Chapter 17: Audition for the starring role
(Thanks to the tips of "Streamlining Under the Sky", "Law", and "Tingting4".) Everyone must have understood my hard work yesterday, haha. Continued today, before 12 p.m., it is recommended to add more than 1190 per week. )
Rachel Sellers has been in a bit of a complicated mood lately, especially when she sees the news about Li Jay and Gal Gadot in newspapers and magazines, she feels an indescribable sense of irritability looming in her heart, but she can't analyze the reason, and she can't find a place to vent.
It stands to reason that it is common for Bruce to fall in love, why is he so uncomfortable? She can only attribute the reason to the fact that she has been too busy lately.
Yes, since Lee Kit came to Los Angeles, Rachel has found that her luck seems to have suddenly improved, first of all, that the pesky bald casting director Richard Rob has become unusually honest and has never harassed herself again, and even seems to be a little bit of a walk around. What's more, there were a lot more auditions, and he got his wish to win two roles with a lot of scenes, and he also got a cameo appearance in an entire episode of hBo's hit series "The Brink" - which starred Jack Black and Tim Robbins! It can be called a movie-level lineup, a super luxury cast, and I believe that it will be very helpful to my popularity after the broadcast.
Today there is an even more important audition, Miramax's new film "Ashes" is about to be filmed, and it is looking for a female lead. When her agent, Nancy Jacobs, told her that she had moved the producers to secure a valuable audition, Rachel Sellers was overjoyed and spent days concentrating on preparation, arguably never in her life.
This is not a large-scale audition of passers-by, but an intentional solicitation within a fixed range. Generally speaking, with Rachel's appearance rate and qualifications, it is difficult to have such a good opportunity, which can only be attributed to the fact that the role she has played recently is bright enough.
In order to be prepared, she also learned the synopsis from Nancy.
The main plot of "Ashes" is about a gangster gambler who receives a strange commission to abduct a schizophrenic heroine from a psychiatric hospital for the underworld in order to pay off his debts. However, when he successfully brought the heroine out and was about to hand it over to the gangsters, he encountered fierce gunfights and firefights, and the two who fled in a panic staged a bizarre situation. During the period, there are many broken memories, interspersed with the story of explaining the identity of the woman and telling another line, and the whole film will have a large number of tilt-shift shots and close-ups of facial features, which can be called full of literature and art, and a bit of fantasy style.
I have to say that Rachel was attracted to the plot just by listening to Nancy's dictation, not to mention that this is still an opportunity for the heroine, which makes her heart full of expectations.
There was a bit of a traffic jam on the road, but I still hurried to the appointed audition location, which was a small three-story building. There are a lot of office buildings in the same style in Los Angeles, and there are almost all of these low-rise buildings along the way.
When she walked into the waiting room, Rachel's heart tightened slightly, and she could already see five or six charming actors waiting for auditions. She also noticed several well-known actresses, and it seems that she wanted her agent Nancy to remind her in advance, even for these actresses who have become famous, this film is still very attractive.
This undoubtedly put more pressure on Rachel to see who her opponents were, and most of the room were familiar, indicating that there were at least some actors who had some major roles. Not to mention Britt Marling and Dakota Johnson, the two strongest opponents, the former is a famous talent who graduated from Georgetown University in the United States with honors, not only has a beautiful and moving appearance, but also a writer, director, and actor, starring and co-writing "Another Earth" and "Listen to My Voice" two works have received good reviews at the Sundance Film Festival, and the media that has always been kind to talk about it praised Ma Ling's performance as "a fusion of charm and serenity".
The latter is a popular new star who starred in "Fifty Shades of Grey" and "Singles Guide" and other high-profile films, and in recent years, she has become famous for playing the heroine in the "Fifty Shades of Grey", a phenomenal pornographic film with a small scale, but her mediocre acting skills have also been criticized, and it seems that she wants to strive for some positive reviews through the new film "Ashes".
Frankly speaking, with Rachel's qualifications, none of these people can take advantage, and now I can only hope that I will perform better in a while and be able to win more good impressions from the auditioners. While sitting in her seat and waiting, she kept recalling the psychology and image positioning of the characters that she had spent several days figuring out, and for this reason, she even went to the mental hospital every day to observe the living conditions of the schizophrenics, ponder their expressions, and sit all day. If she hadn't been well-behaved enough and had spent a lot of effort on it, the people in the hospital would have driven her away a long time ago.
Because she was too involved in thinking, when it was Rachel's turn to audition, the staff called her two or three times before she reacted, and had to stand up with a little panic and hurriedly enter the audition room, but fortunately, she quickly adjusted her mentality and sat calmly in front of the audition staff.
The audition room wasn't very large, and the furnishings were simple, and there were five people sitting at the table, probably members of the crew and the producer, all of whom looked professional and serious, except for the one at the very end, who was probably the youngest, who had a happy, excited, and somewhat strange expression from the moment he entered. But it's too late to think about it now, and because of her beauty, this situation is not uncommon for Rachel, and she even vaguely hopes that this will add some points to herself. It seems that in order to win this important starring opportunity, our lovely Rachel is inevitably a little psychologically unbalanced.
"Rachel Sellers, right? I'm Philip Walters, and this is Rob Marshall. From the first moment he saw Rachel enter the door, Philip Walters immediately became energetic and introduced himself very positively, but fortunately he did not forget the director who was sitting in the middle, and added a sentence, otherwise it would have been too obvious.
"Hello, Miss Cyrus." Director Rob Marshall glanced at Philip a little strangely, this Miramax's famous prodigal was not originally an auditioning staff, but he suddenly stepped in, but considering his background, no one took him seriously, but after seeing Rachel Cyrus, this guy suddenly reversed his previous lazy appearance and took the initiative to introduce it to everyone, which couldn't help but make him feel a little apprehensive and suspicious.
"Rachel, can you briefly introduce yourself?"
Sitting between the director and Philip was Gregory Harris, the head of production, who spoke to Rachel with a calm expression, but secretly raised his guard in his heart. Before organizing today's interview, Senior Vice President Richard White made a point of talking to him, telling him that Philip Walterson, a-stirring stick, was likely to cause trouble when auditioning for the actress, and hinted that as long as Rachel Sellers didn't perform too badly, the heroine would try to give it to her.
As a hardcore of Richard White's faction, Gregory has seen a lot of similar things, and he has always put a little focus on Philip, so he naturally discovered the other party's abnormality for the first time, and the secret passage came! Boy, I want to stir you up a little tender! I hope this canary called Rachel Sellers doesn't suck too badly, or else he might mess up. But this woman is so beautiful, I don't know which big man is confined to her? Numerous thoughts crossed Gregory's mind in an instant.