"What do you think would be the effect if we had Robert Downey Jr. in the role?"

After thinking for a long time as he looked at the last name of the four wall-facers, with some hesitation, he brought up a name to Clark.

This name is someone that Levi thought of for a long time before he came up with it.

The character of Luo Ji is a person who is different from other characters. He is an ordinary person, and he is an ordinary person with a wandering life and a somewhat eccentric personality, if his life is presented directly, it will be difficult for the audience to accept such a person to save the world. Although people don't necessarily like Gao Daquan, if it is a hooligan in the movie who saves the world, people will definitely not be satisfied. The cuteness of the positive characters always outweighs the hatefulness, and this is what the movie has to do.

Therefore, if you want to shoot him, you naturally have to use your own lens and pay attention to what you shoot, so that you can shoot this character well. How to create a character well, this is also what Levy has to consider.

Therefore, in Levy's conception, it is natural to hope to weaken his prodigal life, weaken the shameless side, strengthen his sense of humor, knowledge and literary side, and highlight the different side of this character.

This man may be a scoundrel, but he has to be filmed as a merry; Maybe it's just cheating on funds, but you want to make him a talent; Maybe he's just picking up girls with the funds of the United Nations, but he wants to shoot him chasing his own love and life.

To put it simply, what Levy wanted to do was to photograph this person as a flirtatious yuppie - an image that the audience would be able to accept.

And after thinking about it, Levy got the name, and this is the one. If you want to be able to play such a romantic yuppie well, Robert Downey Jr. is definitely a suitable person.

But sure enough, as he expected, as soon as his candidate was proposed, Clarke's eyes widened.

"To talk about ability. Naturally, he had nothing to say. But in his state, can he really act in a good movie? ”

Clark hesitated for a moment about the name. And his hesitation is not without reason - after all, Downey is now a discredited figure in Hollywood.

His abilities, people are believed. In 92 he was nominated for an Oscar, but unfortunately lost to Alpacino, and it can be said that he became famous at a young age. In 2001, he also made movies and won the Golden Globe Award, and his talent was not exhausted. Born in a family of performing arts. And he has enough talent, he has long proved his strength with his actions, and his image is also very good, his temperament is outstanding, his appearance is good, and he has a wide range of adaptation when acting in movies, and Clark does not doubt the level of this actor.

But. What makes him helpless is his private life.

Donnie's career is excellent, but in life, he can be said to be very bad. In a sense. This is also another aspect of his father's gift to him: his father gave him the way to face the camera, gave him the opportunity to perform, and gave him the opportunity to get involved in this circle, but. His father also taught him the habits of a rotten life: it is difficult for such an unscrupulous father who can smoke marijuana for his six-year-old son to learn well.

Downey's problem was that he was overdosed.

In Hollywood. Medication is not a particularly uncommon thing, many people here use drugs, and even some use drugs publicly, and they have been reported by the media more than once. For many Hollywood people, marijuana is not a medicine, and even ice skating is not a medicine, which is normal. However, even in this environment, Donnie has built up his reputation for medication, which is not easy. Here, it is not strange that a person who only plays with drugs a little, and it has been repeatedly reported that it can only show one thing: he is already dependent on drugs. This dependence is no longer just a play, but has reached the point where it affects his life and career.

Throughout the 90s, he was largely immersed in the effects of drugs, and going to prison became commonplace. Although he has a good father who can take care of him in his career, no matter how much he takes care of him, he has to work his own. When he used his medicine until he could never arrive on the set on time to shoot, no matter which director's play, he dared to skip work in a daze, so naturally he didn't expect to have a job. After all, there are not many directors who like to always go to the police station to bail out their starring roles. There are so many actors in Hollywood, and there is no shortage of him.

And after entering the 21st century, the reputation he had accumulated before has basically been consumed. At this time, he also found that if he didn't repent, his life would really end like this. So he declared that he would quit drugs and return to work in Hollywood - but he had said it more than once, and people did not particularly trust it.

At this time in '05, Robert Downey Jr. could be said to have just finished his drug rehabilitation career. More than ten years of time have been wasted by him, and after coming back again, he has been given wrinkles by drugs and years, and time is long gone. Moreover, his acting career almost missed the golden age of film development in the entire 90s, and when Pitt, Depp and others who were about the same age as him were worth tens of millions, he had to pick up hundreds of thousands of movies that had fallen in value.

He had missed too much - in fact, even in Levy's memory, he would not be able to compete with people his age again. Compared with Pete, who has already embarked on the road of production, he is much worse, and he can only mix with Depp, whose acting skills are obviously not in the same gear as himself.

Clark has no doubts about his talent: this man is indeed one of Hollywood's top talents. It's just that Clark doesn't trust his state at all: a man who has been on drugs for more than ten years, claiming that he has no problem, is not very credible no matter how you look at it.

The story of the prodigal son's return is good, but whether the prodigal son can turn back is a big question. There are many people in Hollywood who have been fooling around when they were young, and some of these people have been able to turn around and achieve careers, but some have collapsed and never had a shadow again.

If nothing else, when it comes to Martin Sheen, then his son Charlie Sheen can mention it. This is also the same prodigal, in the early years of his career, heyday. The annual income can be as high as tens of millions, but he has repeatedly acted mischief, and he has tossed so much that he can only shoot TV series. Even so, he is no longer particularly comfortable now, and Robert Downey Jr. is also a similar person, how can Clark trust?

"I don't think you have to find a depraved prodigal son to play in your true colors. He's so bad that I don't think we can get hold of him. ”

Clark's concerns. Levy was also a little hesitant: he knew the dangers of medicine, and although he remembered that Robert Downey Jr. had come out of the shadows, it was only a few years later. What virtue he has now, Levy doesn't know.

Saying that he could be enlightened, Levy believed it, after all, he remembered that Donnie was indeed enlightened. But is he awake now? Got rid of drug dependence? Levy did not dare to draw conclusions lightly on these issues.

After all, he's pretty good at it.

But. Considering his abilities, Levy was determined to give it a try.

"Give it a try, and invite him to audition when the time comes, and see if he's corrected. If not. Let's change someone else. Levy made that decision anyway.

"I don't think it works, no matter how much money you give him, he will only use it as drug money." Clark muttered.

"Don't always be so absolute, didn't Angelina Jolie have a lot of negative press at the beginning? Haven't you struggled out on your own? Sometimes. People can still try to change some things. ”

Levy persuaded again, giving an example, and getting Clark to stop saying anything. Although he knows that even Angelina Jolie has been in the past few years. is also not a repentant person, but she is indeed very attentive in her career, although her private life is still helpless, but from the perspective of an actor, it is definitely good.

Will Downey be able to do that? Clark was also a little skeptical. However, there are auditions anyway, so I'll see when the time comes.

For this role, they can be regarded as preliminarily decided. And after this role is determined, basically the main role is left with one chapter Beihai.

"This role can be handed over to Zhang Hanyu."

This actor is also a candidate that Levy has long been finalized.

He was one of the actors who was introduced to Levy by Director Zhang, and after arriving in the United States, he took the initiative to learn acting, and his acting skills improved very quickly. Now in that kung fu TV series, he plays a kung fu master with an underworld background, although he has not appeared a few times, but he still leaves a deep impression.

And this role, Levi also decided to play him after thinking about it: this role reflects the Oriental style of doing things, and Levi has long made a decision, even if he ignores the Chinese box office market of this movie, he will give this role to the Chinese. And the image of this soldier, in Levy's opinion, is also very suitable: in appearance, he is quite good-looking, very manly, and has an excellent voice, which fits the image of a soldier - and, in this story, he can be said to be a hidden facer, and it is only at the last moment that his true purpose is revealed. Such a person, with a good-looking person, will give people a greater shock.

Clark nodded, and he didn't have any opinion on that. He knew that Levy didn't want the Asian characters in his movies to be crooked and skewed, and that was not respectful to the movie - in science fiction movies, non-human races should have an equal heart, not to mention the difference in skin color and race?

"I don't have much opinion on these leading actors. I believe that they can play well. Looking at the list, Clark nodded again with satisfaction, "I'll convince them." And the rest is up to you, you have to know how to make this movie. After all, this is not an ordinary movie, and the shooting method will not be the same. (To be continued......)