Hollywood Domination Chapter 430: The Birth of Li Yiyi

A ray of morning light penetrated through the gap in the curtains, leaving a light white spot on the carpet. As time went by, its angle became wider and wider, and finally crossed the piled pillows and clothes on the carpet, across Thousands of mountains and rivers, climbed up golden hair, bare arms and light golden eyelashes - in the end, it successfully woke up Jenny, she fanned her eyelashes, covered her mouth and yawned, and turned from the bed Turning over, almost fell to the ground, but finally struggled to roll over from the side of the bed.

"What time is it?" Turning on the phone to confirm the time, Jenny instinctively exclaimed, but then remembered that today is a weekly holiday, which made her shoulders relax. "You can still sleep for a few more hours."

Although she does not arrange morning jogging and other exercise during the holidays, she always indulges herself in enjoying a relaxing morning, but the habit all the year round also makes Jenny lose the blessing of enjoying the sleep in the cage, and sinks into the pillow and closes it again. Closing her eyes, she still sighed, grabbed the ipad and checked the daily news, newly received e-mails from last night to now, as well as accumulative unread reports and official documents. ——It’s already a treat for me to be able to work on the bed instead of getting up to exercise in the morning. Jenny only hates that she can’t bring her official work to the performing arts space to do it—this is every time she forces herself Biggest complaint at work.

"Hey, Leo, yes, I'm awake—well, give me fifteen minutes to have breakfast, and then we can start—" After more than ten minutes, Jenny's phone rang, and she glanced at the screen, and she basically guessed the reason for Leo's visit. For Leo, there is no rest day in this movie, he is always doing Try to get into the practice of acting, which of course also includes speaking with Jenny.

"Here." When Leo walked into Jenny's villa, he tactfully presented a box of strawberries as a tribute. "This is an organic strawberry grown on my farm, you can have it as a snack after dinner."

"Thank you." Jenny raised her eyebrows at him and made way for him, "Where's Salvi?"

"He may come over after lunch to participate, if it will finish over there." Leo said——The production process of "The Great Gatsby" is quite complicated, because there are many big scenes with many extras, This is one of the reasons why it was filmed in Los Angeles. After all, the perfect extra system here is unmatched in other places, and of course it also means a lot of extra meetings. Salvi voluntarily forgoes his days off, but the main characters rarely take time off while filming, and days off are a benefit provided to those on a weekly salary. "Have you had breakfast yet?"

"Not yet, if you don't mind speaking to a woman eating cereal, you can start now." Jenny said, "Otherwise, you still have to wait for me."

"OK." Leo shrugged. "I can watch you eat—it might help you speed up."

Jenny popped a cereal at him. As a joke, she crossed her legs and sat down on the sofa. Mary put the cleaned strawberries beside her, and went to check Leo's script book again. Turned the script book to the corresponding page number for Jenny. Li Ao strolled to the terrace to enjoy the garden and the distant mountain scenery outside the window, with a relaxed expression, and he didn't take out his mobile phone to pass the time at all. The reason for the hotel is similar to that when filming "Life Journey", Salvi asked people to remove the TV and Internet in the villa. Of course, mobile phones are also banned. If Leo is bored, he can only read books.

After enjoying some strawberries and oatmeal, Jenny picked up the script and tapped on the edge of the coffee table, attracting Leo's attention. I couldn't help laughing, "Oh, Leo, I said why did you come here so early - when did you find out this secret?"

Leo left the terrace aggrieved, and the blurred sound and picture of a small TV in the garden bar in the distance that could be peeped from the direction of the terrace, he muttered to defend himself, "That was last night Major league live - yesterday morning, but the TV wasn't on at that time."

For Leo who is not so determined, it is indeed not easy to insist on self-isolation, especially living in the outskirts of Los Angeles. The temptation he faces is indeed greater than when he was in New Zealand. However, as one of the producers, Jenny , not intending to get used to his problems, she gestured to Mary, and compared to the big TV in the living room at the same time, "As long as you can satisfy Salvi, your TV will come back, now Better forget about the big leagues, unless you want to get kicked out and Chris takes over—you know, he’s pretty interested in the role."

For Jenny, the role of Daisy should be easy to grasp. She feels that she can play the essence of Daisy without the help of golden fingers. The character is also quite enthusiastic about acting, and doesn't care that Daisy is actually a villain, and she is completely a supporting role in the whole story. Just like when she performed "Michael Clayton", this role fits well with some of her moods. Of course, Maybe that was her in the past, maybe playing Daisy wasn’t as exploratory as playing Coke, it was cathartic like playing Karen, but Daisy wasn’t unattractive, playing Daisy was more of a… …Self-understanding, like a certain period of time, a certain aspect of her confession and communication with the public-it is true that Jennifer Jefferson is a very attractive commodity packaged, and she is just one of the main producers One, but after bearing the enthusiasm and support of fans and audiences for so many years, Jenny certainly has the desire to communicate with them. The * is still lingering, and Daisy is more or less her veiled confession, even if it is only through the character, even if no one will receive her message, she still wants to tell everyone silently-in fact, she is not so perfect , At some point in her life, she was Daisy, at least she was Daisy, and she wanted to share Daisy's inner thoughts with everyone, just like offering a slice of her true self.

"Okay." Leo shrugged, and it was obvious that his mind had completely returned from the TV, and he took out the script, "Actually, even without that TV, I would like to come here soon— —Tomorrow we will be filming the reunion scene, and I feel that I have not really entered the scene yet.”

Yes, in the original version, your reunion with Daisy was almost a catastrophe... Jenny spit silently, but did not express her thoughts, "Where do we start?"

"Let's start like this." Leo obviously had thought about it, "J.J, you go to the bedroom, open the door and come out—Mary, please sit here, I want you to check my expression, you know, Boldly speak out your thoughts, just talk about what you saw from my performance, the relationship between the two people you guessed."

This is very primitive and unsophisticated, but it is just right for Salvi's director style. There will be no compromise and relaxation in what is required, and what he requires has always been very clear: that is the true feeling from the heart, and the actor must enter the state he needs from the depths of his heart and devote himself to it.

For an actor, it is an extremely demanding requirement to concentrate on every point, and Salvi's sensitivity makes it extremely difficult to get through. This style made Tobey Maguire on the first day of entering the group He was almost on the verge of collapse, but he couldn't help but be convinced by him—there was no communication barrier between him and the actor, and he could feel the actor's progress, and Salvi was very clear about what he wanted. After finding Nick's state, he immediately called good, but now Toby was a little dissatisfied. He felt that he could perform better. Salvi was not as strict with him as he was with Leo. A kind of eccentricity.

As for the favored Leo, he can't complain about Salvi's "special care". Salvi's standard is here, Heath, Jenny, and even the former Simon can meet it, and he will not be particularly harsh on Leo, so the two sides formed such a "sadomasochistic" relationship, Salvi Calling cards again and again, using the method of destroying the defense to squeeze Leo's true emotions, and Leo has also developed a set of local methods, which includes advancing the rehearsal time by himself, so that this kind of passive The state of destruction appeared earlier, and Mary was asked to judge whether there were traces of acting in his performance, and whether he conveyed the most accurate information with the smallest expression.

Actually, in theory, this kind of rehearsal does not need to be done by Jenny, because a truly awesome performance can be done regardless of the object, but obviously, Leo's transition from "putting" to "receiving" is already difficult enough Now, whether as a producer or as his friend, Jenny felt obliged to help, so when she returned to the bedroom and prepared to enter the room, she even adjusted herself and entered quickly. In the role of Daisy, he opened the door and walked into the living room slowly with brisk steps.

Has Daisy ever loved Gatsby? I'm afraid this is an eternal problem posed by "The Great Gatsby", but for Jenny, the problem couldn't be simpler-at this moment of reunion, Daisy must love Gatsby, As far as her nature allows, she loves Gatsby with all her heart, but for Daisy, there are too many things more important than love, her life, the rich and decent life she has known since she was a child , her strangeness and fear of poverty—I'm afraid she never thought that she would be penniless, she was at a loss for this possibility, her education, family pressure, all of which made the choice change. It's so hard.

In the end, as all daughters of her class do, Daisy chose a practical path, and she married the hateful Tom, and her wavering before the wedding was precisely the result of Gatsby's love. She already knew Gatsby's true identity at that time: although he was an officer when they met (such a young officer is often the privilege of rich children), his speech and behavior showed a noble background, but Gatsby In fact, she is penniless and can only provide for her wife's extremely embarrassing life-but even so, Daisy still hesitates painfully on the eve of the wedding. And a few years later, when she was trapped in an unfortunate marriage, and her former lover returned to her life in such a glorious and arrogant manner as a wealthy man, a spark must have ignited in Daisy's heart ——Yes, she can't help but have some unrealistic hopes, that's her only brilliance, and she can't help but feel apprehensive, time has passed, and now Gatsby has everything, he...will still be called Does she conquer? Was his love for her unswerving? You know, she is not so young anymore, and her cheeks are no longer as plump and rosy as when she was a girl——

With this extremely complicated mood, she pushed open the door, showing her best side in a reserved step, her eyes seemed to pass across the room unintentionally, and Gatsby She stayed on her body for a while—he was still the same as before, handsome and thin, making her breathing secretly tense, and his expression, his expression—

"Uh." Mary said, she squinted her eyes and carefully observed Leo, "To be honest, I think your expression is a little exaggerated, Leo, you look like... I don't know, you are very hungry Yeah, seeing a hamburger, you're drug addicted, seeing a pack of marijuana—you know, it doesn't look like you cherish her, it's more like you want to eat her.”

She turned to Jenny, "But with j.j, you can clearly express how she feels, she still loves you - but she is a little afraid that you don't love her anymore, and I think she may have a problem with the occasion Some hesitation, you know, it's a private tryst, not very moral in general, she's kind of afraid of her husband's reaction, so she's worried, is that right, j.j?"

"Almost." Jenny shrugged and returned to her usual state. "Come again?"

"Okay." Leo wiped his face, as if every time he found his status, helpless and tired, "Come again."

This "again" lasted more than ten times within an hour, and Leo's expression became more and more restrained, but Mary still didn't give a positive comment.

"I feel—I don't know how to put it, I feel that ordinary people don't make such expressions on a daily basis, you know, it seems that your Gatsby has mania, it looks scary."

"I think you're a little too excited...don't know, it just makes me feel unreal."

"Well, it seems that you really like her, I feel that way now, but the biggest problem is - I don't know how to put it, I think Gatsby is not such a character, your performance makes her I think he's flamboyant, but the big problem is that Daisy doesn't fall in love with flamboyant people, it feels like you're on a different channel than her, look, she's so classy— ——She is a lady of the upper class, but you look so excited, like... It's not the kind of person she would like anyway."

"Gatsby is well educated, so his reaction should be ceremonial too, isn't it? But you look—I don't know, the way you swallowed just now was a little less classy."

"Okay, now you are very polite, but... I don't know, I have never felt your love for her from your expression, and like and love are different."

At the end, with Leo's tangled expression on his face, Jenny announced a half-hour break—she's used to being on set, switching emotions again and again, which is commonplace on set for her, especially this one. To create an experience that fits you, you only need to make small adjustments, and it is not a problem. However, Leo seemed to be on the verge of chaos and needed to sort out his thoughts.

"It's not easy to overcome the instinctive reaction, especially when you have formed a habit." She encouraged Leo, "Your progress has been very obvious-we almost spent two hours at the beginning Let’s get rid of your habitual loudness, but now? After more than ten minutes, you will consciously start to restrain yourself. After practicing like this for a few days, the new performance mode should be finalized—we’ve only officially started it for a week, haven’t we? You have made great progress."

"But I really can't find that feeling now." Leo is indeed crazier today than before, he compared Bimari, "To be honest, for me, my emotions are already in place , for the last time, I feel like I really entered my own life - see, I'm looking at you with the eyes of my ex-girlfriend - but - it's just..."

"well..." Jenny said slowly, "then maybe you don't love her that much, do you?"

She couldn't help gossip a little, "Is she Giselle? Really?"

A look of embarrassment appeared on Leo's face—if Mary judged his love for Giselle as "not loving her very much", then his love history over the years seemed rather ironic.

"...it's Giselle," but eventually, he admits, "it's Giselle, and I really feel like I loved her, ok? It’s not just for fun.”

Yes, but in the end she dumped you...

Jenny shrugged her shoulders and didn't ask any more questions. She had a new idea. "Maybe it's because you don't love her now - you've got the wrong projection, get a replacement, I mean, find someone you're still very much in love with now -"

Looking at Leo's expression, she changed her words sensibly, "I still want something very much, but I can't always get it, for example—Oscar—think about it, you and Oscar are in the same room Here, it's stripped off, but with the whole world watching, you know, you can't do anything - you can't give away your desperation, like when you see Chris win an award - — your heart is broken, but you still applaud — ouch!”

She laughed and jumped away, while Leo still maintained his elbow position. He glared at Jenny angrily, took a deep breath, wiped his face again, and stepped forward to **** the water glass from Jenny's hand.

"Let's try again." He said stoically, and greeted Mary from the bathroom door, "Come, let's try again."

This time, he still failed—but next time he will.

The next time, the next time, the next time, he passed it all, as if he had found the state, Leo suddenly fully entered the role-even Salvi was on the set the next day. He didn't pick out any faults, he went through this scene once, and the next, next, and next, were all 'good! ’

——It has to be said that the talent to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 19 is by no means an easy task. Out of control——like Jenny, in Salvi's studio, it is extremely rare for two "one pass" to appear at the same time...