Once an actor with talent and potential finds a suitable role, the creative state he can stimulate is extremely valuable.

Ronald carefully took care of everyone's performance status. The biggest difference between the performance status of film actors and theater actors is that there is no way to get real-time feedback from the audience.

When performing a play in the theater, the audience's reaction will clearly tell the actor how he is performing today. He will adjust his performance skills accordingly.

But movie actors actually perform in front of the air. Even if a large company like 20th Century Fox shoots in New York, which has the second-best equipment in the country, you still have to wait until the afternoon of the next day to see the developed samples. At that time

When I saw something bad in the performance, it was too late to correct it.

The lighting, sound recording, and notes on the scene were all busy with their own affairs. The photographer was a little better than them. He could see the performance from the viewfinder, but he didn't know how the scene would be presented in the editing room in the end.

There is no way of knowing how well an actor performs.

Only director Ronald, standing behind the camera, is almost the only audience in the world who can see whether the actors are performing well or not.

Therefore, the main actors such as Griffiths, Baldwin, and Cusack habitually looked at Ronald after each scene. As long as they saw him smiling and nodding, and then saying "Great, today"

Their performance was great..." and the like made them feel very safe in their hearts, so much so that they didn't care too much about the meaning of "Let's change the performance method and add another insurance" that was often followed.

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"Come here, eat some baked biscuits, my aunt's secret recipe." In order to keep the actors and staff in good condition, Ronald also asked his aunt to send baked biscuits. He shared them with everyone during the breaks during filming.

For a moment, a scent filled the crew, and even the supervisory representative sent by the Screenwriters Guild couldn't help but come over to ask for a few dollars.

"I said, when will your strike plan end? What script are you writing? You can't write the script now, what will you do if you have no income?" Ronald handed the remaining cookies to the female screenwriter whose turn it was today.

The strike has entered its second week. Union members who volunteer to supervise the crew and TV stations will receive some subsidies, but now those TV crews who are writing and filming at the same time have basically stopped working.

The TV station took out some old dramas from the past to fill the most precious prime time slot in the evening. The only ones that started working were movie crews like Ronald who had already started filming. Therefore, the number of crews that needed to be supervised was also very small, with more people and fewer seats.

New people come every day.

The female screenwriter is a TV screenwriter. She swallowed the biscuit in one gulp and took a sip of hot coffee. "Before I went on strike, I had actually found a long-term job in a morning soap opera on NBC. If I continued, maybe this job would be better.

Easy work is wasted again.”

"How long do you plan to strike? I think the attitude of the Producers Union has softened. The compensation of 300 million is a bit too much. Let's sit down and discuss a number, and then we will resume happy hours. I have movies to continue shooting, and so do you.

Isn’t it great to work in a TV series?”

"Do you know? Director, it is actually illegal for you to discuss the strike with me like this. But your biscuits are delicious, so it doesn't matter if I tell you. Now we are riding a tiger," the female screenwriter said with a smile.

"Actually, I want to accept the conditions to end the strike. Rumors say that negotiator Walton wants to accept your condition of 50 million US dollars in compensation, but many members were so inspired by his previous speech that they really believe that they can

With a quota of 300 million, you can also have the right to decide on the casting and director of the script."

"Ah? I, Walton, have the right to decide whether to accept the conditions of the Producers Alliance?"

"In order to win the support of union members, he would not leave him alone until he got the best terms, and reached a private agreement, which stipulated that the union must agree with him before accepting the terms, but accordingly, he also agreed that the terms must be internally reviewed.

It just needs to be voted on."

"Oh..." Ronald touched his head. This is troublesome. The lower-level union members have been incited and really believe that they can get power in Hollywood that top directors and producers may not have. It seems that everyone

It will be impossible to reach a compromise in the short term before our energy is exhausted.

The scenes on Staten Island are being filmed here, and the set and props team, led by art director Polly Platt, is setting up the scene for Tess's new office on another floor of the World Trade Center.

Tess's colleague in the old company, the fat little manager Lutz, said that he introduced Tess to a manager in the hedging department who was looking for a new assistant. But in fact, Tess's suspicion was not wrong.

The woman the manager is looking for.

The hedging department played the most important role in last year's stock market crash. They either made big profits or lost big money. The losses and gains of hundreds of millions a day all occurred under the extreme conditions of the stock market crash. For example, the Jew Solo of Tiger Fund almost lost the fund.

I lost all my money. Later, I used the gossip about the adjustment of the Japanese yen exchange rate to get back part of my money.

These people are often perverse and violent, and their ups and downs in life make them exaggerated in the relationship between men and women. In order to seek the satisfaction of dopamine, they can do very strange things.

According to Ronald's friend Bannon, these people are more chaotic than Hollywood.

Bob Spike's manager in the script was such a character. The casting director, Julia, finally found an actor who played a recurring supporting role in a prime-time soap opera. Such soap operas often have characters with facial makeup.

He plays a pervert.

After the weekend, the new week's filming moved to Manhattan, and Ronald received bad news. Because the Writers Guild's strike continued into the third week, the "Television and Radio Artists Association" of the two major actors' unions, because of the TV series script

With no scenes to film during the break, actors are encouraged to take a vacation or seek a second career.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! American TV series are usually filmed and broadcast at the same time, and the scripts will be fine-tuned and modified based on weekly audience feedback. Which characters are popular will be

His plot needs to be written more. Guest actors can also become permanent supporting characters.

The general strike by the Writers Guild has completely bankrupted this filming model, but TV drama actors still have contracts, and they don’t want to be stuck in a TV series that can’t be filmed, and unable to find other livelihoods.

The Producers Union did not want the other two of the three major unions and the Writers Guild to force themselves to make concessions. The two sides hit it off immediately, and each TV station announced that actors could take a leave of their own choice and return to filming after the writers' strike was over.

For a time, all the TV drama actors from the three major public television stations ran away. Some went to the theater stage, some went to film abroad, and many more started to work part-time, teaching drama to children in schools or communities.

The actor chosen by Ronald and Julia Taylor was a British man. He happened to get a supporting role in a soap opera in his hometown through connections. He threw away Ronald's guest role here and ran back to work.

Ronald, who is sitting here, quickly called for Julia Taylor. "Do you have anyone else who is suitable to play the role of a pervert? There is a fire here, hurry up..."

"How about that Kevin talking about stand-up comedy in the bar? Kevin Spacey?"

"Spacey?" Ronald thought of the actor chatting with Alec Baldwin and Alan Rickman next to the Candy Box Theater on Broadway. He openly flirted with the waitress in the bar, which was okay in appearance.

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"I'll tell him directly what his phone number is." The anxious Ronald didn't even call Kevin Spacey's agent and directly called the actor himself.

"Guesting as a hedge investment manager? I'm very interested. But I'm currently preparing for a play, and the shooting time..." Spacey heard that there was nothing he wouldn't do if he was offered a role in a movie. He is currently preparing to rehearse a new Broadway play.

, I’m afraid I won’t be able to spare the time.

"It will only take half a day. I will ask my driver to pick you up and bring you the script. Just tell your agent and let him help you sign the contract." Ronald said without waiting for Spacey to speak.

Finalize the casting.

This scene was shot in a car, a rented stretch limousine, prepared on Long Island. The purpose of renting a stretch limousine was not only to show the luxury of the hedging department, but also to facilitate the placement of the camera.

We chose Long Island, which is relatively affluent and quiet, because there is less traffic here and is suitable for repeated driving. If we shot this scene in Manhattan, I am afraid that the drivers of other vehicles would have to yell at them not to block the road, making it impossible to shoot.

"Cameron, this is your pass." When filming the location, Ronald called Cameron Crowe to the scene to come up with ideas.

Today is an outdoor shooting, so Ronald is not afraid of being arrested by the Writers Guild. The Writers Guild, which has been on strike for more than two weeks, has not yet reached an agreement. Those who took the initiative to supervise the crew at the beginning have begun to become discouraged. Today, they will go on location.

Didn't follow.

"This paragraph needs to be modified for the lines of the manager Bob Spike. I need a particularly marginalized character. He is the kind of manager who the audience will know will do obscene and inappropriate things. You can follow the instructions of Tiger Fund

Make it up like Luo."

After changing the actors, Ronald decided to let Crowe rewrite the lines to be more suitable for a well-dressed pervert like Kevin Spacey. Unlike the soap opera actor, he looked gentle on the surface, but it was not until he opened his mouth that he realized that he was a well-dressed pervert.

Pig.

"If it's a pig, you have to hump it..." Cameron Crowe was inspired and wrote a paragraph in pencil on his writing pad and handed it to Ronald.

"Hahaha, just do it like this..." Ronald was very satisfied.

The luxury car was already in place, and the two cameras were set up inside the luxury car. The recording and lighting were ready. The recorder took out a small slate and tried to record some close-ups and close-ups in the car.

The slate is specially made, and the actors have to make it themselves. Although the interior of the luxury car is larger than an ordinary car, after the camera crew and sound crew are crammed into it, there is no room for another slate.

Everything is ready, only actor Kevin Spacey hasn't arrived yet.

"Bud, where have you been?" Ronald was anxious and found a phone to call his driver.

"We are stuck on the road and it will take about twenty minutes." Little Bud replied on the car phone.

"Twenty minutes, you said twenty minutes just now. Hey, hey..." Ronald gave up on the traffic in Manhattan.

"I'm about to enter the East River Tunnel. I'll call you back later." Little Bud's intermittent voice came, and then completely stopped.

Ronald didn't know if the traffic jam would extend to Long Island, so he walked around the set anxiously. This kind of temporary change of actors was really annoying. The staff on the set were a little afraid to speak. This was the first time since filming started.

It was the first time I saw Ronald so angry.

"Director, don't worry, should we make another backup plan?" Today, only Melanie Griffiths came to shoot with the crew, and everyone else was on vacation. Only she, an actor on the crew, dared to come up and persuade her.

"Backup plan?" Ronald repeated her words, but the anxiety in his heart had not faded away. "Cameron, you come to act, I remember you were an actor?" Ronald looked around, only

Cameron Crowe, who came to the rescue to change the script, has never appeared on screen, and his appearance matches the image in the script.

"Me? I did become an actor." Cameron Crowe saw Ronald actually mentioning his name. He didn't dare to say that he had only been an actor in the university drama club, and his subsequent career as an actor was a complete failure.

In order to save the scene, he couldn't say more. He couldn't help but have a wonderful fantasy about the profession of director. He decided the fate of everyone on the set. As a screenwriter, if he was chosen by him, he could act.

"That's good, I won't tell you about the play. You wrote the script yourself, and you will definitely act it. Costume, costume, come and try on Cameron's costume!" Ronald called the costume designer, Crowe's figure

It's a bit taller than Spacey's, so I need to get a new one.

"This one won't work, Mr. Crowe is too tall." After a while, Crowe fixed his hair, put on his clothes, and came out to show Ronald. The costume designer looked at the effect and found that this suit didn't look that good on him at all.

The feeling of a powerful person.

"Go buy it, borrow it, see if there are any boutiques around." Ronald was anxious, and time was passing by little by little.

"Squeak..." There was an urgent brake, and Kevin Spacey, whom Little Bud picked up, finally arrived.

"Sorry, sorry, I just finished rehearsal. There was a traffic accident in Manhattan today. We were stuck in traffic for a long time."

Kevin Spacey quickly apologized to Ronald and the rest of the staff. He came today to do Ronald a favor. It would be bad if it caused trouble instead.
To be continued...