Chapter Ninety-Five: Potential Actor

"Oh-ah-wow-drink-"

In the screening room, there was a rough shout that shook the sky, and this voice was extremely heroic and majestic, full of indomitable momentum, just like Leonidas, who stood in the legend of Hot Springs.

Of course, this is Matthew's idea, because the person who howls is none other than the barbarian leader he plays!

The screen zooms in from afar, and the barbarian warrior community in the background behind is blurred, and only the barbarian leader stands out in the whole shot.

The camera shifts from a long shot to a close-up, with the focus entirely on Matthew's character, with the barbarian leader holding his totemic hammer alofted and roaring in anger again.

"Oh-ah-wow-drink-"

Matthew didn't know what others were feeling, and he himself felt that the roar was quite ecstatic.

Compared to the flashes in "Soul Shifting Girl", this time the character is just a close-up shot of more than five seconds!

Matthew subconsciously looked at both sides, both sides were the actors of the crew, none of them knew each other, he sighed secretly, in fact, what he wanted to do most now was to point to the barbarian leader on the screen and say to the others - See, this is what I played!

However, this kind of thing is to think about it in his head, he won't really do it, and that's too embarrassing.

Matthew licked his lips and continued to look down, and soon a close-up of him appeared, with the barbarian leader honorably dying under the siege of the Roman legions.

At this point, his role has completely withdrawn from the film.

Matthew himself estimated that with two close-ups and other miscellaneous appearances, the character should have been in the film for between four and five minutes.

"The first film appeared in less than five seconds, and the second film appeared in more than four minutes. He thought to himself, "It's already very good." ”

Although he envies a star actor like Joaquin Phoenix on the red carpet, Matthew actually knows very well that he is definitely a lucky person compared to the vast majority of ordinary people who enter Hollywood.

In the following time, Matthew watched the movie intently, especially for the performances of Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix, and paid the most attention.

The actors who can get to their point are not enough luck, their own strength must be above the horizontal line.

Russell Crowe, in particular, according to Helen Herman, the Australian actor is a representative of Hollywood Expressionism, and "Gladiator" is his pinnacle.

Whether it's an expressionist or a methodist, to become a big star, Matthew believes that there are things worth learning from.

As far as he knows, Russell Chloe is full of problems, playing big names that even Ridley Scott has a headache, and he is a very difficult star to serve, but as soon as he enters the working state, it is like a different person, completely immersed in it, and most of the action scenes in the film are played in person.

It is said that he also broke a bone during a fight scene.

Of course, this is what Matthew heard, and it cannot be ruled out that the crew or Russell Clow deliberately released false news in order to create a false head.

has participated in the media news campaign of "Band of Brothers", and Matthew has gradually understood that the behind-the-scenes footage used for the promotion of many films has too much water, and in order to create news that attracts people's attention, it is probably a common phenomenon in Hollywood crews to falsify on the basis of certain facts.

The film is very exciting, at least Matthew looks good, and it has a sense of epic tragedy.

After the show, the main cast and crew of the crew had to hold a press conference, and Matthew was not eligible to attend, so he called the Cadillac and drove straight home.

The next day, he went to the clothing rental company to return the clothes, and then settled the accounts with the three companies, and after doing this, it was noon, he went to the newsstand to buy a bunch of newspapers and magazines, found a McDonald's, asked for a hamburger and fries, and found a quiet corner, ready to read the newspaper while eating.

Matthew didn't immediately read the newspaper after nibbling on a hamburger, but sorted out the entertainment pages of all the newspapers and put the other pages together and put the other pages in a tote bag to read when he got home in the evening.

As a super blockbuster production released at the beginning of the summer of 2000, "Gladiator" unsurprisingly appeared on the front page of many newspaper entertainment pages.

"Gladiator" not only presents the competition of the cold weapon war in the past magnificently, but what is more rare is that this is a unique epic blockbuster, it does not focus on the long history, but with a very dramatic technique and tragic foundation, perfectly shaping Russell Chloe played Maximus, the film not only allows the audience to deeply understand the protagonist's inner patience, loneliness and courage, and at the end of the final, it also sublimates the content of the film to a ...... about love and death."

At the beginning of this review, Matthew began to glance at ten lines, and the focus of the comments was on the director Ridley Scott and the actor Russell Crowe, and also mentioned Joaquin Phoenix, as for the other actors, not to mention Matthew, not even the heroine Connie Nelson.

Flipping through the other pages, he tossed the newspaper aside and went to the second one, "Gladiator" was the same focus, but like the previous one, the focus was on Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe.

Matthew shook his head, finding nothing about himself, and switched to another newspaper.

Yesterday, many reporters took photos of him on the red carpet, but none of them were published, right?

After flipping through four or five newspapers in a row, Matthew sighed, there were many newspapers and periodicals that published photos, but he was nowhere to be seen.

Not to mention the photos, there is no text, and even in gossip tabloids like "American News Report", there is no mention of him.

Matthew was depressed for a while, and gradually figured out that the original scandal between him and Britney was long outdated, and his own fame was not enough, and the role he played was dispensable, so naturally no one paid attention to it.

The entertainment industry is a circle of forgetfulness.

Putting away the newspaper, Matthew picked up a few weekend entertainment magazines, the first of which was Entertainment Weekly, a heavyweight entertainment publication owned by Warner Bros. that has a certain influence in the industry.

Not even a tabloid newspaper, this kind of heavyweight publication is even less likely, Matthew holds the fries in one hand and dips them in ketchup, and quickly flips through the magazine with the other.

"It's ......"

He seemed to see a familiar figure, and quickly stopped flipping through the magazine, turned back two pages, and a huge picture appeared in front of him.

That's a full-length photo of him on the red carpet yesterday!

"I ......" Matthew threw away the fries and scratched his head, "I'm on Entertainment Weekly?"

Looking at the photo again, he was sure that it was right, this was the scene when he walked the red carpet yesterday, and vaguely remembered that it was not long after getting off the bus.

This photo is one of the horizontal photos on this page, and there is also a photo of him wearing a paratrooper uniform of the 101st Airborne Division next to it, Matthew only glanced at it, and remembered that this was a photo taken by the crew before the start of shooting, in addition to his two photos, there are also photos of two other actors in civilian clothes and military uniforms on this page, which are obviously two people who were interviewed together.

Matthew remembered that after the last interview, he paid special attention to the media that the crew mainly cooperated with, only published the interview with Damian Lewis, but there was no trace of the interview with the three people, including him, and now it seems that the crew did it intentionally, probably to maintain the popularity of "Band of Brothers" in the media with continuous publicity.

Below the photos of each actor are the corresponding reports.

This is to promote "Band of Brothers", and the report must have said good things about them.

"Hollywood's Rising Potential Actor – Matthew Horner!"

Matthew saw this somewhat exaggerated caption underneath two of his photos.

In addition to the condensed version of Matthew's interview, the reporter who wrote the report also rubbed off on the heat.

"At the age of 20, Matthew Horner has only been in Hollywood for a year, but he has already starred in the Oscar-winning film "Soul Shifter", Universal's $100 million investment and "Gladiator" directed by Ridley Scott, starring big stars such as Angelina Jolie, Renona Ryder and Russell Crowe, and now he has played the important role of Ronald Spears in "Band of Brothers", and his career is developing smoothly, which makes people look forward to his future......"

This is followed by some praise about how dedicated he is in "Band of Brothers".

Of course, all of this is for the purpose of promoting the series.

Even so, Matthew was in a good mood after watching it, although the scandal with Britney Spears caused by Yelena Boyard was reported by the media, but this is the first time that it has been in the press because of the movie and the character.

After flipping through the rest of the magazines, and seeing that there was nothing else related to him, Matthew put away the "Entertainment Weekly" separately, like "Soul Girl" and "Gladiator", and he thought that this magazine was also a memorable existence.

Back in his rented apartment, the magazine was put into a special suitcase by Matthew, which contained things that were meaningful to him, such as the first script, the first official contract with the crew.

In other words, this box records every important stage he has been through.

In the following two days, Matthew, in addition to paying proper attention to "Gladiator", basically repeated the planned life, and also called Helen Herman specifically, urging her to contact him for a new job.

Although "Band of Brothers" is still far from being broadcast, it is already a thing of the past for him, and Matthew will not wait for death, after all, he is still too far from the goal of Hollywood stardom.

On a new Monday morning, he had just finished breakfast and was picking up his pen and trying to write something, when he received a call from Helen Herman.

"Matthew, you're coming to the company in the afternoon. Her voice was as flat as ever, "There are several crews recruiting, let's give it a try." ”