Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 590 Script Surrounding
"Can you get me that plate of nachos? I can't reach it," said the actress, in a red shirt and black pants, with one leg tucked under her hip, sitting on a chair at a long table in a Greek restaurant , and ask Tom Cruise across the way to pass her a plate of snacks.

"Here, Kelly," Tom Cruise handed over the cornflakes, "I heard you graduated from Juilliard School of drama? A major?" Slowed down, he was still the sunny boy who was full of energy.

"Correct," Kelly McGillis popped a piece of snack into her mouth, "but don't think I'm luckier than other actors. I did go to school with Julia, but I've always been a waiter in restaurants, and my first film was Because my guest at the restaurant happens to be a film writer, I have the opportunity to enter the film industry”

"Hahaha", Kelly McGillis pressed his hand on Tom's arm and told his history with a smile.

"Oh yeah? I'm also in Julia's drama department. Why haven't I met you?" Val Kilmer raised his eyebrows and joined the conversation.

"Probably I've been acting on Broadway since third grade, and the rest of the time I've been waiting tables for money."

McGillis turned again and pressed Val Kilmer on the arm.

"Ha, I was studying all the time. I was very young at the time. I was Julia's youngest drama student, breaking the school record."

"Hahaha... I've heard of your name. All the female students at that time wanted to be your girlfriend."

McGillis's slightly husky voice ignited the atmosphere of the mostly young male cast, and everyone laughed.

"Has everyone got food and drink? Let's start the script reading."

Ronald handed each actor a first draft of the script.

"Thank you for picking me, Ronald." McGillis took over the script. The two big metal earrings were very eye-catching, which set off her maturity. Looking at it, everyone can't help but feel that Kelly has a crush on him.

"Don't underestimate Kelly McGillis, she is very professional. I saw her performance in her debut work and chased her to sign a contract before she agreed to give up Broadway plays and make movies."

Ronald couldn't help thinking of what Peter Weir, the director of the movie "The Witness", said to himself when he answered Ronald's private question about McGillis' acting skills a few days ago.

"In order to play an Amish widow well, Kelly went to an Amish settlement in Pennsylvania and lived with a real Amish widow for a month, observing her every move."

"Let's start with the scene where Charlie is giving lectures to the students." Ronald reminded everyone to turn to Charlie, played by McGillis, who gave flying lessons to the two pilots, including the Lone Ranger and the Iceman. That scene started with script reading.

"My lines?" McGillis turned to the page, changed her sitting position, cleared her throat, and began to read "Hi everyone, our main opponents are F-5s, and A-4s, they will Simulate the way MiGs fly..."

The so-called script reading means that all the actors sit together and read everyone's lines in the script together.No makeup, no need to go to the actual filming location, just play the role through the lines, understand each other, and everyone should have an emotional response when reading the lines.

"So she's very good at capturing the character's idiosyncrasies?"

"Of course, she came from a major, and her acting skills are very good. In fact, I'm worried about whether your leading actor can match Kelly's rhythm."

Ronald recalled the conversation between director Peter Weir and himself two days ago in his mind.

"Oh..." Tom Cruise made an annoyed look. Here, the Lone Ranger discovered that the girl who flirted with him in the bar yesterday turned out to be his flight instructor, Charlie.

"As you probably already know, F-5s don't have the same thrust-to-weight ratio as the MiG-28, nor can they fly to the top speed of the MiG-28. However, the MiG-28 is not without weaknesses. At that time, I couldn't do a quick dive and pull up..."

"Hey..." Tom Cruise laughed at Anthony Edwards, who played his radar man Goose.

"Are you going to tell her?" Anthony Edwards, a handsome blond guy, picked up the script and read it.He is actually a type of actor with a burst of hormones, but in order to highlight Tom Cruise's leading role, the producer and Ronald asked him to dye his hair brown and wear a conservative hairstyle, so as not to overwhelm the guest.

"Why, Lieutenant, do you disagree?"

McGillis recited the flight instructor's technical lines very easily, and it didn't look like she was an actor who didn't understand aerodynamics at all.

"Kelly McGillis is an expert. She can be very relaxed. If your actor is not experienced or has experience in theater education, it is easy to be overwhelmed by her."

Ronald remembered Peter Weir's advice again.

The two producers considered it comprehensively, coupled with the tight schedule, and finally signed Kelly McGillis.Her audition was very convincing, and her audition with Tom Cruise had great chemistry.Tom Cruise, who had just suffered an emotional shock, was inspired by her to have the characteristics of a sunny boy.

This is also the ultimate willingness of Ronald to sign McGillis, she is a stunner who can make Tom's performance even better.

"Yes, instructor. The data you said about MiGs is inaccurate." Tom Cruise corrected the other party's data pretending to be innocent.

"How do you say that?" When McGillis was reading, he accurately grasped Charlie's contempt for the theoretical level of pilots and the helplessness of having to communicate with them.

"In fact, we happened to see a MiG-28 doing at least a 4G dive."

"Really? Where did you see it?" McGillis' tone was full of disbelief.

"It's classified."

"I have top secret clearance for the Navy."

"Well, I'm actually on top of the MiG-28, and I'm..."

"We..." Anthony Edwards' Goose reminds the Lone Ranger that they are a team.

"You're on top of the MiG, how did you see it?" Instructor Charlie didn't believe it.

"Because I happen to be flying backwards."

"It's impossible. You can't fly upside down while following the MiG-4 that's diving in 28G. It's impossible for the F-14A Tomcat to fly like this."

Val Kilmer interjected at this time. He played the Iceman is a rationalist, and Tomcat's instructions did not say that he operated the fighter like this.

"Actually I took a picture," Anthony Edwards read from Radar Officer Goose.

"Very good chemical reaction." Don Simpson listened to the script reading and praised Ronald for the performance of the actors.

"I was a little concerned that their chemistry was too real."

Ronald saw Tom Cruise paired with Anthony Edwards, opposite Val Kilmer who played Iceman, and Tim Robbins, who played his radar officer. The rivalry between the Lone Ranger and the Iceman in the script.

"That's really good, your line just now." Kelly McGillis took a sip of coffee and praised Tom Cruise's performance.

On the other side, Fang Kimmer adjusted his sitting posture, and he clearly saw in his eyes that he was eager to participate in the competition.

"Isn't this better? A head-to-head competition," Don Simpson stretched out his two thumbs and made a flexion and extension movement relative to each other.

"I'm afraid that their competition is too obvious and fierce, so that it is brought into the daily life of filming." Ronald has experienced that in the crew of "Naughty Boys Outside the World", a few young men bursting with hormones would do things out of jealousy. Lots of stupid things to come.

"They are the two biggest big-name actors in this movie, and we can't replace them." Jerry Bruckheimer reminded in a low voice.

"Anyway, we have to find a way to make Tom and Val Kilmer separate after filming." Ronald looked at Kelly McGillis, who easily made two big-name male movie stars want to quarrel with each other.

"Kelly's performance is very loose, you have to watch out for her, and sometimes even Harrison Ford is taken out of rhythm by her."

The advice of Peter Weir came back to Ronald's mind.

It seems that signing McGillis is also a mixed blessing. This time I have to test my management ability on the set.

Ronald ate a biscuit and signaled everyone to continue reading the next part of the script.

"My stinky, sweaty one, husband, if you don't come and take me back to the room within a minute, you won't even think about getting into my bed."

"Hey, my wife, please."

Anthony Edwards, who played Goose, was reading lines and flirting with a young actor who played his wife.

Stupid Goose's wife is a girl from a small town in the south of the country, and she raised a son with him. With the temperament of a pure and simple country girl, this young actor is very good at reading lines.

Coincidentally, the supporting actress recruited by Don Simpson has some connections with Ronald.

After Lee Thompson took over many movies, she was not shooting Burger King commercials.Burger King re-selected a girl to replace her, and Elizabeth Sue continued to be a duo of waiters, appearing in multiple commercials.

Don Simpson liked to take advantage of the free exposure. After he auditioned this actress named Meg Ryan, he signed her immediately.

"Let's go have a drink!" After a day of script reading, Kelly McGillis put on her coat and called the cool guys around to go to the bar for a beer.

"Ronald, won't you go with us?" Tom Cruise saw Kelly McGillis and Val Kilmer chatting and laughing about their past at Julia College, and wished to join them immediately.

But he saw Ronald pick up the script, as if not with them, and friendship prompted him to come and invite Ronald.

"You go first, I have to talk to Tang and Jerry about the filming."

"Then I'll go first, you can have some fun yourself, OK?" Tom confirmed that Ronald couldn't go, then turned around and ran quickly in the direction where McGillis was.

"Hey, when is your Witness coming out? I heard from Ronald that you're doing a really good Amish."

"Hey..." Ronald let out a long breath. It seems that this shooting will not be easy. This kind of crew with male hormones is prone to accidents.God bless the people of Paramount and Navy, don't see anything bad when you come to the set.

　Something is delayed today, there is only one update.

　
(End of this chapter)