Chapter 471 Scene 471 Negotiations broke down
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"Xiexie, Miss Jenny." Li Xiaole took the laptop with a smile, and casually swiped the page of the software, and the photos of the actors on the homepage read "Jason Taylor", born in 1976, Brazilian, 7 years of actor experience" and other simple information, like a marquee.
Click on one of the female avatars "Emma Johnson", and immediately enter the secondary page, all the details of the actor, such as religion, blood type, height, language, physical characteristics, etc., are all on the page options, and the largest proportion of the page is the actor's acting experience and self-introduction.
Enter the self-introduction page, which is to play a video of the actor to introduce himself, of course, this is not to listen to what he says, but mainly to let the director who came to find the actor, the producer listen to the actor's eloquence and pronunciation suitable for which role, and the camera is constantly changing to shoot the actor's face and body from all angles, so that people can see all her facial contours and body features.
Compared with the third-rate way in China where an agent dares to talk to the director about playing a female role with an actor's art photo album, CAA is obviously much more professional.
"Wow~! I know this guy, isn't he the dad who played "Everyone Hates Chris"? When Ah Gai saw Li Xiaole flipping through the information of a sturdy black actor, he suddenly screamed, and couldn't hold back a burst of ecstasy in his heart, didn't he say that he wanted to choose actors on equal terms? How can there be such a high-profile actor?
Li Xiaole looked at the information of Terry Cruise, but frowned, this big black man is indeed a familiar face, he has played supporting roles in various movies, full of joy, in the original version of "Life Remote Control", he is a small role with only a few scenes.
In fact, although Terry Cruise is a rugby player, he is not bad in terms of popularity and is also very talented in comedy, but the real biggest problem is that he is a black man, and there is no hope for black people to be the protagonists of the movie...... Not everyone is Will Smith, which is very frustrating, but this is the current situation in Hollywood, 99% of movies must be played by white people before anyone can watch them.
Terry Cruise's starring salary is 1.5 million US dollars, and the supporting role salary is 200,000 US dollars, and most of the people in this information are also paid this salary, this grade is just a third-tier actor in Hollywood, it seems that CAA has added itself to the United States with an evaluation value of about C, which is similar to what he expected.
Although Ah Gai watched excitedly from the side and kept recognizing familiar faces, Li Xiaole was not happy at all, these actors given to him by CAA are all supporting roles in Hollywood movies, and there are few candidates with box office appeal.
Li Xiaole also sighed deeply in his heart, alas...... This is also no way, it would be good to have these candidates at the beginning, after all, he is not like Zhang Yimou who has artistic appeal, and he can directly talk to actors of Bell's level, although there is no suitable list of movie actors, but he can pick out some candidates who are the main players in American dramas, and these people still have a certain box office appeal.
After ticking the "supporting role" in Terry Cruise's options, Li Xiaole began to shake the mouse again, he watched the photos of the actors pass in front of him one by one, and as long as he had an impression, he would stop and look at them.
Robert Knepp...... The actor who played T-bag in "Prison Break", can he actually act in comedy? Li Xiaole clicked on his portfolio, but did not find a single work about comedy...... It seems that the actors are very confident in their acting skills.
It's really interesting to let T-bag act in a comedy, Li Xiaole feels funny just thinking about it, but he can only think about it.
turned to a familiar face and settled down, but Li Xiaole thought about it carefully, Neil Harris, who played Barney in "The Romance of Mom and Dad......
White, blonde with a sense of humor and popularity...... All these external conditions are met, but Li Xiaole feels that he is too young, although Mike in the remote control of life is a bit cynical, but in the end, the essence of this film lies in the sad reflection of the protagonist Mike.
Neil Harris came across as too frivolous, and Li Xiaole gave up after thinking about it again and again.
The agent Jenny saw that Li Xiaole had been frowning, and was muttering unconsciously in her heart, after looking for so long a day, only a few supporting roles were selected, can't so many good actors be selected, or do you, a C-level director, want to choose Jim Carrey?
It's ~ many foreign directors come to CAA to make comedies because they want Jim Carrey, but unfortunately, Jim Carrey is A-level, which is a grade higher than you.
You must know that the only Asian director who uses an A-level actor is Wu Yusen, and in fact, Wu Yusheng's evaluation was only B-level, and it is almost impossible to upgrade to A-level, or thanks to Tom Cruise, the star and producer of "Spy Mission: 2", he appreciated his style and personally selected him as the director.
Of course, the fiasco of the A-level production of "The Wind Whisperer" also proves that Wu Yusen does not have the level of an A-level director, and in addition, there is no precedent in history for an Asian director to use a Hollywood A-level actor.
Of course, CAA's agent will not divide this self-esteem-hurting grade to the directors who come to find actors, but will only select it themselves in the list provided, if the other director asks, the agent's unified voice is: "The schedule of a certain star is full, I'm really embarrassed." "Let the other party know too.
Li Xiaole picked for more than three hours before finally handing the notebook to Jenny and said with a smile: "Jenny, xiexie, you, I have already chosen." ”
Jenny cheered up and smiled as a result of the laptop, opened the statistics interface and took a look, 6 were selected as supporting roles, one as the male lead, and the female lead had no choice, and so on...... Is the actor Matthew Perry?
"Wait, Director Lee." Jenny's expression suddenly changed, and she said embarrassedly to Li Xiaole: "Do you have to choose Matthew Perry?" Can you change individual actors? ”
"I can't." Li Xiaole shook his head without thinking about it, although the name Matthew Perry is unfamiliar to many people, but as long as it is mentioned that the joyful Chandler Bing in "Friends", everyone knows it, Li Xiaole has watched him perform "Back to 17 Years Old", in which he plays a middle-aged down-and-out man who is very expressive, coupled with Chandler Bing's sense of humor, as long as a little adjustment is completely in line with Mike's image, this is the only protagonist he likes in this list.
"You have to choose him, and there is no big problem." Jenny hesitated, "It's just ...... He has a problem with alcohol and drug addiction and needs to go to the hospital for treatment at a fixed time, I want to contact him and ask him to arrange a time for him, do you mind this? ”
"Haode, no problem, you can let them all come to me to report when the time comes." Li Xiaole smiled and then asked:
"Miss Jenny, I still have a question, there are still a lot of male actors in my list, but there are very few actresses in my list, and they are all candidates with a salary of only 100,000-500,000?" It seems that there are only D-class actresses in his list, and there are no C-class ones, which makes him unable to pick a suitable heroine at all.
Li Xiaole needs a good-looking and well-known vase, but it doesn't seem to be easy, knowing that beautiful actresses with qualified acting skills in Hollywood are scarce resources, such as Jennifer Annis, a comedy star who is also from Friends with Matthew Perry, and everyone is now B+......
"I'm sorry, for the time being, the other actresses don't have schedules." Jenny is rightfully authentic.
"Lying." Lei Ting, who had been silent, suddenly looked at her coldly: "It's basically you who deliberately lowered Director Li's assessment value." ”
"What is the assessment value...... What are you talking about? Jenny was stunned for a moment, and her face suddenly became ugly.
"Originally, Director Li's evaluation was C+ level, and you can choose C-level actors and actresses, but because you hate me for slapping you in the supermarket, you will adjust him to C-, and you can only choose C-level actors and D-level actresses." Lei Ting turned the laptop to Jenny's side to show her, just now she had entered the CAA's LAN and hacked Jenny's personal computer file.
"You...... Are you trespassing!? Jenny looked at the computer screen for a moment, then said with a pale face, her voice trembling a little.
"I ask to choose the C-list actress directory immediately, otherwise I will complain about you." Lei Ting stared at Jenny coldly.
"Don't think about it, you criminal!? Security ~ Security ~ Chase this criminal who stole company information out. Jenny yelled angrily outside the door, panicking in her heart, she wanted to call the police, and she was afraid that her information would be published and implicated, so she only wanted to stay away from this damn Chinese woman......
Seeing the two tall black security guards coming over with calm faces, Jenny said to Li Xiaole with a flushed face: "Director Li, I advise you to fire this criminal immediately!" Just fire this criminal, and I'll help you arrange a new list of actresses. ”
"No, I'll find a B-grade." Lei Ting interjected with a sneer.
Jenny looked at Lei Ting and responded angrily: "You can return the B-grade actress!?" As long as you, the criminal, are here, I guarantee that your company will not find any C-level or higher actresses in CAA.! ”
"Don't come here! I learned Chinese kung fu from our boss! Seeing the two big black men coming, Ah Gai hurriedly jumped up and shouted exaggeratedly like Li Xiaole, blocking in front of Lei Ting to protect her.
Li Xiaole also felt a little big in the face of the war between the two women, but of course he was on Lei Ting's side, taking advantage of the fact that the two security guards didn't pay attention directly, he stretched out his hands and turned the wrists of the two black security guards, looking at the two black security guards crooked on the ground in pain and screaming, Jenny and Ah Gai were stunned at the time, what was the situation? What did this little director do, why did he subdue the big black man of 1.8?