Soon, Ronald was shortlisted for the final round of "Dirty Dancing" auditions.
Two men and two women.
Of course, what Ronald and screenwriter Eleanor were interested in were Patrick Thwaites and Jennifer Grey.
However, due to the union's rules and the requirement for a chemical reaction between the actors, two people were hired as substitutes.
The man is Billy Zane, who some people call the new Marlon Brando. The woman is Sarah Jessica Parker, whom Ronald knows.
Sarah was delighted to make it to the final round of interviews. She and Robert Downey Jr. are boyfriend and girlfriend. They started acting in small roles together and have now reached a critical moment in each other's acting careers.
Downey just co-starred in the romantic comedy "The Pickup Guy" with "America's sweetheart" Molly Ringwald. He also got the leading role in another movie about a young man who is deeply involved in adultery.
A story about self-destruction.
Sarah acted in a Disney science fiction film "UFO Pilot" last year. It is a story about a little boy who has the navigation map of an alien flying saucer in his head. Because the boy travels at the speed of light, he still maintains the appearance of a child when he returns to Earth ten years later.
It looked like he was finally sent back to his childhood by a flying saucer.
Although Sara is one of the heroines in it, she is just an intern at NASA and drives the plot at a critical moment.
How can there be a scene like the baby in "Dirty Dancing"? The whole drama revolves around a girl's love impulse. If she can get this role, both herself and her boyfriend Downey can reach a new level in their careers.
"We will have you audition with each other, Sarah you will go with Billy first, Jennifer and Patrick. Then we will switch combinations and try again."
Ronald saw Sarah Jessica Parker and nodded to her.
This actress is actually good at acting, but her nose is a bit too big. She doesn't look like Jennifer Grey at all, but she can tell she is Jewish.
The baby in this movie still needs to be attractive, not just an ordinary girl.
"Oh, it's you." Jennifer Gray saw it was Patrick Swayze and turned her face.
"What's going on?" Ronald and screenwriter Eleanor looked at each other, as if they had some "history"?
The music started, it was the black swing dance music of the 1950s "Do You Love Me?"
With the accompaniment of music, Gray and Sweets were close to each other, and the movements of their hips and buttocks were made at close range, and soon a blush of embarrassment crept onto her face.
Looking at Patrick Swayze, he looked serious, as if he didn't recognize Jennifer Gray at all.
"There does seem to be something wrong." Ronald could tell that the two of them seemed to have been in love.
But this is a good thing. The two originally played a couple, but now they have such a real relationship, which is a very good thing for the filming of the movie.
However, Patrick Swayze is married, so no wonder he pretends not to know him.
The two danced a fast tempo, and then tried a slow tempo.
Ronald asked his assistant to capture all the scenes with a camera. The chemical reaction between the two was visible to the naked eye, and everyone at the scene probably noticed it.
This problem also affected another pair of men and women who auditioned. Sarah and Billy both danced a little listlessly.
The two stopped dancing and exchanged a few words before Sarah Jessica Parker asked for a timeout.
Sara slapped herself in the face several times in the corner of the room. She couldn't just lose to the opponent. Even if she lost, she would have to go through a struggle.
Then the two began to dance to the accompaniment of music. Ronald also asked his assistant to record it.
But sometimes, casting doesn't just require hard work. Ronald looked at the two people working hard and sighed.
When there is no comparison, Sarah and Billy look okay. But with the kind of love that can make people blush, this is an authentic performance that cannot be compared to anything else.
According to the rules of the union, Ronald did not announce the result on the spot. He still asked the two of them to go back and wait for the call.
As soon as she finished speaking, Jennifer Gray pushed the door in angrily and closed the door.
"Bang", the door made a loud noise, which startled Gray himself.
Ignoring that her rival Sarah Jessica Parker was right next to her, she walked straight to Ronald and said, "Patrick and I can either have him or me. You choose one."
Ronald trembled in fright. Wasn't he full of affection just now? How did it end up like this?
"Could it be that one party's courtship failed? Or did Gray want Sweets to stop his wife and remarry?"
"Wait...wait..." Ronald quickly raised his hand to signal Jennifer Gray to stop, "This is not something you should decide. You go over there and calm down first."
Ronald pulled the screenwriter Eleanor and asked her to go over and chat with Gray to set up a deal. He went out to find Patrick to understand the situation.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Billy Zane suddenly realized that an opportunity seemed to have come. After the two looked at each other, they walked out obediently and discussed how to get their agent to help them in this situation.
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Ronald saw Patrick Sweets outside the door, leaning against the wall in silence, and walked over and patted him on the shoulder.
Seeing him turn around, Ronald handed him a cigarette he had received from Eleanor and lit it for him.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
"You know, after I finished the film Urchin, I took on 'Red Dawn,' in which Jennifer Gray also played a role..."
Sweets and Ronald put their heads together and talked about their grudges with Gray.
On the set of "Red Dawn", director John Milius was very strict with the young actors. He did not let them live in trailers. Instead, they set up tents to sleep in the wild. He would sound the alarm in the middle of the night to wake them up urgently.
"Red Dawn" is a story about Soviet Union paratroopers parachuting into America and young men and women fighting guerrillas. Milius may have wanted the actors to blend into the situation as much as possible. But this kind of life is too harsh on the actresses.
Jennifer Gray and Leigh Thompson both played female guerrillas in it. Thompson came from a poor background and had been working since childhood, so these problems were not big.
Jennifer Gray's father, Joel Gray, was a supporting actor in the musical and the film adaptation of "Cabaret." For this role, he won an Oscar, a Tony Award, and a Grammy in the 1960s and 1970s.
Three awards.
She has been a good daughter of her father since she was a child. She has never seen such a fight. She cried every time she was fucked to the point where she had no sanitary utensils. It was the charming actor Patrick Swayze who saved her.
From then on, in the crew, the two began to become a temporary man and woman, helping each other to complete Grey's extremely difficult scenes.
However, after her part was completed, Gray wanted to stay with Sweets. It happened that Patrick's wife was coming to visit, and Sweets didn't know what to tell Gray, and in short, the two broke up on bad terms.
"Your chemistry is very good. If we can work together, it will be a movie that will be remembered." After listening to the story, Ronald threw the butt of the cigarette to the ground and stamped it out with his foot.
It turned out to be a bloody story about the crew.
"Do you still want to play this role?" Ronald asked.
"Of course, after I read the script, I fell in love with the role of Johnny. In fact, Gray and I have a very good chemistry, but I can't agree to his request. She is still a little girl mentally. I don't know how.
Explain to her."
"You must know that the character baby in the movie is also a little girl and has not yet entered college. Johnny is also more mature than baby in the script. If you can't convince him, it's hard for me to believe that you can convince me during filming.
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"I...I just didn't realize for a moment that she still remembered the things in 'Red Dawn' so deeply."
"Then you go and talk to her alone. I don't care what method you use. If you can't make Jennifer change her mind today, I will consider changing someone. I don't care how much Eleanor likes the single-eyelid macho man."
"Oh, yeah? It's nothing rare. I see a lot of simple rich girls like this." Sweets was inspired by Ronald.
"Very good, get her done."
"How long has he been in there?" Half an hour later, Ronald looked at his watch and asked screenwriter Eleanor.
"It's been more than twenty minutes, and you've asked me three times, Ronald. It seems that you are just talking, but in your heart you still hope that Sweets and Gray will star together." Eleanor heard Ronald
Sweets was even shocked when he asked him to succeed or die.
Now it seems that Ronald is just motivating the other party and asking him to resolve his personal issues with Gray.
"Squeak..." The door for the two actors to negotiate alone was opened.
Jennifer Gray's eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her almond-shaped eyes were still stained with tears.
Unexpectedly, Patrick Swayze, who came out from behind, also had red eyes.
"What you guys talked about..." Ronald looked at Sweets' small eyes under his single eyelid. Why are you crying too? Is the negotiation successful or broken?
"I have talked with Patrick and I am willing to star in this movie with him." Jennifer Gray glanced at Patrick with a shy face.
Sweets was a little embarrassed and turned up his collar to cover his neck. He mouthed to Ronald, "I've got it done."
"Very good." Ronald knew it was done. "Starting next week, Patrick, you will participate in choreography training. I have found a good dancer to work with you."
"What about me?" Jennifer Gray asked Ronald from the side, looking at Sweets.
"You don't have to participate," Ronald replied.
"By the way, your father Joel is a dancer, right? I'll give him a call and he's not allowed to teach you how to dance during this period."
"Why?" Gray pouted. Wasn't this trying to separate her from Sweets again?
"There's no reason, just do as I say."
"oh".
Jennifer Gray seems to have more feelings for this kind of man who treats her simply and roughly.
"That's right." When Ronald dialed Joel Grey's phone number, he remembered something and turned around to ask the screenwriter Eleanor.
"Has music director Danny Goldberg called? How is the negotiation for his song rights going? If we don't negotiate, I won't be useless during rehearsals."
"He just called and said that he is still talking to people from major record companies and there is no progress yet. But it will be sorted out before filming starts."
"I have to call him too. Why, he says it's almost done every time." Ronald complained softly.
Patrick Sweets over there heard this and seemed to have some idea. He wanted to step forward to chat with Ronald, but saw Jennifer Gray standing between him and Ronald, and quickly took a step back.
Don't cause trouble again just after you've been coaxed.