[US Entertainment] Wild Child

A considerable number of child actors do not know what they are doing, but there are also very precocious children who have determined their future very early. Leonardo feels that he is the latter.But judging from the current audition situation, the prospects are really not optimistic.This really hit his enthusiasm and self-confidence a bit.

He went to auditions everywhere, TV series, movies, whenever he had the right opportunity.

One of them met Sam Brook again.

Sam's mom watched him closely and never left him, except into the audition room.This was not uncommon among child star mothers, and Ilmelin was equally nervous about him.

Sam looked calm as he waited in the seat, holding the script paper given by his assistant in his hand, and silently recited his lines.

The audition this time was arranged in a large room, and all child actors were called into the room without a guardian.Several home cameras were placed in the four corners of the room. Someone talked to each child actor separately, asked some daily questions, and then started the formal audition in the big room.

It was horrible, some of the kids had never seen this kind of audition, they were terrified and overwhelmed, only a few kids were able to keep their cool, and those kids were called for a second audition in a few days , including Sam and Leonardo.

This time, Leonardo paid attention to Sam and thought the kid was really cool, but they sat too far away and he couldn't talk to Sam.

Summer didn't pay attention to the other kids, they were all competitors to her.

On the way home, Suzanne took her on a detour to Dennis's bank.

As a bank executive, Dennis had a nice office in the Orange County branch building, with sweeping views of the coastline.

Dennis was on the phone with a client, saw his wife and daughter coming in, and signaled them to wait a while.

Suzanne asked Summer to sit on the sofa while she took out a notepad and wrote down the date and time of the next audition.

Dennis hung up the phone, "My baby, how was the audition today?" and sat down on the sofa.

"Very well, entered the second round." Samo replied with a smile.

"Great!" He ruffled her hair.My daughter grows up too fast. Although she is only 8 years old, her height is about the same as that of an 11 or 2-year-old child, so it is not easy to hug her like she was when she was a child. "To celebrate, let me take you to Luoluo Restaurant for dinner."

"Okay, I want to eat the pan-fried cod from last time."

"No problem." Dennis stood up and went back to the table to pack his things.

"Can I go?" Suzanne also put away the notepad.

"Nothing to do today, let's go." Picking up the briefcase, holding Sam's hand with the other hand, he greeted his colleagues all the way.Although my colleagues vaguely remembered that his child should be a daughter, they didn't think there was anything wrong with Summer. Jeans, a sweater, and a T-shirt were very ordinary children's attire.

Some children in the school know that she is a small advertisement model, and they will imitate the advertisements in her advertisements in a weird way. This is inevitable for children, no matter how good the school is, even this expensive private school. There will always be kids who take pleasure in bullying and making fun of other kids.

If you have the same knowledge as them, they will get worse, and they will still say that big stars don't care about it.This is an experience that almost every child actor will encounter, and Summer cannot avoid it.

There are usually only two solutions to this situation, one is to remain unmoved and act as if you didn’t hear it, or the other is to find the leader and beat him up.

Summer's solution can be said to be very simple and rude, that is, to find the child who spoke the most vigorously, block him in the toilet and beat him hard, very skillfully without hitting his face, hitting his fat belly and butt Go up and order him to take off his clothes, leaving only his underwear, and the child did so crying.

After all, children's strength is limited. In fact, there are no scars, but they are forced to strip down to their underwear and run naked in the school corridor. It is really shameful.

The parents were called as a matter of course. First, Dennis and Susanna took Summer. After the principal finished talking about the incident, Dennis asked Susannah to take Summer out before he mentioned the punishment.

The final punishment was just a two-week suspension for Summer.

Susannah didn't see anything wrong.Summer was very strange, "Dad, what did you say to the principal? I thought the school would expel me."

Dennis was a little proud, but also a little annoyed, "This is a matter between men, you don't need to know the specific means. You just need to know, Dad," glanced at his wife in the passenger seat, "and Mom are your backing, as long as you don't Killing people is not a big deal."

"Dennis." Suzanne gave him a reproachful glance.

"Also, you are preparing for the academic test at home in the past two weeks. You can skip the first grade and go to the fourth grade next semester. Is that okay?"

Summer thought for a while, "No problem."

Ask again, "Can I go directly to the sixth grade?"

Dennis slammed on the brakes, "What did you say?"

"Elementary school courses are too easy." In fact, what I really want to say is that I don't want to waste time going to elementary school again.

A week later, Suzanne took Summer to visit a private junior high school that specializes in cultivating young artists.The school is located between Hollywood and Burbank. It is a commuter school that teaches performance, dance, painting, music and other majors. The school accepts students from grades six to grade nine.

Both Suzanne and Summer are very satisfied with the school.

For Suzanne, going to this art middle school means that she does not have to pick her up after school and send her to various classrooms. The school provides one-stop service, culture class in the morning, professional class in the afternoon, and school ends at 5:1 in the afternoon. Although the distance is farther than the current school, and it takes one and a half hours to drive one way, the total distance is still better than before.

Not having to run from classroom to classroom was nice for Summer.The quality of teachers in private schools is no worse than that of private classrooms outside. If you don’t want to specialize in dance and music classes, it doesn’t make much difference where you take classes. She hopes that the performance classes in art schools can be better.

When they got home, Suzanne told Dennis that both mother and daughter were satisfied with the school, but the distance was a bit far away, and the dinner must be wrong.

Dennis was worried for a long time, "How about we move? Move to Los Angeles. I think there should be a chance to transfer to the Los Angeles branch in the near future. Besides, it will take time to find a suitable community."

Suzanne agreed in principle to the move.

After Summer fell asleep, she said to her husband: "Summer seems to like the profession of an actor very much. I don't know if it is a good thing for her to be so determined now. If she can have more jobs in the future, of course she will live." It’s better to be in downtown Los Angeles.”

Dennis is very optimistic, "You know how important it is to persevere until you reach your goal. Although I don't know what qualities are needed to become an actor, I must have faith to succeed. Summer is very similar to me." I am quite complacent , "Our baby is so good, it's a strange thing if it doesn't succeed."

Suzanne hesitated to speak, feeling that her husband was still too naive and thought things too simply.

At the beginning of May, before the school holiday, Summer passed the sixth-grade entrance examination in this school, and also achieved good results in the entrance examination of the Creative Art School, passed the professional courses, and reached the level of the sixth-grade cultural courses.

About 50 children of all ages took the entrance exam, and Leonardo DiCaprio, who will be entering ninth grade next semester, joined in the fun and watched the candidates.

When he noticed that Sam Brook was also one of the candidates, he felt a little excited.

After the candidates came out, Leonardo found Sam and followed her, "Hi! Sam, is that right?"

Summer turned his head, "It's me. Are you?"

"I'm Leonardo, DiCaprio. I've met you, twice."

"Well, I remember you. I'm Sam Brook."

"Are you coming to school here?"

"Maybe. What grade are you in?"

"Eighth grade, next semester ninth grade." He asked uncertainly, "I remember you are still very young, you are only 8 years old, right?"

"I skipped a grade."

Leonardo raised his eyebrows: "Wow!"

They walked all the way to the school gate. "I have to go, my mother is here to pick me up." She pointed to her Audi.

Leonardo was surprised to find that it was a good car that his family could not afford to drive, and immediately had a little understanding of her family background.Presumably a family that can afford hundreds of thousands of dollars in a nice car doesn't have to pay tuition like his family does, and Irmelin has to find two jobs to make ends meet, plus his film salary, so he's always on the lookout for getting his next job as soon as possible Very concerned.

He was taken aback for a moment, and missed the opportunity to tell her, see you at the next audition.

A few days later, they met again at the previous second audition.

This time, Leonardo took the initiative to sit beside her, "Hi, Sam."

"Leonardo."

"You can call me Leo, or noodle."

Summer laughed, "Is it because of nardo?"

The pronunciation of the second half of his name is similar to noodle. It was originally a name that his classmates made fun of him, but later his friends also started calling him that, which cleverly turned into a cute nickname.

Leonardo was a little embarrassed, "Yeah." Worried that she would think it was too childish.

"It's cute." She smiled again, then looked down at the lines paper.

Leonardo said nothing more.It's almost like a set, it's still a competitive relationship, and he will definitely work hard to win it.

The third round of audition candidates narrowed down to 3 children: Summer, Leonardo, Tobey Maguire.

萨莫8岁但个子高像10岁或是11岁，莱昂纳多14岁但看着像12岁，托比快到14岁但看着也像12岁。

As a boy who was nearly diagnosed with ADHD, Leonardo offered, "We should go out and celebrate, whoever ends up getting the film."

Toby, who had just met him, felt that this guy was a little too familiar.