Chapter 832 Three starring actors

Paramount is ready to shoot "The Hangover".

A $30 million investment isn't high, but it's not low either.

It took a week to assemble the crew, and then I went to Las Vegas as soon as possible to communicate with the authorities and ask experts to determine how to shoot the footage on the highway.

Paramount was extremely fortunate at this time that Jiang Xia had a perfect storyboard script, which allowed them to arrange the layout very calmly.

As a director, Jiang Xia should have coordinated the overall situation, but at this time he had to determine the three leading actors.

The Hangover tells the story of the ultimate bachelor's night.

Doug, the protagonist of the wedding, is about to take a few friends to Las Vegas for a day before he gets married. Three friends, including Stu, who is a dentist, Phil, who is a middle school teacher, and his brother-in-law, Fat Allen.

The four of them go crazy in Las Vegas, but after the night, the whole room is in shambles.

Forget it, there was an extra chicken, a tiger, a six-month-old baby in the room, and most importantly, the bridegroom Doug was gone, and the remaining three of them couldn't remember what had happened last night.

They started looking for Doug, who made the chickens fly and the dogs jumped.

In this movie, the groom and the groom's role are the least among the four, and the remaining three people have similar scenes, the three have never been separated, and the scenes are extremely similar. In real detail, it should be that Phil has relatively more scenes, followed by the fat Allen has more roles, and the dentist Stu has the least roles.

Jiang Xia's personal role in the film is Phil, a married, somewhat treacherous middle school teacher.

In order to save enough money to go to Las Vegas, Phil lied to the students that he was going on an outing, collected the students' money, and took the students' money to go crazy in Las Vegas.

In addition to Phil, the remaining three roles, Doug is the easiest to interview.

Doug just needs a handsome guy, not too tall, not too young.

It took three days for Jiang Xia to finalize Doug's actor, an actor named Justin Cooper, who can be ranked in the top ten of the fourth tier in the Hollywood celebrity list, which is also a good result. happened to have a slot to vacate, so I chose him as Doug, anyway, there are not many scenes, so I don't have to pay too much.

Jiang Xia himself is growing a beard, there is still a month before the filming really starts, Jiang Xia planned to shoot "The Hangover" before, and he was deliberately growing a beard before, and now he has a slight effect, he looks a lot more mature than the original, and there seems to be no problem with playing a middle-aged middle school teacher.

Dentist Stu was a bit difficult to find, he needed someone with a strong sense of comedy, and the scene where the tooth was extracted was difficult to film.

In the original version of "The Hangover", Stu's actor Ed Helms's own tooth is a denture, so there is naturally no problem when it comes to playing the role of tooth extraction. And if you are an actor with good teeth, to play that scene, you need very clever makeup skills.

In the latter part of the film, Stu is all in a state of missing a tooth, so Jiang Xia is willing to choose an actor who is missing a tooth if he can choose.

But Jiang Xia searched for four days and failed to find such an actor, so in desperation, he could only objectively look for the actors who auditioned. The final finalizer is Hollywood fourth-tier actor Zach Barres.

Zach Barris has played a lot of comedies and is a relatively familiar comedy film practitioner. He himself has always been a little tepid in the film industry, not too famous, but the level is definitely in the past.

The last problem, put in front of Jiang Xia, is the fat man Allen.

This role is difficult to play, and it is difficult to shine, Jiang Xia needs to find a fat man who makes people laugh when they see it, but such a fat man is really hard to find.

After looking for a week, Jiang Xia still had no clue.

When Zach Barres came to sign the contract, he was still worried about Jiang Xia, but he had already got the script, he knew what Jiang Xia was worried about, actresses never need to be worried, Hollywood has beautiful actresses, and they can call dozens of people who want to be famous casually, but it is difficult to find such special actors.

"Jiang, I have a good choice, a friend of mine, he may be more suitable. Zach Barris said.

Jiang Xia was pleasantly surprised: "Who?Zack, tell me quickly, I'm about to die of worry by Allen." ”

"It's my friend, I haven't filmed for seven or eight years, I used to be a child star, and then I became famous and disabled as a teenager, so I drank heavily, and now I'm only twenty-five years old, and I look very fat with a fat body, but my acting skills are still good. His name is Jeffrey Graham, and I can inform him to come over and audition if you need it. Zach Barris said.

Jiang Xia said: "Notify him to come over, as long as there is a suitable one, feel free to notify him." ”

"Okay. Zach Barres nodded.

The next day, Jiang Xia met with Jeffrey Graham at Paramount's headquarters.

It is indeed a fat man, a fat man with a small head, a fat man with a big belly.

Seeing Jiang Xia, Jeffrey Graham hugged Jiang Xia very happily, a pungent smell of wine came from him, Jiang Xia frowned subconsciously, but soon his brows relaxed, Zach Barris mentioned that Jeffrey Graham was an alcoholic.

"Jiang, thank you for giving me an audition. It's been seven or eight years since anyone gave me a chance, and I'll take advantage of this opportunity and say what I want to do. Jeffrey Graham said happily.

Jiang Xia asked, "Listen to Barris, have you been drinking too much all these years?"

"Yes, I like to drink it. Jeffrey Graham nodded in acknowledgement.

"Then do you think that after drinking, people can still stay sober?" Jiang Xia continued to ask.

"Yes, why not, but you can't drink too much, you can't drink too much. Jeffrey Graham said.

Jiang Xia continued to ask, "What did you do when you were drunk?"

"There are too many to talk about for two or three days. Jeffrey Graham said.

Jiang Xia nodded and said, "Okay, let's start the audition." ”

The results of the audition surprised Jiang Xia.

Jeffrey Graham is a super capable performer, able to perform every point in place, and show a sense of comedy.

So much so that Jiang Xia was surprised: "Jeffrey, I can't imagine that in the past eight years, no director has come to you to film." How is this possible?"

"The main thing is that my body is too bad, and I am a personal alcoholic, so I refused all invitations during that time, and when I wanted to film later, no one was looking for me. Did I pass it?" asked Jeffrey Graham.

Jiang Xia smiled: "Of course it passed, welcome to join the hangover crew." ”