Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Can you get me that plate of cornflakes? I can't reach it," said an actress wearing a red shirt and black pants. She crossed one leg under her hips and sat on a chair next to a long table in a Greek restaurant. Go up and ask Tom Cruise across the street to pass her the plate of snacks.

"Here you go, Kelly," Tom Cruise handed the cornflakes. "I heard you graduated from the Julliard College drama department? A major?" He had already gotten over the sadness of breaking up after a quarrel with Rebecca De Mornay. After he recovered, he was still the same sunny boy full of energy.

"Correct," Kelly McGillis said, popping a piece of snack into her mouth, "but don't think I'm any luckier than the other actors. I did go to school at Julia, but I worked as a waitress in restaurants, and the first movie was Because one of my guests at the hotel happened to be a film screenwriter, I had the opportunity to enter the film industry.”

"Hahaha," Kelly McGillis pressed Tom's arm with her hand and talked about her history with a smile.

"Oh yeah? I'm also studying in Julia's drama department. Why haven't I seen you?" Fang Kilmer raised his eyebrows and joined the conversation.

“I’ve been acting on Broadway since I was in third grade, probably, and the rest of the time I was working as a waitress to make money.”

McGillis turned over again and pressed Fang Kilmer's arm.

"Ha, I was still studying. I was still very young at that time. I was the youngest drama student in Julia, breaking the school record."

"Hahaha... I've heard of your name. All the female students at that time wanted to be your girlfriend."

McGillis' slightly hoarse voice ignited the mood of the crew, which was mostly composed of young male actors, and everyone laughed.

"Has everyone got something to eat and drink? Let's start the script reading."

Ronald handed each actor a first draft of the script.

"Thank you for choosing me, Ronald." McGillis took over the script. Her two large metal earrings were very eye-catching, making her look very mature. A pair of wonderful eyes looked from the faces of every actor around the table. Looking at it, everyone inevitably feels that Kelly has a crush on them.

"Don't underestimate Kelly McGillis, she is very professional. I watched her performance in her debut film and chased her to sign a contract, so she agreed to give up the Broadway play and make a movie."

Ronald couldn't help but think of what Peter Weir, the director of the movie "Witness", said to him a few days ago when he answered Ronald's private inquiry about McGillis' acting skills.

"Kelly, in order to play an Amish widow well,

I went to an Amish settlement in Pennsylvania and lived with a real Amish widow for a month, observing her every move. "

"Let's start with the scene where everyone is here, where Charlie is giving a lecture to the students." Ronald reminded everyone to turn to Charlie, played by McGillis, who was giving flying lessons to two pilots, including the Lone Ranger and Iceman. That's when the script reading began.

"My lines?" McGillis turned to the page. She changed her sitting position, cleared her throat, and began to read. "Hello everyone, the main opponents we face are F-5s and A-4s. They will Simulate the flying style of MiG aircraft..."

The so-called script reading means that all the actors sit together and read everyone's lines in the script together. There is no need to put on makeup or go to a real shooting location, just play the role through the lines, understand each other, and the emotional reaction each person should have when reading the lines.

"So she's very good at capturing the character's qualities?"

"Of course, she has a professional background and her acting skills are very good. In fact, I would be worried about whether your leading actor can match Kelly's rhythm."

Ronald's mind recalled the conversation between Director Peter Weir and himself two days ago.

"Oh..." Tom Cruise looked annoyed. Here, the Lone Ranger discovered that the girl he flirted with in the bar yesterday turned out to be his flight instructor, Charlie.

"You may already know that the F-5s does not have the thrust-to-weight ratio of the MiG-28, nor can it fly at the top speed of the MiG-28. However, the MiG-28 is not without its weaknesses. It suffers from high negative G overload. Sometimes, I can’t do a quick dive and pull up..."

"Hey..." Tom Cruise smiled at Anthony Edwards, who played his radar man Goose.

"Are you going to tell her?" Anthony Edwards, a handsome blond boy, also picked up the script and read it. In fact, he is also a hormonal type actor, but in order to highlight the leading role of Tom Cruise, the producers and Ronald asked him to dye his hair brown and then wear a conservative hairstyle so as not to overwhelm the protagonist.

"Why, Lieutenant, do you have any objection?"

McGillis read the flight instructor's technical lines very easily, and there was no trace of her being an actor who didn't understand aerodynamics at all.

"Kelly McGillis is a connoisseur. She can be so relaxed that if your actor is not experienced or has experience in theater education, he can easily be overwhelmed by her."

Ronald thought again of Peter Weir's advice.

After comprehensive consideration and time constraints, the two producers finally signed Kelly McGillis. Her costume fitting was very convincing and her audition with Tom Cruise was great. Tom Cruise, who had just suffered an emotional shock, was inspired by her to have the characteristics of a sunny boy.

This was Ronald's final wish to sign McGillis, a stunning beauty who could make Tom's performance even better.

"Yes, instructor. The data you mentioned about the MiG is inaccurate." Tom Cruise pretended to be innocent and corrected the other party's data.

"What do you mean?" When McGillis was reading around, he accurately grasped the disdain of flight expert Charlie towards the theoretical level of pilots, and the helplessness of having to communicate with them.

"In fact, we just saw a MiG-28 doing a dive of at least 4g."

"Really? Where did you see it?" McGillis's tone was full of disbelief.

"It's confidential."

"I have top secret clearance from the Navy."

"Well, actually I'm right above the MiG-28, and I'm..."

"We..." Anthony Edwards' Goose reminds the Lone Ranger that they are a team.

"You were on top of the MiG, so how did you see it?" Instructor Charlie didn't believe it.

"Because I happened to be flying upside down."

"This is simply impossible. You cannot fly upside down while following the 4g diving MiG-28. It is impossible for the F-14a Tomcat to fly such a maneuver."

Val Kilmer interjected at this time. The Iceman he played was a rationalist, and the Tomcat's instructions did not say how to operate a fighter jet this way.

"I actually took a picture," Anthony Edwards read the line from Radar Officer Goose.

"Very good chemistry." Don Simpson listened to the script reading and praised the actors' performance to Ronald.

"I was a little worried that their chemistry would be too real."

Ronald saw Tom Cruise teaming up with Anthony Edwards, opposite Val Kilmer, who played Iceman, and Tim Robbins, who played his radar officer. The competition between the two sides was very strong and very similar. The competition between the Lone Ranger and Iceman in the script.

"That's really good, that line you just said." Kelly McGillis took a sip of coffee and praised Tom Cruise's performance.

On the other side, Fang Kilmer adjusted his sitting posture, and his eyes clearly showed that he was eager to participate in the competition.

"Isn't this better? Head-to-head competition." Don Simpson stretched out his two thumbs and made a flexion and extension movement relative to each other.

"I'm afraid that their competition will be so obvious and fierce that it will be brought into the daily life of filming." Ronald has experienced that on the crew of "The Naughty Boys", several young men with overflowing hormones would do all kinds of things in order to compete for the limelight. A lot of stupid things to come.

"They are the two biggest big-name actors in this movie, and it is impossible for us to replace them." Jerry Bruckheimer reminded quietly.

"Anyway, we have to find a way to separate Tom and Val Kilmer after filming." Ronald looked at Kelly McGillis, who had easily made two big-name male movie stars ready to compete with each other.

"Kelly's performance is very loose. You have to watch out for her. Sometimes even Harrison Ford loses his rhythm because of her."

Peter Weir's advice came back to Ronald's mind.

It seems that signing McGillis is also a mixed blessing. This time he has to test his management skills on the set.

Ronald ate a biscuit and motioned for everyone to continue reading the rest of the script.

"My stinking, sweaty husband, if you don't come over and carry me back to the room within a minute, you won't be able to get into my bed."

"Hi, wife, I obey."

Anthony Edwards, who plays Goose, is reading lines and flirting with a young actor who plays his wife.

Dutou Goose's wife is a girl from a rural town in the south, and he raised a son with him. She has the innocent, simple temperament of a country girl, and this young actor reads lines very well.

Coincidentally, this supporting actress recruited by Don Simpson has some connections with Ronald.

After Leigh Thompson took on many movies, she stopped filming Burger King commercials. Burger King re-screened a girl to replace her, and she and Elizabeth Sue continued to work as a waiter duo, appearing in multiple commercials.

Don Simpson liked to take advantage of this kind of free exposure. After he auditioned the actress named Meg Ryan, he immediately signed her.

"Let's go have a drink!" After a day of script reading, Kelly McGillis put on his coat and called the cool guys around him to go to the bar and have a beer.

"Ronald, aren't you going with us?" Tom Cruise saw Kelly McGillis and Val Kilmer chatting and laughing about their past at Juilliard, and he wanted to join them right away.

But when he saw Ronald picking up the script, he seemed not to be with them, and friendship prompted him to come over and invite Ronald.

"You go ahead, I still need to talk to Don and Jerry about the shooting."

"Then I'll go first, and you can have some fun on your own, okay?" Tom confirmed that Ronald couldn't go, then turned around and ran quickly in the direction of McGillis.

"Hey, when is your Witness coming out? I heard from Ronald that you played the Amish really well."

"Hey..." Ronald let out a long breath. It seems that this filming will not be easy. This kind of crew with male hormones is prone to accidents. God bless the people at Paramount and Navy, don't see anything bad when you come to the set.

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