Chapter 196: I Really Want to Kick Him Down the River
In the room plastered with movie posters, the red poster of "forbidden to aliens" is very conspicuous, and in front of the desk with many toy models, Wang Yang browses the pictures on the laptop screen on the table, all of which are recommended candidates for a new batch of actresses sent by the agency.
After vetoing a girl who was too white, Wang Yang opened a document of "Elody-Yuan", and the object was a single-eyelid girl with black hair and black eyes, Elodie was born on February 22, 1981, French mixed-race, looks very fierce and wild, and now has filmed some TV program commercials in France, he thought about it and shook his head to close, did not pass her primary selection, and her appearance and temperament did not meet his ideal candidate.
However, Wang Yang paid a little attention to her, and was ready to recommend her to Lin Yibin's "Fury", this drag racing crime film is about to start, and the starring lineup has been finalized, but he knows that there are some supporting actresses who need a temperament like Elodie Yuan.
"Kirsten Crook. Wang Yang clicked, a brown-haired, brown-eyed, sweet-looking girl, born on December 30, 1982, her father is Dutch, her mother is Indonesian-Chinese, and now she is playing Lana Lan, the heroine of the TV series "Superman Prequel". There are also a few pictures of her wearing a black wig and black eyes for this audition, and he looked at it for a while, still too white!
But this girl has a good temperament, and he had an impression of watching Tom Welling's version of "Superman Die" in his mind, and it is also written here that she learned karate since she was a child...... Wang Yang raised his eyebrows and muttered, "I don't know if it's good to fight?" Maybe when there is a chance to cooperate in the future, he can have a fight, he couldn't help but smile when he thought about it.
"Yang, I've caught you!" At this time, a laugh suddenly sounded behind him, Wang Yang looked back with a smile, and saw Jessica, who had slipped in quietly, standing behind with an ambiguous face, and he smiled: "I have already smelled you." As he spoke, he continued to open the next girl's profile. Jessica bent over his neck with her arms around his neck, looked at the laptop screen, and asked with a smile, "What are you looking at? ”
"You know for the card counter. While speaking, another model was eliminated, Wang Yang frowned and said, "It's really distressing!" Jessica said and laughed: "Then let me do the calculation directly?" Wang Yang clicked the mouse and said with a smile: "Do you want to mess up Andrea? The adaptation rights of the novel are about to be bought, and we said that we will shoot it soon, and we hope that Andrea can make a decision within a week, and she agreed." ”
Maggie-Q, Maggie Lee, American-Vietnamese mixed-race, developed in Hong Kong...... Beautiful enough, but it seems that she is? Wang Yang searched for it on the Chinese website a little puzzled, sure enough, it was Wu Yanzu's ex-girlfriend, who knows if it would be embarrassing? If he asked Wu Yanzu, the answer he got would definitely be "don't mind", but he didn't want to mess up the relationship on the set, why risk affecting the actor's play?
"Let's see if there's a better fit. Seeing that he said and turned off this information, Jessica asked curiously: "She looks good, why is it not suitable?" Wang Yang shook his head and said, "Daniel's ex-girlfriend, hmm...... Karen Mok?"
I saw a woman with long black hair on the screen, Karen Joy Morris, born on June 2, 1970, her grandfather was white Wales, her grandmother was Hong Kong, and her mother was half Chinese and half Persian and German. She went to Italy at the age of 10 to complete high school, graduated from the University of London in England, and is fluent in English, French, Italian, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Wang Yang was slightly stunned, he knew who this guy was, because "God of Food" is one of his favorite Hong Kong movies, and the turkey played by Karen Mok in it is impressive. Her acting skills are unquestionable to deal with a card counter, and her proficiency in several languages is even more surprising to him, in the script of "mit-21-team", there is a group in the casino to communicate in a foreign language, pretending to be a foreigner to deceive the female detective, etc., and it is naturally better to be proficient than to learn on the spot.
Karen Mok's appearance and temperament are also quite consistent, but she seems to be a little old. Wang Yang looked at the photo photos of her file seriously, especially the recent stills of "Sunset Angel", which looked completely free of the 32-year-old oldness and the immaturity of the 18-year-old, just like a woman around 25 years old. The audience can't tell the actor's age in front of the screen, as long as the senses are young college students.
As for whether she is suitable for the role, she has to try it to know.
Wang Yang picked up the mobile phone next to him, dialed a number and said, "Let the CAA notify Karen Joy Morris to participate in the audition." Putting down the phone, he glanced sideways at Jessica and smiled, "Jesse, didn't you say you want to be ugly? Jessica said with interest, "What?"
"Look at this woman, it's beautiful, right?" Wang Yang opened the Chinese website, searched for the words "God of Food, Mo Wenwei", pressed enter, and immediately found several photos of the turkey sister with a scarred face with violent teeth, and laughed: "Look at this! This is called pretending to be ugly." Jessica, who was holding him, smiled a little in surprise and said with great amusement: "It's amazing, this one looks like an aunt, but it's the cover girl just now." ”
"Yes, her acting skills are great. Wang Yang smiled and was about to continue flipping through the next one, when a shout came from downstairs: "Yang, Jesse!" Wang Yang replied loudly: "Mom, what's wrong?" Jessica sighed, stood up straight and said, "That's right! I'm here to ask you to go down and eat dumplings." Wang Yang nodded and got up, walked out of the room with her, and shouted: "Eat Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings!"
After Chinese New Year's Eve, the Lunar New Year is coming, Chinatown is noisy with gongs and drums, firecrackers, lion floats and other festive activities, in San Francisco spent the Spring Festival these days, just after the 23rd birthday, Wang Yang and the two returned to Los Angeles, obviously those Chinese, Chinese mixed-race actors have also spent the Spring Festival, Wang Yang is ready to spend a day to solve the problem of this candidate, the day after tomorrow in Boston officially started filming.
In the past few days of the Spring Festival, the crew of "MIT-21-team" has already gone to Bean City with equipment, costumes and props, etc., and the film crew has also looked for some special scenes, just wait for him to make a decision. But he needs to decide on the Chinese girl card counter first.
The temperament requirements of this character are actually very wide, as long as the lens sense is suitable, and then "cool" is fine, in the end, it is greatly influenced by personal preferences.
"I want a cold calm expression, no smile, just a killer cool guy. ”
In the bright audition room, Wang Yang looked at Mo Wenwei in black clothes in the camera lens, and she looked indifferent when she heard this, "slightly curling the corners of her mouth, teasing others." The corners of her mouth curled, and she didn't look like a turkey at all. Wang Yang hummed softly, after some previous investigation, her acting skills were really no problem at all, no matter how stupid she was pretending, she was very cool, exaggerated and realistic.
And under the magic of the makeup stylist, she has become even younger, who already has some adolescent baby fat feelings.
Wang Yang turned off the camera, took the information in Joshua's hand next to him, and said with a smile in broken Cantonese while watching: "Karen, you can speak many languages, right?" Karen Mok smiled and nodded: "Yes." Wang Yang looked at her seriously and grunted, "%#@%*!#%#*?" Mok Wenwei tilted her head suspiciously, and asked, "I'm sorry?"
"Leave it alone, it's just a quack joke. Wang Yang smiled and handed the documents back to her, stretched out his palm, and said, "You are very welcome to join the crew, happy cooperation!" He laughed and said, "And I forgot to say just now, I like the turkey you played in "God of Food" very much. ”
Karen Mok suddenly opened her mouth wide and laughed out loud in surprise, although this is only a supporting role, but everyone knows how rare this opportunity is! Not to mention any Hollywood development, she can cooperate with the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, this will be a very strong stroke in her acting career! Mok Wenwei happily shook hands with him and laughed: "Thank you! I'm so happy! It's really fast I just received the news a few days ago, and I'll ...... it now." grazieunque!trop-heureux!”
"I'm sorry?" Wang Yang frowned suspiciously, and Joshua behind him translated with certainty, "That's what I mean by loving you." Mo Wenwei was stunned for a moment, and quickly shook her head and smiled: "No, it's just a joke, German and French, it's all i'm-so-happy!"
After determining the candidate of Karen Mok, the main roles of all the posters in "MIT-21-Team" were decided, and the MIT team had a total of 6 people, one team for every 3 people, and it was also assigned when filming the plot of their soldiers sweeping different casinos in two ways. The two big players on the team are Wu Yanzu and Natalie Portman, and the two card counters are Karen Mok and Nick Canon.
Nick Canon was born on October 8, 1980, and is a new generation of young black stars, in addition to acting and also a rapper, he played the leading role in "Drum Hotline", which participated in the comedy war last Christmas. Nick's agent is extremely excited to win this role, how much better is the supporting role of Wonder Young compared to the leading actor of a box office poison film?
When this candidate was chosen, Wang Yang was also very happy, Nick Canon can play the traditional black comedy effect, and can pretend to be a murderer to play a rude villain, wearing a suit with hairy hair and Sven temperament, he is a good candidate.
There are also two "controllers" in the group, which are another type of card counter, who judge how much to bet on the table based on the number of points on the table, and alert the big players to what to do. The specific process is that the card counter comes to a table and sits down, and when the table is hot, the controller is called to come and take over, and leave to the next table to observe; the controller waits until the table can really enter the game, and calls the big players to come and win money to gamble, and the table is cold and leaves, waiting for the new signal of the card counter.
These three roles have a clear division of labor, and the six people learn and control different skills according to their own characteristics and advantages in terms of "logic, memory, mental arithmetic speed, emotional influence", etc., calculating points, reverse cuts, shuffling changes, tracking A cards, and so on. In the words of Jeff Ma, it is "card counting is like a sophisticated machine, otherwise you can't win 21 points." ”
The two controllers, a man and a woman, are played by Jay Baruchel and Alexis Bledel respectively.
On April 9, 1982, Jay Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Canada, he is a Jew and Scottish mixed race, before he made his debut on the big screen in 2000 as "Vic" in "Almost Famous", and is still a small Hollywood role, but his acting skills are very good. This is naturally due to the fact that he was born as a child star, and he began to appear on the screen of local TV stations at the age of 12.
Wang Yang takes a fancy to his honest little boy temperament, because not all six people in the MIT group take the "Ming Cool" route, in that case, there will be no contrast and distinction, and the last one will not be cool. In fact, in order not to attract the attention of the casino, the average card counter is almost always a deceitful and ignorant hillbilly, which is exactly the true character of Jay Baruchel.
But such a stupid honest man who "came to the casino with a broken cartoon money bank" was rightfully ignored by the female detective in the casino, and when she turned away, she showed a "you fools" evil ridicule, that was the cool shot, and Jay Baruchel did that smile.
The same is true of Alexis Bledel, who was born on September 16, 1981 in Houston to a Catholic family, her father is a Danish Argentine, and her mother is a Mexican of French and German descent.
She was too shy and introverted to make friends in primary school, so her mother encouraged her daughter to participate in community stage plays as a way to overcome her shyness. So she went all the way, a club actor, fashion model, and came to Hollywood in 2000 for her first audition, and as a result, she got Rory Gilmour, the heroine of the TV series "Gilmour Girls".
She is a rising star in the TV industry, but she has not performed well on the big screen, and last year's 15 million cost romance film "True Love Endless" starring her only received 19.34 million box office, and then "MIT-21-team".
Wang Yang likes her quiet temperament very much, Alexis is a perfect good girl, honest image, when she sits at the table a little nervously, it gives people the feeling that "good girls do bad things", but in fact she is a smart guy, a member of the cunning MIT group.
Coupled with Rachel McAdams, who plays the female detective, constitutes this starring lineup called "ambitious" by the media, needless to say, there is also an undecided Chinese female supporting role, and three young people who have not really proven themselves on the big screen, AOL Online's report put a question mark: "These cards are in the hands of Fantastic Young, will it be Black Jack, or 22 o'clock?"
The fans of the stars are very much looking forward to it, especially in addition to Rachel and Natalie, the most popular Alexis, her fans are already looking forward to "Rory" being a first-line young actress in Hollywood, and all fans believe that they will definitely be able to play to their favorite actors in the hands of Wonder Young!
Boston's beautiful and tranquil Charles River, with MIT, Harvard University, Boston University and other famous universities on both sides, the riverside scenery is like a landscape painting, the blue river, lush green trees, and the refreshing spring breeze.
"By the way, you may have to change your hairstyle and hair color, and I'm suddenly not very happy with the current one. Wang Yang, who was walking by the river, stopped as he spoke, picked up the director's viewfinder hanging around his neck, closed his left eye and pointed at the camera, looking at the scenery on the other side of the area, the movie will start shooting tomorrow, he wants to take a good look at these real scenes, looking for the best shots.
Joshua, the production assistant who takes care of everything, follows like a bodyguard, and Natalie and Alexis, both dressed in casual clothes, the former leads the way, and the latter comes for a walk to enjoy the scenery. Natalie, with her ponytail in her ponytail, tried to roll her eyes upwards as if she wanted to see the top of her head, and asked, "Why do you always have trouble with my hair?
Wang Yang pointed the framing camera at her face, adjusted the distance, and said with a smile: "I have several plans now, and I have to try all of them to know." I wonder if you're still a good fit for Matilda's hairstyle, but you know I tend to have short hair, the feeling that hangs down around my forehead and ears. Nataman, it's not your thing, Rachel's is going to change too, I want to ......"
He continued to scan the vast river view, and his mind flashed Rachel's appearance in "Sherlock Holmes", and said, "Perm curly hair and brown and black are good, and you can only get results after trying." Daniel?I can't think of how few boys have hairstyles, why?" He put down the viewfinder, looked at Alexis with long brown hair and shawl a few steps away, and smiled, "Ali, you're fine now, keep it up, but you need some bangs." ”
"Oh! I just feel more confident to show my forehead. Alexis blinked her blue eyes, covered her forehead, and smiled, "But no problem." Joshua, who looked at her, shuddered slightly, but Natalie had a strange expression on her face and asked, "Why don't you become a stylist?"
"Wait, I found it very good here!" Wang Yang didn't answer her, but suddenly shouted, and said excitedly: "I'm going to lie here, the background is Charles River, not bad! Who will help me take a few pictures?" As the head of the street, of course he can't just finish the first season, he wants to release more seasons in more places, and stabilize this thing, in fact, it's quite fun.
Natalie folded her hands around her chest, determined to stand by, Joshua was stunned, Alexis saw that no one responded, so he raised his hand and smiled: "I'll help you shoot, right?" Wang Yang took off the digital camera and viewfinder that were also hanging around his neck, handed them to her, and lay down on the wooden plank on the bank, hanging his body above his abdomen in the river, and said with a smile: "Ali, help me shoot with a heads-up angle, thank you." ”
"Okay!" Alexis walked to his side, crouched down and pressed the camera, and suddenly there was a clattering sound, Joshua took a deep breath, and Natalie rustled her shoes on the road, and suddenly ran two steps, made a volley kick, and shouted, "I want to kick him into the river!" Alexis laughed, showing her white teeth. Joshua covered his lips and chin.
Wang Yang, who was lying on his stomach, said sullenly: "Don't, don't do that! I can't swim." Natalie smirked: "Really, why did I see a set of pictures on the Internet, called Magic Yang swimming on the beach, showing off eight-pack abs or something?" Wang Yang wondered: "Isn't it sixteen?" Natalie puffed her hands and smiled: "How about thirty-two pieces? What kind of animal is that?!"
"Harvard Animals. Ali, are you okay?" Wang Yang twisted his head and asked, Alexis, who had taken several pictures around him, nodded and smiled: "It should be okay, I took a lot of photos." Hearing this, Wang Yang propped up the wooden plank with both hands, stood up and patted the dust on his body.
"I've got an absolutely interesting shot in mind!" said Natalie, whose eyes lit up and she made exaggerated hand movements as she made directorial gestures, "as Jeff Ma walked along the river, there was a group of students playing on the street here, and you could make a cameo in your place." ”
Wang Yang took back the digital camera, and while checking the results just now, he said with a smile: "It's worth considering!But what's more worth considering is that I'm going to design a shot where the heroine Amanda is lying on the street, how about it?"
While laughing, several people continued to face the breeze and walked forward. After walking for a while, Joshua, who had been silent, suddenly looked at Wang Yang and kept glancing, making a sound of "Shhhh ”
Both Natalie and Alexis quickened a little bit of playfulness, leaving them behind.
Wang Yang smiled and asked, "What's wrong?" Joshua took a few deep breaths, looked at Ali in front of him, and said madly, "Yang, I'm in love with her......! It's absolutely, a completely different feeling, what kind of shit was I was in all those previous relationships!?"
"I don't know!" Joshua gritted his teeth, and in a blink of an eye, he was as anxious as he danced, and stomped his feet, "What should I do!?What should I do??I have always remembered her since I saw her on the day of the audition, and I have found that as soon as I see her, I am really, my heart, oh my God...... What should I say?" Wang Yang said: "My heart is pounding. Joshua's eyes widened and he agreed, "Yes! Yes, I'm lost, I'm lost!"
"Jesus, I can't sleep, I have to be her boyfriend, this is my life!"
Joshua clenched his hands into fists and roared with his head up. Wang Yang waved his fist vigorously and shouted in a low voice: "Then go......! But you're not talking about Natalie, are you? she's a master of love, and it's hard to chase. Joshua immediately shrank in fright and hissed, "I'm talking about Ali! I'm talking about the day of the audition!"
"Haha!" Wang Yang patted him on the shoulder vigorously, and said with a smile as he walked: "The book of the covenant, the blind man can see it! Man, take your heels, she's right there!" Joshua looked at him with a look of resentment, and pleaded in a pleading tone, "Young, my best brother! ”
"What do you mean by letting a Chinese teach you to chase girls?"
"Please!"
(To be continued)