Chapter 422: Visiting the Class
In the third week of filming of "Tornado", at the Oklahoma City airport, a Boeing passenger plane roared down the runway, and Virginia Madsen, who was sitting in first class, looked at the wetness on the runway outside the plane's window, and was a little happy.
At the end of last year, Virginia received an offer from Paramount for a film, but the filmmaker chose to shoot in Northern Ireland, and for the film, Virginia stayed in Northern Ireland for three months before returning to the United States.
Although Virginia is a very lonely woman, but the little man who has not seen her for three months, both mentally and physically, misses it very much, and has just returned to the United States, so she called to ask if she can come over to visit the class, and Eric is of course impossible to refuse.
After getting off the plane, Virginia walked out of the airport hall with her female assistant Shanny, and the two stopped and waited for a while, and a young man wearing a white baseball cap quickly ran over.
Greeting the two girls, the young man explained to himself, "Miss Madsen, I'm Peck Hearns, and Mr. Williams asked me to pick you up, come with me." β
The young man said, and very considerately took the luggage from Sunny's hand, and made a please.
"Thank you, Mr. Hernes," Virginia thanked politely, and walked out of the airport with the young man.
"Miss Madsen, just call me Peck. β
The three of them boarded a black Chevrolet van, and Virginia asked, "Peck, did the crew start work today?"
Peck Hearns felt a little strange at first, but when he remembered the sky outside, he understood why Virginia asked that. He replied, "Of course." Miss Madsen. For our film, the cloudy weather is the crew's dream shooting scene, and the crew has only encountered four days in total for three weeks of filming, so as long as it doesn't rain too much, the crew will definitely work as usual. β
Virginia was a little disappointed when she heard Peck Hoenes say this, and it was only Tuesday. If the crew doesn't rest today, it will probably have to wait until the weekend, and she can only stay here for three days because of her work arrangement, and she has to fly to New York on Friday to participate in a commercial event for her endorsement brand, which cannot be canceled because of the contract. With the workaholic nature of a little man, he will definitely not have much time to spend with himself on weekdays.
Cyberpunk City is about a hundred kilometers away from Oklahoma City, and because the whole journey is a highway, it only took an hour and a half to reach the location.
The weather here is gloomy though. But it didn't mean to rain at all, and the hotel where the crew was stationed was empty at this time, and there weren't many people.
Arrange the room for Virginia and her assistant. Peck Hearns asked, "Miss Madsen, are you here waiting for the crew to call it a day, or are you going to go to the set now?"
"Let's go to the set," Virginia said in a light tone, but it was hard to hide the eagerness.
Of course, Peck Hearns would not pierce it, nodded politely, glanced at Virginia's outfit at this time, and said: "Then, if we go to the set now, you'd better change your clothes, more casual, at least not wearing high heels." β
Virginia was wearing a burgundy suit and skirt, which she had chosen on purpose, and Eric liked her most as a working woman, but after hearing Peck Hearns say this, Virginia quickly returned to her room, changed her clothes, and when she came out again, she had changed into a normal jacket and jeans, and a pair of flat boots on her feet.
Peck Hearns swallowed his saliva without a trace, glanced at Virginia's round thighs wrapped in jeans, and sighed that a beautiful woman looks amorous in everything she wears, and it is inevitable that she is a little envious of Eric's glamorous fortune.
Several people got into an off-road vehicle this time, and quickly drove out of Punk City, this time the road conditions are no longer so flat, they are all relatively narrow cement roads, bumpy in the fields for half an hour, Virginia through the car window, far away saw a crane stretched into the air mechanical arm, and further forward, can faintly hear the roar.
Noticing Virginia's puzzled look, Peck Hernes explained: "This is the sound of a Boeing engine, which the crew rented from Boeing in order to create a more realistic hurricane effect. β
Virginia imagined the terrifying wind that could be created by the engines of an aircraft capable of sending hundreds of tons of airliners into the sky, and she smacked her tongue a little, and couldn't help but sigh that her little man was crazy enough.
The assistant next to her also asked in surprise, "Boeing engines, that kind of thing doesn't blow people away, does it?"
Peck Hoenes seemed pleased with the surprised looks of the two women, and said, "Of course, if you get close, you will be blown up, but it's okay to keep a certain distance." β
The buggy soon arrived near the set, and the staff on the periphery saw Peck Hearns' work card and put the buggy inside.
Virginia got out of the car with her assistant Shanny, and the roar of the Boeing engine suddenly became even more harsh.
The filming took place in a muddy canal, surrounded by crew members, all kinds of filming equipment scattered around the canal, and on the other side of the canal was a huge crane parked with the end of the crane's mechanical arm that seemed to be attached to a farm tractor.
After sending the two girls here, Peck Hearns completed his task, said a few words to Virginia, and walked to a makeshift board room not far away.
Everyone in the crew was busy, and Virginia didn't come forward to bother, standing in the open space more than ten meters away and watching for a while, but she didn't find Eric.
After more than ten minutes, the roar of the Boeing engine was temporarily quiet, and Virginia cheered up, thinking that the crew would rest for a while, but saw a drenched man crawl out from under the wooden bridge, and Virginia recognized it as Ric's royal photographer Nicle Frank and beckoned to him.
Nichol saw Virginia, his mud-stained face peeling open and revealing a mouthful of white teeth, waved his hand, but ran in the opposite direction, and Virginia saw Nichol from a distance talking loudly to a staff member. Soon a camera lens was taken from logistics. Then he went into the ditch again.
A moment later. Someone shouted 'Action' hoarsely over a loudspeaker, and the engine roared again.
Virginia's assistant Shanny was a little confused by the noise, pulled Virginia's sleeve, and said loudly: "Vicky, why don't we stand farther away and wait, it seems that this is where the actors rest." β
Virginia also knew that these scenes might be a dozen sets of shots at a time, and maybe they wouldn't be completed in an hour or two, so she nodded. Just as he was about to leave, he saw Nichol come out again and walk towards the two of them.
"Let's go over there," Nikl said loudly as he approached the two and gestured to the actor's lounge.
Walking a little farther, although it was already a little noisy, it no longer affected his speech, Nickel took off his muddy coat and asked the staff for a towel to wipe his face. A white towel quickly turned gray, and Nickel wiped his face and threw it in the trash.
Look at Nikkor cleaned up a bit. Virginia smiled and stretched out her hand, "Nikkor, it's been a long time. β
Nichol stretched out his hand and quickly took it back, seeing Virginia's puzzled look, he explained with a smile: "Don't shake hands, Miss Madsen, I just got out of the muddy water, it's not very clean, I heard that the muddy water here can make people infectious, and everyone in the crew has been vaccinated against hepatitis." β
Virginia looked understanding and asked, "Well, what about Eric, I don't seem to see him." β
Nikl pointed into the canal, "He's shooting in there." β
Virginia remembered how wolf Nichol looked when he came out of it, and remembered that Eric might also be soaked in filthy muddy water, and looked over there with some distress, and said, "Aren't you a photographer?"
"This is the first time we've shot a scene like this, and Eric wanted to see the most intuitive effect, so he took it personally. You may not know it, but Eric's photography skills are no worse than mine, and I really don't know how he learned it. β
As they were talking, a few people saw the crane over there suddenly start, and a farm tractor spun and flew up.
"This is filming the scene where the tractor is hung up by a tornado," Nikkor said, patting his head again, "Oops, I just forgot to tell Eric that you came over." β
"No, no, he's so busy, I don't have anything to do anyway, just wait here," Virginia quickly waved her hand.
"Okay then," Nikkor quickly finished the coffee handed over by the staff, stood up and said, "Then I'll go and get busy first, and I'll set up a camera position for the next shot, so I won't accompany you." β
Watching Nichol leave, Virginia's assistant Shanny couldn't help but smack her mouth, she was hired by Virginia at the beginning of the year, so she hadn't seen Eric at all, but at this time, everything she saw around TongguΓ² suddenly became a huge interest in Eric, you must know that she is now 26 years old, and she is only an assistant role, and I heard that the young man is only 20 years old, and he can already control such a huge crew, and at the same time have a film company like Firefly.
"Vicky, that ...... Mr. Williams, what kind of person is he?"
Virginia was stunned, as her personal assistant, it was impossible to hide many private matters from her, so when the time came, Virginia took the initiative to reveal some things to Sunny, and when she heard Sunny ask, she didn't know how to answer for a while, and after thinking for a while, she said: "I don't know what to say, in short, he is a very special person, you will know when you see it." β
Shanni sighed, and wanted to ask something more, but remembered the advice of a friend when she got the job, and swallowed back the words that were about to be spoken, because that friend told her that the most important thing to be a celebrity assistant was to put away her curiosity. Sunny's education is not high, she only studied at community college for two years before dropping out, and she finally managed to get this well-paying job, and she didn't want to lose it out of curiosity.
Because the shooting scene was noisy, the two of them had no temperament to chat, and they had been silently paying attention to the shooting scene not far away.
Watch as the crane lifts the tractor for a while, and another truck flies into the air. Eventually, the planks on the wooden bridge were scattered and flying, along with the appearance of debris flying from a man-made hurricane at the scene. Although Tornado still needs to be added in post, seeing this kind of scene, Sunny already feels that this movie will definitely surprise people.
The two of them arrived on the set at 10 o'clock and waited for two hours before the morning shooting ended, and the noisy environment finally quieted down.
Virginia stood up and walked towards the ditch.
Soon, she saw a man and a woman covered in mud being helped out of the ditch by the staff, the man Virginia didn't recognize, but she was sure that it should be the male protagonist of "Tornado". Although the other woman looked like a wolf, Virginia noticed the woman's slender eyes at a glance, even if she was dirty and her face was covered with muddy water, but those beautiful eyes made people feel that this must be a big beauty at a glance.
The woman didn't notice that Virginia was looking at her, and with the help of her assistant, she quickly walked to a temporary board room nearby, which Virginia estimated to be a bathroom.
Before the woman's figure disappeared, Virginia heard a familiar voice ring: "Vicky, you're here." β
Virginia turned her head and saw Eric, who was covered in dirt, with a camera wrapped in plastic sheeting.
"Eric," Virginia called softly, looking at Eric, who was covered with gray-black mud and water wolf, and took two steps forward with some distress, and saw an assistant walking over with a towel in his hand, Virginia took it and reached out to wipe it for Eric.
"No, I'd better do it myself," Eric handed the camera to someone else, took a towel from Virginia's hand and wiped it on his face to keep the muddy water from getting into his eyes, before he said, "There's a hepatitis virus here, I've got to go take a shower first, you wait a little longer, it'll be fine soon." β
Virginia nodded, and after Eric left, Sanny, who had been standing not far away, came over, watched Eric's back disappear into a bathroom, stuck out her tongue, and said, "He's Eric Williams." β
Virginia tapped Sanny on the head, "What's wrong?"
Sunny hurriedly shook her head: "No, it's nothing, I just think it'...... Felt ......"
"I think that's it, nothing special, right?"
Sanny nodded, Virginia didn't explain, looked at the little assistant who was still handsome, and said that if you feel his specialness, maybe you have already fallen into it. (To be continued......)