Of course, although they are actively invited actors, Chris and Scarlett still have to audition, and if their acting skills are not good, they have to choose new actors.

Wu Yuan and the two briefly greeted each other, and after chatting about their acting experience, they began the official audition.

In fact, there is nothing to say, just one person gave a short piece of script, let them play a scene, and see if it feels right.

As for acting?

To be honest, as long as the acting skills are not so bad that you can't accept it at a glance, it can generally be adjusted.

For example, Huang Xiaoming's acting skills are often criticized for his ups and downs, not just because he likes to reward himself with a domineering president after acting in a good play.

also because of his acting skills, he needs on-site training.

Huang Xiaoming, who was born in a professional class, at least has an acting level above the passing line, and the upper limit is also high.

When encountering a director who knows how to train actors, he can give full play to his upper limit and hand over seventy or eighty or even eighty or even eighty or ninety answers.

But when encountering a director who doesn't know how to train, Huang Xiaoming can only show a performance of 60 points, and may even fail his performance.

You asked Huang Xiaoming to play the play directed by Zhang Yimou, do you think he will still be oily?

Although Wu Yuan is embarrassed to say that he has the level of Zhang Yimou to train actors, he has hanging!

He clearly knows what the protagonists of the movie "Juno" have to play in order to be good and eye-catching!

"Juno" is not a classic movie, but the original actor acted remarkably, and Wu Yuan wanted to train the actor in the case of a reference answer.

And Chris and Scarlett's acting skills are not bad, Chris has already studied acting, and Scarlett is a child star debut.

The two cooperated to play a rival play in front of Wu Yuan, although it was not to the perfect level, but it was also above the passing line.

Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction: "It's not bad, I think you can be qualified for these two roles." ”

"Sign a contract with the crew, and then set aside a two-month schedule, and the movie will start in half a month at the earliest!"

Let a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl play a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, this is the easiest way to play in her true colors.

Coupled with the fact that Scarlett's personality already has a lot of similarities with Juno, it is easier to understand the character.

As for the remaining shortcomings, Wu Yuan can teach while shooting, as long as Chris and Scarlett cooperate seriously, it can be done.

Fortunately, they are now two unknown young actors, and they dare not have any slack and disobedient emotions in front of Wu Yuan, the director, even if Wu Yuan is also an unknown little director of Haolaiwu.

This is also the reason why Wu Yuan tends to find such two small actors, the price is cheap and obedient!

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Now that the director approves and the producer has no opinion, Chris and Scarlett's contract is very easy to handle.

On the same day, they signed a contract with John, who represented the crew, and the salary of both of them was not high, and the main one was cheap.

After that, Wu Yuan and John interviewed a group of actors who played Juno's parents and adoptive parents in the film.

These are all recommended by the Hollywood Actors Guild, who have played the roles of mothers and fathers in major film and television dramas all year round, which is equivalent to the blue-collar class of Hollywood, or the golden supporting role.

Wu Yuan doesn't know most of them, but it doesn't affect his audition, this kind of actor only needs to choose the one with the best acting skills.

In less than two days, the four main supporting roles were also finalized, all of them are old actors with good acting skills, and they also focus on a cheap one.

Whether it is Haolaiwu or domestic, this kind of golden supporting role is synonymous with "cheap and easy to use".

Coupled with the group performances that are expected to be used, as well as the appearance fees of the school's students, the "Juno" movie has not yet started, and a million dollars will be spent.

And the total budget given by Fox Searchlight for this movie is only $6 million.

It may seem like half a million less than the original movie's $6.5 million cost, but it's actually higher than the original movie's budget!

Because Wu Yuan's $1.2 million director + script fee has not been included, this will not be allocated until the VAM agreement takes effect.

With the addition of this $1.2 million, the production cost announced by Fox Searchlight is $8 million!

As for why this is an extra $800,000, of course, it sounds better to say!

After getting the main actors, Wu Yuan will have no time to spend time with the blonde beauty, and John will not have time to organize any parties.

The two took the crew's cameraman to travel around North America and began to look at the scene.

Even if the time is six years earlier, there are still some things that cannot be changed.

For example, due to budget constraints, although Wu Yuan liked a small town in Minnesota the most, for the sake of saving budget, in the end, after several people discussed, they still retreated and set the filming location in Vancouver, just like the original film crew.

Because Vancouver has financial support for film shooting, it is the most money-saving!

After deciding on the filming location, the actors, photographers, lighting, recording, art direction, art design, set makeup and other crew members who had been waiting for a long time rushed to Vancouver from the United States one after another.

These crew members were not selected by Wu Yuan, they were arranged by Fox Searchlight, Wu Yuan has tested their level, and they are indeed not bad, at least the filming of "Juno" is definitely enough.

Moreover, the division of labor among the crew here is very clear, almost the level of the mainland around 2015, which makes Wu Yuan feel professional for a long time, and has a feeling of returning to the world of dreams!

Of course, it is undeniable that there are indeed some staff members in the crew who look down on Wu Yuan, a director from Huaxia.

In their opinion, how can a Chinese director make a movie that is popular in Hollywood?

Not to mention Wu Baige, he is a director from the Hong Kong Island film circle, so Laiwu still recognizes Hong Kong Island movies, after all, he was a fierce rival back then!

But in the mainland film industry, there is no status in Hollywood.

Now that Wu Yuan, a director from Huaxia, is directing them, there are some racist staff, and they will be unhappy and disobedient.

That's where John, the producer, comes in handy.

Fox Searchlight invited Wu Yuan to make a movie, because he was rushing to make money and win awards, but he was not idle and had nothing to do to let him experience the discrimination of Asians in Hollywood.

John, who is usually very kind and cheerful to Wu Yuan, is like an angry lion when facing the crew of the crew!

In the days when the crew was running in and the actors had not officially started filming, John sat next to Wu Yuan every day as soon as he started work!

Once he found that a staff member did not listen to Wu Yuan, or that his work was sloppy and his actions were procrastinating, John immediately scolded!

"Bitch raised!"

"Whatever Daniel says, you will do it, but if there is any delay, get out of here!"

"Fox Searchlight doesn't need disobedient crew members!"

"In the crew, Daniel is God, and his word is the truth!"

John is more of a tyrant on the set than Wu Yuan, but I have to say that this is really effective.

Under John's watchful eye, the crew ran in very quickly, and it only took a week for Wu Yuan to feel that the crew was already waving like an arm.

Under the conformity of the crew, the first official scene of "Juno" finally started filming.