Chương 9: 9 Being an actress is not easy.
9 actors are not easy to do
Jenny Jane signed a performance contract and officially got the role of Canita for $5,000 per episode.
Not high, not low, and her salary for a month working in a restaurant is exactly the same, Emma Swan also bluntly told that the Dunster salary they originally wanted to invite was nearly 200,000 US dollars, and now they have Jenny Jane, of course, it is impossible to offer the same price, and the producer must save some budget.
In this regard, Jenny's reaction was calm, and she and Dave also talked about the remuneration in the TV drama industry, and for a fledgling nobody, five thousand is a generous amount. Expecting to get the same amount as Dunst, a veteran child star, would be pure fool's dream. Her luck was not bad, she chose CBS for her debut, and if it was a small TV network like WB, she might not even get $5,000.
Chen Zhen is still full of attention to the trends of the entertainment industry in later generations, and has read some related news and articles, and has a relatively good understanding of the salary and salary of the American drama circle. In short, this is actually a contest of discourse, this drama depends on whose ability to survive, whose initiative is greater, of course, it also has a certain relationship with the mentality of the leading actor himself.
For example, "Friends", which is now popular, the six actors in the film have all become famous, and there is no more demand for the series itself. In the later stage, due to the creation of similar roles for seven or eight years, more than half of the six leading actors were not willing to continue to perform, so they jointly quoted a high price of one million dollars per episode, and the production company Warner could only grit his teeth and bear it, because these six people appeared as an organic whole, and the story lines were already entangled with each other, and it was difficult to continue without anyone. But after "Friends", it is also the popular sitcom "Modern Family", because there are many leading actors, and the plot itself is not strong in continuity, not enough to catch people, it all depends on the screenwriter's brilliant pen to give funny plots and lines, and the actors' acting skills are relatively secondary, so although they have won awards again and again, and the ratings have been long all the way, the range and determination of the leading actors to raise their salaries are not very large.
Of course, if "Modern Family" continues to be popular and the characters in the film are more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, then the strengths and weaknesses of the filmmakers and actors will change again. In Chen Zhen's feeling, Hollywood is the most unruly place, and the only eternal rule is that every negotiation is a game of multiple factors, and every contract is the result of multi-party compromise.
Getting back to the point, basically, the characters of "CSI" come and go, relying on the attractive long drama of the case itself, as long as one or two core actors remain the same, so it is difficult for even regular actors and even main actors to negotiate the price, and the suspect like Juanita who has passed through one episode is a small role that can be sent away for five or six thousand, and the high price of more than 100,000 US dollars was offered before, but in order to stimulate the ratings in the new season, a little-known movie star was invited to make a cameo, and now Jenny is replaced, and the budget has shrunk to 5,000. But fortunately, CBS never defaults on salaries, and checks arrive on time, which is the benefit of working with big TV stations.
After determining the approximate start time of filming, Jenny returned to Hollywood Star to continue her part-time job, and she did not share the good news with anyone except for discussing the upcoming performance with Dave, Jessica thought that she had suffered another failed audition, and Johnny was in a good mood to persuade her to give up losing weight again.
Jenny didn't take these words to heart, and she began to work on them as soon as she received the script - the performance at the audition, and more importantly, the momentum, she showed the momentum of a big star, which was enough to overwhelm the competition. After all, everyone can see the temperament of a big star on TV, but it is not so simple to imitate it in place - but in real shooting, the most important thing is that she and the emotional performance of the actor in the play cannot be disconnected, otherwise a body language self-denying expressionist meets an experiential party who completely enters the role, and the play will give people a sense of disobedience and ridiculousness. And once such a situation occurs, of course, it will not be the important leading actor who asks for a compromise.
Because of this, she has been working on the role of Nick, who is mainly playing against her, played by George Eders, because she has not seen the film before, so she does not know what the future of CSI will be, and how long George has stayed, for now, he is a nice sunny handsome guy with a good appearance. As for acting, first, CSI didn't leave much room for his acting skills, and secondly, his performance was not the kind of experiential type full of aura, more like a decent expressionist, the emotional expression was quite restrained, and his personal temperament was not like the kind that could put hormones at will, and there might be a lack of tension between the two, or Nick's limelight was completely overshadowed by Canita.
Chen Zhen kept trying, practiced several acting schemes, and used the performing arts space to choose an episode to play with Nick repeatedly, until she felt that there was nothing to find fault with, and the filming date was approaching.
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Because it is filmed and broadcast at the same time, the filming cycle of American dramas is very long, and actors often have to stay in the crew for nine months a year, compared with the filming of thirty or fifty episodes of TV dramas in China in three months, the time of the American drama crew is almost too much luxury- This is also because their budgets are more luxurious than their counterparts in other countries, this attitude of slow work and meticulous work can of course give birth to more elaborate dramas, and it also makes the life of TV drama actors more stable than that of foreign counterparts, as long as they get a regular role in an American drama, even if it is not a supporting role, it is actually enough for the actor to survive in Hollywood, if he can get a supporting role, it is almost equivalent to having a job, with good pay and free time.
Many professional supporting roles are like this, first find a stable supporting role, accumulate a certain amount of start-up capital, and then run a restaurant or clothing store while auditioning around in your spare time, on the one hand, to satisfy the desire to be on camera, on the other hand, it is also to pave the way for the future, hoping to meet more contacts, which can ensure that there will always be supporting roles. In this way, although they seem to be unknown, they actually live a very nourishing life, and they will not lose money to those half-newcomers who have worked hard in the film industry and have had the leading role in one or two small productions.
Therefore, when Jenny came to the crew, she did not feel the anger she often felt in the Chinese crew - not that the crew in China is happy with intrigues, but the producers often ask for the work to be completed within an ultra-short time limit, and the result of working overtime for a long time is that everyone is under great pressure, and the resentment of overtime is not easy to resolve.
It's much easier in the United States, the perfect labor protection law makes their working hours a week relatively fixed, even if they want to work overtime, they don't agree, and the work efficiency is at least three or four times lower than that in China.
"You're stunningly beautiful, dear. Anna, the makeup artist, said appreciatively to her - the crew did not mean to discriminate against the newcomers, although the attitude of the two people towards her was rusty, but they were very friendly. "Don't worry, you're going to be an instant hit. "
"Thank you. Jenny smiled at her, but didn't take it seriously. She stood up and pulled her hair, and the hairstylist quickly stopped her, "Don't move, it took me a lot of time to blow it." "
"OK, now the director is probably done with the meeting. Anna looked at her watch, "Let's go and show him." "
After all, this role is more important, it seems that the director also said that he wanted to see it himself, no wonder they are not in a hurry, and they have to wait before the relationship is good.
Most of CSI's interior plot is done in a fixed studio, as a new drama with excellent ratings, they rented a large studio on Universal Studios in the new season, but the director is not in the studio now, and the group of four had to go out to find him - also because the main actors have completed the new season makeup trial before, and Jenny is really the only one who came to try on makeup today, because the director has a whim, so they have to come to show him in the interval between his pre-shoot meetings.
She was not short, she was taller when she wore high heels, and she walked to the studio surrounded by makeup artists, costume artists, and hairstylists. Jenny felt that her outfit was also one of the reasons - because there was a very important scene where Canita was taken away during the feast, the costumer chose a close-fitting evening dress for her, the more revealing kind.
Anna seems to like the scenery and giggles constantly, Jenny thinks she behaves a little strangely, but she doesn't think it's wrong, the entertainment industry has always been a place of weirdos. Dressers and hairstylists, who look more normal, are also more indifferent to her.
Now, dressed in fancy clothes, walking around the Universal Studios, looking at the tall studios and the people walking between them — Jenny seems to have seen Harrison Ford just now — she finally feels like she's starting to integrate into Hollywood. But Jenny also knew very well that all this was just a warm illusion, in fact, she just stepped into the deep water of Hollywood with one toe, and she couldn't even try the temperature of the water at this touch area.
"Wow, it looks like even George Clooney was looking at you just now. Anna suddenly poked Jenny excitedly, "You're like a real star." "
Jenny was speechless by what she said, and she smiled copistically, "The main thing is that I'm dressed too solemnly. "
"After all, you have to be taken away at the awards ceremony. "We've arrived." "
The writer, one of the directors and producers of the episode, who is also the operator of the series that has just emerged in recent years, also happened to break up, he looked at Jenny a few times, asked her to perform the clip, and then expressed his satisfaction, Jenny saw Dave's friends smiling at her in the crowd, and Emma Swan was there, and she twisted her finger to say hello to them.
"Alright, let's go back and change our clothes. The director, a middle-aged red-haired man in his forties, looked at Jenny again with satisfaction, "I now know why you chose her." "
There were a lot of appreciative glances in the crowd, and Jenny could almost foresee how many people would come to talk to her after the official start of filming - I can't help but say that she was still in a pretty good mood, after all, she was also a very normal young woman, and the results of hard work were appreciated, which naturally made her happy.
Her eyes inadvertently swept over the middle-aged men standing at the other end of the hallway, and the well-dressed passers-by who seemed to be alive also smiled at her: beauty could give her privileges in any corner of the world.
For example, one of these fat people has obviously been fascinated by her, looking at her with a pair of eyes, and his coveting attitude is very explicit and a little funny.
Jenny was amused by his expression, and couldn't help but look at him a few more times, before turning around and leaving.
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