[US Entertainment] Actor

The morning sun came into the room through the curtains, making it warm and even a little hot.Ebert pushed Leonardo, whose saliva was about to get on his face: "Leo, get up."

Moaning and chirping, the person on the bed turned over, unwilling to hug the quilt and fell asleep again.

Ebert sighed silently, the recent filming was indeed too tiring.Ebert stood by the bed and watched silently for a few minutes, then changed into a T-shirt and shorts, and went to the bathroom in slippers to brush his teeth.

The sound of water resounded in the bathroom and slowly spread throughout the room.There was a sudden noise behind Ebert. He turned his head to see that Leonardo, whose face was flushed from sleep, was standing behind him stupidly rubbing his messy hair. Yawn one after another.He rubbed his eyes and greeted Ebert lazily: "Ebert, good morning!"

"Good morning." Ebert cleaned up the mouthwash cup, picked up Leonardo's toothbrush, squeezed toothpaste, and handed it to him: "I'll go downstairs to have breakfast together later, I'll wait for you."

Leonardo opened his mouth wide, and after a yawn, he nodded dully: "Okay."

This guy is probably too sleepy, and he doesn't seem to be awake at all now. Ebert noticed that he seemed to be wearing the T-shirt that he took off and threw on the chair yesterday, and he was wearing it backwards, and the label was stuck carelessly. In the back.Ebert couldn't help but shook his head, turned back to the room, and took out a pile of white T-shirts from the drawer that had no difference except for the pattern on the front.He felt that the style of the T-shirt made him look like a clone from "Escape from Clone Island."

In the room where the clothes are placed, his and Leonardo's clothes are mixed, and Leonardo sometimes goes out with his T-shirt or coat on.Both of them are over 30 years old. Ebert's figure is stronger than 10 years ago, but he still maintains a fairly good standard among male stars. Leonardo's figure has not changed much. Persisting, he continued to do some healthy physical exercises. The advantage of this was that he didn't need to wait for the filming to start before gritting his teeth and desperately trying to lose weight. He simply prepared for a few days and then went straight to filming.Therefore, the clothes of the two can be mixed most of the time.

Walking to the bathroom, Ebert pointed Leonardo's back and handed him the T-shirt: "Put it on."

Just after flushing his face with water, Leonardo finally seemed to be awake. He stared intently at the line exposed on the back of the T-shirt, took off the dirty T-shirt on his body without saying a word, and put on a new one.

Ebert casually tossed his T-shirt into the laundry basket.

"Huh..." Ebert was about to leave when he suddenly felt a resistance in his back. As soon as he turned around, Leonardo looked at him with discouraged face: "Ebert, I! Good! Tired! Ah!"

Just saying that he was tired, he still felt that the strength was not enough. Before Ebert could react, this guy's big wet hand was printed on Ebert's T-shirt, dyeing his clean and white T-shirt translucent With a slight movement, there is also a chilly feeling coming from the back of the waist.

"What are you doing, Leo?"

"Don't you think it's too hot, I'll cool you down."

"No need at all." Ebert complained unceremoniously, "You must not have seen a guy clinging to the quilt just now, didn't you feel hot then?"

Leonardo gave him a hard look: "I just want you to feel my pain. Dear Ebert, we are lovers, we should advance and retreat together, but now you can sit there happily every day Do nothing, and I'm going to do the show over and over again."

Ebert jumped up and hugged him, and "tweeted" lightly on his face: "Then why don't you give me the role of Jordan Belfort, I've wanted to be Martin's leading actor for a long time, but unfortunately he has always been Don't give me a chance."

"Hmph, don't think about it!" Leonardo pointed to the two black spots under his eyes, "I feel like I'm going crazy, and nothing can save me, except for 10 hours of adequate sleep."

"You'll have a long, long break after filming." Ebert pecked again. "Now, my dear Leo, come downstairs to dinner with me, and then we'll go to the set."

Theoretically speaking, the shooting of "The Wolf of Wall Street" is not so tiring, because this film is essentially a commercial war film with very few action scenes, although the films directed by Martin Scorsese have a very distinctive feature , That is, the time is too long, which will indeed increase the workload of the actors, but it is not the first time Leonardo has appeared in Martin's film, he should have adapted to this intensity of workload.

However, Ebert guessed that, on the one hand, it was due to his desire for Oscars, and on the other hand... his family Leo didn't want to accompany him to waste time in one set after another. For this "The Wolf of Wall Street" , He invested 200% of his energy and hoped to get a 200% return.

Ebert has always thought that men who work hard are the most handsome. In fact, Leonardo has always had a very correct work attitude, but only in this crew, Ebert watched him step by step and forced himself to work hard. He almost drove himself crazy, he thought Leonardo at that time was really handsome!

Although some astute workers on the "Wolf of Wall Street" crew can guess the real relationship between Leonardo and Ebert, they don't know the real state of their relationship after all-if Heath Ledger, Lynn If En or Tobey Maguire is on the scene, they will surely find that Ebert, who is staring at Leonardo closely, has a little star in his eye.

Albert Midi Dawson.

Thinking of this, Ebert couldn't help laughing.

Leonardo is experiencing a state where he is neither crazy nor alive. As a bystander, Ebert can see that he is improving bit by bit.

In order to play the role of Jordan Belfort well, Leonardo made countless preparations in the early stage.Memorizing the lines is one aspect. In addition, he also went to meet Jordan Belfort himself and listened to him narrate various experiences in his life. He also wrote "The Wolf of Wall Street", the autobiography of Jordan Belfort Read carefully, the video of Jordan's speech after he was released from prison, the video materials left before he was imprisoned, the attitude of the judge, the police and bystanders when he was tried...as long as it helps him analyze the character of Jordan He was relentlessly trying to absorb psychological information.

"I can play this role well only if I know Jordan better, and even regard myself as Jordan."

So Ebert has no doubt that Leonardo will succeed.

After breakfast, Leonardo got up and went to the fast food restaurant to get a cup of coffee: "I'm too sleepy, I'm afraid I won't be energetic for filming later, would you like a cup?"

Ebert shook his head: "I've already had a cup of tea and I can't drink it."

"You don't like to drink this kind of 'unhealthy' drink either." Leonardo said with a smile, "But you can eat a whole roast chicken without changing your face, remember, that time, you ate a whole roast chicken The whole person smells like chicken, your stupid manager is here, you lied to him that I ate it, but that stupid guy actually believed it hahahaha!"

Ebert snatched the coffee cup in his hand, and knocked Leonardo on the head two or three times: "I said, can you stop laughing at my agent, he hasn't said anything bad about you recently."

"You really don't think so?" Leonardo glanced at him lightly, "In this month alone, I've seen at least five of my nicknames from your mailbox. 'Fat Leo', 'Stupid' DiCaprio', 'Stupid Wolf Leonardo'... I can't remember the rest, in short, there is no good word, even elementary school students will not believe your nonsense, don't give it to your stupid agent Defended Ebert."

"Okay." Ebert's focus was not here, "Leo, do you know the password of my mobile phone?"

"Of course." Leonardo stood on tiptoe and looked down at him, "I'm your boyfriend, of course I have to keep track of your movements, if you do something bad behind my back... um ?Later I found out that what I did was [-]% correct. Besides your stupid bald agent saying bad things about me, I actually saw the message from that nasty Australian who actually Also used the word 'dear', which is unforgivable!"

"..." After a pause, Ebert looked at Leonardo seriously, "Leo, since you have my mobile phone password, shouldn't you tell me your password as well, so that we can have a good relationship with each other?" fair."

"How is it possible, you think I'm stupid, Ebert, I won't give it to you!"

"..." Ebert sighed, "So, in your eyes, I am a fool?"

Leonardo snapped his fingers: "Bingo! You guessed it right, don't try to change the password, because I have changed the permissions for you, and you won't have any secrets in the future..."

Ebert: "..."

He hates so-called high technology.

Leonardo was still smiling triumphantly, Ebert bent down and sighed silently.

what to do?He has always felt that his IQ is superior to Leonardo, but now he is being bullied by him over and over again. This feeling makes him really uncomfortable!

When he came to the set and greeted other actors, Ebert sat slowly on a chair with a bag in his hand and waited for the shooting to start.There is still no role for him today, and his role has to be moved back a little bit.

Today's scene tells the story of the beginning of Jordan Belfort's so-called company.

He rebuilt that company full of thugs and scoundrels and spruced it up because that's the only way they could sell those junk stocks to real rich people.

Jordan Belfort, dressed in a dark blue close-fitting suit, red tie, and neat hair, waved his fingers: "Gentlemen, your goal is to take down 1% of the country's rich people, and if you want to catch big fish, this sales pitch is yours." Harpoons, I'll teach each of you how to be a fucking Captain Ahab."

There is a different rhythm between the fingers and the dance, his pupils are dilated, the muscles on both sides of the eyes are slightly swollen, his eyes are focused, his waist is slightly arched, and the appearance of holding the promotional words is like holding a unique treasure in the world.From the audience's point of view, this action is very provocative. He looks like a qualified orator. He is sincere, humorous, and wholehearted when facing the rich people who are deceived by him. Like him, his subordinates were full of desire for money, and he also firmly grasped their pulse, full of encouragement and motivation. In short, everything was for money.

Compared with the period of "The Departed", Leonardo has improved a lot now.

Of course, it was difficult for his ignorant subordinates to understand his advanced vocabulary, so Jordan Belfort changed his language and said in a successful person's tone: "We are a company that reassures customers. , a company that customers trust."

His tone became extremely gentle at this moment, he patted his chest lightly, and said with sincerity: "A company with a deep foundation in Wall Street, the founder of the year came on the 'Mayflower' through the waves, Put the name Stratton Oakmont upon the statue."

Stratton Oakmont, Jordan Belfort's name for his new company, which will give his company a more historical flavor and subtly imbue customers with trust in him.

But in fact, the "Mayflower" is just a ship boarded by a group of deported immigrants looking for a new life, even if a passenger on the "Mayflower" has a relationship with a certain company on the North American continent today. Contact, it will not be a stock brokerage firm either.

This is where the screenplay sneers, and the writer's creative prowess is on display most vividly—Jordan Belfort is known to be a lunatic, a fraudster, a money worshiper, a provocative orator, or Say, a cultist, a cultist whose doctrine is that money is supreme.

But why did he succeed?Is everyone stupid?

No, in fact, the more important reason is people's greed. They put money into the stock market, even if they go bankrupt, those rich people, well-dressed guys, they will still be cheated even though they are already rich, because they still have money. Want more money.

Jordan just caught people's psychology, so in a short period of time, he really lived the life of a rich man he dreamed of.

"We first sell the stocks of big companies like Disney and IBM. They know these big companies. When they relax their vigilance, we start selling shit. The pink sheets and penny stocks are our cornucopia, and we can get 50% of them. Well, baby. The key to marketing this kind of strategy is, you have to be the first to act, and wait until the Wall Street Journal starts reporting it, and then it's too late."

During the filming process, Leonardo kept the same gestures, his tone fluctuated from high to low, from hasty to calm, if you ignore the content and his inadvertently leaked gloomy eyes, this is a genius speech The perfect presentation example for home.

Especially in terms of eyes, Leonardo has really made a leap.

Knowing Leonardo for so long and having worked with him twice, this is the first time Ebert felt the murderous look in Leonardo's eyes.At this moment, he is an ambitious, disrespectful, and money-oriented stockbroker. Compared with "Titanic" 15 years ago, Leonardo's changes are almost completely reborn.

Next, Jordan Belfort began to demonstrate his workflow to his men.

During this process, his expression was full of disdain, and he was explaining to his subordinates with actions and words that the buyers were a group of fools who were allowed to be coaxed by him, and they were marionettes in his hands. Modified, and brainwashed his subordinates with his set of sales words, and then watched his subordinates sell to buyers one by one according to his instructions, under the embellishment of excellent language and encouraging tone, On the other end of the phone, the buyers gave comments of "you sound like an honest person", which made everyone in the company very happy.

After the customer finally agreed to place an order and decided to buy $[-], everyone could see Jordan Belfort's excitement and disdain. He raised his middle finger and blushed: "What an idiot."

Under his brainwashing and guidance, the scale of the company is getting bigger and bigger, and his group of undershirts with bad looks have become social elites, with neat suits and good eloquence, saying "I am Stratton Oakmont's senior vice president", almost all of them have fully mastered the communication skills, and under their hard work, orders fly in like pieces of paper.

As soon as Leonardo finished filming this scene, the assistant hurriedly handed over a wet towel.The weather is actually a bit hot, and it is difficult to wear a suit and tie for a long time, not to mention dozens of people crowded into a cubicle, full of computers and non-stop phone calls, the air is hotter and more boring.

"How about it?"

Ebert gave him a thumbs up: "Even if you don't plan to be an actor, you can still find a satisfactory job on Wall Street, Leo, you are a professional."

Ebert's words didn't seem to convince him completely, and Leonardo turned his attention to Mr. Director again.

Martin Scorsese nodded with a smile.

Leonardo clenched his fists: "Yeah!"

The scene just now seemed simple, but it was a real group show. Photography, lighting, costumes, props... all aspects must be considered very complete.During the shooting interval, the actors can take a short break, but the staff has to rearrange the shooting scenes.

Leonardo was busy eating to replenish his energy. Taking advantage of the break, he took out the script and read it carefully again: "This is really the script with the most lines since I made a movie."

"There will be rewards for giving."

He stuffed the last biscuit into his mouth: "The premise is that I can get a good night's sleep tonight, God, I'd better not mention the word sleep, and I will give an inspiring speech later !"

Amidst the shouts of the assistant director, Ebert smiled and watched Leonardo continue to shoot the next scene.

"Have a good week, guys?"

Jordan Belfort picked up the microphone and said in a high voice: "The company's commission net profit is 2870 million US dollars, all earned from the pink sheet market, guys! To add to the joy of the weekend, I am willing to give the company's assistant, Daniel Harry Miss Mori's $1, shave her baldness!"

The lady was sitting on a chair waiting to have her head shaved.

Jordan Belfort stood in front of the stage and shouted: "Shave your head! Shave your head! Let's party!"

He shouted hoarsely, and the audience echoed.Watching their performance, Ebert can say without hesitation that this section is undoubtedly the scene where some MLM companies conduct MLM training.

Jordan Belfort became more and more impassioned: "Miss Harrison decided to use the 1 dollars for breast augmentation. She is now a C cup, but soon, she will become a D cup. There is no better company than our company! "

"Is it the best company in the world, today I want to blow up this ghost place!"

After filming this section, Leonardo yelled so hoarsely that he could hardly speak.The crew's doctor gave him throat lozenges, and Martin Scorsese gave him half a day off, so his voice didn't sound so hoarse.However, this seems to have caused some damage to his voice, at least in Ebert's ears. In the next few days, it was fine during filming. Leonardo obviously did not dare to use his voice excessively when communicating in private. It all sounds flimsy.

Of course, this may also be due to being too tired.

"Leo."

"Ok?"

"I found something."

Leonardo stared at Ebert intently, waiting for his next sentence.

Ebert smiled and narrowed his eyes: "I found that the way you yell and incite people is very similar to another actor."

"Who, from Hollywood?"

Ebert nodded: "And we all know each other, but we're not very familiar with each other."

"Who? Who is it?"

"Kevin Spacey."

Ebert's answer earned Leonardo a fierce look: "Ebert, I should know you better. I don't want to hear a good word from your mouth."

"Although Kevin Spacey always plays the villain, why can't you think about the good side? In fact, I'm boasting that your acting skills have improved a lot, and you are no worse than Kevin Spacey."

"Humph!"