The sunlight penetrated the curtains, dispelling the darkness in the room, Matthew opened his eyes, only to feel a headache, and the feeling after the hangover was terrible, he couldn't help but shake his head vigorously, propped himself up and got out of bed, and went to the bathroom to take a shower first.

Last night, I had a party with several leading actors in the crew, and since the theme was to send him, it was inevitable that someone would pour a few more glasses, and when I came back, I was basically half drunk and half awake, and I didn't even take a shower, and I fell asleep when I lay down.

After washing, Matthew came to his senses, the headache caused by the hangover was much better, he looked at the time, went out for breakfast first, called a taxi to leave the hotel with his luggage, and prepared to rush to Heathrow Airport to take the flight back to Los Angeles.

He wanted to go back and get a good rest for a few days.

Strictly speaking, since participating in the auditions for the three crews of "Almost Famous", "The Mummy Returns" and "Fast and Furious", I have been busy, even when I have not really relaxed between auditions.

Now that the filming of "The Mummy Returns" has been completed, and there is no new role to fight for, there is no need to think about work for the time being.

Getting into the taxi, Matthew texted Britney, "Are you busy?"

There was no text coming back over there, and it looks like Britney should be busy.

It wasn't until the taxi approached Heathrow that the text message on his Nokia phone rang, and he pulled it out and looked at it.

"The choreographer redesigned the dance part of a song, which I want to get familiar with as soon as possible these days, I came out to drink water, and now I'm going back. ”

Matthew stopped texting back, put away his phone, waited for the taxi to stop in front of the airport terminal, got out of the car and pulled his luggage into the airport, and was just about to go to get his ticket when the Nokia bell rang.

Pulling out his phone and looking at it, Matthew frowned, the call was from Helen Herman.

Helen Herman never calls him for personal matters, and when she does, it's all about work.

He pressed the answer button and put it to his ear, "Hi, Helen." ”

"You haven't gotten on the plane yet, have you?" Helen Herman asked, and then said, "The Band of Brothers crew notified me that you would go to the crew to participate in the post-dubbing. ”

Matthew thought the crew was still in London and asked, "Am I going to stay in London?" ”

Helen Herman said, "No! The Band of Brothers crew is currently in post-production at Warner Studios......

"When will the recording start?" Matthew asked again, "It won't be tomorrow, will it?"

"You're going to report to the crew on Wednesday. ”

"Okay. Matthew has no objection, after all, he has signed a contract with "Band of Brothers" in this regard, "I don't think it will be until the evening to return to Los Angeles." ”

Even if the crew of "The Mummy Returns" ordered him a direct flight to Los Angeles, it would take more than ten hours to fly.

He was about to hang up the phone, and Helen Herman over there said, "One more thing, Jack told me the news that Ridley Scott temporarily took over a war film project at Sony Columbia Pictures, and the schedule is very tight, and the crew is said to only conduct internal auditions, and give priority to actors with experience in military roles, you can consider it." ”

"Don't think about it. ”

Ridley Scott's name is here, and Matthew said directly, "Helen, sign me up." ”

As long as it is a legitimate film and role, he will not refuse to come now.

He is far from being able to pick scripts and roles, and it is quite good to be able to meet a suitable job opportunity after a job is over.

Helen Herman said, "That's what I mean. Okay, I'm going to get in touch with Jack. ”

Hung up the phone, Matthew got his boarding pass, entered the departure hall, and sat on a bench waiting for the plane, his head was full of thinking, what war movie did Ridley Scott make during this time period?

He remembered that Ridley Scott seemed to have made a version of "The Prince of Egypt", and also made a war film about Jerusalem, and the public version was very different from the version he downloaded on the Internet.

After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't remember it, guessing that he shouldn't have seen this film before.

For Ridley Scott's work, he is most familiar with "Alien" and the Jerusalem film.

It was late at night when he returned to Los Angeles, Matthew went into the apartment and fell asleep, and the next day, after sending a text message to Britney and Helen Herman, he continued to rest in the apartment until Wednesday morning, when he felt regained his energy and went straight to the angel agency.

Unexpectedly, Helen Herman was not in the company and temporarily went to Malibu to handle other brokerage business.

She not only represents Matthew's agent business, but also has many young actors.

These clients not only bring in revenue for the angel agency, but they can also make Matthew feel the competition and pressure, and even if he can't get ahead, Helen Herman can still hold another one.

Matthew calls Helen Herman, who has a stack of papers handed to him and asks him to receive a payout for "The Mummy's Return" from the company.

Although the crew of "The Mummy Returns" has only paid the first $30,000 in compensation, and the last two have to wait patiently, Matthew has also received a $30,000 termination fee from the crew of "Fast and Furious" before, and even if he has to pay Helen Herman 10% of the agent's commission, he still has a huge amount of money in his hands.

It's not a lot of money, but it's enough for him to stop worrying about living expenses.

There are no worries about the most basic life problems, and Matthew's mind can be fully devoted to his career as an actor, to be precise, to become a Hollywood star and enjoy the great cause of fame and fortune.

He doesn't plan to move this money for the time being, and the last time he walked the red carpet of "Gladiator", Matthew realized that the actor seems to have a good income, but the expenses are not small.

After signing in the financial room and transferring the salary to his account, Matthew did not leave the angel agency, took the documents to the conference room on the first floor, and looked through them.

I also had a long phone call with Helen Herman to get a better understanding of the project.

This is the project information that Ridley Scott's bearded assistant Jack specially passed to Helen Herman, although there is no script and other content that must be kept secret, but there is also a basic introduction, as Helen Herman said, this is a war film, and it is a modern war film.

According to the information provided by Jack, Ridley Scott's new film is based on a true story that takes place in 1993 in Mogadishu, the capital of the politically turbulent African nation of Somalia, in a covert operation conducted by a special operations team of 160 special operations from the Delta Force and the Rangers of the U.S. Army.

The project is tentatively titled "Black Hawk Down" and the script is based on journalist Mark Bolden's documentary "Black Hawk Down: A Modern Warfare Story."

This was not originally a film project planned by Ridley Scott, it was a temporary takeover.

The original proposal for this film was directed Simon West, who urged the famous producer Jerry Bruckheimer to buy the rights to the original book and began preliminary planning, but later due to a series of changes within Sony Columbia Pictures, Simon West abandoned the project and instead directed and filmed "Tomb Raider".

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer continued to prepare the film and then approached Ridley Scott, who happened to be interested in the genre and the two hit it off.

Although it is not a halfway way through filming, Ridley Scott also has to face many disadvantages such as time constraints, especially since Sony Columbia Pictures plans to release the film "Black Hawk Down" before the end of next year, leaving the crew with not a lot of time.

Therefore, Ridley Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer reached a tacit agreement with Sony Columbia Pictures that the film will not audition for actors openly, but will solve the actors for most of the roles in an internal audition way to save valuable time as much as possible.

Even, the two producers compressed the military training that Hollywood must carry out to shoot this type of film from one month to ten days, and actors with certain military qualities and who have played military roles in the past two years are given priority.

In addition, this is still a group play, and there is no special character to be highlighted.

Sony Columbia Pictures has an upfront budget of $80 million to $100 million for this film, which is definitely a Hollywood A-grade production in this era.

After reading the information, Matthew felt that he still had the opportunity to get a job from the crew of "Black Hawk Down", on the one hand, it was not long after he finished filming "Band of Brothers", and there was relevant military training from pre-training to post-shooting, on the other hand, when he participated in the filming of "Gladiator", he knew that Helen Herman had a great relationship with Ridley Scott.

On more than one occasion he heard Helen Herman call Uncle Ridley Scott instead of calling him director or sir.

This is very telling.

Based on Matthew's understanding of the reality of today's Hollywood, there is another advantage to starring in "Black Hawk Down", as long as you can get a good supporting role in this kind of first-line production, you will have the capital to compete for the first supporting actor in some small productions, and even the leading actor.

Actors who don't want to be the leading actor must be actresses.

He also has one concern, and that is where the film will be filmed.

Although the crew will not go to that extremely chaotic place in Somalia to shoot on the spot, the information shows that the whole film will be filmed in Morocco, Africa, and the duration may be four to five months, and if he gets an important role in the crew, it means that he will spend most of the next six months in Africa.

"Africa is Africa," he muttered...... "there are planes anyway." ”

After briefly looking through the information, Matthew called Helen Herman again, and then left the angel agency to go to the bookstore to buy "Black Hawk Down: A Modern War Story", and then went back to prepare for tomorrow's voice acting work.

Yesterday, Michael Fassbender called him and will also be going to the "Band of Brothers" crew to voice him tomorrow.