Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 732 Determine the heroine

Patrick Switz's agent received the news from Ronald, and he immediately arranged for his always-unpopular client to meet Ronald.

"Patrick, you're already 33. It's hard to get a movie with a solo male lead. It's still a blockbuster director like Ronald calling. Don't give up the opportunity again."

"I didn't pass up the opportunity, I just didn't want to be dancing anymore. I didn't want to limit my career to dance-related roles."

"Patrick, your idea is good, but the prerequisite for such a good idea is that you have a career first."

"Why didn't I..."

"I know, I know, you played Coppola's 'The Outer World' and you played John Milius' 'Red Dawn', not to mention that those two movies didn't do well at the box office, and there were no special reviews respected by the world.

Even if these two movies are very successful, don't forget that you are only one of four or five leading men.

Don't hesitate, go ahead, give full play to your strengths, and become a big star first..."

The agent pointed out Switz's weaknesses in a few words, as if he had some masterpieces, and some people in the industry appreciated his acting skills, but the audience still couldn't recognize him when they saw him, let alone call him by his name.

"Patrick, long time no see, how are you doing now?"

Ronald saw Switz and happily hugged and greeted him.

"My wife, Lisa, and I now have a five-acre piece of land on the edge of the Los Angeles National Forest. We have a house, a small ranch, and a few dogs. It's my salary and Lisa's record income. .not very big."

"Oh, I didn't expect you to be married."

"For many years, I have known her since I was a child." Switz talked about his wife's sweet face.

"High school sweetheart? Huh?"

"She was in my mother's ballet class when he was 14."

"Oh? So why did you say on your resume that you can't dance?" Ronald asked.Thinking about it, Switz is also ready to give himself an explanation.

"It's a long story. I hurt my ankle so I can't be a professional dancer anymore..."

"Besides this, is there any other reason?" Ronald didn't believe this reason. Switz is an old actor who has acted in several movies.He doesn't know that when filming, there is a lot of time to rest, and he won't continuously do actions that challenge the ankle injury.

"Well, you know, I grew up in Texas. So it wasn't very friendly to ballet boys."

"Ah...then what do you do?"

"What else can I do, just fight. They came to laugh at me, and I laughed back, and they fought, and I fought back. I also learned to wrestle in order to win."

"Interesting, I joined the wrestling team in high school for similar reasons."

"Oh, if there is a chance we will play together..."

Patrick Thwaites laughed.

Ronald understood that Thwitz's real reason for not wanting to dance in the movie was that he didn't want to conjure up memories of being teased by his high school classmates for being a ballerina sissy back in Texas.

But at this point, Switz has also seen the general plot in the script, and he has no reason to refuse the job.

"It's great, you'll fascinate girls in their teens and early twenties." After Ronald asked Switz to do a few moves, he immediately confirmed that he had professional skills.

"But before that, I have to take you to meet the screenwriter. I promise Eleanor that I will let her see it before deciding on the candidate."

"Ronald, where did you find this single-eyed hunk? Didn't you say he can't dance?"

"It's easy for me to find him. He said he used to be a ballet dancer, but because of an ankle injury, he didn't play dance roles. I don't believe it, so why don't you try him?"

"Hello, Patrick. I'm Eleanor, the screenwriter." Eleanor was a middle-aged woman with a shy expression on her face.

"Dirty Dancing is what we said at that time, but it is actually a general term for many Latin dance moves, a lot of knee and hip moves, combined with a lot of Mambo moves."

"Ma'am, I know what Dirty Dancing means." Switz remained polite, knowing that Ronald had started auditioning.

"Let me explain to you, maybe the Jewish dance is different from yours..."

Eleanor stepped forward and hugged Switz, then wrapped his arms around her waist, and then her body was tightly pressed against Switz, "I turn like this, you turn that way, and then catch Man The dance steps of waves..."

"That's it, that's it, that's the kind of dance I did when I was 16 in the basement with those dancers, let's do it again, this time with a twist..."

"Oh, you dance really well. My feeling is indeed right. The man with single eyelids and black hair is indeed the most handsome and manly..."

"Okay, okay, let Patrick go, he has been dancing with you for 15 minutes."

Watching the performance of Patrick Schwytz, who Eleanor took advantage of for a long time, so far so good.

The male protagonist in the script is a man who is very confident in dancing, while the female protagonist Baby is a female client who is not very good at dancing but has great potential.This is how Johnny treats Baby, not only contemptuous of her dance ability, to teach her, but also a kind of respect for the customers of the resort, for fear of annoying her and losing her job.

Ronald purposefully exaggerated Eleanor's power in the casting, and this scene happened to be similar to Johnny's state of mind in the script, and so far, Patrick has performed very well.

Seeing that Eleanor didn't want to get off Switz, he felt that it was almost done, so he called off the interview.

"Patrick, I saw your photo at first sight. You said you couldn't dance, but you made me sad for a long time. You have to make it up to me."

"Oh, Darling, I'm so flattered by you." Patrick kissed her on the cheek, and hurriedly parted from Eleanor.

"Are you satisfied? Eleanor, now it's time to choose the heroine and the second heroine." Ronald said to Switz, "You have to cooperate, I want to see you and the heroine Baby. The chemistry, and the feeling with the dance partner, you have to be in sync with the dance, and then you will have a long rehearsal."

"OK, I'll be there on time."

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In the final round of auditions for the heroine, Ronald still went to the venue of "The Adventures of the Nanny". It is also beneficial for the two crews to audition together.

The number of characters in "Dirty Dancing" is much more than that in "The Adventures of the Nanny".Nanny's Adventures is actually just a family's adventures from [-]:[-] pm to midnight, with a maximum of ten people in each scene.

As for "Dirty Dancing", in addition to several large-scale dances, there are also many group plays in resorts, which involve many supporting roles.Among the actors eliminated by Touchstone, Ronald picked up several supporting roles.

The audition room was carpeted, a bed was brought in, and a few hangers were added.This is the opening scene of "The Adventures of the Nanny" moved to the audition room.

"Then He Kissed Me" pierces through.Valerie Bertinelli started the show first.

Wearing a red T-shirt, she lip-synced and began to sing this song about a girl looking forward to her boyfriend.

Ronald looked amused, she was big, with a big jaw.If there is anything that fits the movie character Chris, it is absolutely daring to fight gangsters.

But the movie is not reality, this chin detracts too much from her, and it lacks a lot of soft lines of women.However, if he and Eddie Van Halen had a son, he would definitely inherit the chin.Put it on a boy, that is the foundation of a handsome guy.

"What do you think?" The female producer looked over and asked Ronald's opinion.

"Singing and dancing are good, what do you think, Chris." Ronald handed over the right to ask questions to director Columbus.

"Well, Valerie, your character is a girl next door, she has no concert and live training, so she is just a copy of Madonna, using the bed board at home as a stage, the bedpost as a microphone, and the curtain as a wedding dress little girl.

You're acting too much like a professional rock singer, you know what I mean? "

"Oh, I see," Valerie Bertinelli looked at the female producer with blushing eyes.

"Do you want to do it again?" Ronald said to help her simply. Valerie's perception is not very good, and it will not affect Elizabeth Sue if she does it again.

"Thank you, I don't need to rest."

Valerie collected herself and did it all over again.It's improved from the first time, but the audience can't give birth to the feeling of falling in love with her immediately.This is an important role of the opening scene.

"If there is any news, we will notify your agent, the next one." Chris Columbus decisively called Elizabeth Su to come in.

The "Please Begin" producer went to rewind the tape and replayed the episode.

"He came up to me and asked if I wanted to dance?
He looked okay, so I said I could try it.

When he danced he held me tight

When he sent me home that night, all the stars were shining
Then he kissed me. "

Elizabeth Sue is powerful when she plays the girl next door.Dancing at home is crazier than Tom Cruise's "Crazy Good Guys" impersonation.

When she jumped onto the bed board and held the bedpost, she seemed to be imitating a singer at a concert. When she jumped down wearing a wedding dress with curtains and holding a photo of a man on the table, her movements were in perfect rhythm.

The audience will definitely think that she is Chris Parker, a beautiful girl from the neighbor's family who comes to the family to work as a nanny.

"What do you think?" Ronald glanced at Sue after the music stopped, and then asked about the female producer Deborah Hill.

"The performance says it all."

"yeah?"

Elizabeth Su seemed to understand what the producer meant, but she still couldn't believe it.

"Go back and wait for the manager's call." Ronald smiled and gave her a wink.

Su went out bouncing around.

"Are you really not going to play a cameo role in the movie?" The producer Deborah just put a photo of Ronald on the dressing table as a photo of her boyfriend.Think about it, if Ronald can come to play the ex-boyfriend of the heroine, a bad guy named Two Boats, it will definitely add a lot of topics to the movie.

"No, I still have two projects in progress. 'Dirty Dancing' is the project I invested in. Now it is very difficult to find a director. Maybe I have to direct it myself. Maybe I don't have time." Ronald shied away Invited to be a guest star.

Adrian Lane liked the script very much. He said that this is not an ordinary musical, but a movie that reflects the trend of the times, and it is very cutting-edge even today.

But when it comes to pay, Adrian Ryan can't be flexible. Under the high pay of the "Fatal Attraction" crew, he can't come to "Dirty Dancing".

What's more, Ronald's plan to reduce the film salary and give him a share of the director's share seems to be a bit of a liar when it is put on this film project that has not been released by the seven majors.

"The process of our big company will be relatively long. You may have finished filming your movie, and we have just started it. Come and see when the time comes, maybe you can just play a cameo role." Producer Deborah is still working hard , If you can't play a scumbag boyfriend, it's good to play someone else.

"Okay, I'm going back to Toronto to visit the set. When the time comes, Columbus, you have to relax with me. I'm still a novice in acting."

"The Nanny's Adventures" has confirmed the heroine, and the next step is the long preliminary preparations, including the determination of the set, and the special effects plan and so on.

After they went out, Ronald hurriedly called his staff to come in.

Pack up the beds and hangers, move in a few large mirrors, and arrange the audition site like a dance classroom.

Although "Dirty Dancing" is a small project, the choice of the heroine is actually not worrying about not having an actor to audition.

As a Jewish story, it is impossible for the heroine Ronald to let other ethnicities play Jews.

On the one hand, they didn't have the typical Jewish nose, and on the other hand, Ronald was afraid that the Jewish gang would gossip again.

In the Hollywood showbiz circle, many Jewish girls are obviously very ordinary, but also full of confidence, thinking that under the care of the Jewish people, they can try to enter the showbiz circle.

In this way, many big-nosed girls came.

Many people have a good foundation in dancing, and many of them have been in Broadway musicals.

But Ronald wasn't here to pick the next Barbra Streisand.What he wants is not Barbara who is good at singing and dancing, but a girl who doesn't know how to dance, has a good family education, but is very interested in dancing the kind of "dirty dance" that only "bad" teenagers dance in the eyes of his father. girl.

"Next person."

Ronald sighed, and sent away another girl with a big nose under the watchful eyes of the union representatives.

"You go in, all right."

"I'm a little nervous, Daddy. I think they dance very well, but I can't dance, and you didn't teach me when I was a child."

"Go, you are my daughter, you must have good dancing talent. I don't teach you because dancing is too hard. I don't want my daughter to follow my path again.

And I know through my relationship that the protagonist of this movie is not a good dancer, so maybe you are just right. "

"Okay, then I'll go."

"Where's next?" Screenwriter Eleanor looked at the audition form. "The next one is Jennifer Gray."

"Here we come..." Jennifer Gray said goodbye to her father, opened the door and walked in.

"She is Baby," screenwriter Eleanor whispered in Ronald's ear.

"Why?" Ronald was puzzled. He had dreamed of the part played by Gray, and why Eleanor seemed to be more sure than him.

"The Baby I wrote is my father's obedient girl. She was sent by her father outside the door just now, and she glanced at her father when she entered the door. It is very similar to the character's state of mind."

"Hello, Jennifer." Ronald greeted Gray.

"Hello, Ronald... No, I'm talking about Mr. Li." Jennifer Gray also raised her hand to beckon Ronald, but felt it was inappropriate and put it down.

"Very good, it's too similar to Baby's personality." Eleanor began to whisper again.

Ronald asked Gray to take a few shots and said to her,

"Okay, let's stop here today, we will let you know when we have news."

"Why, don't you like her? She is really suitable." Eleanor was still trying to sell.

"Actually, I have been persuaded by you to select her to enter the second round. The main thing is to see the chemical reaction between her and the male lead."

"The second round is the audition with the leading actor, right? Who are the candidates?" The union representative came over and asked Ronald.

"There's Patrick Switz, and Billy Zane. I understand the rules." Ronald patted the union representative on the shoulder.

For Ronald's next round of auditions, Switz, the leading actor's first choice, came with his substitute Zane, and he still had to pretend to abide by the rules of the union.

(End of this chapter)