King of Hollywood

"d" Adrian clapped his hands, "Very well, you two, you did a great job, but we have to do it again."

As he spoke, he walked up to Renault who was lying on the ground, looked down for a few seconds and then waved to the director: "I think Jean may need more tomato juice—not his face, but his back and the ground."

"Great," Renault on the ground seemed relieved, "I thought you were going to make my face covered in blood."

"It seems that it's better to be a neurotic police officer with a lot of subordinates." Holding a prop gun, Oldman raised his hands and looked around pretendingly, "At least he doesn't need to be covered in tomato juice."

There was a burst of laughter all around.

"Okay, keep your nerves, Gary." Adrian patted him on the shoulder with a smile, then returned to his position and was about to shout, an assistant hurried over: "Mr. Adrian, Na Miss Tully and her mother are here."

"Great, where are you?" Adrian's eyes lit up, and he immediately looked around the crowd.

"Hi, Adrian." Natalie and her mother, Shelley, came quickly and waved to him.

"You guys are ahead of schedule." Adrian said with a smile, and then reached out to shake hands with Natalie and Shelley respectively. Frankly speaking, it felt good to hold the girl's soft little hands.

"Just a few minutes," Shelley said in place of her daughter.

"I still have a few shots to shoot here, just let the stylist and makeup artist do the styling for you first," Adrian looked at Natalie, "Are you ready, Natalie?"

The girl pinched her long hair, although she was a bit reluctant, she quickly nodded firmly: "I'm ready."

"That's it." Adrian said and asked the assistant to take Natalie to the RV with a dressing room, then returned to the camera and clapped his hands vigorously: "Okay, everyone, let's continue."

It took about ten minutes to take this shot of Leno temporarily stuffing the grenade ring into Oldman's hand twice, and then the crew entered a break, and the two actors also cleaned up their things by the way. After more than ten minutes, the stylist brought Natalie to Adrian again.

She is no longer the girl with the long hair, and the brown coat, light-colored trousers and canvas shoes she was wearing are gone, replaced by the straight short hair of the bubble head in the 1930s, and the striped skirt. A vest and a bohemian-style cashmere jacket, as well as thigh-high shorts and brown leather shoes, with two smooth legs exposed. If it weren't for the movie, her face is a little dirty and there are some scars on it, this outfit will attract a lot of people.

"I have good news for you two, the girl you are fighting for has arrived." Adrian introduced Natalie to Renault and Oldman with a smile.

"Hey, Ed, it doesn't seem right for you to talk like this." Renault said jokingly.

"It's okay, Adrian was just joking," Natalie took the initiative to defend him, and then stretched out her hand generously, without any shyness, "Hi, I'm Natalie Herag. "

"I'm Jean? Renault, you can call me Jean." Renault looked at the girl curiously.

"Gary Oldman, just call me Gary." Oldman waved his hand casually.

"Thank you, I like your movies very much," the little girl said with a smile, "Although "Blue Sea and Blue Sky" was watched only recently, it is really touching; it's a pity that "Assassination of Kennedy" and "Four Hundred Years of Surprise" are both R-rated movies, dad won't let me watch them, just heard that Gary's Count Dracula is cool."

"It's not bad, I'm used to this darker role." Oldman shrugged.

"Okay, Natalie, you can start cultivating your emotions." Adrian, who had been staying by the side, said at this time, and he found that Oldman seemed unwilling to talk about the film "Four Hundred Years of Surprise". In the movie, when he jokingly called him Count Dracula before, there was a gloomy flash in Oldman's eyes. It seems that he encountered a lot of troubles when filming this movie. For example, Winona did not Liked him—this was confirmed by Dennis.

"I'll start right away." Natalie quickly replied, and after smiling at Renault and Oldman, she immediately sat aside to read the script seriously, and Adrian began to arrange for the little girl's first shots.

Natalie's scene is very simple, that is, the scene where Matilda escapes from the exhaust pipe and walks from the underground exit to the street. The whole process is very simple, and there is not a single line, but it is a test of the actor's acting skills and grasp of the role. For example, the nervousness and worry of looking outside at the underground exit at the beginning, or the calmness she tried to maintain when she came out, and the panic when she was photographed by the police and made her leave quickly, etc. It was not easy.

"Are you ready?" Adrian, who had arranged everything, held the camera and stood behind Natalie. The little girl took a deep breath and nodded to him.

"Very good." Adrian said as he lowered his head to look at the camera, and at the same time gestured to the recorder.

There was a knocking sound, and after a delay of five or six seconds, Natalie, who was holding evergreen and a large bag of luggage with her back to the camera, immediately began to trot, and the sound of pattering footsteps was heard at the underground exit Get up, and Adrian, who is carrying the camera, followed immediately, and there are several assistants behind him.

Natalie stopped when she reached the steps of the exit, and Adrian turned off the camera and looked up after a few seconds: "It's not very good, let's do it again."

Everyone returned to their original positions immediately, and then the little girl started running again, but unfortunately she still failed and had to start all over again. In fact, it is enough to count twice. After all, this is just a hand-held camera shooting from behind, which is very common, and neither acting nor shooting requires much skill. Even so, Adrian still took six shots before it was over.

It's not that he wanted to make things difficult on purpose, the key is that the film crew finally negotiated with the community and the police station to set aside an area on the street for filming, so the relevant shots must be finished. And this is the first time Natalie has performed in front of the camera. Although her previous performance was amazing and she was always full of confidence, it does not mean that she can completely surrender to the role of Matilda now. Besides, This scene requires her to perform completely with body language and expressions.

So Adrian wanted to use this method to remind her that making a movie is not an easy task. Sometimes, the experience gained from practice is more impressive than other people's verbal reminders.

Facts have proved that Natalie is indeed unusually mature and smart. Although she frowned slightly at the end of the fourth round, she showed a clear look before the fifth round, and then she was very serious. Complete the next two shots, and quickly close your eyes and start to adjust your emotions after Adrian said that this shot can pass.

But even so, when shooting frontal shots, he still NG again and again. Adrian always thought that her emotions were not in place, and he didn't express that feeling, especially because he still had pictures in his head for reference.

"Don't be discouraged, Natalie, calm down and think about how to express Matilda's anxiety, nervousness and worry implicitly at this time." After NG about twenty times, Adrian announced the suspension After taking a break, he came to the girl with an obvious depressed expression and said this to her.

"I've been trying my best to feel it, but..." Natalie said sullenly with her head lowered.

Seeing her like this, Adrian suddenly felt that he was a little eager for success. Generally speaking, he should shoot some scenes with less emotional emotions first, and let the two actors communicate with each other and get familiar with each other during the shooting. In fact, he did plan that way. Apart from the current scene, Natalie only had a few scenes of communicating with the special police, and the most important scene of saying goodbye to Leon was not included.

Anyway, this is an indoor scene, and it can be shot at any time, but the current shot is an outdoor scene. If you don’t take this opportunity to finish shooting, it will be very troublesome to draw out the area like now. New York.

"It's okay, after all, it's your first time acting in a movie, Natalie, it's normal to feel at a loss. So don't take it to heart, we will take it slowly over and over again, and you will always get the feeling." Adrian He continued to comfort him. Anyway, he will be filming here for two days, and the divided areas can still be used. At worst, he can find a way to talk to them about renting for a few more days. Any problem that money can solve is not a problem.

"Well, you rest for a while, I'll go see how they're doing." Adrian said and was about to leave, because he used two cameras to shoot the explosion scene before, so he kept asking the assistant director Ma Stetson took the extras to take some fragmentary scenes, so he wanted to take this opportunity to see.

"No, I can continue." Natalie suddenly raised her head, her bright eyes widened and she looked at Adrian, her confident expression seemed to never disappear.

Adrian raised his eyebrows, looked at her for dozens of seconds, and finally agreed to the request: "Okay, let's continue."

Then there were more than ten NGs, but neither Natalie nor Adrian had any other expressions or words, and they always returned to their original positions calmly after the "cut" to prepare for the next shoot. Even so, Adrian still saw the little girl's progress, and even almost passed it at the 19th time, but after thinking about it, he endured it and went back.

After Natalie took a deep breath and squeezed her fist to encourage herself, she returned to her position and hugged the evergreen, bear doll and bag in the flowerpot tightly.

Pa, with the crisp knocking sound, the camera started to rotate. The girl with disheveled hair slightly raised her head to look at the busy policemen on the street, a trace of anxiety flashed in her eyes, and her eyebrows were raised. She opened her mouth but then closed it again, then lowered her head and pursed her lips and walked out along the steps, with shadows in her eyes as if chewing tears, but she tried her best to put on a expressionless expression as she strode forward Walking away, he just hugged Wannianqing in his arms even tighter.

"Very good!" Adrian, who watched all this, finally called out loudly. ()