Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Paramund's executive Lindsay Dolan watched the audition tapes conducted by Ronald. He also didn't like Demi Moore's short hair and preferred Nicole Kidman to play the heroine Molly.

"Look at these eyes, look at this small nose, male audiences will be fascinated, right?" Lindsay Dolan was very satisfied with Kidman's appearance.

"Let them audition for the second round?" Ronald has been reading the script at home these days. He found that Molly's crying scene after Sam's death and the scene where she and Sam made pottery in the basement at home in the middle of the night are very important scenes.

He knows Demi Moore's level inside and out, but he still has doubts about Kidman, so he wants to call the two actresses to audition for crying scenes and then make a choice.

"Great, can I participate?" Lindsay Dolan said that she agreed with Ronald's idea.

"Okay, but I have a small request. Don't say anything biased in front of them before you see them perform..." Ronald knew that these executives of big companies were powerful, but they were not professional in casting, and he was afraid that she would say something she shouldn't say.

"All up to you..."

Of course, before the actress' second audition, Ronald still had two important roles to discuss with Lindsay Dolan.

"Tony Goldwyn? He's pretty good. Although he's a Goldwyn kid, he loves acting." Lindsay Dolan knew the eldest grandson of one of the founders of MGM better.

"He has a good eye. He knows he doesn't have a chance to play the leading role, so the self-recommended videos are all about playing the villain Carl." Ronald never had a bad impression of actors who knew themselves.

He later asked him to audition in person, and even a senior person like Lindsay Dolan couldn't find any faults.

"The other is the role of the medium. Do you have any recommendations?" Ronald asked. He couldn't find a suitable candidate for such a black medium.

"Who do you have in mind? Who do you want to play the role?" Lindsay Dolan asked in a different way. A director of Ronald's level would almost let anyone he wants to play such a supporting role in a comedy.

"Oprah Winfrey..."

Ronald has been watching movies starring black people at home these days. Finally, he found a perfect candidate from "The Color Purple" shot by Spielberg a few years ago. She is now a female host of a talk show in Chicago and is broadcast by a national syndicated chain.

"She?" Lindsay Dolan doesn't like this woman very much. She is no longer the young actor promoted by Spielberg. Now she is the top star of the daytime talk show on TV, focusing on sensationalism, but it doesn't hurt to try.

"Knock knock..." The two were chatting when the door was knocked.

"Come in!"

Ronald looked and saw that it was Patrick Schwitz who walked in from behind the door. He was still wearing a black T-shirt.

"Hi, Ronald."

"Aha, Patrick..."

The two met less often after Dirty Dancing, and each time Ronald wrote Schwitz a huge check.

So, although the invitation to this movie was sent to Patrick Schwitz, he was not very interested, but in order to meet his ranch expansion and the need to buy racehorses, he still had to come and talk to Ronald in person.

This is the director who brought him wealth and status, and he must not neglect it. Schwitz's wife specifically instructed...

"Patrick..." Lindsay Dolan's eyes flashed with little stars. Like all Hollywood female executives, she must turn down all arrangements and come to dance with the real male lead of Dirty Dancing when she heard that Schwitz was coming to audition.

Patrick Schwitz has long been accustomed to this kind of thing. From being happy at the beginning to being disgusted later, today, he has regarded this as one of his obligations. As long as there are so many female viewers who buy the "Dirty Dancing" video tapes every year, he has an obligation to fulfill their dreams.

"Bang bang... Bang bang..." Lindsay Dolan started to beat the rhythm with her mouth. Seeing this, Ronald knew what she wanted to do. He simply took out a videotape of Dirty Dancing, fast-forwarded to the dance scene at the end, and asked them to dance for a while. Lindsay Dolan's secretary recorded it with a camera next to them, which could be used to brag to her grandchildren in the future.

Seeing that Schwitz cooperated very well and danced a circle of Dirty Dancing Mambo with her, Lindsay Dolan smiled like a 16-year-old girl. She sat down and kept saying "Quick, quick, come on..."

"No one can leave baby in the corner..." Patrick Schwitz was often asked by housewives to repeat this line when he went to the supermarket. He had long understood how to make them happy.

"Oh, God..." Ronald covered his face. Lindsay Dolan was completely abusing her power to satisfy her own fantasy.

Schwitz looked like it was okay, it was my duty to satisfy the fans.

Lindsay Dolan was not happy with Ronald covering his face, "This shows how popular Schwitz is among our target audience. You may not know how popular he is now..."

Ronald was confused. Popular?

"The Roadside Bar and Blood Relatives I shot were just released. Many audiences went to the theater just for me." Patrick Schwitz therefore regarded Ronald as his greatest confidant.

After taking the audition photos and the self-introduction videotape, Schwitz wanted to talk to Ronald. He said, "Ronald, you see, I can't get rid of the role of Dirty Dancing now..."

"What's wrong with your knee?" Ronald didn't respond. He saw Schwitz's hands were always on his knees.

"It's a little memory left from shooting that action movie. My old knee injury has recurred a little, and it was not convenient to ride a horse a while ago..."

"Are those two action movies?"

"Yes, I have always wanted to get rid of the positioning of the male lead in dance and romance dramas. Action movies are hard to shoot..."

"Do you know? Breaking the inherent impression of a role is not by playing a different type of lust, but by playing a more popular movie..." Ronald knew what Schwitz wanted to say and interrupted him.

Not many actors have a clear understanding of their acting skills and positioning. Most of them are like Schwitz, who think that they are a world away from the answers given to them by the market.

But the success they have already achieved has deepened their omnipotent mentality, and they always want to achieve their impossible goals through the next movie.

"You mean, I can take this role?" Patrick Schwitz's refusal was shaken by Ronald's words.

Indeed, he played so many different roles, but the audience didn't remember him. Now the audience still wants him to say the line of Dirty Dancing.

"Don't you think that after so many action movies, you should make a soul-deep love movie to hedge your body." Ronald pointed to his knees.

"Do you think I'm really suitable for this role?" Patrick Schwitz was still very impressed by the treatment of Dirty Dancing. What if this movie is more successful?

"Of course, I am very confident. In this movie, you are a bank manager. No one will regard you as a gigolo. People will only remember the love between you and your wife..."

Schwitz was overjoyed by Ronald's two or three words. His agent had repeatedly advised him about these words, but Ronald was Ronald after all. The same words coming from his mouth were much more credible.

"Come for the audition in two days. I have found two very beautiful actresses to act opposite you... Tell me who you have better chemistry with..."

"Is it Jennifer Grey again?" Schwitz thought of the actress who played Baby in Dirty Dancing.

"She can't do it. The heroine in this movie needs to be very beautiful."

...

The next day, Nicole Kidman and Demi Moore came to audition again. Ronald and Patrick Schwitz were waiting in the audition room, along with Tony Goldwyn, who played the villain Carl, the best friend of the male protagonist Sam. The three of them filmed a scene together to see the chemistry.

Ronald was dissatisfied with Demi Moore's private haircut, so he called Nicole Kidman to audition again. She was also very happy to have the opportunity to enter Hollywood without relying on her boyfriend Cruise, so she came without telling her boyfriend.

Kidman came first, and the three of them acted together in the opening scene where Sam, Molly and their friend Carl were decorating a new house together.

Ronald looked at the three people. Kidman was about an inch taller than Schweitzer, but such a height difference was easy to fill under the magic of the camera lens. At least it was much more convenient than filming with her boyfriend Cruise.

Then, Ronald asked the two male actors to leave, leaving only Lindsay Dolan, Julia Taylor, and Kidman. He wanted to test the crying scene.

"It's this scene, where Molly thinks of the dead Sam at night and sits on the floor crying silently. I want to see your understanding of this. You don't have to cry loudly, you can see for yourself..."

Ronald handed Kidman the relevant pages of the script and left him enough time to brew his emotions.

Kidman paused for five minutes, and then slowly entered Molly's psychological state.

Kidman sat and slowly raised her head. She didn't cry, but her expression was obviously pitiful. Ronald personally took the camera and saw a kind of innocent power in the camera.

"Thank you, it's OK."

After Kidman went out, Ronald discussed with Julia Taylor and Lindsay Dolan.

"She should play the role of Grace Kelly..." Julia Taylor is an experienced casting director. She saw at a glance that Kidman was not suitable. Molly is a sexy young woman. Kidman's face has just lost its baby fat, and the concentration of innocence is too high. Ronald has to slowly train her to play Molly.

"Let's ask Schwitz and Goldwyn to come in, and let Demi Moore match them."

Ronald did not comment and called Demi Moore in.

The three of them lined up again and acted out the opening scene of the three decorating the house.

"Huh..." Ronald, who originally wanted to give Demi Moore a cold face and let her reflect on herself, saw the shot of the three together and suddenly remembered a dream he had had.

In the dream, it seemed that Schwitz and Demi Moore with short black hair were smashing the wall with another male actor.

This kind of sexy young woman who has experienced human affairs and mature accidents is very suitable for Demi Moore to play. Moreover, her long hair made her look too innocent, but after cutting it, she looked more like a young woman.

"Did you come up with the idea of ​​having short hair?" Ronald looked at Demi Moore, who was wearing a white shirt.

"I told you that you will definitely like me with this short hair, right? Am I right?" Demi Moore said with a slightly hoarse voice and glanced at Ronald confidently.

Lindsay Dolan and Julia Taylor looked at each other. Their eyes looked very familiar, right? Could it be...

"Okay, I'm going to try the crying scene...I'll give you five minutes to prepare..." Ronald was persuaded by Demi Moore. She is the kind of actor who knows her body and appearance very well, usually better than The director knows better what role he looks like.

"No need to prepare..." Demi Moore cried as soon as she sat down, then slowly raised her head and faced the camera.

A big tear fell from her right eye. It flowed down to his lips, then his chin, and finally fell to the floor.

"Wow, can you control which eye cries first?" Julia Taylor was impressed by this superb acting skills.

"No problem, look at this one again..." Demi Moore said as she changed her face, pointed at the camera, and then there was no need to brew, and a tear fell from her left eye.

"Holy Shxt..." This is really unheard of acting skills... Lindsay Dolan was also very satisfied. She looked at Ronald, needless to say.

"Uh..." Ronald looked at Demi Moore and forgot that she had this unique skill!

In romance movies, a close-up shot of the heroine can control the eyes and the time of her tears. It is simply a weapon of mass destruction. How many female viewers will be made to cry by her.

"Okay, you go back and wait for the news..." Ronald was frustrated. He didn't have a deep understanding of the role as an actor, and he didn't know how to face his old friend Demi Moore.

"I will wait..." Demi Moore looked sexy with a hint of heroism in her short-haired look. She stared at Ronald's eyes for a second and caught a hint of unnaturalness. Confident, she walked out happily.

"So you have this idea too, right?"

"Of course, who else would she be?" Lindsay Dolan had long forgotten what Ronald said not to express his position.

"Ronald, don't hesitate, this time you are..." Julia Taylor made a "natural" mouth shape with her lips. What she means is that Demi Moore is a natural actor and has honed her acting skills in family life since she was a child. These are all small cases for her. Don't hesitate to miss this perfect candidate.

This scene was seen by Demi Moore who opened the door. She carefully closed the door and walked quickly. When she arrived at the parking lot and sat in the cab, she happily shouted "Yes! Yes! I finally waited." !”

Ronald has made so many actresses famous, and it's finally his turn. She also needs to coax her husband, Bruce Willis, to prevent him from realizing what an opportunity this is for him.

…

"Okay, I'll call Tom..." Ronald recognized the two people's choice and got up to call Tom Cruise.

"Tom, Nicole just left. Yes, producer Lindsay Dolan saw her audition performance and was very satisfied with her performance. If you make her the main candidate for your racing film, it shouldn't be a big problem. ”

After the phone call, Ronald came back to continue discussing with the two women the role of the medium.

Oprah Winfrey did not come to the live audition, and she is now unable to get away from the daily broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show. But she specially asked her assistant to fly over and send a video of her to Ronald.

"Hey...why is she so fat?" Ronald saw that Oprah Winfrey on the TV looked like two different people from the powerful actor in The Color Purple. Maybe it’s her racial talent, but Oprah Winfrey is very relatable right now.

"How about we find a real psychic? There are many such women in Hollywood, and many actors also believe in them. How do you see their performance?"

"Actually, I discussed with the screenwriter that it would be better to adapt this character into a liar rather than a real psychic. This would have a more comedic feel." Ronald heard Lindsay Dolan say that he wanted to find a real psychic to play the role. , I didn’t care in my heart.

"Let's take a look, there aren't too many black actresses like this now..." Julia Taylor helped.

"Okay, let's take a look..."