Chapter 18: Interesting changes
"Wait, Koko! It's not time yet! After hearing this, Jennifer immediately called out to the woman who came out of the side
But the other party had a smug smile and didn't take her words to heart at all: "We said that haode is ten minutes, and if you can't ask this new young man to ask you for an autograph within ten minutes, then you will lose, and it has been eleven minutes now." ”
"It was about to succeed, but as soon as you come out to interrupt, all your efforts will be in vain!" Jennifer exclaimed, a little annoyed, but more like she was playing tricks.
So the other party still looked proud: "Come on, Jane, I've already given you one more minute, and if you lose, you lose." ”
"Since the time limit is ten minutes, but you gave one more minute, which violates our previous agreement, so the game can't be counted." Jennifer immediately said that this is a complete fraud.
"Two ladies, can I find out what's going on?" Sean, who was listening to the eyelids jumping next to him, couldn't help but ask.
The two who were arguing realized that there was someone next to them, and suddenly lost their voices, but the woman who was called "Koko" by Jennifer quickly recovered from the embarrassment and stretched out her hand generously: "Hello, Sean, I'm Courtney?" Cox, also Monica? Geller, nice to meet you. ”
"I'm glad to meet you, Cox...... Miss. Sean shook hands with her, then looked at Jennifer again, and asked in a half-teasing tone, "Is it okay to call it this time?" ”
"No problem," Jennifer nodded with a grin, "Although Koko is dating someone, she is still a long way from getting married, so there is no problem at all to call her Miss." ”
"Alright, Jane," Courtney glared at Jennifer angrily, then turned back to Sean, "I'm sorry, Shaun, when new people joined the crew, they always came to us for autographs, so Jane heard that there would be a new person playing Casapa?" Mawson, tell me you're going to do the same, so there's this gamble, if you feel ......"
"It's okay," Sean opened before she could finish speaking, "Actually, I had that in mind, but I just met Miss Aniston, so I didn't mention it." ”
"Do you hear that, Koko, he admits it's going to be soon." Jennifer really seized every opportunity to turn the situation around, and her lively appearance was quite Rachel's shadow.
Think about it, too, if the actor and the character have nothing in common, David in the first place? How did Crane pick her?
"No matter how much you struggle, it's useless, dear Jane, you've already lost!" Courteney pinched Jennifer's face and smiled, she also has some Monica qualities.
As intimate as rumored to be. Thinking like this, Sean shrugged his shoulders, then coughed lightly and raised his hands: "Two ladies, can I continue reading the script now?" ”
"Of course not!" Jennifer, who broke free from Courtney's grasp, immediately said, "You don't really think I'm here just for a gamble, do you?" ”
She clasped her hands in front of her chest, leaned forward slightly, and had a smile on her face, but her cheeks were a little bulging, as if she was being underestimated.
"Of course not, Miss Aniston," Sean immediately denied, women are cautious at this time, so it's better to follow their words, otherwise it will definitely give you a good look," so I asked. ”
Fortunately, Jennifer didn't embarrass him, picked up the thing in her hand and shook it: "I came over to say hello, just to find you to have the right lines, you know, this is not a movie, and the director has no extra time to arrange a special meeting." ”
Generally speaking, before the official start of filming, the director will call the main actors together for a meeting to speak to each other to deepen the impression. Although the TV series also has similar measures, not all of them are like this, not to mention that "Friends" is a sitcom, and there are only six starring roles, plus half of the current episode has been filmed, and most of the rest are Sean's scenes, so naturally there will be no special meeting for him.
Then, the director forgot to tell Sean, who was a newcomer and didn't have that awareness, so Jennifer came to him.
"I'm sorry, Ms. Aniston, but I don't understand these processes very well." After figuring it out, Sean immediately asked Jennifer Daoqian.
"It's okay, let's just start now, and call me Jennifer." Obviously, even though Jennifer was a little dissatisfied before, his low profile still won her favor.
"Hey, don't forget, there's Lisa's role." Monica reminded at this time.
According to the description of the script, Sean plays the waiter Casapa, who met Rachel when she was picking out clothes, and with Rachel was Phoebe, and Monica did not appear because there was a separate scene. As early as the end of the fourth season, at Rose's wedding, Monica and Chander had a relationship, and now it has further developed, so it can only be Phoebe who accompanies Rachel, and also falls in love with Casapa, and fights with Rachel - this kind of joke is not uncommon in the whole TV series, and it creates a lot of jokes, so the crew uses it again and again.
"She's talking on the phone in the trailer right now, so there's not that much time to spare, so you can take her place." Jennifer said as she shoved the script in her hand into Courtney's arms.
Next, Sean and the two leading actors of "Friends", Jennifer and Courtney, faced each other in the actor's rest area. He doesn't know how many times he's read these lines, and last night he pulled Naomi to help repeat the lines, and he couldn't be more familiar with them, so it's quite easy now.
"You read it so emotionally every time, is it really the first time to be an actor?" After the end, Jennifer asked with some curiosity, she has seen a lot of rookie actors, and she has also seen a lot of dedicated rookie actors, but there are very few people who can be very serious every time like Sean, you must know that even she, who is already very familiar with this TV series, can't be emotionally invested every time she is on the lines.
"I did stage plays when I was in school, and I know how to keep my emotions going." Sean appeared to be very honest.
"Really? No wonder it's so good, I've acted in stage plays before, but unfortunately I don't get a single salary. Jennifer sighed with emotion, revealing a look of reminiscence.
But she quickly recovered and patted Sean with a smile: "Come on, Sean, acting in a stage play may not necessarily be able to act in a TV series, stage plays and TV series are different." ”
Saying that, she suddenly got a little closer, and after carefully looking at him, the smile in her eyes brought a smile: "To be honest, if I didn't have a boyfriend, maybe I would ask you out." ”
Sean couldn't help but be embarrassed, and immediately lowered his head and coughed a few times, even if Jennifer was pulled away by Courtney who rolled her eyes, she could still be heard teasing from a distance: "Wow, he's so cute......"
was actually molested, this kind of thing is really rare. He laughed a little self-deprecatingly, but can he be beaten by the famous Rachel? Green is also quite good, a lot of people don't have a chance to do this, and he is a little cautious. Of course, it's better to put it down now, Jennifer is also a famous actor no matter what she says.
As for acting, Sean is basically confident, after making so many preparations, and having crossed lines with Jennifer, he is now very confident. As mentioned before, stage plays and TV dramas, especially sitcoms, still have some similarities, such as the need to exaggerate body language and expressions.
The stage play is because the stage is so big, and the audience is so large and still sitting in all directions, if the action is not exaggerated, the people in the back will not know what you are performing. Due to the limited venue, sitcoms cannot be edited and shot with long shots like movies, and if you want to attract the audience, you need slightly exaggerated performances in addition to subtle lines.
It's not a problem to play on the spot, he has performed in front of thousands of people, how can he care about the camera and the staff, not to mention that the two lives make him have a calmness far beyond ordinary people.
The truth is indeed as Sean thought, after the start of filming, several shots passed at one time, and those extra shots were either the heroine Jennifer's problem, or other things, so that the director praised him several times.
But that's pretty much it at this point, there are similarities and differences between the stage play and the TV series, and what Jennifer said after the lines before was not wrong. The most typical point is that each paragraph of the stage play is very long, and the actors need to work together during the performance, while the camera of the TV series is very fragmented, and sometimes it will stop every one or two minutes. Such a constant pause will make many actors who have just switched from a stage play to a TV series very uncomfortable, especially if they have just been in a good mood, but they can stop for ten minutes after filming for five minutes, and when they shoot again, their emotions are gone, which is very troublesome and headache.
Sean also faced this kind of problem, although he had a very good mental quality, but his experience in this area was not enough after all, so after the initial limelight, the number of NGs gradually increased. But he didn't take it to heart, Frederick had reminded him before this, Sean was mentally prepared, and more importantly, Mu Xiu was destroyed by Lin Feng, he was still a newcomer, there was no need to steal the limelight, and after performing well at the beginning and leaving a deep impression, he could temporarily retract into the corner.
Of course, it is also a depressing thing if there are too many NGs, plus it is in a hurry to shoot, and it is necessary to work as little overtime as possible, but it is not allowed to postpone the broadcast, so that the crew hates several producers to grit their teeth. Therefore, once the efficiency of filming is low, no one will be happy, so Sean occasionally can't help but wonder if he still remembers some scenes from the fifth season of "Friends", will the performance go much smoother.
It's just that Sean doesn't know that history has changed, in a previous life, the actress who played Rose's second wife Emily in the fourth season of "Friends" couldn't continue after a few episodes because she was pregnant, so the writers made Rose pronounce the wrong name at the wedding. And at the beginning of the fifth season, the two had a conflict, and they divorced after a few episodes, and the actress barely had many shots, and even when she appeared, she sat on the bed and covered her bulging lower abdomen with a quilt.
But now, the actress has changed, and the story has changed direction, although Ross and Rachel both know that they still have feelings for each other, but what should life be like or what, Rose and Emily spent their honeymoon together and bowed down to her, and Rachel, who was unwilling, also kept trying to find a more Haode man, so there was the role of Sean.
That's how interesting things are in the world.