Chapitre 20: Chapter 20: Competition, Competition
"Do you know how to dance?"
As soon as he sat down, Jim asked. "It's a song and dance film, and it requires the actor's background, and you don't write about your singing and dancing expertise in the materials, but Chesa said that you should try it no matter what. He has read the information and is very optimistic about this film, and believes that it is the favorite seed for next year's Oscar. "
"I can dance. Chen Zhen had given up wondering where Cesare's precise vision came from, and calmly replied, "I can dance Latin dance, ballroom dance, waltz." You can do all the dances that are socially necessary, do you need to see them with your own eyes?"
Jim looked at Jenny in disbelief, "You can dance, but you didn't participate in any clubs in high school?"
Chen Zhen suddenly felt helpless: many things she knows are not what Jenny should know, even if she makes it up, it is impossible to make it up, and if she verifies it a little, the lie will definitely be exposed. So it's very difficult to write it in your resume or not, and if you write it in, Jim thinks you're bragging, and if you don't write it in, you won't find a chance to expose this skill.
And it doesn't make much sense to lie about these things, Jenny spread her hands, "I just will, I learned it by watching TV, and I don't believe you bite me?"
Jim was still skeptical, and Jenny had to stand up and rummage through Lilian's CD, at this point, she really missed the unreleased Ipod. "I see, she doesn't seem to have Latin dance music here—"
"There's no need to jump to me right now. Jim hurriedly stopped, "We've already found a dance teacher for you, and we wanted to do one-on-one training, but if what you're saying is true, it doesn't seem necessary now." "
He immediately drove Jenny to the dance teacher, who was in his car looking through the auditions.
As the seed of the 2003 Oscar for Best Picture, "Chicago" is of course a big production of famous directors + famous actors, it is adapted from the revue and dance drama that has been staged since the seventies of the last century, and it is a very classic masterpiece in itself, Chen Zhen is very familiar with this film, she is a fan of the director, and later Rob Marshall directed the song and dance film "9", she has also watched it many times, of course, "Chicago" has been enjoyed back and forth for a long time.
Now the entire film crew is in the preparation period, and the three leading actors, two women and one man, have been decided, and they are looking for supporting actors. The casting of film and television crews is generally the same, the more important the role, the sooner it is decided, and the trick will be found before the start of filming. And the audition that Cesare arranged for Jenny is an opportunity for a secondary role, and according to the role, it should be regarded as the female number three, or the female number four.
The plot of "Chicago" is simple and there are not many characters. It tells the story of Locksey Hart, who dreams of becoming a big star, was deceived by his lover, shot and killed in anger, and met her idol dancer Velma after being imprisoned, and Velma was famous for killing her adulterous husband and sister, enjoying the benefits of fame to the fullest, and disdainful of Locksey. In order to get out of prison, these two women intrigue with each other, which affects the whole story. The film is full of charm and thought-provoking, and uses a satirical tone to tell the hustle and bustle of Chicago in the 20s of the last century, which won the Academy Award in 2003, and Jenny believes that it is well deserved.
Of course, the two roles of Lockhee and Velma can't be her turn, this kind of film that is mainly actresses and suitable for Da Biao's acting skills will definitely find actresses with excellent acting skills and popularity to play, and what Jenny can fight for is the position of supporting role. Many of the plots of "Chicago" take place in women's prisons, so there are still a lot of supporting actresses with certain roles, such as when Verma told about her imprisonment, there was a wonderful cell song and dance, in which each female prisoner had a 1 or 2-minute one-man show, which was already a very good opportunity on the big screen. Further up there is an Eastern European dancer (Jenny forgot her name and didn't write it in the audition materials) who was also imprisoned for murdering her husband, insisting that she had been wronged and later executed. As the only female prisoner to die in the story, she also had a good performance before she died.
But she still underestimated Cesare's ability, and when Jenny opened the profile, she found that she was going to compete... is Lucy Liu's role in the original film.
In the past month or so, she has not only been bored with her studies, Jim, Dave and Lillian are all the people she chats with, and she still has a lot of things she doesn't understand about the entertainment industry, these people are all big connoisseurs - Lilian is also from an acting family, although her parents are doctors, but many of her uncles are directors and producers - sometimes casual pointers can make Jenny feel surprised. There are some divisions of the difficulty of the character's operation.
Take a movie with an investment of tens of millions of dollars as an example, it is absolutely impossible for the male and female protagonists to be operated, unless this film is a very rare exclusive investment, and the investor designates someone to star, otherwise the selection of the male and female protagonists is all businesslike, only to see who is most suitable for the role, no matter how hard the relationship is, it can only stuff people into the audition, but even so, it is possible to be brushed down by the director or producer at the first level. In Hollywood, every movie is a prudent business investment, and anyone who dares to joke with investors' money is tantamount to self-destruction.
Take "Chicago" as an example, this film is actually the three protagonists, and the three protagonists are all well-known acting schools with excellent qualifications, Cesare is no matter how capable he is, it is impossible for Jeanne to compete for such a role as soon as he debuts, but he is indeed very unexpected by Jenny, because Lucy Liu's role in the film is obviously that all major agents are aiming to push new plays.
Of course, Hollywood is still very professional, if it is in the Chinese entertainment industry, as far as Chen Zhen knows, famous directors and blockbusters, and beautiful characters who are easy to shine in the scenes, are likely to be bought by the actors with money - yes, even if they don't charge for the film, they will give money, such as Chen Zhen, a poor and white person, unless the company is willing to give money, there is no chance to be in the interview at all.
In the audition script of "Chicago", there is no stipulation of the character's descent and nationality, but it is a general account of the life of the prisoner Kitty, who is the daughter of a Hawaiian fruit billionaire and has a soft spot for her boyfriend, but when she returns to the mansion, she accidentally finds that her lover is playing double fly with someone else, and after shooting and killing the three, she immediately becomes a national celebrity and completely steals the limelight from Lockhee. Lockhee, who was threatened, even had to pretend to be pregnant for this.
Although she appears in the middle of the film and only has a few minutes in the scene, which can be described as a flash in the pan, Kitty's role is very eye-catching - she has to be very eye-catching to convince the audience that she has the ability to suppress the limelight at Loxey. This is a very brilliant character, with a lot of room for performance, very eye-catching, and not too difficult.
So you have to fight for resources here, whether it is a well-known actress or a newcomer who has just debuted, she will definitely strive for it, Jenny doesn't know how Cesare stuffed himself into the audition list with no works at all.
In the original version, Lucy Liu was starring in "Breaking Bad" at this time and famous, although her appearance may not be a country in the East, but she happens to be an Asian classical beauty that Westerners are very obsessed with, plus she can speak fluent English and integrate well with the mainstream cultural circle, so she finally won this role and became the Hawaiian fruit king, but Jenny will not think that Kitty must be Asian, Lucy Liu can win this role, on the one hand, it shows that she is very strong, on the other hand, it also shows that her agent has a strong relationship, and she got more resources at that time. Because in her memory, in "Kill Bill", which has also been produced in the past few years, Lucy Liu also has a lot of scenes.
Unlike the finished film and the original musical, Kitty was also assigned a song and dance in the audition script, and it is likely that the director also wanted to make some adaptations, but later deleted it in consideration of the completeness of the plot. Therefore, the audition requirements also include a certain foundation of singing and dancing.
After reading the audition script, Jenny felt that there was no big difficulty, there was still more than a month before the audition, and she could master the role with ease, but the only thing that was tangled was that she snatched or scheduled to snatch Lucy Liu's role.
Of course, from the day she came back with Goldfinger, she was destined for this to happen, and Jenny had already convinced herself that it was not a big deal, at least it was much better than copying someone else's movie. Plagiarizing someone else's entire movie is tantamount to using the creativity completely for your own use, but stealing the role that is destined to succeed, you can't completely use the original actor's method to act, you still have to work hard yourself.
If this actor's original acting method is very successful, then Jenny estimates that she can't take away this opportunity, after all, the most suitable person for everyone's acting method must be herself, and Jenny can't completely imitate Julia Roberts to play, and then defeat Julia Roberts. If there is any cheating in her, it is only that her film selection will be more accurate than others, but in the end, this competition is fair. If her sense of morality is so high that she can't even accept this advantage, then she can stop mixing in Hollywood, after all, there will be people competing for every role, if she is not willing to compete with others for roles, how can she climb up in the entertainment industry?
However, if Lucy Liu is any white actress, she may not feel anything, but this one is a rare Asian in Hollywood, as a white-skinned and yellow-hearted egg person, Jenny is really reluctant to squeeze her role. - Fortunately, this is not Lucy Liu's important work, that is, a few minutes of soy sauce, for her who has already made a name for herself in Hollywood, this is the icing on the cake, but for Jenny, this is an opportunity she must not miss.
"Actually, there was originally a supporting role, and there was more playing time. When Jim saw that Jenny had finished reading the script, he made small talk with her, "but Cesare thought that she had little face in the scene and that there was not much room, so he chose to compete for this." Besides, that one is not suitable for you, that one needs an Eastern European woman, your appearance is too non-Eastern European. "
"Cesare has read all the scripts while filming is still underway?" Jenny was a little curious, after all, most agents may only know that these two characters are looking for people, and the producers will not talk about the roles of the two characters, or how much room for play is there.
"Cesare is a friend of Catherine," said Jim, with some faint envy. "He was chatting with Catherine in Spain the other day, and he read the script during the dinner. The role he caught in at first sight and immediately earned you an audition. "
"Spain?" said Jenny, more curiously, "is there any big show business event in Spain right now?"
"Nope. Jim shrugged, "But Leonardo was on vacation in Ibiza and Cesare was with him." You know Leonardo is also a customer of CAA, and he has a part of his business that Cesare is responsible for. "
... There is nothing to say, Jenny can only thank herself for being signed by Cesare, this bull method, it is definitely not comparable to ordinary agents. No wonder he went to Spain at this time, it is estimated that Ibiza at this time is star-studded, he used to socialize.
"Didn't he say he didn't share..." Jenny muttered softly
Jim laughed at the tip of his ear, "Yes, his possessions are not allowed to be shared, but Cesare will not say no to letting him share other people's possessions." Ah, here we are. "
Jenny was taken to the dance studio by him and showed off her dancing skills, she had learned all kinds of dances with fitness effects in order to maintain her figure, and she also had a certain talent and interest, not to mention first-class dance skills, at least after a certain degree of strengthening, it was no problem to play a supporting role in the movie. The dance teacher was full of praise for her, and Jim was stunned to quit and call Cesare.
Looking at his expression, Jenny finally found a trace of confidence in her heart: perhaps, just as Cesare was a monster in her eyes, she was also a monster in the eyes of others?
She was still taking dance classes, but she had changed to more advanced courses, and there were no new audition opportunities for more than a month, Jenny spent her spare time preparing for the role of Kitty in a targeted manner, and before she knew it, a month passed in a flash. September 2001 arrived.
A lot will happen in September, and 911, which is destined to have nothing to do with Jenny--The audition for "Chicago" was postponed to October because of this--The opening of major colleges and universities--The moulting in Washington--Lillian's shift routine-
And, of course, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which returns on time on September 27.
Notes: 1 The Spanish island of Ibiza is an exclusive resort area, and many celebrities like to spend their holidays there, and the famous Orlando Bloom beating Justin Bieber incident occurred in Ibiza a few months ago, when a restaurant was occupied by Leonardo, the little plum. It is said that after Orlando shook his fist in anger, the whole restaurant applauded, and Xiao Lizi specially invited Orlando to come and sit at his table...
2 I really don't know which agency Leonardo is, but a friend who knows told me that he is a CAA here.
3 There was no recorded version of the original musical of "Chicago", so I don't know if she is Asian in the original play, but here it is set that the original play is white and her nationality is undecided in the script.
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