solves the problem of technical personnel in the filming crew, so what Yi Feiyang has to face next is the actor problem, and this problem is the most critical of the three plays.

You must know that whether a play is good or not, in addition to a good script, the most important thing is that the actor's acting skills are good.

In his previous life, a famous actor in Hong Kong once said, "There are no bad scripts, only bad actors!" ”

Especially the three dramas that Yi Feiyang is about to shoot have a certain level of requirements for actors, such as the play "Buried Alive", which is simply a one-act drama for the male protagonist, from beginning to end, he needs to use his superb acting skills to conquer the audience, so that there are bright spots and no urine spots.

Therefore, in addition to Natasha and Big Bird Lucci, Yi Feiyang directly gave up hiring other AV actors. He needed something different, or a little more professional, than some actor or actress who would just roll around in bed.

It's easy to find actors in Hollywood, and it's easy to find full-fledged actors with acting skills, because you just have to find an actor guild in this part of Los Angeles.

Founded in 1933, the Screen Actors Guild now has more than 100,000 members, and it has everything in the field of film and television.

As long as you go to the Screen Actors Guild in the United States to fill out a form and pay a certain fee, you can find the actors and actresses you need through the Screen Actors Guild, some of them are good at shooting comedies, love dramas, suspense dramas, and of course, thriller dramas......

However, the actors' union protects the interests of the actors, and if you want to find the right actors here, you must sign a series of labor contracts, pay no less than the market value, and more importantly, if any accidents happen on the set, as the producer, you must be fully responsible. In other words, the actors' union fully protects the legitimate interests of the actors, and as a producer, you have to bear more responsibilities than you imagine.

From private lawyer Louis Carr, Yi Feiyang learned more about the Screen Actors Guild. According to Carr, all film and television industry workers who sign contracts with the Screen Actors Guild are members of the association, and there are a number of provisions in the membership contract to ensure the safety of members on set, such as the full deployment of qualified medical personnel and mobile care vehicles on the set when shooting scenes involving stunts.

At the beginning, Yi Feiyang found the Screen Actors Guild in the Los Angeles area to ask about employment in order to start filming smoothly as soon as possible for the three dramas. But he immediately backed down, not that he couldn't find good actors here, the problem was that the labor fees offered by the local union were ridiculously high.

If nothing else, the labor fee charged by the actors' union alone is ridiculously high, with an actor charging $40 an hour and $320 a day, doubling the overtime for more than 8 hours. This kind of labor cost is definitely quite high in the United States, and it is even more sky-high for Yi Feiyang, who is seriously short of funds, about 2,000 Hong Kong dollars a day.

Yi Feiyang negotiated with the fat woman who was in charge of the negotiation, saying that his company had just been established and that he had problems with funds, and he hoped to be accommodating, give himself a chance, and give those actors some opportunities, after all, they don't have filming every day.

In addition, his script is very good, as long as the actors read it, they will like it, and they may be willing to perform for free, and after the release of their own play, they will receive very good results, which can be regarded as helping the union to do publicity.

In the end, everyone gives each other a step, this time to build a good relationship, it will be easier to cooperate in the future, and the most important thing is to come and go often.

Saying a thousand things and ten thousand, the fat woman is unmoved and unwavering, as hard to shake as her weight. She said that no matter who you are or what company you are, as long as you think of filming with people from our actors' union, you must follow our contract! Not a penny less!

Yi Feiyang asked her: "What if we are not satisfied with the actors?" ”

The fat woman said, "Please trust our actors, they are all professional!" If you are really not satisfied, you can change until you are satisfied. ”

Seeing that the fat woman's attitude was so resolute, Yi Feiyang understood that this product was soft and hard.

After getting the worst, Yi Feiyang understood, why would the actor's union have such a tough attitude?

The reason is very simple, this guy ate a kickback!

It turned out that after signing an employment agreement with the actors of the actors' union, the actors' salaries were not all their own, and part of them had to be handed over to the union, which was nominally a "consultant fee", but in fact, in Yi Feiyang's view, it was simply his ~mother~'s "protection fee".

Since he can't get the actors he needs from formal channels such as the actors' union, Yi Feiyang thinks of another way.

This is Hollywood, can't you find an actor who wants to film?! It's not good, there are some who are willing to be on camera without spending money!

So Yi Feiyang made up his mind and directly published a more conspicuous "actor recruitment order" in an entertainment newspaper in Los Angeles.

"Are you still complaining that God didn't give you a chance? Are you still sighing that you have superb acting skills but you don't meet talents? Are you still struggling to find the right role? Are you a talent in the entertainment industry? We, Dream Pictures, are open and welcome to you! ”

"Come on, we need those excellent actors who have dreams but are difficult to achieve!"

"Dream Recruitment, effective immediately! How big the heart is, how big the stage is! Choose Dream Pictures, you and I will build a golden future together! ”

As soon as this "recruitment notice" was issued, it immediately attracted the attention of many people.

After all, this is Los Angeles, and the representative mecca of Los Angeles is Hollywood, where there are very few people who don't want to be actors or set foot in the entertainment industry. On the contrary, there are a lot of people from other places who have even gone to great lengths to come here. Some of them have achieved fame, such as the muscular man "Shange Winton" from Brussels, and the tough guy superstar "Schwarzenegger" from Austria, these two predecessors are the best of many successful people. Of course, more people are drowned in the vast sea of Hollywood than those who succeed, and they don't even have a chance to bubble.

Therefore, as soon as everyone saw the opportunity, they flocked to No. 13 Chinatown, Dream Pictures.

The whole Chinatown, boiling!

……

12 October 1998.

Halloween is 18 days away.

Dream Pictures.

When those amateur actors with dreams and struggles in their hearts came to the three-story building of Dream Pictures, they were collectively dumbfounded when they saw the unrenovated, dilapidated and mottled "film company" in front of them.

The mottled building, the rough floor, and the miscellaneous miscellaneous things piled up in the yard, what kind of broken sofas, broken tables and chairs, and even some newspapers and magazines, wine bottles......

Oh my god!

Is this a film company?

Or a scrap yard?!

A gust of wind blew, and the yellow fallen leaves on the courtyard floor were like the hearts of these applicants.

What to do?

Is it a shell company?

Or a leather bag company?

Or is it just a prank?

Where is the dilapidated look here, where is it so beautiful and magnificent as it is written on the job advertisement?!

……

Countless thoughts are churning.

Forget it, since it's here, let's take a look.

Some people have made up their minds and are waiting for the so-called miracle.

The reason is actually very simple, I heard that the person in charge of recruiting this time is Yi Feiyang, a Chinese filmmaker who has concocted a box office of 200 million and set a new dark horse record!

For this magical Chinese who turned stones into gold, everyone has a great curiosity, to know that some time ago, the entire Hollywood spread his news.

In addition, there are other reasons for these people, as marginal people in the Hollywood film industry, they don't have many opportunities to act, amateur actors like them who are not qualified to join the union, their work status is basically to change places with one shot, eat enough today, and scream with hunger tomorrow, so it is not easy to be able to eat.

Don't let it go if it's an opportunity!

So, in the originally empty factory compound, in a short period of time, a long queue of black pressure was formed.

Black girls, white chicks, hip-hop groups, and punk men, metal guys, miscellaneous, all kinds of people.

Some of them lined up to chat, talking about some shit news, and gossip scandals about celebrities. Some of them dress up on their own, either wearing nail polish, grease and powder, and fiddling with their hair. What's more, the two male and female starlets talked very happily, looked at each other, hugged and kissed on the spot, causing the queue to scream.

Looking at these group of people who have no bright spots, no rules, free, and scattered, completely like interviewers who have come to travel, Rabbit Bill has a cold heart.

Is this the talent of the future in Hollywood?

Why are you all here?!

Looking at the men and women around us, do we really look like a "garbage" recycling bin here?!

Isn't it garbage, it's all stuffed?!