Birth of an actor

"How about chatting together? It's too boring to be alone."

"Great, I thought so too."

The two Hollywood first-line actresses looked at each other and smiled, feeling sympathy for each other at the same time, and the psychological distance was infinitely narrowed.

The Oscar night party was extremely lively, and everyone was busy networking, exchanging benefits, or having fun, but there were not many people around Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger, and they even fell behind at one point. Order - this is by no means to say that they are unpopular, if the occasion is different, they will definitely become the focus queen of the whole party, being accosted so much that they don't even have time to go to the bathroom.However, the theme of the banquet tonight is the Oscars, and they lost to Halle Berry in the competition for the best actress Oscar. Surrounded them without interest and gave them a little personal space.

The thoughtfulness is good, really, but it's so embarrassing when everyone is so thoughtful and smart that they're left alone.Especially when Nicole Kidman's ex-husband Tom Cruise was chatting not far away with Paramount executives, as well as gold medal agent Ali Emmanuel and others, she didn't want to be alone with.

Nicole Kidman smiled, and her tone was a little more sincere than before: "By the way, I like "BJ's Diary" very much, and your accent is as realistic as a genuine British. I heard that You practiced your accent for a few months for the movie?"

"To be honest, I admire you more, Nicole. The songs and dances in "Moulin Rouge" are beautiful, and the time and energy you spend on it will definitely not be less than mine!"

That's when a black actress whom neither Nicole Kidman nor Renee Zellweger knew - who may have been in a few TV series and a low-budget film - suddenly squeezed between their bodies In the past, walking towards each other while calling Halle Berry's name affectionately, not only interrupting their conversation on the way, but also completely ignoring the two of them.

The two first-line Hollywood actresses looked at each other, and their eyes became subtle together, and a certain feeling of hatred and hatred grew in their hearts.

"That's something I shouldn't have said, it would look like I'm madly jealous of her." Renee Zellweger had a smirk on her face, and her tone was so soft that only she and Nicole Kidman could hear : "But I really don't understand why she won. You, Judi Dench and Sissy Spacek are more qualified than her."

"Of course she has acting skills, Renee. Although she didn't cry for a long time in the movie, she cried a lot during the awards ceremony."

"Oh Nicole, you're so mean." Renee Zellweger laughed heartily. "But I love your tone."

"As for why it was her, I think I probably know the reason—political choices, Renee. There may be other factors, but the biggest reason is that it is time for the Oscars to have a black actress. Who let President Bush What about launching a war recklessly? At this time, the United States must unite all forces that can be united. In the past month, media reporters have accused me of spending more than 200 million US dollars on Oscar public relations, but they have never dared to expose people of color in the United States This kind of promotion association has been openly canvassing for them."

Nicole Kidman's tone is very sarcastic, but Renee Zellweger understands her, but what she doesn't understand is: "They?"

"Denzel Washington and Halle Berry. Will Smith is a poor little abandoned man, who made the year he was nominated so unlucky that he crashed with Washington, so he can only spend his own PR .”

In terms of the circulation of Hollywood gossip, Renee Zellweger is really inferior to Nicole Kidman who has already enjoyed various top resources. "I don't understand why Denzel Washington didn't become a best actor if the NAACP is so powerful?"

"Maybe it's because they are too sure to win, but they aroused the disgust of many people. You must know that the college is basically composed of old men who were born before the 50s and 1999s. They don't like aggressive attitudes." Nicole Kidman said about the gossip he heard from his agent and publicist: "Plus the academy felt that they did owe William Bradley a little justice in [-]."

At this moment there was an inconceivable commotion at the dinner party.

Nicole Kidman was facing the hall entrance, she looked up, and said with a smile: "What a coincidence, William Bradley was just mentioned, and he came—"

Renee Zellweger's eyes lit up instantly, and she almost couldn't wait to turn her head to look at the center of the commotion in the crowd.

Money and a pretty face do not make William Bradley, although in the eyes of most women in Hollywood, he is indeed rich and handsome.But there are too many handsome and rich men in Hollywood, but not everyone is William Bradley—he also has multiple labels such as mystery, humility, and charm, and in the past two years, some media have summarized Some of the fastest paths to fame in Hollywood, one of the higher ones is to be friends with William Bradley, because there are enough data to prove that the careers of actors who have worked with William Bradley immediately entered a period of growth Even major outbreaks accounted for the majority.

Therefore, when William Bradley walked into the banquet hall, he easily became the focus of attention of the audience, and even Halle Berry, who had been beautiful before, was instantly reduced to the background board. It was not surprising.Just like the analogy between the king and the queen in the high school ball, if the queen is the moon, the king is undoubtedly the sun. The two are in the same sky, and the light of the latter must cover the former.

Renee Zellweger wants to move forward but there are too many people in her way, people keep walking up to congratulate William Bradley, say a lot of high-sounding nonsense, and then stop talking The traces turned into compliments to him, complimented him, let out a kind chuckle when he spoke, followed him to drink the champagne in the glass when he raised his glass, and then moved closer to him more actively and eagerly.

Renee Zellweger found to her dismay that there was no room left for her beside William Bradley, not even a single vacancy.

Nicole Kidman observed the change in her new friend's expression. She was a little surprised at first, but soon stopped being surprised: "Will has a superstar demeanor, I knew it from the first time I met him, He can be downright charming when he wants to. Are you interested in him, Renee?"

"Yeah, he's the reason I've stuck with it until now."

"Renee, I thought you were dating George Clooney?"

"We've broken up." Renee Zellweger covered the lower half of her face with a wine glass, and whispered to Nicole Kidman, "He can't change his flirtatious behavior, and I don't want to." Playing deaf and dumb, sharing a man with other women, so I kicked him."

Perhaps because she is always criticized for not being pretty enough, Renee Zellweger likes to compete in the love scene, and her love luck has always been good. There are screenwriters and musicians. In addition to George Clooney, Jim Carrey and Matthew Perry are on her ex-boyfriend list.

"You are very attractive, Renee, as you can see from your list of famous and promising ex-boyfriends, but a man as beautiful as Will is not destined to belong to only one woman forever. If you pursue If that's what you want, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed." Nicole Kidman wouldn't have said this heartfelt statement if she didn't really have a crush on Renee Zellweger.

"But he hasn't played with women's feelings, right? If he has, he can't hide it. This is Hollywood-I want to try it, please Nicole, I won't give up without a fight." Renee Zellweger's eyes are full of persistence, and her expression is full of stubbornness. This is what her hometown, Katy, Texas, endowed her, and it is also her true character. She is not like most of the silly elder sisters portrayed The character is so friendly and easy-going that it's a bit silly.

To be honest, how can there be a real silly big sister in Hollywood?Maybe, but they are not popular for long, and those who can gain a foothold are smart girls who know how to put on the mask of a silly big sister to cover themselves.

"Okay, come with me, I'll introduce Will to you." Nicole Kidman finally agreed, and then she used her face and a few encounters with William to connect herself and Renee · Zellweger brought into that crowded inner circle.

"Congratulations, Will." Nicole Kidman raised his glass to William, and introduced: "This is Renee, Will, I think you have seen it at the awards ceremony."

"My seat is a bit out of the way, you shouldn't be able to see me." Renee Zellweger said immediately, and extended her hand to William: "But on the red carpet, you walked past me twice, when I wanted to say hello to you, but you were just looking after Kate Winslet's dress."

"It's not too late to get to know each other now, you can call me Will." William smiled as he spoke, and shook Renee Zellweger's hand politely.

William's tone was very polite, but Renee Zellweger didn't hear it. The moment their eyes met, the surroundings became quiet, and Renee Zellweger could only hear her own anxious heartbeat.It's the tension that even one of her most glamorous boyfriends, George Clooney, failed to give her.

Also, there was the warm, dry palm of the other party. She only hoped that William didn't realize that his palm was sweating.

Sensing the other party's polite light shake, she was about to let go of her palm. Renee Zellweger hurriedly stuffed the small note with her personal phone number and "Call me" that she had prepared a long time ago. After entering William's hands, he even showed his most pleasing sweet smile.The other party took the note after a moment of surprise, and held it in the palm of his hand naturally, without being noticed by others.

Renee Zellweger thought she had made it, and William Bradley didn't give her a second look, but soon started talking to other people without letting her down, and she accompanied Nicole Kidd Man walked around the dinner, chatted with several directors and producers, and left early to go home and wait for the call.

But then a day passed, then a month, then two months... Renee Zellweger never got a call from William Bradley.

She failed?She didn't arouse the other party's interest?

So why did he hide his note?

Probably... I don't want to embarrass her in public.

Had the note been seen by someone else, and William hadn't shown interest in her, she would have provided Hollywood gossip for a year of laughing.

To be honest, this really hit her a bit, but after thinking about it, this ending is better than the others.Well, now she finally knew why so many in the secretive circle of Hollywood actresses had a love-hate relationship with William Bradley.

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The Oscars and Vanity Fair's "Oscar Night" dinner dominated the entertainment pages of nearly every media outlet the next day.

The headlines of the entertainment section of the three major newspapers in North America "New York Times", "Washington Post" and "Los Angeles Times" are all news related to Oscars, and "Variety Show", "New Yorker" and "Hollywood Reporter" coincidentally launched Oscar-related topics special issue.

"The 74th Oscar destined to become a legend - the youngest actor and the first black actress."

This is the evaluation of last night's Oscars on the headline of the "New York Times" entertainment section, "Bo Yun's secret public opinion war before the awards ceremony, the longest duration, the highest increase in ratings, the youngest actor and the first black actress , all of which have deepened the legend of the 74th Oscar."

The "New York Times" also compared William with Richard Dreyfuss, who won the title of actor at the age of 30 years and 156 days, the holder of the Oscar's youngest actor record, saying William and Halle Berry The award is a "bold and reasonable choice", and "the 75th Oscar is destined to become the most legendary Oscar, which will be talked about by fans of future generations."

"Washington Post" took ""A Beautiful Mind" won the best picture, and William Bradley and Halle Berry won the best actor and actress as the title", and counted many highlights at the awards ceremony, such as Kodak The theater's extravagant stage, Whoopi Goldberg's stunning appearance, Woody Allen's surprise appearance, Sidney Poitier's thought-provoking speech, Halle Berry's tears of joy as he takes over the statuette and William · Bradley left a very impressive acceptance speech and so on.

The "Los Angeles Daily" called this session "the most surprising and least surprising Oscar."

""A Beautiful Mind" was originally a master of biographical films. It won the best picture, best director, best actor, and best supporting actress in one fell swoop. Not surprisingly, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" only received 13 technical awards with 4 nominations, and this embarrassment was also expected."

"The coronation of William Bradley and Halle Berry shows that the Oscars have signaled a desire for change when it comes to issues of ageism and racism, but sadly commercial and sci-fi/fantasy still exist. "

As for other mainstream media, CNN continued to be shocked by William's actual age when he won the Oscar winner. When CNN’s celebrity anchor broadcast the Oscar news, he emphasized twice that “24 years old and 197 days Oscar winner”, and even couldn’t help bursting out: “God, when I was this old, I was still working at Burger King to pay off my college loans. Woolen cloth!"

It is worth mentioning that this passage from the CNN anchor quickly became popular, and it also triggered a wave of complaints and complaints from the public about the increasingly expensive tuition fees at university, and the repayment of loans after graduation until retirement.

The Associated Press and Reuters are more concerned about Hollywood's changes in racial discrimination. "The 74th Oscar is a milestone for black actors." Reuters pointed out that three black actors competed for the Best Actor Award at the same time, and Oscar was born. The first black actress in history, and the Oscar Lifetime Honorary Award of the famous black movie star Sidney Poitier, such an Oscar was unimaginable for the black community 40 years ago, and now they are finally proud.

"The Oscars have made great progress, and Hollywood will increasingly favor black actors in the future." The Associated Press stated.

However, some media such as the "New York Post" believed that the award ceremony lasted more than four hours, which was too long, and people had to watch it patiently and yawned. It was definitely a torture for the audience on the east coast, and most of the winners The speeches are all boring, thanks come and go, repetition and affectation.

However, the statistics of the Oscars released by the famous market research company AC Nielsen show that the ratings of the 74th Oscars have increased too much compared with the previous year. The awards ceremony lasted 4 hours and 16 minutes, which is the longest in the history of Oscars. Once, the previous longest record was 4 hours and 9 minutes.During the more than four hours of live broadcast on ABC TV station, the ratings of 56 major TV markets in the United States reached 41.4%!

You must know that the ratings of the Oscars last year were 30.7%, which means that the ratings increased by 10.7%, adding a full 1574 million viewers!Coupled with the instant highest viewership of 5810 million, although the average viewership of this year's Oscars is still not as good as that of 1998, such a bright moment is enough to be recorded in history.

Not only that, in the 24 hours after the Oscars ended, the search volume of William Bradley, Halle Berry, Oscar, A Beautiful Mind, Lord of the Rings, and Whoopi Goldberg on Google Reaching tens of millions of times, Oscar-related directly occupied six positions in the top ten searches this month.

The Oscar effect is not only reflected in the widespread heated discussions among the media and the public, and the popularity of Internet searches, but also in the various box office data that are actually converted into dollars.

In the next week or even a month, the box office of the films that won the Oscar statuettes ushered in a substantial increase. Those films that were about to be released have been extended. Even the films that have already been released, All are re-screened in art theaters.

A good example is "A Beautiful Mind".More than ten weeks after its release, the number of theaters showing "A Beautiful Mind" in North America has dropped from more than 3000 at the beginning to more than 400. Going into the cinema to buy movie tickets—many of the movie fans have already seen the movie more than once—both art theaters and public theaters have rapidly increased the number of screenings. Thousands of houses, more than 2500 screens.

This also made "A Beautiful Mind", which had already fallen from the weekend box office rankings, earn a box office of 1870 million US dollars in the first weekend after the Oscars, and there were no strong new films released in the same period. , the film directly returned to the No. [-] position on the weekend box office chart in North America.

Although this situation was only a flash in the pan, and the film's ranking fell below the top five in the second week, but it can still achieve such a result after more than three months of release, which is enough to make everyone happy.In overseas regions, in some countries where the film has just been released due to the schedule, the box office has also been obviously affected by the Oscars, and achieved better results than expected.

As of April 2002, the North American box office of "A Beautiful Mind" has reached 4 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office is very close to 3.47 million U.S. dollars. Universal and DreamWorks are of course ecstatic that a biographical film can achieve such a box office result. And it is rare and generous to give a lot of dividends to all the main creators of the film. After being dumbfounded, the Hollywood studios almost swept away all the biographical film scripts in the industry that have not been bought. As many as nine biographical films started shooting simultaneously in April, and each studio expects the next "A Beautiful Mind" to be born in its own hands.

Another aspect of the Oscar effect is that the statuette winners will generally get twice or even ten times more attention than before, and this attention will not disappear until the next Oscar is held.

Ron Howard's new work is highly anticipated, Jennifer Connelly's relationship with her boyfriend Paul Bettany has also received widespread attention, and the media is hotly discussing that Halle Berry will play the role in "007 Die Another Day" in the filming. What a Bond girl, but at the same time, she also rediscovered the scandal of her driving away after a car accident two months ago.

As for William, the media focused on him even more closely, but after he became the best actor at the Oscars, he kept away from it, except for taking another cover of Vanity Fair with a statuette and creating another best-selling magazine of the year. Attracting the attention of the public—William had previously accepted an exclusive interview with "Vanity Fair", and the cover photo later became one of the top ten most attractive covers in history selected by the magazine, and the sales volume was also very high, with 50 More than 3 copies, is it No.4 or No.[-] on the historical sales list of "Vanity Fair" magazine.

So it's no wonder that "People" magazine began to use worried words to comment: "Oscar winner and the world's best actor William Bradley may have recently asked another Oscar winner, also the world's best actor Daniel Day-Lewis' tendency to learn. And what he learned was not acting style, not clothing and hairstyles, but the reclusive lifestyle of Daniel Day-Lewis. Jesus Christ, this must not be true, or when William Bran Deli is determined to stay out of the public eye, how much less fun will be for fans all over the world!"

But "People" magazine's concerns (for the time being) are superfluous. Daniel Day Lewis's life is reclusive except for filming, and he rarely attends public events, even if it is his own film premiere, and William, in Willow On the day of the premiere of the specially produced and supervised by Marvel, "Spider-Man" appeared at the entrance of the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles to experience the effect of the film's premiere on the spot, and also to help out his friend Tobey Maguire.