What a big day!

Emma is in a high mood for January 5th, and yesterday she was invited to his new home today to talk about the draft!

"I'd love to work with you, you've got to have a good show, we need to talk. He said.

It's been a long time since I've been invited by him, and I haven't gone to Barrington Park to walk the dogs. The Shooter Girls' School will only open next week, and there is a lot of time, all day.

After receiving the invitation, Emma jumped to give herself a tarot card and asked about the trip, and the result was a magician!

The right time, the right opportunity, the right motivation, now is the time to start something new!

Could it be that the Handstand Lovers card has been straightened? Impossible?

EMMA-TIME！？

Anyway, let it be!

Early this morning, Emma put on a beautiful light makeup, her long blonde hair fell down, she wore a black and white dress, a pair of sandals, and a colored knot bracelet on her left wrist. Departure, only 15 months after her birthday, no driver's license, but did not come to pick her up, so I had to let the driver at home take her.

Under a clear sky, the sea breeze was blowing in Santa Monica, and the Lincoln car pulled to a stop in front of a house on the west section of 12th Street, and the back door opened, revealing a golden girl with a handbag.

"Wow. Emma looked at the two-storey wooden house in front of her, not a mansion but so beautiful, the front yard was surrounded by a small white wooden fence, and there were many trees and plants. She walked and pushed open the knee-high fence door, walked up the steps, and ran to the porch of the house, where a surveillance camera was installed in front of the door.

"Hi. She smiled and waved at the camera, it's nice to live independently.

But...... In the house, it seemed that the door opened, and the person who opened the door turned out to be Gia, "What are you doing standing, come in!"

I expected it to be a new home party. Emma was a little disappointed in her heart, how could VIY invite her alone.

"It's coming. She stepped up, and before she could enter the room, she heard Wei's voice: "Bethany talks too much now, Michael, and write some more powerful lines." ”

It's not like a party...... I saw several people in the living room, Michael Arndt, the screenwriter of "Little Sunshine Beauty", but he was sitting on the sofa talking about a script, opposite a wooden round table, a few laptops, a lot of various documents, and the three of them were busy with something. It's not a party, it's work.

"Hey, Emma, welcome to my humble house. Ye Wei looked over here and said with a smile.

Emma was a little stunned, "Do I have to take off my shoes?" Some people have to take off their shoes when they come into the house, most of them are Asian, but they are all wearing shoes, but they are wearing slippers.

"No, it's easy. Ye Wei pointed to the dining hall, "There are coffee machines and tea brewing machines, so you can brew whatever you want to drink." You can sit down and we'll talk later. Oh here's Michael, that's Gia, you know. Gia and Arndt both raised their hands in greeting.

"That's Pareira Benrily, who just graduated from USC this year, worked with me when I was in Dance of the Angels, and now works as my personal assistant," he added. That's Essa Bertle, one of my production assistants, who worked with me on the remake of Coming to Wedding. They're all good people. ”

Parreira just said "Hi" and went back to work.

Essa, who was thirty or forty years old, greeted: "Hello, Emma, I'm a fan of your Aunt Julia, she's so charming." But I'm gay. ”

"Yes, he's gay, he has a boyfriend of many years, their favorite movie is 'Brokeback Mountain,' and their dream is to legalize same-sex marriage. Essa, do your job! We don't have much time. God, for such efficiency, I need to hire an assistant. Ye Wei was very dissatisfied.

Esa hurriedly buried his head back in the pile of papers.

Emma was staggered by the tense atmosphere of "Hello everyone...... it was more like a studio than a new home.

"Feel free to do whatever you want. Ye Wei discussed with Arndt again: "The current Alana is too weak, and she doesn't have any sparkle in the material, but we can find it." It was also a huge blow to her to see her best friend almost die and survive and lose everything......"

Emma looked at Master Gia suspiciously, and asked with a wink, "What's going on here?"

Gia shrugged her shoulders and said silently with a slow mouth: "He's coming to the eldest aunt!"

"I don't understand...... Emma said in a super low voice, Gia didn't respond, she turned her eyes weakly, and watched Ye Wei and Arndt chatting non-stop, what about visiting the house?

"However, the question of your lines is not much on the minds of Bethany Christians right now. Arndt asked.

"I don't want to preach. The power of faith is blind, no matter what happens, you go to believe in the dogma, you move forward in pain, and you are not sure until you get something later, this is faith. I think in this story, Bethany overcomes herself and the test of fate, and family affection is the most crucial.

Their initial material was outrageous, like we were in pain, went to church, and it was fine, and the whole family started to face it positively. It's fake, and it's a story in which everyone is moving forward in pain. Bethany's response to family affection, her love of surfing, and her expectations of herself are the truth, supporting her willingness to blindly believe that good things will happen, but not believing, but expectation, self-improvement, and writing these. ”

Ye Wei gushed, Arndt nodded thoughtfully.

Emma went to the dining room to make a cup of tea, looked around the still simple and empty, looked at the busy people, and listened to the discussion between the two screenwriters.

After half an hour, the brainstorming came to an end, Arndt took the script, materials, and cardboard cards to the study with a desktop computer to change the script, and VIY finally became idle. He got up and walked over, looked at her, and called, "Emma Ruth Roberts." ”

"Yes!" Emma, who was standing at the busy round table, straightened her face, as if she was very serious.

"Follow me. Ye Wei twisted his head and walked towards the backyard.

Jiya gave a "be careful" look, and then busted with copywriting.

Emma followed Ye Wei out of the living room, through the hallway, to the wide backyard, just under the trellis at the back door of the house, there was a casual glass round table and a few rattan chairs, on the table were laptops, a few books and a set of DVDs......

With the sound of clicking, Ye Wei pulled out a chair and sat down, Emma sat down opposite him, put the teacup he was still holding on the table, straightened his waist, put his hands on it, and smiled toothily.

"You know, the date for the draft has been set. Ye Wei was very serious as soon as he opened his voice.

"Well, the 21st and 22nd, a weekend, I know. Emma laughed, "I'm looking forward to it." ”

Ye Wei didn't mean to laugh, and became more and more serious: "One weekend, the number of participants is expected to exceed one thousand, maybe more than two thousand, and I won't know until the registration deadline on the 15th." With so many people and such a short period of time, everyone's performance opportunities are bound to be limited, but every winner who enters the final inspection list must have a very eye-catching performance. ”

He paused, "You're Julia Roberts' niece. ”

"Yes......" Emma didn't know what he wanted to say.

"You're also a good friend of mine, so of course, you're going to be treated differently. Emma Watson also signed up, and she will certainly have a different treatment. There is nothing to deny this, all the famous and second-generation stars have different treatment.

That is, your performance is more noticeable and noticeable, and you are more talented, experienced and with a good mindset than most newcomers. Think about some new actors who are originally great, but because they are nervous, scared, and can't perform, they go home empty-handed. You have an absolute natural advantage over them. ”

Ye Wei said in a fast and steady voice, Emma nodded from time to time, and he continued: "So I hope you understand that this is an unfair competition, like the law of twenty-eight, although the number of you is very small, maybe a dozen, but you account for eight, and the others are very large, only accounting for two." ”

"The second thing I want you to understand is that I'm looking forward to working with you, and we've been talking about this for over a year. ”

"Me too. Emma was a little overjoyed, holding the teacup in both hands, "I hope too." ”

"I want you to take down a heroine. Ye Wei said heavily.

Emma's heart was pounding, excited and happy, and for the first time he said so directly, "I'll do my best!"

"But I don't want to be biased, I want you to have a good performance, you won the role because of our affection, the key is because of your strength!

Ye Wei's expression of encouragement suppressed the excited words: "Emma Ruth Roberts, your father is a good actor nominated for an Oscar, your aunt is a legend, and there are many good actors in your family...... Do you want to lose to some newcomers?"

"No......" Emma suddenly felt a rush of pressure and blinked, "I'll try." ”

"Then let's talk about how you can try. Ye Wei took a copy of "Lovely Bones" on the table, turned a page and handed it to her, "You have read the book, you know what's going on, play Susie and Hallie in heaven to know each other, and I play Hallie and you play." ”

Emma couldn't help but stare at her, took the book, and quickly took a deep breath, calmed down, and behaved!

"Hi, my name is Susie. She chuckled.

"My name is Harley. "He was calm.

"How long have you been here?" she glared.

"It's been three days. "He's light.

"Me too. She sighed.

"Do you like it here?" he asked.

"I don't like it. She said after blinking thoughtfully.

"I don't like it either. He smiled.

Emma didn't know how she was doing, so Ye Wei handed her another manuscript book without commenting, "Winter Bones", in which she played Rui and he played Rui's good friend Gail for a while, and then there was a page of script for "Soul Surfer", where she played Bethany and he played Alana.

"How's it going?" asked Emma with anticipation on her face.

Ye Wei silently opened the laptop on the table and took the DVD of "Unfabulous".

"Uh......" Emma has a bad feeling, the movies and TV series she plays are still those, "Mermaid" was released on March 3, talking about a classic new project "Nancy Jule", ready to participate in the VIY draft, gone. At this time, watching the first season of "Unfabulous" broadcast on the computer screen, she sneered: "Haha, it's only been a little over a year, and I was so young at that time." ”

"See?" Ye Wei pressed pause. Emma saw herself rolling her eyes, "I saw ......"

Ye Wei didn't speak again, continued to broadcast and continued to pause, dragging, the first season finished the second season, and continued to broadcast and continued to pause, dragging, "Do you see?

What's wrong...... Emma turned her eyes to look at the side of no one, what was wrong......

"Haven't you thought about controlling your eyeballs?" Ye Wei suddenly said something else.

"Huh?" Emma took a sip from her teacup, her eyes wide and unblinking.

"Your eyeballs are always turning, blinking, rolling, staring, wrinkling. Ye Wei said while dragging "Unfabulous", "This is your way of acting, I like to use your eyes and your smile to perform."

But blinking doesn't mean you're performing, you're just blinking!

Look at these, there are too many, you have too many micro-expressions, and more equals inprecision. Every facial expression should be related to the physical and psychological state of the character, but you are always using your eyes, monotonously and abundantly, and the performance traces are too heavy! Sometimes it is unnatural, because it is not accurate, and it conveys the wrong message to the audience.

In this way, you can act in comedy, but you can't act in drama, so you are not acting, you are being yourself. ”

After listening to what he said in one breath, Emma was already flushed with embarrassment, "But ......"

"No, but, you just played three roles, but you gave me the same feeling, you didn't try to make any difference between them. That is, you don't have the consciousness to construct the character, let alone enter the character. This is the most basic aspect, and you are not doing it well. ”

Ye Wei frowned, "You will be 15 years old next month, two years ago, I would have said that your acting skills were very good and talented, now I will say that it is okay, and in two years, I will say that it is very bad." Time passes, but you don't improve, you just keep regressing because you're not a kid anymore. ”

"But ......!" said Emma, anxious, trying to explain.

"No but. Ye Wei accentuated his tone, "I won't give you face, because I'm overloaded now, I won't say what I really want to say after ten sentences, I will tell you that sentence directly." I really want to work with you, but your performance like this is not enough. ”

Suddenly she was reprimanded, and Emma almost cried, what a magician, I was obviously asking about love, not career......

The more angry she became, the sharper her voice became: "I also want to act well, but that's how I acted...... and I also acted in "Mermaid". ”

Ye Wei shook his head, looking a little disappointed, "I don't care about "Mermaid", in my place, it's not enough, it's not enough! It's not enough!!Your aunt can play almost all roles, you can only play Emma Roberts, I'm not asking you to have the level of the Oscar for Best Actress right away, you know what the biggest problem is? You are satisfied with the status quo!

Two seasons of "Unfabulous", you haven't improved at all, you're just older in appearance and age. ”

"I'm not satisfied, I want to act well, I think ......" Emma said urgently, her eyes were red.

"Many people say that actors are a bowl of youth. This is because those people can really only rely on youth to eat, and acting is not a youth meal for Meryl Streep, and it is not a youth meal for your aunt. But if you continue like this, it must be a meal of youth. ”

Ye Wei loudly stopped her but: "You don't have to be unconvinced, there is no excellent adult actor is your way of acting, it won't work! The fewer expressions, the more precise, and the more you move people with an inner feeling, the better the performance." Don't tell me you don't understand this, Anna understood when she was 10 years old, and Abigir understood it when she was 9 years old. ”

"But......" Emma's tears welled up in her eyes, she had never heard such harsh and violent criticism in a performance, and it still came from him.

"No, but!!!! Ye Wei tried his best to suppress his voice, "Just because you have a good background and high talent, you don't practice your basic skills, and the older you get, the worse your basic skills will suddenly be." As an actor, talent determines the lower limit, and basic skills determine the upper limit!

Maybe it's because no one has told you directly, not even your aunt! Maybe you want to be different from your aunt, I don't care.

I'm telling you these things as a good friend and director, Emma, it's time to practice your acting fundamentals. You see, it's not about a talent show, it's about the way you act, your whole career as an actor. I think you can surpass your aunt, so I'm not going to save face for you. ”

Emma wiped her tears from her eyes and was helpless and angry: "What should I do?

"The basic skills are not taught by others, but practiced by oneself. Theories are still those theories, practice more, summarize more, and make more progress. ”

Ye Wei said very seriously: "I'll give you a suggestion to make up for emergencies, during this time, you practice in front of the mirror, control yourself not to roll your eyes, don't frown, don't purse your lips, don't grin, don't use your eyes to perform! Develop your face and body and perform in other ways. ”

"How can I do that...... Emma was stupid, she couldn't do that, so how could she perform?

"Think for yourself. Ye Wei pushed the chair and stood up, "I have to be busy with other things, I'll miss the company first, you think about it carefully." He walked and patted her on the shoulder encouragingly, and walked back into the house.

Emma sat speechless, her eyes were about to roll helplessly, stopped, couldn't turn......

She hugged her head with her hands in frustration, and felt like she couldn't perform at the draft conference......