Chapter 598 Asking for a Monthly Ticket for 'Twilight' Reading 5
Chapter 598 "Twilight" Reading (5 updates·Please vote for me)
But most people still couldn't help but peek at Xia Yu, with different eyes and different thoughts - a film crew is also a small society.
Raymond, Vivian, Daniel, and Antonio said hello to Xia Yu after not seeing each other for a long time, and fell asleep - they were all quite familiar, so there was no need to be polite.
As for Qiaojia, she arrived two days ago - walking around with Yuanbao these two days - the daily life of a rich wife. She was quite happy. Xia Yu was also happy. She was happy to have someone to help take care of Yuanbao.
The airport is not far from Fox Town. The conditions in Fox Town are naturally incomparable with those in urban areas. However, the biggest difference between Europe, the United States and China is that whether it is a popular city or a remote town, some facilities are required
, both.
For example, there is a hotel in Fox Town. It is not big, but it can accommodate hundreds of people. It was booked by the "Twilight" crew a month ago, and was renovated and fully upgraded--it has been booked for four consecutive years.
Months later, they even remodeled it for free, which made the boss smile from ear to ear.
A big car pulled up twenty or thirty main actors. When they got off the bus, Xia Yu got into the "Bella's car". As for the actors, Meng Dong, who had been promoted to the life producer of the "Twilight" crew,
Arrangements have begun.
…
January 16th, Saturday.
It’s half past eight in the morning, it’s cloudy.
in one,
Everyone agreed that it was inappropriate, impossible, and did not meet the prescribed time, so the reading of "Twilight" officially began.
The location is a high school in the original town, which is now temporarily renamed Fox Town High School.
The Weidu conference room is a classroom in a high school.
It can accommodate 40 or 50 key personnel for meetings. At the same time, cameras are also set up. One is to retain the content of the meeting, and the other is to allow another multimedia classroom and secondary personnel to participate in the reading meeting together.
At 8:25, the two conference rooms were already full.
One night did not change anything - but no one had any objections to the arrangement of the "Twilight" crew hotel. In fact, they were all too satisfied. Although it was not a star hotel, the comfort was no better than that of a star hotel.
Difference.
Most of these actors are second-tier, third-tier or even eighteenth-tier extras. They are special types and can be regarded as able to endure hardships.
Accommodation and food were arranged in advance when the contract was signed. Lifestyle Producer Meng Dong had already collected everyone's food preferences, allergies, etc. in advance. Everyone's meals were provided within a reasonable period of time.
The most considerate arrangements will be made within the price - this is what Meng Dong learned during his one and a half month in New York.
Of course there are grievances. Even at Wei Jingcheng Studio, which has an excellent reputation, and on the domestic crew, Meng Dong has had times when he was very aggrieved. How could he not have it here?
All kinds of discrimination, noise, and secret targeting are simply not something that a grown man like James can discover.
Even if you know, can you really talk about some very secret targets? Some private cynicism - if you really talk about it, you will face more embarrassment, and there are only three things you can do
Everything, everything is crushed in terms of capital, and you are honed in terms of human relations and sophistication. Your job will make you unable to make mistakes. It will help you win the hearts of the crew little by little, and slowly, other people will take the initiative to protect you!
So in the face of malice and embarrassment, as long as it didn't involve issues of principle, Meng Dong endured it silently. Even if Xia Yu called her every now and then and tried to trick her again and again, Meng Dong endured it - she didn't want Xia Yu to let her go.
Yu was worried, and it was a bit hard, so she had to take it. Otherwise, there would be some twists and turns, and she, a little idiot like her, probably wouldn't be able to learn it on her own initiative in her lifetime.
After more than a month of hard work, Meng Dong is basically comfortable with the position of "life producer".
Therefore, after coming here one night, everyone was filled with emotion - this may be the most considerate crew they have ever been to.
Xia Yu knew that Meng Dong would definitely be wronged. He asked Meng Dong again and again, but he didn't expect her to tell him. The little girl was also very stubborn.
I asked again and again, just to tell her,
"Come on, you will always have me behind you. If you really can't hold on, just say you can come back."
Of course.
Xia Yu believed in Meng Dong. No one who came out of Tao Tang was useless. What she lacked was experience after game.
…
There were a lot of whispers in the reading room, but there was no trouble for the time being.
Some were curious about Xia Yu, some were surprised, some were impressed, and some still despised him - so much so that when Xia Yu came to the study room, many people still looked arrogant or smiled as if they were enjoying the show.
They, a small group of people, didn't think there was anything great about her playing the leading role in a movie with a small investment.
In the eyes of these actors who don't know the inside story, "Twilight" is still a movie produced by Mindli Pictures, and their bankrupt sisters are just filming on behalf of others - and the investment aspect has not been officially announced so far. Among them are people like Xia Yu
The film's salary and the dividends of several directors.
Etc. These are all top secrets of the company, and some people are used to thinking with one-sided thinking, so there is nothing they can do about it.
We didn’t say that we didn’t read and film according to the rules, but you can’t control who we don’t like, right?
These people's thoughts are basically all out there. No matter how stupid Xia Yu is, there is no way he can't miss them.
Not to mention Xia Yu, even the actors of several Bankrupt Sisters felt it - it was too obvious.
Raymond, Vivian, Daniel, and Antonio also saw it. The first two have long been veterans of the crew. Xia Yu seemed to be despised, but in fact, they didn't suffer at all. They didn't need to express their opinions and just be themselves.
That’s it.
When Daniel saw this scene, this simple boy suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. However, these people did not stir up trouble for the time being. They could only sulk and mutter to Antonio, "These idiots don't even know who is their boss."
Can’t tell the difference!”
Antonio has been hanging out with Daniel and Brian for the past month. They are young people. One of them is simple, sensible and warm-hearted, and the other is obsessed with music dreams. It has to be said that even Antonio, who has his eyes high, after the initial awkwardness,
, he was quickly captured by the warm-heartedness of Daniel, a strong little angel - sincerity is definitely a surefire skill that no one can resist.
Therefore, even if Daniel occasionally has some thoughts that make him feel idiotic, Antonio will only complain in his heart. He should support his brother in normal times, and he should also help him "correct" some of his excessive naivety in dealing with the world.
Antonio snorted, "You don't need to care about these idiots, otherwise you will become just as idiots as them!"
As for Ms. Qiaojia, she was very calm. The more she got to know Xia Yu, the more she felt impressed by this Oriental girl's mentality.
You can't say that you are as old-fashioned as an old man in his seventies or eighties. That might be too rigid.
What Georgia lamented was that her wisdom and mentality must be no worse than those of the old people who had lived their whole lives.
Even her conversation sometimes makes her feel like she is communicating with a scholar.
"Such trivial matters, these contempts, and prejudices cannot cause a single wave in Xia's heart...a bunch of clowns!" Qiaojia sneered in her heart. And she seemed to be able to see a trace of it from Xia Yu's eyes and the faint smile on the corner of his mouth.
An interesting illusion?
If Xia Yu could hear Ms. Qiaojia's inner monologue, he would definitely smile and tell her:
"It's not an illusion."
The main reason is that after "Stunning Beauty", she met a very good team of collaborators on the set.
Even when Song Ang caused trouble, Song Ang only targeted Dai Chengbi and was still polite to her on the surface.
Of course, she didn't want anything to happen that would affect the reading or the filming process.
But if there are, they must be very interesting. She wouldn't mind picking up one or two to scare the monkeys.
But then the arrival of Ashley and James and some words made Xia Yu's "bad taste" directly obliterated.
Both Ashley and James have the absolute say in the crew. James is well-known in the TV industry. However, after Ashley broke up with several leading actors after "The Secret of the Werewolf", several leading actors also "repaid kindness and revenge" to her outside.
The "famous reputation" spread.
Needless to say, although she may not necessarily have a good reputation, at least once she joins the crew, few people dare to offend her.
The arrival of Ashley and James really meant the beginning of the round-up reading. As soon as the two entered the main classroom, the conference room where they were whispering suddenly fell silent. Xia Yu did not sit on the podium, but sat on the podium very humbly.
The first position under.
Ashley and James took the main seats on the podium, while Zhuang Ling and Meng Dong went to the reading room to take the seats.
In fact, the reading in Hollywood is not much different from the reading in China.
The only differences are that the producers and directors of each crew have different requirements for the crew.
That's not right. The biggest difference is that there is a new group of people - a group of people with completely different personalities from Huaxia, a group of people with quite willful personalities. They are both easy to manage and difficult to manage. Some are very polite and some are not.
Yes, the same thing. Moreover, European and American people are indeed more outstanding in terms of appearance, tall, fair, and strong. If these people were not a little crooked, they would still be very eye-catching.
At 8:30 a.m., the first call was taken. James, the assistant director and casting director, was in charge. There were a total of thirty-five people, the leaders of each logistics team, and more than twenty main actors, all of whom were absent.
James nodded towards Ashley, "You can start!"
As for those who gathered around the conference room, it was left to Zhuang Ling and Meng Dong, but Ashley didn't really care whether they were all there or not.
After confirming that everyone was present, Ashley nodded, coughed twice, and then spoke.
"I'm very happy that everyone followed the arrangements in the contract and arrived at the set yesterday - this is undoubtedly a very good start!"
"I wonder how well everyone rested last night? I think you can also notice that it is precisely because of our arrival yesterday and a night's rest that we have the energy to cope with the next day of reading and the fourteen-day period.
Be sure to prepare in advance for your reading!”
"After all, I think you all know that I, Ashley Tisdale, am not a gentle person. If I don't show my utmost spirit, I think...not to mention the filming stage, these fourteen days of reading,
You will all feel very tortured - but, I think as a professional team and professional actors, you must be ready to face my test? Aren't you?"
Ashley is a cold beauty. This time, she cut her long hair into a short haircut. With a straight face and narrowed eyes, she looked gloomy and a bit violent, a bit like a vicious female villain.
mean.
If you are not an acquaintance and don’t know her true character, she can really bluff people.
“It’s beautiful, but people can’t help but shy away from it!”
After she finished speaking this long warning, she glanced at the status of everyone in the reading room and continued:
"First of all, I know you must have never experienced the first day of working as a crew on the weekend? Maybe, but rarely?"
"Here, I think I need to reiterate and emphasize to everyone that this will become the norm on the "Twilight 1" crew!"
"Why? Because this is a contract that you signed voluntarily. Before signing the contract, we asked again and again. You all agreed to work overtime in the form of increased pay, right? These are all contracts and recordings, so,
No matter how unhappy you are on the set of "Twilight", unless you terminate the contract, you must end the two-and-a-half-month contract!"
"Well, I'm talking about staff and actors? Then it depends on the number of years you signed the contract. Is that okay?"
"Secondly, as for the actors, I know that depending on the role, it is impossible for everyone to follow the filming from beginning to end."
"But because this is the first round of auditions, and most of the actors' roles are not just for one season, I still hope that everyone can hold on during these fourteen days. After all, the pay is already in place, right?" Ashley said reluctantly.
It was a joke, but with her cold and distant face, anyone who dared to smile would doubt whether they would be ripped off.
Xia Yu was the only one in the whole classroom who smiled slightly.
"Of course, if there is an announcement during the reading period, and other tasks, you need to explain it to the life producer at least three days in advance, and provide clear content - otherwise it will not be approved. After all, our "Twilight" crew has decided,
That’s two to three months for most people!”
"As for the actors' filming schedule, I have already arranged it. After the meeting is over, it will be sent to everyone. At that time, everyone can arrange the time in advance - you can also choose not to come, but
Lawyer letters and court summons will also be selectively sent to your mailbox, as well as to your company or home?"
"I have repeatedly emphasized here, and my tone may not be very good, but what I want to do is to safeguard everyone's credibility and property. I don't think you will doubt my words and decisions, right?"
In another classroom, Zhuang Ling, who was sitting in the audience, twirled his pen, suppressed the urge to smoke, and complained, "It's so cold!"
Meng Dong, who was sitting next to her, heard this and covered his mouth and chuckled.