Hollywood Domination: Tear X for the second time

Actually, to be honest, Jenny doesn't know why she has to be trained in singing and dancing. The role of Kitty has no room to speak in the original drama and the movie version. "Chicago" is a very clear dual-protagonist drama. Almost all the arias are contracted by the two heroines Roxy and Velma. The warden and the female reporter only have sporadic performance opportunities, not to mention Kitty who appeared just to stimulate Roxy.

Besides, she also received the script very late, even later than the CSI cameo posting. Jenny is very unfamiliar with Hollywood's internal rules, and she doesn't know whether such an approach is in line with the practice. Of course, it may be It's because her role is really insignificant, so the film crew's attitude is also very negligent.

Judging from the received script, Kitty and Richard Gere's leading actor, Lawyer Billy, had a pas de deux. After being imprisoned, there are also some performances that steal the limelight. However, it was very different from the finished film that Chen Zhen saw in her previous life.

From Jenny's point of view, she certainly hopes that the more she plays, the better, even the third heroine doesn't care. But from the perspective of audiences and movie fans, she thinks that the previous life was handled more neatly and streamlined. Adding a song and dance to Kitty will make the entire film structure bloated, and the damage to the structure is beyond the viewing effect brought by the song and dance, and this part is not in the original musical, so the dance and lyrics are choreographed for the movie. Quality control can be an issue.

But these things are not something she can suggest. First of all, no actor would suggest cutting his own role. Secondly, Rob Marshall has a strong desire for control. It seems that he can accept an unknown person with humility Pointing person.

On the day of entering the group, Jenny drove to Universal on time to get a pass, went to the No. 14 studio in Area A to sign in, then went to the dressing room to get her number, and went back to the cart to wait.

Compared with "Chicago", the scene of "CSI" is indeed much smaller. First of all, the staff is relatively small, and secondly, there are not many actors who need to make up and change clothes. The extras are basically self-contained costumes, which also saves the crew from wearing costumes that have dubious washing time and may not fit well. Unless it is a close-up, there is no need for much makeup. But "Chicago" is a period drama. Everyone has to change clothes and put on makeup. The male and female protagonists have their own makeup artists, and other actors have to go and queue up. It's the same as going to a hospital. The assistants go to rest one by one. District to call the number.

Jennie can be regarded as the "female number three". She has a solo show for a few minutes. She actually has a trailer. Although she has to share it with the actor of the warden's "mother", the treatment is not bad. As for the makeup The order is just after 'Mom' - in the crew, the order of makeup is reversed, the higher the status, the less time you need to wait for makeup, so theoretically, 'Mom' is the last one to put on makeup in this group , Jenny is the penultimate one.

Jenny has already seen the filming schedule for this day. Her first scene is scheduled for the second scene in the afternoon. It is the filming of her wearing a fancy dress, being taken down from the prison van, and being chased by reporters all the way into the prison. , after the filming is over, she has nothing to do, so we can call it a day.

Based on this calculation, if the singing and dancing scenes between her and lawyer Billy are deducted, all her scenes can be filmed in two to three days, and the thirty thousand dollars is quite easy to earn. But Jenny would rather be busy than relaxed. This is the end of 2001, and it has been seven or eight months since she traveled back, but so far she has only auditioned twice and got two supporting roles. Even though they are all good characters, their hearts are still not settled, and there is some panic that they don't know where the next meal will be.

Because today is the first day to enter the group, her makeup order is still ranked second. After confirming the look, she went to the clothing room to try on makeup. It may be that Jenny has given the size before. The costume designer Several sets of fancy clothes were prepared for her. Of course, the flamboyant furs that were especially popular in that era were indispensable. It took more than two hours before and after.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly. Jenny greeted Catherine Zeta Jones on the way to the makeup test. But she still left a deep impression on Jenny. Catherine is bright and charming, with a variety of styles, and she is also an actress that Chen Zhen in her previous life particularly liked.

Of course, the film and crew are all provided with meals. There is a large buffet area outside the studio for the actors to take, and the food is very rich. When Jenny walked over, she saw a large group of female prisoners and reporters sitting there laughing and having lunch, and of course the crew of the film crew mixed with them. The visual effect was quite strange. Jenny also saw Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere and Catherine queuing up to pick up meals. Even the big stars don't have the privilege of jumping the queue at these times. ——If you want to play privileges, you can directly ask the assistant to pick up the meal and eat it in the trailer.

Jenny must pay special attention to Renee. If possible, she still doesn't want to cause a Bully incident on the set. This must have a greater impact on her as a newcomer. So the safest thing to do is not to gamble. No matter whether Renee's manager's promotion of Lucy's position has spread to Renee, the best way is to avoid contact completely.

Fortunately, Renee doesn't seem to notice her. She has been chatting with the director Rob. Judging from the expressions of the two, the unhappiness during casting has not been left until now. Let go of past suspicions and rebuild friendship.

With makeup on her face, in order to avoid trouble, Jenny didn't even eat the salad, so she took two pieces of dry bread and stood under the awning to gnaw dryly.

"Jennifer, right?" It turned out that Renee's manager came over to greet her instead. "I'm Veronica, Renee's manager."

"Hi, Veronica, nice to meet you." Jenny nodded with her. Veronica is a woman in her late 30s, she looks very serious, maybe because of Renee's popular relationship in recent years, her attitude is a bit arrogant.

"Nice to meet you." Veronica handed the burger to her left hand and shook hands with her. "You are beautiful."

"Thanks," Jenny said, wiping her fingers imperceptibly on the napkin on which the bread was placed—Veronica had hamburger sauce on her hand.

They were silent for a moment, and then Veronica said, "Hmm, I've seen your makeup trial, and your costume is beautiful too."

"Thank you." Jenny felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, so she added, "Renee's costume is also quite gorgeous."

"Those are just cheap things." Veronica said contemptuously, "Roxy is a low-class dancer, and her clothes are cheap and exaggerated, just for show. You are wearing real high-quality goods, Although it’s not so eye-catching, people with a discerning eye can understand its price.”

OK, is this the first episode of the crew's scheming? Jenny wanted to laugh a little, but she didn't—Veronica's words were clearly warning, and if she responded provocatively, the conflict was likely to escalate. Anyway, she got the part, and it wasn't a big deal to let Veronica blow her temper a bit.

"Yes," she said meekly, "you're right, Veronica."

It seemed that pretending to be stupid would not pass this level, but Veronica's temper became more obvious. She smirked at Jenny, reached out and patted Jenny on the shoulder, "I wish you a smooth start-up this afternoon, Jenny."

"Have a good day, too, Veronica," Jenny said, watching Veronica walk back to her client. —— Renee was still eating and chatting with Rob, and seemed to know nothing about the scenery here.

Actually, to be honest, Jenny doesn't know whether she knows or not. The relationship between celebrities and their agents and managers is sometimes very complicated, which cannot be seen by outsiders at a glance. It is very likely that Renee didn't know the wrestling around the role of Kitty from the beginning to the end, and of course she didn't know that Veronica just came here to "revenge" her. If you are a little confused, just think that it is really just to say hello Everything is possible.

She looked at her shoulders, and indifferently wiped the hamburger sauce left on it with a tissue paper. Of course, there were stains on her shoulders, but this was just a cheap T-shirt. Can buy another one.

Veronica is nothing more than trying to put some mental pressure on her, but these off-the-chart tricks are unlikely to have much impact on her, and Jenny gave up thinking about the whole mess of "whether Renee supports Lucy" . She came here to film, and all she wanted to pay attention to was her scenes.

The shooting of the second scene in the afternoon started on time, because it was a distant view, so it was enough to rehearse and move before shooting. All Jenny had to do was to struggle constantly, and then she was surrounded by people around her and sent to the police station. It was such a simple shot. , and repeated reshoots for about twenty times. ——Because the director was not satisfied.

The director is not dissatisfied with the performance, but with the effect. He modified the camera position four times and deleted several extra actors. This scene was filmed for more than 2 hours. Jenny felt that she had exhausted the amount of exercise she had today. It's all over.

But she didn't protest, nor did she show any dissatisfaction, she just repeated this simple shot again and again.

Rob Marshall is directing a film for the first time, and there are bound to be miscalculations, coupled with his perfectionist temper that pays attention to details (seriously, in more than 2 hours of shooting, Jenny fully understands This point), the one who kept calling Cut the most frustrated was himself. Although he is still calm on the surface, he can even be said to be a little excited, but Jenny guarantees that if anyone dares to show impatience, what awaits him will definitely be the indiscriminate bombardment from the director.

It has been a month since the filming of "Chicago". The staff may have blocked many guns and acted as a channel to vent their emotions before, so they are all doing their own things obediently and silently. Half an hour later, The scene was finally finished, and the set designer began to change the scene. A new batch of extras was called in. It was still the scene at the prison gate, and several scenes during the day were to be filmed.

The intermission is usually the rest time for actors and directors. Jenny went to the drink bar to get some ice cubes, wrapped them in a napkin and massaged her wrists—after nearly three hours of shooting, her hands had been reflected. The handcuffs were a little swollen, especially the wrists, and there were bruises from being strangled.

"Hey." Director Rob came over to say hello to her with a glass of water in his hand, he was startled, "Oh, your hand looks sore."

"Actually, it's okay." Jenny smiled at him.

"Well, uh." Rob still seemed a little sorry, "Sorry, I spent too much time on this shot——"

"No no," Jenny interrupted Rob, "I heard from Vijay—I heard something from Cesare, Mr. Marshall, I really appreciate your professionalism."

She stared into Rob's eyes and said calmly and sincerely, "I believe this quality of pursuit of perfection will make the movie very good. It doesn't matter if it's three minutes, three hours, three days, as long as you're not satisfied." , we will continue to shoot.”

Rob looked a bit overwhelmed, he rubbed his nose, "Whoa - call me Rob, girl - Jennifer right? You're so welcome, there's no one in LA except the waiters If you would call someone like that, just call me Rob."

"OK, Rob." Jenny grabbed another handful of ice cubes and began to ice her right hand, "Seriously, you don't have to be too polite to me, I'm totally on your side, I'm yours people."

Different from the expected touch and admiration, Rob frowned first, looked at Jenny researchingly, thought for a while, then smiled, and clinked the glass with Jenny, "Thank you for your support ——Oh, but you will make it difficult for me to say the next words."

"You mean?" Jenny probably had a good idea in her heart.

"You know I was going to add an act to Kitty, that's why I chose you instead of Lucy Liu. Your singing and dancing foundation is better than Liu's." Rob explained, his thick eyebrows frowned , "But after the filming started, things turned out to be more than I expected..."

He hesitated for a moment, but still put it bluntly, "It's more difficult to control. Before the filming started, I was a little too confident and kept doing additions, but now I can only do some subtractions, and I still focus on the framework of the original drama. , so your song and dance may have to be deleted."

This is a very sudden announcement, which means that Jenny's singing and dancing lessons for the past month have been wasted. It is of course difficult for ordinary people to accept, but Jenny is mentally prepared. Uncle, from the point of view of the whole script, it is of course more concise and neat to delete. The audience does not need to waste too much attention on Kitty. She is a bite, a stimulus, and it is enough to cheer up the audience. Give her a song and dance It will make the script a little bloated in the middle."

Rob stared at her in surprise for a while, and Jenny smiled and said, "What? Can't a blonde (Blonde) have some wisdom?"

"But I—you're not—" Rob took a moment to calm down, "Well, I read your resume, and to be honest, you think very differently from me."

He glanced at Jenny with a new look, "I'm starting to see what Chesa has been saying all along, you're not like most girls in LA. Maybe—his proposal makes sense."

"What proposal?" Jenny asked blankly.

There was a call from the director in the distance, Rob shook his head and did not answer her question, "I will contact Chesa, Jenny, thank you, you are very professional, it is a pleasure to work with you, I should Let's go, see you tomorrow."

He nodded hurriedly at Jenny, then turned and left. Jenny watched him disappear before going down to remove her make-up and change her clothes.

So what is Cesare trying to sell to Rob Marshall without telling her?

No, in fact, there is nothing to hide from her, he is just lazy to tell - Cesare is really a bossy kind of manager, Jenny guesses that he has a plan for her, but As of now, she is completely ignorant of the person involved.

For some reason, she made up her mind not to call Cesare until he took the initiative to contact her. ——Life is like a rape, and it is being managed arbitrarily. At least she can choose to be treated coldly with dignity, instead of making useless calls to ask and complain.

This time, however, Cesare didn't keep her waiting too long. He called when Jenny slipped through Washington at night to go home.

"What did you do on set?" Cesare asked straight away. Jenny questioned as she went upstairs, ‘Huh? ’ with a sound.

"You know I want you to perform well on set," Cesare said.

Jenny was a little confused, "But I did perform well, ah——if you're talking about my singing and dancing being deleted——"

"Your singing and dancing were deleted?" Cesare slightly raised his voice, but changed his mind before Jenny could answer. "It's okay, it's a good thing for the whole script, it's not a loss. What I want to know is what did you do on the set? Rob was acting like a tyrant on the set, and you just entered the group. Conquered him in one day?"

Jenny's heart was pounding, but she still maintained her composure and even teased Cesare instead. "Is it surprise that I hear in your voice? Vijay, surprise? Those are really two words that are hard to connect."

Perhaps realizing his slight gaffe, Cesare's tone softened a lot, "Let's meet and talk again—do you have a show tomorrow morning?"

"No," Jenny asked, "You want me to come to the company to see you? Why?"

"I asked Rob to have dinner with me on Saturday, and you're coming too," Cesare said. "You'll have to prepare for that meal for the rest of the week."

"You mean?" Jenny was getting a little impatient. "Do you know you've been whetting your appetite, Cesare?"

"I want you to perform well at that meal." Cesare finally revealed, "Let Rob nod and put you in the cast list of the "Chicago" musical, I want you to take the Roxy Role, do you understand? I want you to step on Renee Zellweger's performance on Broadway and let her be your stepping stone to the top."

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Note: 1 "Chicago" is indeed Rob Marshall's first film, and he became famous in Hollywood with this film. Before that, he was an elite member of Broadway, participated in the writing and directing of many excellent plays, and later directed "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 4". But other than that, I made up everything about this person's character and the flaws in the first director's film. Renee's manager is also fictitious, as is the decision to sequence the makeup.

2 Blonde is blond. This word is generally considered derogatory, because social prejudices believe that blonds are more stupid than blond, so Jenny is laughing at herself.

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