vitality and carefreeness of young people, but in the eyes of boys of the same age , this kind of twittering is a bit annoying, especially when they hear that the topic of the girls is that they are crazy about some male actors...

"I thought Emma was different from them, she wouldn't be fascinated by any actor." Rupert Grint said disappointedly: "I really didn't expect... Hermione wouldn't."

Rupert Grint's ongoing game soon "GameOver" because he paid too much attention to what the girls were talking about. Daniel Radcliffe grabbed the game console in his hand and continued to play Tetris .

"Emma is not really Hermione." Daniel Radcliffe looked at his friend with a look of "you are hopeless": "and have you read the book or script carefully? We are going to shoot soon In one scene, Hermione was completely dazzled by Lockhard."

"Ah, I forgot." Rupert Grint scratched his head.

"And when Emma saw Mr. Bradley for the first time, her eyes were shining. Haven't you noticed?"

"Who should pay attention to this." Rupert Grint shrugged and said with a bitter face: "What I can't figure out is why no girls are interested in us? You are the male lead in this movie, I'm your best friend!"

"Maybe it's because... our voices are hard to hear and people want to cover their ears." Just shortly after the filming of this film started, Daniel Radcliffe began to change his voice. His voice was no longer clear and pleasant, but It became cracked and hoarse, and sometimes he spoke in a hurry and falsetto, which made him often attract more attention than usual when he spoke in the crowd, and Daniel thought it was embarrassing, he felt a little I have low self-esteem, so I try to reduce the number of times I speak, and now I have almost only talked to Rupert Grant and Emma Watson in addition to filming.

——It is worth mentioning that neither Daniel nor Rupert have fully awakened gender awareness. They will be frustrated by the neglect of the opposite sex, and they just feel that no girl likes them, and they will appear to be failures.Just like when everyone competes together and someone who has always had good grades suddenly becomes the last one, there will definitely be a sense of loss and frustration.

Although he is also in the period of voice change, and his voice is difficult to hear, which can make people frown immediately, but due to personality reasons, Rupert Grint is not as sensitive as Daniel—or maybe because he is not as famous as Daniel, so Don't pay too much attention to image? ——He looked at his friend who had unknowingly started to feel depressed again, and looked around helplessly, trying to find something to divert Daniel's attention.

"Hey Daniel, look at Tom Felton!" Rupert Grint quickly patted his friend on the shoulder, and pointed him in the direction: "Look at the way he is following Mr. Bradley, Do you remember when he told us that Mr. Bradley was only ten years older than him, and it was awkward for him to play his father? Look at him now, there is nothing but admiration in his eyes!"

Daniel Radcliffe looked towards the studio. The scene of Malfoy and his son in Bokin Burke had already been filmed, but Tom Felton was still closely following William Bradley. Danced and chatted endlessly, while raising his head from time to time to ensure that the other party's attention was on himself.

If you ask Daniel, he can actually understand why Tom Felton did this, except for the first time they met, Mr. Bradley said something half-understood to them-he asked Daniel to "drink more" Milk, exercise more, or you will not grow taller", said to Rupert, "Show more in the sun, you are too pale", praised Emma, ​​"I will grow into a beautiful girl in the future", and even miraculously knew that Phil Ton is a picky eater "Sprouts don't look good Tom, and snack on more nuts, it's good for the hairline" - The rest of the time, William Bradley looks like a perfect star And the perfect Daddy-Long-Legs.

He would give them Christmas presents, birthday presents, and even Easter eggs, and he would teach them some acting tricks—such as imagining Dobby, who was a cloud of air during filming, as an invisible, talking, and tricky Cats, it worked out great for Daniel - and got lots of autographs for each of them to go back and distribute to family and schoolmates.

Daniel was also reminded by William to develop the habit of washing his eyes with normal saline after taking off his contact lenses after filming every day. William also prepared a small medicine box for him to store items for disinfection and cleaning of contact lenses. Not only did it effectively prevent the lens from being polluted in the dressing room, but it also made Daniel's eyes no longer red, swollen and inflamed like they were in the later stages of "Sorcerer's Stone". Spielberg had already prepared that Daniel would no longer be able to wear contact lenses for filming Well, now, film and book fans can see a green-eyed Harry Potter in theaters a year from now.

And Lucius Malfoy, played by William Bradley, is arrogant enough to be annoying, but when he faces Draco played by Tom Felton, from the tone of his speech, he always chases Looking at Felton's eyes, subtle expressions and body movements, it can be seen that he is also a good father who loves his son.

At least Daniel didn't like Lucius Malfoy very much when he was reading, but he couldn't hate William Bradley's face at all.

Probably because Daniel stared at William for too long, the other party seemed to sense something, glanced this way, saw that it was Daniel, showed a smile in the eyes, and blinked his left eye at him.

This smile is a bit broken for the image of "Lucius Malfoy", but it makes Daniel feel very sweet,

……

William nodded to Daniel, then turned his head back, frowning slightly to see what the art director and art designer of the crew had just handed him, which was the computer [-]D design of Dobby the house elf in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" Although the picture is just an image, the three-dimensional effect is already very strong. Perhaps it is because the same special effects company as "Lord of the Rings" used it, so it looks a bit like Gollum, but if William sees it, it looks like more than just Gollum...

"No." He said affirmatively to the crew's art director Craig and art designer Snow: "We can't use this kind of thing that will cause political disputes."

Art director Craig and production designer Snow couldn't understand William's words: "Political disputes? How can we get involved with this kind of stuff?"

William put the design drawing of the house elf Dobby on his chest and asked the two: "What do you think it looks like?",

"Grunt?" art director Craig asked.

"Rats?" said art designer Snow.

"President of Russia?" said a third voice.

The art director and art designer turned their heads in unison, glanced at Colin Firth who suddenly appeared, then turned their heads in unison, staring at the design drawing: "Mr. Firth said so——"

"It does look a bit like Putin."

"Which guy did the first draft?"

"What a genius."

"Haha."

"Pay attention, gentlemen, I am not praising it." William nodded to Colin Firth first, and then directly stuffed the design drawing into the arms of the art designer: "Whoever drew it, tell him to do it again .”

"Do it again? Don't you think it's funny that a house-elf looks like the President of Russia, Mr. Bradley?"

"I don't think so, and I think by the time the movie comes out, the Russians won't understand your British sense of humor." Whether Dobby’s image was intentional or unintentional, since William found out about it now, and there was still time, the crew had to make changes. One was for the Russian film market, and the other was because William was not like other Westerners. I still have fear and hostility towards the former Soviet Union or Russia. Third, since "Harry Potter" is a fairy tale, why should it have too much to do with the real world, especially politics.

"But it was a bit too fast to do it again, and Mr. Spielberg also passed the draft."

"I'll talk to Steven about it."

Seeing William's firm attitude and not seeming to be able to change his mind anymore, art director Craig and art designer Snow had no choice but to go back to work with the design draft.

William closed his eyes to relieve the discomfort caused by wearing contact lenses for a long time, and then he suddenly realized that there was a person standing in front of him, and opened his eyes with an apologetic smile: "Oh, sorry, Colin, Has it reached our camera yet?" He noticed that the other party had now put on the costume of the character.

The current image of Colin Firth is very different from his previous roles. The red hair and the slightly crooked shirt collar exposed in the robe have not been properly taken care of. The more casual dress shows that his role should also be The kind and friendly kind is actually true. Arthur Weasley played by Colin Firth is indeed a good old man, but the good old man also gets angry. In "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", Weasley Sly and Malfoy have a tit-for-tat scene, and the two have a fist fight.

"Not yet, you can rest for another 15 minutes." Colin Firth said, "I just came to say hello and ask you a question by the way."

"Don't laugh like that, Colin, I'm afraid to ask you what the problem is." The smile on the other party's face suddenly gave William a bad feeling: "Okay, what is the problem?"

"When I punch you in the face, will you choose the left or the right?"

"...I choose to be gentle."

……

In the early morning of March 3th, western time in the United States, the No.25 three-time Oscars ceremony came to an end in Los Angeles, but the discussions on Oscar-related topics continued for several weeks.

The cause of the whole incident should be the Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts won.

Since she became famous with "Steel Magnolia" in 1989, Julia Roberts has starred in a series of box office hit movies and has been selected as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World". She is not only one of the highest paid female stars in Hollywood history, but also The actress with the most box office appeal in the eyes of the studio, but because she won an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and a Golden Globe for "Pretty Woman" in 1991, for a full decade, Julia Roberts There is no gain in any award ceremony, and the honor book is blank.

Therefore, in the past few years, Roberts has also been recognized by the whole world as the most expensive and most beautiful "vase" in Hollywood, with only commercial box office appeal but no artistic appeal.

However, this world-famous "vase" staged a counterattack this year. With the role of a single mother in "Never Compromise", it swept the entire awards season in one fell swoop, and won the most important Oscar trophy. Immediately skyrocketed to 2000 million US dollars, becoming the first actress in Hollywood to join the "2000 million US dollar salary club".

While people are talking about Julia Roberts' hard work, they can't help but think of some other "unlucky guys" who have not been favored by the Oscars. I don't know which media was on the spur of the moment, probably "U.S. Weekly", it may also be It was the "Chicago Sun-Times", which suddenly started a feature on those famous directors and actors who were well-known and talented, but missed the Oscars or accompanied them to run for the Oscars.

For example, Kubrick, who has thirteen Oscar nominations and zero awards, Hitchcock, who has never won the best director, and Chaplin, who has only won the best soundtrack once, and has lost all six actresses. Deborah Kerr, Richard Burton, who won a supporting role six times in her life, a total of seven Oscar nominations, but did not win a single award, etc.

No media is willing to let William go. He is on the list in almost all topics. The tone of the media mentioning him is either ridiculed, ridiculed, or sympathetic, as if William has been rejected by all award ceremonies, and there will never be another It's the same as the little golden man entering the account.

The idea of ​​a "second Richard Burton" was coined by the National Enquirer, and although there was little resemblance between William and Richard Burton, it seemed to be quite popular for a while. However, "People" has a different point of view: "William Bradley's career as an actor is becoming more and more similar to that of Tom Cruise. Both of them have one of the most recognizable handsome faces in Hollywood." , and the unparalleled box office appeal in the global market, Cruise's acting skills in the early years were also affirmed, and even won two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor and three Oscar nominations, but it is precisely because of Oscar's impact on Tom Cruise's continued neglect has led to the latter's selection of films becoming more and more commercialized in recent years, and he has also gone further and further away from major award ceremonies. People can't help but worry whether William Bradley has made the same choice ..."

The media that raised the topic at the beginning may just want to take advantage of the opportunity that William’s work was not selected for the Oscars again, and take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail William, but later, the trend of Hollywood public opinion has gradually changed, and began to become skeptical and worried—— Guess whether William has lost confidence in honing his acting skills and continuing to compete in the awards ceremony, and instead focuses on business development.

Before the American media could come to a conclusion about this discussion, a piece of latest news came from Europe, which immediately quelled all kinds of speculation in Hollywood, and set off a new hot topic in the United States——

"A Beautiful Mind" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's Cannes Film Festival. Almost all the foreign media that participated in the premiere of the film gave favorable comments. Among them, the French "Premiere" magazine commented: "William Bradley His performance is half the film's success."