Huo Que is busy interviewing actors, and Kylin Pictures is not idle, and the entire company is basically serving "Home Alone".

The location for filming the location was set in a northern town in Illinois, and at that time, Huo Que said the requirements for location shooting at the meeting, and it happened that an employee was from Illinois, so he mentioned it, and then sent some photos to Huo Que, and Huo Que decided after reading it, because that scene was indeed very suitable for the filming of "Home Alone" location.

It's quiet and peaceful, and most importantly, the snow is thick, and if you put on some Christmas trees or something, it's like it's about Christmas.

The company has arranged for the first march to Illinois to set up the scene. In fact, this is also the best way for Huo Que to save money and achieve the effect, if all of them are filmed indoors, and the effect that Huo Que wants, the post-production zuò alone is a lot of money, although it costs some money for a crew to go to Illinois, but it is still much cheaper than the price of the post-production zuò.

After determining all the weighty supporting roles, Huo Que waited for two days, and the actor called from the public household, saying that there were more than 120 protagonists who wanted to run for the protagonist of "Home Alone", although this number is not much, but time waits for no one, so Huo Que did not wait any longer.

is still the place to interview for supporting roles, and it is still the original four people, Huo Que, Alice, and assistant director Lowry, as well as Bella, a staff member of the Actors Guild.

The auditions for the main characters are different from extras, these are still children and need to be accompanied by parents. And these children don't have short videos of the roles they have participated in like the previous supporting roles, and they need to be interviewed one by one.

The first interviewer was an eight-year-old who had advertised a product, and his mother, apparently desperate for her son to get the role, brought the video of the ad with her.

Although there are many child stars, there are not many roles they can participate in, especially the starring role, and Huo Que, a movie with an investment of up to 10 million, the protagonist turned out to be an eight-year-old child, so those discerning parents want his son to win this role, which is good to lay a solid foundation in the entertainment industry, and more importantly, to be able to make money.

is like Daniel Radcliffe, who played "Harry Potter", when he played the first episode of "Harry Potter", he was only paid 145,000 US dollars, and the second part was more than 300 US dollars. Of course, there is a small story in this, when the film company asked him to participate in this role, he was only willing to pay an extra 40,000 US dollars, but fortunately, the Actors Guild came forward to fight for his rights and interests, and he was able to get 3 million.

After accounting, Daniel Radcliffe spent ten years of his youth filming the "Harry Potter" series got 90 million US dollars just for his salary, what is the concept of 90 million US dollars? If you exchange all of them for one piece of coin, you can hold several wagons.

and Macaulay Culkin, the star of the "Home Alone" series, was only paid $100,000 when he filmed the first part, and the second part rose to 4.5 million, when he was only 12 years old.

Who would bother with money?

That's why these kids come to make movies at such a young age, some of them are in their own hobbies, and some of them are driven by their parents to put them on the shelves.

Huo Que watched the video that his mother had brought, and he had already denied this child in his heart, not because of the child's acting skills, but because the child's face does not look very cute now.

This is very important, as a child-centered family comedy, how the child looks will directly affect the quality of the film, Huo Que politely rejected this well-intentioned mother.

Similar to the supporting role in the interview, the children walked into the interview hall accompanied by their parents, and then Huo Que asked some questions, and then asked them to improvise a question from Huo Que.

It's just that after interviewing seven or eight children in a row, Huo Que found a problem, after these children entered the house, basically his parents were making introductions, even if Huo Que came up with a topic and asked them to improvise, their parents would tell them again.

Although the children are still young and mentally immature, they will play the leading role in this film no matter what, and he doesn't want these parents to have to point fingers on the side when they arrive on the set, which will have an impact on his creation.

But if you have been following Huo Quan's previous interview method, this situation is unavoidable, so how can you avoid this situation?

Huo Que stopped Bella from calling the next auditioner in, and after thinking about it, he suddenly thought of a good way.

"Miss Bella, can we call all the kids to this interview room?"

Bella didn't guess Huo Que's thoughts, but nodded subconsciously: "Yes, do you want them to audition together?" So you can see what they're good at? ”

"I just found out that all children audition with their parents, which has a certain impact on the children's performance, so I want the children to audition alone." Huo Que explained.

"I can ask the parents of the children not to come in with the children." Bella said.

Huo Que shook his head: "There's no need, you just let all the children in, I have a way to choose." ”

Bella was a little confused, but she did so.

Not long before all the children walked into the audition hall under the advice of their parents, and they stood there in several rows. However, children are playful by nature, so some children still don't have good rules, and it is normal to talk and make small movements.

Huo Que stood up from the chair, then walked around the children, and then pulled the wishy-looking child to the side.

The so-called Ruyi is to match the appearance of the protagonist, and the first point is to be cute, which will enhance the audience's love for the whole play. The second point is the children's eyes, not the kind of sluggish, the kind of unattractive. The third point is not to be too active, because this is a movie, if the time comes to the set, the child is playful and disobedient all day long, even the director can't do anything about him, after all, others are only ** years old, can you still beat them?

After such a round of selection, there were only about thirty children left who matched the image in Huo Que's mind, and then he said some words of comfort and encouragement and called those children who were not selected out of the interview hall.

When the children went out, Huo Que said to the remaining children: "I'll introduce myself first, and then you can introduce yourself again according to my introduction, okay?" ”

"Good!"

Thinking that these children developed good habits when they were educated in school, as soon as Huo Que said this, they answered in unison.

Huo Que demonstrated to the children: "My name is Huo Que, I am twenty-four years old this year, I am a director by profession, and I once made a movie called "This Man is from Earth". ”

Huo Que didn't want to test this group of children, so he reduced the difficulty a lot when he did the demonstration.

"Do you know how to introduce yourself?" Huo Que asked again.

"Got it." The children replied.

"Then start from left to right."

Next, starting from the child on the left, he introduced himself according to Huo Que's demonstration.

When not accompanied by their parents, some children seem a little cramped and often leave something out when introducing themselves. But the children's performances are very strong, and some children feel that Huo Que's demonstration is too simple, so they add some by themselves.

After another circle, this time the children who failed to complete the basic requirements of self-introduction were eliminated, and there were only a dozen children left in the huge interview hall.

Huo Que looked at the remaining children with satisfaction.

More than half of these children have acted in previous productions or filmed commercials.

At Huo Que's request, the Actors' Guild moved seats for the children, and after the children were seated, Huo Que stood in front of them and said like a teacher: "Shall I tell you a story next?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the children in the audience were interested and applauded again and again.

It's just that the three of Alice are indeed a little confused, where is this Huo Que playing, obviously he is here to choose the protagonist, and now he is telling the story to the children.

"Once upon a time, there was a great officer who went down to the forest with his men to hunt, and then a wolf who could walk upright blocked his way, and he drew his bow and shot an arrow into the wolf's leg......"

Huo Que told this group of children the story that most people in China knew, Mr. Dongguo and the wolf.

The reason why Huo Que wants to tell this story is actually to check the children's expressions, the twist of the story is relatively large, of course, there will be no difficulty for **-year-old children to understand.

What satisfied Huo Que was that when he told this story, the children listened very carefully, and when they heard that the wolf was going to eat Mr. Dongguo in turn, some of the children's faces obviously showed angry expressions, and with the turn of the plot, the children's expressions also changed.

And during this period, Huo Que noticed the expression of a cute child in the last row, forehead...... There is nothing special about his expression, but the actions he is doing now make Huo Que interested, Huo Que said a word, and he made the same gesture towards his mouth shape, except that there was no sound, it really seemed to be telling a story.

When the story was finished, Huo Que asked the child, "Do you remember what I was talking about?" ”

"Yes." The child stood up: "It's the story of a wolf that walks upright and wants to eat the man who saved his life." ”

Huo Que is very satisfied with this child's appearance, not only is he cute, his memory and comprehension skills are also very good, and more importantly, he has a strong ability to imitate.

The main character is him!