Birth of an actor

"Ahhh—!" Applause, screams, commotion.

Oprah Winfrey gestured to William please, and the two sat down on the couch.

Oprah Winfrey said: "OK, let's—"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Oprah Winfrey's voice was covered by the chaotic sound in the studio, and she tried to increase the volume: "This man next to me—"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Oprah Winfrey's voice was blocked again, and this time her expression became extremely helpless. A camera lens was always facing her, and this time it was zoomed in close-up, showing the helplessness in Oprah Winfrey's eyes It was actually delivered to all the audience in front of the TV.

Then, a camera lens shot the entire circular auditorium from a bird's-eye view. The audience sitting in front of the TV could clearly see that there were many women on the scene who were almost exactly the same, all covering their mouths and widening their eyes. Looking at the stage, some people didn't cover their mouths, and their mouth shapes could be seen very clearly. A blonde girl kept repeating "Oh my god, my god", while another brown-skinned girl stared at the stage. William on the screen kept saying "so handsome, so handsome".

Oprah Winfrey has been hosting her eponymous talk show for ten years. During this time, she has seen a lot of big scenes and experienced a lot of low tides, but in general, in her own stage In reality, she is the leader and the queen, and few people can steal the limelight from her—or, in other words, steal the attention of the audience in the studio.

Why?Because not everyone can walk into the studio of WLS TV station and watch an episode of Oprah Winfrey's talk show live. "The Oprah Winfrey Show" has tens of millions of viewers every week, but every episode Only about 200 viewers were able to watch the live broadcast of the show, and almost all the viewers who received invitations to enter the studio were loyal fans who regularly wrote to the talk show group and Oprah Winfrey.

But now, Oprah Winfrey is almost out of control of the scene. It cannot be said that this has never happened on her show, but the number of occurrences is also very rare. The last two times that Oprah Winfrey can think of, Once with Tom Cruise in 1992 and once with Brad Pitt in 1994 - if Michael Jackson hadn't invited her to his Neverland Ranch in 1993 for an interview , but if you come to the scene in Chicago by yourself, you can probably get the same effect.

"Okay, okay", Oprah Winfrey smiled helplessly at the camera with the corners of her mouth bent, and kept complaining in her heart: "Another Hollywood heartthrob has just been released. '

William did not expect such a warm atmosphere at the scene. He greeted the audience: "Hi."

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"Almost knocked the roof off.

If the audience is not told to calm down, today's talk show will not be able to go on easily and happily - William just saw the director in the audience make a "1 minute and 30 seconds" gesture to Oprah Winfrey, It means that the audience and fans at the scene have been enthusiastic for 10 seconds from William's appearance to the present, and the normal time of a talk show is 45 minutes to [-] minutes, and [-] seconds is enough to discuss a topic.

When she first arrived at WLS in the afternoon, Oprah Winfrey took a little time to meet with William before putting on makeup, and said that she had prepared a lot of questions to ask him, and William actually did the same, so in When Oprah Winfrey expressed her helplessness to the camera again, William put his index finger in front of his lips and "hush".

"Ah-hmm!" The young girls covered their mouths in unison, and some of them were zipping their mouths.

"Look at your moves," Oprah Winfrey said with a smile to the audience in front of her. "You don't like me at all now, you just like the handsome guy sitting next to me, don't you? I feel a little sad. "

"No—!" The audience replied with a long voice.

"Really? Don't lie to me, I'll see, like the girl over there in the pink sweater, and I bet you haven't looked at me since Will came in."

The camera gave a close-up of the girl in the pink sweater, and the lens captured her twitching movement covering her face as if she had a stroke, and her red face exposed from her fingers.

The live audience and the audience in front of the TV laughed together.

"Are you nervous, Will?" Oprah Winfrey quickly asked her first question after the scene fell silent.

William moved his body and found a comfortable position on the sofa: "Don't be nervous."

"Aren't you nervous about participating in a national live show for the first time? As far as I know, this is the first talk show you have participated in."

"Yeah." William winked at Oprah Winfrey. "I dedicate my first time to you."

"Hahaha!" Oprah Winfrey laughed heartily. "I love your sense of humor."

"To thank you for your love." William continued, "I have prepared a gift for you."

Oprah Winfrey showed a surprised expression to the camera. She was really surprised, because the show crew hadn't communicated with her about William's gift to her before: "Wow." She looked at William and said: " What kind of gift is it, do you want to give it to me now?"

"I gave the gift to my agent, can he send it over?"

"Of course," Oprah Winfrey said. "I'm really looking forward to it."

So William turned around and waved his right hand directly to the backstage: "Come on, Amon, you finally got a chance to share the stage with Ms. Winfrey."

Amon Goffman in suits and shoes ran out quickly from the backstage, holding a neatly packaged gift box in his right hand, with a blush on his face that he didn't know whether it was shyness or embarrassment.

Oprah Winfrey stood up and hugged him warmly, which made Armon Goffman look even more at a loss—this Hollywood golden agent is more used to stealth and strategizing behind the scenes, and is not good at standing in front of the stage, especially It's under the spotlight.

"Thought you'd never blush, Armon." After Oprah Winfrey embraced Armon Goffman, William gave his agent a hug and told him to sit next to him.

"Haha!" William's teasing of his agent made the audience laugh out loud.

Now that William's manager also came to the stage, Oprah Winfrey didn't let Armon Goffman go down immediately. She smiled and took the gift and put it beside her. She didn't open it immediately, but said to Armon Goffman Asked how he discovered William and how he signed William.

Although they had not communicated with the Oprah show crew in advance, both William and Amon Goffman knew that Oprah Winfrey would definitely ask William how he got into the industry, and they had already prepared for such a question .

Amon Goffman talked eloquently about how he came to visit his girlfriend's class in the past, but found out how handsome and talented the young man who played as a guest on the crew was, so he tried his best to sign the young man The process of talking about it is very vivid and very interesting-of course, the "handsome and talented young man" refers to William.This process is actually a beautified version, and both of them have omitted the details of William being almost kidnapped to make an adult video.

"So you fell in love with Will at first sight?" Oprah Winfrey joked to Armon Goffman.

Before Amon Goffman could answer, there was already bursts of laughter from the audience, so he said smoothly, "That's right, I fell in love with Will at first sight, and now I can't extricate myself."

William couldn't control his smile anymore, and his "hahahaha" smile fell on the manager's shoulder, revealing his perfect white teeth after orthodontics.

"Ahhhhhhh!" the girls started screaming again.

So far, the program has ushered in the first small climax. In order not to make the audience too excited, but also to quickly cut into the next topic, Oprah Winfrey sent Amon Goffman away and began to unwrap the presents.

"A book?" Oprah Winfrey opened the gift box and carefully looked at the contents inside. After realizing that it was a book, and it was a book of fairy tales, she took it out of the gift box with confidence. Let the camera take a close-up look at the cover of the book: "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, why did you give me a book of fairy tales?"

Lance, who was sitting in the first row of the auditorium, raised his eyebrows in surprise—he was completely unaware of the fact that William gave Oprah Winfrey a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", and it wasn't him at all. Discussed with William.

William noticed the surprised eyes of Lance in the audience looking at him. He looked at the auditorium where Lance was, blinked cleverly, and after a cry of surprise, he looked at Oprah Winfrey and said, "First of all, This is a very, very good book. Although it is a fairy tale, it is also very suitable for adults to read. The story is not childish. On the contrary, it is very lively and interesting even for adults. Then, I know that since last year, you Launched "Oprah's Book Club", which is very popular with the audience, and I will share your reading experience with you from time to time. As an audience of the Oprah show, I am obliged to recommend good books to you."

Last year, Oprah Winfrey added a project called "Oprah's Book Club" to her talk show, which aims to make every adult pick up the long-lost reading habit and enrich themselves. connotation.Every one or two months, Oprah Winfrey will recommend a good novel she recently read to the audience and discuss with them, and the sales of novels recommended by Oprah Winfrey will increase almost immediately. If it is multiplied several times or even dozens of times, it is not a dream even if it is on the list of best-selling books in the United States.

William believes that "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" will definitely touch Oprah Winfrey's heart-even if Oprah Winfrey really doesn't like fairy tale books, she has a high chance of recommending them in the next few episodes "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", because a considerable part of the audience of Oprah's show is middle-aged housewives with children, even in order to win the favor of this group of loyal audience, Oprah Winfrey will not be excluded from the show I occasionally recommend one or two fairy tale books of excellent quality and positive.

Speaking of giving Oprah Winfrey "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", it was also William's temporary idea. When he just drove to WLS TV station, William noticed a large bookstore less than a mile away from here, so He stopped the car and walked in for 5 minutes. He saw a row of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" on the bookshelf. He asked the shopkeeper and learned that the sales volume of this book has been fixed since it was put on the shelf, but the sales are not special. When it was good, he thought about increasing the exposure of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".

——What platform is better than the Oprah Show, which has tens of millions of viewers?

As soon as the idea came up, William acted immediately. He bought a book in the bookstore and put it in a beautiful box in the gift shop next door. Gave it to Amon Goffman, his agent, and told him not to go away, waiting backstage next to the studio.

Taking a step back, even if Oprah Winfrey did not recommend "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" to her audience in the end, William would have made a profit. There was also a three-second close-up on the talk show, and someone would always pay attention to this book because of it.

"You are so sweet, Will, so what kind of story does this book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" tell?" Oprah Winfrey looked at the cover: "A girl with glasses A little boy riding a flying broom, is this a magical story, something like Lord of the Rings?"

"Of course not as profound as "The Lord of the Rings". This is a magical novel full of children's fun that is suitable for both adults and children to read." William smiled: "The author J.K. The boy who lived in the wizarding world and the story of the boy who survived defeating the big devil-in short, it is not the kind of book that you will mourn the death of the tree that printed it.

"Hahaha, it sounds really childish, I will read this book carefully." Oprah Winfrey praised cautiously, and then immediately changed the topic to other topics: "Let's continue discussing the movie , your latest film, "Scream," sold very well."

"Yes, the North American box office champion for three consecutive weeks, this result is really great." William nodded and replied: "But I haven't paid attention to how much the total box office has accumulated now."

"The latest figure we got is that the North American box office has exceeded 2000 million US dollars." Oprah Winfrey said.

"Wow!" The audience exclaimed loudly.

"Scream is the third released movie you participated in, isn't it?"

William nodded and said: "The third film that has been released publicly, yes, the other two are "Sense and Sensibility" and "Romeo and Juliet Modern Edition"."

Oprah Winfrey held up a piece of paper in her hand, looked at it and said: "Let's look at a set of very astonishing figures. The production cost of "Sense and Sensibility" is 500 million U.S. dollars. The box office is 750 million U.S. dollars, the production cost of "Romeo and Juliet Modern Edition" is 50 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office is 750 million U.S. dollars. The production cost was US$500 million, and the total global box office as of now is US$800 million, and it will take a while for this film to be released from theaters. It is conceivable that the final total box office will definitely exceed 5000 million $[-] million - from the first movie to the third, almost every movie you worked on made ten times its cost at the box office, an amazing rate of return, and the studios that made all three movies must be happy Crazy, maybe we're going to change you to 'Hollywood Favorite'."

Every time Oprah Winfrey read a set of comparisons between film cost and box office, the audience exclaimed once, and when she said "Hollywood darling", there was warm applause in the studio.

In the actor's lounge of WLS TV station, Amon Goffman, who was watching the live broadcast of the Oprah show on the lounge TV, clenched his fists excitedly, and exhausted all his self-control so as not to be in front of at least twenty hot girls and himself "Yay!" in front of his subordinates - Oprah Winfrey's words are great, every word is great, especially this part of the Golden Boy of Hollywood!Although since the "Scream" became popular, many production companies have begun to notice William's magical power to the box office, but that is not enough, and now, with Oprah Winfrey's words, Asia Mon Goffman could foresee that even the dullest producers would wake up and join the army of William fans!

The praise from Oprah Winfrey and the enthusiastic applause from the audience made William feel a little bit of shyness, but he reacted as quickly as he quickly found a humorous way to answer: "I'm not sure this is the same as "" Variety gave me the 'Hollywood Golden Boy', which nickname is worse. Beloved? Boy? God, I'm a grown man!"

"Of course we all know you're a grown man — aren't you?" Oprah Winfrey asked the audience, laughing.

William put his right index finger and middle finger together at the right time, and after sticking to his lips, he blew a kiss towards the auditorium.

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If these virtual actions can also be transformed into reality, then William must be covered with lipstick marks of different colors and sizes from head to toe.

The director in the audience gestured to Oprah, so Oprah Winfrey said to the camera after laughing: "Let's take a break, more about William Bradley, and come back after the commercial." .”

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When the talk show live broadcast reaches the end of a segment and the commercials start to appear on the TV, the scene will take a short break to give the host, guests and audience a time to relax and solve personal problems. After all, live broadcasts are different from recording and broadcasting. Even if mistakes are made, post-editing can make up for the past. The live broadcast requires every participant to pay attention and vigilance throughout the process to avoid mistakes, but it is easy to be overly nervous and sensitive after concentrating on it for a long time, so the tens of seconds during the advertising time period The rest time is very necessary - it will not only help the host and guests to re-adjust their mood and recovery state, but also facilitate their short communication on the next topic discussion.

"Will, I'm going to talk about the bad press about Scream first, and then I'll talk about your father, okay?" Oprah Winfrey asked.

"No problem." William gave Oprah Winfrey a relaxed smile: "I'm ready."

"Your performance was great just now, keep it up, you will conquer all the audience who watch this episode, I believe."

William returned a thankful smile to Oprah Winfrey: "Thank you."

About what Oprah Winfrey will ask on this talk show, and which aspect William wants to answer, the program team and Amon Goffman have had a brief communication beforehand, but now Oprah Winfrey still gives William gave advance notice and gave him encouragement. In William's view, this move was really considerate. He thought he finally understood why Oprah Winfrey was so successful and popular until now.

台下的导播数着手指在给奥普拉·温芙瑞做倒数：“5、4、3、2、1——”

As soon as the "1" gesture fell, Oprah Winfrey looked at the camera and said: "Now let's talk to William Bradley about the recent heated discussion in American society—"Scock" "The Scream" was a win-win at the box office, but it got into a lot of controversy about morality, please see a short review of the event."

The video began to play on the big screen behind Oprah Winfrey, and the director sent the signal to the whole country with one click. The audience sitting in front of the TV can naturally watch the event video in full screen comfortably, while the audience recording the program live in the studio They all turned their eyes to the big screen, and William, like Oprah Winfrey, also turned to look back.

The video clip first shows the footage captured by a New York tabloid reporter at the gate of the New York Police Department. Jonathan Bates, who was locked up overnight in the police station, was released on bail by his lawyer the next morning. It's a bit appalling—the heavy makeup is in a mess, and the facial features can hardly be seen clearly. The golden wig has been ripped off, revealing the short brown hair underneath. One of the heels of the coat and high-heeled shoes fell off, and I walked with twists and turns—to be honest, the makeup that was supposed to look right under the night light would look too thick and a little bad under the fluorescent light, plus about one night. Not much sleep, Jonathan Bates does not look like a normal person in the picture.

Then there was the interview statement from the New York police officer, who confirmed that the cross-dresser Jonathan Bates, who was detained by him, had an abnormal obsession with Billy the Killer in "Scream" and expressed a lot of horror movies. Worries about the bad guidance of young people in society, followed by the snowballing follow-up public opinion caused by the New York police statement, various TV reports and newspaper news reports.

"Some media believe that you have played a bad role in guiding young people. What do you think of this accusation?"

"I think it's ridiculous."

"Absurd?" asked Oprah Winfrey. "Why do you say that?"

"I think some media have over-interpreted and misinterpreted what this detective said." William's tone became low and helpless, and his agent once described his tone and voice as "can arouse any female creature." "Infinite love": "Anyone who has seen the original interview with the New York Police Detective should have seen that this detective was a little intimidated by drag fans, so he gushed out his surprise as soon as he saw the microphone. ——Maybe there is also a little bit of surprise and doubt that horror and thriller movies can be so popular and have a large number of fans—it is very possible to associate this police detective with the identity of a police officer who represents justice. Later The part that talks about the movie and reality is just an extension and speculation, and it doesn’t say that the character of Billy will definitely have a bad influence on teenagers, but because the detective mentioned the notorious serial killer Man Sen's name made some media excited. They equated me with Billy, and then equated Billy with Manson. They first equated movie characters with actors, and then confused fantasy criminals with real criminals. Isn't it absurd to make news and create news just to cause public outcry, and to hype it as much as possible?"

Although Oprah Winfrey was infected by William's tone, she couldn't help but asked worriedly: "But that cross-dressing fan, he really behaved a little abnormally, didn't he? You have such a crazy admirer, don't you?" Are you not worried?"