When she saw Kate for the first time, Angela felt like she wanted to laugh. She was so different from before, her eyebrows were shaved and her teeth were crooked, her eyes were full of crow's feet, and her skin had been made dry by the makeup artist.
If Angela didn't know it would be like this, it would be impossible to recognize it right away.
It's just... can you hit the throne of the queen? The girl suddenly sighed in her heart, and her eyes became gloomy when she looked at Kate. She persuaded Kate to star in the film in order to get her the golden statuette for best actress. Yes, it's not her decision whether to get it or not. Every year, there are many powerful actresses shortlisted, and there are other factors. But the biggest problem is that this year Kate unexpectedly won the best supporting actress for "A Beautiful Mind"!
Best Supporting Actress in the first year, and Best Actress in the second year? What a joke, let's not say whether this has happened in the history of Oscar. With Kate's current acting skills, it is possible to do it unless she performs a few hundred percent of the performance and a little luck.
Why did Kate win best supporting actress for the role of Alicia? It's not that she is not good at acting, even the Nash couple are full of praise for her, but... Angela's mouth, who was staring at Kate, was slightly raised with an indescribable taste. In fact, Kate should have won the best supporting actress. Her performance in "A Beautiful Mind" really showed 200% of her acting skills as Angela said at the beginning, because she was in charge of the director!
"Miss Angela? Are you okay?" Director Ike's voice pulled Angela back from the trance.
"Ah? Oh, nothing, I'm just thinking about something," the girl explained with a smile, "Sometimes I'm so absorbed in my thoughts that I don't respond to the outside world at all, sorry."
"It's okay, if you have something to do..." Ike said, glancing at Kate who was talking to his assistant in the distance.
"No, no, let's talk about the specific situation here first." Angela shook her head and turned her body.
"Okay, the current progress has arrived..." The director no longer refused, and let the assistant bring the schedule and the scene record sheet to tell Angela. The director Ike Cochling was recommended to Angela by McKinley. He has several independent film works and has a good reputation in the independent film circle. The lens language has its own style, and the most interesting thing is that it is good at building the feelings of the characters, and the keynote of "The Devil" is the emotional world of Erin Warnos in the last few months, so Angela will He was selected among several recommendations.
"Thank you for your commentary, Ike-may I call you that? Thank you, I believe this will be an excellent movie in your hands." Angela smiled and shook hands with Ike.
"I never deny this, this is a first-class script, I like it, so the public will definitely see a completely different Irene Warnos from the news!" Ike said confidently, with a faint tone in his voice With pride.
Sure enough, he is an independent filmmaker, and he still has the character he should have. Angela said so in her heart. She is not worried that the other party may pay too much attention to her own personality and make the film deviate, knowing that in addition to being the supporting role and screenwriter of the film, she is also a producer. Of course, it is best to negotiate and resolve different opinions.
"That's right." Ike thought of something again at this time, and after glancing at Mavis who was beside Angela, he said again, "Because of certain things and Miss Mavis' notification, in places like the ice skating rink, etc. The public scenes will be saved for last shooting."
"I understand." Angela spread her hands out with a wry smile.
After saying hello to them, the girl walked straight to Kate. At this moment, she was sitting in a chair, reading the script carefully and carefully, as if she didn't know who was coming to the set.
"Hi, Kate." Angela called out to suppress the unease in her heart.
"Hi, Angie." Kate raised her head and nodded slightly, then continued to look at the script in her hand, her tone was flat, as if she was greeting an ordinary person.
The girl smiled bitterly in her heart, thinking about the gaze that had stayed on her back for a long time when she was talking to Ike before, she summoned up the courage and asked, "How are you... recently? I mean... how was the filming."
"It's not bad." It was still a short answer in a flat tone with no emotion, but this time she didn't even raise her head.
Angela gritted her teeth and wanted to say something, but her mouth twitched for a while, and not a word came out. Thinking of the polite estrangement Natalie had towards herself during those days at Harvard, and the thought that no matter how she called Kate and Jessica, they either didn't answer or hung up after a few words, and all her strength seemed to be overwhelmed. was evacuated.
Just then an assistant came over: "Miss Angela, Mr. Ike asked when can you start?"
"Well... you can now." Angela smiled bitterly in her heart, looking at Kate, who was reading the script with her head down, and raised her hand to the assistant: "Take me there? Make up or change clothes first?"
After she left, Kate looked up, her eyes full of mixed resentment.
For the role of Sybil, Angela put a lot of effort into trying to figure it out. From the time she promised Kate, she asked Sparrow to help collect all the information about this woman, in addition to her original experience with Erin Warnos, this woman's previous life and family situation, etc. These information Angela, who had read a lot of files at the time and wrote the script at the same time, had a deeper understanding of Sybil. It is no exaggeration to say that no one in the entire crew understood better than her.
It's just that this understanding is unpleasant, because it's hard to judge this woman. Say she's selfish, it's human nature to seek good luck and avoid evil, it can only be said that she doesn't really love Irene; say she is pitiful, but she always asks Irene to come over and ask for the past, and finally betray her without hesitation. It was given to the police; she said she was hateful, but it made Irene feel a little warmth in the world at the end; in short, it was very contradictory and complicated.
This kind of role is the most difficult to perform well, and a little bit of mishandling will lead to deviations. Even if Angela has a lot of knowledge base, it is not easy to completely grasp the psychology of this woman, but...
"Very good!" Ike raised his head behind the camera and shouted.
The two women on the set immediately let out a sigh of relief. After looking at each other, Kate returned to her position, took a drink from the glass handed by the assistant, and began to close her eyes and meditate.
Angela sighed in her heart, and returned to her seat to force her attention to the character.
At this time, her hair was cut a lot shorter and all black, and her beautiful face became very mediocre under the hands of stylists and makeup artists. Although not as bad as Kate's ugly outfit, it is completely different from the previous beautiful image.
It's not surprising that the movie "The Devil" is not a story of handsome men and women.
The previous filming was a conflict between Sybil and Irene. Angela's grasp of the role was very good, and Kate's performance was also very tense, so Ike would be loudly applauded.
"Excellent, Miss Angela, you have a very good grasp of Sybil's selfish worry and fear of losing." Ike praised greatly, "I didn't expect your first scene to be so good. ."
"So, my homework is not bad?" Angela spread her hands and shrugged.
"Of course," Ike said, clapping his head, "I almost forgot, you won the Best Supporting Actress in 1994, and you wrote the script, so naturally you know more about the characters than I do."
"Fortunately, I hope I can always maintain this state." Angela showed a humble smile, but in her heart the smile was bitter. She squeezed her hand lightly, and the feeling of hugging Kate for the first time in days seemed to still wrap around her hand.
Because Angela just arrived today, and it took a lot of effort to make up and styling, so I stopped after taking two or three shots. Then move on to other shots of Kate, maybe because Angela was on set or maybe because she had gotten used to it in the previous shoots, and these scenes were all pretty well done.
In the intensely conflicted scenes, the tension of the previous confrontation with Angela was maintained, but in the bland and simple shots, this tension was hidden in the eyes and simple body language. Ike raved about it, saying it would be nice if the previous shot had been this good, and maybe it could be reshot or something. But what makes people laugh and cry is that he actually asked Kate jokingly: "Did you become better because of Angela's arrival?"
"Maybe, who knows?" Kate replied with a calm expression, but she didn't look at Angela who was not far away from the beginning to the end. Angela, who could hear clearly, smiled bitterly.
Soon, night fell on the town. Because Florida is between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and it is summer in May, the climate is quite similar to California. But one thing is better than California. There is quite a lot of rain here, and it is impossible to have a situation like Los Angeles without a single rain for ten days and a half.
Especially in summer, it often rains without warning. And unlike London, the clouds are always low and low, and once it starts to fall, it can’t stop, and it usually comes and goes quickly.
"To be honest, it feels good. After the rain, the air is much fresher, and the temperature will drop." Angela, who opened the window of the room and enjoyed the breeze, said so.
Just like when Angela was working on "Memento," the "Devil" crew also leased several separate houses in Cannesville as places for crew members to rest and live. In the final analysis, this is still a small-budget film. Except for the producer with Angela's name and the production company Pixar, it is not much different from other independent films, and naturally there is not that much budget to arrange for everyone to live in. hotel.
Of course Angela can go to the hotel herself, but it is easy to attract attention, and there are no good hotels in the town. So it's better to just live with the crew, but it's just a few words from Mavis.
"I have checked everything, everything is normal, there is no problem," the female detective came out of the bathroom, "Besides, I live next door to you, I can knock on the wall in an emergency, but it is best not to do certain things matter."
"Do you think I'm free to do those things?" Angela rolled her eyes, still looking at the street outside.
"I'm just reminding you." Mavis shrugged, followed by a faint look of curiosity: "Frankly speaking, Angie, you're not really gay, are you? I've been by your side for a few months, and I've never seen you and Men have dated."
Angela almost fell from the window, turned around and sneered at Maeves through gritted teeth: "What? Are you interested in me? Are you going to bed with me?"
Mavis raised her hands without saying a word, and turned her head again when she walked to the door: "To be honest, I think your relationship with Miss Kate is really strange, it doesn't mean anything else, it's just a kind of intuition."
He slammed the door and walked out without waiting for the other party to respond, so angry that Angela who was standing in front of the window stared blankly. Damn, I was too careless. After the relationship got better, I forgot that this guy is an FBI. If she finds out something, it will be... so depressing.
The girl looked at the night scene outside, which was different from the big city. Kate and the others were shooting a few streets away, and she couldn't see it anyway. Standing here was just chatting and masturbating.
She closed the window and slammed the curtains, then came to the bed and threw herself on it and didn't want to get up again. Thinking back on the opposite scene with Kate this afternoon with her eyes closed, Angela suddenly didn't know whether it was Kate or Irene, and whether she was Angela or Sybil. But she couldn't do anything but a deep sigh.
To this day, she still can't confess everything to them, even if the words have come to her mouth several times, they are finally swallowed back. She didn't understand that the more things escaped the backlash, the more unpredictable the possible outcomes would be. Maybe she understands this, but just refuses to accept the possible consequences. Her stubbornness and cowardice are evident.
Faced with this situation, the only thing Angela can do is to put in more work. Every day, in addition to trying to figure out the role of Sybill and trying to perform it well, I also have to communicate with all parties through the phone.
Like how well Jack Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger and Sarah Michelle Gellar were doing with their riding, and how the Brokeback Mountain crew did their inspections in Montana. At first, she requested that at regular intervals, the training videos of Heath, Jack and Sarah should be delivered to her for observation.
In addition, she also asked about "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Pirates of the Caribbean".
The former is in the later stages of production. Director Columbus praised Xia Xia and the others so much that Xia Xia was a little proud on the phone, while Rowling was excited because the scenes in the book were restored a little by the movie. .
As for the latter, which is also in post-production, Bruckheimer enthusiastically said on the phone that it would definitely be a big-money movie, while also acknowledging that Keira Knightley is very suitable for the role of Elizabeth, the vision of Miss Genius first class.
Interestingly, if there are no surprises, both films will be released at Christmas time, plus the "Lord of the Rings" that has already set a date... Fantasy wars? Well, hopefully these three movies don't come out on the same day, otherwise Angela will have to split herself in three.
There are a lot of things that are related to the movie, and there are a lot of things that are not related to the movie, like the release of her new single. Because only such a single was released this year, if she wants to maintain her momentum, she must carefully craft this song, and she also wants to release it with an ipod.
Although these things distracted Angela, it did not mean that she was better. For Angela, breaking out of the "Sybil" state at the end of each day was a pain.
It's just that even if she can escape some things, some things will still come to her door.
"Well... you mean..." Angela glanced at the room, trying to make herself seem calm, "We first kissed, then came to the bed, Kate took off my clothes and continued to kiss, I lay on the bed and Are your legs going to wrap around her waist?"
"Yes, that's right, is there any problem?" Ike spread his hands naturally. Although he noticed the displeasure in Angela's tone, he didn't know why.
Angela folded her arms and looked at him for a while, before frowning and saying, "I don't remember this paragraph in the script."
"No?" Ike was a little strange. After the assistant handed over the script, he quickly turned it over, and finally pointed to one of the pages and said, "Isn't it here?"
"What I wrote is: They have sex. This is a sentence, not a scene." Angela said with a blank expression.
"But... but..." The director scratched his head inexplicably. After a few seconds, he finally understood, and then smiled: "Don't worry, Angela, it's no big deal, it's just a passion scene. There won't be too many people there, I promise."
"Just a passion scene?" Angela raised her eyebrows, her face obviously turning ugly.
Ike was obviously overwhelmed: "Of course, if we are worried about scale, we will be very careful when editing."
Angela stared at him coldly, and after a while, she waved to him and walked to the corner.
Ike shrugged inexplicably and walked over, then Angela leaned in front of him and gritted his teeth in a voice that only two people could hear: "No one can modify my script without notice when I'm at the scene! No one can arbitrarily arrange a completely unnecessary passion scene for me! No one can make me undress in front of the camera!"
The director opened his mouth, facing Angela, who exuded an icy aura, as if he was frozen and unable to move. At this moment, Kate's voice sounded: "Ike, let me talk to her."