Seven Hundred and Thirty - Older than I Am with Hemorrhoids

On the first day of filming of "Wonder Woman", everything was developing in a good direction. The main managers behind the scenes were all senior members of the team. They knew exactly how to work in order to fit that ice cube face. Director's habits.

The two actors, the male and female protagonists, except for being tortured by a group of not-so-hard-to-find shots for a whole morning and half an afternoon, everything else went smoothly.

The reporters gathered around the beach set finally got what they wanted. At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wayne announced that the first day of filming was over, and also announced that the press silence within the crew had been lifted.

This also means that the main actors and main behind-the-scenes team members can be interviewed by the media without restraint.

The price reporters paid was to be informed by the producer that the crew had canceled the launch conference, but they were free to interview everyone. Of course, the premise is that the interviewee must be willing to be interviewed.

At the end of the first day of work, most of the crew members are still in an absolutely energetic state.

There was a lively scene on the beach. Counting the actors, nearly two hundred people were chatting and cleaning up the filming scene. In addition, the media reporters rushed in without waiting for the hero and heroine to take off their makeup. The beach was like a food market that suddenly opened, buzzing and noisy.

But for Wayne, who was standing next to the director's trailer with his arms folded on his chest, he didn't seem to find these chaotic sounds annoying. Instead, he looked at it with enjoyment, looking at the noisy set, and the smile on his lips never stopped.

Only then could the crew see a smile on his face. Everyone knows that once he gets to work, he will definitely turn into that robot again.

"It can be seen that you enjoy being on set."

Producer John Gray was wearing a decent suit, but he was out of tune with the chaotic environment at this time. He didn't bother to wipe the sweat on his forehead and stood next to Wayne, breathing heavily.

"I like the feeling of being in control of the set, no, it's not like, maybe it should be called infatuation."

Turning his head to look at the embarrassed producer, Wayne frowned slightly, feeling a bad premonition suddenly surge in his heart.

Sighing helplessly, John Gray swore that he absolutely did not want to bring any bad news now, but he would not pick the time when an accident would happen. "Your little actress has a problem. Her mother has already taken her on a plane back to Los Angeles at noon."

Wayne had a question mark on his face and subconsciously asked: "What?"

"Yeah, that's what you heard."

Seeing the smile on the other person's face slowly disappear, John Gray kept yelling at the mother and daughter in his heart, but on the surface he showed a helpless expression.

"The young actress Emily Alpes started to develop chickenpox a few days after her audition. Her mother had been hiding it from the crew. Now the shit-like pox have spread to her face. !

Knowing that she couldn't hide it anymore, her mother notified me of the news, and hoped that the crew would wait for them for a while until the things on her daughter's body disappeared, and then come back to the crew to film Diana Prince's childhood scenes! "

"What the f**k?!"

Before Wayne could say anything, the assistant director Gilmore, who had just come over, looked at John Gray with a ghostly expression on his face and cursed. Then he rolled his eyes unceremoniously and stepped out.

"Who does she think she is? Let the crew wait for her for a while? Why not just let her die!"

Looking at the two directors standing in front of him, John Gray tilted his head and shrugged. "I have told them to go back to Los Angeles. The crew will discuss with them to terminate the actor contract."

Wayne let out a long breath and lit a cigarette in silence.

Even though the producer seemed angry, in fact, the reason for the anger was most likely because of the weird and wonderful mother. There are countless similar things in Hollywood, and many of the best parents of child stars make a living by sucking the blood from their children.

Relatively speaking, Diana Prince did not have many scenes as a child, and the performance was not difficult. If it were in Los Angeles, a qualified actor could break through the crew's door in one day.

But now that we are in Italy, according to Wayne's plan, the scene on the beach can be completed in about half a month. The next location was to shoot footage of Wonder Woman's life as a child. If there are no suitable actors at the moment, he can only change the shooting plan urgently.

"Inform Schwartz, Steve, Robert, Brooks, Weeks and other department heads of the crew, and we will have a small meeting after we return to the hotel."

The fingers holding the cigarette were rubbing back and forth on the stubble on his chin. Wayne stopped the two people beside him from complaining and whispered an order.

After saying that, he turned around and got into the director's trailer. He leaned back in the chair and began to recall carefully in his mind, trying to find a reliable young actor.

The first day of filming ended early. The crew's huge motorcade left the seaside in a mighty manner and headed towards the hotel in the small seaside town.

After a Hollywood production crew signs a contract with an actor, it is common for force majeure to occur, causing the actor to be unable to work on the crew on time. Generally speaking, when faced with similar situations, crew producers will make two completely different choices.

The only factor that can affect the producer's choice is whether the actor is replaceable, or whether it can be said to be a star.

The first option, just like John Gray has already done, is to simply let the actor go without hesitation, and then the crew will quickly find a replacement. This kind of situation usually only happens to minor supporting characters whose roles are not important.

The other option is more like a forced compromise, which is to either wait for the actors to resolve the situation before joining the team, or to forcibly film the scene at an unexpected cost.

The daily shooting tasks of the Hollywood crew basically have strict plans. Although the director or producer will give a relatively generous time and budget when making the plan, no one in charge of the crew will do it unless they have no choice. I am willing to use this potential insurance for the situation of the young actor.

But if you switch to a main character who cannot be bypassed in the crew, the situation is completely opposite. Even if the producer spends more money, they must first ensure that the movie is shot.

In fact, it's okay for actors to get sick. As long as it's not an extremely serious illness, they can at least recover, right? What makes the crew even more troublesome is that the actress is pregnant, because it is impossible and you dare not find a reason to tell the actress to get out. No matter where in the world they are, expectant mothers are the first group to be protected by morality and law.

For example, the widowed sister Scarlett Johansson did not know that she was pregnant until she joined the crew of Women's Federation 2. It's like a fruit candy wrapped in coptis. No matter how bitter it is, the director team has to find a way to swallow it.

And unlike other characters, "Black Widow" has a lot of action scenes in the setting. The director team had no choice but to mark the face of "The Widow Sister", and later used AI technology to move her face On to the double.

Well, that’s right, it’s the kind of “AI technology” you often see. It's just that Hollywood has been using this technology earlier than anyone imagined, and it's much more "sophisticated" than the crude face-changing technology you often see.

The more famous one is actually Gal Gadot. When she was filming "Wonder Woman", the director didn't know she was five months pregnant until she joined the team. Unlike "The Widowed Sister" who has been famous for many years and has a stable status, the producer's first reaction at the time was actually to replace Gal Gadot.

But based on the production cost, after careful consideration, Warner Brothers decided to continue to let her star.

In order to complete the shooting of various shots, the director team had no choice but to cut out a triangular piece of green cloth and cover it on Gal Gadot's already swollen belly. The shots were shot as usual, but it added a lot of work to post-production, because in this process, her growing belly had to be reduced.

Only the main actors who are indispensable in such a huge project can enjoy the treatment given by the producers.

There is no doubt that after a similar unexpected situation occurs, the production cost, shooting time, and shooting difficulty will all increase by more than a little bit. Therefore, when a certain character encounters an unexpected situation and the crew needs to make changes for him temporarily, the producer's first choice is always to replace him and let him go.

No one can fault John Gray for doing this. The only thing that gives Wayne and others a headache is that they are now in southern Italy, not in Los Angeles where actors are everywhere. Finding a suitable replacement is not as easy as you might think.

And once the filming begins, the entire behind-the-scenes team will work day in and day out under a strict shooting schedule. Who doesn’t have the time to return to Los Angeles to re-audition for a supporting role?

Besides, for such a small supporting role, no crew would have the luxury of holding an audition event.

"My requirements are not high. I just need to be smart when facing the camera and can act."

During a simple meeting in the evening, Wayne faced several major behind-the-scenes members of the crew and said, "If anyone knows a suitable young actor, you can talk to John directly."

DC projects are definitely a popular choice in Hollywood. He believes that there will be no shortage of interested child stars, but the speed must be fast. The crew does not have time to wait.

This was not filmed in North America. In every location in Italy, Wayne had to rush to the next stop immediately after filming. It was impossible to disrupt the filming plan, which would incur huge expenses.

After explaining this matter, he turned around and put aside the matter of the young Diana Prince actor. Compared to the large-scale war scenes that were about to be filmed, this matter was not that important for the moment.

Early the next morning, the huge motorcade of the crew drove out of the hotel, and the beach in southern Italy became lively again.

Unlike yesterday, starting early today, a large number of actors practiced their moves over and over again under the leadership of Assistant Director Gilmore. The stunt team followed the whole process and took the trouble to give instructions to every actor who needed to show their faces in close-up shots.

The action scenes seen on the big screen are grand and shocking, but in actual filming, the scene was so full of people that they were on their backs, and the whole beach was filled with chaotic sounds.

"There are no battleships on the sea right now..." Nina stood beside Wayne curiously, looking at the messy preparation site and pointing at a large group of extras wearing World War II Army uniforms.

"That's what Industrial Light and Magic needs to do." Shaking his head slightly, Wayne didn't explain much.

He is not a director like Christopher Nolan, who pursues real-life shooting to the extreme. He does not have much energy and time to make such complicated preparations.

Everyone says that he is a traditional academic director at heart, but in his heart Wayne knows what he is doing better than anyone else. This is a commercial film, and to try to force it into artistic terms is to be a hooligan. So here, it's usually about saving time and trouble.

Especially when you have a lot of production funds in hand, you will never have to work hard to get the real thing if you can leave it to special effects.

This is the director's personal choice, and it is also a pragmatic choice, which is in the interest of the production company.

"Aren't you going to take the photo yourself?"

Seeing that all the work was done and a large number of actors were looking towards the director's seat, John Gray discovered that Wayne had taken the initiative to step aside this time. The person who directed the team behind the scenes became the stunt supervisor with a loudspeaker.

Looking at the stunt supervisor and his final exchange with the camera crew, Wayne shrugged and said casually: "Professional matters should be left to professionals. And they are the most professional people in action scenes."

John Gray smiled and nodded. He actually understood better than anyone else that the other party was indeed a beast of power in the crew, but he had long passed the period when he needed to show his presence from time to time. Leaving professional matters to professionals is also the choice of many great directors.

Some directors like to do everything themselves, from photography, lighting to scenery, as if they don't feel at ease if they don't do these things themselves.

But some directors have always had a clear positioning, like Wayne. In addition to being forced to push the camera with his own hands in the first film, in other projects, he is more like a "foreman", a "foreman" who arranges all the work on the "construction site" but does not work easily. .

"Ready to fight!"

The filming officially started. On the rocky cliffs by the sea, a group of female warriors drew their bows and arrows. The camera crew is filming this scene from different camera positions.

"Fire!"

With a shout, the actors let go of their bows and arrows in the face of non-existent enemies.

The scene shown on the big screen is that the two sides shot at each other from a long distance. However, in the actual shooting, only the female warriors shooting arrows will be filmed first, and then after this set of shots is completed, the Japanese soldiers will be shot. , shots of shooting back.

For the entire day, Wayne was a bystander, silently watching the filming of bits and pieces of action shots. These are not what he is good at, so he will never intervene blindly.

He would only fully inform the temporary action director, the stunt team supervisor, of the shooting requirements, and then stand aside and observe silently. As long as the action scenes are designed to meet his requirements, he will never interrupt the filming.

And this kind of work will last for about ten days. Action shots of big scenes are far more troublesome than shooting literary dramas. The piecemeal shooting of shot by shot is the norm. Even in the first three days of filming, the male and female protagonists were not involved at all. The camera was always focused on other people.

After finishing work on the fourth day, Wayne once again gathered his behind-the-scenes team members and sat together in the living room of his suite.

"Damn, is this twelve years old?"

Gilmore held a photo in his hand and looked at John Gray sitting next to him in disbelief. He pointed at the girl in the photo with one finger and complained in surprise: "John, I swear, this girl said she was very Eight years old is definitely not too much at all.”

Everyone is looking through the photos and actor resumes on the table. Here are the candidates they recommended, as well as the candidates sent by Warner Bros. through John Grey.

Looking at the assistant director's expression of seeing a ghost, he turned around and realized that everyone's attention had been attracted. Producer John Gray shrugged and said helplessly: "Alexandra Daddario is indeed twelve years old. Well, I don't know what exactly this child has eaten since she was a child. She has such a hot figure. .

Her father has a very good network in New York. After hearing that the "Wonder Woman" crew needed young actors, he sent his daughter's resume to Los Angeles through the relationship with Time Warner. Well, Bruce Rosenblum gave it to me..."

Having been here for many years and in Hollywood for many years, Wayne is actually no longer surprised by the appearance of more and more familiar faces.

Listening to his producer's explanation, he also looked at the photo of Alexandra Daddario. In fact, it's no wonder Gilmore complained. This young actor was born in 1986, and his figure is even more hot than that of some adult women.

"what about others?"

Ignoring the chatter between the producer and the assistant director, Wayne threw the photo on the table, turned to look at the people around him and asked, "Who do you think is more suitable?"

"How about this Amanda Seyfried?" Schwartz saw that no one spoke first, so he simply looked at the director and co-producer and said, "a child star, a model, with some acting experience. Disney's soap opera "Let the World" "Turn", we have decided to make this little girl a regular cast member."

When it came to auditioning and selecting actors, he was actually the one with the most connections. Schwartz handed the photo to Wayne and pushed his resume across the table.

Another familiar name, Wayne lowered his head to look at the photo, while John Gray also tilted his head and looked curiously at the photo of the young actor.

"The image is good and can be used as an alternative."

As for the resume that was pushed to him, he didn't even look through it. The young actors who were able to get this table were almost unlikely to have any problems in performance, and at least they had some experience in the industry.

"There is another choice that I think is good."

Steve, the usually taciturn lighting supervisor, rarely spoke up and said: "Some time ago, when I was chatting with a friend who worked at Disney, he mentioned a little girl Lindsay Lohan, who was in Disney's "Made in Heaven" During the audition for the project, my performance was very spirited.”

"Ha, another Disney star-making product?"

Upon hearing the candidate he proposed, the props team supervisor Wicks Hart immediately muttered.

Throughout Hollywood, Disney, with its unique advantages, is top-notch in its ability to create stars, especially in the category of child stars.

However, in comparison, the fate of most child stars is not very good. Basically, only a handful of them can maintain their childhood fame into adulthood. More than 90% of them are abandoned by Disney when they get older.

Not to mention child stars, even famous adult movie stars still seem helpless when faced with the key word of transformation.

Moreover, premature fame brings premature exposure to the dark side of society. In the Hollywood circle, the most indispensable thing is all kinds of temptations. Such as promiscuity, leaf cigarettes, alcohol, and seeking mental stimulation through various methods have always been the most common situation in the industry.

These temptations that exist at any time in life are all the sources of the corruption of child stars.

"Yes, it can also be used as an alternative."

Ignoring Weeks' muttering, Wayne glanced at the photo, looked at John Gray and nodded. "Contact their actual guardians as soon as possible."

The producer nodded. "Okay, leave it to me."

A simple meeting was about to end, but unexpectedly Nina came over, looked at the people sitting on the sofa, and reported in a low voice.

"Boss, Steven Spielberg called. I heard that your crew is short of a young actor and wants to cast his goddaughter..."

"Shit."

After hearing what the assistant said, Wayne couldn't help but curse. Sometimes he had to lament that this good old Jewish man took too much care of his godson and goddaughter. Just thinking about the ages of his two goddaughters, he helplessly reached out and grabbed the cigarettes on the table.

Hearing this, Gilmore opened his mouth in surprise. "God, how old is Steven's goddaughter?"

"One is two years younger than me, and the other is five years younger than me?" Wayne shook his head in confusion, and gave the answer. Yes, he remembers clearly that Gwyneth Paltrow is two years younger than him and Drew Barrymore is five years younger than him.

"Wow, let them play a little girl about ten years old?!"

Wicks-Hart shook his head in disbelief and joked: "Let a girl older than me play the role of a little girl? Damn it."

Everyone laughed it off and patted Wayne on the shoulder before leaving. Everyone knew that this incident looked like a joke, but in fact it was more of a joke. It is absolutely impossible for this crew leader to play such a big role just for a favor.

The working habit of Hollywood crews is to deliberately choose someone who is a little older when selecting young actors. There are many benefits to this, at least it can reduce a lot of troubles encountered during shooting, but it is absolutely impossible to choose someone who is so exaggerated because of his age.

Yes, there are the best makeup artists and stylists in the world here. Young actors who are slightly older will indeed look younger than their actual age through makeup artists, angle and lighting adjustments during shooting, and editing during post-production work. a lot of.

But if the age of the character is set to be more than ten years younger than the actor, these methods are nonsense. Unless Wayne is crazy, he would choose to use this kind of salty favor to compete with a production of 200 million US dollars. Cost, take the risk.

"Take time to call Steven back."

The hand holding the cigarette was rubbing his forehead vigorously. Wayne ordered in a dumbfounded voice: "Just say that I invited him to drink when I returned to Los Angeles as an apology for letting him go in the financing. As for the role, tell him that it has been decided. that is it......"