Chapter Forty-Six: Difficult Tucker
The movie "Rush Hour" is really a big ambition for Fang Long to break into the world film industry.
Because in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry, he has reached the peak of his acting career, and there is really no way to continue to move forward, he can only find a new breakthrough through Hollywood to re-expand his career territory.
Therefore, he is very attentive and serious about the entire filming and production work that is about to start in "Rush Hour", especially in the martial arts action direction he is in charge of, he tries to fully show the strong strength of the Fang family class.
Just after Li Xuan entered the crew and the entire Fang family class arrived, Fang Long quickly arranged their respective tasks for everyone, so that they could work together to do a good job in the daily work of martial arts instructors, all in order to cooperate with director Brett Ratner's requirements.
Of course, before officially starting the personal affairs of martial arts instructors, Li Xuan, who had just settled down, had another very important thing to do, that is, to participate in the role audition arranged by the director first.
Although Fang Long had already strongly recommended Li Xuan to the crew before, let him play the Chinese villain Juntao, the arms dealer who showed his face more and acted as the spokesperson of the boss in the film.
But for director Brett Ratner, he will not easily confirm that Li Xuan will play before seeing the level of Li Xuan's performance in person, even if his first impression of Li Xuan is very good.
In fact, this audition is really a very formal role selection, and there are several Chinese or Asian actors participating in the audition. In Los Angeles, USA, in Hollywood, there is never a shortage of actors with any faces.
Therefore, Li Xuan has to work extra hard, and he even has to do his best to be able to defeat those old birds who have been around Hollywood for many years and get this extremely important opportunity for him.
However, Li Xuan also has a lot of advantages, that is, he is more familiar with the script than the Chinese American or Asian actors who come to the interview, and he himself is very consistent with the basic fact that the characters in the show are bilingual in Chinese and English.
When it was his turn to enter the office for the audition, the interviewers opposite the director, Brett Lightner, and the producer, lined up in a very serious line.
Fortunately, Li Xuan is also experienced in a hundred battles, even in the face of a group of serious American filmmakers, he did not have too much fear, and soon acted very skillfully according to the director's scene proposition on the spot.
In his opinion, the main characteristic of Juntao, the arms dealer in the crew of "Rush Hour", is fierceness, and he just needs to do more performance around this point, and he doesn't need to add more ideological or literary temperament and other performance temperaments. In any case, this movie, which is originally a comedy action movie, will not have much connotation.
After honing his acting skills in the last two movies, as well as Li Xuan's usual very good learning and comprehension ability, plus the magical images in his mind from time to time. Li Xuan was able to deduce the performance effect he hoped to achieve very easily, and perfectly portrayed a fierce arms dealer without any props in a short period of time.
This situation not only satisfied him, but also the director who interviewed him, Brett Ratner, and others. Then, during the whole interview process, his fluent English and Chinese Xiangjiang colloquialisms switched seamlessly, as well as his quite good English line skills, which were recognized by the director and other interviewers.
In the end, there were no more accidents, and after the official selection, director Brett Ratner successfully handed over the role of Juntao to Li Xuan, who was quite good.
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After the crew completed all the casting and preliminary preparations, they quickly started the official filming work.
And the first scenes and scenes that need to be filmed are naturally a lot of plots in Los Angeles, USA.
The first main actor to appear was Mr. Chris Tucker.
When it comes to this Mr. Negro actor, he is really a wonder.
He is obviously not popular in Hollywood, just a third-rate actor, but in this "Rush Hour" movie, he clearly thinks he is the No. 1 actor everywhere, and he is very big, as if he is an emperor superstar.
In the process of filming specific scenes in the performance, he has the most requirements and a lot of trouble, and he will always do something completely unacceptable.
Fortunately, his sense of humor and the improvisational style of black people are very good, otherwise director Bright Ratner would have planned to change actors.
In addition, just the literary aspect of Chris Tucker is already very difficult, but when it comes to filming his action scenes, the situation becomes even more troublesome!
For action scenes, this guy is quite repulsive and uncooperative, which makes the members of the Fang family class who are specially responsible for serving him action scenes miserable, and they can hardly work, especially the communication between them, which is very inconvenient, causing many misunderstandings.
In desperation, Li Xuan had no choice but to take the initiative to take over the burden of his brother and continue to be responsible for arranging and communicating for Chris Tucker's specific action scenes.
Although a little unpleasant thing seems to have happened between the two of them, Li Xuan doesn't care much about it for a long time, and he is also bent on making this movie well. After all, who wouldn't say something bad behind others' backs, even if Li Xuan was young and vigorous, he would still distinguish between priorities and priorities, and he would definitely focus on this Hollywood movie that was very rare for everyone in their Fang family.
It's just that Li Xuan is much more serious and responsible than the previous member of the Fang family class, and he is very strict with the attitude of all kinds of action scenes.
So, for Chris Tucker, this situation is obviously even more unwilling to accept it!
This small family and self-righteous black actor seems to think that Li Xuan is deliberately making trouble for him.
"Hey, it's too dangerous to do this, I'm a starring actor!"
Li Xuan had just used props according to the requirements of the script to demonstrate to Chris Tucker the action scene in which he was going to chase the car and climb to the Los Angeles city sightseeing bus, and this guy was already screaming and dissatisfied.
Li Xuan, who was not surprised, spread his hand and pointed to the direction of the director behind the screen, and replied: "This is the arrangement in the script, and this is a very ordinary action scene, I believe you can complete it very well." ”
"No, no, I can't finish it, you're deliberately making it more difficult for me to move, so I can't climb the moving car, I have to climb the stopped car. Chris Tucker didn't want to accept it at all.
Seeing this, Li Xuan immediately sneered: "Okay, you go to the director to talk and ask him to change the play for you." ”
In fact, Li Xuan is not worried that Chris Tucker will go to the director, this guy is too self-expressive, which has already made the authoritative director Brett Ratner quite dissatisfied, so he doesn't believe that the director will continue to accept Chris Tucker's very unreasonable demands.
Sure enough, Chris Tucker looked at what the director was discussing seriously with martial arts instructor Fang Long, and couldn't help sighing: "Okay, for the director's sake, I'll learn again." ”
However, having said that, it's a pity that Chris Tucker still has a perfunctory attitude in the next learning process of action scenes on props, and he is obviously not interested in Li Xuan's oriental-style action scenes at all.
"Okay, since you don't want to act at all, it's okay, I'll go talk to the director, and when you officially shoot on the street later, you can directly find a stand-in to help you act. In these years, there are actors who are not willing to go into battle even in this simple action scene, and see which directors are willing to cooperate with you in big productions in the future. Li Xuan muttered deliberately, and seemed to really want to walk over to the director Brett Ratner to discuss.
When Chris Tucker heard this, he was also stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted: "Wait, okay, I was a little tired just now, and I didn't look carefully how you did it." Now you teach it again, and I'll learn it again!"
Hehe, I know.
Li Xuan couldn't help but snicker secretly, knowing that his method had succeeded.
This guy obviously cares a lot about his presence in front of the camera, Li Xuan successfully grasped his weakness at this time, forcing him to prepare for action scenes.