"Clark, you better stop coming here. If you want to find a woman, I'll give you money, and you can find it yourself. If you want to go to San Fernando with technology, if you want to go to the fashion circle of New York, if you want to look like yourself, it doesn't cost much to find a personal escort, but this TV series, don't come nonsense. Moreover, not only this TV series, in all my film and television works, I don't want someone to come nonsense. ”

Levy thought for a moment and then added.

"It's really strange what you say, forget about this TV series, and at other times, I don't affect the filming, what's the big deal?" Clark was a little depressed, turned his head and watched Levy speak.

At first, his tone may have been a little sarcastic - just because he had said such things before didn't mean he would do it, but now he was a little serious. Even if he doesn't have the heart to do it, it's always his power - the casting director has the most power in the casting process, and he doesn't want to be instructed all the way through his job.

He's a casting director, casting is his power, and he doesn't want to be told what to do.

Casting directors have their own unions - they are not exactly the same as directors' unions. In many works, especially in TV dramas, they play a great role - Hollywood is a place where directors are everywhere, actors are not as good as dogs, and in the filming of TV dramas, it is rare to use a fixed director, and the frequent change of directors is like a common occurrence for TV dramas, and the directors are often changed, and the producers do not necessarily know how to shoot, so in terms of professional problems, they have to find professional people to solve them, and the position of casting directors came into being - they are the people who are responsible for specific work. In a sense, they are also professionals, and professionals naturally do not want others to guide their work.

How much power do they have?

Later, Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that when she first participated in the casting of a movie, she encountered the unspoken rules of the casting director.

Gwyneth Paltrow's parents were both Hollywood insiders, and her godfather was a great director like Spielberg. But, even then, when it comes time to act in a movie, she will be in trouble. Of course, with her life experience, she can not dump this movie at all, anyway, she is well-connected and familiar, and she fell out here, so she will continue to have other jobs with a different crew. But for others, then you have to consider whether you can leave here and still have a job.

This is the power of the casting director: I can choose not to do it if I want to do it, but whether I can do it or not, I can't let others make the rules.

"Clark, there's a saying, it's called don't where you eat. Cinema is our cause, and we have to respect it. I hope that we can treat each of our works from the most serious point of view, with the eyes of art - I know what you are trying to say, TV dramas are not art. Yes, maybe he is not art, but our goal is to pursue film, to pursue success, so we must look at the work with such a heart. I'm not trying to order you, I'm trying to persuade you to agree. ”

"Clark, I'm not going to give you that chance. Bob is right, if you want to find a woman, go find it, we can lend you money if you are short of money, but, on our set, don't do this kind of thing with the power in your hands. "In the selection of actors, the casting director is a very important position, so Levy also felt the need to have a good chat with Clark, after all, he was the only one among several people who participated in the casting director guild, and he still had to do this task.

And Levy also has his reasons: even on the set, messing with women is not a big deal, but doing so is always disrespectful to his work. Levy loves movies, and he wants to make the best movies possible, not to get a group of women - of course, he is not a dedicated person, but he can't do this kind of thing by throwing away his career pursuit for the sake of a few women.

It's sad to have a lack of respect for what you've been doing all your life.

"We are not short of money, if you want to find a woman, you can look elsewhere. Our set, it's better not to do this kind of thing. Not only don't you do it, but I won't do it either, I'll notify the actors' union and let them keep an eye on it. ”

In fact, it is not as easy as imagined to do sofa auditions: at the audition site of a large-investment film and television work, producers, casting directors, heads of actors' unions, agencies, and actors will all be present to participate in the audition. Unlike independent film directors who can find a room and set up a sofa by themselves, which can directly hint at actor Hu Lai, investing in large film and television works is still not so simple. Among these people, even if the producer is too busy to come to the audition, and the agency is unscrupulous and does not stop this kind of thing, but at any rate, the actors' union will also consider protecting the interests of the actors.

However, there are some things that are not so certain. Even in the face of various systems, it is not difficult to find loopholes. In China, it is no longer news that the director hinted that the actor went to his room in the middle of the night to talk about the play, and in the United States, there is a very unique love: 'love on the set'. Don't engage in unfair transactions? Okay, we don't do business, but we're love, and no one cares about that, right? Anyone has to admit that the people behind the film are very talented, and the actors are beautiful, right? So what's so strange about a group of talented people and a group of beautiful people who get along every day and have a short but passionate love? Even if the actors' union wants to protect the interests of actors, it can't prohibit actors from falling in love, right? This is not the showbiz of the country of sticks......

As for letting the actor act after falling in love? This is taking care of the family, taking care of the people you love, this is the embodiment of the proper American spirit! What, you said that there may be a conflict of interest behind this, pay attention to these things, this is your unkindness, why can't you think of people as good, believe that this is love? Always pay attention to the entanglement of interests, are you annoyed? Can't we just focus on the beautiful part of love? Why is your mind so dirty?

In fact, all kinds of practices also give people a good opportunity to get out of surveillance. It is a common phenomenon in the world that there are policies and countermeasures. Therefore, the supervision of the actors' union, more often, is just to make sure that there are no forced events, and forget it.

"Of course, Clark, if you really have a crush on an actor and want to fall in love with her, then you can do it casually."

Of course, Levy can't deny that maybe someone will really have a spark of love during filming - such a thing is indeed possible. If you want to deny even true love for the sake of your career, then you can't do it.

"And what if I'm in love three or four times a day?" Clark looked at Levy and laughed.

"You're my friend, you won't even lie to me for a woman, right?" Levy shrugged, "I still believe in you, you won't do that." ”

Levy's words silenced Clark for a moment, "Don't worry, I'll do it to your satisfaction." It's just that out of respect for the cause, you can't do it - Nick, you see, there are so many dirty things in this circle, even if you don't mess around with the place where you eat, others will make it dirty. Those actors are not all clean themselves. ”

"Clark, I didn't ask them all to be clean." Levi shook his head, "You know me, I'm not a moral model, and I don't think that doing these things must be inferior: a person who works hard for his own career has a lot of dirty means, so why do you have to accuse those women of using their bodies as a step to advancement?" In the entire entertainment industry, there are plagiarists, there are those who forcibly buy out other people's works, there are those who forcibly take away roles from others, and there are those who ask the director to cut other people's roles - there are many people who lack morality, and some people can ruin people's lives for the sake of some money and for their own pleasure, and what qualifications do they have to despise those who will do anything for their own future? ”

"Then why ......"

"Because I don't want this kind of thing to be done by us."

Yes, Hollywood has a variety of darkness, forces and struggles everywhere, but there is never a shortage of people here who are confident in the future and full of career pursuits. Some people have met those who are in power and they have fallen, and there are others, who still have self-esteem and self-love, and they are still struggling.

In this place, there are still some people who, for the sake of a job opportunity, have to work part-time on the one hand and look for opportunities on the other. There are still some people, in order to get a role, from the moment they get up, they frantically memorize lines, practice postures, and in order to get a role, figure out, analyze, and even forget to sleep and eat. There are still some people who really love acting and are unwilling to give in.

The days when these people are struggling are hard to find, but Levy is at least willing to give them a chance so that they don't have to struggle with such adversity. And to say why...... Because Levy has struggled with this. He knew how difficult those people were. As a person who has worked at the bottom, he has seen the difficulties of these people. Of course, he didn't have the rules of the Virgin to save everyone, or to purify the circle, and he knew he couldn't do it. But at least, he didn't want to be successful once he stepped into another class, and immediately forgot his roots, forgot how he struggled, forgot his own years, and quickly became a villain, pondering how to play unspoken rules and how to play with others.

This can be regarded as a kind of masonry...... Levy knew that his thoughts were a little naïve, but thinking about his previous self, he wanted to stick to this naivety.

"Give a way out for those who are not willing to go along with the dirt and sacrifice themselves." Levi sighed, "It's not easy for them, just help as much as you can, just ...... It's to commemorate your former self. ”