[US Entertainment] 1994

"Merry Christmas, kids!"

Lisa smiled and brought out a large plate of roasted turkey. The turkey was roasted crispy and shiny. As a Christmas feast, Lisa's roasted turkey was sought after by every child in the family. After a while, the delicious food was wiped out In the end, for Lisa, actions are more useful than words of praise, and she is already smiling from ear to ear.

"Merry Christmas, Mom!"

"Merry Christmas Colin, Merry Christmas Gavin, Merry Christmas Serena..." Josh hesitated for a moment, his body leaned slightly, and his face was close to Carlos Ross, "Merry Christmas...Carlos."

"Merry Christmas."

Under the light, Carlos Ross' side face lost its previous indifference, and instead revealed a hint of softness.There is no doubt that he is an outstanding man, even though he is wearing a slightly fancy coat at the moment, his temperament is still not affected in any way.

Probably because of being exposed to many big scenes since he was a child, Carlos Ross is well versed in the skills of getting along with people. Almost after he came to Walter's house, everyone from Old Tom to Serena was captured by his knowledge and demeanor. If Joe If he hadn't slept with him twice by mistake, Josh had no doubt that he would fall in love with this person immediately.

There was no snow on Christmas this year. After the big meal, the Walter family walked along the path in front of their house. Although the weather was still a bit cold, the conversation between the brothers and sisters was still easy to forget. It was severe cold.

Only happiness is eternal.

A week later, Josh returned to Los Angeles.He left a few days later than Colin. A place like Wall Street, where salaries are based on seconds, does not allow employees to be overly immersed in the beauty of the holiday. Josh needs to go to the union earlier to see if there are new filming opportunities. His The idea is simple, if everyone else is enjoying the holidays, he will naturally take advantage of the opportunity to get more opportunities.

Back at the apartment, Josh was taken aback by the empty room next door, and it took him a while to realize that Edgar had moved out.

Sighing, Josh lay on the bed, buried his head in the soft quilt and let his thoughts go blank. After a few minutes, he got up and started cleaning.

The return journey was not as crowded as it was back home, so Josh immediately forgot the plan of borrowing money to buy a car. He already owed enough debts, and he really couldn't bear to let himself keep repaying the debts to fill the hole.

At least he will not consider buying a car until the next salary is settled.

Early the next morning, Josh arrived at the gate of the trade union on time.

Elizabeth was still on duty today, and she greeted Josh happily: "Josh, you haven't been here for a long time! Has the movie finished yet?"

"That's right." Josh took out a handful of candy from his pocket and put it in Elizabeth's hand. "So I'm here to bribe you again. Is there any good opportunity recently?"

Elizabeth flipped through the records in her hand: "Generally, there are not too many good opportunities at this time, and many movies will choose to end at this time... Well, sorry, there are really no suitable movies recently... After you have starred in "Uninhibited" In the case of The Sky."

"Oh, that's really regrettable." Josh sighed, "It seems that my timing is wrong."

Now that he has already made a trip, Josh does not intend to go back immediately. The union has also posted a lot of news related to movie auditions. Although these are the residues left after the division of major brokerage companies, the big companies may not have no When he lost sight, Josh decided to stay and try his luck.

Looking left and right, even the movies that were released last month that no one cares about have been searched by Josh, but unfortunately, no matter how careful Josh is, he still hasn't found a movie that satisfies him.

In fact, it was Josh's luck to get the chance to audition for "Law and Order" and "Unruly Sky" last time. Generally speaking, after a film company or director intends to start a certain project, they will first talk to their cooperating agent The company ventilated, and they were the ones to provide suitable actors. An actor like Josh who didn't have an agency and went to Hollywood with his blood was as precious as a cultural relic in a museum.

Although there are many actors in Hollywood who have been unknown for many years and finally became famous, those actors must be extremely lucky. They must first encounter a movie that can make them shine-that movie must not be taken by a big company, and they must be extremely lucky. There are no big stars interested in the roles, plus great director, script, and style that fit certain awards aesthetics.

Josh didn't think he would be the lucky one in a million.

"How is it, Josh?"

Seeing that Josh was still lingering, Elizabeth couldn't help puffing up her cheeks: "If this is the second half of the year, there will be a lot of opportunities!"

Josh sighed: “Elizabeth, I’m about to lose my job.”

Elizabeth laughed when she heard the words: "Josh, that's what you said when I first met you."

Josh shook his head, his water-blue eyes were stained with melancholy: "The actor's world is so cruel. If I have a movie to shoot, I will have a job. If I don't, then I will be unemployed all the time."

Elizabeth held her chin: "Josh, you are lying. According to your theory, big stars who are paid tens of millions will also complain that they are unemployed."

The two were chatting casually, but the office behind Elizabeth suddenly opened. Elizabeth immediately stopped the conversation with Josh, took the documents handed over by her colleagues, and after a while, mysteriously recruited Josh. Waving: "Josh, your luck is really good, come to work."

Josh's melancholy face was immediately stained with joy: "Really?"

Elizabeth handed the top piece of paper to Josh: "I think this movie is not bad, you can try it."

"My Cousin Vinny?"

Elizabeth nodded: "Jonathan Lynn's works, you should have heard of him."

"Well, this movie is looking for a leading actor?" Josh asked curiously, "Jonathan Lynn's comedy movies should have a guaranteed box office, right? Why do you even need to audition for the leading actor?"

Elizabeth glanced at Josh and said in a low voice, "I just heard that Ralph Macchio was one of the leading actors in this movie."

Josh understood everything immediately.

Ralph Macchio is not a very successful actor, but in the past two years, he has been very successful in Hollywood.

Very famous, at the Golden Raspberry Awards held in March last year, he was nominated for the worst actor for his starring role in "Dragon Boy 3", and finally because he was slightly inferior to the director and starring William Shatter of "Star Trek 3" Nal was robbed of the Golden Raspberry Trophy by the opponent.

Last year's Golden Raspberry was quite famous in the Hollywood circle, because last year this award happened to be in its 10th year. Sylvester Stallone was named the worst actor of the decade because of his poor record, and he stole the limelight from other award-winning actors.

Of course, a Golden Raspberry nomination should not have made investors and producers lose confidence in Ralph Macchio, but Ralph Macchio's famous "Dragon Boy" series has reached the third installment The box office had already lost its competitiveness, and Ralph Macchio's performance made the film even more negatively criticized. After several considerations, the crew finally decided to recruit suitable actors from the labor union.

Josh smiled: "Okay, Elizabeth, let me remember the time and place, I will definitely try my best to grab this role."

Josh always felt that God was fair. Just when his luck was extremely bad, such a movie immediately fell from the sky, which seemed to remind him to be prepared.

Josh happened to have watched this "My Cousin Vinny" in his previous life.Although the popularity of the film is not high enough, the director Jonathan Lynn is both a director and a screenwriter. The two sitcoms "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" created by the director have caused great repercussions in the British Isles and won numerous awards. Fans of the series included the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The scripts of these two series have sold millions of copies in the UK, which is enough to prove the skill of the screenwriters.

After that, Jonathan Lynn went to Hollywood to develop and take charge of the director. The film style is still the comedy style he is good at.

In addition to its superb directing skills, the film's cast includes Joe Pesci, a longtime Martin Scorsese collaborator, and Marisa Tomei, who swept the movie this year with Scorsese's Goodfellas. The supporting actor award of various awards, the latter is also a rising star in Hollywood. In Josh's impression, Marisa Tomei won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress with this "My Cousin Vinny".

On top of that, the movie did well at the box office, and the legal lore in the movie is pretty good too."My Cousin Vinny" ranks third on ABA Magazine's list of the 25 best legal films, behind "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "[-] Angry Men" .

On the way back, Josh felt that his whole body was flying up. He thought that he would really return disappointed, but God undoubtedly favored him. When he was depressed and hopeless, another movie with an open audition opened to him mind.

Josh was never afraid of open auditions because he believed in his own abilities.

The audition time for "My Cousin Vinny" is scheduled for mid-January, because the film will start filming in February. This time point is really awkward. In terms of actor selection, we often have to settle for second-tier actors. It's partly due to the fact that certain actors haven't recovered from the holiday season, and partly because of the intense battle of awards season right now.

The three major Film Critics Association Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Oscars... and of course the Golden Raspberry that all actors are unwilling to accept.

However, in the eyes of many professionals, the authority of the Golden Raspberry is no less than the Golden Globe Award. After all, the Golden Globe Award is only an award sponsored by the non-professional Foreign Press Association, and the nature of the Golden Raspberry has changed from pure self-entertainment. From music to transition to attracting film industry professionals to participate in the awards, especially for those sharp-eyed unique but offbeat film critics, the Golden Raspberry is their paradise for self-expression.

At this critical moment, even crews with big-name actors have to arrange their time reasonably or simply stop work to wait for the big-name actor to return from the awards ceremony-although it costs a lot of money, as long as the actors can make a difference in the awards season If so, the film can even save a high publicity fee.

Of course, for Josh, who is now just an unknown little actor, everything is still too far away.

After he came out of the Screen Actors Union, Josh didn't plan to go home immediately. If Edgar was there before, they could still have a meal appointment. Now Josh is left alone, and he is lazy and doesn't want to do anything.

He simply walked around the nearby lake. It was not yet noon, the weather was fine, and the sun was shining on his body warmly, making one just want to sleep with his eyes closed.

Staring at the lake for a while, Josh suddenly heard someone call his name, he raised his head, and River Phoenix stood opposite him with a smile on his face, waving at him: "Hey, Josh!"

"Rui Fan, why are you here?"

Rui Fan took off his glasses: "Finny said he saw you here, I happened to go out to talk about work, so I just stopped by to see you."

The author has something to say: update~

The author is in a restless mood today, and there are not many updates, and there will be more updates tomorrow.

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It's all hard-earned money, and there are a few thousand catties left, and it's only a few thousand yuan if you sell it, not much, but the hard-earned money is hard to earn. My dad can't even bear to stay in a hotel at night, so he sleeps in the car and can't sleep all night.