Chapter 7: The Screen Actors Guild
I have to say that Claire's brain hole is also wide open. If it had been replaced by the original little Leila, maybe this would have happened. It's not that she doesn't like her, but who wants to be watched all day long and can't do this, can't do that?
Claire sat on a chair in the dining room with the script and looked at it, she was a very talented person, otherwise she would not have been hired as Leila's special assistant and nanny and nurse, and she had been doing it for more than ten years.
So after she went through the script at a glance and ten lines, she found that it was not the childish plot she thought was at all. Although she couldn't tell what the finished product would look like, she thought it might work out well.
Shouldn't it be a loss?
"How's it going?" asked Leila nervously as she saw her put down the script.
Claire gave her a reassuring smile: "Awesome dear, even better than I thought." ”
"Then I'm relieved. Leila also knew that she was not a professional, and she knew that there was probably a lot of happiness in her words, but that did not affect her good mood. Because she really knows how good this script is and how much surprise it can bring her in the future.
Give the script to Claire and let her hand it over to the company's employees. Anyway, she is also the boss with dozens of idlers under her hands, and she doesn't need to take all kinds of things on her own at all. With a job, I believe that employees will also have more confidence in the company.
Now that the script is in place, the budget set props and other things are arranged by the people in the company, and finding the right actor has become the most important thing for Leila to care about now.
In Hollywood, a waitress or taxi driver at any store might show up a document proving that he was a professional actor and tell what movies he had starred in.
That's right, this is Hollywood.
As long as you pay a small fee to the actors' union, you can enjoy the treatment of some actors. And when you've been on some shoots, you'll move up the ranks, just like the famous actors.
There is no comparison between the domestic trade union and the trade union there, and the Hollywood actors' union has a very hard waist and has a lot of right to speak, and it will really help actors solve problems and disputes.
Take this script as an example, if you need any actors, you will list the conditions to the Actors Guild, and they will hand over all the eligible lists to you, and then the film company will choose it itself. Of course, you can also recruit actors yourself, but more actors still rely on the arrangement of the union.
Leila has long been interested in the Screen Actors Guild in the United States, so how could she miss this opportunity? So after a good night's sleep and swept away the tiredness of the previous time, she came to the Screen Actors Guild with a small backpack on her back and a refreshing body.
"Hello. If you would like to apply for a union, please fill out these forms. ”
As soon as Leila walked to the front desk, she was handed a few forms by the sweet-looking front desk lady.
Uh, this is to think she's here to be an actress? She returned the form with some tears and laughter: "Hello, I'm not here to register as an actor." I wrote a script to start filming and needed a few suitable actors. ”
The front desk lady was surprised to return the form: "I'm sorry, but what kind of actors do you need?"
Although she was a little surprised, she didn't take it very seriously. Some students will ask actors to shoot something like a documentary or a small theater, and they are no longer surprised.
Leila had already thought about it before she came: "The reward is $10,000 per person. I need an actress, aged between 18-25. The other two actors are also about the same age, because they are going to play college students, and it is best to look like a college student with the youthful atmosphere of a college student, and can show full energy and curiosity. ”
The soul of the movie is the three protagonists, and she is not interested in finding the remaining extras one by one, and her own employees arrange everything for her. Even if those people don't have much ability, they are also professional, and there will be no problem in doing this kind of small thing.
"Okay, I've written down your request, will the audition take place at the union or somewhere else?"
Ten thousand dollars was not a small amount at the time, and even actors with some experience were attractive. That's the main character, and many people don't need money to participate in the show, what they need is a resume. Not to mention newcomers, who are willing to give everything to get a role.
But for Leila, someone with a little experience is more suitable. You get what you pay for, and she doesn't want to give herself a headache just to save that little money.
The final interview was scheduled for Immortal Bird Films, two days later. Originally, she didn't want to pull the company out, but later she thought that her conditions were really not trustworthy enough, and she was worried that actors with potential and strength would not look down on her, so she had to take out the company and pull the banner. Even if it's a film company that only produces B-grade films, it's also a film company, right?
Originally, the heroine of the movie was played by Heather Donayo, and Leila didn't really want to use her. Because although she was nominated for Best Actress in the "Online Film Critics Association" through "Witch Claire", she was also favored by the Golden Sour Plum Award once.
The plum in the Golden Sour Plum Award is actually a wrong translation, the correct one should be raspberry, probably because this kind of thing is not very famous in China, so it was translated into the current sour plum.
If the Oscar is the dream of all actors, then Jin Sumei is the nightmare of all actors, and there are very few guests who have come to the stage to accept the award in person in history.
It began in 1980 by a man named John Wilson, and fans spontaneously awarded "trophies" to those bad American films of the year. Every year the day before the Oscars start, it's time to spew sour water into the world.
Leila didn't want her first work to be associated with the sour trophy, so she would have to choose the heroine carefully.
Back at the Immortal Bird Company, the secretary Demi hurriedly greeted her: "Miss Moran, your script has been sent down, and now the budget is being calculated, and about the actors......"
"I just went to the actor job, let them find three suitable candidates for the main role, and let the rest of the characters be found by others. ”
"Okay. Demi clumsily jotted down her words in a notebook, but because she was careless, the folder she was holding fell to the ground, and all the documents inside flew out in all directions.
"Oh God!" she exclaimed, and quickly crouched down to pick it up. A pair of huge boobs were almost squeezed out of the pitiful suit.
Leila shook her head speechlessly and took the lead in the direction of the elevator. She could see why the little secretary was nervous at the sight of her, and apparently her cheap dad had been playing the secretary and boss games when he was still alive. But now that the boss has been replaced by a young girl, the original means of serving the male boss are useless, as long as she is unhappy, she can be kicked out of the company at any time, no wonder she is so trembling.