Chapter 143: Casting
The ringtone of the mobile phone "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" woke Blake Lively from her sleep, and the first thing she did when she opened her sleepy eyes was not to answer the phone, but to stuff the phone under the pillow and press it down. It's only past nine o'clock in the morning, and she doesn't answer any calls from that bastard, and sleeping is the most important thing.
The thought vaguely cleared his mind, and Blake-Lively fell back to sleep.
After about half an hour, the mobile phone under the pillow rang stubbornly again, and Blake Lively, who was sleeping soundly, didn't even bother to open her eyes, her hand groped under the pillow for a while, and after touching the phone, she directly pressed the phone off.
In order to prevent any more calls from disturbing her dreams, Blake Lively took her phone out from under her pillow and prepared to turn it off. But on the missed call list that pops up on the screen, the caller shows Felix Lin.
Blake Lively rubbed his eyes vigorously to make sure he was not mistaken. "Oh my God, he actually hung up Felix's phone, what would he think...... Will he ignore me from now on? "The girl's mind is the most sensitive, and Blake Lever bit his lip with his teeth, and a thousand thoughts turned in his mind in an instant.
Just when she was struggling with the dilemma of whether to return the call or not, the mobile phone rang again, and the caller showed that it was still Lin Mingyang. Blake Lively patted his chest and let out a long sigh of relief before pressing the answer button.
"Baby, I hope I didn't disturb your good dreams!" On the other end of the phone, Lin Mingyang's voice full of magnetic surnames carried a lazy atmosphere like an afternoon sun, which made Blake Lively's heart hit like a deer. Hearing Lin Mingyang's affectionate name, Blake Lively immediately blushed, and although she was the only one in the bedroom, she still covered her head with a quilt.
Hiding under the covers and whispering to her lover is something that girls of this age like to do.
"But I did wake up by you!" Blake Lively puffed out his cheeks and pretended to puff out.
"Then I sincerely apologize to you!" Lin Mingyang on the other end of the phone smiled.
"Just an apology won't work." Blake Lively pouted, her coquettish voice full of charm despite the phone.
Before he could coax a few good words, Lin Mingyang's fox tail was revealed: "Then I'll compensate you for a movie role?" ”
Blake Lively giggled under the covers, as pleasant as a silver bell, "What movie are you going to make this time?" She didn't answer Lin Mingyang directly, but subconsciously she actually regarded herself as the heroine of the story.
"A very hilarious story that happened on a college campus!" Blake Lively curled up in his bed, and Lin Mingyang told the plot of the whole movie like a storyteller, his eloquence was good, and his language expression was very rich. Over the phone, Blake Lively felt like he was back in his childhood, listening to his parents tell him bedside stories. The only regret is that the hypnosis effect of Lin Mingyang's story is not very good, and the funny plot makes Blake Lively laugh, where is the idea of sleeping.
At the end, Blake-Lively couldn't stop laughing on the bed, she propped herself up and leaned back on the pillow, "You're going to let me play the daughter of that old-fashioned dean of North Harmon Tech?" ”
The name of North Harmon Institute of Technology corresponds to the north and south of South Harmon Institute of Technology in Lin Mingyang's last directorial work "Admission Notice", which is a tricky approach by him, in order not to let the audience sit in the opposite seat in reality. Lin Mingyang made this movie, just to expose some of the shortcomings of university education, not to directly satirize a certain school.
However, what is the name of the school in the movie is not the focus of Blake Lively's concern, and she has been stuffy in her heart from the beginning, "Is you the male protagonist of the film?" ”
"Do you wish it was me?"
Blake Lively pursed his lips and hesitated, "Of course!" Although Blake Lively herself knew that this might be a small surname, she still said what she really thought in her heart.
"I'm sorry..."
"Actually, it doesn't matter, I know your goal is to become a great director, so I will always support you!" Blake Lively was originally a cheerful girl, and she quickly accepted the result, which in turn comforted Lin Mingyang.
"So you agreed?"
"Did I say no?" Blake Lively giggled.
"You have to think about it, this film may not be used for commercial distribution, it is just a production that I use for the International Student Film Festival." Although the relationship with Blake Lively is extraordinary, there are some things that Lin Mingyang still has to make clear first, "The salary is not high!" ”
――――"1 hour, 26 minutes, 8 seconds!" The moment Lin Mingyang hung up the phone, Billy Olsen stopped the stopwatch, and then reported a series of accurate numbers, "Does the director need to take so long to communicate with the actors?" ”
"Questions?" Lin Mingyang glared at him angrily, "Did you find any results on the Internet?" ”
The tentative title of the film is "Three Fools", Lin Mingyang asked Billy Olsen to post the casting information on Facebook's Harvard community, and the first round of casting adopts the method of email submission, interested people only need to send their life photos to the designated mailbox, and then leave accurate contact information.
This post was regarded as a joke by everyone at first, and then some unscrupulous guy wanted to take the opportunity to collect photos of beautiful women. But soon a well-informed person in Kirkland's dormitory corroborated the news from the H33 dorm members, and then, like the virus spreading, soon the whole school knew about it. In an interview with Ginny, an exclusive reporter for the Harvard Crimson Newspaper, Lin Mingyang personally confirmed the incident, and then emails poured in like snowflakes, but fortunately the email was not crowded, but Billy Olsen still has to deal with thousands of emails every day.
The call for actors was initially limited to Harvard students, but because of the spread of the news, this move caused dissatisfaction among students at other colleges and universities in Boston, and after receiving the letter of protest, Lin Mingyang had to expand the scope of the cast call to the whole of Boston, which made Billy Olson's work increase several times out of thin air.
Lin Mingyang asked about this, and Billy Olsen began to pour bitter water: "Felix, I strongly demand a salary increase for myself, you don't know how devastating it is to browse more than a thousand photos of men every day, I think you still let Greene Nat do this, and he has a preference in this area, I guess he must be happy to take over this job." ”
"If you ask Nat to do it, I think the first thing he will do is find a whole bunch of people who are better suited than you, and then convince me to let you get out!" Lin Mingyang smiled evilly, "If you are still ready to stick to the suggestion you just made, then I will talk to Nat right away!" ”
"Just kidding, how can such an important thing as casting be entrusted to that unreliable guy from Green-Nat!" Billy Olsen's attitude immediately took a 180-degree turn, but the corners of his mouth trembled a little when he laughed, and if he really let Greene Nat cast, it is estimated that he was really kicked out of the cast list by that guy.
Billy Olsen made a slideshow of the photos and basic information of the selected people, and in order to show his serious work attitude, he hurriedly opened his laptop and began to show Lin Mingyang.
Turned over more than a hundred pages, most of the photos Lin Mingyang just hurriedly skimmed, and he didn't leave any impression in his mind at all, until a guy named Michael Newman appeared on the computer screen, Lin Mingyang held down the fingers of the mouse wheel to stop dialing, he looked at the photo of the person carefully and carefully, and always felt that he looked very similar to a Hollywood star between his eyebrows.
"Does this guy look a bit like Adam Sandler?" Billy Olsen had this feeling when he was selected, and seeing that Lin Mingyang seemed to be interested in this guy, he mentioned it from the side.
Lin Mingyang nodded: "No wonder I always feel a little familiar, there is indeed a bit of similarity between the eyebrows, but he should look more clever than Adam Sandler, should we meet him first?" ”
"You're going to make this guy the main character?" Billy Olson's eyes widened.
"What I need is this type of actor, you know it's a comedy, I don't need the main character to be handsome or handsome, preferably the kind of person who is upright with a little wit and humor." Lin Mingyang explained.
Billy Olsen nodded, "Then I'll contact him now!" ”
-- The applicant, Michael Newman, was a junior at Boston University who happened to be in class when he received a call from Billy Olson. Fortunately, he sat in the back seat, and while the professor on the podium was not paying attention, he was half a body shorter, shrunk under the desk and connected the phone.
"Hello, I'm Michael Newman, may I ask what's the matter?" In order not to disturb the people around him, he kept his voice low.
Billy Olsen on the other end of the phone didn't hear what he was saying at all, he raised his voice, "I'm Billy Olsen, this is the crew of "Three Fools", are you Michael Newman?" ”
Billy Olson..."The crew of "Three Fools", Michael Newman, who was hiding under the desk, had a bang in his head, when he saw the information about recruiting actors on the Internet, he still signed up at the instigation of several friends, but he didn't expect the other party to really find him.
"Yes, yes, I'm Michael Newman." He looked up sharply in excitement, and his head slammed into the desk, this time making a lot of noise, and everyone around him looked at him, and the professor stopped lecturing and looked this way along the source of the sound.
Michael Newman rubbed his sore head and got out from under the desk, and the professor looked at him with a serious face, "Mr. Newman, do you have a habit of hiding under the desk to listen to lectures?" ”
Michael Newman had already put his phone in his pocket when he came out, he scratched his head, and explained apologetically: "Professor, my pen just fell to the ground, and I touched my head when I picked up the pen!" With his honest and honest appearance and sincere attitude of admitting his mistakes, he easily deceived the professor.
"Okay, you sit down, let's go ahead with the class now?" The professor continued to write and speak on the blackboard, and when his lecture notes were finished, he was about to expand further, only to find Michael Newman's hands raised high when he turned around.
"Mr. Newman, do you have any doubts about what I just said?" The professor thought he was trying to ask a question.
Michael Newman covered his stomach in pain, and then his face turned red, "I... I may have had a bad stomach today. ”
The surrounding classmates burst out laughing, the professor already had three black lines on his face, and he was definitely not happy that the class was interrupted by Michael Newman in a row. Waving his hand impatiently, Michael Newman hurried out of the classroom with his stomach clutched.
In class, he really looked like he had diarrhea, but as soon as he walked out of the classroom door, he immediately stood up straight, and there was still a little pain on his face. If Lin Mingyang is here, he will definitely be pleasantly surprised, because Michael Newman is simply a natural actor.
This trick was often used by Michael Newman when he was in high school, but he didn't have the leisure to be complacent at this time. He found a secluded place, and then called back on the phone that he had hung up in class.
Billy Olson was depressed, wondering if Michael Newman had run into some deep mountain and old forest, and the signal was so bad that the phone was cut off while he was talking. After about five minutes, the other party finally called him back.
Before Billy Olsen could open his mouth to complain, the other party's excited voice began to hit his eardrums, "You're Billy Olsen, I often browse your homepage, you and Felix Lin are in the same dormitory... I was really taken by the crew of "Three Fools", I will play the leading role, right? ”
The incoherent words and barrage of questions made Billy Olson not know how to answer, "I'm telling you that it's all true, but only if you pass our interview." When do you have time, I think it's better tomorrow, you come to our dormitory, the interview is here, and the code when you knock on the door is 'I'm a fool!' Remember? ”
Michael Newman felt that the code was like a fool's joke, which made him doubt the phone's real last name: "Are you really Billy Olson?" ”
"I suggest you take a look at the calendar first, it's not April Fool's Day!"
(To be continued)