Back in Los Angeles, Helen Herman immediately contacted the crew of "Fast and Furious" for Matthew to audition, and soon news came that due to the conflict with the filming schedule of "The Mummy Returns", the original supporting role was not suitable for Matthew, and there were two options in front of him, one was to completely give up "Fast and Furious", and the other was to temporarily change the audition role and choose a supporting role with fewer scenes.

Matthew specifically asked Helen Herman, who is not very difficult to operate, and "Fast and Furious" will start filming in July, and there is a small supporting role in recruiting actors to appear in the pre-shooting, which will not conflict with "The Mummy Returns".

There are no restrictions in his actor contract with "The Mummy Returns", and it is not a problem to take on this small role.

And this small role doesn't have a few scenes in total.

In line with the principle of practicing more, learning more and making more money, Matthew decided to continue to participate in the audition for "Fast and Furious", but the original supporting role was replaced by this small role.

If he could, Matthew would love to get a main role, after all, he knew that the series could be a hit, but the chances were basically zero, and when Helen Herman first provided the information, the crew had already identified the two main actors, and now they also know the names of the two major stars - Paul Walker and Vin Diesel.

It also reminded him of something else, the former was the actor who died young, and the latter was the bald boss of the racing family.

After all, he has watched online piracy in the last few parts of "Fast and Furious", although he is not very impressed, but he remembers some.

Two days later, Matthew went to Universal Studios, where the "Fast and Furious" crew was located, to audition, and in this young actor candidate, his qualifications were quite outstanding, coupled with his strong physical fitness and excellent audition performance, and Helen Herman was the proper operation behind the scenes, and he successfully passed the audition and got the role.

The role was only paid $6,000, and the only benefit was that it was paid in two installments, with Matthew paying $3,000 for signing the actor's contract and another $3,000 for completing the filming of the role.

This is also the reason why Matthew does not want to give up auditions for "Fast and Furious", he has little money in his hands, and "The Mummy Returns" is paid as much as $100,000, but the first one will not be issued until he joins the group, and the next two will wait until the filming is completed and all post-production is completed.

$6,000 is enough for Matthew to stay up until "The Mummy Returns" starts filming, and he doesn't have to borrow money from angel agencies.

Many of the concepts in his bones cannot be twisted for a while, such as borrowing money and spending.

If it weren't for the fact that it cost money to date Britney last time, he wouldn't have borrowed the $3,000 from an angel agency.

Auditioning for the "Fast and Furious" crew was good news anyway, and Matthew got another piece of good news, Britney's world tour came to an end at the end of June, and she will return to Los Angeles for next month's MTV Music Awards.

Although Britney Spears will inevitably be very busy in the period before the MTV Music Awards, the two can finally stay in the same city for a longer time.

Before the MTV Music Awards ceremony, Matthew had no work to do for the time being, and the scenes of the characters in "Fast and Furious" had to go to the crew for several training sessions in July, and then join the crew to start filming, which would take no more than a week to shoot at most.

Until then, Matthew's time was free.

Free time doesn't mean taking a break, so he asked Helen Herman to help him find a fitness club in Westwood, where there is a very good fitness trainer, according to Helen Herman, Hugh Jackman was training with this fitness instructor before filming "X-Men".

The fitness club and fitness instructors are quite professional, and the cost of hiring them is naturally expensive, and Matthew sadly found that his first remuneration in the crew of "Fast and Furious" was just enough to apply for a fitness card and pay for the coach.

Originally, Matthew wanted to continue his exercise by running, but after consulting with several professionals, especially a shaper with whom Helen Herman had a good relationship, he learned that if he wanted more beautiful muscles, professional fitness exercises could not be replaced by running.

He is working out for the role of the Scorpion King, and there is a director in the crew who has a deep prejudice against him, Matthew does not want to relax his requirements for himself, in the words of Helen Herman, in Hollywood, actors can play big names, but they must be dedicated!

It's just that the money is a little painful, but fortunately, it can be paid in installments, Matthew didn't worry too much, and he didn't have to worry about Britney returning to Los Angeles, he didn't even have the money to go out and open a room.

It's really not good, you can still take out a loan, there is the actor contract of "The Mummy Returns", and there is no problem with borrowing tens of thousands of dollars, but Matthew will not do it unless it is absolutely necessary.

After getting the fitness card and paying the first fee for the fitness coach, Matthew suddenly understood one thing, he seemed to have an increase in income, but in fact his expenses were also increasing, and it was not spending money such as buying a house or a car, it was for the expenses of his own work......

His daily life can be said to be very frugal, and he is still so poor, and he will become a small star in the future, and his income will continue to increase, but it is impossible for a small star to be like now, and he must decorate the façade.

Thinking of this, Matthew scratched his head for a while, as if under the glamorous appearance of this profession, there was another side he didn't understand.

But he did not waver, since he has chosen this path, he will unswervingly go on.

In the following time, in addition to imitation, reading and writing, Matthew added the routine task of fitness, going to the fitness club five days a week to conduct targeted training according to the plan specially formulated for him by the fitness coach.

Every evening, it's time for Matthew to focus on writing, and one of the ways to do this is to update his blog.

"I've been in a good mood lately, I've got two roles through auditions one after another, and I'm about to become a part of "Fast and Furious" and "The Mummy Crew", I really hope these two movies can be released soon, "Band of Brothers" filmed last year hasn't started to play yet, and it is said that post-editing will start soon, when will it be broadcast on HBO? Looking forward to it......

It's a pity that only three people have followed his blog so far, and only one has left a message, Elena Boyar.

After posting a blog post, Matthew took the USB flash drive of the borrowed fitness trainer, and there were a few photos taken by the fitness club for him, and he clicked on the new business of the blog and uploaded the photos to the blog.

Among them, there are photos of Matthew practicing boxing in full armor and fighting with a fitness instructor.

Boxing is part of Matthew's daily training, according to the fitness coach, this is a very effective way to lose fat, he developed a boxing training program includes action training, coordination training, special physical training, hand target sandbag training, conditional combat training, can effectively improve physical fitness and coordination.

Moreover, boxing training is mixed with ordinary fitness training, which can also make people not feel that the process of fitness is so boring.

Frankly speaking, Matthew is still very interested in boxing and other fighting sports, and the previous Matthew was the first to mix in the streets, and he fought a lot of wild fights, and he is also an experienced person.

From the very beginning, the fitness coach knew that Matthew was ready to participate in the filming of action movies, rather than simply training his muscles to improve his coordination ability, and also allowed Matthew to deal with the action scenes in the shooting more calmly.

At the end of June, Matthew, out of interest, asked the fitness coach to add a conditional combat once a week, that is, a battle with full protective gear, and the chance of injury was very small.

In the first match, he had little power to fight back in front of a professional coach......

However, this did not discourage Matthew, in his mind, it is likely to shoot some action films in the future, and it is still beneficial to have a rough grasp of fighting skills.

In the first half of 2000, just as Matthew's self-study and training passed, the arrival of July also brought good news to Matthew, Britney Spears returned to Los Angeles!