Birth of an actor

The filming of "Sense and Sensibility" is proceeding in an orderly manner. From May to June to early July, most of the plot has been completed.

In many ways, William felt he had grown a lot.

Ang Lee is a very picky director. He pursues perfection in every shot of the film. In order to perfectly reproduce many scenes in the English countryside in the [-]th century, he requires everyone to maintain a relaxed attitude so that they can enter the film and reproduce it at any time. The demeanor and demeanor of the upper-middle-class gentry and nobles also require all actors to be proficient in bows and horses, and use less substitutes if they can.

So when the actors are not filming, everyone has taken a lot of self-cultivation courses, such as ancient British etiquette, such as equestrianism and hunting, such as piano and classical music, and even yoga and Tai Chi.

While his riding skills became more and more exquisite, William found that his body's flexibility and muscle strength had also increased a lot, which reminded him of the reddish-brown thoroughbred horse he once owned, and he also insisted on equestrianism after returning to the United States. The idea of ​​practicing - but just thinking about it for the time being, the cost of practicing equestrianism in Los Angeles is much higher than in the UK.

Of course, the biggest and fastest growth is acting.

Ang Lee is not a cold and rigid director. Although he is often taciturn and seems unapproachable after filming, it is actually an illusion brought about by the reserved and polite temperament unique to Asians. William understands this, so even at first The few times I met Li An, he treated him with a serious and business-like attitude. He still insisted on asking the other party for advice when he had any questions, and the intimacy gradually became friendly.

Ang Lee gave William a lot of pointers, making his performance more restrained and more charming.

Being more and more comfortable with acting with eyes is William's biggest achievement.

Westerners and Easterners have different cultures, customs, personalities, and of course, very different performance styles—the Eastern style of performance is more restrained and pays attention to eye contact, while the Hollywood style of performance is more open, and the actors often raise their eyebrows when performing The nose and mouth move together, sometimes accompanied by exaggerated body movements.

Of course, regardless of the East or the West, the ultimate pursuit of performance is the same - the unity of form and spirit, integrating oneself and the character from body to soul.

But in this process from the beginning to the end, some people have walked for several years, some have walked for decades, and some have been wandering outside the door all their lives.

The Screen Actors Guild of America often holds some training classes on a regular basis, and invites lecturers to guide actors to perform, but what these lecturers teach are basically popular, stereotyped, and uninnovative things.

Acting is a very personal thing, and the deep-level performance method always requires the actor to understand, learn, and practice.

And in this process, if you can get the guidance of a famous teacher and learn the means of turning the clouds to see the sun, it will be great luck for the actor.

William now considers himself such a lucky man.

——Comparing the acting skills now and when he first joined the group, William can clearly see how immature he was at the time. Unfortunately, once the film film is used up, there is no chance to refill it. William can only hope that when the film is released, fans will forgive Edward Fei Russ's sometimes youthful interpretation.

Although few people in the "Sense and Sensibility" crew can understand why William respects Ang Lee so much, William, who has a vague impression of the development of the world's entertainment industry, knows that Ang Lee will achieve very, very great achievements in the future. An Oscar for Best Director?Being able to direct the play with the finger of the best Oscar director, William doesn't feel wronged no matter how low his attitude is when he asks the other party for advice.

Calculating the time, "Sense and Sensibility" will be closed in about 20 days. When he was free, William called his agent Amon to inquire about the preparation progress of another film he took over.

Unexpectedly, I heard a very surprising news from Amon - the heroine of "Romeo and Juliet Modern Edition" was finally determined after several twists and turns, but it was not Natalie Portman as expected, but A previously unknown newcomer Claire Danes.

"Before I came to England, didn't I say that Natalie Portman was about to sign a contract with the crew?" William asked suspiciously.

Yamon explained the inside story of the role change.

It turns out that director Baz Luhrmann had to make the decision to change the heroine: Juliet in Shakespeare's original novel was 14 years old, just like Natalie Boe, who surprised Hollywood with "This Killer Is Not So Cold" last year. Terman is also 14 years old this year, so Luhrmann decided to ask Portman to play Juliet from the beginning of filming, and when he contacted Portman's parents, the other party also agreed.

However, before the official signing, according to the procedure, Director Luhrmann asked Natalie Portman and Leonardo DiCaprio, the actor of Romeo, to play against each other. I solved the problem—when it came time to set the makeup, whether it was Natalie’s Juliet or Leonardo’s Romeo, they were both beautiful, so beautiful that Luhrmann felt that he could make "the most beautiful version of Romeo and Juliet in history", but when The problem comes when the two stand in front of the camera and read their lines together. Portman's love scene is too green to perform Juliet's dazzled feeling after being captured by Cupid (probably because of the lack of experience).

Moreover, Natalie and Leonardo don't feel good together, just like the 21-year-old Leonardo is abducting an underage girl... In desperation, the director had no choice but to reluctantly decide to change the heroine.

William didn't know who Claire Denise was, but he did have an impression of the name Natalie Portman, because the other party would be very famous in the future.

William regrets missing out on a chance to work with Natalie Portman, but he thinks about his role in "Romeo and Juliet Modern" - over six feet tall With long-term fitness exercises, William looks no different from other adult men, coupled with his over-age maturity, William reads love poems to Natalie Portman, who is only 14 years old and looks very lolita He danced with his arms around his waist, and he was also a little bit, unable to speak.

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"Puff-puff-!"

What is being filmed now is a circus of Colonel Brandon—this is actually a feature of Jane Austen’s novels. When describing gentlemen in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they did not accompany the ladies in the parlor, garden, or country road. Spreading is to keep getting on and off the horse.So one of the required skills for British actors is equestrianism, just as a required skill for American actors is to exercise muscles.

The brown horse trotted with its four hooves stretched apart, its long tail swung left and right, and loud ... farts leaked out from below.

Alan Rickman on horseback held the rein with both hands, and his legs clamped the belly of the horse. His riding posture was solemn and serious, and it seemed that there was no change from a few seconds ago.

But anyone who is familiar with it can feel it. When Rickman puffed on the horse under his seat, his face turned black within a second.

"Pfft." Emma Thompson turned away, covered her mouth and started laughing silently.

Kate Winslet stood beside her, biting her lips tightly, the muscles on her face constantly trembling.

"Cough cough."

"Cough, cough, cough!" William and Gray Wise pressed their fists to their mouths, looked up at the sky, and coughed desperately to cover up the laughter that was about to burst out of their throats.

"Puff-puff-!"

The brown horse is still farting while wagging its tail.

Since the start of filming, the filming has been going smoothly without any major accidents, but small twists and turns are inevitable. For example, the thoroughbred horse that the film crew paid a lot of money to rent has always been in good condition. , but the night before it was going to be used again, it caught a cold and suffered from flatulence. After waking up this morning, it kept farting, which messed up a lot of filming work.

It seems that the first shot today was William, but he couldn't help himself after seeing the horse. He laughed so much that he was about to fall off the horse, so Ang Lee took the shot of Alan Rickman first. Move it over to shoot, and then concentrate all William's scenes to the back and finish filming in one go.

As for these "puff puff puff" background sounds, although there is no way to get rid of them during shooting, they can still be removed by technological means during post-production.

With his forehead on Gray Wise's shoulder, William rubbed his stomach while using Gray Wise to hide his smirk.

Turning around to look around, few people could maintain a calm expression. Everyone was either laughing or had finished laughing.Even Ang Lee, who was always very serious during the filming, had the corners of his mouth curled up at this time.

William is almost in admiration of Alan Rickman. Under this background sound, he can still gallop with a normal face and perform a scene of affectionate confession, which is simply a god acting.

——Imagine if it was him himself, reciting a line with a beautiful mood, and then a stupid horse next to him kept "puff puff puff", he would definitely laugh, absolutely.

But Alan Rickman did it. Not only was he not disturbed by the flatulent farting horse, but his face was sad, and he would play the emotionally troubled, kind and selfless Colonel Brandon very vividly.

——Even though there are funny noises constantly interfering, Alan Rickman's performance still moved the vast majority of people present, thinking that the other party would also use Snape in "Harry Potter" a few years later The professor's performance is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. William has to admit that the acting skills of British academic actors are indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people. No wonder after black and semiphobia, Hollywood is gradually blowing up Anglophobia!

"William, have you laughed enough?" Ang Li asked beside the camera suddenly.

William quickly became serious: "That's enough." Li An is also a teacher and friend to him now, and he is the person William admires most in the crew.

"Then make preparations quickly, the next set of shots will be yours and Emma's."

The summer in Devon is not too hot. The maximum temperature during the day is about [-] degrees. In the morning and evening, you have to add a coat to keep out the cold. Actors are not guilty even if they are filming autumn and winter scenes in this kind of weather, but the animals are not necessarily so, especially those with The flock of thick fur sheep, in the past week, three sheep have been fainted by the heat while grazing. The shepherd told the crew that the flock must be shaved in the near future, otherwise the flock faints once in a while. Not good.

But for the sake of the beauty of the camera, Ang Lee would definitely not accept a group of shaved and bald sheep entering the camera, so taking advantage of the sunny weather these days, the coordinator simply arranged all the outdoor field scenes , Like picnics, walks, chatting on horse races and so on.

After Alan Rickman's circus, William and Emma rode horses and chatted by the river, telling each other their hearts.

It was this chat that made Edward and Elena hit it off. They were like-minded and had a great impression of each other, and soon fell in love.

The equestrian brought two horses, and William first helped Emma, ​​who was wearing a dress, get on the horse, and then faced the poor little horse suffering from flatulence, and discussed seriously: "Let's make a deal, the next one How about you don't fart for an hour and I'll pay you three sweet red apples after the shoot is over?"

"Little Poor" with a smooth brown fur faced William with his long horse face, stared at him with two big eyes for a while, snorted, then swished his long tail, making an embarrassing "puff puff" " Twice.

William subconsciously covered his nose.

Emma sat on the horse laughing and leaned back, her hat was crooked.

There was also a velvety deep and smooth laughter not far away, and William curled his lips——

'Professor Snape, you laugh so crackly, does Potter know? '