Birth of an actor

Beginning in late March, William began to receive admission letters from universities one after another.

Because the address is filled with the home in Los Angeles, the letters will be sent to Madeleine first, and Madeleine will re-post to Mexico.

In order for William to keep her first surprise, Madeleine didn't open any of the letters, but she still touched the letters and couldn't help hinting to William on the phone: "This letter is very Thick, there must be a lot of things stuffed inside!"

——According to the practice of American universities, the admission letter is usually a thick letter because it needs to include the school introduction and admission instructions, while most rejection letters are relatively thin, with only a few sheets of paper.

In this way, William got admission letters from Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford, UCLA, and some days in April, he got admissions from Yale and Harvard.

Because William received letters frequently and the contents of the letters were very special, most of the "Titanic" crew knew within a short period of time that William was about to go to college, and no matter how he chose, it was a prestigious school.

Many crew members were surprised by William's youth, and they didn't know that William was less than 20 years old until then.

Then when many people saw William, their greetings became: "Hey, Will, have you decided where you want to go to college?"

Harvard and Yale are William's first choices, and maybe UCLA will be added, because it is closer to home, so it is convenient for him to visit Madeleine.

But when he told Madeleine about this consideration, Madeleine objected: "I'm not old enough to need your regular visits." But she also expressed her hope that William would enter her alma mater.

So the choice is left to Harvard or Yale.

"If it were me, I would choose Yale." Leonardo DiCaprio enthusiastically suggested while watching William struggle: "I heard that Yale has a Skull and Bones Society, and the induction ceremony is to masturbate in a coffin , but also to be whipped, don’t you think it’s mysterious and cool?”

——For Leonardo DiCaprio, who would propose to cut off Jack's joint arm and get a pirate prosthesis after reading the script of "Titanic", William felt that probably hundreds of years ago, it was A rebellious and adventurous person like Leonardo founded a mysterious student organization like Skull and Bones in a boring boarding university.

"Harvard also has a Porcellian Club where you have to wear a shroud and hold a prayer ceremony when you join the membership." William said: "But like the Skull and Bones, they only want the children of wealthy families, or those with titles in their ancestors. I am not the son of Bush. I am the son of the Clintons. It doesn't matter, and it doesn't matter which fraternity you choose college for."

William finally chose Harvard for many reasons, one of which is that he has a vague vision for the future, and Harvard can help him realize his wish better.

……

Generally speaking, the shooting process of commercial blockbusters is very boring. First, because there are many actors and many scenes, the time for entering and leaving the group is strictly controlled, and there is no free time to build friendship. Second, the control of blockbusters is stricter. They almost restricted all aspects of the actors' actions. Third, because the large investment also put a lot of pressure on the protagonists. Apart from filming, they chatted with each other about the script or the script every day, and rarely talked about other topics.

But the atmosphere of the crew of "Titanic" is relaxed and harmonious, which is stronger than that of many other commercial blockbusters. Maybe it's because the leading actors are all outgoing young people, or maybe it's because the young actors already have good personal relationships. .

For example, it is not the first time that William and Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have cooperated. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have also become a relationship because of cooperation. Good friends, but William and Leonardo DiCaprio are the ones who developed the fastest relationship. They are both cheerful and optimistic young people. With Toby as a mutual friend, they have cooperated more than A movie, although it was a bit unpleasant when we first met, but after getting familiar with each other's characters, we soon became like each other.

They checked the lines together, went to the gym together, passed the boring time together by studying the measurements of passing girls (...), together, in order not to make the figure out of shape, redo the costumes that were customized before the start, and gnawed day after day Bread without fat, vegetable salad without dressing, and oatmeal without raisins. :(

During the filming of Ruth undressing and asking Jack to sketch her nude, Jack's line should have been "lay on the couch," but Leonardo DiCaprio slipped it into "" Lying on the bed, uh, I mean on the sofa." This made William gossip, and the two teased: "Do you like her/him?"

Sadly, neither Leonardo DiCapriodo nor Kate Winslet responded to the question, and it seemed like they were genuinely not calling.

The reason may be that they take the filming too seriously, and they subconsciously don’t want to have too much personal feelings in it, especially Kate Winslet. People against lines, and Leonardo DiCaprio, while pretty much dead with Claire Danes, has other romances waiting in Los Angeles.

After the day of filming, William went back to the hotel to take a shower, sat on the sofa and played crossword puzzles in the newspaper while watching TV—a soap opera on local TV, in Spanish, and after two films in Mexico, William had already He can understand a little Spanish, but even if he can't understand it, it doesn't prevent him from interpreting the straightforward pictures on TV. This is a movie about a gangster lady falling in love with an undercover policeman. The story of the young lady clearing herself up while fleeing to the end of the world.

There was a sudden knock on the door of the room, and William felt that someone was coming to him to match his lines again. After opening the door, it turned out to be Kate Winslet.

Kate Winslet walked in with the script rolled up in a circle, glanced at the TV that was playing, and the newspaper and pen spread out on the sofa: "I want to talk to someone, are you free?"

"Of course I'm free." William put away the newspaper and turned off the TV: "You don't really think that boring soap operas and crossword puzzles are more important to me than friends, do you?"

"Oh Will, I really like this about you." Kate Winslet touched William with a hug: "When we need you, you are always here."

William tilted his head, put the index finger and middle finger of his right hand together in front of his forehead and waved to the right, giving a naughty Patton-style military salute: "I am a helpful little angel, ma'am, and I am happy to serve you."

While laughing loudly, Kate Winslet sat on the sofa in a very ladylike manner, with her knees together and slightly tilted to one side, her hands folded on her lap.She has always been like this recently, as if because she played Ruth, she brought the style of a noble lady into her private life after filming.

In fact, William is similar.Probably only veteran actors who have been in the industry for decades can quickly and efficiently enter and exit the play. Young actors can’t avoid playing someone, and they also have a little bit of that person’s style in their private living habits. William is much better now Yes, when he first entered the industry, he once played a guest role as an autistic patient. Because he had studied the role too deeply, after the filming ended, he was depressed and depressed. He suspected that he had a terminal illness. In the end, he went to the hospital for a physical examination and obtained a health certificate. Then escaped.

William poured a glass of juice for Kate Winslet, she drank it in her hand and said: "I have some problems with the script, about the ending, and Cameron probably won't want to hear me questioning His script, and Leo doesn't seem like a good person to discuss this issue, so I have to come to you."

"what is the problem?"

Kate Winslet asked in confusion: "Why did Jack have to die? Why couldn't he survive with Ruth and start a new life in America happily?"

"Good question, obviously you once had the same confusion as me." William said after a while: "Want to hear my opinion?"

"My God, of course I do."

"You played Marianne once, and I think that's one of the reasons why Jimmy chose you. Marianne and Ruth have a lot in common in their early characters. Love, dismissive of marriages mixed with material factors. But they are two different characters, they cannot be exactly the same, have you noticed their differences?"

"Ruth is more naive, more rebellious, and more desperate than Marianne?" Kate thought about it and said, "Marianne has experienced ups and downs of fate, was kicked out of Nolan Manor, and from a young lady who didn't give birth to a family caring No matter how bad Ruth's situation is, she can at least keep her family property, and she can get a rich fiancé in exchange for her beauty. Life is very good and luxurious.”

"Very well, keep talking."

"Ruth is like Marianne who has not been kicked out of Nolan Manor, but is already poor. Because she has not lost it, Ruth is more idealistic, and she will do everything for the love she yearns for, even if she abandons her mother and fiancé."

"That's right." William shrugged: "I still remember that after Willoughby abandoned Marianne for a woman with a dowry of [-] pounds, Marianne finally opened her heart to accept Colonel Braddon after a serious illness, and then went to meet her sister Elena Walking at Willoughby's place, and those few words?"

"I remember." Kate Winslet was a little puzzled: "But I don't know what this has to do with the Titanic and Jack must die in the end."

"'But will Willoughby be happy if he marries me?' Marianne said: 'Even if there is a lover but penniless--'" William read a few lines from Marianne in "Sense and Sensibility" lines.

Kate Winslet quickly picks up: "'Money will probably come first before love, and by then, if he regrets half as much as I do now, he'll have enough of it.'" Thinking frowned: "Do you think that if Jack is alive, he and Rose will be separated again for money like Willoughby and Marianne?"

"I think these words have exhausted all the true meaning of love, at least the return of Jack and Ruth's love."

Kate Winslet hesitated: "Do you think that if Jack hadn't died, the ending for him and Ruth would have been tragic?"

"Maybe it's not a tragedy, but it's not as beautiful as people expected. Why do fairy tales always end with the prince and princess getting married? It's because it's not a fairy tale if you write about the trivial things after marriage, just like Grace Kay Li, her marriage with Prince Rainier is known as a modern fairy tale, but the married life of the two is not so beautiful and dreamy. Grace suffered from depression after marriage because she was forced to take a rest, and the European media always hinted that it was true. She and Prince Rainier both secretly cheated, as did Diana and Sissy. The love between Jack and Ruth is beautiful, but love is just a feeling brought about by excessive secretion of dopamine in the brain , dopamine will not maintain high levels all the time, so love will not be happy and sweet forever, I just want to say that if Jack is alive, the chances of his and Ruth's love will last a lifetime are very slim."

Kate Winslet objected: "But it is written in the script that Ruth did not rely on Carl's help, nor did she sell the heart of the ocean. She still lived in the United States and lived a fairly happy life." It seemed to prove herself She turned the script to the last few pages: "'The most painful thing about being poor is knowing that you could have been rich. But every time I want to sell it, I think of Carl, no matter what. He helped me through it, too, and now I've come all the way here to bring it back to where it really belongs.' Those were the words old Ruth said before she lost the Heart of the Sea."

"Turn another page." William raised his chin: "The following lines also said that Ruth is poor in life but happy in spirit, because she has the best memories in her life to accompany her through it. A People can live on these spiritual beliefs, but two people are not necessarily, husband and wife in a poor life will definitely blame each other, this is an eternal theorem."

"I don't think so." Kate Winslet insisted: "I believe that even if Jack is alive, he and Ruth will not become a couple who complain to each other."

"Maybe." William said: "But only when Jack is dead, the love between him and Ruth can move more people, just like Romeo and Juliet, Venus with a broken arm, the audience will take all the love when they watch the movie." The focus is on the love between them, not on Jack and Rose's married life."

"Everything started with Titanic and ended with Titanic?" Kate Winslet concluded.

William nodded: "It started with Titanic and ended with Titanic. I think Cameron probably thinks so."

Regarding Jack and Ruth, part of William's inference comes from the future, but he can't tell Kate.

He knew Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate would make Revolutionary Road ten years from now, and that movie would be about a once-lovely couple who married and became typical A middle-class couple, living in a beautiful white house, have a pair of beautiful children. The marriage seems to be perfect and prosperous, but in fact it has been destroyed by trivialities in life. The itch of the year.

The "Titanic" brought about by the plot of "Revolutionary Road" is too visual. Some film critics commented: "The Revolutionary Road is Jack and Ruth walking off the Titanic."

Regardless of what Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCapriodo think now, William knows that in the future they will definitely have a resonance with the "Revolutionary Road" story, otherwise they will not take over together ten years later. made such a movie.

……

In Hollywood, James Cameron has several famous nicknames.

"Money-burning machine" is the most well-known one, while "studio tyrant" is widely circulated among those who have worked with him.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the six-foot-three global bodybuilder and action superstar, was pointed at by Cameron for half an hour during the filming of "Terminator 2" because he wanted to I took advantage of the 10 minutes when the crew changed the light bulb and went out for a walk, but in fact the lighting engineer only took less than 1 minute to change the light bulb, and there was no sign of Schwarzenegger when the work was restarted, James Cameron Long suddenly became angry.

For example, since the filming of "The Abyss", I have to yell at every photographer: "Where did you learn your skills? Can you read a luminance meter?!" Watch two monkeys play a football".

Maybe it's a strong desire to control, or maybe it's too fanatical to pursue perfection. In short, Cameron can easily become angry and even violent under working conditions.

And "Titanic" seems to bring these characteristics of James Cameron to the extreme. Every day, he sits on a high crane, overlooking the 775-foot-long location, holding a Trumpet, dispatching everyone like a commanding prop, and firing whenever someone didn't do what he asked.

The scene of Jack and Rose kissing on the bow of the Titanic was originally filmed in front of a green screen, and the background could be changed after post-production, but James Cameron felt that the real light would make the picture more beautiful. So I decided to shoot this scene in a real sunset.

Every afternoon, after two hours of makeup, dressing and hair, James Cameron will tell Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate in detail how he wants them to kiss, down to every minute Every second, how their heads turned and turned, how Kate's hand reached for Leo's hair, how they looked at each other, how their expressions changed from hesitant to submissive, and how they kissed together.

And this shot took a full eight days, because the appearance of the sun setting in the Pacific Ocean in the first seven days was not perfect. The day was filmed perfectly, everyone admitted it, but because everyone was tossed back and forth so many times, they couldn't feel any romance in their hearts, only the sense of relief after finishing the performance.

However, there is still a bit of fun, such as Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCapriodo agree that if they are going to do a kiss scene, both parties will not smoke, eat garlic, or drink on that day. Eat onions and don’t drink coffee, but the agreement only lasted for one day. From the second day on, Leonardo DiCapriodo couldn’t help eating all the prohibited foods, so after this shot was finished , he has an extra nickname "Smelly Leo".

Leonardo DiCaprio is very unhappy with this nickname.

But William said to him: "You should be thankful that Kate's revenge is not so strong. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh were at odds during the filming of "Gone With the Wind". Gable ate garlic and choked Vivien. Vivien will be in the next scene You also choked on garlic before the kiss scene, if Kate also learns from Vivien Leigh, you will look good."

Leonardo DiCaprio didn't care about William's words, but he really restrained a lot in the following shots.

Also, when the kiss on the bow of the Titanic had been filmed for four or five days in a row, Leonardo DiCaprio couldn't bear it, and came to William to complain during the breaks of the filming. The main point of the complaint was There are three: [-], those who kiss Kate will become immune to the woman's lips, [-], his arms are so sore that he can hardly lift them up, [-], the more strict James Cameron is to this scene Constantly NG, the more Leonardo didn't know how to shoot.

So in order to ease Leonardo DiCaprio's tension, and to stop his endless nagging that Kate's raised arm is about to fail (if Kate Winslet hears this, Leonardo Absolutely tragic death), suggested by William, he and Leonardo did a thing that was absolutely unending——William stood at the bow and proposed to Leonardo to let the other party treat himself as Ruth, try Hold it up, and then check the lines.

Originally, William was also joking, but Leonardo DiCaprio really did that. He let William step on the railing, and then hugged William's waist from behind. non-stop.

And when the two were talking about the normal shooting, because Leonardo just ate a burrito and forgot to brush his teeth and rinse his mouth, he chased Kate Winslet to kiss during the kiss scene, but Kate hid away with disgust. What happened, after Leonardo laughed "haha" for a long time, he suddenly wanted to imitate the scene at that time, pouted his lips and insisted on a "kiss" from William, and William also put on a reluctant expression very cooperatively, Twisting his head to hide and hide.

Next, a tragic thing happened - James Cameron suddenly remembered that there was a camera on the deck that he forgot to turn off after shooting, so he came to the studio to turn off the camera, and happened to see this scene of William and Leonardo playing .

"What the hell are you two doing?!"

With Cameron's roar, William and Leonardo rolled off the railing like stacks of bread, and fell to the deck.

Leonardo screamed "Ow!", his chin was just hit hard by William's forehead.

William was also having a hard time—one of his front teeth hit Leonardo's collarbone, and it was a little loose.

And James Cameron, who was still angry at first, saw the unlucky appearance of William and Leonardo, and his anger disappeared without a trace. He pointed to the two people who fell into a ball on the deck, "hahahaha" There is no image of the smile.

All of this was faithfully recorded by the camera on the deck that forgot to turn off, added countless jokes to countless famous talk shows, and became the black history of the lives of two Hollywood superstars in the future.