Best Actor

"Can I listen to more plots? You know that the scripts you get are not very complete." Frederick asked calmly.

Zach and Schumacher looked at each other, and the former began to briefly introduce: "Simply put, the male protagonist Stu is an advertising salesman with little success in his thirties. Every day He keeps talking and makes a living by stealing and cheating. He has a wife, he loves her very much, but at the same time he is fascinated by a young girl and wants to cheat. In order to cope with his wife's examination, he dare not use his mobile phone to talk to each other. For contact, only use the telephone of the public telephone booth.

Then, one day he used the public phone to call his lover as usual. After the end, the phone rang suddenly, and Stu hesitated for a moment to pick up the receiver. This was a bad decision. There was a perverted sniper on the microphone. He targeted Stu, threatened him with a sniper rifle and teased him, made him recruit the police, his wife, his lover, and asked him to admit to the camera that he had cheated. He is a dirty man. "

He stopped at this point. How the male protagonist was trapped in the phone booth and how he struggled is in the script, and there is no need to repeat it again.

And after Zach spoke, Schumacher began to add: "Larry had the idea of ​​this script very early, he once showed it to Hitchcock, the other party Loved it too. But the only problem was how to trap a man in a phone booth for 80 minutes, so the story was put on hold. It wasn't until the late 1990s that he got the inspiration to use a sniper Finished the idea. I love his script, David too, we put a lot of work into it, so we don't want to get out of the way until we're done."

In fact, Schumacher's remarks were a good thing. These remarks bought him a lot of time and allowed him to better organize his words.

"I declare again, I will not reveal the slightest information, you can rest assured," Frederick said first, then changed the subject, "Then, I think Sean is coming There's nothing wrong with playing this role."

He had a smile on his face and a strong confidence in his tone, as if it was an unquestionable thing. Indeed, a salesman cannot recommend anything unless he believes that his stuff is excellent and perfect.

"I know you're concerned about his age," Frederick spoke again quickly before Zack and Schumacher could speak, "but Anthony Minghella was also concerned. It's not that his vision is very good, in fact, in a sense, his vision is really not very good, because Sean has been with him for a few months, and he has never seen his real age.

One can see that if Sean hadn't voluntarily admitted it, no one would have been able to determine his real age by observation. "

He stopped when he said this, and after the other party digested it, he continued: "And the second concern, acting, is also not a problem. I think, in Hollywood now, there is no problem. People don't know that at the age of 18, Sean has successfully performed the temperament and attitude of a mature man of 25. Although he is only 20 now, it will not be a problem to play the role of a nearly 30-year-old. As for As for the experience issue, according to David’s previous description, we can conclude that the male protagonist spends most of his time in the phone booth, so there is no need to show the scene of being warm or arguing with his wife at home. It's okay to have to choose one side of the relationship, right?"

Zach and Schumacher looked at each other unexpectedly, and pondered for a few more minutes before the director spoke again: "I have to say, you are very good at avoiding important things, Fred, but this way Like convincing us, I'm afraid it won't work."

"It's alright, how about an audition and a private exchange?" Frederick shrugged, without the slightest hint of frustration, "I think, you don't have to do it now. Have you thought about the choice of the actor? Then when you audition, pay attention to Sean a little, and if you want, you can give him the hardest test. At the same time, communicate again in private, observe him in all aspects, see Seeing how he is, it should be fine, right?"

In the end, he concluded in a sincere tone: "I like Sean's words very much, sometimes you have to dare to try and be good at trying new things, so that you can constantly break through yourself. I think, He has a soul in his body that is far more mature than his actual age, and I also think he can get more opportunities."

Zach scratched his head and exchanged glances with Schumacher: "I have to say, Fred, you are a little difficult, if you don't agree, you will definitely not stop, So...that's it."

"I will carefully observe the young man in your mouth, with my own eyes." Schumacher added with a smile.

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"Audit between the 10th and 15th of next month? Why can't it be confirmed?" Sean muttered.

"Do you need me to repeat what I said before?" Frederick rolled his eyes, "I took great pains to get them to agree."

"Okay, I know you're professional and hardworking, Fred," Sean sighed, "but...the test will be tough...it's frustrating me, Fred, It's as if during the exam, the difficulty of other people's papers is only C, but I only have the difficulty of A+, which is so unfair."

"The world is inherently unfair," Frederick looked smug, indeed, it was rare to encounter such an embarrassing Sean, "Since you want to be a 20-year-old When you get a role that may be close to 30 years old, you will naturally have to use more effort to fight for it.”

"Well, I have to know, where is the direction of my efforts?" Sean spread his hands.

"Where else can you look as mature as you can," Fred shrugged, "You can find mature roles, perform in the mirror at home, and when necessary You can find a makeup artist and let him dress you up more maturely. Besides, you have already read the script, so you can do targeted exercises."

"You didn't tell them, didn't I like this character very much?" Sean pondered and asked again.

Master the rhythm of things." Frederick said solemnly, "In general, Joe Schumacher has some intentions, but David Zack has no obvious reaction, so when you practice, you must also Try to speak in a targeted manner when communicating in private."

He said and sighed again: "It seems that I got their promise very easily, but in fact there are many other factors, such as they don't want to leak news for the time being, or they worry about me It's a lot of entanglement and so on, so you have to do a lot of things to get that role."

"Okay, Fred, I know," Sean laughed at this time, "then work hard, no matter what, it won't be better than competing in "Genius Ripley" "It's getting worse"

"Very well, then you're going to the party with me in two days," Frederick immediately added, "We need to meet some people from 20th Century Fox, their family The production company is in charge of making the film."

He said it very well, not giving Sean a chance to refuse at all, and jokingly added: "You always play some roles older than yourself, maybe this will become yours feature."

When the agent was sent away, Sean could breathe a sigh of relief, but soon became depressed again.

"Damn, I won't be able to rest for the next half month." He sighed.

I found out that the "Sniper Phone Booth" script was a week after the end of "Death Shooting", so it is still late July, and there is still more than half a month from August 10th to 15th, although this makes him have There is enough time to prepare for the character, but the time to rest is greatly reduced as a result.

"Don't complain, Sean, this is your choice." Galen reminded as always, "So you have to bear the consequences."

"Who said it, as long as you try your best, it doesn't matter what the result is?" Galen continued to tease, and deliberately pulled Sanders onto the boat: "Did you say yes, Sang Dee?"

"Yeah, that's right." Sanders answered in a perfunctory way, he looked strange, sitting there in a trance, as if thinking about something important.

In fact, since the agent came over, he has always been like this, and at other times, he must have a few words with Frederick, but today it is nothing It's really strange that there are no extra words.

"Hey, Sandy, what are you thinking?" Sean asked immediately, "Did we know which lovely girl you met without us knowing?"

"Maybe it's Emily from No. 146. When you invited the neighbors to the party before, he stared at them for a while." Galen helped.

"It's okay, I was just thinking about some questions about Sean," Sanders shook his head, "Since Sean is going to let me go to the agent side, then I always have to be like Just like that."

Sean and Galen looked at each other, then laughed: "Don't be in such a hurry, Sandy, this kind of thing has to take its time."

Then he looked at him: "Well, tell me what you think, maybe Galen and I can give some advice."

Sanders opened his mouth, but said nothing. He hesitated for a moment before saying, "I'm not sure, I want to try it first."

"Okay, be careful." Sean didn't force it, and finally encouraged him.