[US Entertainment] Kise's Hollywood Diary

"I dare to swear, this is the crudest audition scene I have ever seen!" Frank glanced at the so-called "audition hall", his expression could not be described as smelly, and now Mr. Manager completely regrets letting Vincent choose by himself scripts, and decide which scripts to audition for.

"Vincent, did you hear me?"

Facing an anxious manager who might collapse at any time, all Vincent can do is try not to stimulate his sensitive nerves.

"Listen, Mr. Dawson, calm down now, or do you need a cup of coffee?"

Frank leaned against the cold wall expressionlessly, "No, I don't need it. The air in the dej building makes it difficult for me to breathe. I don't think the Feng Shui here is quite right for me."

Vincent shrugged his shoulders aside, well, he didn't know that his manager actually knew Feng Shui.

There are men and women who come here to audition today, and they are divided into multiple groups to audition at the same time. It is different from other film crews who gather all the audition actors for a role together, nor use the decision-makers of the entire production team and director team to decide them. Which actor will be enabled.

The scene of the audition hall is more like a service center with few consultants.

But when Vincent was led by the on-site staff to the place where he was supposed to audition, the moment he opened the door, he was almost stunned by the scene inside——

A group of people were discussing something happily. They didn't look as serious and serious as the interviewer should have. There was a cup of hot coffee or other drinks in front of everyone, as if they were in a discussion meeting.

Rather than seriously discussing the performance of each actor who came to the audition, these interviewers are more like discussing which restaurant's pizza and sausage are more delicious.

The painting style is so fresh that it doesn't seem like you are auditioning.

"Good morning, Vincent!"

Vincent stepped in and took a look. It was the director of this film, Paul Haggis, a Canadian director with a warm smile, although he had done more work as a screenwriter before.

"I have watched your "Sweet 16", and the conflicts in that movie gave me a lot of creative inspiration," Paul Haggis said gently, looking at the young man in front of him, "Relax, Young lad, you're auditioning for an experienced police officer."

Speaking of this, Paul Haggis did not think about letting the young man in front of him play another white police officer in the play.Although at first glance, Vincent fits better with Tom Hansen, another white police officer who has just entered the workplace - because of their similar age.

Thandie Newton next to him stretched out his hand and half covered his mouth and smiled: "If you are being searched by such a police officer, then I don't think any lady is willing to resist. On the contrary——the tighter he is, the better."

Hearing this sentence, Vincent already had a bottom line in his mind - Thandie Newton might be the actress who played the black director's wife.Because he has two rival scenes with the white police officer John, and both are important plot turning points.

It seems that Paul Haggis has selected several actors. You must know that "Crash" is a low-cost warning film, but Vincent has already met several actors with at least eight-figure salaries while waiting actor.This is also one of the reasons why the agent is particularly upset-because his little boss seems to have no chance of winning.

Even if the cost of the movie is low, there are not too many coffee seats that can't stand it!

"The age of the actor itself and the age of the characters are not a problem. I have always supported this point of view. Then, Vincent, please show us a more convincing performance." Producer Robert Moresco He nodded to director Paul Haggis, then looked at Thandie Newton, "Sandy, please cooperate with him."

"Just try the scene where John makes things difficult for Christine." Paul Haggis understood, and he put his hands on the table, ready to watch the audition of the two

This pivotal scene is written to make things difficult and reads as sexual harassment.If you want to show it at the audition scene, you can't be too embarrassing, and you can't restrain your performance too much, otherwise the effect will be greatly reduced.Rather than saying that Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco make things difficult for others, it is better to say that they have more expectations for the young man in front of them.

Because obviously, Thandie Newton had a moment of surprise, the actors who had auditioned for John before had auditioned for a different scene.

In the script, the Los Angeles police officer John wanted to find better medical assistance for his sick father. He wanted to find a better doctor for his father in HMO, but was repeatedly refused to sign the document by the black staff, so he dealt with a case during his duty. During a traffic accident, he vented his accumulated anger from the black clerical staff on a black director and his wife.

And police officer John's partner Tom has just entered the workplace. He watched his partner wear a policeman's shell, but did some obscene and even insulting behaviors to the lady.He seemed to have been enduring his partner's behavior, but he couldn't deny that even though John's behavior was out of line, he didn't violate the rules-because the couple really shouldn't do this kind of thing while driving.

What makes Tom even more entangled with the situation is that it can be solved in a better way, why did things get so bad?

This scene is actually a very obvious black and white scene, black and white, right and wrong, right and wrong, justice and cruelty.

It seems that John is an old fritter who uses his power as a police officer to wantonly insult women, while Tom is a fresh young man with a sense of justice, but as the plot deepens, bad guys are not bad guys, and good guys are not always good guys. in a moment.

What is difficult is that the white police officer John and the black director's white wife are in two scenes of rivalry, both of which are intimate scenes with close contact.

It is not that Vincent has not made large-scale film works in the last dimension.It’s okay to say that the kiss scene is just the contact of the lips. If it’s not written in the script, it must be a deep kiss to some extent. Basically, it’s enough to touch it. The intimacy of the kiss is created by changing the camera and posing the actor’s upper body at an angle. .Even if it's a bed scene, he won't be the one who is embarrassed, but the actors who work with him will obviously "indulge" in it, and even express their desire to "have a spring breeze" after the filming is over.

Faced with Paul Haggis' audition request, Vincent, who had been "experienced in many battles" for a long time, just nodded calmly.Because of this kind of role, it is usually the actresses who are more difficult to do on the face.

Thandie Newton is a British actress born in 1972. Although she is not so tall, learning ballet since she was a child makes her look extraordinarily bookish, especially when she sits quietly in one place.

Standing up from her seat, she quietly straightens the folds of her dress as her hands run over it, a small gesture that makes the actress look alluring and intellectual.

When she stepped forward and sat at a table with another staff member, her temperament and shape were completely different, which meant that Thandie Newton had entered the state.

Vincent stood up straight, with a table in front of the two of them acting as a car.When he made an action of pulling something out of his pocket, the change also followed. If it wasn't for the plain face showing that there is a certain age gap between the young man's age and the white policeman John in the script, then this look would be too Aggressive now.

Paul Haggis nodded secretly in his heart. As a director, he had to choose the right actors from the perspective of the whole movie, and compare the level of audition actors without any prejudice.Since Paul Haggis would choose to invite the other party to audition, it means that there is a certain sense of fit between the actor and the role.

This scene is not only the conflict between the police officer John and the black director couple, but also the hidden conflict between John and his partner Tom. Although there is not much communication between the two of them, it is clear that this conflict will Exploding shortly thereafter—

Vincent stepped forward and knocked on the table with his fingers, "Please put your hands where I can see them."

This is the first sentence that the white policeman got off the police car and knocked on the window of the black director and his wife.

When he said this in a low voice, the staff sat side by side with Thandie Newton in front of the table.The interviewers behind them were carefully observing Vincent's expression and movements.

"I want to see your driver's license and registration card."

The staff just played the role of reading the lines, while Thandie Newton on the other side was performing seriously according to the script. She dragged her palm, as if she had a small cosmetic box for makeup in her hand. You must know that the script is here , Christine had just sipped for her husband once while he was driving.

"I have to get the registration card from the storage box." The staff just read this line in a reading tone.

Vincent shrugged his eyebrows. He raised his hand, as if holding up a small flashlight to shine the light into the car, wanting to see the black man's movements more clearly, and said, "Please slow down."

Who knows what this man will pull out of the storage box.This is the moment that almost everyone would be on guard - because the subject is a grown, strong, black male who might be able to pull a gun out of a storage box!

He raised his hand a little, so that the light of the flashlight was successfully aimed at the woman's face.At this time, Thandie Newton squinted his eyes slightly and leaned back, as if his eyes were irradiated by the strong light that was directly facing him.In fact, Vincent just made a gesture of holding a flashlight, pointing his hand at her.

The woman who just came off the red carpet in an evening gown glanced at the police officer. After seeing the other's face clearly, she asked casually, "How are you doing tonight, officer?"

The white police officer took out the hand that was originally in his trouser pocket, helped the uniform cap on his head, and replied casually: "Very good." In fact, the white police officer failed again from HMO, and he even I couldn't help but want to scold the clerk on the other end of the phone.This day is not only not fine, but super poor!

The black director handed out the ID through the car window——Vincent reached out and took the two white papers handed over by the staff, shifted the light of the flashlight onto the papers, looked away for a while, and took two steps back , said: "Please stay in the car."

During this period, the black man showed an ambiguous smile and made an appointment to do it again later.After John handed over the documents to Tom, he turned back to the Lincoln car again, and the smile on his face just now had disappeared completely, "Please get out of the car."

The staff member said calmly, "Wait a minute, officer, I'm not drinking."

"Then it should be fine." Vincent put his hands in his pockets, but before he could finish his sentence, the woman in the car said again: "He doesn't drink, he's a Buddhist."

The woman wanted to defend her husband, but the black director chose to comply with the request of the white police officer. He opened the car door and stood on the sidewalk as the officer ordered.

"Look at me." Vincent inserted the flashlight back into his waist, and let out a breath, even mixed with a hint of revenge that he didn't realize. "Now, stand on your right foot and touch your nose with the index finger of your left hand."

The black director silently complied, while his wife opened the car door and looked at the sidewalk.

Thandie Newton put his legs out from under the table, made a gesture to get up, and resisted his impatience and said, "I told you, he doesn't drink."

"Stay in the car, ma'am, I'm only saying this once."

The wife of the black director was extremely dissatisfied with this title. She got out of the car and leaned against the door and asked, "Don't call me lady, lady! Who do you think you are talking to?"

Starting from this sentence, the fuse between the four people was completely opened.

The atmosphere at the audition scene also cooled down, but how could ice contain the raging fire?

Hollywood Diary (24)

Today I suddenly remembered a small role I played in the last dimension.

He is also a policeman, a small policeman, so cowardly that even the aunt in the vegetable market can ridicule wantonly.

Not only that, but he was also forced to "take the blame" for others and put the hat of dereliction of duty.

The little police officer finally chose to take off his police uniform and become an unscrupulous little gangster who doesn't need to tolerate his temper and personality because of his profession.

The director said that I was much better playing a gangster than a policeman.