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The alarm clock suddenly rang, Matthew opened his eyes, reached out to turn on the switch, the lamp lit up softly, and despite the darkness outside the window, he put on his clothes and quickly got up, and walked towards the bathroom, while shouting to his roommate who was still asleep, "Mike!

Michael Sheehan struggled to open his eyes and asked, "Is it time?"

Matthew's voice came from the bathroom, "Hurry!"

Filming war scenes officially began today, and instead of sleeping until dawn as a few days ago, Helen Herman told her last night that she had to get up at three o'clock in the morning and rush to the set outside the town by four o'clock.

By the time Michael Sheehan got up, Matthew had already washed up.

"I'll take a seat first. He opened the door, "I'll be waiting for you in the dining room." ”

"Good ......," Michael Sheehan stretched.

The second floor of the hotel is quiet, as if few people have gotten up, Matthew walked down the stairs to the first floor, after entering the restaurant, he found that the buffet breakfast had been set, he chose a few random things, and walked towards the dining area, in the small restaurant, only one person was eating.

Matthew walked over to him, "Morning, Helen. ”

The only person dining was Helen Herman, who remembered the company's first customer and nodded, "Morning, Matthew." ”

"Can I sit here?" Matthew gestured to the seat across from her.

Helen Herman had no intention of refusing, "Sit casually." ”

Matthew put down his plate, pulled out his chair, sat down across from Helen Herman, and casually said, "You wake up earlier than the actor every day." ”

"You're very observant. Helen Herman meant something.

These days, Matthew does pay special attention to Helen Herman and also appears in front of her from time to time.

Obviously, Helen Herman noticed, but Matthew was not embarrassed at all and said directly, "I'm just a little curious that you can get the role of the crew of "Gladiator". ”

Helen Herman smiled formulaically, "Good luck." ”

Seeing that she didn't want to say, Matthew didn't ask anymore, and concentrated on dealing with breakfast, and it was estimated that she would be busy all day today.

Halfway through breakfast, people entered the dining room one after another, Helen Herman put down her knife and fork, picked up a tissue and wiped her mouth, stood up and said casually, "I'm done, you continue." ”

Matthew had bacon stuffed in his mouth and couldn't speak conveniently, so he simply nodded at her.

As soon as Helen Herman left, Michael Sheehan hurried over with a dinner plate, sat next to Matthew, and asked curiously, "I just saw the boss of the Angels here, what are you talking about? Are you going to soak her?"

Matthew rewarded him with a pair of white eyeballs, "Do you think it's possible?"

"Impossible!" Michael Sheehan asked as he peeled an egg, shoved it into his mouth, and grunted, "What are you talking about?"

Matthew didn't hide it either, saying, "I asked her how she got these roles." ”

Matthew wasn't the only one who was curious, Michael Sheehan was also concerned, "Did you ask?"

"Nope. Matthew shook his head, "This woman has a very tight tone. ”

After the two of them finished breakfast, they came to the outside of the hotel, the night sky was dark, but the streets were brightly lit, and the nearly fifty extras of the Angel Company were quickly assembled, and led by Helen Herman and her assistant Amanda, left the town and came to the edge of the woods.

Countless headlights were raised high around the woods, dispelling the darkness of the night sky and illuminating a large area of the vicinity as bright as day, more than twenty makeup trailers lined up horizontally, and more than fifty makeup artists and their assistants were already in place.

Standing on the perimeter of the makeup trailer, Matthew saw Helen Herman talking a few words with the bearded man and walking back.

"We're split into two teams now!" Helen Herman exclaimed, "one team follows Amanda to get makeup!

The extras quickly split into two teams, and Michael Sheehan wanted to go to the makeup team, but was pulled into the queue by Matthew to change clothes.

"What are you doing over there? We're all going to have to stick our beards to our faces. ”

After the rehearsal ended yesterday, Matthew specifically inquired about it, "It's not even four o'clock in the morning, and the crew will start filming after nine o'clock at the earliest, is it comfortable for the glue to stick to the face for five hours?"

Michael Sheehan hurried to stand in Matthew's first team.

Epic movies are very troublesome to film, especially the styling of the actors, Matthew has not been idle at all except rehearsals these days, he has been active everywhere in the crew, and has talked to many assistants or handymen, don't look at them, these extras come to line up before four o'clock to make up and do styling, the main actors will not come to the set until after seven o'clock, and the actor Russell Crowe is a famous difficult star, and it is common to be late for ten minutes or even half an hour.

That's the privilege of stardom.

has been in three crews, and Matthew has found out that extras or ordinary actors are waiting hard, and big-name stars are late, which seems to be the norm.

He has only been in three crews, and I don't know if this is a common phenomenon.

Matthew lined up and walked to the trailer where the costume crew was, and it was just four o'clock in the morning, and the entire "Gladiator" crew was already running at full capacity.

In today's era, "Gladiator" can definitely be regarded as a Hollywood A-List production, especially in this war scene, using more than 1,000 actors, plus staff from various departments of the crew, this small area has more than 2,500 people concentrated at once.

The queue passed in front of the trailers of many departments, and Matthew could see it clearly, like a large machine that was running precisely, and the whole crew was in good order, without a trace of panic.

"Is this the crew of the big industrial era?"

Compared with the behemoth of the "Gladiator" crew, the crew of "Soul Shifter" can only be regarded as a little sparrow.

The team came to the vicinity of several trailers of the costume crew, and gradually stopped moving, and Matthew waited quietly, where hundreds of extras gathered, even if the crew was efficient, it would take a while.

The wait was more than an hour, until the sky lit up with a white belly, it was Matthew's turn to enter the trailer, the extras played the role of passers-by, there could be no special styling design, the costume designer looked at his figure, found a coarse cloth clothes, and took a shawl with imitation fur to help Matthew change in.

The clothes were a little small and didn't fit too well, but the passerby didn't pay so much attention to the role, so the costumer looked at it again and patted Matthew's arm, "Okay!"

Finally, Matthew changed into his worn-out shoes and, like a savage, staggered out of the trailer.

"Go over there and put on makeup. Helen Herman waited near the trailer, pointing the way, "Hurry up." ”

"Good!"

Matthew answered, and came to the queue in front of the nearby makeup trailer, the costume on his body was a little thick, fortunately, it was cool in the morning in Los Angeles in March, if such a scene was filmed in the summer, the extras worked so hard, it was estimated that they would be dizzy.

When it was dawn, it was finally Matthew's turn to put on makeup, and sitting in front of the makeup trailer, a female makeup artist first messed up his short and medium hair, and then beckoned the assistant next to him to put a mustache on Matthew's face.

Matthew has watched many Hollywood commercial epic movies, and the male characters on them left the deepest impression on him, that is, whether they are handsome or ugly men, most of them have a beard.

This uncivilized Germanic barbarian was no exception.

The assistant found a fake beard with basically the same hair color as Matthew, and began to use special glue to stick it to his face.

With so many extras, if one beard and one beard sticks, it is estimated that these more than fifty makeup artists plus their assistants will be busy until this time tomorrow.

Matthew guessed that the kind of sticky beard should be the treatment that only the main actors can enjoy.

The beard was glued, and he painted some ghost-drawn things on his face, and after a long time, the glue on his face, even if it was for makeup, made him very uncomfortable.

But he couldn't scratch or scratch it with his hands, otherwise the shape would be ruined, so he could only endure it.

Finally, Matthew arrives at the props group to receive the Barbarian's weapon.

This is much faster, a prop master saw that he was tall and strong, and specially gave him a two-handed battle axe, the shape of this axe with two blades, it looks quite powerful, but Matthew is very light in his hand, it is not a metal product at all, it is probably made of plastic or resin, at most five or six catties.

At this point, a mighty barbarian warrior was successfully baked.

Shouldering the mighty two-handed tomahawk, Matthew, guided by the crew, came to the edge of the woods, and waited for the filming to begin, along with the other actors.

Matthew deliberately asked someone, and it was already past eight o'clock in the morning!

From entering the group at less than four o'clock to completing the modeling, it took more than four hours, most of which was waiting.

The legs were sore, the feet were a little numb, and some people even looked tired and drowsy.

But if you want to appear in the film, even if it's a flash, you have to keep waiting.

Time passed slowly, the sun rose higher and higher, and Matthew could see that the cameras, booms, rails and other equipment were all set up, and it seemed that filming was ready to start.

The bearded man came with an old white man in his fifties and sixties, and Helen Herman followed them with a very familiar look.

"Alright, guys!" the bearded man raised his high-pitched voice, "Cheer up and get ready for filming!"

He looked at the old white man, saw that the other man nodded, and said loudly, "Alright, now ready! ”

"Quick!" Matthew felt a pull, it turned out to be Michael Sheehan, "that old man is Ridley Scott!

Not only Michael Sheehan, but there seem to be quite a few extras who have the idea of squeezing to the front, as if this way they can appear in the camera lens and impress a big director like Ridley Scott.

Michael Sheehan was one of the activists, taking advantage of his height and strength, and resisted his shoulders, and the person who was a head shorter in front of him squeezed into the tree, and then grabbed the clothes of the other person, and appeared at the front of the entire queue before him.

He seems to be eager to get in front of Ridley Scott.

In just a dozen seconds, these extras were in a mess.