Tom paused slightly as he picked up his teacup and looked up at Lance, "Yes, he called me and told me some basics. However, my agent said that the script has not come out yet, and you are still revising it. "That's the direct reason why Tom met Lance today. With that, Tom slowly leaned back in his chair, crossed Erlang's legs, and took the initiative of the conversation in his hands.

"It's a tall order, isn't it?" Tom's words are actually to let Lance take the initiative to introduce the outline of the script, and at least Tom needs to know more about the script in depth before Tom can make a judgment. But Lance didn't follow Tom's words, just sighed painlessly, which made Tom pause slightly for half a second as he leaned back in the chair, and then listened to Lance continue, "What else did Brad tell you?" ”

Lance is trying to understand everything and get the initiative back, little by little.

"Nothing." Tom shrugged his shoulders and said lightly, "Except that you're the director of the movie and you're in charge of the script......" Tom paused, raised his eyes and looked at Lance, "and then you're probably going to play opposite me and give me a huge surprise." Other than that, nothing. ”

Lance was amused by Tom's calm tone, "We all disagree on this, but we can find a common ground. ”

Brad still couldn't convince Lance.

Being an actor was a dream that Lance couldn't let go of, and the first thing he did when he arrived in New York was to audition for Broadway — and he didn't even decide where he would live that night. The dream of an actor is Li Jin's obsession; The director's dream is Strello's obsession; The dream of the movie is the obsession shared by the two of them. But in the face of the hatred of Diorama. Dreams are just cheap sweet words, and Lance will not be shaken lightly.

What's more, "borrowing a knife to kill" doesn't seem to be the most suitable choicereads();.

First of all. Paramount's invitation looked more like a joke, and Brad Gray was just talking about it on a whim. Lance wasn't so naïve to believe that he fell in love with him just because he saw his resume at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and even if Brad wanted to create a cast similar to "Interview with the Vampire", Hollywood had more options than Lance. On the other hand, if he starred as a vase, the value of acting would not be so great for Lance.

What's more. Tom Cruise is the most important thing at the moment. If "Killing with a Knife" wants to impress Tom, then Lance must convince him that this is indeed a work that has the potential to hit the Oscars, or even win the Golden Man, so the rival actors naturally cannot be taken lightly, and Tom must be able to play better without dominating the crowd. The actor "Lancelot-Strello" is not convincing. In the overall plan, Tom is the top priority at the moment, and this is the choice that is in line with the interests. As for his own dreams, he can give them up.

Of course. The unfinished script is also a central issue. "Murder with a Knife" is an important work in the development of Chaos Pictures, and Lance will never allow any accidents. So, in the face of Brad's insistence. Lance didn't nod.

However, today's focus is not on Lance, he doesn't plan to continue the topic around himself, so Lance brought it over in the form of tai chi, and then said, "But Brad didn't tell you, this role is tailor-made for you, and the goal is the Oscar statuette." ”

When I heard the first half. Tom was very calm, because with his current position, every character who came to the door was tailor-made for him; And when I heard the second half. Tom smiled, "Honey. Someone told you that Hollywood is a small area, but at the same time a big world? ”

The subtext is: I don't know how thick the sky is.

"Tom, how would you react if everybody told you now, hey, you're never going to win an Oscar? Think they are telling the truth, and your career as an actor will stop there, and you will never have an Oscar? Or ridicule back, and prove your strength with your actual actions. Sue me, in your career as an actor, how many challenges have you faced, how many lows have you faced, how many doubts have you faced, and then you got back on your feet? ”

Lance's words were unhurried, but sonorous, full of strong confidence and determination. Tom didn't interrupt him, but after Lance finished speaking, Tom calmly took a sip of the black tea in the cup, as if enjoying the fragrance of black tea, "Lance, the Radical Method has no effect on me. Honestly, you're not Martin Scorsese, so why do you think your work can win an Oscar? ”

Although "City of God" shines at the Oscars, it misses the acting award, of course, the main reason is because the protagonist of this movie is the City of God, not any independent character; Needless to say, "the day after tomorrow", purely commercial popcorn movies must have nothing to do with acting.

Lance's tuning/teaching skills for acting skills are not visible to many people.

In fact, true acting professionals can taste some signs from the "City of God", where Lance is dealing with a group of children who have no acting experience - many of whom are illiterate, let alone read scripts or watch cameras. But they have been tweaked by Reims to give a real and powerful performance, which is not something that anyone can achieve.

Obviously, Tom didn't see it either.

Objectively speaking, Tom's talent is really not in acting, and so is Brad Pitt. Leonardo DiCaprio is talented, but he fell into a bottleneck early on, never able to get out of his shackles, and kept moving in the same place, pursuing the golden man for many years, but repeatedly lacked a little luck - why? Because every time there will be someone more wonderful than his watch.

However, Lance naturally didn't say it directly, he took out a copy of the text from his briefcase, and put it on the coffee table in front of Tom, "Because I wrote a character with both difficulty and depth, I hope you can really analyze and understand the character deeply, and then deduce reads();." Of course, it takes a lot of work and we need to cooperate. It's never about me, it's about how much potential you have, how much potential you can achieve, and how much effort you're willing to put in. ”

Lance still used the agitation method, but this time Tom did not open his mouth to refute, but looked at Lance seriously, trying to find more information from Lance's eyes. Lance was not in a hurry, just sat calmly on the sofa and calmly met Tom's gaze, neither humble nor arrogant, and did not flinch.

This reminded Tom of the joke between the two of them at Oscar night. "You can stand on that stage if you want."

Is this just a joke?

As a member of the top of the current Hollywood pyramid, Tom can almost be said to have a qiē, but he has never been able to really get rid of the shadow of the "vase", he tried to prove himself with strength, he tried to make more breakthroughs in acting, in fact, as early as 1989, he relied on "born on July 4" to win his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor, and then won two Oscar nominations with "Mr. Sweetheart" and "Magnolia", But no one ever really affirmed his strength.

It's unfair to Tom, but that's Hollywood, where people only see the critics' harshness on actresses, and it seems that actresses are forever fixed in the position of "vase"; But in fact, in terms of performance, the critics tend to be more tolerant of actresses, as if a vase with a slightly good performance can win full applause, but the critics are extremely strict with male actors. Every year, if you want to have the last laugh in the Oscar competition, it is difficult to reach the sky.

Tom has always been looking for his first Oscar statuette, but the cruel reality is that it is extremely difficult for him to even get a nomination, from "Eye-opening" to "Vanilla Sky" to "The Last Samurai", in fact, his performance in these works is good, and he has also been nominated by many film critics associations, but in the end they all fell before the Oscar nomination threshold.

So, will Lance be his chance?

Tom looked at Lance in front of him carefully, to be honest, Lance didn't have much capital to believe, did he? "City of God" is the only proof that in Hollywood, Lance is a complete rookie; But Lance's unwavering eyes and unhurried attitude changed the doubts in Tom's mind - from questioning Lance to curiosity about the script.

Tom hesitated, put the teacup on the table, bent down to pick up the script on the table, and flipped through it. But to his surprise, this is not a script, but a ...... It's a story, the story of a man named Vincent, which begins, "Vincent, born Vince River (-River), was born in Minnesota in 1962, and the day Vincent was born was a sunny day, and the bright sun was mixed with the scent of the forest......"

This is actually a small biography! Tom couldn't help but raise his head and glanced at Lance, obviously not quite understanding what the story was all about, could it be that "Murder with a Knife" is a biographical movie? But judging from the information he got from his agent, this is a thriller crime movie, could it be that Lance brought Wen Jiàn wrong?

As if he hadn't noticed Tom's eyes, Lance slowly leaned back in his chair, picked up his black tea cup, and slowly began to taste the leisurely afternoon tea, calmly and comfortably; Tom paused, and found that Lance had no intention of answering his doubts, and he couldn't help but be stunned by that confident gesture, and after turning his head carefully twice, he lowered his head again and continued to read the story in his hand.

The control of the initiative seems to have quietly changed. (To be continued.) )

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