A second ago, everyone laughed at Lan Li's rough and flamboyant performance, and a second later, Lan Li and Rooney were arguing over the opportunity to "make a fool of themselves".

The staff members standing next to them were a little stunned, did they miss something? The only two young actors in the crew seemed to be a little ...... Not quite normal. Wait, are all actors so abnormal?

Thinking about it seriously, they found that they couldn't remember, because the two actors in front of them had already occupied all the thoughts in their minds, as if they were neurotic. Well, here it is...... Neurological Hospital? This style of painting doesn't seem quite right!

The strange eyes next to them had no effect on Lan Li and Rooney, they were completely immersed in their own world, just like every actor, a real actor.

"Emmanuel, can I try it? Perform under the high-speed moving IRIS robotic arm?"

"I haven't finished testing yet, and I want to do it again. ”

This back and forth, without backing down, Rooney's eyes immediately widened, full of incredulous expressions, arguing, "You have already tried it once, now it should be my turn, have you forgotten?

"However, my performance just now is really terrible, I need to find my form again!" Lan Li also argued without showing any weakness.

Rooney still refuses to back down, "What if my performance is just as bad? ”

This you come and go, you fight for me, Emmanuel standing next to him is already dumbfounded, such a chaotic scene, I don't know how to control and deal with it for a while, I can only say in a panic, "Uh...... You don't have to, you don't have to, maybe, you're all doing a great job?"

"Not necessarily!"

Lan Li and Rooney said in unison, the thunderous sound made Emmanuel stunned for a moment, first shocked, then aggrieved - why did they suddenly join forces against him?

Having worked in Hollywood for so many years, Emmanuel has seen countless actors who are used to complimenting each other, even flattering, because actors are narcissistic, even proud, and even refuse to accept any criticism, but this is the first time that people like Lan Li and Rooney have rushed to belittle themselves.

He always felt that something was not right.

However, the two actors, who were arguing a lot just now, joined forces to deal with him in the blink of an eye, and Emmanuel didn't know what was going on, so he opened his mouth slightly for a while, stunned in place, and couldn't say a word.

In the end, it was Timothy Webb who came up to clear the way, "Don't worry, before and after, you all need to test it again until you get used to the environment and atmosphere of such a performance." With the eighteen-minute opening long take, we had a very low margin for error, and it was far better to find a problem during the rehearsal phase than to overturn it and start over during the actual shooting. ”

As they discussed earlier, in the opening eighteen-minute long shot, the main character is Alfonso Cuarón, not the two actors, who are just the pieces of the puzzle, dutifully doing their job to compose the whole image, avoiding their own mistakes and delaying the overall composition.

Now, the two actors are trying to erase their "presence" and become part of the whole, and Timothy and Emmanuel agree.

So, Lan Li and Rooney took turns to fight.

originally thought that the rehearsal for the preliminary preparation was over, but before officially entering the filming, the two actors obviously need to adapt again. After all, they are real people with flesh and blood and thoughts, not machines and computers made up of a series of numbers, and there are many, many more situations to deal with during the actual filming process.

First Rooney, then Lan Li, then Rooney, then Lan Li, then Lan Li's turn, it felt like ...... They were in the middle of a ride on the pirate ship roller coaster, and they were having a lot of fun and laughing.

Both actors are trying to strip away the traces of their performances, return to their original intentions, and present the conditioned reflexes of human beings under extreme conditions in a more primitive and pure way of performance, presenting a more realistic viewing effect.

After the two actors tried to perform, they quickly exchanged opinions on each other's performances, just as the staff had been arranging the technical equipment before, and no one else could intervene, and the whole crew was only two actors present, this time, they were reduced to spectators, quietly watching the two professionals do their work.

From quarrels to exchanges, from exchanges to quarrels, the way the two actors get along, in the eyes of Emmanuel and other staff, is actually no different from a madman, talking about some incomprehensible books, but the wonderful thing is that they can always find more inspiration.

And then, Emmanuel understood that maybe the actors and the cinematographers were the same, they worked in their own way, and then they collided with sparks. It's just that the channels of the actor and the photographer are different, just like the channels of the radio, which are two completely different channels, but they share the same radio waves.

Once everything was ready, the "Gravity" shoot really began.

It is obviously impossible to complete the shooting of the ultra-difficult long shot in one go, and the whole crew has foreseen the difficulty of shooting, but after the real start, the difficulty is far beyond imagination, and every department of the crew has put forward a severe test.

It took two weeks before the crew's cameras were actually up and running for the first time.

The opening eighteen-minute long shot is a very difficult task, and the real difficulty lies in the fact that the various departments fit together like cogs perfectly, meticulously stitched together in a "German craftsmanship" way, forming an exquisite whole, combining the vastness of the universe with the grandeur of the narrative in one go.

Among them, the specific work of each link, the tasks of the three departments of photography, lighting and special effects are undoubtedly the most important, and they have taken on the heaviest responsibilities;

The most complex part of the performance job is not the performance itself, but the adaptation to the performance environment.

It's like standing in front of a green screen, the eyes, lines, tone and body have to be adjusted, because most of the time they are acting in the air, and in the same way, they have to sit in a basket while being in a light box, and the IRIS robotic arm does all the movement, and the actors themselves interpret the moving scenes in a static state, they also need to adjust.

After gradually getting used to it, Lan Li and Rooney began to grow like fish in water.

First of all, Lan Li, easily unloaded all the burdens, in the absolutely relaxed state of performance, as if back to the novice state when he just learned to act, the exuberant enthusiasm injected a pure, smart eyes and changeable lines into the performance, which really made people applaud, and the inspiration at hand made the performance full of a special temperament.

Under the guidance and drive of Lan Li, Rooney also slowly excavated the humorous cells under the cold appearance, telling her farce of playing treasure in an expressionless way, and the light tone gave the story an absurd and uninhibited banter, creating an incredible comedic effect.

There's a little bit of a scene during the filming where Alex and Ryan are maintaining the Hubble telescope, Ryan is the main technician, and Alex is here to help.

Out of boredom, Alex and the Houston base correspondent began chatting, "So, what exactly is this scanning system for?"

"Nothing, Alex, just new eyes to peer out into the edge of the universe. ”

"It was supposed to be a medical supply, but this is a prototype. ”

During the brief conversation, Ryan finished his work in silence, and Alex came to the opposite side of Ryan in a big circle, looking curiously at Ryan, who was concentrating on his work, and a confirmation of his work came from the Houston base, "Wait for the lock." This means that while Alex is chatting, Ryan has done his job.

Alex, however, didn't realize it at all, still standing by and dangling softly, spacewalking, and most importantly, expressionless. It didn't look like a hanger at all, but a little bit of a wandering spirit, and then tilted his head slightly, and said lightly, "They won't fund the prototype, even if you have a pair of blue eyes." ”

When Rooney said this line, the entire crew was confused.

The original script line was that they wouldn't fund the prototype, even for medical purposes.

But during the performance, Rooney looked at Lan Li like this, through the glass cover of the helmet, the basket was shaking slightly, but his eyes always fell between Lan Li's eyebrows. It's a gut feeling, a performance intuition.

Alex was curious, but she had no intention of saying it, because she knew that she didn't want anyone to probe on her privacy and her story. However, this did not prevent her from quietly observing Ryan.

Alex was waiting for Ryan's reaction, stared at by a work colleague for a long time, his eyes burning, so what would Ryan say?

Quietly, quietly, that line blurted out like this.

The important thing is that Alex's words are very calm, not like flirting/flirting or ambiguous/ambiguous, nor like accosting or temptation, but more like a girl with missing tendons, inadvertently speaking the big truth, and then killing the other party by surprise.

That kind of wonderful gap makes people not know whether to cry or laugh, and it always feels strange, but they can't say why. But then, Ryan's answer and demeanor made it all come to fruition.