Birth of an actor

The first thing Jude Law sees is the body facing the sea.

Of course it would be that body, separated by such a long distance, it did not turn into a blurred mass of white, but with smooth lines and perfect proportions, and because it couldn't be seen too clearly, it had an extra layer of mysterious beauty, which reminded him Aphrodite born from the foam of the sea.

Although the gender is different, and the reason for Aphrodite's birth is often unspeakable, but at this moment, apart from this goddess of desire and beauty, he can't think of other characters to make analogies.

No, maybe Adonis can do it too, Adonis who can make even Aphrodite admire is more suitable!

Under the glare of the sun, this body already looks so attractive - as we all know, the dim light is the best tool to create beauty - I don't know how it will become under the lens of Andrew Nicole Incredible.

Jude Law is familiar with the shots directed by Andrew Nicol, and has seen many of them these days. Like many Hollywood crews, the crew of "Gatta Gatta" also has an editor who follows the crew, and he makes rough cuts of the filmed films every day , and then submit it, it will help the producer to check the shooting progress, and it can also help the directors organize their ideas from the perspective of a third party-Andrew Nicholl likes cool colors very much. In his shots, whether it is people or Still lifes are often full of an inorganic beauty.

Like Jude Law himself, his facial features are very good, and the shape of his eyes is also satisfactory, but the pupil color is not particularly outstanding, at least in Jude Law's own opinion, it is a bit blue, a little green, and a little bit green Grey, not as charming as azure blue or dark green, but under the lens of Andrew Nicole, although the color of his eyes has not changed, they are very crystal clear. Sometimes even he himself is surprised why his eyes are so clear?

Not only Jude Law, the heroine Uma Thurman, under the lens of Andrew Nicole, has slightly sharp facial features become very glamorous and charming, not to mention William Bradley, with a cool tone The picture was born for him, the arrogance and coldness in suits and ties froze some staff members and fascinated others, and those dark green eyes looked like emeralds in the camera like never before .

Suddenly realizing that he had been staring at William Bradley's naked body for a long time, Jude Law's cheeks suddenly became hot. Although there was no one around, he coughed lightly and turned his eyes to the sea for a while—he I was wondering if I had just finished filming "Wilde's Lover" and I haven't come out of that movie yet, otherwise, he always only likes pretty girls, why did he stare at same-sex nudes for so long?Is there something he has that he doesn't have?Even if William Bradley's dark hair and green eyes are very in line with my own aesthetics!

——Of course, because of the needs of the plot, William Bradley's hair color has been dyed the same golden color as Jude Law, but his makeup style when he was still dark hair color still remains in the minds of many people, and deep impression!

After clearing his random thoughts from his mind, Jude Law began to capture William Bradley's movements, those who grabbed gravel and sand repeatedly rubbed against their skin, those who kept holding up sea water and broke it repeatedly to his chest, those who squatted on the beach The convulsions, the last scene of kneeling and looking up at the sea... all made Jude Law feel painful.

It's not that Jude Law himself is in pain, but he feels this emotion from William Bradley's body. In addition to pain, there is also madness and recklessness.

'What a wonderful appeal. Jude Law couldn't help thinking, "In front of so many people, you can still perform such a tense performance so calmly. Although I don't know how the facial expressions are shot, it must be good to imagine."If you put William Bradley on the theater stage, he should be able to become a good theater actor after training. '

When Jude Law made movies, he often had some body movements that were not exaggerated, but definitely eye-catching, especially the kind of dandy aristocrat with a slightly raised chin, impeccable manners, and a cane. , He is simply very proficient, body scenes are better than eye scenes, this is his unique acting skill, and it is also a habit brought about by many years of theater stage performances - most theater actors are like this, because compared with film shooting, theater stage requires more Exaggerated and more intense performances.

"Just like Ferdinand Pohl's Adonis, isn't it?"

Who speaks their mind?The sudden male voice startled Jude Law. He turned around and found that his assistant, who had been missing for an entire afternoon, was standing half a meter behind: "Jesus, you're going to scare me to death, Mike, where did you come from?" Where did it come from?"

Assistant Mike pointed towards the seaside: "I was standing there all the time, but I just accidentally noticed that the person uphill looked like you, so I came over to have a look, but I didn't expect it was really you. Jude, why don't you come to see this place?" Is there a cleaning scene?"

"When I got tired of reading the script, I went out for a walk, and walked over by accident." Jude Law emphasized to his assistant that he came to the shooting scene only by accident, and then asked: "Why are there so many scenes in this scene?" People are watching?"

"There were a lot of people in the first two cleaning scenes, but they were all driven away." Assistant Mike shrugged and said, "I think today is the time when the crew is the most complete. How many people were there in the past? More than 100 people ? I think there are at least 200 people today, and there are a lot of lighting engineers, photographers, and actors who are idle, and when they are not working, they are not seen."

The configuration of a formal film crew should include the production team, director team, photography lighting team, art props team, costume makeup team, sound recording team and other personnel including drivers, chefs, and various directors. In a small case, there are about 100 people, and if the budget is sufficient, it can reach more than 200-1000 people-note that this number refers to the peak value, not that there are so many people stationed every day, because the crew is usually mobile , once a certain actor's role is completed, or when the staff has completed their tasks, they will often leave the crew immediately, even if they don't want to leave the crew, they will usually drive people away, because now almost all crews pay the staff on a daily basis of.

For example, the super crew "Titanic", when the final scene where the Titanic sank and the passengers in the three cabins escaped, there were nearly 2000 staff members and extras. In normal circumstances, such as the first-class dinner dance When waiting for the scene, the crew usually has about 500 permanent staff.

Gattaca invested 600 million U.S. dollars, which is considered an upper-middle-scale investment in this era, but because the scene is not complicated, the crew usually has about 150-200 permanent staff, and the peak number of people is less than 300. Today, it can reach 200. People, already an extremely rare attendance rate.

"Who did you say Will looked like, the Adonis painted by Ferdinand Pohl?" Jude Law asked suddenly.

Mike nodded and said: "The most beautiful girl in Greek mythology was pursued by Venus, the god of love, and died of the jealousy of Ares, the god of war. After death, she turned into a red rose. Isn't it very vivid?"

"I agree with the Adonis metaphor, but I don't think Will should be the work of Ferdinand Pohl." Jude Law corrected: "Ferdinand Pohl can only be regarded as a court portrait painter at best. Paintings by aristocrats, beautiful characters are beautiful, without soul, if you have to be like Adonis, Giuseppe Mazuli's "Death of Adonis" statue is more appropriate."

"..." Mike didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was just talking casually. Do you want Jude to correct me so seriously?

There was a commotion not far away, as if many people were sighing collectively, and the group disappointment was transmitted contagiously.

"It seems that the shooting is over." Mike glanced towards the sea and said.

Jude Law also looked over and saw a red-haired figure rushing towards the beach with a bathrobe in his arms. It seemed to be an actor assistant named Danny. Then William Bradley escaped with the help of the red hair. Put on the bathrobe without the eyes of the crowd.

Jude Law blinked, and a new idea suddenly popped up in his mind, about a scene the day after tomorrow.

He glanced at the beach again, and when he was about to turn around and leave, the people on the beach seemed to have sensed it, and suddenly looked uphill.

Although it was a short distance away and his vision was blurry and difficult to distinguish, Jude Law had that feeling: he saw me.

Coughing again, Jude Law's cheeks were hot from embarrassment.

……

For a long time to come, Jude Law and William were going through severe ideological struggles.

William sighed angrily that the chemical reaction between the heroine Uma Thurman and Jude Law was far less strong when he was filming, and the cleaning scene that brought a lot of follow-up turmoil-always in the early hours of the morning. The door was knocked on secretly, and there was an endless stream of disheveled, drunk and profiteering "sneakers", until William angrily asked Andrew Nicole to exchange rooms with Danny Bourne who lived in the room next to him, and the director suppressed , this situation is a little better-and Jude Law, sometimes when he meets each other on the set when he is not filming, William can't help but think: 'Why does he also come to the beach to watch the cleaning scene?But standing so far away, I always feel a little weird. '

And Jude Law, as thin-skinned as all British people are, always worried that after the beach cleaning scene, William would think of himself in strange places.

The shared embarrassment makes the two of them unable to help secretly looking at each other on the set, and when they look at each other, they will be discovered by the other party in all likelihood, so the embarrassment becomes even more... Gradually falling into the trap of not looking away immediately when they see each other In the strange cycle of staring at each other for a long time.

However, no matter how weird the atmosphere between the two parties was, the rest of the crew seemed to have not noticed anything, especially the director Andrew Nicole, who felt that the atmosphere between Jude Law and William was great !As long as it is a rivalry scene, there will be sparks everywhere!For example, in the scene right now—Vincent was selected by the company and will go into space a week later, he and Jerome went to a restaurant to celebrate—the atmosphere is great.

William Bradley expressed all of Vincent's worries about Jerome: it's not about money. Vincent has savings for many years, and the salary and benefits of Gedejia Company are also very good. The money is enough During his year in space, Jerome was squandered, and what Vincent worried about was, who would take care of him when he left?After all, Jerome was a wheelchair user.

Jude Law also showed Jerome's special character to the fullest: Jerome is a lonely genius, and he is not good at expressing his inner emotions. He feels uncomfortable with Vincent's concern. When he said "I'm worried about you being in the house all year by yourself" and "What are you going to do?" From being surprised by the fact that Vincent was chosen to ascend into space, to simply abandoning himself and saying that he would pay someone (a prostitute) to accompany him, he has been trying to avoid communicating with Vincent about how he will live after the other party leaves.

Andrew Nicole felt that Jude Law used his eyes wonderfully in this scene. He didn't make eye contact with William the whole time, and kept looking left and right, but he used Jerome's cynical surface to disguise his fragile heart. It feels completely played out.

And Jerome's complication, the complicity of celebrating Vincent while simultaneously remembering his failed past - despite Vincent buying his identity and supporting him with savings and a salary Luxurious life, but Jerome has always been indifferent to Vincent, and even sneered at him from time to time. When Vincent underwent bone lengthening surgery in order to enter Gedejia, Jerome no longer I doubt Vincent's insistence, but that's not enough. Jerome has never believed that Vincent can really work well in Gedga, which can be seen from what he said when he showed Vincent the silver medal Li: "I'm amazingly talented. I didn't expect to rank second in the competition. That's me! Who do you think you can do better than me?"

But Vincent has really done it now. With a body full of inferior genes, he has defeated so many genetic elites of Gedja, and has become the chief astronaut, and he will soon ascend to space. In a sense, he has become Vincent, who is number one in the industry, has achieved a higher achievement than Jerome.

"Look at the look in Jude's eyes, how complicated it is," thought Andrew Nicol, 'Jude's performance is better than William's in this one shot. '

The dinner date of "Vincent" and "Jerome" continues under the camera:

After downing a full glass of red wine, the slightly tipsy Jerome finally made eye contact with Vincent: "What does Titan look like at this time of year?"

Vincent has been watching Jerome's every move with tolerant eyes. Maybe he didn't notice Jerome's abnormal behavior, or maybe he had already noticed Jerome's little trick of changing the subject. In short, after Jerome After Tom's question, Vincent smiled: "Titan, like this—"

Vincent took a deep puff of the cigarette in his hand, lowered his body towards the dining table, pointed his lips at the wine glass, and kept his eyes on Jerome. He gently exhaled the smoke, waiting for the white smoke to fill the wine glass and form a circle in it. When he felt the smoke rising, he turned his eyes away from Jerome, touched the cup with his right hand, and smiled lightly: "Titan is like this, all year round, it is always cloudy and foggy, no one knows what's going on below thing."

'Wonderful! ’ Andrew Nicole cheered inwardly, pointing the camera into William’s eyes: ‘Excellent control!Unparalleled aura!This person is extremely charming, and he has completely snatched his grasp of the situation from Jude! '

Jerome looked at Vincent: "Maybe there's nothing down there."

Vincent picked up the red wine, took a sip, and started thinking about taking Jerome into space with him. After all, in the weightless environment of space, it doesn't matter whether Jerome's legs were able to move or not.

But Jerome turned Vincent down, using an excuse no one knew was true: "I'm afraid of heights."

Jerome was drunk, and Vincent pushed the wheelchair into the room, then turned to make the bed.

When he turned around, Jerome was waiting for him with open arms, looking straight at him without blinking, as if to say, "Hey, put me to bed quickly, I need to rest."

——Although it can't be seen from the expression, in fact, after William turned around, both of them were taken aback. Jude Law realized that he opened his arms so naturally and casually, and William was surprised by the natural casualness of the other party .

The actor's professionalism played an important role at this time, and it took only a blink of an eye for William to react. He raised his eyebrows at the person in the wheelchair: "Don't be too good at calling me, I also need to rest." As he said that, he followed Jude Law's open arms to hug him, and put him on the bed even after falling, but when he was about to stand up, his foot slipped and fell directly onto Jude Law. In the sky above Luo, fortunately, there was an arm pressed on the bed to support it in time, so it didn't collide with Jude Law into a miserable situation of gnawing teeth.

"Zoom in, zoom in quickly." Andrew Nicole urged the photographer eagerly.

The director didn't yell "click", so the two under the camera had no choice but to continue acting.

The camera moved forward slowly, almost hitting the face of the person, and the lighting engineer and sound engineer waved the equipment to get closer, but nothing that hindered the eyes could stop William and Jude Law from entering the scene.

Especially Jude Law, he grabbed William's tie and finished the rest of the lines with a slightly drunk and smiling expression.

Even though his lines were gone, William didn't move. He waited for Jude Law to close his eyes before looking away, stood up, pulled back the crooked tie, and looked at the sleeping face of "Jerome". Take one last look.

The shot freezes.

"CUT!" Andrew Nicole yelled, rubbing his hands together: "It's great, it's brilliant!"

William left as soon as the director yelled, and forgot to say hello to Jude Law before leaving.

Jude Law was too lazy to get up, he was lying on the big bed, his eyes were staring at the roof, all he could hear was the sound of the staff packing up the props, but he was thinking about other things in his head, he was thinking that he just closed the scene "Wilde's Lover" has had a profound influence on him, or is he just such an actor who likes to be sticky with the same sex when filming, otherwise, why would he act with William Bradley? Why so many?It's not right, it's really not right.

In the bathroom, William splashed cold water on his face several times. With the sound of "squeaking" water, he looked up in the mirror and thought that he had encountered an extremely severe test since his film career - in a non-LGBT film , what should I do if I have a deep chemical reaction with another actor?

After thinking about it, William decided to stay away from Jude Law during non-shooting time, otherwise the aura between them would become more and more weird.

God, there is no spark between him and Uma Thurman now, and he can't be affected by other conditions, otherwise the hero and heroine's rivalry will fail, and it will be so bad that it will affect the quality of the film.

As a professional actor, William would never allow this to happen.

Behind the camera, Andrew Nicole was still gushing: "It's great, it's great! The feeling of sympathy between Jerome and Vincent is all there! This brotherhood is touching, and now In most of the films, the first and second male protagonists are either rivals in love or enemies, or the police and gangsters. They are fighting to the death from the first scene to the last scene. This kind of plot is too boring, Will, Jude, you guys It will be a breath of fresh air for the critics! You guys remind me of the captain and first mate on Star Trek!"

However, other people on the crew obviously have different opinions from director Andrew Nicholl.

"Too basic."

"Too basic."

Jude Law's assistant Mike and William's assistant Danny Byrne said at the same time, and then they looked at each other, raised their eyebrows for the tacit understanding between the two sides, and shrugged together.