The principal introduced the composition of the Performing Arts High School, which is divided into three departments: performance, music, and dance. This is a public high school that recruits students throughout New York State. As long as one of the three directions passes the admission interview, you can enter the high school.
study.
This gives children from lower-class families with artistic talent a chance to get ahead. Without this performing arts college, children from poor families would have no choice but to go to private schools like Meg Tilly.
Art scholarships.
Then their upward channel will be much narrower.
Director Alan Parker mainly introduced the plot of the movie "Hot Lunch", "This is a film that reflects the students of a public art high school. Eight students with different personalities, backgrounds, and majors have their experiences growing up in the performing arts college."
"We hope to conduct a large-scale audition at the Academy of Performing Arts. The eight protagonists, sixteen minor characters, and 600 extras in the film will all be selected from your school."
"Our Performing Arts High School is the largest and most comprehensive public arts high school in New York. It is exactly where a movie like this should come. I am still a fan of your last movie, 'Midnight Train,'" the principal said.
"We also hope to film scenes in your school. In addition, there are scenes with teachers and principals in the movie. We also hope that teachers from your school and you can star in them."
The principal smiled even more happily.
The parties reached an agreement. On the weekend, a large-scale audition for the performing arts college was held.
The audition will then be held in the school auditorium. Two casting companies, each with three casting directors, will select eight candidates for the leading roles. Students they think are suitable will be recommended to the director's classroom for auditions.
Interview round.
Ronald's job is to take audition photos of each selected student in the second-round interview classroom, then develop and print two copies, and file them with two casting companies.
After inspecting the venue, Ronald had an idea and was about to leave when producer Da Silva approached him again.
"Are you familiar with the script?"
Ronald nodded.
“What is the background of student Doris?”
"Jewish, good at singing, average looking, young version of Barbra Streisand."
"Very good, keep it up." Da Silva pointed to his ear, indicating that he should report any situation immediately.
"If possible, can I ask why you are doing this?" Ronald asked, seeing that da Silva was in a good mood. It was very uncomfortable to be sandwiched between the producer and the director like this.
David da Silva stopped and looked at Ronald:
"You know, Allen is a good director, but he's English. He doesn't understand our American mentality. We're born to win. In our movies, the hero always defeats the villain in the end.
, hug the beauty back home."
Not really, right? Our Jimmy General admitted on TV that America no longer has the moral superiority needed to lead the allies.
But maybe most people still think so. Ronald knew that many people hated the idea of a great commander.
"Remember if there is any change, please notify me as soon as possible." Producer Da Silva left first.
Ronald returned to the conference room and waited to send the director back to the casting studio.
Alan Parker was still chattering away, discussing his script with the acting teachers.
"My philosophy is to truly reflect social reality issues, such as racial issues and class issues, so I set up the character Leroy. He comes from Harlem, has a gang background, is illiterate, but has extremely good dancing skills.
talent."
"The issue of minor pregnancy on high school campuses is a hot topic worthy of discussion. A white female student is pregnant with a black child. What should she do..."
"The bullying problem on campus, the gang problem,..."
The teacher of the acting department is also a black man, wearing black-rimmed glasses and nodding frequently. He is very satisfied with the plot that director Alan Parker has set up for black people and poor people, and he feels the same way.
"But won't this cause everyone to misunderstand the Performing Arts College? Most of our students are still mainstream good students. If they all have this kind of role setting, our school will look like a very dark place."
Another white female teacher was muttering.
Ronald felt that something would happen if we continued chatting. He interrupted the chat and took Director Parker to the casting studio, where the actors selected yesterday were auditioning.
When they arrived at the casting studio, there were already dozens of boys and girls waiting at the front desk with their agents. Ronald saw the cat-like Michelle also waiting in the queue.
"Okay, we can start" producer Da Silva ordered to start the audition.
The actors were called into the audition room one by one. Ronald was responsible for taking a Polaroid snapshot of them and recording and archiving the director's comments.
The director then gives each actor a two-page script and asks her to perform it live.
This is the advantage of operating through a casting company. The casting studio is very familiar with the actors and can quickly screen out suitable candidates. If there is no casting director and you can only audition, a lot of time will be wasted.
The script given by the director first showed Hillary doing a series of ballet movements in the practice room, and then there was a dialogue scene.
Ronald is responsible for calling the number. The actress will first change into ballet practice clothes and do a few simple rotations and positioning movements.
Then casting director Howard Fehr will make a cameo and have a few lines of dialogue with Hillary.
Ronald didn't quite understand why it was set up like this.
He wrote down the director's comments and took the opportunity to ask Margery from the casting studio.
Margery told him that this audition invitation specified that for the role of Hillary, she must be able to dance ballet, and she must be at least quasi-professional.
However, many actors often lie about having the required skills in order to get audition opportunities, and then practice unexpectedly after being selected. Such a link is set up today to screen out those who lie about being able to ballet.
Sure enough, with a few simple movements, an actress who couldn't do ballet was screened out. She couldn't even do a simple stand on one leg and fell to the ground. Margery was so angry that she put a note on her resume.
The pen "lies".
Ronald helped her out and called the next number.
"Michelle... Michelle Puff..., that's not right; Buff..., that's not right either."
After all, Ronald came from a different time and was not very good at pronouncing this German-style spelling of two consonants together.
"It's Michelle Pfeiffer, the p is silent." The cat-like girl was amused by him and laughed.
"Sorry," Ronald also smiled, "Michelle, this is you, please go to the locker room and change into your training clothes, and then come in."
Michelle changed into a lavender training uniform, white ballet stockings, and pale pink dancing shoes. The long blond hair that was originally hanging on both sides of her cheeks was tied up and pulled into a loose bun behind her head.
.In this way, her cat-like face shape is more highlighted.
Ronald took a Polaroid snapshot of her and pasted it on the audition form. It said Michelle Pfeiffer, blue eyes, 5 feet 7 (1.70 meters), 21 years old.
Her face looked very childish, and her voice was still high-pitched. If he hadn't looked at her resume, Ronald would have thought that she was under 18 and that there would be no problem playing a high school student.
"Get ready, start, rotate your legs, one circle, two circles, Arabesque." Margery pressed the play button on the recorder and started shouting commands at the same time.