From the second day of his meeting with Helen, Ryan was busy preparing for the filming of "Blair the Witch".

Shooting a movie is a very rigorous thing.

Even if it is a pseudo-documentary focusing on propaganda and marketing, it still can't be careless.

Hollywood never succeeds casually, and behind every success, there are countless hardships.

The first thing to solve was that the crew needed to find a suitable town near New York City for the filming set, and also select three suitable actors.

There are no special requirements for actors, they can be relaxed, but the appearance of actors should not be too low.

The actor is relatively better, and you can find two younger and cheaper ones.

Such a young actor is easy to find, and Helen has a suitable one.

Actresses are relatively more demanding, and the star agency is just starting, so it will inevitably take a little time to find a suitable actress.

In addition, filming also requires a person who coordinates the crew's chores, even in a small crew, there are many trivial matters that need to be handled by someone.

Fortunately, almost all of these things are done by Helen, and even Heidi, the first employee of Star Brokerage, plays the role of assistant.

Suffice it to say, now the entire Star Agency is almost suspended, and everything is preparing for the filming of "Blair the Witch".

According to Helen, the filming of "Blair the Witch" is the most important business of Star Brokerage at this stage, and there can be no outsider, everything must be kept secret.

Unless the film is released, no one can leak the slightest bit of information to the outside world, and everyone, including Heidi, has signed a confidentiality agreement, and the liquidated damages are scary.

In just three days, Helen chose a small town as the filming location.

The town is located in the middle of nowhere, with a combined population of only over 200, and there are very few outsiders on weekdays.

Ryan was busy auditioning for actors, to put it bluntly, watching a contracted actor from a star agency perform poor acting skills.

In fact, there is nothing to choose, almost all of them are some of the lowest-level young actors in Hollywood, who mix in various crews on weekdays, acting as background cloths or passers-by, corpses, etc., so you can choose two at random.

It was the first time to audition for the heroine, and perhaps the only time for the heroine in the film, and Ryan was somewhat looking forward to it.

He also doesn't care much about the acting skills of the heroine, a pseudo-documentary like this doesn't need any acting skills at all.

On the contrary, Helen is very cautious, as long as the film is successful, the three leading actors will usher in a lot of fame.

Even if the voice is angrily scolded by countless media and fans, it is still a reputation, which is much better than being obscure all the time.

In the next step, the development of the Star Agency mainly revolves around them, so she is more concerned about casting than Ryan.

Ryan had just entered the Star Economy Company and found that there were more than a dozen young female actors in front of him, who came earlier than him, and all of them had exquisite makeup, which set off their slender figures, which was pleasing to the eye.

It can be said that the appearance of a single round is above the passing line.

There is nothing surprising about this, Hollywood has never lacked beautiful women, but actresses are the most competitive circle in Hollywood.

From the position where these actresses sit, it can be seen that they are all vigilant, very far from each other, and do not talk.

The water and food prepared by Heidi were not touched by anyone.

Most people only see the most glamorous side of Hollywood actresses, and they never see behind it.

Often many actresses are just becoming famous and have to face the problem of age, and in Hollywood, actresses are not evergreen, and they eat all the rice of youth.

Unlike male actors, who are more popular the older they get, many big-name actors are still active on the screen at the age of seventy or eighty.

So those actresses who came to Hollywood with dreams of fame will never let go of any opportunity.

Ryan was already familiar with this, and he would only find it strange if someone had no scruples about talking and drinking water or food at will.

Regardless of the past or present life, all kinds of rumors or real people and real things have always been common.

Especially in terms of diet, the average actress will only eat the food and water she brings, even if it is prepared by the crew, they will not touch it.

This is the most basic self-protection.

When he came to the third floor to set up a company, Ryan chatted with Helen for a while, with a hint of teasing, and said, "I thought I would see a red sofa or a red carpet." ”

The stalk of the red sofa or the red carpet has long spread all over the world.

If an actor in Hollywood auditions for a cast and wants to get a role.

If you open the door and walk into the audition venue and see a red couch in the middle, or a red blanket on the couch.

So if an actor wants to win this role, he will consciously close the door, strip naked, and lie naked on the sofa.

Of course, there is no such rule in Hollywood now, everything is on the bright side, and the red sofa that has been used for decades has faded out of people's sight a few years ago.

The main reason is that it is not needed, and if you want to, you can invite it directly.

"If you think the red couch looks good, I can ask Heidi to bring one for you. ”

Helen said indifferently: "However, the current newcomer is afraid that he doesn't know the meaning of the red sofa." ”

This kind of old-fashioned rule, unless it is some senior actors, I am afraid that few people know it now.

"Forget it, Heidi is busy enough, and I'm afraid she'll kill me if I move the couch. "Ryan doesn't really want a red couch.

The two talked for a while and officially began the audition.

Hollywood auditions have long been programmed, and almost all of them look the same.

The only difference is that the office in front of me is relatively rudimentary, and there are no cameras prepared.

The actresses who come in introduce themselves first, and just perform a line casually, without a script and no insights into the role.

The main reason is naturally to keep it secret, and the script or plot of "Blair the Witch" is still clear to only Ryan and Helen, and even Heidi is in the dark.

As the morning passed, a total of eight actress auditions ended.

But none of the ones that can make Ryan feel familiar are some young actors who can't be named, or some tricky actors at all, and in their previous lives, they were some good-looking group actors.

"Ryan, you're the director of the film, and I need your opinion. ”

Seeing that Ryan had been silent, Helen could only speak in person.

Ryan puffed out his fingers lightly and said, "First of all, blacks and Asians or Latinos can be excluded, and the three do not meet the requirements of the film at all. ”

"It's better to be younger, petite, and have a sweet or weak appearance, which is easy to arouse the sympathy of the media and fans. ”

A black heroine or an Asian or Latino heroine obviously cannot attract the attention of the public and is not conducive to the promotion of the film.

Only native-born Americans can attract the attention of the media and the public.

The key to the success of "Blair the Witch" is precisely because the distribution company uses the attention and compassion of the media and the public to attract a large number of people to the cinema.

That's the heart of the film.

A heroine who can arouse sympathy from the media and the public is what he wants.

Helen looked at him deeply, a little meaningful, and said: "Hollywood has never lacked actresses with acting skills. ”

Almost all actresses' characters are pretended, and it is not difficult for them to be sweet and weak.

It was Ryan's performance that surprised her a little.

Hollywood also has no shortage of talented directors, but few can truly understand the needs of the North American public.

If a director who can understand the needs of the North American public and can promote it without a bottom line, maybe no film critics or academic old men will like it in the future.

But it will definitely be favored by the film company.