The waiting room was unusually quiet, and the other actors who participated in the audition, their eyes swept over Matthew and James McAvoy from time to time, since they were interested in competing for one of the supporting actors, of course they knew who the leading actor of the film was, and the main reason why this project was so attractive was that it was Christopher Nolan and Matthew Horner.

Matthew Horner, in particular, is synonymous with success at all, and his popularity is more likely to become popular.

The current situation is that Matthew Horner is very familiar with one of their rivals, and it seems that the relationship is not simple.

Looking at James McAvoy, many people began to complain in their hearts: You know Matthew Horner, say it earlier, why play auditions?

Everyone originally played the game on the same platform, and you just got a super plug-in and let others play it again?

With a golden thigh like Matthew Horner, it's not a matter of minutes to win such a supporting role.

"Someone as interesting as Tom Hardy is missing......"

Regardless of other people's opinions and thoughts, James McAvoy kept shaking his head at Matthew, "It's a pity! Don't you think the future crew is missing something?"

In fact, he has already met Christopher Nolan, and the audition is more of a procedure, after all, the crew has a huge audition, which has attracted many well-known actors in the circle to participate, and it can't be said to stop, and stopping is also very bad for publicity.

Matthew shrugged, "You can't blame me for that. ”

James McAvoy deliberately complained, "You must have scared him away." ”

"Or else. Matthew said seriously, "I'll ask him where he lives, and you will personally invite him?"

James McAvoy was vague, "I'll ask Michael." ”

"Where's Michael?" Matthew remembered Michael Fassbender, "he hasn't come to Los Angeles yet?"

"Nope. James McAvoy shook his head, "He's still filming Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds in France, and it's estimated that he won't be able to audition until next week." ”

Matthew nodded, and at this time, a crew member came over to inform James McAvoy to go to the audition room, and when James McAvoy walked to the audition room, he also got up and left here.

The audition for the crew lasts for more than half a month, and although James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender have a very good chance of passing the audition, no one can guarantee until the results are officially out.

Although Matthew is named a producer, he doesn't have much say in roles other than Daum Cobb, and the most powerful person in the crew is Christopher Nolan.

This is also the first time that Christopher Nolan has gotten rid of Charles Rowan and is an independent producer after working with Warners.

In the days that followed, Matthew continued to come to the crew every day, rehearsing his own scenes, reading some books about dreams, communicating with Christopher Nolan, and sometimes rehearsing with Michael Caine and Cillian Murphy.

From these two people, Matthew also knew that he was not Nolan's first choice at first, when the film was first planned, Nolan invited "Batman" Christian Bale to play the leading role, but Bale rejected Nolan's kindness because of the conflict in the filming schedule of "Terminator 4", and then Nolan quickly thought of him who had hoped to cooperate with the Joker, which led to what happened next.

Regardless of who Nolan first liked, this actor is now his.

Matthew is well aware that he needs a film that hits the box office and word-of-mouth to redeem some of the overdrawn market appeal of "Superman Hancock".

At the beginning, he only remembered that this was one of Will Smith's popular movies, but he never thought that this film was really bad.

To be precise, starting from the small supporting role in "Band of Brothers", "Superman Hancock" is the worst of all his films.

The film was a huge commercial success, but it was his years of accumulation that often took several films to make up.

Worried that "Superman Hancock" will drag down the starring films later, Matthew is also asking Helen Herman to communicate with Disney Pictures and Broadwell International to develop a better publicity and distribution strategy for "Fast and Furious 4".

However, his own energy is mainly focused on "Inception", and Christopher Nolan's requirements for actors and roles are much higher than Stephen Sommers.

Before the film starts shooting, he must understand the role of Damm Cobb.

Matthew got the script as early as last year this year, and has been in contact with Christopher Nolan during this period, except for the filming of "Special Forces", he has been studying the actor of Daum Cobb, and has taken a lot of notes for this.

While he can't be as persistent and crazy as Heath Ledger, he also forms an emotional connection with Daum Cobb in his own way.

For this role, he is the person who knows the most about the crew except for Christopher Nolan himself.

Matthew's preparation for this role is mainly divided into two aspects.

The first is to bring in the analysis of character behavior, and the second is to erect the image of Daum Cobb with practical actions.

The latter seems very easy, and it also makes some so-called experts very disdainful, but it is actually very important, after Matthew officially reported to the crew on the first day, he all appeared in the crew with a unique image.

Suit and leather shoes, Peugeot's golden-brown hair, typical middle-class style, but the face is slightly vicissitudes, and the beard is unkempt.

Only when the image of the character is established can it be possible to dig deeper into the character.

Daum Cobb is the leading actor throughout the film, and he is also a complex character in the psychological entanglement category that Matthew rarely plays.

In the script, his main task is to lead his elite team to complete the difficult Inception mission and steal information together. Inception is just a regular business, and for Cobb, there is nothing more life-threatening than being forced to implant consciousness into the target of the operation and complete a criminal plan.

Of course, Daum Cobb is definitely not a ruthless criminal expert, and his weakness in front of women is incredible, and it is because of this that his career can be reversed.

Matthew's personal understanding may be one-sided or biased, but one thing is very certain, this actor is a type he has not played before.

Hancock is also in pain, but he is plagued by his own "memory loss", which leads to confusion, and the character of Daum Cobb is because he inflicts on other people's dreams, which eventually leads to countless disasters, and the degree of inner pain is comparable to that of Howard Hughes in "The Aviator".

Studying this role, it is difficult for Matthew not to think of Leonardo DiCaprio, after all, that movie left a deep impression on him, and vaguely remembered that "Inception" was also Leonardo DiCaprio's most widely circulated movie after "Titanic".

Now, Leonardo DiCaprio has completely transformed from the idol of "Titanic" to a deep old man - although some people lament the "twilight of beautiful men" and conclude that Xiao Li has grown disabled, a man's acting skills are enough to make up for the change in his appearance.

Of course, Matthew doesn't see it that way.

This is the self-psychological comfort of all those who have become disabled.

A man as heroic as him never needed anything messy to make up for the flaws in his appearance, because he had no flaws!

The male protagonist in the script that Matthew studied is actually different from the Leonardo DiCaprio he has seen, the most notable point is that Christopher Nolan has set up a good set for Daum Cobb in order to fit his characteristics and show his selling points in the movie, and there are several related action scenes.

However, the number of these scenes is limited, and Christopher Nolan has made it clear to Matthew that he hasn't thought about how to use these action scenes or not to actually include them in the final film.

The time is quickly approaching the end of the year, after Matthew successfully established the role of Daum Cobb, he did not continue to interpret it, and the disadvantages of transitional interpretation are far greater than the gains for actors, Christopher Nolan actually wants to make a commercial movie that is different from popcorn, and he doesn't have too many ideas in itself.

Maybe Nolan fans don't see it that way, but it's true.

In fact, since "Time to Go to War", Christopher Nolan has completely transformed from an independent film director to a commercial film director, even if the script of this "Inception" seems complicated, but it is not obscure enough to make people crazy, Christopher Nolan did not make this movie to confuse people.

Even though the restless mental state and untrustworthy logical reasoning have always been recurring themes in Nolan's films, if it is really like "Memory Fragments", Warner Bros. must be crazy, and even if "The Dark Knight" succeeds, it will intervene.

Having said that, for an industry insider like Matthew, the script in his hand seems to be novel and breakthrough, seemingly creative, and seemingly impeccable, which clearly belongs to a variation of traditional adventure films, and the form is changed rather than changed.

It's essentially like The Dark Knight.

As long as it is a commercial production, Matthew is confident that he can handle the role.

Probably because of the shadow left by the limited number of independent literary films he had seen, he never understood the crazy and neurotic performances.

Maybe he won't be able to become the acting school in the mouth of professionals in his life.

But this is nothing at all in Matthew's eyes, now that he wants money and fame, why should he play something that he doesn't like to be uncomfortable and disgusting?

Isn't that disgusting yourself to please a handful of people?

With his current position, there was no need to do that.

Therefore, after receiving the Oscar ballot on December 30, Matthew was very interested in being a judge, and he was not interested in participating in the Oscar competition.

Getting the Oscar ballot, he didn't rush to vote, there is still a long time before the academy recovers the ballot, you can wait and see.