Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 763 Two Crazy Protagonists

Julia Taylor has officially left her all-female casting studio to start her own business.

Her first sale was Ronald's Moonstruck.She worked vigorously, and immediately began to take the audition photos of all the Broadway actors who felt suitable, and began to figure out whose experience and acting skills were more suitable for this movie.

Julia Taylor was a disciple of Marion Dolotti, who pioneered a new approach to Hollywood casting.The latter is a former Paramount executive who is now Warner Bros. vice president of casting.

So Julia usually pays attention to going to off-Broadway to watch live performances, and she knows the abilities of those actors very well.

So she didn't recommend five actors at once and let Ronald choose one of them to play a certain role.Instead, she absorbed the ideas of Ronald and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley on the script, and then launched the one she thought was the most suitable. If the audition was rejected, she recommended the second most suitable one.

Of course, before this time, Julia Taylor and Ronald first met the heroine Cher and the actor Nicolas Cage.

Cher still looked like a superstar, wearing a white embroidered shirt, wavy black curly hair, and a pair of stylish sunglasses.

"I really fell for your old trick. I promised you to play some Italian, and I was a middle-aged widow with gray and gray hair..."

As soon as Cher entered the audition room, she slapped Ronald and began to complain.

"Don't complain, that's all at the beginning of the movie. In the second half, you will become a beautiful woman with a full sense of femininity. Besides, you have already signed the contract, and it's too late to regret it now."

"Oh, hahaha... so I'm stuck with you. It's really bad..."

Ronald and Xueer are already very close, and they joked when they met.

Screenwriter Stanley Shanley and casting director Julia Taylor, who didn't know they were very close friends, were joking, and laughed.

"But to be honest, is the actor you found for me okay? Is it worthy of me?" Xueer just sat down, took off her sunglasses, and joked with Ronald again.

Ronald saw that she was in a good state of mind, and she didn't look exhausted after filming "The Witch of East Town", but instead gave people a feeling of being full of energy.

So he also joked, "Of course, Nick is an actor I have known for a long time, he has good explosive power, and the heroines who play with him, those who can act all think that he cooperates very well.

I think you'll have great chemistry with him, and he'll be as good on screen with you as you are with Tom Cruise.

By the way, I haven't seen Tom for a long time. How is he? "

Cher was obviously very happy, "Oh, then I must try it, I am looking forward to falling in love with a handsome guy on the screen, I haven't acted in a romantic drama in Hollywood yet.

As for Tom, I think he should be fine, after all, I haven't seen him for a long time. "

After she finished speaking, she put on her sunglasses again.He took out a bottle of expensive imported mineral water from his bag and began to drink in small sips.

"You and Tom...?" Ronald found that her tone was wrong, and asked tentatively in her ear.

"We split up, and I feel like his manager, Paula, is like his nanny. I suspect she's just constantly trying to sabotage our date.

Tom and I are still very happy together, but..." Xue Er made a helpless expression.

Actors are like this. They are more enthusiastic than ordinary people when they are in love, but the lifestyle of getting together less and leaving more makes it easier for them to break up.

Especially when the star status of both parties has undergone a dramatic reversal.

Tom Cruise is getting more and more popular, and Cher's singing career seems to have reached a dead end. She became famous in the 60s, and her new songs seem to be less attractive to the current audience than before.

Ronald looked at Xue'er, her current state of high spirits might be because she had entered a fighting state after being broken up.In addition, after the filming of "The Witch of East Town", she more or less still has some of the status in that magical drama.

Cher, a woman, is actually quite self-reliant and a model of free struggle for American women.

Her father was a gambling truck driver and her mother was a retired model.His parents divorced when he was very young, and then his mother remarried and had a biological child with his stepfather.Cher became independent early on, working as a waitress while trying to learn acting and singing.

At the age of 16, she simply dropped out of high school to start a singing career, met producer Sonny Bono (Sonny Bono), and with his help, she became a hit.

She later became Sonny Bono's girlfriend.Originally, Sonny wanted to make Xueer a solo singer, but Xueer suffered from severe dyslexia and fear of the stage, so she dragged Sonny together to form the combination of Sonny and Xueer.

Afterwards, the combination of "Sonny and Cher" became popular, and their famous song "I Got You Babe" once became the song of choice for people's weddings across the country.

By the 70s, the couple had entered the television industry, performing "Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" together, and also won a Golden Globe.

After Sonny had an affair and Xueer divorced him, Xueer's singing career encountered a new wave of popularity, and she gradually turned to her original interest, film performance.

And after the divorce, she has many famous and high-profile boyfriend groups.

The male model who is many years younger than her, the British pop singer David Bowie, and the record company owner David Geffen who was originally a man but fell in love with Cher at first sight.

David Geffen once had a very ugly breakup with her, and hated as much as he loved it.This Jew was very disrespectful, and he sent a lawyer's letter requesting to return all the jewelry and gifts he gave Cher during the relationship.

Cher fully showed that she was an independent woman who grew up in the hippie era, throwing jewelry back to David Geffen indifferently, and calling him a miser in the media.

After such a big breakup, Xueer didn't mess up at all. In the 80s, she continued to hunt young male stars in Hollywood.

Maybe it's her unique charm, which is too attractive to fledgling young people.She also hitched up three fresh Hollywood bodies, Val Kilmer, Eric Stoltz, and Tom Cruise.

All of them are hot guys who make American girls scream.Unexpectedly, none of them can escape the charm of Xueer who can be their aunt.

Perhaps after breaking up with Tom Cruise this time, Xueer found this hippie spirit again, bursting out with strong fighting power, and exuding infinite charm with a little dressing up.

Ronald admired in his heart that this kind of mental state is simply too suitable for playing the transformed heroine Loretta.

Now just channel her, to act out the way the hapless widow was before, and the movie becomes very convincing.

"It's okay, our male lead is enough to make you forget about Tom." Ronald gave Xueer a sense of expectation. Nicolas Cage will also come to audition soon. It is very important for Xueer to have a good impression of him .

Ronald called Cage in advance and asked him to show all his skills, so that Cher was full of expectations for the shooting.

"Hi Ronald. Hi Cher, I'm your fan."

Just as he was thinking, a young man with messy hair, wearing a leather jacket and jeans, came in from the door and greeted everyone present.

When Ronald saw it, his face turned red with anger.

I saw that Nicolas Cage's hair was divided into three pieces, and all of them stood upright. Coupled with his exaggerated way of speaking, he looked like a homeless man who abused drugs and had mental problems. I found some leftover cakes in the bucket, and presented them to the big beauty Xueer.

"Fuck, what happened?" Ronald clearly remembered that he asked Cage to take out everything, which impressed Cher deeply.

"Ah ha ha ha ha ha……"

Seeing Cage's appearance, Xue'er broke out into an earth-shattering laugh.A professional singer, with laughter and vocal skills, it penetrated the distance and went straight into Ronald's ears.

Ronald was disturbed for a while when he heard it, a stream of blood flowed through his ears and went straight to his brain. He felt a buzzing in his ears, as if announcing that the crew of "Moonlight Seductive" had suffered a serious failure.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Ronald yelled at Cage with his ears red.

"How about it, did I come up with all of my plans as you said?" Cage was still speaking in that exaggerated German expressionist way, he tilted his head and widened his eyes, as if Still proudly waiting for Ronald's compliment.

"Hahaha...it's really good. It really is a complete package," Xueer interjected, and she actually admired Cage very much.

"I had someone read through the script for me, and in my head, Ronnie is this bakery owner with a lot of pent-up passion, that's what he is."

"I told you, Ronald. Cher will definitely like the way I act, ahahaha, I'm so happy. Finally a female star appreciates my acting skills. Hahaha..."

The two hit it off unexpectedly, and began to discuss their understanding of the role.

Ronald immediately calmed down. Sometimes the actor's aura is really strange. Two people who are a bit crazy, when they are together, they are actually very harmonious.

This is really Shenjingbing's aunt opening the door for Shenjingbing, and Shenjingbing has arrived home...

"Do you know why I insisted on Cage playing Ronnie?" Ronald talked about his casting experience to Cher.

"Because of the role of Ronnie, I was a little crazy. Because my brother came to see me working in the bakery, and accidentally cut off my palm while talking. I have always hated my brother Johnny.

When Johnny asked Loretta to inform him of his wedding, he wanted to take revenge on his elder brother who got his dream lover, and had a relationship with Loretta.

Loretta wanted to forget all of this, and when she was having a good time with Johnny, Ronnie invited her to the opera again, which awakened the spark of female love that hadn't been extinguished in this woman's heart.

Finally, when his brother Johnny wanted to break off his engagement with the unlucky widow Loretta in Italian culture because his mother recovered from a terminal illness, he proposed to Loretta again.

All kinds of plots make the character of Ronnie look very crazy.What I want is an actor who acts with crazy energy and can be accepted by the audience.And Nick is my No.1 choice, glad you like him too. "

"Of course, I feel very comfortable acting with him." Cher put on her sunglasses again, and began to look up and down at Cage who was coming up like crazy.

"I'm so happy, the last movie, with an actress like Katharine Turner, it was just so painful."

The two started acting out some dramas together.

Of course, the results of the audition are very happy.Julia Taylor said to Ronald, "It seems that what you learned in the casting studio back then has been well applied. You should be born to do this kind of drama, Ronald.

These two actors set a good tone for the movie, and on top of that, I started adding other 'stuff'. "

"You are really great, Ronald. When I wrote the script, the heroine in my mind was Sally Field, but looking at it now, Cher's effect is even better than I imagined." Screenwriter Shang Li also Totally agree with Ronald's casting.

"a ha ha ha……"

Ronald laughed, if he hadn't dreamed of these two actors in his dream, he probably wouldn't have thought of these two actors, right?They are still so crazy, who knows that the chemical reaction is so good.

"This is Julie Boisso, a Broadway and film actress, a very good actress. And she happens to be Italian in Brooklyn, and I'm going to cast her as Loretta's aunt, Rita."

Julia Taylor, the first supporting character introduced to Ronald, is the aunt.

"Please take a front and side photo, and then turn around for the camera." Ronald politely asked Julie Boissau to do a regular audition.

Her waist is a little thick, and her eyes are a little protruding, but at first glance, she is the kind of good aunt who loves the younger generation in the family very much and smiles when she speaks. It seems that every family in America has such a good aunt.

"Thank you," Ronald asked the other party to sit down and chat in detail.

"I hear your accent, it's a very authentic Brooklyn Italian accent, all the Italians I've seen are like this. Marty Scorsese's Brooklyn accent when he speaks, it's not as authentic as yours .how did you do it?"

Ronald chatted with her about the background and roles, but he was particularly interested in the accent of the other party.

"Huh, it's actually quite simple. The point of the Brooklyn accent, is that particular rhythm, they have a lot of slurs, and the accent is different from the rest of New York. And the most interesting thing is, they don't use this An accent is a shame, but very proud to show where you come from.

Isn't there such a saying?You can take a boy from Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn from him.

As for Italians, it is mainly because Italians end with vowels, so Italian accents must emphasize vowels at the end of each sentence and add accents skillfully.

Mixing these two methods is the famous Brooklyn Italian accent. "

Julie Boiseau showed Ronald several Brooklyn accents of different ethnicities. For this veteran actor who has been immersed in Broadway for decades, he has a chance to show his language talent , is a very interesting thing.

"Julie, I have an idea, I want to give you a salary in addition to asking you to play Aunt Rita, to teach and correct the accents of the other non-Italian actors in the crew, I need them all to speak like you. "

"Ha, that's no problem. But I'm going to be on the set from the beginning to the end. Is it the actor's salary?"

"Of course, I'll let them negotiate a monograph contract with your agent. Your actor's remuneration will be paid according to the time you spend on the set."

"Hehehe, of course there is no problem." Julie Boisso was very happy.

Broadway actors are not like Hollywood. Except for the leading roles in a few famous plays, other actors like her who often play major supporting roles do not have high salaries.They came to act in the movie, mainly because Julia Taylor recommended that this movie is unusual, and the director has always won the box office, and he will not be stingy in remuneration.

The last time she participated in a movie and received a large salary check was in "Flying Dragon" starring John Travolta.In the previous "Saturday Night Fever", she played Travolta's mother, so that the sequel can also offer a good price.

The supporting roles of middle-aged and elderly women are suffering like this.No matter how good the performance is, it will not bring you much increase in salary.

It was a surprise that Ronald was able to give double salary this time.

"In addition, you have to sign a non-disclosure agreement, and we will also give you a non-disclosure allowance."

Ronald continued.

"What secrecy?" Julie Boissaau asked Ronald, rolling her eyes.

After Julie Boisseau signed the contract, Ronald said, "Because the main character Cher is dyslexic, we need someone to read the lines and let her study them on tape. Otherwise, she won't be able to memorize them." So many lines.

Since you happen to be her accent coach, I would like you to read all her lines with a standard Brooklyn-Italian accent. "

"Oh, poor man, I have seen people like this before when I was in the experimental theater troupe. The acting skills are very good, talented actors, but it is a pity that I feel dizzy when I read the script, and I have to read a line for a minute before I can understand it." What is it.

In this way, he can't play the protagonist with many lines at all, which is very regrettable.

Don't worry, I will do my best. "

Julie Boissaure recorded all of Cher's Loretta's lines overnight.

After listening to it, Ronald was very satisfied and gave it to Cher.

No matter what Xueer is doing next, she always wears the headphones of the Walkman and is learning Julie Boisso's accent simultaneously.

After imitating for a long time, I naturally memorized all the lines.

"You are a language genius."

After three days, Cher was able to perform Loretta's lines in long stretches in front of Ronald.And the lines spoken, the Brooklyn Italian accent is perfect.Surprised Ronald looked at her and screamed loudly.

"It's not difficult, I'm a singer. The way the lyrics sound includes a lot of rhythm, pause, and accent skills. I just treat it as a song, and I can quickly master it."

"Very good. We can start rehearsing when we find a supporting role here."

"When? Next weekend? I have to take time off, Ronald, and I'm going to be on David Letterman's late-night show, and I'm going to have to memorize my lines for two days. You know, dyslexia..."

"No problem, after your side is over, we will have time to start again. There are still several supporting roles on my side that have not been confirmed. You can set aside time after the show."

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