"This time the table is very good, I think you can try something different during the performance, after the table xiàn comes out, let's see which one is suitable, what do you think?" Edward Burns stood next to the camera and said with a serious face.

Cameron Diaz's gaze stayed on the monitor, listening to Edward's words, she tapped her chin lightly and said, "Okay, no problem, I'll study the next scene myself." ”

Edward snapped his fingers, "That's it!" Then you go and rest first. Then without waiting for Cameron to answer, he turned to the rest of the crew and shouted, "Prepare for the next show, Jennifer prepare." ”

Cameron watched a replay of the scene on the monitor, and then went back to the side to rest. In my mind, I was recalling the feeling of the scene just now, a method that Cameron learned from Hugo when he was on the crew of "Death Row Walk".

Now, Cameron is filming "Love is the One" in New York, a romantic comedy movie with a relaxed atmosphere and relatively simple characters, but it still helps a lot to polish his acting skills. Cameron is struggling to learn acting — a skill that is still very foreign to her.

Originally, Cameron thought that it was embarrassing to stand in front of the monitor and look at his performance, but he would make himself constantly pay attention to the camera, and then pay attention to the small details of his expression, and so on, and as a result, he messed up the performance, so Cameron has always refused to watch the monitor.

But this is not the case with Hugo's crew in "Death Row Walk", after each scene, Hugo will watch the monitor, and if the director is not satisfied, Hugo will communicate with the director about the whole scene. Later, when Cameron asked Hugo, Hugo said that he learned this habit from Al-Pacino, in fact, he was not used to it at first, looking at himself on the monitor as if he was a stranger - the most familiar stranger, how awkward it looked, and as a result, he was completely embarrassed when he returned to the camera to perform, and even had the same hands and feet.

But then Hugo discovered that when watching the monitor, it was not himself who he needed to see, but the character. In other words, what the monitor is watching is not the details of the performance, but the characters are very consistent with the whole plot. Studying acting is a very personal act, especially many one-man shows, but the film is a whole, and if the characters are separated from the plot, it is a disaster, not to mention that many rival scenes also need the actors to cooperate with each other. Therefore, Hugo watched the monitor to see the fit of his own performance, his own character and the whole story.

Now, Cameron is also trying to learn this, but she still doesn't quite fit in, and she always tends to get distracted while watching the monitor.

Sitting and resting, Cameron was watching Jennifer Aniston play opposite Edward Burns, who is not only the director of the film, but also the leading actor. She went from thinking about her performance, to observing Jennifer's performance, and then she began to wander, so that she was completely in a daze and didn't notice it.

The passage of time is always imperceptible, the filming work in the crew is not always rich and busy, and for most actors, the long wait is the main theme.

To take the simplest example, the filming of a movie has a schedule, and the actors and directors are not skilled, so it is difficult to shoot at the same time. Cameron only has three scenes today, but these three scenes are difficult to shoot together on an assembly line, more often than not, it is to shoot one scene, and then take a break and then shoot the next scene.

The interval between each scene is a break, and this interval is not fixed. It is possible that the three scenes were filmed in one go in less than two hours, then Cameron will have his work over today and can leave the crew early; It's also possible that the three scenes will be scheduled in the morning, noon and evening, and although the Screen Actors Guild rules that actors can't work more than eight hours a day, if all three scenes are arranged separately, then Cameron will spend eight hours a day on the set - which means that the waiting time is likely to be more than six hours.

This is also the reason why the connections of the crew are very important. For example, a big name like Hugo, if necessary, the crew can arrange all Hugo's scenes together, rotate for four or five hours in a row, end Hugo's scenes, and then let Hugo go free; And some second- and third-tier actors have no choice, they can only passively complete their work according to the crew's arrangement, and spend a whole day in the crew just to shoot a scene, which is not uncommon.

At this time, the rivalry between Jennifer and Edward itself was relatively long and difficult to film, Cameron was waiting on the side, and more than half an hour passed unconsciously, Cameron suddenly felt bored, she had to stand up and stretch her body, and then walked to the side and chatted with the crew for a while, and ate some snacks, but it was still not her turn to work.

Bored, Cameron simply sat in a quieter corner and looked up at the sky overhead. The sky of New York is always covered with a layer of gray, and the sassy autumn makes the sky above the city divided by high-rise buildings reveal that piece of blue, but it is gray-blue-gray-blue, and it always seems not transparent enough, and the sunshine that is not bright is sparsely sprinkled, as if all the energy has been consumed after a long journey from the sky to the ground, and the energy is weakly projected on the ground, but it does not bring a trace of warmth.

This made Cameron miss the Los Angeles sunshine, and she thought of herself lying on the beach and soaking up the bright West Coast sunshine, playing golf, drinking a cup of coffee, and shopping in such a crisp autumn weather, and the comfort of life was incomparable to the busyness and noise of New York.

The warm sunlight almost made people drowsy, "Cameron......" suddenly shouted in the distance, waking Cameron up, she realized that she almost fell asleep, the cold of New York surged in an instant, so that Cameron couldn't help but shiver, she quickly stood up and shouted, "I'm coming." ”

Cameron walked quickly in the direction of the staff, she thought it was her turn, but she didn't want the staff to stop her from walking towards the filming location, "Cameron, some people outside said that they came to visit your class, and your assistant just went out, you can go over and take a look yourself." ”

Cameron couldn't help but be stunned, visiting the class? Who will come to visit the class at this time? Could it be his former modeling colleague? After all, New York Fashion Week had just ended, and the last time she talked to the group of models on the phone, she talked about meeting and getting together. "Okay, I'll go over now." Cameron said as he walked towards the entrance of the crew.

Walking through the shadows of a gray building, shuttling in the sunlight that occasionally casts down, Cameron can't help but hug himself with his arms, rubbing up and down, trying to dispel the chill on his skin, but his mind is thinking about what to eat for dinner, and suddenly it occurred to him that if it was a model companion, maybe they could go to a big meal and drink a glass of wine together after finishing work.

Not far away is the entrance of the "Love is the Only" crew, because the crew did not receive media attention, so the entrance seemed very deserted, just stopped a vehicle fence, and then arranged a security guard to sit at the door, other than that, there was no protection.

It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was setting in the west, and the steel forest of New York was cutting the sunlight into countless pieces, and the gap between the buildings made the wind blow more violently, and even the cold vapor of the Hudson River could be heard from the soles of the feet. The crew was filming at this time, all the noise had calmed down, there was only silence behind him, and the roar of car engines was faintly heard on the street not far from the front, which made the place even quieter, and the cold seemed to be swarming from all directions, which made Cameron can't help but speed up his pace.

Seeing a figure standing in front of the vehicle fence, Cameron wanted to raise his hand to say hello, but his whole person's movements froze in place. It wasn't her imaginary modeling buddies, it was a man.

The man wore a smoky gray long-sleeved sweater with dark blue washed jeans, a pair of dark brown lace-up boots on his feet, and a long black plum coat on his hands. He just stood there casually, and could only see one side, talking happily to the security guard guarding the gate, and the smile on his face bloomed proudly in the cold air.

A ray of sunlight shines through the building, shining at the entire entrance, the cold light isolates the surrounding shadows, and you can even clearly see the dust flying wantonly in the sunlight, making people think that just one step away are two worlds.

The man seemed to notice Cameron's arrival, turned his head, the smile on his face bloomed completely in an instant, the surrounding sunlight became bright in an instant, the thin and cold light seemed to become warm, the cold of late autumn turned into withered leaves in the air at this moment, swirling in the air and falling slowly, the sunlight that arrived on the ground for thousands of miles released endless heat in which smile, making the breeze warm.

The man raised his hand and waved, a bright laugh, and waved at Cameron, the cool round neck sweater refracted a faint light in the sunlight, looking so warm and so soft. At this moment, the sun in front of me is like the whole world.

Cameron was stunned for a long time, she couldn't believe her eyes, the things she had just imagined in her dream just now were so real, until the man shouted in a warm voice, "Cameron! It was as if she had uncovered the spell and made Cameron run fast, she just wanted to run faster, faster.

Then, Cameron threw himself into the man's arms, and the man couldn't help but take three steps back from the strong momentum, but he still chuckled. Cameron hugged her tightly like this, tightly, buried her head in the man's sweater, and breathed deeply, this familiar smell made her feel extremely happy.