Best Movie Star

Back in Los Angeles, Helen Herman immediately contacted the "Fast and the Furious" crew for Matthew's audition, and soon news came over. Due to the conflict with the filming schedule of "The Mummy Returns", the originally scheduled supporting role Not suitable for Matthew, there are two choices in front of him, one is to give up "Fast and Furious" completely, and the other is to temporarily change the role of the audition and choose a supporting role with less drama.

Matthew specifically asked Helen Herman. The latter is not difficult to operate, and "Fast and Furious" will start filming in July. The Mummy Returns conflict.

There is no restriction clause in his actor contract with "The Mummy Returns", so taking on this small role is not a problem at all.

And this little character doesn't have a lot of scenes in total.

In line with the principle of more practice, more learning and more money, Matthew decided to continue to participate in the audition of "The Fast and the Furious", but the original supporting role was replaced by this small role.

If possible, Matthew would like to have a main character. After all, he knows that this series may be a big hit, but the chances are basically zero. When Helen Herman first provided information, the crew had already identified two leading actors, and now they know The names of the two leading actors - Paul Walker and Vin Diesel.

This also reminded him of some things. The former is the actor who died young, and the latter is the bald boss of the racing family.

After all, he has seen online pirated versions of the later Fast and the Furious. Although he is not impressed, he still remembers some.

Two days later, Matthew went to the Universal Studios where the "Fast and the Furious" crew was located to participate in the audition. Among the candidates for this young actor, his qualifications were quite outstanding, coupled with his strong physical fitness and excellent audition performance, and Helen Herman worked properly behind the scenes and successfully auditioned for the role.

The remuneration for the role was only $6,000, and the only benefit was that it was paid in two installments. Matthew signed an actor contract to pay $3,000, and then paid another $3,000 for completing the role.

This is also the reason why Matthew didn't want to give up the audition for "The Fast and the Furious". He didn't have much money in his hand. The remuneration for "The Mummy Returns" was as high as $100,000. It's to wait until the shooting is done and all post-production is done.

Six thousand dollars was enough for Matthew to support the filming of "The Mummy Returns" without having to borrow any more from the Angel Agency.

Many concepts in his bones cannot be twisted for a while, such as borrowing for consumption and the like.

If it wasn't for the cost of dating Britney last time, he wouldn't have borrowed the three thousand dollars from the Angel Agency.

After auditioning for the "Fast and the Furious" crew, which was good news anyway, Matthew also got another good news, Britney's global tour temporarily came to an end at the end of June, and she will return Los Angeles, for next month's MTV Music Awards.

Although Britney was bound to be very busy during the time before the MTV Music Awards, the two were finally able to stay in the same city for a long time.

Before the MTV Music Awards ceremony, Matthew has no work to do. For the role of the "Fast and the Furious", he will go to the crew to participate in several training sessions in July, and then join the crew to start shooting, which will not exceed a week at most. Shooting is complete.

Before that, Matthew's time was free.

Time freedom does not mean going to rest. He asked Helen Herman to help find a fitness club in Westwood District. There is a very good fitness trainer in the club. According to Helen Herman, Hugh Jack Mann was training with the fitness trainer before filming "X-Men."

Both the fitness club and the fitness coaches are quite professional, and the cost of hiring them is naturally high. Matthew sadly found that his first payment for the "Fast and Furious" crew was just enough to apply for a fitness card and pay for the coaches. of.

Originally, Matthew wanted to continue exercising by running, but after consulting a few professionals, especially a sculptor who had a good relationship with Helen Herman, he learned that he wanted more beautiful muscles. Professional fitness training is no substitute for running.

He worked out for the role of the Scorpion King. There was also a director who was deeply prejudiced against him in the crew. Matthew did not want to relax his demands on himself. In the words of Helen Herman, in Hollywood, actors can play big names, But be sure to be professional!

It's just that the money is a bit painful. Fortunately, the payment can be made in installments. Matthew didn't worry too much, and he didn't have to worry that after Britney returned to Los Angeles, he didn't even have the money to go out to open a room.

If it really doesn't work, you can still take out a loan. With the actor contract for "The Mummy Returns", there is no problem with the loan of tens of thousands of dollars, but Matthew will not do it unless it is a last resort.

After completing the fitness card and paying the first fee for the fitness coach, Matthew suddenly understood one thing. It seems that his income has increased, but in fact his expenses have also increased, and he is not spending money such as buying a house or a car, but for his own job. The cost of work...

His own daily life can be said to be very frugal, and he is still so poor. In the future, he will become a small star and his income will continue to increase, but it is impossible for a small star to be like now, and it must be decorated.

Thinking of this, Matthew scratched his head for a while. It seemed that there was another side he didn't understand hidden under the glamorous exterior of this profession.

But he didn't waver. Since he chose this path, he would go on unswervingly.

In the following time, in addition to imitating, reading and writing, Matthew added the routine task of fitness. He went to the fitness club five days a week to conduct targeted training according to the plan specially formulated by the fitness coach for him. .

Every night is the time for Matthew to focus on writing, one of which is to update his online blog.

"I'm in a good mood recently. I got two roles through audition one after another. I'm about to become a member of "The Fast and the Furious" and "The Mummy Crew." It didn't start playing. It is said that the post-editing will start soon, when will it be broadcast on HBO? Looking forward to it..."

It's a pity that up to now, only three people follow his blog, and the only one who has left a comment is Irina Boyar.

After posting a blog post, Matthew took the USB flash drive he borrowed from the fitness trainer~www.wuxiaspot.com~ There are several photos in it that the fitness club specially took for him. He clicked on the newly opened business of the blog and uploaded the photos. to the blog.

Several of them are still photos of Matthew fighting with a fitness trainer when he is fully armed to practice boxing.

Boxing is a part of Matthew's daily training. According to the fitness coach, it is a very effective way to reduce fat. The boxing training program he formulated includes action training, coordination training, special physical training, hand target sandbag training, and conditional combat. Training can effectively improve physical fitness and coordination.

And boxing training is mixed with ordinary fitness training, so that people don't feel that the process of fitness is so boring.

Frankly speaking, Matthew is still very interested in fighting events such as boxing. The previous Matthew was the first to be involved in the streets and fought a lot of wild fights, so he can be regarded as an experienced person.

Boxing training was actually customized for him by the fitness coach. From the very beginning, the fitness coach knew that Matthew was going to participate in the filming of an action movie, instead of simply exercising his muscles. Training to improve coordination would also allow Matthew More calmly deal with the action scenes in the shooting.

By the end of June, Matthew, out of interest, asked the fitness coach to add a conditional actual combat every week, that is, a battle with full protective gear, and the chance of injury is very small.

In the first match, he had almost no strength to fight back in front of a professional coach...

However, this did not dissuade Matthew from his enthusiasm. As he thought about it, he would probably shoot some action-type films in the future, and it would be beneficial to have a rough understanding of a fighting skill.

In the first half of 2000, Matthew's self-study and training passed. The arrival of July also brought good news to Matthew. Britney returned to Los Angeles!