Chapter 197: Opportunity
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Up to now, Hollywood has passed the stage of letting Chinese go up to brush their faces, and the cooperation between the two sides is getting deeper and deeper, and even from the beginning of writing scripts, they first decided whether to cater to the domestic market.
This time, too, Fred's new film "Underworld" has been involved in Chinese film companies since the project was established, although the main shooting is Hollywood director Fred, but domestic investors account for half of the investment.
And in order to circumvent the restrictions of radio and television, the producer boldly set one of the two male protagonists as a Chinese living in the United States.
This film is probably about a homicide in Chinatown, and two men who were implicated cooperated with each other and daunted each other in order to clear their suspicions.
And Zhang Xiao asked Gu Wu to audition for the girlfriend of the Chinese male lead, there are very few main female roles in this film, except for a white old lady, Gu Wu auditioned for the most important role.
"The investment is huge, and as far as I know, the script is very well written, and as long as Fred does what he has done in the past, the film has a good chance of competing for best foreign language film. It is always important to maintain everyone, not only the United States, but also domestic investors. ”
After listening to Zhang Xiao's words, Gu Wu let out a breath and sat down in the car seat and said: "This Yang Zhengming has really been riding like a rocket in the past few years, and this kind of resource is generally not even available to actors." Wu Ran of our company didn't try it? ”
Zhang Xiao glanced at her and smiled: "Why not?" You can report that the American side is too old, and the two male protagonists in the story, the gangster police in the United States who are about 30 years old, are two years younger than the police on our side. Those actors are all about forty years old, and they can't be the same as young men in their 20s in maintenance. It can only be said that time is also fate. ”
After speaking, he glared at Gu Wu: "Why are you bothered with these?" Read the script well and prepare it, and the audition will be held in a few days. ”
Gu Yu took a deep breath, knowing that this was a great opportunity, and if she grasped it well, it would be a great help to her current career, which was in a period of stagnation.
Gu Wu nodded and said to Zhang Xiao, "I will prepare carefully." ”
Then Zhang Xiao spoke again: "Especially spoken English, this audition is bilingual, which means that you have to speak both Chinese lines and English." ”
Gu Fuxiu's English is not too bad, Hou Fuxiu was born and raised in the United States, and after being with him for so long, Gu Wu also followed and practiced while learning, but it is definitely incomparable with Hou Fuxiu.
She slowly exhaled a breath and looked at Zhang Xiao and asked: "I just flipped it and found that my role is fine, most of it is with my boyfriend's lines, and the two speak Chinese." But most of Yang Zhengming's dialogues are in English, and it is not easy for him to win this role. ”
Zhang Xiao glanced at Gu Wu deeply: "No one succeeds casually. You see him rushing up like a rocket now, but do you know that when he first entered the industry, he was pressed to film, and his colleagues rolled three plays? At that time, because I could only sleep three hours a day, I fell asleep while driving and got into a car accident on the highway. ”
Gu Wu's eyes widened: "Won't it?" ”
Zhang Xiao smiled: "You really don't hear anything outside the window." However, Yang Zhengming was just a small actor at that time, and he was not popular at all, and it was only after he exploded that this experience was dug up by his fans. He walked for five years from entering the industry to becoming popular, and only he knew the hardships he endured during this period. ”
Gu Wan suddenly became curious about this actor who was smooth sailing in her eyes, and she then asked: "Do you know what happened before he became popular?" ”
Zhang Xiao looked at Gu Wu's expression and smiled, "What are you thinking?" There are indeed people in this circle who climb the net by their bodies, but those who really stand at the top of the pyramid have their own real skills. Anyway, I've never heard any messy things about him, and some of them are a lot of unreliable scandals. You don't know how to work with him yet? is rare and serious on the set, and those little girls are afraid that they like to see him, but they are often scared by his appearance when they are working. ”
Gu Wu nodded with a sigh: "That's right, he is really serious and scary when he works." I still remember the appearance of several little girls who were so frightened by him that they wanted to cry but didn't dare to cry. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have waited until the filming was almost over to get acquainted. ”
The car slowly drove into the underground parking lot, and Zhang Xiao turned back to Gu Wu and said, "I won't go up." The script must be well prepared. When the time comes, the director will pick out a random sentence and ask it, and I hope you can answer it fluently in English. “
Gu Wu clenched her fists: "I will." ”
As a self-motivated actor, preliminary preparation is a must, because although Gu Wu is average, she has a teacher like Hou Fu Xiu by her side, and she can get very timely tips many times.
Zhang Xiao is right, this drama is a typical double male lead drama, although Gu Wu's role in it is a female lead, her role is similar to that of a general supporting role.
And most of the lines are conversations with her boyfriend, which is good news for her who is not up to par in speaking.
But because of Zhang Xiao's advice at the time, Gu Wu didn't dare to be so relaxed, so she could only ask Hou Fuxiu to translate the Chinese lines in the script into English and she memorized them silently. In this way, after Gu Wu could almost understand the original English script inside and out, her preparation for the audition gave her some confidence.
Just when Gu Wu was preparing for this important audition, another actress also fell in love with her role.
"What do you think is my chance of winning this role this time?"
Gao Wen threw the script on the table, and looked at her agent on the sofa with her hands folded.
The fat sister frowned, she looked at Gao Wen and said, "As far as I know, there are quite a few people competing this time, but the one who is the most threatening to you is Gu Wen." ”
"She?" Gao Wen raised her eyebrows,
Since the last time the two competed together for the Golden Plume Award, there hasn't been much communication. That time, Gu Wu was also the queen of the movie, but unfortunately Gao Wen's company did its best, and Gao Wen picked peaches under the wrestling of several parties.
The fat sister looked at her indifferent appearance and said worriedly, "Don't look down on her." Although she does not have the throne of actress, she has made several movies with a very good reputation over the years, and they have all done well at the box office. In terms of public opinion, she is much more advantageous than you. “
What the agent said is precisely Gao Wen's pain point, it is true that she won the actress, but her luck is really bad, when she first won the actress, she wanted to take advantage of this shareholder style to wash away the bad film reputation made in the past few years, but unfortunately it was not as good as her original intention, when the reputation was about to improve, a movie that she died halfway through three years ago was released, and the original actor of that movie quit halfway because of conflicts with the producer, and it was when the shooting was almost completed. The actor ran away, and the movie was naturally yellow. Gao Wen didn't take it to heart, there are more such things in the circle, but I didn't expect the other party to take advantage of her to win the popularity of the actress and release the movie by editing.
The original male number one became a passer-by, and the newcomer male number two who was stuffed in by the investor became the male protagonist, and the quality of this kind of movie can be imagined.
And because Gao Wen was very popular at that time, the publicity was all under her banner, just like that, the audience who was deceived into the movie theater must have scolded after watching it, resulting in Gao Wen's reputation being worse than before she won the movie.
(To be continued.) )