[European style] The truth

When I first met Luca, he was 20 years old and had just come to Hollywood from Sacramento for two years.

At the time I was casting for a new film I was planning, Fidenis.The actor who played the role of Allen was determined by me almost within a second-when I was studying the original book, the beautiful boy Allen with blond hair and blue eyes was Danny in my heart.

However, it was really difficult for me to find the actor who played the leading actor Jeremy.After considering many young actors who were not well-known at the time, I think they more or less lacked some of the qualities necessary for this role.This brought the progress of making the movie to a sudden standstill.

That's when I met Luca among the actors who came to audition.He is tall and handsome, with straight black hair and a pair of eyes as deep as obsidian, and those eyes run up mischievously, hiding in the deep sockets, which makes him look like the original book Describe the same melancholic poet-like temperament.My attention was drawn to him at once and could not be taken away from him for a long time.I made him do many of the actions that Jeremy does in the book, think, write, look... Every action is almost perfectly close to the image of the silent young writer in my mind.

After a little contact, I found that although he is not in the category of extroversion in terms of personality at all-he is a typical young man from a medium-sized city, shy and shy, and maybe a little inferior; but there is absolutely no depression patient's performance.

Before that, he'd had only a handful of unpopular films, each of which had a small, meagerly speaking role.In stark contrast to him is Danny, who was born as a child star and has already become popular in Hollywood. He just won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor a week before entering the crew of "Fei Dennis".

It is worth mentioning that even in terms of their personalities, they are like the north and south poles of a magnet: Contrary to Luca, Danny was born in Manhattan, New York. He is a child of a typical middle-class family. He is naturally lively and cheerful. Playing a heartbreakingly tragic role is very different.

I am happy to use the literal meaning of the title of George Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" to describe the relationship between the two of them.Luca is like an ice floe, floating alone on the boundless ocean, inaccessible but eager to be relied on; and Danny is like a ball of fire, looking for something to melt, until everything in the world is wrapped in him. In the flames of passion.

Their first contact was arranged by me.In order to make these two strangers who want to play a pair of same-sex lovers familiar with each other, I called them all to my home in Hollywood, took out the script and said, "Danny, come and read the script, which one do you find?" The page will perform the above content."

Danny took the script and opened it casually, and immediately turned to the page where I had the leaf between my hands—I admit that this was a little trick I played.He looked at me angrily and grinning as he read the few words on the nearly blank page: "Jeremy and Ellen lay in bed making out...God! Larry, you It must be on purpose!"

"Okay, boys, let's get started." I clapped my hands, signaling them to get into shape.The two professional actors began their performance after a brief exchange.

Facts have proved that my choice is extremely correct.When Luka pressed Danny under him and kissed him, I could read the deep love between real lovers from his eyes; and Danny did not let me down, he used blurred and The affectionate blue eyes stared at Luca for a long time, the corners of his lips curled up into a sexually suggestive smile, and he stretched out his hand to caress Luca's smooth spine from behind, making a timely expression with the rhythm of Luca's body movements.

If the truth of the matter is not clear, everyone who sees this scene will have no doubts that they are a real couple in love.

"Great! Thank you for a great show." They were visibly caught off guard by my ill-timed interruption.The two stopped their movements, but they were both out of breath. For two boys in their 20s, even if it was a performance, such an overly intimate behavior was still full of danger.Luca got up from Danny and pulled up the boy who played the beloved who was lying on the bed.

"I bet Ashley would laugh at me if she saw my performance just now," Danny said with a smile. "She's not a gentle girlfriend. But such a girl is more attractive, isn't she ?”

"Honestly, at first I wanted her to play Jenna." I'm not lying, I did have that thought.

"Stop kidding, Larry! Are you trying to kill me?" Danny looked at Luca who said nothing, and said with a smile, "Look, this director tries to trick his actors in various ways every day We. Luca, you have to be careful!"

"Thank you for reminding me, Danny." Luca smiled.For a taciturn and introverted boy, how precious is a smile, not to mention that the owner of this smile is the handsome Lucas Coster!

The filming of "Fei Dennis" lasted for more than two months, during which time all the actors became friends.Young people often get together to discuss their concerns, and I am most relieved that the relationship between the two main actors, Danny and Luca, has not become awkward because of being in a same-sex film, on the contrary, they Getting closer.Because Danny is lively and active, he always likes to run around. At that time, there was a saying on the set: "When you can't find Danny, just find out where Luka is!"

And Luca has become less restrained than when he first joined the crew.Perhaps influenced by Danny, he finally opened up to us.I can often see him and Danny laughing out loud together.

After the popularity of "Fei Dennis", I continued to shoot many films, but I was always unable to cooperate with Luca due to schedule issues.Since he became the youngest winner of the Oscar for Best Actor in history, invitations to star in movies and lead roles have flooded him like water. Unless Luca divides himself into several people, he can satisfy the wishes of all directors.So I didn't know the sad news of his depression until I saw the news.

This movie "Bitter Winter" is my second collaboration with Luca after many years, so I can clearly feel his change-he has become more silent than when we first met, and this silence is undoubtedly due to Morbid rather than shy or anything.He definitely did not deliberately perform these in order to show his maturity and stability in front of young actors.But this morbid, tangled melancholy is exactly what his character, Nick, a gay man from a devoutly Catholic family, needs.

John, who plays Nick's father in the film, told me privately that Luca seemed to have suffered so much over the past few years that he became so depressed and even suffered from depression.You know, Danny had a bad relationship with him a year ago, and the two hadn't spoken a word for 12 months.John has been Danny's best friend since the age of 14, and is a mature middle-aged man in his 40s, father of three children.Everything he said about Danny was worth believing.I can't believe that two people with such a close relationship can become strangers in just one year. There must be some secret in it.

Coincidentally, the new actor I auditioned to play Nick's lover Andy is also named Danny, Daniel Bridges, and you'll be able to see them in theaters soon.His blue eyes were exactly like "that" Danny's...

I don't know what happened in the past few years, maybe the blond Danny knows, subconsciously I always feel that he is inseparable from Luca's tragedy.I questioned him, but he was evasive and refused to tell the whole truth.I think Ashley should know more than I do.