Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 741

Now that Angela has made a decision, the film department immediately started preparations, and everything is well prepared. Even the scene diagrams of the art director were immediately taken over by professionals—no way, after the lovers With "help", Angela couldn't complete the job alone in the end, so she had to clap her hands and throw it to the art directors of the crew.

So when Angela came back from London after filming the scenes in "Order of the Phoenix" in late April, she immediately pulled a large number of people to the pier in Long Beach to prepare for the launch.

"I need the light to be brighter, but it must be softer when it hits people's faces. Don't let me see pictures in the camera that are so bright that I can't even see them." Angela read the data and told the lighting engineer commanded loudly.

After he finished debugging, the staff next to Natalie's face with the tester also made an OK gesture, Angela then returned to the director's chair, looked at the screen through the monitor, and then signaled to the assistant director It's time to start.

"Attention all units, we are now ready to start the first test shoot." After notifying everyone on the walkie-talkie, the assistant director made a gesture to the scene recorder, who immediately raised the baffle and knocked: "Scene 14, scene 23 begins Take a test shot."

There are three scenes here at the pier. One is that the heroine Catherine played by Natalie and her partner, the black detective Lanard played by Will Smith, come to take over the smuggling case after receiving the order; the other is that Catherine goes to the pier alone An informant who came to want me asked for clues by abnormal means, and Lanard who came later stopped her from making a mistake; the third was to ask what she wanted from the BOSS behind the scenes, and the two of them rushed back to the pier only to find out that it was another Nothing.

Although there are only three scenes, it is not so easy to perform. In each scene, the emotions and states of the two characters are different.The first part is the opening scene. At this time, Catherine is confident and proud, as if there is no case that she cannot handle, while Lanard is depressed and helpless. He has just been transferred to partner with Catherine, who is famous for being a maverick; The second paragraph is the part that is close to the climax in the middle. At this time, Catherine suffered a major blow because she was completely calculated, so she was full of anger and fear and wanted to regain the situation. Although Lanard applied to be transferred from her side, but She couldn't be allowed to act recklessly no matter because of regulations or favors, so she rushed over and persuaded her to go back after several hard work; as for the third paragraph, it was already close to the back. After several confrontations with the big boss in the room, he has become much more cautious, and the relationship with Lanard has also eased a lot.

In short, because the emotions and feelings of the three major scenes are different, and the shots are all staggered when shooting, maybe one second Natalie has to show her self-confidence because of her self-confidence, and the next second she will become Desperate and angry.Even if Katharine Hepburn or Grandma Mei came to such a quick change of mood, it might not be able to do a good job when it was first turned on, let alone Natalie.

"Cut!" Angela behind the monitor waved her hand to stop, "Come here for now, rest for 5 minutes."

After thinking for a few seconds, she got up again and came to Natalie, who was drinking water on the seat.

"These few shots are not very good, will it be a bit reluctant?" Angela sighed and sat down in front of her.

"I'm trying to adjust, please don't worry." Natalie smiled and patted her arm comfortingly.

Angela couldn't help sighing, and suddenly felt that it was a mistake to agree to Natalie's first filming of the pier scene.At the beginning, she planned to start filming from indoor scenes, and gradually let Natalie fully integrate into the role.But after seeing the filming plan, Natalie hopes to start with the pier scenes.

"In this way, I can integrate into the story faster. We all know that there are some things that we need to force ourselves to do." Natalie said that at the time, with excitement shining in her eyes.

It's no wonder that this character full of contradictions, sometimes serious and sometimes ostentatious is too malleable. Simply put, this role will be very brilliant if it is played well, but it will be quite mediocre if it is not played well.More importantly, even if the interpretation is very mediocre, it will not have much impact on the overall story. For Natalie, this is a very attractive challenge, so such a request will be made.Angela originally wanted to refuse, but she couldn't bear Natalie's repeated pleas, so she waved her hand and directly pulled the whole crew to the Long Beach Pier to start the machine.

"You know, Nat, I think I seem... a little too accommodating to you, which is not good." Angela stared into Natalie's eyes, as if admiring a work of art.

Natalie was taken aback for a moment, but she didn't speak. After a few seconds, she lowered her eyelids to hide the complex look in her eyes.

"Lai Lisi!" Angela suddenly yelled loudly, hooking her fingers to the back of her head, "Come here with the eyebrow pencil!"

"What's the matter?" Natalie asked in confusion, Angela didn't answer, but just made a calm gesture, leaned in front of her, held her face in both hands and looked at her carefully.

The heat sprayed by Angela just sprinkled directly on Natalie's face, making her itchy not only on her face, but also in her heart, and her whole body seemed to start to float upwards. Fortunately, it was secretly on her thigh in time. pinch.

"Angie, don't you think so..." She was half annoyed and half offended, and wanted to say something, but Angela immediately interrupted her: "If you have anything to say, wait a few minutes."

Following Angela, she took some cosmetic products such as eyebrow pencils from the makeup artist who hurried over, stretched out her hand and pulled the chair in front of Natalie, sat down and began to carefully put on makeup for her.

Looking at Angela, who was close at hand but focused on it, an imperceptible blush flashed across Natalie's face, and then she emptied her head and let Angela draw on her face.

It took about ten minutes before Angela stopped, looked carefully before returning the eyebrow pencil to the makeup artist: "Nat's eyebrows should be drawn straighter, so that they are inserted vertically from top to bottom Down……"

She made a sliding gesture: "It can make Nat look more heroic and more in line with the career of the movie character. The reason why the shot just now has nothing to do with this is not unrelated. Many times the details will affect the overall situation. I hope that in the future This is how she is made up for all of Nat's tough scenes."

After the makeup artist named Lailis nodded and left, Natalie put down the mirror: "I have to admit that you have observed very carefully, but it has only changed a little, but it is much...sharper than before."

"Of course, don't look at who made it for you." Angela said triumphantly, puffing out her chest.

Natalie couldn't help but glared at her, but didn't say anything, just looked at Angela and sighed in a complicated way.

"Don't look at me like that, I'll be embarrassed. If you want to, then I'll give you a thrush every day." Angela didn't think much about it, and stretched out her hand to pinch Natalie's face with a smile. .

"I think you'd better be more cautious." Natalie knocked off her hand with some reproach, and pointed to a few dodgy figures in the distance, "There are a lot of reporters over there, don't think you can drive them away Far away, they can't see anything."

"Don't worry, Nat will be fine, don't you care what the tabloids write about?" Angela shrugged and pinched Natalie's cheek, "As for the big newspapers, they have Proper."

"That's right, Miss Angel is one of the most powerful people in Hollywood." Natalie said teasingly, and then pointed at her back with a teasing look: "Then who are coming here now? "

Angela was stunned for a moment, and before she could react, a familiar voice floated into her ears: "I told you that Angie was absolutely different when she became a director, didn't you see her pursing her mouth just now?" ? When have you ever been so serious? So it must be very hard to work with her!"

"But you just said that you want to cooperate with Angie!" Another familiar voice sounded.

"Yeah, you obviously want to take advantage of Anji, it's too hateful!" The voice is still familiar.

"Well... I can't say that. I'm doing it for your own good. You can see that you are well cared for on the set. You have never been blamed by the director. I am different from you. You should know that when I starred in "Bad Girl", I have been scolded by the director because of my poor state, so I am mentally prepared. If it were you, Angela blamed her, and then she looked like she was going to cry, what would Anji do?" The first one The voice argued.

"You said we will be like this, and we will definitely be like this? Besides, Angie is not a person who loses his temper. Nat NGed at least a dozen times before, and Angie didn't say anything? I don't want to talk to you." The two The sound rang at the same time.

Angela, who was listening to every word, couldn't help showing a wry smile, while Natalie in front of her covered her mouth and snickered.Before Angela turned her head, two figures rushed over from behind, one left and one right, grabbed her arm and sandwiched her in the middle.

"Angie, if we cooperate with you in the future, you won't blame us for our mistakes." Lulu on the right looked at Angela with a pitiful expression, her teary eyes seemed to have been greatly wronged.

"Angie, if Lindsay cooperates with you in the future, you must reprimand her severely if she makes a mistake, otherwise she will definitely make the same mistake!" Xia Xia on the left said furiously, with a smirk like a little devil.

"How can you do this!" Lindsay yelled and hugged Angela from behind, "You can't listen to their nonsense, Angie!"

"Okay, you three! Didn't walking around consume your excess energy?!" Angela stood up feebly and got rid of their entanglement, "Also, this is a studio, please let me keep Majesty, okay?"

The three girls blinked and looked at her for a few seconds, then Xia Xia had a half-smile expression on her face, she turned her head and asked Lulu in a puzzled tone, "Is Angie dignified on the set?"

"I'm sure—" Lulu puffed out her chest when she got the prompt, and answered firmly: "No!"

"Not only did she not, no one took her seriously at all." Lindsay answered leisurely.

"Wait, Lindsay, doesn't that contradict what you just said?"

"Idiot, it depends on the situation. Didn't I tell you before that when she is in a good mood, she can play with it in any way, but when she is in a bad mood, she has to hide as far away as possible!"

What is "playing"? !What is "how far to hide as far"? !Angela was trembling with anger.Finally, they still know where this place is, and there is no loud and unscrupulous discussion.But looking at it like this, if they don't stop it, it is estimated that they may discuss this topic for a whole day.

After coughing twice to express her existence, Angela asked in a calmer tone as much as possible: "That's enough, can we stop talking about this? Don't you think this is boring?"

"Where is it boring?" The three asked in unison.

Angela couldn't help but rolled her eyes, feeling that some veins on her forehead seemed to be exposed: "Tell me, Lindsay! Xia Xia! Lulu! How old are you already!"

"I'm going to be an adult in a few months." Lindsay turned her head to think for a while and replied seriously.

"It's my 17th birthday soon, what gift are you going to give me, Anji?" Xia Xia asked for a birthday gift straightforwardly, and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

"It's a pity, it was so easy to be the same age as Xia Xia for two months, but soon she will be one year older than me." Lulu said sadly.

Angela rubbed her temples: "Then you still think it's not boring and interesting? I thought you were only three years old!"

"It's really sad, she doesn't want us to grow up." Xia Xia frowned deliberately to pretend to be disdainful.

"Probably because if we were all young, she could ravage us as much as possible." Lulu said shaking her head.

Angela twitched the corners of her mouth and couldn't speak. Lulu was not the kind of girl who liked to speak with puns, but it was also because of this that some words were very painful when they came out of her mouth.Fortunately, Lindsay noticed Angela's expression and made a rare round of disputes: "This is normal, who made you Angela? Who made you our Angela?"

So you can be so unscrupulous?Angela really wanted to ask this question.But the three guys who looked at the thief and smiled finally gave up on this plan, and then looked in the direction of Natalie with a guilty conscience. Although I know that there are some things that lovers know, but...

Surprisingly, Natalie was not in the seat. Angela looked around again only to find that she had gone to play with Will. She was clearly aware of what might happen here. As for whether she didn't want to watch it or couldn't bear to watch it Unknown.

"Okay, the scheduled rest time has passed, let's start." Angela, who turned her head and found that Xia Xia and the others seemed to be planning to say something, shouted so quickly, not giving them a chance to make a fuss.

The reason why Xia Xia appeared here was, of course, that Angela brought her back after she performed in "Order of the Phoenix" in London.This is not a bonus. Although Xia Xia came to the United States before to promote the "Harry Potter" series of movies, after all, she has never traveled to the United States alone. Most of the holidays are spent on the European continent.

So this time when Angela returned to the United States, the stalker had to follow her, and what did she say? Anyway, because of the filming of "Order of the Phoenix", she had already asked for leave from the school, and in addition, there were no scenes to be filmed in the past few days, so it was just right. Come and travel.

Angela couldn't help but agreed to her entreaty. Of course, the three chapters of the agreement must be done. Who knew that this guy had promised well at the time, but changed his mind as soon as he arrived in Los Angeles.

Probably it has something to do with Lulu, this guy moved in the second day after Xia Xia moved into Angela's villa in Beverly Hills, and he stuck together with Xia Xia all day long, showing off his love without any concealment.If it wasn't for Natalie or other lovers who were always by Angela's side, night raids would probably be a common occurrence.

When Angela's new movie started, the two of them naturally had to come to the set for the first time. It happened that Lindsay also came to visit the set.That's right, that's the word. These four big Chinese characters appeared in Angela's mind. You can imagine how much she "hates" these three guys who do whatever they want.

The next continuation of shooting was still not very smooth. Although the previous shot had passed after a dozen repeated shots, it got stuck on the next shot.

"It's okay, take your time." Angela comforted Natalie, who was a little depressed, during the break. Anyway, she has time and money, and the budget is about 6000 million, which is already the largest investment in Angela's film. It’s already a movie—of course, the 6000 million investment does not include Angela’s salary—it’s enough for a movie without hot action and no computer stunts, and even if additional investment is required due to the slow progress, Angela will There is money.

But it seems that Natalie didn't listen to it, but worked harder to immerse herself in the character's emotions.It's no wonder that she had done a lot of homework before this, but the whole day of filming didn't even reach half of the scheduled progress. It's normal to have this kind of reaction.It's just that Angela is a little worried. Although being too involved in the role is of great help to the filming of the movie, it will be very bad if the actor can't get out of the role.

Therefore, after procrastinating and shooting a few more shots, seeing that it was getting late, Angela decisively stopped the night shots, and decided to end today's work.

"Don't forget, it was the same when filming "Father" before, so it's not a bad thing to start slowly. As long as everyone is in the mood, it will naturally go much smoother." Angela said to the staff of the crew. , Of course, many people care about leaving work early, so she actually used this method to tell Natalie.