Chatty Hollywood

Pinpointing Brendan Fisher and Rachel Weisz was no hassle.

After all, neither of them are famous actors at the moment. For a commercial blockbuster produced by a big director like Charlotte, as long as the two of them are not already filming on other crews, they will definitely rush over.

Therefore, when it comes to the issue of male and female protagonists, the crew of "The Mummy" did not spend much effort.

Although, in order to make the taste of "Qin·Ding" less strong, Charlotte specially asked Sean Daniel to organize an audition and found several roles of "accompanying the prince to study"...

In short, the matter of the male and female protagonists has been settled.

When Charlotte returned to the UK, in addition to Sean Daniel, who went to London with him to set up the "Mummy" studio, he was accompanied by Brendan Fisher and Rachel Weisz——

The former is to go to the UK for a period of military training.

On the one hand, the body shape should be more standard, and on the other hand, the temperament of a grassroots officer in an empire where the sun never sets should be developed.

——Although the O'Connor he plays is still an American cowboy-like character at heart.

As for Rachel Weisz, the British rose dropped by home.

Of course, Charlotte also asked her to find a way to do an internship in a library—or, if possible, the British Museum.

After all, even though Weisz herself has a very bookish temperament, the Evelyn she is going to play is a librarian.

This is a crouching tiger, hidden dragon profession. If you want to play the role, you still have to take it seriously...

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But Rachel Weisz was a little strange about Charlotte's request.

She wasn't surprised that the other person wanted to experience life by himself——

After all, in Hollywood, which advocates method acting, it is normal for actors to experience life because of their roles.

——"Taxi Driver" Robert De Niro is famous.

Weichy wonders, is this necessary? Shouldn't her role be just a vase?

Is it necessary to do this? ?

However, Rachel Weisz was not stupid enough to ask Charlotte this question - someone who graduated from Cambridge knows this about work-related attitude issues very well.

She will faithfully follow the director's request, even if the other party's request is a bit strange...

In fact, in the process of trying to get on the big ship of "The Mummy", Rachel was originally prepared to encounter all kinds of "strange" requests.

She even considered this issue when she auditioned for the role in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

——Rachel, who majored in literature in college, couldn't see that there were no characters suitable for women of her age in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"?

She would attend the audition, originally wanting to perform in front of Charlotte Booth and leave a good impression so that she could get this line in the future.

——Being appreciated by a great director is the most famous and safe shortcut to success for an actor.

——Why else would so many actresses, and even many actors, be willing to be the director's muse?

In Rachel's view, Charlotte Booth's current girlfriend Charlize Theron is her best role model.

——Of course, she is not ready to "dedicate herself to art" directly, but if the other party proposes, she will not refuse.

This is a Hollywood movie after all!

Unfortunately, after the audition, Charlotte Booth did not show any special appreciation for Rachel.

——Both as an actor and as a woman.

This made Rachel a little disappointed at the time.

Until she returned to the United States and after playing a small supporting role, she received an audition invitation from the crew of "The Mummy"...

"Perhaps Director Charlotte is really the kind of director who has a special pursuit of art!"

In the end, Rachel, who still couldn't figure out the other party's request, could only give Charlotte this definition.

——Don’t say it yet, think about it like this,

It really means something like that.

Although Charlotte has been mainly making commercial films since his debut, the images in his films are indeed very beautiful, with a pursuing artistic atmosphere.

——This is true even in the earliest and crudest "Fatal Turn".

However, because every movie Charlotte shoots has a very good storyline and the rhythm is generally well controlled, everyone pays more attention to the story and subconsciously ignores the director's sense of the beauty of the picture. pursuit.

"But even so, these excellent images also add a lot to the movie."

In order to hook up with Charlotte, Rachel, who had watched all of Charlotte's movies, couldn't help but think,

"Speaking of which, it seems that in all Charlotte Booth's movies, the acting skills of the actors are generally online. People like Keanu Reeves who have basically no acting skills can perform at a super level. Does that mean , he also has very high requirements for actors’ acting skills?”

Thinking about it this way, Rachel felt that she finally understood the purpose of Mr. Director letting her experience life.

——The respect for Director Charlotte has also risen to a higher level because of this.

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However, in this regard, we can only say that the artistic young woman Rachel Weisz thinks too much.

Charlotte asked her to experience life as a librarian. Although it was for the movie, the most important purpose was outside the movie——

Because librarianship is truly a sacred position.

— to Charlotte.

Although he had not been a librarian before traveling through time, he had also worked in a bookstore.

It was also at that time that he met the old ghost.

Combining the information revealed by Xu Fu before, and thinking about the various knowledge that the old ghost taught her, Charlotte has gradually found out her inheritance.

——His magic system is indeed inherited from Laozi.

This keeper of the Eastern Zhou royal family was one of the two most famous librarians in Chinese history.

At the same time, he is also the ancestor of Taoism.

Charlotte didn't find it strange at all to say that he created a spell system that used knowledge and rhetoric as the main body to fight against ghosts.

After all, he was an expert who managed to get through the heavily guarded Hangu Pass by relying on a piece of scripture that few people could understand: "The Tao can be Taoized, but it is very Taoist."

And since he has inherited other people's magic, in Charlotte's movie, the librarian naturally needs special treatment——

Because Charlotte guessed that in a character like the librarian, he might be able to try to inscribe some real spells.

——You know, although many spells were used in his previous movies, most of them were either placed on the scene or on props.

——To the greatest extent, it is integrated into the actor's makeup like in "Fatal Turn".

But now what he calls "engraving" is imprinted into the other party's subconscious mind.

——Of course, this process of "engraving" spells is very troublesome.

Not only does the other party really need to have that kind of professional temperament - which is why Charlotte asked Rachel Weisz to experience life - but also the other party needs to have actually seen the spell that Charlotte wants to "engrave".

——Charlotte plans to do this part of the work after the movie starts shooting. The method of doing it was naturally those props that he had specially treated.

As for what you can do after inscribing the spell, to be honest, Charlotte hasn't thought about it yet...

Now he just thought of a new method of applying spells and was excited to experiment.

Rachel Weisz was lucky and unfortunate to be Charlotte's first test subject...