Chapter 62: Theo's way of acting

Everyone present was taken aback by Theorod, including the actor of Barry, who played opposite Theorod, Linny Mike Colin was stunned in place, and it took a long time to come back to his senses and pat Theorod on the back who was retching, and asked: "Child, are you okay?"

"No, thanks for the concern, I'm fine. Theolod waved his hand, and after throwing up, he finally felt a little lighter in his body.

"Today's shoot is over early, everyone can go home!" Rich shouted, walked up to Theorod, grabbed his arm with one hand, and propped him up, "What's the matter? โ€

"Don't exaggerate, Gai, I just threw up, an instinctive physical reaction of Eddie's under high pressure and extreme stress. Theolod wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, looked at Richie, who was making a fuss in his eyes, and gently broke away from his support, adding, "It's normal." โ€

"No, it's not normal at all. Richie looked at Theorod, maybe he didn't understand what he meant, "That's right, in the script, Eddie does vomit, or why should I ask the props crew to prepare those soups?" But you really vomited, Theo, you haven't even taken the soup into your mouth and spit it out, you have emptied your own stomach first!"

"Isn't that right? I'm Add. โ€

Richie was slightly stunned, from Theorod's understatement and even some taken for granted tone, he suddenly realized what he wanted to express, and suddenly, Richie was dissatisfied and even stared at him a little sternly, but before he wanted to say something, he didn't forget to send away the people gathered around him: "It's all scattered, what are you doing here?"

The director's words were still quite useful, at least after most people listened to them, they immediately turned around and walked away to pack their things. Richie then turned his attention to Theorod: "Listen, Theo, you've talked to me before, you said that in this movie, I don't have any requirements for the role at all, that's right, I don't have any harsh requirements. Now that you know this, why bother?"

"I mean, it's not that I don't appreciate your dedication, on the contrary, you're doing a great job, my friend, but you don't need to be too yourself when everyone is 'playing' the movie. I want to make a really cool movie, I want to be a really cool maverick director, and I want you to relax and play boldly in my films, instead of 'abusing yourself'!"

"'Abuse'?" Theorod's eyes widened in surprise, he couldn't understand why his entry into the play was 'masochistic' in Ritchie's eyes, but he laughed because he knew the director cared about him. And Richie couldn't help but have a headache when he saw that Theolod dared to smile so brightly after his stern reprimand.

"Don't laugh, I'm serious. โ€

"No, Richie, I find that the two of us disagree on the concept of 'enjoying the movie,' and that's okay, because there are always a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. In fact, I've always enjoyed movies and played movies, and I never pushed myself in movies, and I never saw it as a challenge, but I was different from yours. โ€

"What you think of as 'playing a movie' is to play with the plot and characters without constraints, while my 'playing movie' is to become a character, to be another person, to live in a movie, to live a completely different life. I like to experience this different joys and sorrows, enjoy the life of the character, and I think the fun of the movie lies in how you meet and understand a new friend in a fantasy world, how you let more people know this new friend, and how you interpret his life, whether extraordinary or insignificant. โ€

"That's how I act, it's how I enjoy it, these characters are like โ–กโ–ก people in another world, just like us, they have emotions, they have thoughts, and I have to do everything I can to prove to everyone that they are alive, otherwise, it's disrespect for the characters, disrespect for life. โ€

"If I had to give up and change, I wouldn't be able to do it. โ€

Theorod said indifferently. When talking about those characters, the sparkle in his eyes made Richie think of the moth that was fighting the fire for some reason. At the end, he looked at Theorod with some headaches, and said helplessly, "Why do you seem to be so mild-mannered, but you are as stubborn as those Germans? Oh, by the way, because you have German blood! Should I be glad I didn't end up writing Eddie as a hero who overturned a group of people with two guns? Wait, when you played "Fear of the First Degree," ......

"You definitely don't want to know. Theorod was referring to the previous book "The Murder Plan".

"Okay, let's skim over the topic and then turn our attention to dinner and the script. I told you that I would talk to you about the script, right?"

"Oh no, Gai, your script is pretty good, and I'm not going to change my lines in the future......"

"You can't fool me, Theorod, even if you don't add lines, can you guarantee that you won't add some small actions at will? Let's find a random restaurant for a meal, and then go home and start working, work!"

Richie's refinement of the script couldn't help but make Theolod regret why he couldn't think about it at first and added lines without authorization, but if he didn't add these small actions, he couldn't play a good guiding role, and he could already imagine how hard it would be to stay up all night tonight.

And that's exactly what happened, with Theorod and Ritchie each draped in a blanket, sitting on the floor with their backs to the couch, and the low coffee table in front of them was covered with paper. Theolod "played" almost the entire script of his own scene - in order to make better changes and inspiration for Richie - and sometimes he had to take on the role of someone else.

They didn't know when it would be completed, all they knew was that when they were woken up by the alarm clock, the two of them were in their working positions, Theolod lying on the table, and Richie leaning back on the couch.

It was a bad decision to live with the director and screenwriter, which strengthened Theolod's determination to go out and find an apartment.

In the end, though, he still didn't find the apartment he was looking for - that's a story for another time.

Time passed day by day, a month disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the filming progress was already halfway through. With Theorod, most of the foursome's scenes were filmed smoothly, plus Winnie Jones was locked up for a few days for beating up his neighbors, so Richie had to adjust the shooting sequence and bring the foursome and others forward, so in the end, there were not many shots about Theorod, and if nothing else, he could return home early.

But Theolod didn't tell Maggie the news, he was going to surprise her.

Eddie sat quietly across from his two fellow refugees with his legs crossed and a cup of tea in his hand. He sat alone on a single couch, while Bakken and Soap sat on a bench. He was not in a hurry to speak, but slowly tasted the tea in the cup, as if the cheap, liquid that had been repeatedly boiled and lost its taste was a good tea that was hard to buy.

This set of shots will be placed in the middle of the film in the final film. However, during the shooting, it was put in post-production, and it was shot with the other foursome apartment scenes.

"Did you tell the old fellow about this?" said Tom, who came over and sat down beside Soap. He was referring to the fact that if they didn't pay for it, Eddie's father would lose the bar.

"He doesn't have to know. Eddie said, placing the teacup on the table, his head leaning back slightly, finding a comfortable position, and his hands lazily folded together on his abdomen. His movements looked lazy and casual, but his expression was very serious, with a hint of strictness, "And you just need to know that I called you here for a reason, listen, I have a plan." โ€

"Cut!" Rich gestured with his hand raised. He thinks that Theolod has completely blurred the character of Eddie and several others, he is a small person, and he is also the person who advises in his own small group, he can stay calm at critical moments, but he can also panic and be at a loss in tense moments.

But the moment he sat quietly on that couch, anyone knew that he was the heart of the small team, like gravity, holding his three friends together. This kind of aura is not something that any actor can have, and it is no wonder that he was nominated for an Oscar.

"You kid was pretending to be like that. Fleming glanced at the cup in front of Theorod, it was just an empty cup, there was no tea, Theorod just drank a bunch of air, "Have you ever thought about where to go after filming? I can be your tour guide." โ€

"I'm still going to be working on my next film, so I don't think I'll be in London for long, at most I'll have two days to get around after shooting. But you've taken me around a lot of places on weekend breaks, and I don't think there's anywhere else in London to visit โ€“ except for the theatres and the British Museum. โ€

"We're still filming, and it seems that we don't have time to see you off at the airport. Jason listened and sighed regretfully, "It's a good thing I don't have any interest in museums." โ€

Theolod still has two more shots to complete the filming of "Two Smoking Guns", but the other three are different, they also have shots other than Eddie.

"In that case, why don't we have the send-off party earlier?" Richie's voice interjected, "Don't we have one of us left to snatch up Doug's and get together at home for a party?" I'm allowing you to drink - but not you, Theo, you're a good baby, maybe you can smoke...... Oh sorry, I forgot that you don't like to smoke yourself, so drink sugar water, at least it looks like wine. โ€

Richie's mention was cheered on by three people except Theorod, and later in the filming, Richie also seemed to prove that he was true to his word, and seriously exchanged the prop sugar water for real wine - except for the bottle in front of Theorod.

The scene of the foursome partying and pretending to be crazy was originally a bridge of free play, and Richie also made it clear that the four of them could be as high as they liked, according to his original words, that is: "Guys, you have robbed the back of the car for drugs! It's all yours! Don't be reserved like a sissy!"

Theolod is not the party type, but he can act out the feeling of going crazy at a party, and even pretend that he is drunk, sit down at the piano and play Schubert's "Trout". After being slightly stunned, the other people laughed, threw off the wine bottle directly, and came to Eddie's side, reaching out from time to time and pressing a few keys at random to make trouble.

When this set of shots is over, Theolod is left with only one last scene, the rivalry between Eddie and his father, and the rivalry between him and Sting.

At the end of the film, except for the main character quartet and the loan collector Chris and his son, the rest of them die due to various unexpected and logical coincidences. However, because of the commotion - Doug and his gang kidnapped a traffic policeman by the way during the robbery - the four were eventually taken to the police station and detained.

Of course, maybe they were too lucky, and the traffic police didn't recognize the four of them, so they walked around the police station and were acquitted.

Outside the police station, it will be Theorod and Sting's last scene.

Eddie was the last to come out of the police station, and before him, his three buddies had already been taken home by their parents with lawyers, only Eddie's father, JD, was indifferent to this and left Eddie at the police station to his fate. It wasn't until the next day that he was released, with a wound on his face, and saw JD waiting outside.

Looking at the car that was very familiar, but only a handful of times he had ridden, a trace of uneasiness and irritation gradually appeared on Eddie's face. He hesitated a few steps, patted his pocket, and pulled out his last cigarette before breathing a sigh of relief. Silently lit a cigarette, Eddie walked to the car like a great enemy, pulled the door open, and sat inside.

"Extinguish the damn smoke. These were the first words JD said to his son, who had been squatting in the police station all night.

And this sentence also succeeded in turning the calm on Eddie's face that he wanted to continue to maintain into irritability and impatience.

"Bloodyhell!, your son just got out of the police station, and that's the first thing you said to him?" Eddie glared at JD's side face unwillingly, anyone knew it, anyone could see it in his eyes, he just wanted JD's attention, but the other party was still indifferent.

"Yes, you hear me, extinguish the damn smoke. โ€

"I think I spent the night in there, and it wasn't too much to smoke a cigarette. โ€

"Extinguish, or you get out of here. โ€

"......" Eddie gave JD a look of disbelief, and he could tell that he was serious, which made the unwillingness and irritability on his face gradually turn into anger and disappointment. He turned his head and looked ahead, and his eyes were like that of a wounded child, and almost all the onlookers began to reprimand the father in their hearts, why he couldn't show that little bit of fatherly love after this qiฤ“.

Gradually, all the emotions faded from Eddie's face, and he lowered his eyes expressionlessly, and pressed the cigarette butt in his hand to the palm of his hand. The sting from the scorching burn didn't even make Add's brow furrow, it was the only cigarette he had, and he hadn't even smoked a few puffs, whether it was for the sake of frugality or for the sake of pure anger.

Of course, Eddie also knew that JD would be extremely distressed and angry if he wiped his cigarette directly on the car, but he would not be distressed or worried if it was his son who was injured. Therefore, Eddie's action is very natural, and with a hint of self-deprecation. After doing this, he put the cigarette in his pocket, took out another toothpick, and bit it into his mouth.

"This unconscious kid is starting to ...... again" Richie couldn't help but curse as he watched Theolod extinguish the cigarette with his palm. Although he didn't even frown, Richie didn't have to think about it to know how much it hurt - it was real smoke and not some prop, and once this kid entered the play and said that he would harm himself, Richie didn't know whether to perform his dedication or worry about his mental state.

Although Theolod's move startled the rest of the staff, Sting, who was playing with him, was still able to keep JD indifferent. After all, he is a person who has seen big scenes, and he has also performed a lot of dramas on Broadway.

Eddie seems to have turned into the yuppie in front of his partner again, with a decadent masculinity with the abrasions at the corners of his mouth and a toothpick showing sharp points.

"Are you alright?" JD then looked at his son, but this concern didn't look like a concern at all, but a nonsense sentence to deal with an errand, and his last sentence was the point, "What's more, I'm okay?"

"It's okay, it looks like this. Add was still looking ahead.

"Look?"

"The creditors are dead, everybody is dead, the earth is still spinning, it's still raining in London, so, yes, it looks like that, and I need some alcohol. โ€

"You know ......"

"Oh, of course, father, I know the way to your bar, you don't have to be kind enough to show me the way, thank you. Eddie said, opening the car door, stepping out of the car, and walking onto the road without looking back.

Eddie's pace was unhurried, the corners of his black coat swayed with his steps, he took out the cigarette again, lit it as he walked forward, and took a deep breath, and after a second or two, he slowly raised his eyes, looked ahead (the camera), and slowly exhaled a string of white smoke.

After this scene, all of Theorod's scenes ended here.