"I just told my assistant to call my favorite client, and you're here......" said a man in a light gray suit and a pink shirt walking down the streets of Times Square, holding his mobile phone.

Although he was wearing sunglasses, his flirtatious appearance was still very conspicuous, and he even whistled when he passed by a blonde: "Hey, big beauty." ”

Of course, he still didn't forget to talk to the customer on the other side of the phone: "It's great, we're looking for time to help you host a premiere party." But now there's a small problem, it coincides with the other two premieres and a fundraiser, and all the venues are booked out, if we change the date......"

Before he finished speaking, he was already scolding, but the man didn't care, obviously he had experienced a lot of these scenes: "Hey, you have to be reasonable, don't you?" Feed? Hey, the signal isn't very clear......"

Then, he hung up the phone and didn't care at all, it seems that this kind of trick is often played.

“Cut！” The director stopped at this point, but it wasn't NG's reason.

"Very well, Sean, keep it as it is, and we'll do it again from a different perspective." Schumacher encouraged.

Hearing this, Sean couldn't help but feel a little excited, he was a little nervous, but he had been preparing for more than a month, and he couldn't memorize the script anymore, if he couldn't get off to a good start, it would be a bit of a failure. Fortunately, from the beginning to the present, the dozen or so shots have basically performed very well, and there are very few NGs, and those that have been shot repeatedly are the director's requirements.

However, as the filming continued, the pressure on his body only increased, and Schumacher did not shoot like a normal film, but let the camera follow the development of the script. In general, when making a movie, all the shots of one scene are completed before moving on to the next scene, but most of the scenes in the movie "Sniper Phone Booth" are in one place, and there are basically not many other scenes, so the director and producer chose to shoot according to the script.

"This is just right, the actor went through this incident, and the whole process is only seventy or eighty minutes, which is about the same time as a movie, which is also a highlight, and if you hype it up with filming and shooting, there will definitely be many viewers who are curious." Zach revealed this message in a few words.

This is also, you know, this movie was still unknown when it was prepared, but it received a lot of attention as soon as filming started, who asked the crew to apply to shoot on Fifth Street downtown? Although it is not a bustling place, it is surrounded by traffic and people, and it is impossible to keep it a secret, so there are reporters who hang out on the set on the first day.

This is also the reason why Frederick is happy, after a few months, Sean's name and his work finally appeared in the media again, although it was on the third or fourth edition, and the content was a little vague, but finally in front of the public. It's better to have news than no news, and with the filming of "Sniper Phone Booth", there will always be media follow-up attention, so Sean, as the actor, has to appear in the newspaper many times.

Thinking about it this way, it was still more cost-effective to take over this movie at the beginning, if only "Perfect Thief" could provoke such a thing.

Sean didn't have time to think about it so much, once he was in the middle of filming, he began to give it his all, except for dating Naomi and Jordana on the weekend or dealing with Jennifer, he was ignored, and even the progress of "My Grand Greek Wedding", which he had been following, was thrown to Galen - didn't he want to open a restaurant? Then take this opportunity to hone yourself.

"Cut, you're pushing too hard, Sean."

"No, give me more fear! Implicit restrained fear! ”

"You should do this, and then do this again, you're an actor, don't always ask me to show you!"

Schumacher is a fairly capable director, and with Nicholas? Cage, George? Clooney, Fang? Kilmer and other big names have worked together, and he is very good at training actors. He can always find Sean's problems at the first time, but he tries to give him as much room to play as possible, just like the above sentence: You are an actor, and I am always asked to demonstrate to you.

Although when he is not in a good mood, a simple shot has to be shot back and forth more than ten times, Sean doesn't care, he likes the feeling now. This is exactly what he has been pursuing since starring in "Death Illusion", not only to allow himself to play fully, but also to have a director who is good at control to pull himself and keep himself from bumping into random bumps.

And the way the movie was filmed also gave him great convenience, he could gradually experience the feelings of the characters, from the initial cynicism, to being trapped in a phone booth by a perverted killer, and then to asking for help in vain, Zuihou had to cry bitterly in front of everyone, and his heart fluctuated very much.

For an actor, what kind of role is more suitable for practicing acting skills than this? Once after Sean was completely immersed in the role, the whole person seemed to float up, as if he did not exist in the body. But the body is still moving, and the lines have not stopped, as if he has been divided, looking at himself completely from a higher level, quite a kind of shell? What Brecht advocates, blending into the character and then detaching itself from it, keeping a distance to control it.

This kind of situation only happened once in the week after the start of filming, and the plot at that time was that after the sniper intimidated the male protagonist, he called his little lover Pan, who was worried that the male protagonist who would be exposed was immediately a little anxious and flustered, but at the same time suppressed that he could not fully show up, and his tone softened more, further fueling the arrogance of the other party.

In the three or four shots before this, Sean didn't find the feeling that he had been stumbling all the time, and although the director didn't say anything, his face was a little unsightly after all. So after spending several minutes of deliberation, Sean, who was back in the field, unexpectedly achieved this indescribable feeling, and the effect shown also made Schumacher frown.

However, when he asked the director for advice and wanted to consolidate this feeling, he was unexpectedly refused.

"I can't help you with this, Sean, you have to experience this for yourself," Schumacher said, "I very much agree with what your teacher said, acting is easy to say, complex and complicated, this is an empirical science." Everyone is different, so the same thing, everyone's experience is also different. Many times, being good at observing and summarizing is more important than talent, and you did a good job, Sean, frankly, although I agree with you to play the leading role, I still have some doubts in my heart, and your excellent performance dispelled my doubts, I hope you can continue. ”

Well, it's true, being good at observing and summarizing is the way for actors to progress, and the main reason why actors from the academy are one line higher than those who enter the industry halfway in terms of average level is that they know how to observe and summarize efficiently after systematic learning.

Therefore, many people who are interested in devoting themselves to the acting career, as well as actors with some small achievements from the informal system, will go to the acting training class to receive a certain degree of training - of course, not all actors will do this, and many people feel that it does not matter if they take the idol route - as long as they master the methods and methods, the pace of progress will naturally be much greater.

Therefore, in the acceptance of John? Sean, who quickly mastered Harrington's private directing, did not go to any acting training classes to join in the fun, but chose to hone himself by playing more challenging roles, so he followed the invitation of "Illusion of Death", and then took a fancy to the male lead of "Sniper Phone Booth".

Actually, director Schumacher is quite good in private, maybe it is because gay people of his age have their own pride and reserve, that is, the dried tofu Ian of "The Lord of the Rings"? McLaren, like him, usually talks, and if he doesn't explain it, he can't feel the difference between him and heterosexuals at all.

So after filming, in addition to asking questions, Sean also chatted with him about a lot of topics, such as those works about him.

"Actually, "Batman & Robin" is still decent on the whole, fully qualified as a popcorn movie, with big-name stars, ups and downs, dazzling technology and ...... It's quite a tough fight. But the problem is that at that time, Batman's potential has been tapped, and the audience is tired of seeing this superhero on the screen, and everything has become a routine, just like Superman at the beginning.

If you make a big change, it may not be possible to rejuvenate the series, but Warners don't dare to gamble, let alone you as a director, so the failure of "Batman and Robin" is not your failure, but the failure of the entire series. After talking about the Batman series that was evaluated as the most unsuccessful, Sean commented.

"But 'Batman Forever' is really good, in every way, I remember among my friends, there were people who watched it five or six times, and there were people who were very obsessed with Nicole? What about Kidman. He then laughed again.

Schumacher directed two Batman movies for Warner in the 90s, "Batman Forever" in 95 and "Batman and Robin" in 97, which are also big stars and big productions, with an investment of 100 million in the former. Kimmer, got Nicole? Kidman, got Tommy? Plum? Jones and Kim? Kerry; The latter invests 1. 200 million, with George? Clooney, is there Uma? Thurman, is there Arnold? Schwarzenegger - Schwarzenegger also played the villain for the first time - but Zuihou's results were quite the opposite.

The former was unanimously acclaimed, and at one point was once called by many the most beautiful in the Batman series, with critics voting it with many praises. And the latter has become the worst word-of-mouth in the entire series, not only greatly affecting the box office, but also starring George? Clooney also admitted in public that it was a wrong decision to take over the role of Batman.

Two completely different works are the work of the same director, and it would be strange if Schumacher were not depressed.

"Anyway, I won't take on superhero movies in the future." Schumacher said that although three years have passed since the shadow of failure, he still seems a little happy to hear Sean say this.