“Cut！” David. Frank held a small trumpet in his hand and shouted refreshedly, "Good! Excellent！ Honey，Excellent！ ”

Accompanied by sparse applause and laughter, the first shot on the first day of filming is completely over - most of the movies will choose a relatively simple and not easy NG shot after the opening ceremony on the first day, for the sake of 'auspiciousness', for example, today's shot is a shot of Andy walking on the street, and there is not even a straight face, which can be described as no difficulty, of course, it is also a take. Since it is a fashion drama, the film was filmed in New York and Paris, and it is expected that most of the indoor and outdoor scenes will be completed in New York, and after the filming is completed, it will be filmed in Paris for a few days. At present, the team has been pulled to New York, and the crew has chartered several floors of a three-star hotel as a accommodation base, and even the producer Wendy lives in it - in order to reflect the original taste of the New York style of this film, David insists on a large number of live-action shooting, some procedures here are very cumbersome, Wendy is not at ease to let the executive producer do it, so she simply sits on the set herself, and coordinates the relationship between the crew and those cameo big names, and even sponsors big brands: after all, Anna. Wintour is obviously still a little unhappy about being filmed, there is such a heavyweight in New York, she doesn't stay, who knows what will happen?

Except for Meryl, who lives in New York and only comes to live in the morning scene, even the producer lives in such a hotel, and Jenny, of course, the leading actor does not have any privileges, which also makes her and Emily somewhat 'look up and see you down', early the next morning, the two met in the hotel restaurant, and they both held the script in their hands: from today onwards, David prefers to shoot scenes that roughly take the plot as the process, so he will shoot part of it in "Flyover" in the morning The scene in the editorial department, the first shot is the scene where Andy comes to the interview, which is the scene where everyone reads sparks from the beginning.

Since this is the first rivalry scene of three women, and it is basically the first scene of the three people in the whole film, whether the character image can stand up for the first time depends on this scene. Jenny must have attached great importance to this scene, and she has been holding her breath in her heart, so now that she sees Meryl and Emily, she is unexpectedly a little embarrassed to see her competitors, and even she can see that Emily's expression is also a little unnatural: as the least well-known and popular of the three, she can only rely on her excellent acting skills to impress the audience, so the motivation to compete in the drama may not be inferior to Jenny.

"Ah, it looks like you're up early, too," an unexpected guest walked into the dining room - it was Meryl, her expression was natural, and she greeted the two of them with a natural expression, "Shall we have breakfast together?" ”

Although there is no seniority here in the United States, of course, industry giants like Meryl are generally respected, neither Jenny nor Emily objected, and when the three actresses took breakfast and sat down one after another, looking at each other's breakfast plates, they all laughed heartily, and the atmosphere eased a little: although their breakfast was no different from the average person, or even slightly more, there were no high-fat and high-calorie foods such as cheese, jam and butter on the plate.

"Come to think of it, it's a wonderful satire," Meryl began. "We're making a movie against extreme dieting, but almost all of the actresses in this movie are on extreme diets."

She has always been known for staying away from Hollywood, although she is not a hermit and will attend some business events, but Meryl has always appeared in people's conversations with wisdom, nobility and professionalism, it can be said that for Hollywood stars, Meryl may naturally sit in a slightly overlooking and critical angle, Jenny did not expect her to use this typical diet for weight control, she said, "I thought you would object to an actress diet, Meryl." ”

"How is this possible?" Meryl picked up a slice of white toast, "I'm 54 years old, I've had 4 children, you have to believe me, dear, I've put in a lot of effort to keep my body shape the way it is, of course, in order to ensure the photogenic effect, I've been on a stricter diet recently than before." ”

"It's frustrating to say that." Emily commented in a British tone, "So we don't have the slightest hope of eating and drinking in the next thirty years." ”

"If you give up your career as an actor, you'll be able to enjoy your food in no time." "A friend of mine in the '80s decided to quit show business, and she gained 30 pounds in two months, but she told me that it was the happiest two months of her life, and she felt alive every day," Meryl said. -- At the same time, I was working out to get rid of the 10 pounds I had gained from my second birth. ”

All three actresses laughed, and Jenny said, "Well, but we can't help but admit that there's not much fun in living on such an extreme diet." I believe that Andy's final resignation in the Prada book had a lot to do with her inability to maintain her diet. ”

"Why isn't that the reason for Lauren's own resignation?" Emily asked curiously, "I haven't met Lauren, what kind of person is Lauren?" ”

Jenny didn't want to say much about Lauren's rights and wrongs, but she smiled, "Actually, I think Lauren's own story in Vogue, the original Prada book and the movie we're working on right now are three stories. So knowing her or not knowing her doesn't matter to the filmmaking. Just like Wintour doesn't have to mind the movie too much, there is almost no resemblance between her and Miranda except for the title, if I have to say, Miranda in the original book is a discredit to Wintour, but Miranda in the movie is much better than Wintour himself. ”

Emily looked thoughtful, and Meryl smiled and said, "Emily, I noticed that you have a strong curiosity about everything about the movie. ”

"Yes, I've always wanted to figure out what I've been involved in," Emily said, a little embarrassed, "and of course I know I'm playing a supporting role, but it's hard to control." ”

"It's a good habit." Meryl said gently, not hiding her admiration for Emily, "Trust me, the day when you star will not be far away." - I'm sure you'll get more opportunities in the UK when you get Prada, as is the norm in the UK, who always say they look down on Hollywood, but they value it so much. But I have to say that this time they didn't give you the opportunity to do anything wrong, and your performance made me feel threatened even personally. ”

"Oh, Meryl, I'm so honored that you say that." Emily radiated with joy, and she gave Jenny a cautious glance and a timid smile at her, before she was engaged in a lively conversation with Meryl. "You don't know how much I adore you, and how much your "Mr. and Mrs. Kramer" has influenced me......"

Jenny is still smiling on the surface, of course, but she doesn't deny that there's a fire inside her: Emily is the star she discovered and confirmed, and she doesn't feel threatened because her acting skills are recognized. But Meryl's praise of Emily is a bit aimed at her, and this feeling of being excluded and questioned by no one will feel good, but what makes her even more depressed is that she really can't say that her acting skills are much better than Emily, and it can be said that what Meryl said does make sense to some extent.

During the whole makeup process, Jenny held her breath, when she put on Andy's Zara coat and walked to the set to rehearse with Emily, she saw Emily who had been wearing makeup, perhaps because she had begun to prepare for the play, this tone became more and more hot and stuffy, so that she almost wanted to go back to the trailer to drop something to vent, or yell at someone - however, unfortunately, most of the actors are very taboo before the play, and they usually have to adjust their emotions in order to enter the play, So even Mary didn't come up to bother.

"Jenny, go over and bury yourself." Closing her eyes and adjusting in the acting space, Jenny had roughly calmed down when the venue came to inform, and she walked to the scheduled starting point of shooting, and with two buzzing sounds, the headlights inside the studio came on, scorching the actors who were getting ready for the scene.

Jenny looked in the direction of the crew, and unexpectedly found Meryl next to the director, she was looking at her with scrutinizing eyes, without any expression, but Jenny could consciously see her hidden disapproval and even worry, the pressure that Meryl had been exerting on her seemed to have reached its peak at this moment, and this moment finally broke out. - She's had enough of Meryl's disdain for her.

"Fuckyou, Meryl, Fuckyou, Emily." Cursing viciously twice in her heart, Jenny thought to herself, "Who cares what you think? I played it well, I know it myself! I don't need affirmation! ”

Suddenly, she rang out from Cesare's lecture. "The most important thing is to be confident." "If you maintain a confident stance, even if the story is no longer credible, someone will be convinced by you." "If you can't trust yourself, then the whole marketing plan is a complete failure."

"I played well, I did enough homework," she continued to silently meditate in her heart, hypnotizing herself, "Raise your head, Chen Zhen, you know Andy, you have been thinking about her for a long time, you are her at this moment, you are the person who knows her best - you are her at this moment!" ”

Maybe it was the excitement that made her reaction cross the line at this moment, or maybe it was her repeated speculation about Andy these days, so that she finally reached a kind of mysterious boundary at this moment, Jenny seemed to hear a crisp sound at this moment, as if something shattered in her ear, and then ......

And then it's like introducing an empathetic golden finger - it's just that the effect of that golden finger is like pressing her into a basin of cold water, and it's not too comfortable, Jenny has a headache all the time with more empathy, and this feeling of getting into the role ...... It was like a breeze blowing across her cheeks, and naturally, when she opened her eyes again, she became Andy.

"September 4, 2004, Act II First Shooting, A!" With a crisp sound of the scene, the characters in the set moved.

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It's a busy corridor, and there are fashionably dressed, professional, indifferent, and hurried fashion editors coming and going, who either look sideways at Andy's plain dress, or catch up from behind her, and look at her strangely, and disappear behind a certain door, and Andy also realizes the surprise in people's eyes, she is very self-conscious and pulls the hem of her coat, lifts her chin, makes a slightly impatient confident expression, and quickens her pace into the reception of "Flyover", "Hey, I have a meeting, and- ”

Sensing the eyes of the front desk looking her up and down in her clothes, Andy sighed helplessly, she had realized that she was out of place with this editorial department, "Emily. Charlton? ”

"Andrea. Sykes? Emily, who had already walked to the front desk in the vista, spoke up at this time, and her expression was completely written with the words 'I can't believe it'.

“Yes？” Andy was already a little annoyed by this time, and she replied to Emily with a 'I can't believe you would be so rude'. Although it was the first time they met, the secret war between the two women had already begun.

"Great, it seems that HR has a weird sense of humor." Emily seemed to be momentarily taken aback in the face of Andy's toughness, and she adjusted a moment before continuing to maintain her high profile, "Follow me." ”

The scene came to an end as she turned to lead Andy away, and David applauded happily and shouted, "Cut, Good!" ”

The studio was filled with voices, and both actresses walked up to the director and watched the replay with him. And David was also full of praise for their performance, "You all have to perform much better than in rehearsal, Jenny, your few eyes are too good, I want to arrange a few close-ups of your eyes in the next retake, Emily, you too, the body language just now is very good...... The chemistry between you is very strong! ”

It can be seen that he is extremely satisfied with Emily and Jenny's performance, especially the more praise for Jenny's performance, Jenny and Emily's eyes touched, and they also noticed the admiration and excitement in Emily's eyes, and compared with the previous worry that she would overpower Jenny's limelight and cause her unhappiness, now Emily seems to be really aware of Jenny's level and begins to seriously want to overpower her.

Although there was no dialogue, the two seemed to have a faint tacit understanding, looked at each other and smiled, and the relationship that was originally a little awkward seemed to have eased a lot.

Sometimes acting may be really such a film thing, at least in the role of Andy, after successfully entering Andy once, I want to ' It's not too difficult to become Andy', Jenny has had countless simulation exercises, and she has even memorized the positions of these scenes, not to mention her own lines, Andy's emotional changes in this scene, the change of thoughts, she has long been familiar with it, how to adjust her camera angle in the performance, and ensure the emotional communication between herself and the camera, this is already a difficult hurdle to overcome, it can be said that the only thing she needs is to find that kind of performance state, the kind that can make 100% become 120% The state of making Andy the same as Emily and Miranda, even if others have a golden finger to empathize with the character, it is difficult to imitate. -- She wants to play this role in her own style, something other than the script.

The process sounds mysterious and mysterious, and it is difficult for Jenny to say that she has fully mastered this method of acting, only that she has found a feeling in the role of Andy. Several scenes with Emily are like this, Emily behaves well, she behaves at least as well as Emily, and when the two look at each other, she can feel Emily's inner emotions: both Emily and she realize that the other party is acting well, and this makes them more combative and in better shape, they must not and will never lose to each other.

In such a high-spirited state, these rival scenes were shot with sparks, which made David happy, and all he had to do was to take a few more times to provide more material for the subsequent editing. Not to mention low-level mistakes such as forgetting words, these two actresses have hardly even made high-level mistakes such as not being emotionally in place and performing unsatisfactory.

"Good." It took less than two hours to shoot Emily and Jenny from the front desk to the door of Miranda's office, and now the same set is used to start filming the scene of Miranda driving, which is a scene of Emily and Miranda opposing each other, so Jenny gets some time off, but instead of returning to the trailer, she sits in Meryl's previous position and watches the first scene between the two of them.

I can't help but say that the reason why Meryl is regarded as an outstanding actor who is scheduled for the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award is indeed because of her outstanding acting skills, and she was still laughing with the makeup artist who touched up her makeup last second...... Jenny didn't know what to say, she seemed to have been completely introduced into the world of Prada by Meryl, no longer in the studio, but in the editorial office of "Flyover", watching the editor-in-chief with reverence and fear as a small editor passed by.

"Fortieth time, no, I don't want macaroon, I want rhubarb fruit maize cake......"

A series of lines were spoken by Meryl lightly, without the slightest stumbling, the speed of speech is fast, the ups and downs are not obvious, but it is not a mechanical recitation, more like a casual command made by Miranda immersed in the inner world, Emily on the side is a little clumsy when turning the page, and the director shouts 'Cut'.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Emily, who has always been neither humble nor arrogant, and has hidden her uneasiness well, finally panicked a little: it is also very laborious for an actor to read such a long line, because her low-level mistakes caused Meryl to have to do it again, and if it is an actor with a bad temper, she will start to put on a face at this time.

"It's okay." Meryl didn't mind at all, after returning to her original position, following the director's instructions, she immediately read it again, and even her tone was not much different from just now. "I'm not interested in your incompetence......"

In this scene, Emily's breathlessness and panic are difficult to say whether she is acting or sincere, although her acting skills have dazzled everyone who has interviewed her, but it is obvious that in front of Meryl, Emily's momentum is completely suppressed. Of course, this effect is in line with the relationship between the characters, so it is the icing on the cake for this scene.

After this scene, the crew announced that it was going to enter the lunch break, and everyone gathered near the dining car, and Jenny and Emily naturally got together.

"How does it feel to play against Meryl?" Jenny asked curiously, taking the salad she had asked for from the waiter.

Emily grimaced, "Just like when I'm playing against you, it feels like you're in a tough fight, you have to give your full attention, but that's it, you can lose at any time." ”

"It's similar to how I feel when I'm playing against you." Jenny said from the bottom of her heart that maybe the scenes had something to do with each other, although Emily and Ryan. Gosling's talent may not be much different, but the pressure of playing against Ryan is obviously less than the pressure of playing against Emily, playing against Ryan, Jenny thinks to herself that even if she doesn't open the golden finger, she can still crush him, but she doesn't dare to relax in the slightest when playing against Emily.

In addition to the fierce competition between masters, of course, there is also the emotion of sympathy, and Jenny, as a popular little flower in Hollywood, has won the Tony Award, and will admit that there is pressure to play against Emily, this kind of performance is very satisfying to vanity, Emily's attitude towards her is obviously much more affectionate, "If there is any difference between you and Meryl, it is that when I play against you, I feel that maybe I still have a chance to win, but when I play against Meryl, you can obviously feel it...... Your best result is just not to lose, she's almost invincible. ”

"Hmm......" Jenny turned her gaze to Meryl thoughtfully. Invincible......"

As if aware of her eyes, she was with her daughter Mary. Meryl, who was talking and laughing, also raised her head to look at Jenny, and the eyes of the two women seemed to collide invisibly in midair, although the expressions of the parties were not unusual, but the atmosphere of sparks made Emily and Mary. Gu Modu frowned......

The author has something to say: 100 chapters before you know it. Hey, hey, there is a double shift at half past eight!