As the filming process enters the middle stage, the roles of Jerry Towne and Gwyneth and Cooper Martin Jr. are getting heavier and heavier, and there are more and more rival scenes.

As the film's lead actors and producers, Jerry and James Sr. took the Christmas and New Year holidays into account when formulating the filming schedule, and divided the filming schedule into two parts: the first and the second year from the perspective of maximizing cost savings.

Years ago, we filmed exterior scenes, interspersed shots and group scenes that required the participation of a large number of extras, and after the year, we filmed scenes in which more than a dozen main creative staff participated.

So far, filming has been going according to plan, and the crew's expenses are within budget.

However, when Jerry finished filming a few one-man shows and began to shoot the scenes between himself and Gwynnie, Jerry found that although her performance was above the standard line, it did not meet his expectations, and he completely suppressed her, making herself look like a drama bully, and Gwynnie's performance lacked expressiveness, which directly affected the overall effect of the film.

Especially when filming emotional scenes, Gwyney was not in a state at all, she was purely performing for filming, and she lacked interaction with Jerry, her eyes were a little evasive when they looked at each other, as if she was deliberately avoiding something, or she had scruples in her heart.

If she and Jerry used to play with each other during the honeymoon period, then now the short honeymoon period is over, and there are cracks in their relationship.

Gwyneth's supporting role is just to complete the role she plays, and there is almost no emotional investment in the performance, which is very different from the good state of dedication and dedication years ago, as if the two of them were judged.

Jerry is keenly aware that Gwyneth's love life must have changed during the New Year's Day, and to be precise, she may have made it real, just like the media reported some time ago and got together with Brad Pitt.

Gwyneth had a crush on Jerry Donn before and was very active, but Jerry clearly told her that he was just acting with her in order to make a good film, and when the filming was over, the relationship ended with the completion of filming.

Gwyneth said yes at the time, and did a good job in the period that followed.

However, with the crew on vacation, Gwyneth will not remain unchanged because of her commitment to Jerry, and Brad Pitt's pursuit easily breaks the cooperative relationship established between her and Jerry.

This kind of verbal agreement, which has not made substantial progress, is extremely fragile and fragile.

Gwyneth, who is in the prime of her youth, will not waste her good youth because of an agreement that is destined to be fruitless, so after resuming filming, Gwyneth deliberately avoided Jerry and behaved decently when filming with him, so that Jerry Towne was very disappointed in her.

Although Jerry has long known that women are fickle, he didn't expect Gwyneth to become so fast, and in just ten days before and after, the blonde followed someone else behind her back.

At noon, a simple scene in which Dorothy, played by Gwyneth, drives Maguire to the club, NG seven times in a row, and barely passed the eighth time, but the effect is still not ideal.

Jerry and James Sr. were not very satisfied after watching it, but Gwynne was not in a state at all, so they could only make do with it first, and cut this section of the head and tail shorter in post-production, and intercept a few seconds of the picture to ensure that the plot was not affected.

However, Jerry carefully observed her forehead and eyebrows through close contact during the shooting, and found that Gwyneth's appearance had not changed significantly compared to before.

So Jerry speculated that she and Brad Pitt had not made substantial progress, and now she just "changed her mind", which is a precursor to "cheating".

Seeing him and Mira go in and out, Gwyneth's resentful look confirmed Jerry's judgment.

In view of this, Jerry and James Sr. decided to postpone the filming of several important emotional scenes between Maguire and Dorothy, and moved the scenes where the relationship between the two was dull after marriage, Dorothy was neglected, and the scenes where Cooper Martin Jr. appeared at the same time to the front, reversing the order to ensure that the quality of the film was not affected.

At the same time, director James Sr. personally came forward to talk to Gwyneth and reminded her not to bring personal feelings into the set, and she must be with the crew during filming.

Gwyneth had no objection to this, at least in front of Director James Sr., and she agreed very simply, but then she found Jerry to complain, complaining that Jerry interfered with her personal freedom and deliberately destroyed her love life.

Jerry smiled and humbly accepted her accusations, like a leatherback turtle curled up, truly able to fight back and scold back.

In order to make this film well, let alone shrink his neck and pretend to be a turtle, even if Jerry is a scumbag who is intervened by a third party, he will not hesitate to do so.

This film carries too many expectations of Jerry Donn, for which he has put all his net worth and put a lot of effort and energy into it.

Therefore, he will never allow anyone to destroy his hard work, and he will not hesitate to strangle any unstable factors that interfere with the filming progress and the quality of the finished film.

Because success is no accident.

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After reformulating Gwyneth's filming plan, the filming schedule of the crew was back on track, and the three teams followed up on the shooting at the same time to speed up the filming process.

Like Gwyneth, Jerry postponed the intense/romantic scene between himself and his ex-girlfriend Ivey, played by Mila, to the later stages of filming, and filmed other scenes first.

The middle scenes are mainly focused on the four leading actors of Jerry, Mira, Gwyney and Cooper Martin Jr., among them, Cooper Martin Jr. has a heavy role, and most of them are against Jerry.

Cooper Martin Jr. is a good black actor.

When filming, he was very passionate, energetic, dancing, and had a lot of small movements, which was inevitably a bit of a stealing scene for other actors, but Jerry was not only not afraid of him stealing the scene, but also encouraged him not to scruple too much, and to relax and be bolder.

In the subsequent filming, Cooper Martin Jr. really did not disappoint Jerry, and his passionate performance made everyone in the crew applaud.

On the other hand, the protagonist Jerry Maguire behaved as gentle as jade in front of the camera, and played steadily as always.

When he is emotional, Jerry's cheeks are red and the muscles on his neck are bulging;

When his career was frustrated, he was angry, depressed, and decadent, but in the midst of the decadence, he was able to quickly calm down, be indomitable, be positive and optimistic, and devote all his energy to brokerage work;

When the plot transitions smoothly, he has a charming smile on his face, elegant manners, modesty and courtesy, like a polite gentleman.

The unique performance allowed Jerry to show a powerful aura in front of the camera that was not inferior to that of Cooper Martin Jr., so that when Martin said a large number of lines with high spirits, the rich expression changes on Mr. Maguire's face with soft facial lines were easier to attract the attention of the crew than him.

With Jerry's full mobilization and active encouragement, Cooper Martin Jr. performed very well, and he was able to pass no more than three rehearsals per scene.

Cooper Martin Jr. felt very comfortable with the hearty performance, his condition was getting better and better, and his desire to express himself became more and more intense, and the subsequent filming of the scene went very smoothly, and in less than three weeks, his scene was shot four-fifths of the way, leaving only some transition scenes that required a large number of extras to complete.

Cooper Martin Jr. did great, and Jerry Donn, who played with him, was even better.

Jerry's flexible body language was vividly integrated into the performance, and the nuanced facial expression changes made his performance in front of the camera more vivid and layered, and what impressed the crew members the most was his rigorous attitude towards the performance and his own unremitting efforts.

In the filming of the final scene, Cooper Martin Jr. caught the football at the last moment, but was knocked down and fell unconscious on the spot, Jerry in order to achieve the best visual effect, before the official shooting, he did 300 push-ups, and then turned upside down for 20 minutes before starting filming.

In front of the camera, Cooper Martin Jr. was lying unconscious on the field.

Off the court, Jerry called his wife to reassure her not to worry, while looking anxiously at Martin, who was surrounded by his teammates, sweat on his forehead but he didn't know it, his eyes were eager and hopeful, hoping that Martin would be able to get back on his feet.

When Martin opened his eyes and slowly got up, Jerry, who was eagerly looking forward to it outside the court, was suddenly pleasantly surprised, and couldn't help jumping up and waving his arms vigorously: "Yay!"

After being excited, his whole body suddenly relaxed like a punctured balloon, leaned on the billboard outside the field, squatted down weakly, sweat ran down his cheeks, covering his eyes, and only then did he wipe a handful of sweat beads, and his face was full of joyful smiles......

“Cut！”

The scene passed without a hitch.

Walking out of the camera, Cooper Martin Jr. thought that his improvisation on the field was the most brilliant, but after watching the replay of the screen on the monitor, his smug smile instantly froze, and his face collapsed, and the old James and the crew laughed heartily after seeing his depressed expression.

It's not once or twice like this.

Every time Cooper Martin Jr. plays with Jerry, he plays with all his strength, and when old James shouts, he thinks his performance is very good, but the result is that Jerry's performance is more wonderful than him, so that Cooper Martin Jr. is hit again and again, but the crew is very happy and laughs constantly.

After filming the rivalry between Jerry and Cooper Martin Jr., it means that the filming plan has entered the second half, and it is not far from the closing of the film.

The filming in the second half mainly focuses on Jerry, Mira, and Gwyneth, all of which are emotional scenes.

Prior to this, Jerry filmed the scenes in the transition stage of emotional entanglement with Mila and Gwyneth respectively, and there were only four major scenes left.

Just when the crew thought that the film would be successfully closed soon, before the first emotional scene started, there was a serious disagreement between Jerry and Director James Sr., so that the two had their own opinions and quarreled in public.

………… (To be continued)