[US Entertainment] Wild Child

So this is a double-selection process, and no one is sure who the hero and heroine will be until the final boot.No, it is not uncommon to temporarily change the protagonist after starting up.

As an already established actor, Summer Brooke didn't have to wait in line outside the studio's offices to audition, and Erin took her directly to casting director Marie Finn.

Mary Finn is a woman who is nearly 60 years old and has a kind face. She was an actress in her early years and now has her own production company. She is a well-known casting director in the industry and is a long-term partner with James Cameron. In "Terminator 91: Judgment Day Terminator2: Judgment Day", she discovered the 2-year-old Edward Furlong as the young John Connor. Edward had no acting experience before, but he interpreted the young Connor very eye-catchingly. After the film was released, it immediately became one of the most popular child stars in the United States.

Finn was very impressed with Summer. Summer also went to audition for John Connor, but he was rejected because he was too young.A few years later, I learned that she was actually a girl, so I paid close attention to her.

The meeting place is not Finn's office, but at Finn's house.

It was already warm in Los Angeles at the end of March. Summer wore a white cotton embroidered long-sleeved shirt with a gray-blue knee-length skirt. Her blond hair was loosely braided and hung behind her head. She looked younger than her 3-year-old To appear mature, demure and elegant, but not old-fashioned.

"Sit." Finn asked her to sit on the sofa. "What would you like to drink? Milk? Juice? Coffee?"

"Orange juice, thank you."

Finn went to the kitchen, and Irene followed, and the two whispered a few words in the kitchen.

Finn came back with a glass of orange juice and a plate of biscuits, "Try it, it's one of the most popular small cakes in one of my favorite cake shops, they call it 'Mary's Fingers ', isn't it interesting?"

Finn asked her some questions, what books she usually reads, who is her favorite American author, can she dance, where she likes to go, how is school, etc. Most of them have nothing to do with audition and work.

After about an hour, Finn stood up and ended the meeting.

"You don't seem nervous at all." Erin drove her home.

"Huh? This is not an audition, so don't be nervous." Summer felt that today's meeting was very interesting, not a traditional audition. Generally speaking, only well-known actors are given this treatment, and newcomers are still on the 18th line. Struggling actors had to queue in studio waiting rooms, while big stars met directly with directors or auditioned, sometimes without even auditions.

"You should be more aggressive in fighting for it."

"The question Ms. Finn asked today is too erratic. What conclusion she will draw is not determined by my positive attitude. You know her, how much hope do you think I have? 80%? 50%?"

Irene could only smile, "Who can say for sure about this kind of thing? If she takes you to see Cameron in a few days, she will be more sure."

In fact, Mary Finn called James Cameron that very afternoon and asked him to meet with Summer Brook.

"She's only 15 years old?" Cameron pondered over the phone. "Isn't she a little too young? McConaughey is 26 and a half years old, and O'Donnell is also 26 years old." Matthew McConaughey November 69 Born in June 11, Chris O'Donnell is a young male star who has become popular in recent years.He has not yet decided on the male and female protagonists, and the investor Twentieth Century Fox has been urging him to quickly decide on the protagonist, Matthew or Chris, whoever they can accept.

"Isn't Rose only 17 years old? I don't think there's too much of a difference of two years. Girls always mature earlier. You can meet her before making a decision."

"Then I have to see if she is suitable with McConaughey or O'Donnell." Cameron had a headache.Not finding a suitable heroine is also an annoyance. With the mini-series "Titanic" that is currently being filmed, the young actresses he likes are reluctant to take on a similar film.He thought that the film had encountered many difficulties from the beginning of preparation: the actor he wanted at first was River Phoenix, but before he could find a production company, River passed away suddenly, and after that, it was always Stumbling, it seems that this project has encountered some unfortunate curse.

He wants an American actor, young and beautiful, with elegant manners. If he is a heartthrob, the audience must think that it is inevitable for the hero to fall in love with her at first sight. This kind of quality is difficult to be reflected in still photos.The photos attached to the actor's resume are just a quick impression, allowing people to know whether the actor is plastic in the shortest time, but the charming charm on the big screen can only be seen by meeting.

On the first day of April, Marie Finn informed Irene Kepler that James Cameron wanted to see Summer, and the time was scheduled for Wednesday morning at 4:9.

James Cameron is less than 42 years old. He became famous because of "Terminator" at the age of 30. Now he can be said to be a top-line director in Hollywood.But the industry of directing is also risky. The success of your last movie does not allow you to get investment smoothly. Smart investors always hope to get the most profit with the least investment. If you hit the street, you won't lose too much.

Twentieth Century Fox has a lot of doubts about a script that does not know whether it should be defined as a disaster theme, a historical theme, or a love theme. They have invested millions of dollars to let Cameron dive to find the remains of the Titanic, and it took several years. It is impossible to quit now. Even if Cameron proposes a budget of hundreds of millions, he is ready to grit his teeth and approve it, but first, he has to come up with a leading actor and actress who can satisfy Fox executives.

He had seen the clips of "Interview with the Vampire" starring Summer in advance, and his acting skills were not what he was worried about.He is really dissatisfied with Summer Brook's age. He is 15 and a half years old. He is really too young. Even if he tries to look more mature, he still looks too young. The ideal age difference between the hero and heroine should not exceed 8 years. .

Still no ordinary audition today, Summer arrives with Irene in his office, and on his desk is a laptop, legal pad, a few pencils and pens, a script he's just begun, not even from the first The act began to be written.

The script that Summer read before was only an outline, and there are dozens of pages, and it is said that it is not all the page numbers.Generally speaking, the length of an English script is 1 minute per page. Cameron wrote more than 180 pages just for the outline, which is at least twice as long as the official script.

Cameron mainly asked her how to understand the character of Rose.

"Tasteful, smart, repressed, bold, rebellious, impulsive, and yearning for freedom." Summer wanted to describe the heroine in the 1996 script as having excellent taste or forward-looking vision, and bought Picasso, which was not yet famous in 1912. The level of YY in this painting is also quite acceptable.

Cameron was basically satisfied with her answer.Then ask her how she thinks of the leading actor.

"Brilliant, smart, kind, bold, desperate for love, but kinda--too perfect. Everything is perfect except being poor."

Cameron laughed, "Poverty is the biggest imperfection."

She agreed, "That's right. The rich daughter and the poor boy, the vain mother who loves wealth and wealth, and the fiancé who has nothing but money, this is where there are dramatic conflicts." It's only normal for a film to be a worldwide success.The love of two young people with disparity in status and status is bloody enough, and in the context of the shipwreck disaster, one of them must die to create a perfect and indelible love.

She thought about it and said decisively: "I like this story very much. I really want to play Rose. I will be 16 in a few months. I am the most suitable actress you can find. I am similar in age and background. It’s similar to family education, and my acting skills are not bad, so no one is more suitable than me within the possible range. At least you can let me audition with your candidate male lead before making a decision.”

Cameron looked at her intently, "I will think about it. You know there are still people fighting for the role of Rose, and I have to consider all aspects." What he thought was that if he had a female lead with American nationality, then the male lead Candidates can be expanded a little, you can look for a British or Irish actor.The production company will definitely not allow foreign actors to be the leading actors and actresses in a big production with an investment of over [-] million yuan. Sometimes you have to accommodate the market and the producer.

He didn't make any promises, and when he said goodbye, he just asked her to go back and wait for the phone call.

Irene Kepler did not know how to find out that the budget Cameron reported to 1.2th Century Fox was 5000 million. In this era, a budget of more than 95 million can be regarded as a big production. An investment of hundreds of millions must be a gamble, although it is because of this. The protagonist will have a lot of box office pressure, but the initiative is always in the hands of the production company, the financial pressure is high, and high investment usually means high return.Fox's concern is that in 1.75, Universal Pictures was unable to find a way because of "Waterworld", an investment of up to [-] million U.S. dollars. The annual report was extremely ugly, and the six major film companies were shocked.This movie broke the Hollywood myth of "high investment, high box office and high return", making all subsequent high-budget investments cautious, lest the same mistakes be repeated.

Fortunately, Fox had already boarded Cameron's big ship, and it was difficult to disembark now, so he had to bite the bullet and get on.So they pushed Cameron crazy about the candidates for the hero and heroine.

Sure enough, the next Monday, Cameron's office asked Summer to audition with Chris O'Donnell on Tuesday.

When Chris O'Donnell learned that he was going to audition with Summer, who was only 15 and a half years old, he was a little murmured in his heart: If she was 25 and he was 35, the age difference would be so insignificant and negligible.

The author has something to say: *I don’t know when the casting process started, but Li Zi should have auditioned after filming Romeo.Rose's character design was originally a 17-year-old girl from Philadelphia. Cameron should have wanted an American actor at the time, and Kate had to fight for it for a long time.

* Matthew McConaughey's "Youth and Confusion" in 93, and Chris O'Donnell's "Scent of a Woman" in 92 are both male stars of the new generation in the 90s.

*Sprayed water on the keyboard at noon today, took it to repair the boss said not to repair it. . . . .So I bought a new book.After I came back and installed Firefox, I found that the homepage was hijacked. After a long time of tossing, I finally got it right.Then I downloaded a wps, and found that there was no word count in the status bar of this version, so I had to click on it, and I downloaded several versions repeatedly to find the right version.

My heart hurts and I spent thousands of dollars.

However, the new notebook is quite comfortable to use. It is an ultra-thin notebook and the cooling vents are gone. It is much better than the old notebook before.I want to cherish my new book, let her shine and work hard to make money.

*No more updates today.Firefox's bookmarks are gone again, and I have to add bookmarks again.There are still a lot of things that have not been fixed, and I have a headache.