Eric returned to his seat, and two minutes later, filming began again.

This rivalry scene is more than three minutes long, of course, it is impossible to shoot it in one go, Eric divided the three-minute scene into seven sub-shots with an average of less than 30 seconds, and for each shot Eric strives to achieve perfection, so the number of ng is far more than other shots shot in the past few days.

Cruise and Hanks also gradually seem to realize something, and the requirements for their own performance are becoming more and more strict, and in the end, it is obvious that they are competing, and sometimes when Eric thinks that the effect is okay, Cruise or Hanks will take the initiative to find out the flaws in the performance they have just performed, and then ask for a reshoot.

Eric is quite happy to see this happen, and I don't know when the next time the two superstars will work together, and maybe there will be no chance to work together again. Therefore, Eric also wanted to leave a perfect rivalry scene in this movie.

"Card ......"

After NG again, Eric looked at his watch, from the beginning of the last scene to the present more than an hour, only five of the three minutes and seven sub-shots were completed, and the last two most important Andy one-minute lobbying was not filmed.

But it's time to get off work, and looking at Cruise and Hanks, who are still sparkling, and Joe Pesci, who has been waiting for nearly an hour to play the role of the inspector general of the Crime Squad, Eric reminds, "It's time to get off work, two." ”

After Eric finished speaking, he looked at Cruise and Hanks expectantly, as an Oriental in his bones, he didn't have any aversion to overtime, and even took it for granted, and he also wanted to finish all the scenes of the extra hour shift, so he hoped that the two would take the initiative to complete this scene in overtime.

But Eric found that he had underestimated the paranoia of Europeans and Americans about the eight-hour workday, and when he heard Eric say this, Cruise and Hanks, who were still eager to try, both went straight to the play, stood up and shook hands with a smile, and there was a kind of chess opponent in their expressions, and then they said hello to Eric respectively, and began to pack up their things and plan to leave, and there was no plan to work overtime at all from beginning to end.

Eric complained in his heart, and could only shrug helplessly and announce that the crew was at work.

Only then did Eric take time out to walk up to Joe Pesci, "Sorry, Joe, for keeping you waiting for an hour. ”

Joe Percy shook his head without mind, and said in his characteristic voice, "It's nothing, Eric, I've just watched a full hour of great performances next to me, and I'm a little worried that my watch won't be as good as I should be. ”

"You don't have to worry about that, I think it's Hanks who should be worried, I think he can be stolen by your character at any time, your character's lines and action design are so happy. ”

"That's true, but I haven't been in a comedy before, you know, the one I've been in before, and the most recent one, it's not a comedy. ”

"Joe, I think you're more suited to comedy, maybe after this movie, you'll discover your comedic talent, and to be honest, you know, when I was making this movie, I thought that the most suitable actor for the older stupid thief Harry was you. ”

Joe Pesci's eyes widened slightly, he felt that Eric had not deceived himself at all about this detail, it was ah, the box office was about to exceed $300 million.

"Well, why ...... then" Joe Pesci gestured to a meaningless gesture in disappointment, and of course he understood what it meant to miss out.

Eric understood what the other party meant, and helplessly spread his hands and explained: "Because I couldn't afford to hire you at that time, the budget was too small." ”

"Perhaps...... You can try to invite me first. ”

"You know it's impossible, and if I wanted you to offer $20,000 to the Harry actor in the movie now, you'd turn it down without even thinking about it. ”

Joe Percy understands that this is indeed the case, although he is not a well-known actor, but after all, he has won a nomination for Best Supporting Actor, unless he can predict the prophet, he will definitely not accept the salary of 20,000 US dollars, shaking his head, Joe Pesci said: "This is ...... It's a shame. ”

"Okay, let's not talk about that, don't we already have a chance to work together now. ”

"That's really...... Eric, you're bringing this up right now just to make me sleep well tonight. I missed such a great opportunity. ”

"Everyone actually misses thousands of opportunities in their lifetime, so it's not a big deal, go back and wash your face, brush your teeth and take a bath, you can't just take two more sips of wine, sleep and forget about it. Eric patted Pessy on the shoulder and comforted.

"How can you forget," Joe Percy rolled his eyes at Eric, then shook his head, "Forget it, I'll go back first, it's really ......"

Seeing Joe Percy leave with a disappointed face, Eric began to regret telling the other party the news, he originally just wanted to use this little thing to get close to Joe Pesci.

Hopefully, Joe Pesci won't be in the form of a sister-in-law in the next period of time, repeating 'I missed it' or something.

After arranging a qiē, Eric was really about to leave, but he saw the director Martin Brest at the door of the studio, and the assistant behind him was holding a thick stack of bags.

Eric knew what was in it at a glance, and after greeting him, Eric asked, "Martin, didn't you say that the list of candidates for the day after tomorrow can be determined, why is it so fast?"

"I'm sorry, Eric, the original plan was indeed the day after tomorrow, but for various reasons, it was screened two days in advance, and Al also wanted to start it as much as possible, so I can only wait for you here. ”

"Why didn't Al come?" asked Eric curiously.

Martin explained: "Al has already started to figure out the character, he is adjusting to the habits of blind people these days, and he specifically told me not to disturb him. ”

Eric nodded in understanding, thought for a moment, and pointed to a Passat parked not far from Martin, "Is that your car?"

Martin nodded.

"Then let's talk in the car, I just happened to be going to Malibu, can you take me there?"

"Absolutely. ”

A few people got into the car, Eric gave the address, and Martin's assistant started the car.

In the back seat, Eric first unpacked the shortlist of candidates for one of the most important protagonists, middle school student Charlie Simmons.

Martin explained next to him: "Eric, these are very good young people who have two rounds of auditions, because there are more middle school students in them, so there are a total of thirty shortlists, and after you choose Charlie Simmons to play it, we can directly select a series of Charlie's classmates from the remaining list." ”

"Well," Eric pulled out the thick stack of documents and asked casually, "By the way, how about Miss Gabriel Anwar whom I introduced to the past?"

Martin thought that the petite girl might have something to do with Eric, so he explained in detail: "After her role was confirmed, the girl went back to England the other day, but she came back soon and is currently staying in a hotel on Wilcher Avenue, and by the way, she also visited you that day when you were in an unexpected coma." Eric, do you need the address of her hotel?"

"No need," Eric just asked casually, scanning the list, the thirty candidates were arranged alphabetically according to the actors' surnames, so Eric directly saw two parallel Hollywood superstar names at the D prefix.