"Hi Tom," Eric greeted Hanks warmly as soon as he appeared on the studio, preferring the mild-mannered Hanks to Cruise, who had always been polite to each other.

"Hey, Eric, I'm not late, am I?" Hanks asked, hugging Eric.

"Of course not," Eric nodded to Hanks' assistant before turning to Hanks, "It's going to take about fifteen minutes to set up the scene, and you can just take advantage of the time to put on makeup." ”

The two walked side by side towards the dressing room, and Hanks greeted the crew warmly, looked around, and asked curiously in a low voice, "Where's Cruise?"

"Maybe go touch up your makeup," Eric said lightly, Hanks nodded, he didn't say anything, after the previous few meetings, Hanks didn't have much of a good impression of this actor with the same name as himself, Cruise is too arrogant, even if he is polite to a person, it will make people feel like they are being charity.

Everyone on the set had already gone through the makeup process, so it didn't take too long for Hanks to put on makeup.

After the breakfast room scene was set up, the photographer Nikle walked up to Eric, who was playing with Hanks and Cruise: "Eric, you'd better come and have a look." ”

Eric said sorry to the two superstars and got up and followed Nickel to a corner of the restaurant where a camera was placed.

"Eric, look here, there's going to be a quick sweep of the camera later, but I can only operate the camera from this position," Nichol awkwardly demonstrated, "You see, it's a bit difficult to operate, not to mention awkward, and the dynamics are not easy to grasp." ”

Although Eric is not as professional as Nikkor, he also knows a lot of shooting skills, and he goes up to the camera crane arm to try it, and it is really awkward, but the best position to operate is occupied by the wall behind him.

"What do you mean, Nikel?" asked Eric, letting go of the camera and clapping his hands.

"I can only try it a few times, and the angle of the shot is the best, if it really doesn't work, and you want the best results......" Nickel pointed behind Eric, "Then we'll have to tear down this wall." ”

"Let's try a few times," Eric said, he didn't mind tearing down the wall, it was a soundstage, not a location, and the Colombian side would definitely cooperate, but it would be another waste of at least an hour

"Alright," Nikkor nodded, "So let's get started." ”

There are three acts in this small dining room scene, the first scene is that the two are completely strangers and are eating breakfast separately, of course, according to the plot, at this time Andy has begun to pay attention to Sean, but Sean is completely unaware of this. In the second act, there will be a scene of the two rubbing shoulders, Andy leaves a tea coaster with the number 13 written on it to Sean, and in the third act and the longest scene, Andy spends a minute convincing Sean to let the police cooperate with him to capture the villain Bald Monk to avenge his father.

"Attention all personnel, Act 12, Scene 1!"

Sean stared at the newspaper in front of him, eating the cake, and heard the sound of the restaurant door being pushed open, so he naturally glanced up, and quickly shifted his gaze to the newspaper again.

"good!" Eric gave a thumbs up to Hanks, followed by Cruise as Andy eating, staring at the TV above his head in a slightly stunned shot, this shot was not difficult for Cruise at all, and Eric gave Cruise a thumbs up very fairly.

There will be three cartoon shots in this scene in the original version, which should be an animation that Andy likes very much, but unfortunately with only four weeks left to live, every time he sees that familiar picture, it will make Andy feel sad that time is running out, which is why Andy will be stunned every time he sees this shot.

And here, Eric doesn't plan to find a random cartoon to make up the numbers, he plans to use the shots.

Although only Zài is in Eric's plans for now, when the two films are on track, Jeffrey will start preparing, and now that is only April, as long as the six protagonists can be identified, Eric has plenty of time to shoot a few classic shots to add to the film.

The new movie will feature a TV series directed by Eric Williams himself, which is a good gimmick for the promotion of the film, and at the same time it is promoted, which is another win-win.

After the two shots are completed, the most difficult shots are quickly flicked.

As the slate was laid, Eric stared at the monitor, and Nichol operated the camera to stay on Hanks' face for a second before it began to swing rapidly, and Eric was visibly aware of the difficulty and unevenness of the transitions.

Although the camera finally stayed on Cruise's side face, Eric could only shout for the card.

Nichol then tried six more times in a row, all of which failed, and Eric knew the reason for the flawed shot, so he patiently asked Nichol to try again and again.

But after the eleventh attempt failed, Cruise finally got a little impatient, he had eaten many pieces of cream cake in a row, and he didn't understand that he thought that such a simple shot would have to be tried so many times, while the staff turned the camera back to its original position, Cruise stood up, glanced at Nickel with sweat on his forehead with some contempt, and said to Eric: "Eric, maybe I can introduce you to a better photographer." ”

Cruise didn't mean to lower his voice at all, and said this sentence in front of everyone, and the scene fell directly into embarrassment.

Because of his awkward posture, Nichol operated more than ten times in a row, and his waist began to hurt a little, he didn't expect his efforts to be evaluated like this, and he wanted to glare at Cruise angrily, but he was afraid that doing so would make it difficult for Eric, so he could only stand there helplessly.

Many people in the crew were dissatisfied with Cruise's rude words, they had worked with Nikkor for many years and were well aware of Nikkor's strength.

Although he had just experienced more than a dozen failures in a row, everyone understood the reason for the camera operation and patiently accompanied Nikkor to try it over and over again.

In the face of everyone's gaze, Eric knew that this matter had to be handled carefully, otherwise it would cause conflicts between the crew and the actors, but it was not easy to appease Cruise and not cause dissatisfaction among the staff.

After thinking about it for a moment, Eric could only stand up and walk to the camera, patiently explaining to Cruise why the shot failed so easily.

After listening to Eric's explanation, Cruise also realized that he had just wronged Nikkor, shrugged his shoulders and showed a faint smile at the photographer: "I'm really sorry, then, let's continue." ”

With that, Cruise sat back in his seat again.

Eric patted Nikkor on the shoulder soothingly, and said softly, "I'm trying two or three times, and if it doesn't work, I'll tear down the wall." ”

Nikkor knew that Eric could explain the reason to Cruise in person, and he was already very defended himself, so he didn't mind Cruise's insincere apology, but nodded gratefully to Eric: "I'll do my best." ”

Although this little turmoil seems to have passed lightly, it is also destined to leave some traces in the hearts of many people, anyway, several crew members who originally had a great impression of Cruise's series of movies are no longer eager for it.

Maybe it was luck or something else, but the second time I tried, the shot finally got through, and when Eric shouted 'good', many people applauded involuntarily, and Nickel breathed a sigh of relief and shook his sore arm.

Next, the second act of the two passing by is also easily cleared, and finally it is the first rivalry between Cruise and Hanks.

"Hey, it's so early, Inspector?" the little girl in the restaurant greeted Sean warmly when she saw Sean pushing the door in.

"yes, a friend," Sean replied, walking towards the bar.

Andy stuffed pastry in his mouth, heard Sean's words, laughed, and his expression was proud, and it is indeed worth being proud of the fact that Sean, the once powerful police elite, has been playing around in the past few days.

Sean came to Andy's side with a stiff face and slapped the tea coaster with the number 13 written on it on the bar.

"Sit down," Andy said, putting down the glass.

Sean pulled out a photo from his suit pocket: "You're right, Mr. Zhang." ”

"Found?" Andy turned his head.

"You stole the gem, avenged your father, and asked me out?"

"As I said, this game will take three days to play. ”

Sean tapped into the pocket on his chest that he was accustomed to holding documents: "It's not up to you now, I'm a police officer." ”

"Clean up the warehouse, change the lamps......"

Cruise said this, and Eric shouted to stop.

"That's right, Cruise, your smile should be more sarcastic," Eric walked up to Cruise first, put forward his opinion, and at the same time grinned a smile, wanting to give Cruise a demonstration, but found that he didn't have the talent of Master Xu to demonstrate a qiē to an actor, so he could only be disappointed: "That, pause for two minutes, you can brew it well." ”

After explaining to Cruise, Eric turned to Hanks again: "Hanks, hearing Andy's ridicule, you are too embarrassed, although you are very embarrassed in your heart, but you also have your own self-esteem, so while embarrassing, you need to do some body language, such as nodding and the like, to hide your embarrassment." ”

"Well, Eric, I'll think again," Hanks nodded.