[US Entertainment] Wild Child

The author has something to say: Today is my birthday, so I opened a new book to celebrate.

This time, I will write about a heroine whose parents both love her very much.

The hero Xiao Li.

The career line and the emotional line should go hand in hand.

I don’t want to say anything else, I beg for collection and subsequent subscriptions, and, since I clicked in, don’t carelessly click into the author’s column, bookmark the author, and I’ll know when I post the article.

There was a row of seats in the corridor, and several children sat restlessly on the seats, surrounded by their guardians, most of whom were mothers, trying to pretend to be calm.

They didn't speak much to each other, and quickly scanned the people around them, the mothers, and the children with a pair of alert eyes.

The ages of the kids range from 8 to 12 years old, Leonardo DiCaprio is over 12 years old, but he still looks like 12 years old, not tall, thin, has a beautiful picture baby face.

He didn't know in advance that he was over the age limit, and the general crew would give an approximate range: what kind of person do we want this time, male or female, skin color ethnicity, height and age, acting experience or not, it doesn't have to be What a great acting experience, even if you only performed in the small theater at school, it counts.

The age limit can sometimes be fatal when it comes to child actors, and kids grow up so quickly that a year is enough time to change, so if it's an audition for a late-night series, casting directors will often favor someone who fits the bill. The younger child among the child actors.

He already had some acting experience before, mostly in commercials: a bubblegum commercial, a cheese commercial, a cereal series, and a kid sitcom when he was about 5 years old, but he was too skinny at the time. The director had to ask his mother, Ilmelin, to take him away.

He had just turned 14 and looked like 11, and Ilmelin dragged him in, ignoring the casting call for "ages between 8 and 12."

The children entered the audition room one by one, and came out one by one. Most of the children looked frustrated.

Ilmelin was getting more and more nervous. She was biting the nail of her left thumb nervously, and she looked even more nervous than her son who was about to go in for the audition alone.

Finally, the assistant came out and called Leonardo's name.

He glanced at his mother and calmly entered the audition room.

He has never been afraid of auditions since he was 5 years old, what he is afraid of is only after the audition.

The audition room is usually very simple, the walls are white or other plain colors, a home video camera is used to film the audition tape, a table, and usually 2 to 3 people sit behind the table.

This time there were only two people, male, about 30 years old, and one of them had a precarious hairline.The man with hairline crisis took the coffee brought by the assistant without saying "thank you".

Another man in a plaid shirt asked, "Where are you going for lunch?"

"Downstairs Manji, no, I won't bring you takeaway, you owed me $20 last time and didn't pay it."

The man in the plaid shirt laughed, "Hey, you're not so stingy, are you?" He casually flipped through the actor's resume in front of him, "Leonardo DiCaprio—oh, you're 14 years old," he glanced up quickly Glancing at him, "But you really don't look like 14 years old. Didn't your mother make you full?"

Leonardo licked his lips: There is no need to answer this kind of words, and the other party doesn't want to hear any answers.

In his hand, he held the line paper that the assistant had given to the child actors earlier. There were only two thin sheets of paper, which were an ordinary mother-child dialogue. The assistant played the mother, and he wanted to play the son.

After 10 minutes, he opened the door and left the audition room.

Another child passed him by. The child was almost as tall as him, very thin, with a small face, cheeks and baby fat, and a lovely shape of the chin. He had a pair of very beautiful gray-blue eyes.

The two and a half children met each other.

In a magazine interview many years later, Leonardo said that he saw Summer Brook for the first time, saying that he didn't remember what she looked like at all, but only remembered the pair of incomparably beautiful gray-blue eyes.

Eight-year-old Summer Brook wakes up.

First drink a cup of light salt water that mother put on the bedside table 1 minute ago, 200ml, the ratio of salt to water is strictly 1:200; after drinking the water, take off the pajamas, put on the prepared one by the bedside Clothes on the low stool, long-sleeved T-shirt or white shirt in winter, denim vest, denim jacket or other thin coat, if it is colder, change to a thick coat, pants are almost all styles of jeans, the hobby is very Single; in summer, it is basically T-shirt jeans, sometimes khaki shorts, with slight changes depending on the schedule of the day.

Brush your teeth, wash your face, go to the bathroom, go back to the bedroom, apply children's skin care products, comb your short blonde hair, put on your shoes - all kinds of flat boots in winter, canvas sneakers and sandals in summer - then check that you are all dressed, and finally , picked up my schoolbag, went downstairs, and had breakfast with my parents.

Brooke lives in a white middle-class community in Orange County. His father, Dennis, is a bank executive, and his mother, Suzanne, is a professional housewife. There is only one child in the family, Summer, who was born on November 1980, 11.

After Halloween more than a year ago, Summer caught a bad cold. Suzanne didn't pay much attention to it. She asked for leave to rest at home, fed her with antipyretics, and the fever subsided after a few hours, but after 12 o'clock in the evening, she had a high fever again. He was rushed to the hospital and was diagnosed with pneumonia. He fell into a coma for a while and returned home after a week of hospitalization.

After recovering from the illness, Summer has made a huge change in his living habits, becoming a bit—how should I put it?Many details of life have become very obsessive-compulsive disorder, but this is not uncommon for children, and she has become the kind of child who is so self-disciplined that it is scary. Sometimes Susanna can't tell whether it is good or bad, but taking care of children It got easier, that's for sure.

Summer couldn’t say he wasn’t a good boy before, but he was a spoiled kid. Everything he did was a mess, he could pile up clothes and skirts on the whole bed when he changed clothes, and he often couldn’t find them after finishing his homework. For pens or pencil cases, Suzanne could only follow behind and keep packing.Now, she can find out the clothes she will wear tomorrow every night, and her schoolbag is always clean and tidy, which is a bit unlike a 7-year-old child.

The big-hearted father, Dennis, didn't think there was anything wrong, and said cheerfully, my little Xia Tian is sensible and cute, if you want anything, tell him, and he will definitely buy it for you.

Summer pointed to the TV screen, "I want to be like him."

Suzanne didn't know, so, "You want this cereal?"

"No, I think—I'm going to be a SuperStar."

Dennis stared at his daughter, and Susannah stared at her daughter.

Suzanne ran for a whole month. After sending Summer to school every day, she searched everywhere for relevant information. It roughly clarifies the journey that needs to be experienced to become a star.

Dennis Brook also made full use of his professional advantages as a bank executive and got in touch with a senior artist agent in a certain brokerage company.There was a lot of wine at the party, and the agent told him that he basically does not bring underage actors, but he can recommend another child star agent to him and ask him to take the child to the audition. If the child is talented, it should not be difficult to sign the contract.

Dennis went home to discuss with Suzanne to send Summer to audition.Suzanne disagreed, thinking that learning to act is hard and may not be rewarding. She now has a little understanding of what auditions are all about. Usually, she does not necessarily get a chance to perform after dozens of auditions. When the time comes, her baby will be rejected. It was a terrible blow.

"Ask Summer, she proposed it herself. She proposed it. I have the ability to send her to acting school. Of course, I must try my best to satisfy her wish."

"But she's still a child—"

"Our daughter is not an ordinary child." Dennis is very proud. Summer has been a beautiful baby since he was a child. He inherited his mother's blond hair, beautiful eyes, and his height. He is 7 feet 4 inches tall at the age of 6. She has long legs, and boys have given her flowers since she was in elementary school.

During the meal, Dennis asked Summer if he wanted to audition.Sam thought for a moment and nodded.

So, one day last spring, Dennis sent Summer to an audition at Erin Kepler's studio.

The audition can be said to be very smooth.

Irene asked Summer to perform the modern dance she had learned for several months, sang 3 songs, asked her to audition for a chocolate bean commercial, filmed the audition tape, and asked her to sit on the sofa and ask Asked her some questions, such as, why do you want to become an actor, do you know what kind of profession an actor is, is learning to dance fun, and is it hard.

About 40 minutes later, Irene opened the door, sent Summer out, asked her assistant to take her to the kitchenette for snacks and juice, and invited Dennis and Suzanne inside.

On the way home, Suzanne was both happy and worried.

Now, 10 months later, this is February 1989, Summer has had some experience shooting commercials, and it is time to go further and enter the field of TV dramas.

"How was the audition yesterday?" Dennis looked at the newspaper without looking up.

"Very well, everything is going well." Summer replied.

"Have you signed a contract?" He secretly glanced at his daughter from the newspaper.

"Signed." A little smug smile.

Suzanne secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and gave her husband a look of "please praise her".Dennis understood in seconds, so he praised his daughter without hesitation.

Being beautiful and cute is not necessarily a winning factor, after all, the crew wants qualified actors.There are countless audition opportunities in Hollywood throughout the year. The future big stars are either auditioning or on the way to audition. In the previous dozen or so auditions, Summer was rejected mostly because he was too beautiful—this is Suzanne secretly bribed one of the assistants to get the gossip.

Suzanne was very angry at the time: Is it our fault that my baby is beautiful? !

She complained to her agent, Irene Kepler, who had no choice but to say that it was normal for the audition to be unsuccessful, and that commercials must be very different from the requirements of TV dramas, so she should not be annoyed.