The studio at Warner Studios was dim, and Matthew was standing with his back to the main camera, as if he was busy with something, and then Emma Roberts slowly walked into the set, just in time to reach the edge of the main camera lens, looked at Matthew's back curiously, and slowly walked over there.

"Cobb, what are you doing?" she asked, "you want to dream alone?"

As if the secret had been discovered, Matthew quickly turned his head and denied it, "No, no......" he shook his head and said, "I was just doing some experiments, I didn't expect there to be people here, so I ......"

He looked at Emma Roberts' petite figure, a pair of eyes in the dim light were particularly bright, and he blinked a few times unconsciously, "Why are you here?"

Christopher Nolan looked at the flashing picture, there was obviously a problem with the lighting adjustment of the gaffer, Matthew's eye light was not good, and the light in his eyes just now was too bright, so that the actor unconsciously blinked his eyes several times in a row.

However, he didn't shout to stop, and still let the two actors on the set continue.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Emma Roberts said embarrassedly, then looked down at the gadget in her hand, picked it up and shook it at Matthew, "I'm actually messing with my dream totem." ”

The lights on the other side came on again, and Matthew blinked again unconsciously due to the glare of the eyes, but he still picked up his pocket and walked towards Emma Roberts, "What is this? Adeney, I'll show you." ”

Emma Roberts moved very quickly, immediately put the gadget in her pocket, and said, "What you say, only you can know." ”

Matthew stopped and smiled, "You're a quick learner. ”

Emma Roberts was standing opposite Matthew, probably a foil to Matthew's tall figure, and she looked particularly petite and delicate.

"It's an elegant way to distinguish between dreams and reality. Emma Roberts, following Matthew's example, also picked up her pockets and asked again, "Was this your idea?"

Matthew's face darkened a little, and his voice deepened, "This was Mel's idea. ”

Speaking of this, he took out a spinning top from his pocket, slowly placed it in the palm of his hand, quickly raised his palm, put it in front of Emma Roberts' eyes, and explained in a low voice, "Once this spinning top turns in a dream, it will not fall." ”

Emma Roberts looked at the spinning top curiously, reached out to take it, felt inappropriate halfway, and retracted her hand.

Matthew didn't mind, walked to the table next to him, and gently turned the top, "In the dream, the top just keeps spinning. ”

Emma Roberts nodded and then asked, "Hear Arthur say Mel died?"

Matthew didn't want to mention it and instead asked, "How's the maze designed?"

The lights on the opposite side turned on again at this time, and the discomfort in Matthew's eyes became stronger and stronger after several dazzling lights in a row, but as an actor, his acting skills may not be very good, but his quality is very high.

He was just about to continue speaking his lines when the voice of director Christopher Nolan came, "Stop!

The director shouted to stop, and the crew ended filming in an instant.

Christopher Nolan said to Matthew and Emma Roberts, "It's not your problem. He then said to the other side, "Southgate, come here! How did you adjust the light in Matthew's eyes? It's too bright!"

Film can also be said to be a photochemical dream, and the requirements for light are very complex, and although many lights can be adjusted in post-production, the light used for shooting on set is also extremely important.

A makeup artist came over to wipe Matthew's sweat, and Matthew pointed to his eyes, "Wipe it gently." ”

Continuously shaken by the dazzling light, his eyes were somewhat uncomfortable, and he changed a special wipe with the makeup artist, and after gently wiping it a few times, he felt better.

Emma Roberts walked over and asked with concern, "Are you alright?"

Matthew blinked and said with a smile, "A little problem, it's okay now." ”

"I just thought that the director was shouting to stop, because there was something wrong with our performance. Emma Roberts stood next to Matthew, probably as high as his shoulders, "This role is much more difficult than making a youth idol film." ”

Matthew didn't answer, just nodded slightly.

Emma Roberts asked curiously, "This script is very complicated, layered, and confusing, and I still haven't figured it out." ”

"Actually, I didn't figure it out. Matthew shrugged, "It's also confused." ”

If he hadn't seen a movie before, if he just read the script, he wouldn't have figured it out, and the images were often much more direct than the text.

Except, of course, those films by directors who always like to make something inexplicable.

"But I think you're confident. Emma Roberts was even more curious, "Do you have a knack?"

Matthew shook his head slowly, "I can't talk about the trick. After a moment's deliberation, he said, "I just don't care what the whole story is about, just what Cobb needs to say in this scene." ”

Christopher Nolan asked him to form a husband and wife team with Anne Hathaway on the set and part of his life, but when he was out of the set, he also dealt with a lot of things, and basically never performed with Anne Hathaway outside of life.

was supposed to go to the stomach on Oscar night, but Harvey Weinstein jumped out to make trouble, and the fat man directly scared the wall-like Anne Hathaway away.

He wasn't surprised by this, after all, Anne Hathaway had already done something similar twice, and when her first cheater boyfriend and second oil painting thief boyfriend had an accident, she did everything she could.

"Is it that simple?" asked Emma-Roberts again.

Matthew put an end to his ramblings and said, "This is only if I've made enough emotional connections with Daum Cobb. ”

Seeing Emma Roberts' intellectual curiosity, while director Christopher Nolan and the lighting designer solved the lighting problem, Matthew simply said a few more words.

It would also make a good impression on Emma Roberts' side.

"I'm going to grasp the emotions and motivations of the male protagonist Damme Cobb, what did he plan the whole operation for?" Matthew said in a low voice, spreading his hands, "It's not as simple as getting financial rewards. ”

Emma Roberts nodded lightly, "My character, the motive is not money. ”

Matthew smiled, "Actually, if you look at the clown, and then look at the motivations of the successful characters who can be widely circulated, they all have nothing to do with money. ”

"Oh?" Emma-Roberts thought for a moment, then said slowly, "It seems like it really is." ”

Matthew added, "The power and appeal of emotion, when put into a movie character, is always greater than money." Although I am not a father, I know very well the place of home and children in the hearts of most people in the world, this is a common value in the world, and Cobb's biggest motivation is to go home, he wants to correct his life and return to his family. ”

Emma Roberts pinched her tiny chin slightly, "It seems a little vulgar." ”

"This sentiment and motivation is particularly vulgar. Matthew first agreed, then added, "But it is the highest human emotion." ”

Not only did he have to grasp the role, just like Christopher Nolan specially designed the action scenes for Daum Cobb, the crew also specially asked several screenwriters to adjust Cobb's lines and even behaviors according to some of his own habits and characteristics, so as to analyze, deconstruct, and reorganize these into a part of the movie.

This is to make the character of Daum Cobb more compatible with him, make him look more real, and make the audience feel more relevant.

Of course, others can't enjoy this kind of treatment, and among all the actors in the crew, only Matthew has this qualification.

Frankly, the script design is much more complicated than the films he has ever seen, not to mention Emma Roberts and other actors, and even Christopher Nolan himself is a bit messy.

Matthew has had enough conversations with Christopher Nolan and knows a lot about his work there.

When planning the specific shooting plan, perhaps because of the influence of the plot, Nolan made the plan a little complicated, and even he himself was a little dizzy.

He filled the drawing board with exaggerated charts and timelines, trying to mark the transitions in the film, and for weeks, in Nolan's words, he felt like he was banging his head on the drawing board.

Christopher Nolan finished adjusting, and the shooting began immediately, but it seems that today is not a good year, and the next shooting situation is frequent, and the morning time passes, and only two shots are taken.

In the afternoon, James McAvoy and Anne Hathaway joined in on the shoot.

The crew filmed in Los Angeles, except for a shot of a train crashing into the street, the rest of the filming was done at Warner Studios, and then went to Paris, Canada, London, Monaco and Tokyo to shoot.

With six countries and six different cities, this is also the film starring Matthew that involves the most locations to be filmed.

In addition, perhaps out of confidence in him and Christopher Nolan, Warner Bros. invested an additional $40 million in "Inception" at the same time as the film started shooting, thus increasing the film's production budget from $160 million to $200 million.

The production budget is more sufficient, which is also good news for the project as a whole.

The crew's filming in the Los Angeles studio only lasted just over ten days, and Matthew, except for a few scenes with Emma Roberts, was the opening scene in the script, that is, the scene where Cobb was looking for Saito.

The water tank designed by the crew is powered by an air cannon, which perfectly creates a scene where the water washes away the dream.