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"It's really like a big concubine selection. I bet everyone will come to see it on the day of the actual audition..."

Ella, who was sitting on the other side of Josie, muttered softly.

Qiao Qian raised her eyebrows and said, "Choosing a concubine is not as troublesome as casting a role. After all, in addition to considering the actor's suitability for the role, the actor's character and market evaluation are also very important. What do you think?"

She puts the emphasis on "character."

At the same time, Ella also understood that the boss didn't like her talking nonsense, so she quickly shut her mouth and made a gesture of zipping it up.

As an assistant, she is very clear that her boss has deliberately controlled not to develop any ambiguity with the same crew members during the filming, whether it is the usual crew couple or a relationship.

This not only represents a change in Josie's acting style, but also because she herself has no expectations for romance now.

busy?

It's not that you're so busy that you really don't have time.

Don't have the normal needs of an adult?

Well, this is the most fatal point, although she has checked her body and there is nothing wrong with it, but she and her life do lack a passion.

In short, it is——

I don't want to fall in love, I don't want to meet new people, I don't want to think about another person's emotions, and I don't want another person's appearance to disrupt my current life.

Even Eli's occasional phone calls are limited to a maximum of 10 minutes, including the daily exchange of business messages between the two, so naturally there is no further relationship between the two.

Perhaps once a person easily owns too many things, the threshold will be infinitely raised, and it will become more and more difficult to be moved.

For ordinary people, winning a goal by their favorite team is enough to make them happy, but even if the film starring and producing a box office of over [-] million, Josie can't feel that her life is complete.

She is always full of crisis, and always feels dissatisfied.

As a result, normal love between men and women means less and less to her, and she prefers to spend her limited energy on work.

man?

Just a spice in your spare time.

If you have to choose, it is better to be a docile, well-behaved, and knowledgeable, beautiful dog. This is probably the key to the selection of those Beverly Wives.

Back to the topic.

In the "I, Robot" project, Josie is not the only one who has the right to speak about casting.

The executive producer representing Universal Pictures is a direct subordinate of Donna Langley, a Universal executive who has a good personal relationship with Josie. He strongly recommends Paul Walker throughout the process. The "Fast and Furious" starring the latter is directed by Donna Langley herself. Considering the overall conditions, Paul Walker's advantages are indeed outstanding;

As the director, Ernest appreciates Daniel Craig's performance, thinking that the other party is like a sharp and vigorous cheetah, wild but restrained, quite contradictory and charming, but considering that Craig is a native British , the temperament is also too British, which makes people feel hesitant;

Casting director Mary Finn also thinks that Paul Walker is very good, and Josh Hartnett has a very unique temperament, and his appearance is also a good material for an action movie;

Martha prefers Jake Gyllenhaal, aside from the fact that she has a good relationship with the Gyllenhaal family, she thinks that the performance of the other party is extremely malleable, and that he is young enough, handsome enough, and cheap enough.

In addition, Josh Harnett can also.

She always believes that the male protagonist who is suitable for Josie should be younger, instead of choosing a mature and handsome male, because considering the personality of the female protagonist, the contrast between hot and cold characters can better produce dramatic conflicts;

As for Josie herself, she didn't particularly like anyone, nor did she particularly dislike anyone, except for the unlucky Joshua Jackson who was personally scored zero by Ernest. She still decided to see the actors in the final round The performance during the audition, in addition to the suitability of the role, is more important to be able to have a chemical reaction with her in the performance.

Even if the lead and heroine of "I, Robot" don't have an emotional scene, an on-screen partner who lacks chemistry would definitely be a disaster.

After listening to Josie's words, the others were sure about the actor's casting.

Universal's executive producer thought that when he went back to report to his boss, Donna Langley, he could also disclose the news to Paul Walker's agent. The two sides worked hard together, and the contract belonging to the leading actor was still within reach. ?

Some people on the set felt the same way.

In order to win this role, almost all the people on this candidate list have tried their best. Even if there are some people like Josh Hartnett who don't care much about themselves, his own agent has never slack off. , which allowed Josh Hartnett to temporarily lead everyone with a slight advantage.

Maybe it was to give them time to do the work outside the audition, or maybe it was really considerate of Josie's recent busy schedule, the last round of auditions for "I, Robot" was arranged for the premiere of "The Trap 2" after.

And while Qiao Qian was busy running publicity everywhere, other projects that Tianji Films was working on were not idle.

The first to start auditioning with makeup was "Black Widow".

The result is surprising, because there are actually two real winners.

Emily Blunt, a 19-year-old newcomer who was found in a British theater, is a perfect five feet seven inches, exactly the height of the black widow in the comics, slender, tall, glamorous, another charming British rose;

Scarlett Johansson, who flew from Tokyo, is completely free of the awkwardness in the original audition tape. The word coquettish is almost tailor-made for her, just like Marilyn Monroe alive, but more beautiful than Marilyn A little more perseverance.

In the end, Scarlett got the role.

But the newcomer Emily Blunt, who was originally favored by the British drama world, also because of her excellent performance in the audition, surpassed her predecessors in her way of becoming famous step by step. received widespread attention from Hollywood.

Within three days, Emily Blunt signed a medium-produced literary film "Summer of Love", and before that, Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski had just adapted the original film novel Done, just saw this girl in the newspaper at first glance, and decided that she would be one of the heroines of the movie.

At the same time, Ali Emmanuel, a well-known Hollywood agent, personally signed Emily Blunt to the Endeavor Elite Agency, becoming a potential new star they will focus on cultivating next.

These trivial matters have little to do with Josie.

For her, this casting result is not surprising.

Because Emily Blunt is always a newcomer who has not entered the industry, even though she is very talented, her acting skills still have limitations.

For the 19-year-old, she can play Shakespeare's Juliet at her fingertips, but playing the Black Widow is completely different.

On the one hand, although Emily Blunt is young and beautiful, looks good, and is very agile, she still lacks an intuitive sex appeal;

On the other hand, the role of Juliet is not complicated, and she has many similarities with the young Emily Blunt. What the British drama system taught her is enough for this role.

But performance requires accumulation and precipitation.

Few young actors can properly express the role of Black Widow, the inherent loneliness under the gorgeous background, as well as the boredom, alienation and exhaustion of the world.

Only Scarlett did.

Her astonishingly precocious body, plump and soft lips, blurred eyes and faint smoking voice constitute a seductive and criminally sexy charm, which is a perfect portrayal of the true nature of human beings.

Any man with a normal sexual orientation, or a woman with a non-normal sexual orientation, just needs to see this stunner——

No, maybe not even a glance.

Her mint and vanilla-scented voice already shows its unique allure.

More importantly, in addition to the "sexiness" as a deadly weapon, the young Scarlett has a fearless courage in her bones, as well as a sense of vulnerability that is extremely precious to actors.

It's all about her, combined with an unreserved performance, that makes for a dangerously charming yet sympathetic heroine.

After getting the news, Scarlett's manager Brian Lord breathed a sigh of relief.

His operation during this period has finally achieved real gains. If the "Black Widow" project goes smoothly, even if it is not very popular like most female action films, his client Scarlett Johansson will also become the first single A new generation of actresses carrying A-level productions.

It can be said that it saved a game from Natalie Portman, who is in the "Star Wars" series.

Immediately after entering the casting stage is "Queen of Blades".

Due to the schedule problem, Charlize Theron finally declined the film appointment reluctantly, so the audition for the heroine started in the shortest possible time.

After a fierce competition, Angelina Jolie got the role of Sarah Kerrigan, and Dougray Scott, who played the villain in "Mission: Impossible 2", will play the leading actor Jim Reynolds , the actor of the big villain Arcturus Mengsk is Jeff Bridges who has a wonderful performance in "Iron Man".

——This is Jeff Bridges' cooperation with Tianji Films again.

The game producer, Blizzard Entertainment, was very excited about this casting. I heard that they had a grand party to celebrate it. One can imagine Angelina Jolie's lethality to those game geeks.

Of course, Charlize Theron is also very good.

It's just that she is surrounded by regretful managers, fiancés, and maybe other things, and the original happy life has become a feather in the ground.

"JJ got fired."

This morning, in the production office of "I, Robot" in Universal Studios, Josie's assistant Debbie told her the latest news: Charlize Theron had just fired her agent.

"I see." Josie said lightly.

Subjectively, Charlize Theron herself is indeed willing to act in "The Queen of Blades", but due to some reasons that Josie is not interested in knowing, the contract between her and the crew has not been formally signed, and the final result is that Charlize Theron declined "Queen of Blades" and chose to co-star with her fiancé in "Threesomes in Troubled Times".

To be honest, Josie was very disappointed in her friend Charlie by this.

Not because of her very unprofessional behavior as a candidate for the heroine of "Queen of Blades", but because she let a man influence her career plan, even if it was the manager's own handwriting.

The former can be said to be a momentary negligence, but what about the latter?

A love brain with a capital letter, and even the most critical agent cannot be controlled and trusted.

Is this still the same ambitious Charlie?

Josie was puzzled.

According to her impression of Charlie, she should have fired her fiancé at the same time as she fired her agent, in order to conform to the bold and pungent style of the South African beauty.

Perhaps there are always reasons why emotions cannot be controlled by reason.

Even Charlize Theron gets carried away occasionally, without exception.

Josie didn't choose to call Charlie right away, even though she knew very well that the other party had just belatedly fired the agent who had discovered her, so she shouldn't be in such a good mood at the moment, and she desperately needed the care and comfort of her friends.

But people are responsible for their own choices.

Especially since this is Hollywood.

No tears, no heartbreak, no sympathy.