Hollywood Domination Chapter 101: Battle Meryl

"How is the situation on the set?" Wendy Fennerman bent out of her car and asked the assistant who came up to her, "Is it going well? Didn't the queen bees sting?"

"The progress in the morning is pretty good, and David is also in a good mood." The assistant whispered in her ear, reporting the progress of the set, "The costume department needs to be more careful about the sponsored costumes——"

"That's not the point." Wendy is most concerned about the shooting quality, "How do you think Jennifer and Emily are doing?"

She wasn't worried about Meryl, this was because Meryl's performance couldn't go wrong - this was also the consensus in the industry.

"Very good." The assistant said sincerely, "The interview scene is being filmed in the studio, do you want to go in and have a look?"

"Of course." Wendy immediately quickened her pace. She had just contacted several big-name executives in the morning. She was a little tired and couldn't help complaining to the assistant, "You should have told me this earlier."

As soon as she stepped into the studio, she stopped complaining and lowered her footsteps. Instead of joining the crowd, she found a seat in an empty corner and watched Andy and Miranda's interview scene. ——This is also the first time the two have played each other in the whole film.

"Who are you?" Wendy arrived just in time, Emily just left the scene, the photographer adjusted the camera position along the slide rail, Miranda also turned around from the seat and took off her glasses He looked at Andy.

Because of the camera angle, what Wendy saw was the profile of Jennifer and Meryl, and what she saw was not as clear as what was captured by the camera, that is, the final big screen, but even so, Milan Da's imposing manner caught Wendy's heart in the first place. She could hear the condescending feeling from Miranda's tone, and even felt that she was looking up and down with her experienced eyes. Looking at Andy, although Miranda didn't move much, and Wendy couldn't see her facial expression clearly, the message conveyed by her body language was hard to be mistaken even at such a distance: For Andy Miranda felt that it was absurd for Ya, the ugly duckling who strayed into Swan Lake by mistake, and was even a little amused.

"I'm Andrea Sykes, and I'm here to apply for your assistant." Andy's attitude was very rude, and his tone was stiff. This made Wendy frown a little - when Jennifer was reading the script, she still dealt with this passage very softly, even a little flattering.

But neither David nor Meryl seemed to have any objection to Jennifer's performance. Miranda—or Meryl seemed to be more interested in her, and she looked at Andy a few more times. , Only then did he change his sitting posture, picked up a newspaper, "huh."

Andy seemed to be more irritated, she cleared her throat, and took a step forward, Emily let out a gasp in the office, showing a frightened expression——Wendy suddenly realized that this was also a script not in the content. "If you could deign to look at my resume, I'm a graduate of Northwestern University, I got an offer from Stanford Law School, but I'd rather be a reporter. Apparently, Skybridge's HR department thinks my resume is good enough. Competent for calling and pouring coffee for you."

According to the original script, Andy had to be irritated after Miranda read the newspaper, but after Wendy watched the live performance——when she thought about it, she felt that the current version was also good, and Andy was a A smart girl, from the people and things she encountered after entering the editorial department, she should be able to judge that she won't get the job, so she broke the can and fell.

Well... Wendy suddenly found that she could understand Andy's emotions and thoughts clearly, even more clearly than Miranda's thoughts and intentions. Although it's just these two lines of dialogue, Andy has fully revealed her personality. She is excellent, agile, self-esteem, self-confident, even overconfident, still very young to the society, and too aggressive... These complex human natures It was like a billboard floating on Andy's body, engraved in her mind with her every word. Wendy had no trouble understanding her background, personality, even strengths and weaknesses. In her mind, Andy's image was already more vivid than Miranda's.

She sniffled in surprise, and even gave Jennifer a weird look: It's not easy to do this. After all, although she is the protagonist, Andy's initial setting is not glamorous. Compared with Jennifer herself, she is even a little ugly now. Andy's Miranda, and Andy's appearance is not eye-catching now - but she has firmly maintained her presence in front of Meryl and Emily by virtue of her performance, and she has still become a source of attention. focus.

A person's acting skills are good, it doesn't mean that every role will be performed charmingly and captivating all beings. Just like Meryl, she only played 20 minutes in "Kramer and Mrs. Kramer", but in that film, her impression was almost as good as that of the leading actor Dustin Hoffman. Jennifer is the same now, Andy is not charming, she is a bit fat, not very pleasant, almost disrespectful, but... she just can steal the audience's attention away from Meryl and Emily , It just makes people feel that her rudeness also has a different kind of charm, which is hard to describe, and there is an urge to rewind and rewatch it.

"This girl's acting seems to be better than "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Notebook"!" Wendy thought in amazement, "Is this possible? She hasn't finished filming "The Notebook" yet. Eight months! And that's not a hard film!"

As a producer, Wendy has been in contact with all kinds of actors in her career, and she has worked with big names like Tom Hanks before, but the speed of progress is astonishing as Jennifer Actress Wendy discovered for the first time that she refuses to believe that miracles are the instinct of normal people, and she is already looking for reasons for Jennifer, "Maybe she is in a particularly good state today, maybe Meryl is not in her best state , Of course, this is also a good thing for the film, no matter which character is charming, it is the success of the film, if it is the protagonist, of course it is even better..."

Amidst her wild thoughts, the interview scene took a take, and David yelled "Good!" in satisfaction. Wendy and several leading actors once leaned in front of the monitor and watched the replay just now.

After seeing the close-up of Andy's face on the small screen, Wendy found that she had to admit: If it was a matter of status, then Jennifer's status today was so good that it was beyond heaven. Although Andy's mediocre face on the small screen of the monitor is far less attractive than Miranda's small window at first glance, she still can't help turning her attention to Andy's small window, embarrassed by her embarrassment— —Her performance made people immediately substitute for Andy. Even though Wendy clearly knew the direction of the plot, she still couldn't help worrying about Andy's fate at this moment.

This is a scene where Meryl is robbed...

With a silent exclamation in her heart, Wendy shifted her eyes to Meryl: her performance was flawless and almost beyond reproach, but in front of Andy, Miranda's relatively weak shortcomings began to stand out ...Even if it is just a different actor, the audience will see Miranda's charming side in this scene, but in front of Jennifer's performance, Wendy feels that Meryl is limited to Miranda's extreme personality The design, with limited room for development, was robbed of the limelight by Jennifer.

In Hollywood, many directors are temperamental, and some people can even be said to be lunatics, but everyone who can be a producer is a person who is well-versed in humanity. How can Wendy not see that Meryl has been Questioning Jennifer's acting skills? It's just not stated. Now the first scene was robbed by Jennifer, although Jennifer didn't say anything, and no one said anything, but this kind of result is a counterattack to Meryl, and Wendy can't help worrying about Meryl This is the most troublesome part of the female drama. If the three actresses do not have a good relationship with each other, it is conceivable how much trouble will be caused on the set.

What reassured her was that Meryl only looked thoughtful, but she didn't feel annoyed—maybe stealing the limelight was just her illusion, and Meryl herself was quite satisfied with her performance.

Regardless of what the watching crew members thought, no one would provoke Wendy and David in front of Wendy and David. After watching the replay, everyone started to record the next scene, which is the plot of Annie's first day at work. After changing the clothes and makeup, the filming started again, and everything was done step by step. The three actresses almost all passed in one take, and more recordings were made for the convenience of post-editing.

Wendy folded her arms and watched for a while, and gradually let go of her worries about personnel relations, and enjoyed the sparkling dialogue between Emily, Miranda, and Andy. These three extremely outstanding actresses confronted each other with their eyes, body and language, and competed on multiple levels at the same time. This bloodless fight made Wendy feel terrified on the one hand, and on the other hand worried that they would make fake plays for real at any time. Bring one side of life to life, or just the other way around, bring the emotions in life to the play. It was this thrill of walking on the edge of danger that made this producer, who was used to the scene, gradually a little excited. ——It is enough to be happy to recruit a talented actor to make a film under her banner, but now there are three such actors competing in her film! Such a picture even made Wendy feel a strange sense of honor.

"This will become a classic." While calling Cut, David leaned over and said softly, "I have a hunch that this will become my masterpiece."

"Tell me you and I were thinking the same thing." Wendy muttered blankly.

"If you say that, I can be sure." David smiled with relief and excitement, "I'm thinking the same thing as you—tell me your opinion."

"It's only the first day of filming." Wendy didn't want to say anything right now, "Let's see again!"

But she has already begun to plan the rhythm of the whole thing in her mind-although she had no idea about this before, but...why not...if everything is the same as today's shooting, even Even better, this matter—Oscar, is not completely impossible...

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Due to the low budget of the crew, it is impossible to support long-term group shooting. The leisurely atmosphere of the crew of "Prada" does not exist in the "Prada" crew. On the first day, Jenny worked for eight hours. In terms of legal working hours, the reason why they didn't rush to work was probably because the crew couldn't afford overtime pay.

After a day of filming, of course the actors should remove their make-up, change their clothes, and then go back to the hotel or go to dinner, it's up to them. Jenny made an appointment to have dinner with Rob Marshall and Agata, who had returned to New York for a nap tonight. The time was relatively short, but when she hurried back to her trailer, she had to stop— —Meryl actually brought her two daughters to wait for her at the door of her trailer.

"Louisa is your fan." After the show, although she still has gray hair, Meryl is completely an ordinary mother image in front of her children - although she is still impatient, she still has the courage, But there is an extra bit of triviality and nagging unique to mothers. "Ever since she found out that I was going to act with you, she wanted to take a photo with you and ask for your autograph by the way."

"Oh, it's my honor!" No matter how much Jenny had objections to Meryl, it was impossible for Jenny to show her face to the child, and besides, the vaguely antagonistic relationship between them did not involve personal feelings. Jenny quickly showed a smiling face and performed fan service thoughtfully.

After taking photos with Louisa Cuomo and signing autographs, Mary Cuomo took her sister and left first. Meryl did not leave, but smiled appreciatively and praised Jenny, "Your performance today is very good , girl, I have to say that you are full of surprises.”

"Thank you." Jenny felt a little doubtful—Meryl's current attitude was so friendly that it almost made a 180-degree turn, which almost made her suspicious...

Seeing Meryl smiling and nodding, she finally affirmed Meryl's intentions, "You put pressure on me on purpose before!"

"I can't help it," Meryl leaned against the trailer door coolly, and explained, "I can feel it when I read the script, you are full of doubts about this project, and of course I've heard Based on your previous comments, you give me a feeling that you are not confident that your acting skills can support the role of Andy—or that you are not confident that you can support a complicated Andy in front of me. "

Jenny can't deny her guess, these are all worries she did have.

"Emily has nothing, so she dares to fight hard, and your retreat is also understandable. This kind of thinking is very common among young actors who have a certain reputation but no awards. It is true that you have played Andy. Toughest movie role ever, but I've seen your musicals," Meryl explained with a smile, "Don't forget, I live in New York - I think you can play Andy perfectly, you just need some help , some stimulation, you need to have more confidence in yourself."

Jenny didn't know what to say, "Meryl, thank you——"

"It's just for the movies." Meryl said frankly and bitterly, "I will do everything to ensure the quality of the movies I star in, after all, you know, I don't want my name to be associated with bad movies together."

Having said that, she and Jenny exchanged a friendly and appreciative smile, and Jenny straightened her back and replied spiritually, "Then I will do everything I can to keep "Prada" away from the Golden Raspberry Award!"

She relaxed again, and invited Meryl, "Tonight I will have dinner with Rob Marshall, Agata Repnina, maybe you and the children...

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