118 Private Richard Leben (1)

When we arrived at the studio, Mike Coke's old friend and casting director Dennis warmly received the group.

"hi, Mike, you are finally here... Hello, Mr. Bai! Come here, today we are auditioning with makeup, and the makeup artist is ready. Mr. Bai, you have followed my instructions..."

Bai Quinn replied with a smile: "Thank you, I hired a professional coach last month to teach me the correct posture of holding weapons, and also hired a veteran to teach me the correct posture of military posture."

Although Dennis wondered why Bai Quinn wanted to ask two people to teach him, in his opinion, learning the posture of a soldier and learning to use firearms can be done with just one coach. Is this the special habit of showing off wealth by a rock singer who got rich?

He naturally couldn't imagine that the one who taught Bai Quinn to use weapons was following them, wearing a loose sweatshirt and a baseball cap, Hannah, who looked like a young assistant.

Leaving the question in his heart, Dennis took advantage of his time to introduce the casting situation to Bai Quinn and Mike.

"Your main opponents are two, one is also a New York boy, Edward Burns, who has worked as an assistant to Oliverstein. His advantage is that he has written, directed and acted in two movies, but his disadvantage is that he has no other acting experience except his own movies. Do those two movies..."

Dennis hesitated for a moment and said, "A waste of film."

Mike took the lead and laughed. Dennis was very satisfied with everyone's approval and continued: "But don't be careless. Mr. Spielberg's most optimistic is him."

The casting of "Saving Private Ryan" is basically Spielberg's decision. Executive producers Mark Gordon and Gary Levins are both friends of Spielberg. They were invited to help and had little impact on casting.

Paramount only paid for money and didn't care about anything, and even a producer with the name was not placed in the crew.

Originally, Bai Quinn was the first candidate, but due to some changes, he has now become the second pick.

"I understand, what about the other one?"

Dennis explained: "Rodney Harvey, he played a supporting role in "The Life of Betting on Drew Barrymore, and that's why he appeared. In short, if you give up such a high pay requirement, he will not be very threatening to you."

Indeed, the two million dollar pay made him the most expensive one among the supporting roles, which was also the main reason why he had a huge advantage in the primary election, but in the last round, he lost favor.

Bai Quinn knew very well about this. When he got the last round audition list obtained by Mike Cock, he knew that in the seven-man rescue team, no one in the shortlist of the other six people except Tom Hanks, had received more than $500,000 in the shortlist of the other six people.

Of course, Bai Quinn didn't have it either. His previous movie "The Legend of the Wicked" paid only 300,000 yuan.

But that was the case when the role was primary two months ago. "The Legend of the Wicked" sold at the box office, and one of the three most protagonists, Bai Quinn also received great attention.

Commentaries from all sides generally believe that although his performance in "The Legend of the Wicked" is not as outstanding as Edward Norton's perverted killer and his character image is not as deep as Randy's gangster boss, the policeman he plays has gained a general welcome, a typical American hero image, and is considered a young version of John McAllen (a character in the series "Die Hard" starring Bruce Willis).

Although the outside world is not clear about the equity structure of Wademark's image, some journalists who are good at "studying" still "calculate" Bai Quinn's total income from "The Legend of the Wicked", they estimated that the number was no less than five million US dollars.

At this time, Hollywood had a budget of 30 million yuan, which was the dividing line between a medium-sized film and a large production, and the male protagonists of many medium-sized films had less than $5 million in their pay.

In "The Mind Catcher", which invested about 10 million, Harvey paid Matt Damon's screenwriter and starring less than 300,000 yuan. Although there was an additional box office share, the proportion was too low, unless the film was sold well, it would not exceed the fixed income of 300,000 yuan, which could only be considered a big red envelope.

As a capitalist, Bai Quinn is very clear about the fact that if possible, the lower the actor's pay, the better.

In "American Mental Patient", Evan McCraigor slashed people with an axe and sawed people with a chainsaw. He paid the largest nude scene since his filming, and only received a $800,000 salary.

However, paradoxically, in "Save Private Ryan", Bai Quinn changed from the boss of a film production company to an actor.

The change in identity forced him to think according to the actor's position.

The pay represents the commercial value of an actor and how much expected box office can be brought to invite the actor to perform.

The pay will continue to change with the actors' media reports, screen exposure, product endorsement, movie release and other commercial activities. Generally speaking, the pay of actors who continue to succeed will continue to grow.

But if you encounter a box office defeat, negative news, or gradually out of date, your pay will also decrease accordingly.

Not only will the actors themselves be extremely concerned about changes in their pay, but even the agents and agency companies that are concerned will be very particular about the actors' pay and the producers.

aa even hires special actuaries to establish mathematical models to calculate the reasonable pay range of its actors and serve as a reference for role negotiations.

Bai Quinn's two million dollar pay quotation was calculated by aa's mathematical model.

If "Save Private Ryan" pays too much less than this number, Mike Cock's advice is to give up the movie.

He was also afraid that Bai Quinn would take the initiative to cut his salary because she wanted to work with Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

So Mike had long launched a "lobbying" with Bai Quinn, explaining it to reason and luring it to profit.

Tell him that except for certain special circumstances, actors will not take the initiative to reduce their salary and play a role.

Because once salary cuts, it will be difficult to get back to the rise except for the special circumstances that can be understood by the public.

Bai Quinn has just improved a little, and Mike Coke doesn't plan to compromise easily. If he can't reach an agreement, he won't act.

Nowadays, as long as he wants to take on the role, his schedule will definitely be full.

Whenever there is an action scene, a tall and strong young man with some acting skills is needed. The producers will always think of Bai Quinn, who has a good performance in "The Legend of the Wicked" and "Bonnie", and is a wrestler.

Of course, most of these characters are villains.

In short, Bai Quinn's net worth has increased now, and Mike Coke must not let him reduce the price easily!

Casting director Dennis, who has worked with Mike Cock for many years, has actually been reminding them that Bai Quinn is now offering too high and it will be difficult to get a role without a salary cut.

Compared to the firm attitude of agent Mike Cock, Bai Quinn, who has gained revelation from memory fragments, firmly believes that "Save Private Ryan" will succeed.

If he earns hundreds of thousands less and can earn the qualification to take a film history, he is more willing to choose the latter.

Videos that can leave their reputations in history are not available every year.

Bai Quinn knew that his acting career was not wide, and it was nothing more than action movies, police and gangster movies, westerns and war movies. The chances were much less than Matt Damon and Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little Little

For example, Tom Hanks, the male lead in "Save Private Ryan", the producer of "Forrest Gump" thought his 20 million yuan pay was too expensive and hoped that he could star in the role with a salary cut.

Tom Hanks chose to star in the film, only earning a box office share.

Of course, the result was that "The Legend of Argent" was a big hit, and Tom Hanks' total income reached 40 million.

Bai Quinn knew that he could not follow Tom Hanks. Only the starring actor who could stand alone was qualified to share the box office. "Private Richard Leben" was just a supporting role, so don't think about it at all.

However, since the crew still asked him to audition, it means that both sides still have to talk.
Chapter completed!