Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 83 One Step Away

In the Effie Burr restaurant, the staff is setting up temporary equipment and explaining the precautions to the guests who will be in the background at that time. Kate is standing on the periphery while recalling the lines while waiting for the start.

She looks very beautiful now, her dark brown curly long hair has been coiled up, a black backless dress perfectly shows her figure, black lace pattern stockings make her slender legs look more sexy.

However, her brows were slightly frowned, as if she was a little worried. Although she also participated in some film shootings and stage performances last year, most of them were small roles with only a few lines. Like now, she plays an important role in a certain scene It is indeed the first time.

Kate looked to the side, and Angela and Natalie were sitting in the corner of the restaurant, watching the staff busy with great interest. Seeing her looking over, Angela raised her hands and gave her a thumbs up with a smile.Kate smiled back at her, then turned her head and continued to recall the lines and the play that Director Brest told her.

"Are you nervous? Don't worry, it's the same for the first time. I remember that when I was shooting a movie for the first time, I was so nervous that my head was completely blank and I couldn't think of anything. From the director's call to start to stop, I stood there without saying a word. , and was severely reprimanded." Chris O'Donnell, who was also waiting on the side, walked over and said at this moment, his smile is very charming, and in the eyes of most women, he is a man worth dating.

However, Kate just nodded politely, and said lightly: "I'm not nervous, but I really didn't expect that I just performed in front of the camera, and the director really asked me to replace this role, which made me very happy." surprise."

"I believe in Mr. Brest's vision. Since he has chosen you, then you will be able to do it." Chris said with relief, reaching out his hand as if to pat Kate's fragrant shoulder, but he raised his hand again. put it down.

"Ha, kid, don't try to seduce my daughter! Otherwise, I'll beat you up!" A voice suddenly came from the side, startling him.

"Mr. Al? You scared me." Chris looked "frightened".

"It's so simple to be frightened, Charlie? I should send you to the battlefield to see, then I promise you will never be afraid of going to the bathroom alone at night." Al who came over opened his eyes wide and out of focus, still The expression of the blind man said, "You know, it takes a lot of courage to build a toilet on the battlefield."

Kate couldn't help but burst out laughing, Chris also laughed after being dumb for a few seconds, Al spread his hands like an old urchin, and turned to Kate: "Don't be too surprised, Miss Kate, what you have to do now That is, how to lower your head when tangoing!"

Kate could only smile wryly. She knew what Al was talking about. It was an accident, oh, it couldn’t be called an accident. In short, no one noticed during the audition—neither the director nor Al nor Angela noticed until the tango rehearsal Only to find out that Kate is at least an inch taller than Al!Tango dancing like this is really not an interesting thing.

But it’s not impossible to solve the problem. The staff raised the leather shoes for Al, and at the same time asked Kate’s knees to be slightly bent and her head to be lowered in the middle of the jump. With the editing of the camera, there will be no big problems, but Kate It took a lot of hard work, which is why Al teased like this.

"Gentlemen and ladies, take your seats, we're going to start shooting." Martin sat down behind the camera and shouted to them.

Because Kate is an extra, the director decided to shoot her part first, but the tango part was put at the end. After all, filming is not like shooting one shot after another like in a screening.

"It's too bad Kate said the wrong lines and she still looks a bit out of place."

"Good! I knew she could do it!...Why did the director call NG? I think she performed well! Damn it!"

"Okay, very good, Kate has entered the state!"

Natalie sat on a chair and propped her face with one hand, looking amused at the excited Angela beside her. She stared at the shooting scene with her eyes wide open, her hands clenched into fists, and her face was full of worry, tension and excitement , as if it was me who was performing.

She looks so cute.Natalie thought so, rolled her eyes, and suddenly leaned over and whispered: "Angie, you seem to care about Kate."

"Care?" Angela turned her head, "Of course, although we are 7 years apart, we are the best sisters, just like me and Jessica, even closer to a certain extent, remember me and Did you say that I ran away from home when I was 4 years old, if Kate hadn't picked me up, maybe something would have happened..."

"Wait, wait, Angie, let's not talk about this, I just want to say..." Natalie suddenly showed a narrow smile, "Do you feel that you have a strong possessive desire for Kate?"

"What?!" A thick and large black line suddenly stood on Angela's head.

"Look, you've been paying attention to Kate, you've asked everything she does, and you've always decided things for her without thinking, and the most important thing is that you've always been kind to the young men who appear around Kate. Being hostile and afraid that they will take her away from you, psychologically speaking, these are manifestations of possessiveness... Hey, what is that expression on your face!" Natalie looked at Angela with a look of "being taken away" You're defeated" and "Say it, say it, try your best to say it" expression, she shouted a little unconvinced, she was joking, but it's really not happy to be seen through before she finished speaking.

"I don't have any expression. I'm just wondering when you became a psychologist." Angela replied lazily. She didn't go to Kate's performance at this time, and kept staring at Natalie. She was taken aback just now, but luckily she realized it immediately. If Natalie really tricked her out, she would be ashamed.

"It's just a very simple psychological common sense. As long as you pay more attention to observation, you can draw conclusions." Natalie turned her head to look at the set, not daring to meet Angela's eyes, but she still spoke stubbornly.

Angela curled her lips, seeing that the shots in the scene had been filmed, and the most difficult part was about to be filmed, the director was letting everyone rest for 10 minutes, so she moved closer to Natalie's face: "Really? So Miss Psychologist, can you see what I want to do next?"

"What are you going to do?" Natalie turned her head curiously.

The girl giggled, jumped up from the chair, and walked around to the band next to the dance floor. Several musicians in the band were discussing the piece to be played later, and Angela went straight to the middle-aged man playing the violin : "May I use your violin, sir?"

"What's the matter, Miss?" The man looked at the little girl and then at his colleague, not understanding what she wanted to do.

Angela pointed to the violin in his hand, with a harmless smile on his face: "Can I try?"

"This? Miss, this is not a toy." The man wanted to reject her, but seeing her cute smile, after thinking about it, he handed it to her: "Okay, please be careful."

The girl nodded, put the violin on her shoulder, and tried the music with the bow. Although it was a little worse than the one at home, the tone and tone were very good, and then she smiled at the man who gave her the violin He smiled, took a deep breath, and struck the strings.

The lazy and humorous tune started to flow, but no one noticed it at first, and although several musicians in the band were a little surprised at the girl's proficiency, it was not surprising that if she practiced since she was a child, as long as she worked hard to reach such a proficient level It is possible, but when Section A is about to be finished and is about to turn to Section B, Angela suddenly raised her hand, and quickly bounced the bow several times on the strings, and then pulled it for a long time, and the fingers pressing the strings also Continuously cooperating with the dial, the part that should have been carried over by the piano sound was actually pulled over in this way, and it also made people feel very natural. This change surprised the musicians next to them, and some guests were also surprised. I was attracted by this different pure violin performance "Only One Step Away".

"One Step Away" or more elegantly called "One Step Away" is the famous work of Carlos Gardel, the uncrowned king of Argentine tango. At the New Year's party at Buckingham Palace, Angela privately played this song for Princess Diana , this famous tango song has always been the first choice for tango in movies. In the movies that the little girl remembers, it has been used in "True Lies", "The King's Men", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and other films, but these are not as good as A passage from "Scent of a Woman".

There are two most classic plots in "Scent of a Woman", one is Arna's hearty speech at the end of the movie, and the other is this wonderful and romantic tango.Angela still remembers that a certain comment once said that this is a wonderful dance, this is a spiritual encounter, some people can live their whole life in 1 minute, and there are others, it is worth letting you do it for them in a dance Spent a lifetime, is that a blind man?No, he's not, he's Al Pacino, even though he's trying to keep his empty eyes open; no, he is, he's that lieutenant who's about to end his life's journey, with those empty eyes of despair and sadness However, the last light before the death journey is so passionate and beautiful that people can't put it down!

The pure violin performance of "One Step Away" ended, followed by applause, first a few, then a piece, and finally everyone applauded, Angela breathed a sigh of relief, the pure violin performance was completely improvised by her , drawing on the technique of many famous violin masters such as Itzhak Perlman, fortunately, it seems that he is doing a good job.

After returning the violin in his hand to the musicians around him, he quickly came to the director amid applause, and opened his mouth to ask, "Dear Mr. Martin, I know you plan to record live, so can you let me play the violin?"