"How is Zachary?" Ronald asked Paula Wagner, who was traveling with him to New York on the plane.
"Oh, the little thing is very cute, isn't it?" Paula said with a smile on her face when talking about her son with Niceta, she took out several photos from her bag and asked Ronald to look through them.
"What a healthy child." Ronald looked at a few pictures. Little Niceta looked very strong.
This time, Paula went to New York to formally meet Brooke Shields and sign an agency contract with her. Paula, a strong woman, has always worked very hard for her work. She left her children in the care of a nanny and her husband, and flew on Ronald's business jet.
coming.
When it comes to signing Brooke Shields, Paula Wagner is very enthusiastic. Since she no longer serves as Ronald's agent, her relationship with her husband's most important client has become better.
Paula is best at making long-term career plans for actor clients. She is not just a person who recommends clients to famous directors. What she needs is a famous director with whom she has a familiar relationship and who has a good role so that she can get the news first. The rest is left to both parties.
Just act professionally.
Brooke Shields was the well-deserved number one teen idol before she went to college. Four years later, most people still have an impression of her. And undoubtedly it is much easier to re-remember an idol than to recreate one.
For such a star with high IQ, good looks, and natural ability to deal with media and social interactions, Paula was very optimistic about the potential of making a venture capital investment in her.
"I will use the standards of a real actor to create her, rather than the star she played before. I have seen a lot of her film and television and commercial clips. In fact, she has a very good imagination and has also received professional body training as a model.
In terms of training, as long as you have a solid acting coach and start slowly and step by step, you will soon be able to perform a role that the audience will remember." Paula began to talk about her future plans for Brooke Shields.
Ronald sounded very agreeable. Paula Wagner was different from other actors' agents in this era. She didn't just negotiate the highest price among all the contracts available to the actor.
On the contrary, she always carefully selects a series of roles so that certain qualities of the actors can be integrated with these roles. America's market is large enough, and there are many types of actors that can be remembered by the audience.
To be honest, the image of all actors in the minds of the audience is not created by the actor himself, but by the vivid and memorable characters he or she creates.
With Diane Lane in her hands, she can create several possible long-term image positions. This time Penny Marshall "grows up" is a good opportunity for Diane.
"How was the audition with Diane and Tom Hanks?" Ronald asked as he thought about the results of the audition.
"The preliminary reading of the script is very good. The two people's images match well. They are both familiar types of handsome guys and beauties. Director Penny likes Diane's acting skills very much... and said they have a natural chemistry."
"Ah... that's a good thing." Ronald touched his chin. I haven't read the script yet. There won't be any passionate scenes, right?
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The plane landed at Teterboro Airport, and the famous Italian broker Ed Limato, who was known to treat his clients like a family member, was already waiting there, wearing a windbreaker and waiting at the bottom of the gangway.
"Hi, Paula, you are still beautiful. This is a gift for little Zachary." He hugged Paula, who got off the plane first, and gave Paula's son a woolen hat.
"Hi, Ronald, we meet again. You paid so much attention to Nick last time."
"We are all our own people, Ed," Ronald hugged him and saluted.
Several cars prepared at the airport first took Paula, Julia Taylor and others who were traveling with them back to where they were staying. Ronald, Richard and Limato went to the loft on Fifth Avenue together.
apartment.
"When you called me, I was also surprised. This movie was rumored in the Hollywood industry, and many female stars wanted to star in it. Why did you take the initiative to invite Michelle?" Limato sent to Ronald.
I ordered some prosciutto and brandy and asked in the car.
"Ed, you should know." Ronald glanced at him. This man was very sincere to his clients, but he didn't think he had a future back then, but he told Michelle Pfeiffer a lot about himself.
Bad words.
"Actresses may regard playing Tess as an opportunity, but for me, choosing the right candidate for Tess is more of a big challenge. All the charm of this play lies in Tess's transformation from an ugly duckling to a white girl.
If the moment of the swan's revenge cannot be acted so that the audience can empathize with it, then the movie will not be successful."
"Hey, you're right. This movie is indeed not an ordinary commercial movie. I saw the great light of traditional drama." Limato did not dare to ask more questions, and just expressed his goodwill to Ronald diligently.
In the history of film shooting, there is indeed a precedent in which the director not only selects actors, but also persuades the person who is most suitable for a certain role, even if he is not a professional actor, to let him play the role.
But now that Hollywood has become highly commercialized, this kind of thing only exists in legends in the industry.
After a night's rest, Ronald and Julia Taylor went to the location where Jonathan Demme was filming "Married to the Gang" in Long Island, New York.
The weather here is clear and the sun is shining, so it is not inappropriate to shoot indoor spring scenes.
After receiving access passes from the production manager, Ronald and Julia Taylor walked into the set, being careful not to make any noise that would disrupt the filming process.
The shooting took place in a small hair salon. Half of the walls of the hair salon were removed to facilitate the movement of the camera.
Ronald could tell that what he was going to shoot today was the inside of a hair salon. On one side was a row of hair cutting seats, on the other side was a simple recliner, and behind it was a pool with a metal hose sticking out for easy rinsing.
Customer's hair.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Pfeiffer's blond hair, which Ronald was familiar with, was dyed into brown curly hair, giving him a more civilian temperament.
This hair salon, as well as its customers and stylists, all have a strong black style. Angela, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, not only has to do her own hair style, but also wash her own customers' hair.
So Pfeiffer was dressed as a girl who washes her hair, with a long floral dress that looks expensive (her role is the widow of a gang boss), a purple long-sleeved bottoming bra, and an inappropriately gaudy dress outside.
Green short-sleeved overalls.
I saw her picking up an apron, putting it on a female customer, and then began to skillfully pick up her hair to style it.
"Cut!" Jonathan Demme over there stopped the filming. When he saw Ronald coming, he announced a ten-minute break.
"Well..." Ronald looked at Michelle Pfeiffer who hurried to the lounge, and looked at Julia Taylor.
Both of them felt that this time was not in vain. Pfeiffer's performance as a hair-washing girl from the service industry at the bottom of society is very similar, and her movements are like someone who works in a real hair salon.
In the first half of "Marrying into a Gangster", she played the role of a gangster boss woman, well-dressed and well-fed, with a temperament like a noble lady.
This ability to make excellent transitions between the images of two social statuses is the reason why the two of them took the initiative to invite Pfeiffer to audition. This time they came to see the actual shooting on the set of Jonathan Demme, and it was really extraordinary.
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"Ronald," Jonathan Demme saw them both.
"I'm not disturbing you," Ronald greeted Demi.
"As promised, you really have a good reputation among these Broadway actors. I announced that you are coming today, and they are very happy."
"Hey? Who? Do I know him?"
"Hey, look who's here, Ronald."
Two Broadway actors had already seen Ronald and happily came over to say hello.
"Alec, Kevin? Why are you here?" Ronald hugged them both in surprise.
It turned out that after watching Alan Rickman's "Dangerous Liaisons", I met Broadway actor Alec Baldwin when I went to a bar, and Kevin Spacey, who performed a celebrity impersonation show in the bar.
"Hahaha, he is the gangster husband who played Michelle Pfeiffer's character and died," Demi introduced to Ronald. "Kevin is helping me here. We have dealt with him before. He was a gangster in the TV series.
The boss image is very good, let’s ask him to play a similar gangster role.”
Ronald chatted with the two actors about the film. Their scenes had already been filmed. When I heard that Ronald was coming, I came here specifically to see him. There were also a few people they knew well.
The actors were also gathered around, trying to strike up a conversation with Ronald.
In particular, there is an actress whose chin is a little too round, which is unexpectedly pleasing to the eye.
Soon, Michelle Pfeiffer had rested and came out to say hello to Jonathan Demme. Ronald stepped forward and the two hugged tightly.
Ronald and Pfeiffer met for the first time since they last went to Cher to audition for "Moonlight". Although they had little contact, they still had friendship with each other and helped each other several times.
Still friends.
"I haven't had time to change clothes yet..." Michelle Pfeiffer just took off her apron and knew she was going to audition next, but she just didn't know what kind of role she needed to dress up as.
"That's good. The first half of this character is an ugly duckling, and the second half is a white swan. It seems to be the opposite of the one you are filming now."
"Hahaha", Michelle Pfeiffer was amused, covering her mouth and laughing.
The two looked at each other, seeming to recall the tacit understanding they had when they got along before.
"We can't disturb Jonathan for too long. We'd better leave first. He can continue filming other scenes." Ronald broke the awkwardness.
After saying that, he went over to chat with Jonathan Demme for a few words, then came back to leave with Pfeiffer.
The three actors on the other side, two men and one woman, are still flirting with Julia Taylor. Taylor actually has files on the three of them and is familiar with some of their previous roles. Except for Kevin Spacey, who is more reserved
, Alec Baldwin, and the supporting actress, all kept looking over, looking for Ronald.
"How was the chat?" Ronald came over to ask his casting director.
"Wait for me..." Julia Taylor and the three actors ordered, coming over to whisper a few words to Ronald.
"Since you said so, let's go together, but you have to make an agreement with them. As a stand-in for the audition this time, it is impossible to get a role in the new movie."
The so-called audition stand-in means that when auditioning for the leading role, some supporting actors are needed to play with the actor to see the overall performance. These supporting actors are called audition stand-ins.
Generally speaking, the protagonist is determined first. When you audition for the protagonist, you don't know who will play it. The person who reads the lines with the protagonist actor during the audition is the audition double. They usually find suitable actors by the casting director, which is very cheap.
The salary can be processed. This is also one of the powers of the casting director.
However, since the leading role has not yet been decided, none of the audition stand-ins who accompany the prince to study will be cast in the movie.
The three of them readily agreed that they wanted to establish a relationship with Ronald more, and they also wanted to see more of the inside story of Hollywood blockbuster production.
Several people got into a Toyota van that had been specially adapted as a nanny car. Ronald asked them to sit down, then took out the latest version of the script revised by Kevin Wade and handed it to Michelle Pfeiffer.
Then he said to the three audition stand-ins sitting behind him: "This is a script for working girls. Because we didn't prepare you three to participate, we didn't prepare the usual role scripts, but Julia said you are all trustworthy.
People in the theater industry, when you get to the audition office, I will give you the complete script, which will be taken back after the audition."
The character script that Ronald mentioned is a method often used by Hollywood to prevent leaks. The script is taken out and rebinded according to the parts of the character that have lines, so that other actors do not know about it. Some people will not know about it even after filming.
Don't know the full story.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! During the audition, it is even more necessary to keep it confidential. All three of them expressed their understanding and nodded in agreement.
"By the way, I'm sorry, can you repeat your name again?" Ronald asked the actress who looked a bit petite but cute.
"Joan, Joan Cusack." the actress replied.
"Okay, thank you." Ronald wrote it down in his notebook and asked his assistant to write a check in his name to pay him.
Back in the rented conference room, Ronald marked the fragments of the script that required Michelle Pfeiffer to read aloud. Because there were three actors to help, the audition fragments could be expanded.
The first to appear is Kevin Spacey. He plays Tess's boyfriend Mick Duggan, a cook.
"You are so beautiful." He naturally acted out a lustful attitude.
"Come here, sweetheart." Spacey moved to the side, freeing up one side of the sofa, and then patted Michelle Pfeiffer to come over.
"Oh, Mick, could you give me something I can wear out, just once?"
Michelle Pfeiffer reads her lines with a plaintive anticipation.
This section talks about the 30th birthday gift Mick gave Tess, which was just a set of sexy underwear and garter belt panties. All birthday gifts were boudoir fun, and there was nothing that Tess could be proud of wearing.
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"I wouldn't mind if you wore it out," Spacey improvised.
"Huh?" Ronald turned his eyes and glanced at Spacey. What does this guy want to do? Is he teasing Michelle Pfeiffer? He's not timid.
"Hi, it's just a natural reaction that I've been doing too many imitation shows recently. I'm sorry." Kevin Spacey felt numb all over when Ronald stared at him, as if he was being stared at by a beast, and he quickly explained himself.
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"Pfft, hahahaha..." Michelle Pfeiffer was amused by him, because these words were spoken by Spacey in the tone of host Johnny Carson, which was very funny.
"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed and revealed the matter.
The second supporting actor was Joan Cusack, who played Tess’s superior Catherine:
"We are a team, Tess, and people's impression of me begins with you, my secretary."
"Well, yes, Miss Parker." Michelle Pfeiffer began to read this paragraph in a timid tone. This was the first time the two met, and Catherine set rules for Tess.
"Your makeup and accessories need to be tidied up. If you wear shabby clothes, people will notice your clothes. If you dress tastefully, people will notice you as a person."
Ronald unexpectedly discovered that Joan Cusack's dialogue skills were very good, and she acted very well in a domineering manner. Except that her accent was a bit more like Chicago's standard accent and lacked a bit of Manhattan's upper-class fluency.
"Yes, Miss Parker." Michelle Pfeiffer's line skills were better than Cusack's. She was scolded by her new boss both times she spoke. Moreover, it was this kind of condescending criticism that came from across classes, which made her both
Each time the answer was different, the depression was different.
The first time was because Catherine might not like the way she was dressed and felt that her boss was difficult to get along with and made too many demands.
The second time was when a graduate from an Ivy League school who came from a wealthy old-money family showed his disdain for poor children who were attending night school and community college students inadvertently.
Finally, Alec Baldwin appeared, playing the leading role of Jack Traynor.
"What, am I not suitable to appear here?" Michelle Pfeiffer didn't put on any makeup, but she looked very charming as soon as she smoothed her hair.
"No, no, I'm pretty sure you're top-notch no matter what you do, Ace." This paragraph was from the script that Ronald himself read when auditioning with Demi Moore. Baldwin's reaction was indeed better than that of amateur actor Ronald.
Be good.
"I have a brain that can do business, and a body that is tempting to commit crime... Is there anything wrong with this?"
"Hey... I can't stand it anymore." Michelle Pfeiffer, a pure-looking sexy star, speaks the kind of lines that only gorgeous girls say, and the lethality is definitely not light. If it is matched with makeup, clothing, and hairstyle
, definitely a good show.
After the audition, Ronald asked his assistant to write checks to several audition stand-ins. He first sent Michelle Pfeiffer to the car and returned to the set of "Married to the Mob."
"How did I perform? Not as a director, but as a friend?" Michelle Pfeiffer suddenly turned around and asked Ronald a question on the way to the car.
"Huh? Very good..." Ronald looked at Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer, without any good-looking makeup, was still very charming. She was not the kind of actress who needed heavy makeup to look stunning. She just wore a purple long-sleeved top.
, which makes people feel that their temperament is extraordinary.
Put the other three actors into the car and back to the set. Ronald came back and sat down with Julia Taylor: