Made in Hollywood

"I heard you went back to Canada a few days ago?"

Sitting casually on the sofa, Duke said to Ellen Page in a chatty tone, "It must be winter over there, right?"

Ellen Page nodded, "It's snowing over my house, but summer is about to start here. The world is really amazing."

"Making a movie is a process of experiencing the wonder of the world." Duke laughed. "You can discover the wonder of the sudden transition from winter to summer, and you can see why other people are happy and sad."

After chatting with the little girl for a while, seeing her gradually relax, Duke changed the subject again, "I heard from Kate, you had a good time with her?"

"Yeah, I usually call Kate's mother." She reached out and hugged Kate Beckinsale's arm. "Kate likes me very much, and I like Kate very much."

"Then you should be very happy with Kate," Duke guided her. "Why were you so stiff just now?"

"Uh..." Ellen Page shook his head, "I'm just a little nervous."

"Kate is your mother." Duke winked at Kate Beckinsale, and she answered immediately, "Yeah, honey, you weren't nervous at all when you were with me."

"I'm just..." She lowered her head, "I'm a little afraid that I won't behave well."

"What about now?" Duke asked.

"I will prove myself!"

The ten-year-old children are the age group that is competitive, "Just wait and see."

"I am waiting."

Duke pointed her finger at her, and was about to stand up and go back behind the monitor, but the girl on the opposite side suddenly came closer, lowered her voice, and said in a tone that only the three of them could hear. "Can I ask you a question, I've been thinking about it for a long time. If I don't know the answer, curiosity will always torture me."

"Hello." Duke said indifferently.

"That..." Ellen Page turned to look at Kate Beckinsale, stuck her tongue out, and asked. "Are all directors in Hollywood as patient as you are?"

"You'll understand later." Duke smiled and left.

In the later filming, Ellen Page's performance was still a little tight, but it was much better than in the trial shooting, and sometimes talent is something that hard work can't replace. Even in Duke's view, if Ellen Page is adjusted by him in the next shooting, he can compete with the performance of the literary girl Scarlett Johansson in "The Horse Whisperer".

Especially after the third one and the fourth one. Anyone can see Ellen Page's huge improvement. Compared to this amazingly talented girl, Kate Beckinsale is really just performing. What is her best talent. Duke doesn't quite know, but it's definitely not a show.

as an actor. Kate? Beckinsale's talent can only be said to be very general.

Subsequently, with Liam? Neeson played police officer Michael's opposite play, but also fully exposed her shortcomings.

Liam Neeson, who has been in Hollywood for so many years, is not known for his acting skills. The talent can only be regarded as mediocre, but when compared with him, Kate Beckinsale is obviously not a grade.

Duke looked at the picture on the monitor and did not immediately stop.

Kate Beckinsale's character Catherine's husband, a bank escort, was shot and killed when he encountered a robbery. Michael, who was in charge of investigating the case, came to inform her that the family joy with his daughter just disappeared in an instant. , sadness pervaded every corner of this home.

According to the requirements of the script and the scene, Kate Beckinsale needs to show a variety of emotions such as shock, disbelief, unwillingness to believe, and grief, but her pretty face is really a little stiff, although these expressions are It can be done, but the traces of the performance are too obvious.

In other words, she's acting for acting's sake.

"stop!"

Duke finally stopped, and at the same time asked his assistant to call Kate Beckinsale over, pointing to the replayed screen on the monitor and saying, "Can you see your problem?"

"Well." Kate Beckinsale looked at it for a while and nodded.

"You have ten minutes to adjust."

After Duke finished speaking, Kate Beckinsale walked to the temporary resting place, and immediately a makeup artist followed her to touch up her makeup.

Ten minutes passed quickly, and when filming began again, Kate Beckinsale was a little better, but only to a limited extent.

When a person is subjected to a huge emotional impact, it is often the place where the most sophisticated acting is concerned. In just a few seconds, several expressions are continuously changed, not to mention the current Kate Beckinsale. At the height of Van Helsing's glory, it was extremely difficult to do so.

In this situation, there is no place to talk about the drama at all. The requirements of the scene on the actors are clear at a glance, and Duke can't give Kate Beckinsale too much performance guidance. As a professional actor, she is much better than Duke's acting skills. .

"Cut!"

After the Nth stop, even if Duke was not a director like James Cameron, his voice gradually became angry. The half-afternoon time passed in one shot, and it was impossible for the entire crew to accompany an actor. Endless consumption of time.

"sorry……"

The crew took a short break, and Kate Beckinsale knew it was entirely her problem, and ran over to apologize to Duke.

"Maintain your best form."

Getting angry doesn't solve anything, Duke thought for a moment. "I'll make the appropriate adjustments."

Since the actor couldn't do it, in order to shoot according to the plan, he, the director, had to make some adjustments. Such adjustments will not have a great impact on the film, and the actors will be affected more.

In fact, the adjustment is very simple. Just now, the camera has been giving a large close-up of Kate Beckinsale's front. The close-up is reduced to her whole person, and the camera is adjusted to the side to shoot, then her acting flaws will be covered up.

Under normal circumstances, the director will not treat the main actor in this way. An actor can only make a deep enough impression on the audience if he shows up in close-up in the camera. It is not up to the requirements. Few directors will give a main actor a side shot when a close-up of the front is required.

Yes, Duke can continue to shoot on this scene, and strictly speaking, the crew has enough time.

But the problem is that he found through these nearly 20 NGs that Kate Beckinsale's plasticity is very general, and the degree of improvement after repeated repetitions can only be said to be better than nothing, and there is no need to waste time.

Sure enough, vases and vampires with tight faces and no expression were the most suitable roles for her.

Duke can only come to this conclusion. Acting, like most industries in the world, also has talent requirements. People without talent often need to put in ten times or more effort to be outstanding. Performance.

Kate Beckinsale may have gone to independent films to hone for five to ten years, and her acting skills will be greatly improved, but it is absolutely impossible to shoot a film in a short period of time.

Besides, with her appearance and basic acting skills, as long as she is lucky, she can live comfortably in this circle.

How many actresses are willing to give up making vases to easily make money and gain fame, and hone their acting skills in the extremely low-income and chaotic independent film circle?

What's more, how many people can really get ahead when they plunge into the independent film circle?

Seeing the crew adjust the camera positions, Kate Beckinsale immediately understood Duke's intention, and her face couldn't help but look a little ugly, but Duke didn't care about her thoughts at all, wasting time is a waste of money, he is the crew The director and producer of , except Warner Bros., made the decision without explaining it to anyone.

Shooting resumed quickly, and after only two NGs, Duke called it through, and today's shooting ended.

The shooting of a film is a long-term process. The director is the leader in the shooting, and when Duke is in a position, he is definitely the master of the entire crew. The crew of "One Hundred Thousand Fires", like other crews, all need a running-in process. , After the relatively slow and jerky operation in the first week, the crew began to run in and mature gradually from mid-November, and the actors in various positions gradually found their best state, and the filming was generally smooth.

It was only after that adjustment that Kate Beckinsale obviously had some opinions on Duke, but Duke didn't care either. He didn't have to choose whether it was the movie or an actress.

Compared with Kate Beckinsale, who has a lot of performance marks, Jennifer Love Hewitt, a youth idol, gave Duke some surprises. In addition to rehearsing for the drama and studying the script for the role in the last month, she has greatly Part of the time was spent in a drug rehabilitation facility in the suburbs of Wellington, communicating with girls who were really drug addicts.

Paying may not be rewarded, but there is absolutely no reward if you don't pay. The rebellious drug addict played by Jennifer Love Hewitt is definitely the biggest surprise in this filming.

"I really value this role."

Outside of filming, she will come over to exchange roles with Duke, and occasionally talk about other topics, "I have been considered a youth idol from the very beginning. This is my greatest asset, but It’s too difficult for an idol to transform, and it’s hard for me to meet such a suitable role.”

Jennifer Love Hewitt looked at Duke seriously and said, "I know very well that my career as an idol is about to come to an end. If I don't seize the opportunity, if I don't work hard, Hollywood will soon forget it. Who am I. As long as I can meet your requirements, I am willing to pay any price. If you think my performance is not enough, I can take drugs and then shoot the scenes where the characters go crazy with drugs." (To be continued~^ ~)