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What was the audition like?

In fact, it is very similar to the situation of going to the workplace for an interview. In a room, there are several people sitting behind a row of desks, and then the person who comes in for the interview has to sell themselves to them, leave an impression and then get the job.

Rhea didn't know if there would be a retest for this kind of supporting role audition. Maybe the final candidate would be decided after watching it once. When she walked in, she didn't see any cameras.

There are five people sitting behind the table, a casting director, two director assistants, a field manager who organizes materials, and a producer.

Adrian Ryan, the final director of "Lolita", did not come, so the most important of these five people is the producer, and he also sits in the middle.

Malloy revealed some information that the producer joined the group later with an investment of 2 million U.S. dollars. Originally, this new version of "Lolita" has been produced by Mario Caesar and Joel B. Max. The two partners who started working together in "Shock Brigade" prepared it by themselves, but this latecomer still used a large investment to add himself to the list of producers.

And he doesn't look at all like an investor who would be content with a signature.

Judging from the fact that this man in a sharp suit and tight hair is sitting in the casting room now, it can be seen that he hopes that his $2 million will allow him to have an impact and effect on this movie——

That is, decentralization.

In this sense, the fact that the director did not participate in the audition for Annabelle, who occupies a certain space in the film, may be related to the secret struggle between the three producers.

Adrian Ryan was recruited by Mario Caesar, and Joel Max was Mario's old partner, and Andre Witter, who joined the group later, was puzzling, completely airborne Became the third producer of this film.

But also because of his generous investment, the planning process of this film has been greatly accelerated. According to the original budget and various plans, the casting of "Lolita" will be postponed again, and the official shooting will have to wait until 95. But with this Mr. André Witte, the whole project was clockwork and kept moving forward.

"Rhea Nolen?" The casting director picked up her resume and glanced at it. "A rare name." He murmured softly, which gave Rhea a little more comfort than nothing.

At least her name can leave a little impression, not the too common English names like Jane and Susan.

Seeing five people glanced at her, Rhea smiled at them, neither exaggerated nor so shallow that people could ignore it. Malloy held her to practice for a long time, and almost made her laugh cramp.

Her agent was obviously determined to win this audition. Not only did he get the specific content and understand the various gatekeepers, he even had many mock rehearsals with Rhea in advance.

"Do you have any special talents? Please briefly perform for us." This kind of audition will not have any time to say hello, everyone hopes to shorten the process as much as possible, then pick the key points, and then quickly move on to the next one people.

"I can dance a little."

The field manager who called the number had already started to take out the resume of the next person. He raised his head and reminded Rhea: "You have 1 minute."

Malloy talked with her for a long time, and finally decided to write only the experience of shooting magazine models and performing in the school drama club on the resume, and did not write any additional specialties. She would perform dances in the improv performance session.

Yes, she can dance.

In fact, Rhea has even learned a lot of dances, most of them for character assault training, but she does have a little ballet skills.

After she was reborn, she picked up the basic skills and practiced again. She didn't need to dance very well, but at least she had to stretch her tendons. This would not only make her body soft, but also help her shape.

The development of Europeans and Americans in adolescence is very unstable. Rhea is always faintly worried that her bones will become thicker, and the jawbone on the cheeks will expand and become a square face, which is even worse.

Now the proportions of her whole face and the three courts and five eyes are very coordinated. Once the face is expanded or elongated, the proportions will be out of balance. It's not that she can't appreciate the tough beauty, but her facial features are not suitable.

But now everything is perfect, she has loose blonde hair that looks a little fluffy, it hasn't been done perfectly, and there are still some flaws in many places.She wears a blouse and a loose skirt so that when she twirls, the skirt doesn't fly up ostentatiously or without a bit of movement.

Simple and natural, more importantly, green.

When Rhea finished her first dance in front of Malloy, the first thing he said was, "Shit!"

"I really shouldn't have signed that contract with you." They signed the brokerage contract in a very standard way, which is stipulated by the law. The first contract is valid for one year, and the renewal period is up to three years.

The only reason for being so disciplined is that Malloy thinks that if Rhea sucks, he can easily kick her away after a year.

If that pretty face is anything to go by, he could squeeze all the value out of the blond beauty in the four years of his extension.

However, it turned out that he was still too impulsive.He considered all the factors, but ignored the one-in-a-million possibility—this girl is really a genius!

Come to think of it, she had never taken any dance classes, let alone hired a private instructor, and the only explanation was that she was completely self-taught—"Fuck!"

Malloy couldn't help uttering another swear word, and he re-examined the blonde girl he picked up, from head to toe, "Dance again, it doesn't have to be so good."

After quickly regaining his composure, Malloy commented: "Annabelle is not perfect, she is indeed beautiful, but she is jerky."

The brown-haired and brown-eyed man in a suit changed back to his pretentious and shrewd look again, "Very well, you can definitely take this role, my dear."

They planned everything, no makeup, no grooming, Malloy even wanted to give her some freckles if it wasn't too contrived.It's too good for him to dislike her skin at this time.

Taking a breath indistinctly, Rhea made a ballet starting pose, of course she didn't wear ballet shoes, so it seemed too deliberate as if she had known it a long time ago.

So she just found a pair of shoes that were easy to take off, and stepped on the cold ground in short white cotton socks.

Even though this is California, where there is no climate change throughout the year, Rhea shrank her toes in response to the coldness.

Then she began to slowly unfold her figure, from the stretched toes wrapped in white socks to the slender and smooth calves, then the waist, the arms without fat and the delicate fingers of a girl.

The interview site is on the sixth floor, surrounded by high-rise buildings. No matter how good the lighting in Los Angeles is, people in the room can’t feel it, but Rhea’s blond hair hanging down the back brings a warm reflection. Her expression is gentle and leisurely. , she knows that she can't dance well, but she is not shy because she knows that people's eyes are still attracted to her.

Of course she doesn't need to show perfect ballet, firstly because she can't dance without rigorous training, and secondly because the people interviewing her didn't come to see her dance.If I really want to appreciate it, I went to the ballet theater to watch it. This is an audition for Annabelle, and Rhea knows it very well.

So what she is showing is not her ballet posture, but showing her soft and slender body with these beautiful dancing postures, showing her young and youthful curves, and her vivid and lively figure at Annabelle's age. Bright girly beauty.

Enthusiastic and eye-catching, but soft because of immaturity.

It might be easy for any girl to do it, but it is not easy for Rhea, because she has already passed this age, so she can't show herself like those competitors outside, she wants to " acting".

She was to play 14-year-old Annabelle.

What is it like to be a girl at this age?

When he smiles, he hopes to attract everyone's attention, but also avoids flashing back; when he looks at the past with his eyes, he is full of youthful vigor and curiosity, but he is not clear, and he does not want people to know what he is looking at.

The ludicrous scheming and willful innocence is so appealing that no one cares what went wrong when she danced, did the spin go right?Is that toe pointing straight?

No one cared anymore, their eyes just unconsciously followed the figure of the blonde girl, and then watched her stretch out her soft arms and calves.

Even with no background music and no light panels, she is still beautiful.

Then Humbert's unforgettable Annabelle stays forever at this age when she died early but was beautiful and vivid, pinning on every young "nymphet" he sees and meets in his later life.

Noticing that the people behind the table were still maintaining their attention at the beginning, Rhea knew that she was basically halfway through without distraction. Just when she wanted to finish with a spin that she had practiced countless times, she and the horse A surprise that Lowe didn't expect interrupts her perfectly planned audition.

"Ring Lingling—!"

An interviewer's cell phone rang.

For a moment, Rhea wanted to pounce on that jarring phone and throw that old mobile phone out of the window!In her many years of acting career, she has never seen such an impolite person. Everyone knows that the audition should turn off the phone, or simply don't bring it in!

But seeing Andre Witter, in the middle, pulling her phone out of her pocket, Rhea knew she wouldn't get any compensation for her interrupted audition, whether it was a casting director or an assistant, or sitting on the outermost set No one looked displeased or offended.

Everything is taken for granted, and Andre Witter is just answering the phone during the audition.

Obviously, everyone present thought that his call must be much more important than the audition of Rhea Nolen, an unknown newcomer.

Even though Rhea was well aware that she was an unknown newcomer, seeing the tall, skinny American man with his hairsprayed so that his hair glistened was actually going to answer the call, she was still very angry.

Of course, she is an actress, even if she is angry, she will not show it on the face, and her expression is even more natural, but no one is looking at her anymore, and their attention is on Andri.

"It's me, what's the matter? Tell me."

Even in her most difficult time, Rhea had never been insulted like this.It's even worse than icy disgust and biting criticism because at this point people don't even think she deserves a full 1 minute of performance time, which is more vicious than disdain.

Pursing her lips tightly, Rhea completed the last spin of her dance, but she didn't spin in place anymore, she naturally turned to the front of the row of tables, she stopped at the position facing the middle, and then raised Flip wrist with upper arm, retract other arm at hem, and cross into shape in front of squatting knee.

Then she raised her face slowly, as if following some silent rhythm and rhythm, without any confusion, now Rhea was only one table away from Andre Witte who was sitting behind the table, after she squatted down slightly will be able to face him.

This rich and rude producer seems to have nothing to do with Hollywood. He has the face of a Wall Street elite, but also exudes the arrogance and coldness of the bourgeoisie, gray-blue eyes and fine golden hair. They all have a cold and pungent smell, which makes people feel unhappy.

Rhea is now not at all surprised why the other two producers, and even the director, are secretly excluding him.

Self-righteous, proud and unwilling to respect, but also strong and wanting to control everything, it is strange who would want to get close to Andre Witte.

They looked at each other like this, no matter how important the information in Andri's phone was, he had to focus on Rhea's face that suddenly zoomed in and out, and he looked at the girl's every move without guilt. A pore, like calculating data on the stock market.

Even though their eyes were now level, Rhea somehow felt that Andri was looking down on her, so she stood up quickly, bowed and smiled.

"I'm done."

"Okay." The casting directors recovered from the silent confrontation, and they couldn't say that there was anything wrong with Rhea's doing it, it was just part of the dance.

And she obviously had reason to be angry.

No matter what link is going to be done after that, it can't go on now, so Rhea can only leave after completing the 1-minute impromptu performance.

"Thank you for coming to this audition. Once we have the result, we will notify you as soon as possible." After saying these formulaic words, the assistant director next to him looked at the scene manager, "Let the others wait." They have to wait for Andri Finish the call.

When she walked out of the audition room, Rhea could faintly hear a whisper, "Exactly 1 minute, she timed it so accurately that I didn't even have time to stop it, is it a coincidence?"

"So soon?" Malloy came up to him and asked about the situation during the audition with concern, "Is everything okay?"

Raising her eyes to look at him, Rhea swung the pair of shoes with her arms hanging down, and she brought them out before she had time to put them on again.

Now she somehow finds Malloy's face much more pleasing to the eye. He grows his light brown hair slightly long to catch up with the current fashion, his dark brown eyes are shrewd but soft, his facial features are tough and distinct, and he is tall and strong, no matter how burly he is. Almost ready to be a football player.

This man is also very calculating, but not so mean. With comparison, Rhea can't help feeling that her manager is actually not bad.

Sitting down in the previous seat, Rhea looked around at all kinds of beautiful girls who were still waiting. They were obviously wondering why they hadn't called the next person, and many suspicious eyes fell on Rhea.

As she puts on her shoes, she answers Malloy's question, and she also reveals the information to the ears of competitors in disguise, "Well, I'm sure they must be impressed with me." For better or worse.

As for whether this small method of demonstration will work, Rhea doesn't know, she has to rush back to New York.

What Rhea didn't know was that Andri in the audition room was silent for a long time after she went out, and then said a word into the phone: "Say it again."

The other four people didn't dare to rush, even if Andre Witter really didn't hear what was being said on the phone because a 14-year-old blonde girl was distracted, then how could they have the right to laugh at it.

The author has something to say:

"Lolita" was originally cast in [-] and filmed in [-]. Here it will be adjusted to start shooting in [-].

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All names except Andri Witter are real people.