"Do you hear that, Matthew?"

Michael Sheehan stood up and said excitedly, "We're going to work on a big project! Universal's Gladiator! Ridley Scott's Gladiator!"

Ridley Scott's name is a little familiar, and after thinking about it for a while, Matthew asked uncertainly, "Is it the one who filmed "Alien"?"

"It's him! This is a first-line director!" Michael Sheehan was obviously overly excited, and grabbed Matthew's arm, "We're going to participate in the A-list project of a major Hollywood studio!"

Matthew pulled out his arm and decided to pour some cold water on him, "A-list projects in big studios? ”

He's also a little excited, but not to the extent of Michael Sheehan.

"Uh......" Michael Sheehan scratched his head, "I'm thinking too much." ”

Helen Herman's voice came again, "This job has to stay in the crew for a week, and those who are willing to go can sign up at the front desk, and those who don't want to go can go now." ”

More than a dozen people stood up and walked away one after another, others went to the front desk to line up to sign up, and Matthew and Michael Sheehan also passed.

Although he had to ask for leave from the Red Penguin Company for a week after going to the crew, Matthew still decided to go!

Like Michael Sheehan said, the job came from Universal's Gladiator project, which Matthew had seen and vaguely remembered that Gladiator was recognized as a good movie and was said to have won an Oscar.

As everyone lined up, Matthew heard Helen Herman say more about the job.

Originally, the "Gladiator" crew planned to shoot this war scene in the United Kingdom, but when they visited the filming location, they encountered a mass protest from environmental groups, and a forest of trees to be used for filming was completely occupied by environmentalists, and Universal Pictures had to activate a backup plan for the crew to return to North America to complete the scene in a forest that was about to be cut down in northern California.

Due to the temporary change of plans, the British agency that the crew had previously contacted had to give up, and after returning to Los Angeles, they urgently recruited suitable actors.

And the angel agency got a piece of the pie and recruited some extras for the crew of "Gladiator" to play Germanic soldiers.

The job lasted a week, paid $200 a day, and the crew was responsible for transportation and room and board for all the extras.

In any way, the working conditions are much better than Matthew's pretending to be dead some time ago, and the only trouble is that he has to assemble and set off at eleven o'clock, and there is no buffer time to ask for leave.

After Matthew signed up, he immediately called Liszt, casually made an excuse to go back to his hometown in Texas, and finally took a week off in the midst of the other party's babbling accusations.

"Done?"

Michael Sheehan, who also called to ask for leave, walked back, and Matthew nodded slightly, "Took a week off." What about you?"

Michael Sheehan shrugged, "The boss doesn't give him leave, I fired him!"

After two more conversations, Matthew's eyes turned to Helen Herman at the front desk, who was still wearing black-rimmed glasses and a professional women's suit.

"This woman is not simple. Matthew muttered to himself.

"What?" asked Michael Sheehan.

Matthew shook his head, "Nothing. ”

He looked at Helen Herman and kept thinking, this angel agency has just been established, and if it can get resources from a crew like "Gladiator", it should have a deep network, right?

However, looking at Helen Herman's age, she has just graduated from college, and she can start a business at this age?

Although Matthew has not been in Laomei for a long time, he has rich experience in mixed society, and according to common sense on the other side, people like Helen Herman generally have extraordinary family backgrounds.

Angel brokerage may not be the same as other small brokerage firms......

He had this conjecture in his mind, and then he decided whether to brush up on Helen Herman's presence, and she could make an impression on herself, and when she had a job, she would think of him first.

For a small person like him, it's important to take advantage of the situation.

After waiting for more than an hour, a bus came from outside the small building, and under the guidance of the reception staff at the front desk, including Matthew and Michael Sheehan, all the extras got into the bus, and the bus went all the way north, and soon left the Burbank boundary.

"It would be nice to get a main role. Michael Sheehan sat with him, looked out the car window, and said, "This kind of film, one character can change a life." ”

His eyes seemed to be shining, "Playing a major supporting role in this kind of film, in those small productions, you are qualified to fight for the leading actor!"

Matthew felt that he was thinking too much, and said, "The main supporting role is impossible, I can show a straight face in the film, and I will be satisfied with the name at the end of the credits." ”

"You're just starting out. Michael Sheehan said, "When you don't get any better in Los Angeles for three years, you'll know how I'm feeling right now." ”

"Desperate to become famous?" asked Matthew.

Michael Sheehan nodded heavily, "Be famous! In Hollywood, as long as you are famous, you will have money! status! There are women!"

Hearing this, coupled with today's contact, Matthew feels that Michael Sheehan is similar to himself in some ways.

It's not surprising that how many of the people who enter this circle, especially actors, do it for the performing arts? I'm afraid 99.9 percent of them are just like him and Michael Sheehan, for fame and fortune.

Two hours later, the bus left the main road and entered a hilly area, where it walked a few kilometers and slowly stopped on the side of the road.

Matthew and the others waited in the car for the time being, looking through the car window, outside was the edge of a small town, surrounded by vehicles, from buses to cars to boom trucks used for filming, and then in the distance, in a sparse woods, there were all the shadows of people, and the cameras set up on the tracks, which seemed to be filming.

Michael Sheehan looked at that side excitedly and muttered, "How nice it would be if I were the leading actor!"

"Brother, you're thinking too much!" a bald head in front of him heard his words, turned his head and said, "Twenty years from now, you won't be as good as Russell Crowe." ”

There was a burst of laughter around him, and Michael Sheehan's face turned red, and he just wanted to stand up, but was pulled by Matthew.

"There's no need. He whispered, "Whatever you say, they'll take it as a joke." ”

Michael Sheehan endured it and lowered his voice as well, "I remember them! When I'm popular, I'll ask them to go to my crew to do a temporary show, and then see who is the joke!"

The front desk assistant beckoned everyone to get out of the car, and Matthew got out of the car to find that Helen Herman had already arrived, and it seemed that she had just finished negotiating with a bearded crew member and walked over with him.

"Arrange a place for everyone to live first, and follow it for a while. Helen Herman had a crisp voice, but her voice was high enough, "And I'll give you the contract." ”

She pointed to the receptionist, "Give it to Amanda after signing." ”

"No problem. Matthew squeezed closer to Helen Herman, who glanced at him and continued, "After signing the contract, I had lunch at the hotel where I was staying, and I met at the hotel at one o'clock in the afternoon to go to the filming venue for rehearsals. ”

"Are you okay?" she asked the bearded man next to her, who shook his head and said to the extras, "Follow me." ”

Matthew and Michael Sheehan hurriedly followed, and a long line followed behind Helen Herman and the bearded man into town.

The Angel Agency stayed in the same hotel, and Helen Herman, who looked young but had a lot of experience, quickly got the extras checked in with the help of the bearded man from the "Gladiator" crew, and distributed the contracts to everyone.

The condition of the hotel is not bad, two people in one room, and Matthew becomes roommate with the only one he knows, Michael Sheehan.

It may take a week, Matthew simply straightened his luggage, and then opened the contract and looked at it, it was much the same as the extras contract he had signed before, and he was most concerned about the remuneration, with a daily salary of up to two hundred dollars!

If you really shoot for a week, that's $1,400 in income, which is almost a month's salary at Red Penguin.

Having been in this circle for a while, Matthew is well aware that similar opportunities are very rare, and he values Helen Herman as a young agent even more.

"No problem, right?" asked Matthew, closing the contract.

Michael Sheehan is taking a serious look at it as if it's a superstar contract.

"I haven't finished reading it yet. He didn't lift his head.

It was close to lunchtime before Matthew and Michael Sheehan came out of the room, went to the hotel foyer, handed over the contract to Amanda who was waiting there, and then went to the restaurant for dinner.

The crew has a lot of money, and the lunch is not rich, but it is quite good, at least many times better than the standard when Matthew eats alone.

After eating, taking a break, led by Helen Herman, Matthew and other extras left the town on time and came to the filming set on the edge of town.

It was a rehearsal without makeup, with hundreds of extras waiting on the periphery of the set, with trees on either side of the set and an open field in between, which looked very suitable as a battlefield.

"Everybody, come here!"

The bearded man I had seen in the morning appeared with a megaphone, and seemed to be the person in charge of this side, "Stand in two rows at the edge of the woods, scatter and stand! Don't stand in line! You are a group of uninformed Germans!"

Hundreds of extras poured into the woods like headless flies, and then to the edge of the open field, and the mess did look like a bunch of savages.

The bearded man stood on the highest ground nearby, "I said start, and you will howl together! Howl in anger!

"Begin!" he shouted.

"Whew-"

"Ahh

All kinds of strange cries sounded in an instant, and they came out one after another.

Matthew was also shouting hard, his face was about to twist because of the force.

"Okay!" the bearded man seemed satisfied, "let's practice the next ......"

For a battlefield scene like this, rehearsals before filming were essential, and the rehearsals of Matthew's Germanic and opposing Roman legions alone took three days.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, the shooting started on time.