On the set.

The crew methodically prepares for the shoot, and the two lead actors, Russell Crowe and Jerry Towne, are applying makeup in the dressing room.

On the way to the crew, Jerry was still reminiscing about what had happened before, and he vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he didn't understand what was wrong.

This strange feeling made him very confused, like a dark cloud covering the sun, and his heart was clouded with a haze, and he wanted to see the sun and figure things out, but he couldn't figure it out, and he didn't know how to start.

However, when he drove into the crew, the distractions in Jerry's heart disappeared in an instant, and he was replaced by a radiant and full of emotions, and the whole person quickly entered the filming state, leaving all the disturbances in his heart behind, and devoting himself to the upcoming role interpretation in the best state.

For Jerry, the set is the battlefield, and he is the brave warrior on the battlefield.

In normal times, he may be an unruly wanderer, or an unruly thorn in the barracks, but as long as he goes to the battlefield, his whole person has changed, and he has become a battlefield warrior who strictly implements orders and dares to charge into battle in the rain of bullets.

Filming began at a quarter past five in the afternoon, and the opening scene was the first head-on conflict between the two male protagonists in the play.

When the male protagonist Bard White was young, he saw his drunken and violent father beat his mother to death, and then his father escaped without a trace, and he became an orphan, so when he grew up, Bard hated men beating women, especially weak women were bullied, so he was admitted to the police academy as a police officer.

Male No. 2 Ed Easley was promoted by betraying his colleagues as deputy head of the criminal team, and the first case he investigated was the Night Owl Cafe murder case, which caught three black suspects, and during the torture, it was learned that the suspect had also kidnapped a woman, who was currently hiding in a red house not far from the suspect's residence.

The Los Angeles Police Department immediately dispatched the police, and when they arrived at their destination, Bard offered to go in first to investigate, and the others surrounded the entire building, and then collectively dispatched to rescue the hostages after his investigation was over.

Deputy Team Leader Ed questioned on the spot, but Sheriff Dudley did not accept it, and in the name of fire reconnaissance, Bard was allowed to act alone.

With a gunshot, Dudley and Ed led the police to rush in and successfully rescue the hostages, but the suspect was killed by Bud on the spot.

Through on-site investigation, Ed discovers that the suspect in custody of the hostage is naked and has no ability to resist at all, but he is dead, and it is obvious that Bad White deliberately shot and killed people.

For this reason, Ed is furious and finds Bud to confront him face to face, but Bud looks like nothing has happened and ignores him at all.

Bad White's reckless disregard completely angered Eddard, and he publicly scolded Bard for being a murderer and a brainless fool!

The upright and irascible Bard looked down on Deputy Sheriff Ed Ed, who stepped on the shoulders of his colleagues and was promoted, and at this time, Ed humiliated him in public, and Bud unceremoniously rushed towards him, looking at the posture and clearly wanting to beat Ed.

Seeing Bad White rushing towards him violently, Ed subconsciously took two steps back, his eyes were a little flustered, his expression was very nervous, his cheeks were bulging, his arms clenched into fists trembled slightly, and his legs trembled, causing his body to shake.

The police colleagues around him grabbed Bud, and Sheriff Dudley also stepped forward and reminded Bud not to be impulsive, and this punch passed, and his police career was over.

At this time, Ed's previous flustered eyes changed suddenly, angry and cold, his cheeks were red, and he was ashamed of what he had just done, but the shame was only for a moment, and then he blamed all this on Bad White, who made himself embarrassed in public.

Suddenly, Ed looked at Bard with cold and disdainful eyes, his face was gloomy, the masseter muscles on both sides of his mouth were slightly bulging, and the skin on his cheeks slid up and down, obviously without a trace of smile, but the crew and group actors watching from the sidelines clearly saw that he was laughing, a kind of sneer that did not smile, and clearly expressed "I am the deputy sheriff, why does Bud, a fool who doesn't have a long brain, look down on me?"

Suddenly, hundreds of people outside the camera suddenly felt a palpitation, and then a gloomy feeling swept through the whole body, which made people shudder, shivered inexplicably, and involuntarily gasped:

"Sizzle......

“Cut！”

Curtis stood up from behind the monitor and shouted loudly, finally waking up the onlookers who had fallen into the icy chill.

This close-up of the face was originally planned to be only five seconds, and if Director Curtis was not satisfied, he would have cut it out directly in post-production, but this close-up shot performed by Jerry took two minutes, if Curtis hadn't seen Jerry's unique eerie aura before, so he was the first to react, and the delay would have been longer.

Curtis Sr. was used to saving, and an extra second of five cameras would add $3 to his budget, and high-quality color film was not cheap, every minute and second was money.

Jerry in front of the camera grinned when he heard the voice, and then walked out, a bright and warm confident smile appeared on his face.

However, a strange scene appeared.

Seeing him walking out of front of the camera, smiling so brightly, the more than ten extras closest to him turned around and ran as if they were hiding from demons, shouting as they ran: "Go away! I didn't do anything bad, don't come here......"

Jerry stopped abruptly, looked at everyone dumbfounded, and was full of suspicion: "What kind of trouble is this?

At the same time, there was a burst of exclamations from outside the venue, apparently noticing the actions of the extras who ran more than 20 meters away, so they were surprised and talked about it.

Spacey, David and Danny and others were okay, although they were also taken aback by Jerry's amazing acting skills, they were after all veterans who had been in the industry for many years, and their minds were calm, so they walked towards Jerry as soon as possible.

Patting Jerry on the shoulder, Spacey smiled and said, "Good Jerry, you played awesome! I knew you had good acting skills, but I didn't expect it to be so good, and we were all scared by you." Hahaha......"

"That's right, you're only eighteen years old, why are your acting skills so good?"

"You won't have been learning acting since you were in your mother's womb, right? Otherwise, how could your acting skills surpass me?"

"It's amazing, and I now believe that there are geniuses in the world. ”

"Jerry is a natural acting genius who eats the bowl of rice of an actor!"

“……”

David, Danny, Cromwell, Spacey, Kim Basinger, and Hellgrande surrounded Jerry in the middle, and then praised him without hesitation.

Jerry himself was embarrassed to hear it, waved his hand again and again, and thanked everyone, more than a dozen leading actors got together, and it was like a touting meeting, and the scene was so lively.

……

Director Curtis didn't join in the fun, but sat behind the monitor, pulled up the footage he had just shot, and watched it with the three assistant directors.

Although they watched it many times, they couldn't help but clap their legs and scream each time, and they were deeply shocked.

The purpose of filming this scene is mainly to set up the scene for the irritable and jealous character of the male protagonist Bud, and Ed acts as a negative background in it, so as to set off the character of Bud more fully.

Therefore, Jerry's Ed actually has very few lines, and the space available for play is extremely limited.

However, the picture that was taken surprised everyone.

In the picture, Jerry completely suppressed all the actors in the play, even Russell who played Bard White was overshadowed, although his role was very likable, but Jerry relied on his quiet body language and bone-deep expression changes, and performed the originally ordinary villain to highlight the protagonist's role.

After watching it three times, Jerry didn't steal the scene, and performed exactly according to the script, Curtis and the three assistant directors looked at each other, and then nodded at each other, and reached an agreement silently.

This means that the film has quietly changed from the previous single protagonist to a double protagonist, and Jerry's Ed will have a role and appearance time that is not inferior to the protagonist Bud.

Experienced directors can easily achieve this, no need to change the script, no need to add scenes to Jerry, just keep his performance footage in post-editing, and cut out a portion of the Bud White scene.

The scales don't move, remove the overweight items on the weighing pan, and the balance will naturally be balanced, and this is how the double protagonist is created.

The location scene is over, and the crew transitions.

Go to the Hollywood Police Department to shoot the scene where Bard White sees a photo of Ed and Lynn making love, and then takes the photo to settle accounts with Ed.

If Jerry's Ed is not beaten, he can't erase the previous ambitious villain image, and if the audience doesn't have a good time, the character of Ed can't realize the transformation from a bad guy to a good guy.

So, Jerry can't run away with this beating.

And the person who beat him up was Russell's Bud White, because he slept with Bud's woman Lynn, and this reason was sufficient for everyone to accept.

………… (To be continued)