Jude's refusal was only the tip of the iceberg of his tough style on the set, but it was enough for Charlize to be depressed for a long time.

Afterwards, in a telephone communication with her agent Li Te, the other party pointed out the root cause of her failure.

"It's not that your ideas aren't good enough, it's that you've chosen the wrong place to talk. Any director needs to establish absolute authority on the set, not that they won't listen to other people's opinions, but whether the final opinion will be adopted is not determined by the right or wrong of the matter, but by the identity of the person who made the opinion. ”

"You're saying I'm not qualified to give Jude advice?"

"I don't mean to offend, but you should look at it from a different angle, if you're the director of this movie, would you be wasting time on a character who has been on the scene for less than two minutes?"

Charlize clenched the microphone in his hand, trying to refute but couldn't speak.

"What should I do?"

"It's just a character who has been on the field for less than 2 minutes, so I don't think there's any need to waste ...... on it."

Before the word "time" could be spoken, it was interrupted by Charlize.

"It was my first film role." She stubbornly emphasized.

Li Te, on the other end of the phone, sighed softly.

"Well, as much as I'd love to help you, Jude can't have no problem with what happened last time, and my presence will only make things worse...... Maybe you should go and talk to the other actor in the film. ”

"You mean Denzel Washington?" Charlize was stunned, "But I don't know him at all." ”

Li Tet replied confidently, "Don't worry, he will definitely see you." ”

Charlize asked with some hesitation, "Can he make Jude change his mind?" ”

"I can only say that there is this possibility, because the only person in the crew who is qualified to ask for changes to the script is him now, and the other one will join the crew after a while."

The other person Leeter was referring to was Anthony Hopkins, but Charlize thought he was talking about Kate, and while the latter was easier to communicate with, Charlize was more inclined to turn to Denzel Washington for help.

But before that, she still has one more question.

"Even if my suggestion makes sense, why would the other person want to help me? Just because you have a good relationship with his agent, I don't think it's that simple. ”

"I'm glad you finally asked about it, it's actually very simple, just like Jude answered you before, you take your role in this movie too seriously, what this scene really wants to show is the interaction between the two male protagonists, and your role in it is really a performance prop, if this scene can be better, it is not you who gain the most, but the two male protagonists. In this case, if your proposal is really good enough, do you think Denzel Washington will refuse? ”

In fact, Denzel couldn't refuse, and after Charlize went to talk to him, he knocked on the door of Jude's hotel room.

The scene "Glutton" took two days to film, liberated from that disgusting environment, Jude gave the crew two days off, and he needed to rest himself.

When the door was opened, Jude was talking to someone on his phone, and when he invited Denzel in, he also handed over the phone.

"It's Kate, she wants to say hi to you."

Denzel took the phone and chatted with Kate.

By the time the phone was back in Jude's hands, the phone had already been hung up.

Denzel looked at Jude helplessly, shrugged and explained, "She said she would call again in an hour." ”

Jude handed over a cup of brewed coffee and joked, "Hopefully this is enough time for us to get things done." ”

"If it goes well, it can be done in a few minutes." Denzel Washington took his coffee cup, pondered his words, and said, "Miss Theron, who is the same agent as you, came to me, and she made me a suggestion. ”

"Uh-huh." Jude pursed his lips noncommittally and motioned for Denzel-Washington to continue.

"I think she had a good idea, and the key is that it helps a lot to perfect the character traits of my character, so I hope that when that scene is filmed, you can consider following her advice to shoot it once."

Jude took a sip of his coffee and looked at Denzel Washington: "Is this your own idea?" ”

"Please, of course that's my idea!" Denzel put down the coffee cup in his hand and looked at Jude with some amusement, "Do you think there will be any deal between me and her?" ”

"Of course not."

Jude shook his head, and although he couldn't guess who gave Charlize the idea for the time being, it didn't affect his decision on the matter.

"Then as you said, we will shoot two versions of this scene, one of which will be made according to the original script, and the other version will be adjusted according to Miss Theron's suggestion."

As soon as the words fell, the mobile phone that had been left aside rang.

Denzel thought that the call was from Kate, and couldn't help but joke: "You two really have a tacit understanding, we just finished talking here, and followed her phone call, it seems that I have to take this cup of coffee back to my room and drink it slowly." ”

Jude picked up his phone and glanced at the number displayed on the screen, frowned and replied, "Not Kate." ”

Before Denzel could ask again, Jude had already pressed the connect button.

"Walker, what's the matter?"

As soon as he heard this title, Denzel immediately knew that it was the set designer of the crew who called.

On the phone, Walker tells Jude the bad news.

"Mr. Locke, we've searched all over the suburbs of New York, but we haven't found a single location that meets your requirements, and if you insist on looking for a scene like this, we'll probably have to go to the Midwest to shoot the final scene."

"Okay, you guys go back to the crew first, and I'll think about this matter again."

Denzel wanted to say goodbye, but Jude fell into deep thought after putting down the phone, and Denzel couldn't bother directly, so he could only sit quietly, intending to finish the coffee in his hand first.

Jude was struggling fiercely inside, and he asked Walker to find a filming location for the filming of the film's final high. In the original version, David Fincher chose a place with a lot of wires when filming this scene, and the two policemen can usually use the radio to contact the headquarters, when they get to the wire, the radio communication will be interfered with, and the murderer deliberately chose a place under the wire, so that the two policemen could not contact the outside world in time.

This design provides a rational basis for the final ending of the film, but it also becomes a place for the film to be a goof.

The film is set in a large city, so it's unlikely that there will be a desert nearby.

Jude wanted to avoid this from happening, so he asked the set designer Walker to go to the suburbs of New York to find out if there was a similar scene, in fact, he had a bolder idea of where to shoot this scene, but if he did so, the plot would have to be modified to a certain extent, and even the ending might change, so he was still a little undecided.

Denzel Washington's presence gave Jude a person to ask for advice.

"How about I change the ending of this movie a little bit?"