"Can you get me that plate of cornflakes? I can't reach it," said an actress wearing a red shirt and black pants. She crossed one leg under her hips and sat on a chair next to a long table in a Greek restaurant.
Go up and ask Tom Cruise across the street to pass her the snack plate.
"Here you go, Kelly," Tom Cruise handed the cornflakes, "I heard you graduated from the Julliard College drama department? A major?" He had already gotten over the sadness of breaking up after a quarrel with Rebecca De Mornay.
He recovered from his illness, and he was still the same sunny boy full of energy.
"Correct," Kelly McGillis put a piece of snack in her mouth, "but don't think I'm any luckier than other actors. I did go to school at Julia, but I've been working as a waiter in restaurants. The first movie was
Because one of my guests at the hotel happened to be a film screenwriter, I had the opportunity to enter the film industry.”
"Hahaha", Kelly McGillis pressed Tom's arm with his hand and talked about his history with a smile.
"Oh yeah? I'm also studying in Julia's drama department. Why haven't I seen you?" Val Kilmer raised his eyebrows and joined the conversation.
"Probably I have been acting on Broadway since the third grade, and I spent the rest of my time working as a waiter in a restaurant to make money."
McGillis turned over again and pressed Fang Kilmer's arm.
"Ha, I was still studying. I was still very young at that time. I was the youngest drama student at Julia, breaking the school record."
"Hahaha... I've heard of your name. The female students at that time all wanted to be your girlfriend."
McGillis' slightly hoarse voice ignited the atmosphere of the crew, which was mostly composed of young male actors, and everyone laughed.
"Has everyone got something to eat and drink? Let's start the script reading."
Ronald handed each actor a first draft of the script.
"Thank you for choosing me, Ronald." McGillis took over the script. Her two large metal earrings were very eye-catching, making her look very mature. A pair of wonderful eyes looked from the faces of every actor around the table.
Looking at it, everyone inevitably feels that Kelly has a crush on them.
"Don't underestimate Kelly McGillis, she is very professional. I watched her performance in her debut film and pursued her to sign a contract, so that she agreed to give up Broadway plays and make movies."
Ronald couldn't help but think of what Peter Weir, the director of the movie "Witness", said to him a few days ago when he answered Ronald's private inquiry about McGillis' acting skills.
"In order to play an Amish widow well, Kelly went to an Amish settlement in Pennsylvania and lived with a real Amish widow for a month, observing her every move."
"Let's start with the scene where everyone is here, where Charlie is giving a lecture to the students." Ronald reminded everyone to turn to Charlie, played by McGillis, who was giving flying lessons to two pilots, including the Lone Ranger and Iceman.
That's when the script reading began.
"My lines?" McGillis turned to the page. She changed her sitting position, cleared her throat, and began to read. "Hello everyone, the main opponents we face are F-5s and A-4s. They will
Simulate the flying style of MiG aircraft..."
The so-called script reading means that all the actors sit together and read everyone's lines in the script together. There is no need to put on makeup or go to the actual filming location. They just play the roles through the lines and understand each other and everyone.
The emotional reaction you should have when reading the lines.
"So, she is very good at capturing the character's characteristics?"
"Of course, she has a professional background and her acting skills are very good. In fact, I would be worried about whether your leading actor can match Kelly's rhythm."
Ronald's mind recalled the conversation between director Peter Weir and himself two days ago.
"Oh..." Tom Cruise looked annoyed. Here, the Lone Ranger discovered that the girl he flirted with in the bar yesterday turned out to be his flight instructor, Charlie.
"You may already know that the F-5s does not have the thrust-to-weight ratio of the MiG-28, nor can it fly at the top speed of the MiG-28. However, the MiG-28 is not without its weaknesses. It suffers from high negative G overload.
Sometimes, I can’t do a quick dive and pull up..."
"Hey..." Tom Cruise smiled at Anthony Edwards, who played his radar man Goose.
"Are you going to tell her?" Anthony Edwards, a handsome blond boy, also picked up the script and read it. In fact, he is also a hormone-filled actor, but in order to highlight Tom Cruise's leading role, the producers and
Ronald asked him to dye his hair brown and give him a conservative hairstyle so as not to overwhelm him.
"Why, Lieutenant, do you have any objection?"
McGillis read the flight instructor's technical lines very easily, and there was no trace of her being an actor who didn't understand aerodynamics at all.
"Kelly McGillis is a connoisseur. She can be very relaxed. If your actor is not experienced or has experience in drama education, he will easily be overwhelmed by her."
Ronald thought again of Peter Weir's advice.
After comprehensive consideration and time constraints, the two producers finally signed Kelly McGillis. Her fitting was very convincing, and her audition with Tom Cruise also had great chemistry. She just suffered
Tom Cruise, who was emotionally shocked, was inspired by her to have the characteristics of a sunny boy.
This was Ronald's final wish to sign McGillis. She is a stunning beauty who can make Tom's performance even better.
"Yes, instructor. The data you mentioned about the MiG is inaccurate." Tom Cruise pretended to be innocent and corrected the other party's data.
"What do you mean?" When McGillis was reading around, he accurately grasped the disdain of flight expert Charlie towards the pilots' theoretical level and the helplessness of having to communicate with them.
"In fact, we just saw a MiG-28 doing a dive of at least 4g."
"Really? Where did you see it?" McGillis's tone was full of disbelief.
"This is confidential."
"I have top secret clearance from the Navy."
"Well, actually I'm right above the MiG-28, and I'm..."
"We..." Goose played by Anthony Edwards reminds the Lone Ranger that they are a team.
"You were on top of the MiG, so how did you see it?" Instructor Charlie didn't believe it.
"Because I happen to be flying upside down."
"This is simply impossible. You cannot fly upside down while following the 4g diving MiG-28. It is impossible for the F-14a Tomcat to fly such a maneuver."
Val Kilmer interjected at this time. The Iceman he played was a rationalist, and the Tomcat's instructions did not say how to control the fighter jet.
"I actually took a picture," Anthony Edwards read the line from Radar Officer Goose.
"Very good chemistry." Don Simpson listened to the script reading and praised Ronald's performance of the actors.
"I'm a little worried that their chemistry will be too real."
Ronald saw Tom Cruise teaming up with Anthony Edwards, opposite Val Kilmer, who played Iceman, and Tim Robbins, who played his radar officer. The competition between the two sides was very strong and very similar.
The competition between the Lone Ranger and Iceman in the script.
"That was really good, that line you just said." Kelly McGillis took a sip of coffee and praised Tom Cruise's performance.
On the other side, Fang Kilmer adjusted his sitting posture, and his eyes clearly showed that he was eager to participate in the competition.
"Isn't this better? Head-to-head competition." Don Simpson stretched out his two thumbs and made a flexion and extension movement relative to each other.
"I'm afraid that their competition will be so obvious and fierce that it will be brought into the daily life of filming." Ronald has experienced that on the crew of "The Naughty Boy", several young men with overflowing hormones would do whatever it takes to compete for the limelight.
Lots of stupid things to come.
"They are the two biggest big-name actors in this movie, and it's impossible for us to replace them," Jerry Bruckheimer reminded in a low voice.
"Anyway, we have to find a way to separate Tom and Val Kilmer after filming." Ronald looked at Kelly McGillis, who had easily managed to make the two big-name male movie stars want to compete with each other.
"Kelly's performance is very loose. You have to be careful with her. Sometimes even Harrison Ford loses his rhythm because of her."
Peter Weir's advice came to Ronald's mind again.
It seems that signing McGillis is also a mixed blessing. This time he has to test his management ability on the set.
Ronald ate a biscuit and motioned for everyone to continue reading the next part of the script.
"My smelly, sweaty husband, if you don't come over and carry me back to the room within a minute, you won't be able to get into my bed."
"Hey, hey, wife, I obey."
Anthony Edwards, who plays Goose, is reading lines and flirting with a young actor who plays his wife.
Dutou Goose's wife is a girl from a rural town in the south. She raised a son with him. She has the innocent and simple temperament of a country girl. This young actor reads lines very well.
Coincidentally, the supporting actress recruited by Don Simpson has some connections with Ronald.
After Leigh Thompson took on many movies and stopped filming Burger King commercials, Burger King re-screened a girl to replace her. She and Elizabeth Sue continued to work as a waitress duo and appeared in many commercials.
Don Simpson liked to take advantage of this kind of free exposure. After he auditioned the actress named Meg Ryan, he immediately signed her.
"Let's go have a drink!" After a day of script reading, Kelly McGillis put on his coat and called the cool guys around him to go to the bar and have a beer.
"Ronald, won't you come with us?" Tom Cruise saw Kelly McGillis and Val Kilmer chatting and laughing about their past at Juilliard School, and he wanted to join them right away.
However, when he saw Ronald picking up the script and not seeming to be with them, friendship prompted him to come over and invite Ronald.
"You go ahead, I want to talk to Don and Jerry about the shooting."
"Then I'll go first, and you can have some fun on your own, okay?" Tom confirmed that Ronald couldn't go, then turned around and ran quickly in the direction of McGillis.
"Hey, when is your Witness coming out? I heard from Ronald that you played the Amish really well."
"Hey..." Ronald let out a long breath. It seems that this filming will not be easy. This kind of crew with male hormones is prone to accidents. God bless the people from Paramount and the Navy when they come to the crew.
, but don’t see anything bad.
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Something was delayed today, so I only have one update.