Patrick Thwaites' agent received the news from Ronald, and he immediately arranged for his client, who was always unpopular, to meet Ronald.
"Patrick, you are already thirty-three. It is hard to get a movie with a solo male lead, and a blockbuster director like Ronald calls. Don't give up the opportunity again."
"I didn't give up the opportunity, I just didn't want to dance anymore. I didn't want to limit my career to dance-related roles."
"Patrick, you have a good idea, but the prerequisite for having such a good idea is that you must first have a career."
"Why didn't I..."
"I know, I know, you acted in Coppola's 'The Kid' and also in John Milius' 'Red Dawn'. Not to mention that the box office of these two films was not satisfactory, and there were no special comments.
Respected by the world.
Even if these two movies are extremely successful, don't forget that you are only one of the four or five leading actors.
Don't hesitate, go ahead, use your strengths and become a big star first..."
The agent pointed out Sweets's weaknesses in a few words. He seemed to have some masterpieces, and some people in the industry praised his acting skills, but the audience still couldn't recognize him when they saw him, let alone call him by his name.
"Patrick, long time no see, how are you now?"
Ronald saw Sweets and hugged him happily.
"My wife, Lisa, and I have now bought a five-acre piece of land on the edge of the National Forest in Los Angeles. We have a house, a small ranch, and several dogs. We bought it with my salary and Lisa's record income.
.not very big."
"Oh, I didn't expect you were married."
"It's been many years. I've known her since I was eighteen years old." Sweets said with a sweet look on her face when talking about her wife.
"High school sweetheart? Huh?"
"She was a student in my mother's ballet class when he was only fourteen years old."
"Oh? So why did you say you can't dance on your resume?" Ronald asked. I guess Sweets was also ready to give himself an explanation.
"It's a long story. I injured my ankle, so I can no longer be a professional dancer..."
"Apart from this, are there any other reasons?" Ronald didn't believe this reason. Sweets was an old actor who had acted in several movies. He wouldn't have known that there was a lot of time during the filming of the movie.
Rest and do not continuously perform movements that challenge the injured ankle.
"Well, you know, I grew up in Germany, so it wasn't that friendly to boys who danced ballet."
"Ah...then what should you do?"
"What else can I do? Just fight. If they laugh at me, I will laugh back. If they make a move, I will fight back. I also learned wrestling in order to win."
"Interesting, I joined the wrestling team in high school for the same reason."
"Oh, we want to play together if we have a chance..."
Patrick Thwaites laughed.
Ronald understood that the real reason Sweets didn't want to dance in the movie was that he didn't want to evoke memories of being teased by his high school classmates for being a ballet dancing sissy in Texas.
But at this point, Sweets also saw the general plot in the script, and he had no reason to refuse the job.
"It's great, you'll swoon over girls in their teens and early twenties." Ronald asked Sweets to do a few moves and immediately confirmed that he was a professional.
"But before that, I have to take you to meet the screenwriter. I promised Eleanor to let her take a look before deciding on the candidate."
"Ronald, where did you find this tough guy with one eyelid? Didn't you say he can't dance?"
"It's easy for me to find him. He said that he used to be a ballet dancer, but he stopped doing dance roles because of his ankle injury. I don't believe it. Are you going to try him?"
"Hello, Patrick. I am the screenwriter Eleanor." Eleanor is a middle-aged woman with a slightly shy expression on her face.
"Dirty dancing was what we called it at that time. It was actually a general term for many Latin dance movements, including many knee and hip movements, combined with many Mambo movements."
"Ma'am, I know what Dirty Dancing means." Sweets remained polite, knowing that Ronald had already started auditioning.
"Let me explain to you, maybe the Dirty Dancing done by Jews is different from yours..."
Eleanor stepped forward and hugged Sweets, then put his arms around her waist, and then pressed her body tightly against Sweets, "I'll turn around this way, you turn that way, and then pick up Man
The dance steps of waves..."
"That's it, that's it. This is the kind of dance I danced with my partners in the basement when I was sixteen. Let's do it again, this time with different moves..."
"Oh, you dance so well. My feeling is indeed right. Men with single eyelids and black hair are indeed the most handsome and masculine..."
"Okay, okay, please let Patrick go. He has been dancing with you for fifteen minutes."
Patrick Schwytz, who has been observing Eleanor's performance for a long time, has been doing well so far.
The male protagonist in the script is a man who is very confident in dancing, while the female protagonist, the baby, is a female client who is not very good at dancing, but has great potential. This is how Johnny treats the baby, showing contempt for her dancing ability.
, I have to teach her how to respect the customers of the resort, and I am afraid that I will offend her and lose her job.
Ronald deliberately made Eleanor's power in casting very great. This scene is exactly similar to Johnny's state of mind in the script. So far, Patrick's performance has been very good.
Seeing that Eleanor didn't want to get off Sweets, he felt that it was almost done, so he called off the interview.
"Patrick, I fell in love with your photo at first sight. You said you couldn't dance, but you made me sad for a long time. You have to make it up to me."
"Oh, Darling, you flatter me." Patrick kissed her on the cheek and quickly separated from Eleanor.
"Are you satisfied? Eleanor, now it's time to choose the heroine and the second heroine." Ronald said to Sweets, "You have to cooperate. I want to see you and the heroine's baby."
Chemistry, as well as the feeling with your partner, you have to be in tune with the dance, and you will have long rehearsals afterwards."
"OK, I will be there on time."
…
For the last round of auditions for the female lead, Ronald went to the venue of "The Babysitter". It was also beneficial for the two crews to audition together.
"Dirty Dancing" has much more characters than "Nanny". "Nanny" is actually just a family's adventures from 6pm to midnight, with a maximum of ten people in each scene.
As for "Dirty Dancing", in addition to several large-scale dance scenes, there are also many group scenes in resorts, which involve many supporting roles. Ronald picked up several supporting roles among the actors eliminated by the touchstone.
The audition room was carpeted, a bed was moved in, and a few clothes hangers were added. This was the opening scene of "The Babysitter" moved into the audition room.
The penetrating singing voice of "then he kissed me" sounded. Valerie Bertinelli started the performance first.
She wore a red T-shirt and lip-synced to sing a song about a girl looking forward to her boyfriend.
Ronald looks funny, she has a strong figure and a thick chin. If there is anything that fits the movie character Chris, it is that she definitely dares to fight with gangsters.
But movies are not reality. This chin detracts from her too much and loses a lot of the soft lines of women. However, if he and Eddie Van Halen have a son, he will definitely inherit this chin.
In a boy, that is the foundation of a handsome guy.
"What do you think?" The female producer looked over and asked Ronald for his opinion.
"The singing and dancing are good, what do you think, Chris." Ronald handed the question to director Columbus.
"Well, Valerie, your character is a girl next door. She has not been trained in concerts and live performances, so she is just imitating Madonna, using the bed board at home as a stage, the bedpost as a microphone, and the curtains as a wedding dress.
Just a little girl.
You act too much like a professional rock singer, do you understand what I mean?"
"Oh, I understand." Valerie Bertinelli looked at the female producer with eager eyes.
"Would you like to do it again?" Ronald simply spoke for her. This Valerie didn't seem to be very savvy, so doing it again wouldn't affect Elizabeth Sue.
"Thank you, I don't need to rest."
Valerie calmed down and did it again. It was better than the first time, but the audience couldn't get the feeling that they immediately fell in love with her. This is an important role of the opening scene.
"We will notify your agent if there is any news, next one." Chris Columbus decisively called Elizabeth Su in.
"Please start." The producer went to rewind the tape and played the interlude again.
"He came up to me and asked me if I wanted to dance?
He looked pretty good, so I said I'd give it a try.
When he dances, he holds me tight
When he sent me home that night, all the stars were shining
Then he kissed me."
When Elizabeth Shue plays the dominant girl, her charm is extremely powerful. The way she dances at home is crazier than Tom Cruise's imitation show in "It's Crazy".
When she jumped on the bed and held the bedpost, she seemed to be imitating a singer at a concert. When she jumped down, wearing a wedding dress with curtains and a photo of the man on the table, the rhythm of her movements was also in place.
The audience will definitely think that she is Chris Parker, a beautiful neighbor girl who works as a nanny at home.
"What do you think?" Ronald glanced at Su after the music stopped, and then asked about the female producer Deborah Hill.
"Performance speaks for itself."
"yeah?"
Elizabeth Su seemed to understand what the producer meant, but she still didn't believe it.
"Go back and wait for the agent's call." Ronald smiled and gave her a wink.
Su jumped out and went out.
"Are you really not going to have a cameo role in the movie?" Producer Deborah just put a photo of Ronald on the dressing table as a photo of her boyfriend. Think about what if Ronald could
The heroine's ex-boyfriend will appear as a guest star, a bad guy with two legs, which will definitely add a lot of topics to the movie.
"No, I still have two projects in progress. 'Dirty Dancing' is the project that I invested in. Now it is very difficult to find a director. Maybe I have to direct it myself. I may not have time." Ronald shied away.
Received a guest invitation.
Adrian Lyne liked this script very much. He said that this is not an ordinary musical, but a film that reflects the trend of the times and is very cutting-edge today.
But when it comes to salary, Adrian Lyne cannot be flexible. With the high salary offered by the crew of "Fatal Attraction", he could not take on "Dirty Dancing".
What's more, Ronald's proposal to lower the film remuneration and give him a director's share seems a bit like a liar when placed on this film project that has not been distributed by the Seven Major Film and Television Networks.
"The process of our large company will be relatively long. You may have finished filming your movie, and we have just started shooting. Let's take a look then. Maybe we can just make a cameo." Producer Deborah is still working hard.
, if you can’t play a scumbag boyfriend, you might as well play someone else.
"Okay, I'm going back to Toronto to visit the class. Then Columbus, you have to be a little more relaxed with me. I'm still a novice in film acting."
The heroine of "Babysitter" has been confirmed, and the next step is a long period of preliminary preparations, including determining the set, stunt plans, etc.
After they went out, Ronald quickly called his staff to come in.
Pack up the bed and clothes racks, move in some large mirrors, and decorate the audition space like a dance studio.
Although "Dirty Dancing" is a small project, there is no need to worry about choosing the heroine because there are no actors to audition.
As a Jewish story, it is impossible for Ronald, the heroine, to let someone from another ethnic group play a Jew.
On the one hand, they don't have the typical Jewish nose, and on the other hand, Ronald is afraid that the Jewish gang will gossip again.
In the Hollywood entertainment industry, many Jewish girls are obviously ordinary-looking but full of confidence. They feel that they can try their luck in the entertainment industry under the care of Jewish people.
So there are many girls with big noses.
Many people have good dance foundations, and many have even appeared in Broadway musicals.
But Ronald is not here to pick the next Barbra Streisand. What he wants is not a Barbra who can sing and dance well, but a Barbra who doesn't know how to dance, has a good upbringing, but has a father's opinion of dancing.
"Dirty Dancing" is danced only by "very bad" teenagers, a very interesting girl.
"Next person."
Ronald sighed and sent away another girl with a big nose under the watchful eyes of the union representatives.
"You go in, okay."
"I'm a little nervous, Daddy. I see that they are all very good at dancing, but I don't know how to dance, and you didn't teach me how to dance when I was a child."
"Go ahead, you are my daughter, and you must have good dancing talent. I won't teach you because dancing is too hard, and I don't want my daughter to follow my path again.
And I know through connections that the protagonist of this movie is not a master dancer, so maybe you are just right."
"Okay, I'll go then."
"What's next?" screenwriter Eleanor looked at the audition list, "Next is Jennifer Grey."
"Here we come..." Jennifer Gray said goodbye to her father, opened the door and walked in.
"She is the baby," screenwriter Eleanor whispered in Ronald's ear.
"Why?" Ronald was puzzled. He had dreamed about the clip played by Gray, and how could Eleanor seem more confident than him.
"The baby I wrote is her father's good daughter. She was sent by her father outside the door just now. She glanced at her father when she entered the door. She is very similar to the character's mood."
"Hello, Jennifer." Ronald greeted Gray.
"Hello, Ronald...no, I'm talking about Mr. Li." Jennifer Gray also raised her hand to wave to Ronald, but then put it down when she felt it was inappropriate.
"Very good. It's very similar to the baby's personality." Eleanor began to whisper again.
Ronald asked Gray to take some footage and then said to her,
"Okay, we'll stop here today. We'll let you know when we have news."
"What, don't you like her? She's really suitable." Eleanor was still trying to sell her.
"Actually, I have been convinced by you to select her for the second round. The main reason is to see her chemical reaction with the male protagonist."
"The second round is auditioning with the leading actor, right? Who are the candidates?" The union representative came over and asked Ronald.
"There's Patrick Thwaites, and Billy Zane. I know the rules." Ronald patted the union representative on the shoulder.
In Ronald's next round of auditions, Sweets, the first choice for the male lead, came along with Zane, the substitute. The union's rules still had to be pretentious and abided by.