The news that "Endless Love" has started to comprehensively select male and female protagonists was released through the media. Ronald suddenly became busy.
Countless boys and girls, with the dream of becoming famous overnight, want to give it a try.
This audition is different from the slaughterhouse-style audition of thousands of people at the same time for the "Famous" crew. "Endless Love" does not have so many extras and ordinary actors to recruit. There is only one male lead and one female lead.
The main selection targets.
Therefore, auditions are released through various performing arts groups, performing arts schools, theater troupes, and brokerage companies. After preliminary screening by each organization, they are sent to the casting studio for selection by directors and producers.
Despite this, a lot of photos of the actors were accumulated. Over the next few weeks, director Franco Zeffirelli and supporting actress Shirley Knight would take time to come over and Julia Taylor would recommend candidates to them.
The habit formed is this: Julia is with the director, and she mainly looks at the male lead. Ronald is with Shirley Knight, and she mainly looks at the heroine.
The superficial reason for forming such a cooperation is that Ronald is a 20-year-old young man who has a natural and intuitive view of the heroine, whether she is sexy, seductive, and the kind that makes people commit crimes.
In this movie, the male protagonist David, in order to get close to the female protagonist Jade, does not hesitate to pretend to set fire to the female protagonist's house. If Ronald could not feel that the female protagonist wanted people to commit crimes, this main plot would be
Not quite valid.
The male protagonist David is also like a walking male hormone in the script. Not only does the female protagonist Jed insist on getting close to him despite the opposition of her father and brother, but after her father died in an accident, Jed’s mother Ann also wanted to seduce him.
What does such a male protagonist look like? The middle-aged woman Julia Taylor’s intuition is the most accurate.
As for the real reason...
Ronald didn't want to be with the old director Franco Zeffirelli, and Shirley Knight wanted to get rid of the director's interference and not let Brooke Shields be shortlisted.
This 15-year-old girl is so beautiful that any middle-aged woman who appears around her will be ignored by all viewers like a candlelight in the sun.
Director Franco Zeffirelli was very happy and relaxed. After all, he was given a lot of money. After filming, he could go back to Italy to direct his favorite opera. He could also have close contact with all the young and beautiful leading male candidates. It was a pleasure.
No matter what the two of them said in the first issue of "Variety" magazine in 1980, "Endless Love" is a masterpiece comparable to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Privately, everyone has their own thoughts on how hard they will work to make it a classic.
own calculation.
After a two-month long casting process, Ronald became even more aware that the so-called casting of this film, especially the protagonist, determines the final candidate not only because of the fit between the character and the character, but also not only from a commercial perspective.
What is more important is actually the selfishness of the insiders.
To be on the final audition list, in addition to not blocking other people's way, you also need to look at the actor's background and connections.
For example, on the "Endless Love" crew, the director and Shirley Knight basically divided their respective spheres of influence. Director Franco Zeffirelli could decide on the final shortlist of male protagonists, and Shirley Knight relied on and
Guber's relationship can also exert great influence on the shortlist of heroines.
Because of this division of power, the casting of heroines on Ronald's side basically became two parts: insiders and outsiders.
The so-called insiders are those whose parents are well-known people in the entertainment industry. They have wide connections and strong connections, and can exert influence in many places. For example, Jennifer Jason Leigh is the daughter of the famous actor Vic Morrow.
My daughter is also Jewish.
Ronald felt that she should not be selected. Although she was very beautiful, she had no sinful temptation at all and was more like a girl next door. Could such a girl let her boyfriend set a fire for her? Film it.
No audience will believe it.
But Vic Morrow made a phone call directly to Guber, and Jennifer Jason Leigh had to appear on the final shortlist and go directly to the final audition.
It's not that Ronald has any objections to the girl or her father, it's just that he obviously doesn't fit the role. If he insists on being cast, it will be a disaster for the film and the actor. In the casting industry, this is called miscasting.
), a guarantee of box office disaster.
Another candidate is even more outrageous, called Melanie Griffiths.
She is the daughter of the Hitchcock girl Tippi Hedlund. Ronald had seen her mother in "The Birds" and "The Lady" and was a real stunner.
She originally had high expectations for her daughter. However, Melanie inherited her mother's blond hair and appearance, but did not inherit Tibby's criminal figure and temperament. She was a fat girl.
Ronald secretly gave her two words: "Fat and white." Unless she loses 20 pounds, she cannot play the role of Jade. She and the heroine Jade, whose name means Jade, have no trace of each other.
Guanxi, it looks like some kind of white jade.
However, Tibby's second husband was Noel Marshall, a well-known agent in the industry, who participated in the production of "The Maeve Griffin Show", one of the three major talk shows. The producer of this popular talk show called and the crew
You also have to weigh it carefully. After all, if you are in the industry, there will always be times when you need marketing. If you can sell face, everyone will benefit in the future.
So Fat Girl also entered the final audition.
Outsiders are beauties whose parents are not in the entertainment industry and are not supported by big shots. For example, although Brooke Shields is very famous, she is technically an outsider. Her mother, Terry, is a low-level model and
The actor also looks very average.
But here's the magic of genes. With average-looking parents and a magical combination of facial features, they can actually give birth to a peerless beauty.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Brooke Shields is the kind of beauty that makes people criminal at the first sight (Stunning). It is a pity that Shirley Knight strongly opposed it, otherwise she would be the natural choice for the heroine of the movie
1. But it doesn’t matter, even a MILF supporting actor can bully you.
If Ronald were to take the lead in casting, he would probably have to contact Brooke Shields first. If she didn't play the role, someone else would be available. This is not only because of Brooke Shields's beauty, but also because of her previous role in "The Legend of the Lost Lady".
It's a similar role image of an underage beauty.
Ronald estimated that many readers of the novel had Brooke Shields in their minds as the protagonist, Jed, when reading the novel. An actor like this who meets public expectations should have a lot of benefits at the box office.
Another typical outsider is Jodie Foster. She is even better than Brooke Shields. She made her debut as a child star and starred in Scorsese's famous film "Taxi Driver". She was also in "Freaky Friday"
Playing a teenager who swaps bodies with his mother, he was able to play a mother in her thirties at the age of 14, and her acting skills were well received.
Her looks, acting skills, and 17-year-old age are very suitable for the heroine Jade, but because she has no background or connections, she has to compete with everyone from the horizon in every movie.
Shirley Knight said that first of all, she was not tall, and secondly, her voice was hoarse, which did not suit the heroine, so she had to lower her rating. Fortunately, Ronald's rating classified her as criminally attractive, and she was
If the score is high, it will still be on the candidate list.
In fact, everyone has their own interpretation of what the heroine's voice looks like, and there are 100 ways to solve the height problem in movies. This half-aged MILF just can't bear to see a beautiful girl steal the spotlight from herself.
She was breathtakingly beautiful and taller. Ronald actually thought of Helen Slater. However, when he called her father, as soon as Ronald expressed his intention, Gerald vetoed it. He would not allow his daughter to perform without her.
A character who eats forbidden fruit as an adult.
I don’t know what role Gerald has prepared for his daughter to make her film debut? Perhaps the flawless character can only be found in comics, and maybe she can play a movie version of the TV series "Wonder Woman".
In this way, the casting process was pushed forward slowly and arduously, and the efficiency was very low. The producer had urged several times, but Shirley Knight just refused to let go and worked against the correct direction of casting. Such a contradictory casting choice
, it’s a wonder if you can choose the right beauty.
The veteran director Franco Zeffirelli was also slow to advance. The reason was not that he was opposed to good-looking actors, but because of aesthetic issues.
There are always some subtle differences between the men he thinks are beautiful and the men women think are beautiful. The ones Julia recommends are all full of male hormones. But Franco Zeffirelli prefers handsome men with feminine qualities.
Julia Taylor also complained privately several times that there was something wrong with the director's vision. Ronald was sent by Julia to go to the archives to find stills from films such as Romeo and Juliet that had been shot by Italians.
Ronald took out a few pictures to compare, and it became clear to him. The old man did like feminine men, and he preferred dark hair and eyes like Italians. This made Ronald breathe a sigh of relief, he was not him.
"Like" type.
When the time was delayed for another month, Peter Guber, the executive producer of PolyGram Pictures, could not sit still. He flew to New York in person to cast the film, making sure to decide on the leading actor and actress as soon as possible.
"Shirley, we don't have much time. It's been a month since we announced the plan in Variety Magazine, and you still haven't made any progress." Peter Guber is known in the industry as a talker. He once went to Cuba to shoot a documentary and was captured by the Cuban military.
After Fang refused, he tried to meet Fidel and actually persuaded the bearded man to open the Cuban beach for him to be photographed by an American.
However, he had little patience with Shirley Knight, and instead of using his charming words, he bluntly asked her to restrain herself and not interfere with the normal casting process.
Shirley murmured something to explain, but Gubel ignored her and looked at the casting information. He took the score sheet and started to look at the audition photos one by one.
"Who gave this amazing score?" Gubel raised his head and found that the score was relatively objective. Several connections with low looks were given low scores, while outsiders with good looks were all given high scores.
point."
Guber, who knew the crux of the problem, found Ronald who was doing the scoring. After closing the door, he said to him alone, "You got this score. Who do you think our heroine should choose?"
"Without a doubt, it should be Brooke Shields."
"Reason?" Gubel took out a cigarette, knocked it on the box, then crumpled it into a ball and threw it in the trash can.