Hollywood Domination Chapter 8: Get the role

Jenny wondered if Dave's friend was sitting behind the audition table, the audition was conducted by four members who all seemed serious and seemed to suffer from unprofessional interviewers. A woman sitting in the middle looked at her resume, and then showed obvious disapproval.

"Who put her on the list?" She didn't deliberately lower her voice, but Jenny didn't take it too seriously, she knew that her qualifications were not qualified.

A middle-aged man somewhat similar to Dave—Jenny guessed, maybe his friend—said, "Jenny, can you introduce yourself?"

Jenny introduced some basic information, and the man asked her to smile at the camera and make some expressions.

Looking at the finished film alone, many people don't think that the profession of actor is any great. Even the greatest actor's performance is far from beyond reproach. Just like the Chinese men's football team, everyone feels that there is a lot of room for improvement, and they wish they could go up and play for them. That's one of the great ills of television -- on television, everything looks easy. This is true even for sports that require professional training, let alone just speaking lines to a camera.

But of course, almost everything is easier to see than to do. Even if it is just smiling and making expressions at the camera, it takes a long time for the average person to adjust to trying to face an unfamiliar round-headed instrument and Behind the instrument, eyes full of scrutiny reveal themselves. ——Actor is a profession that requires confidence and courage.

A shy person will never be able to show a natural side to many strangers, and the camera will magnify all imperfections. In real life, the micro-expressions that are just fleeting in real life will become forever when they fall into the camera. If a person is "slightly introverted" in reality, he will become "clumsy, shy and nervous" in front of the camera. If Jenny is still the jerky country girl with dreams, even if she has Backed by Dave, he will also fail miserably at this level. - Early in the careers of many great actors, there are countless failed auditions. Only through repeated auditions, failures, re-auditions, and failures can a truly talented actor accumulate a mature and confident shot sense. Even professional training cannot replace this kind of hard work.

During the four years of studying in the acting department, Chen Zhen had gone through countless acting classes, and she was required to roll, cry and laugh in full view of the public. These exercises are aimed at destroying the defensive psychology that she naturally possesses as a normal person. , let go. But, even so, when she first appeared in the performing arts space, using the simulation function, to appear in an illusory and real performance scene, facing a huge studio and a crew of at least a hundred people behind the camera...

Chen Zhen was really scared to urinate, she really felt an urgent need to urinate in her lower abdomen, which made her urgently need to go to the toilet. I even had to interrupt the simulation for this, ran to solve it and came back to try again.

The three months spent as a waiter were valuable, during which she not only lost weight to a size 2 figure - almost the limit of what she could achieve, but also a perfect body for photogenic, Moreover, in these three months, she simulated and experienced no less than 30 studios. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is the performance of a second-line actor for five or six years.

——And they are all blockbuster movies, the kind where there are hundreds of people on the set. After such a baptism practice, how could she still be afraid of a small audition?

She freely made a few expressions towards the camera, her eyes fixed on the camera, as if she wanted to look at the audience behind the camera through the glass, but she ignored this little thing in her attitude, as if she was talking to the audience Generally speaking, sometimes laughing, sometimes annoyed, without any affectation. From the action, there is no sense of "I am being filmed" that is common to non-professional actors.

There was a short silence in the direction of the audition table, and then the female audition officer took the script and handed it to Jenny, "Read this dialogue."

Lines are also one of the basic skills of an actor. They need to be able to pronounce clearly and have a natural intonation. Ordinary people’s spoken English often does not meet this standard. Although people are not aware of it, normal people will speak too fast, A series of problems such as local accents, ambiguous swallowing, fluctuating volume, and lack of emotion—this is a very normal phenomenon. As a living organism, when two individuals exchange information, language is only a component of the information exchange system. For example, in the conversation between Chen Zhen and Dave, eye contact, body language and even micro-expressions are all important means for them to communicate with each other. The vocal system only carries less than half of the information, so it does not need to be too precise. However, under the filter and modification of the camera and recording system, the shortcomings will be magnified and the advantages will be covered up. If a person still speaks according to the usual casual habits, he will show a terrifying articulation in the camera. The sense of ambiguity makes it difficult for the audience to even understand what he means.

Of course, this is also a course that Chen Zhen must learn in her four years of college life. Although she did not know English at the time, as long as the memory of pronunciation habits is still there, this is not a problem. She speaks Northern Standard English—thankfully, though she's been in various foster homes, she hasn't picked up all sorts of weird accents after all.

But that's not where all her confidence comes from.

Jenny stood up and took the script, turned around and sat down on the chair, she took a breath, and slightly closed her eyes—it was a normal adjustment process, and it didn't take up even five seconds, so no one could pick anything based on it .

But in this second, she quickly opened up the acting space, quickly selected a film, and then simulated the character's emotions.

There is a difference between the performing arts space and the outside time. The five seconds outside can be enlarged to about fifteen seconds here, and fifteen seconds is enough for her to immerse herself in the characters of this film, as if she has experienced her whole life The vicissitudes and joys of life, truly became this famous woman who has gone through vicissitudes of life.

Then she had a thought and exited the space. The trace of this emotion was still there, but to the outside world, it was only a few seconds that had just passed.

Jenny stared at the script for two seconds, then put it down.

Her voice suddenly changed, from the ordinary and sweet to hoarse, the smile on her lips was also full of sarcasm, as if she knew everything well, and all changes were under control.

Jennie said almost languidly, "Oh, I wish you guys hadn't ruined my closet. You know, couture is a **** and needs the utmost care."

She took a look at the script, skipped what her counterpart in the supporting role said, and continued, "Yes, it's necessary for business, I understand, officer, you can do whatever you want, I'm not that kind of big star, I think I have You can enjoy privileges with a little achievement, pointing fingers and shouting at respectable public servants.”

The sneer on her lips suddenly widened, and Jenny turned her head, and said to an empty space behind her, "Although I'm sure that the evidence of the murder will not appear in my underwear, you are just doing your duty, aren't you? ?”

"Cut." The female audition officer said, she stared at Jenny with a strange expression, "enough is enough."

Jenny ordered herself to withdraw from the memory of the character as soon as possible. She cleared her throat, adjusted her facial expression, and returned to the identity of the waiter Jenny Jane. She stood up and said, "Thank you for the opportunity."

"Yeah." Dave's friend looked straight at Jenny, "Don't go, just wait outside."

No one disputed his decision.

Jenny knew she had the part.

This shouldn't surprise her, and according to her plan, it should be a matter of course.

As she thought, this role was almost tailor-made for her - as far as the role of 'beautiful superstar' is concerned, even second-tier actors will not have much competitiveness in front of her.

She is glamorous, and as for the big star... Although the performing arts space can't allow her to directly imitate the acting skills of famous actors or something, it doesn't mean that Jenny can't make tricks.

"My Week with Marilyn Monroe", "Double-sided Monroe"... These are all films she has seen before. Jenny has tried several times after receiving the audition notice. The choice of these two films In any one, she can experience the same vague emotional memory - if she guesses correctly, maybe this is the real Marilyn Monroe's memory and perception of her life in history.

Imitating a big star to audition for another big star... To be honest, for such a role as a cameo in an episode of an American drama, Chen Zhen deeply felt that it was overqualified to use Monroe. If Monroe knew, she might feel quite humiliated.

But no matter what, for her, this was an opportunity she couldn't miss. From the very beginning, Chen Zhen had to put all her eggs in one basket, and she didn't have much room for restraint and conservatism.

After waiting for an hour, the female audition officer came to tell her that she got the role.

"My name is Emma Swan." She looked less serious, and Jenny realized that she was actually very young—not more than thirty years old, and she was trying her best to show her kindness. "I am looking forward to seeing your performance again. To be honest, it is because your performance impressed me that I won this role for you... Because of your resume, my colleagues were still a little hesitant."

This is trying to sell favors to her, Chen Zhen realized.

Emma Swan likes her.