Because he was so surprised by Natasha Henstridge's sudden explosive acting skills, Joss Whedon even forgot to call the card at the end of this group of shots.
What was even more surprising was that Joss Whedon's small mistake did not affect Eric and Natasha Henstridge's performance at all. Play freely and continue the lines.
It wasn't until Eric and Natasha boarded the black Rolls-Royce and the car started that Joss Whedon finally came to his senses, got up quickly, gestured, and shouted to the field himself: "OK, Cut! "
The Rolls-Royce door was pushed open again, and Eric, Natasha, and Larry Ellison got out of the car. Seeing Joss Whedon coming up, Eric asked with a smile: " Joss, how was it?"
Joss Whedon glanced at Natasha Henstridge, who was following Eric, and remembered his doubts about this stunner at the beginning. He was a little embarrassed, but he still praised without hesitation: "Very good!" , everyone performed very well, especially Miss Henstridge, it's hard to imagine that this is the first time you appear in front of the movie camera."
"Oh, thank you for your affirmation, Joss." Hearing Joss Whedon's praise, Natasha Henstridge immediately calmed down and became a little more excited. The man next to her, she said again: "This is all the result of Eric's help."
Seeing Joss Whedon focus on Natasha Henstridge, Larry Ellison asked eagerly, "Joss, what about me?"
"That's exactly what I want to say, Larry, and Eric, Natasha, let's talk over there, many details just now have room for improvement," Joss Whedon pointed to the monitoring On the other side of the instrument, he walked over with the three of them.
It took seven or eight minutes for Joss Whedon to analyze the performance details that needed to be adjusted for the three people one by one compared to the end just now, and then adjusted the technical problems that occurred during the first shooting. It was already halfway through the shooting again. hours later.
However, due to the performance of Natasha Henstridge, the most likely "unstable factor" that may affect the shooting, the subsequent shooting became extremely smooth.
Just after five o'clock, Joss Whedon repeatedly checked several pieces of relatively perfect material, and announced the end of this group of exterior shots with a sigh of relief.
The crew began to quickly clean up the scene for evacuation, and at the same time prepare for the shooting inside the casino at six o'clock.
Originally thought that there would be no time to eat until nine o'clock, the crew also prepared some chocolate and other snacks for the actors to replenish energy temporarily. Now that the filming is finished ahead of schedule, everyone naturally took advantage of this gap to eat something quickly. Because they often need to be in a state of excitement, filming still consumes a lot of energy.
Caesars Palace was very stuck with the crew's time frame for filming, but they responded to other requests. Eric and the others arrived at a restaurant inside the hotel, and the chef had already prepared a sumptuous breakfast.
In the subsequent internal scenes of the casino, Don Cheadle, who played opposite Eric, had infinitely more experience than Natasha Henstridge. Therefore, three hours later, the crew successfully completed the scene in Las Vegas. All parts.
After Natasha Henstridge finished her filming, she waited on the set until nine o'clock before returning to the mansion in the country club with Eric.
"Eric, did I perform well today?" Just after entering the door, Natasha Henstridge enthusiastically pushed Eric against the door panel and asked expectantly.
"Of course, you scared Joss," Eric nodded, feeling the girl's long legs curled up and gently rubbing against his body, and smilingly lifted up a document that Caroline handed to him impromptu Clip, said: "Hey, you haven't slept for almost a day and a night, go take a bath and rest first, I have to read this first."
Natasha Henstridge leaned close to Eric's ear, breathing hot air: "Let's go together, can't we finish work later?"
Eric patted the girl's buttocks, shook his head and said, "Of course not. Someone is still waiting for me to read the reply in Europe. This is already yesterday's work."
"Then I'll watch it with you," Natasha Henstridge let go of Eric and took his arm. From last night to now, Natasha has been in a relatively excited state. Although the filming of the Las Vegas scene is over, she is still in a faint excitement without much fatigue.
The two came to the spacious living room on the second floor together. Eric sat down on the sofa and said, "If you are not sleepy, go to the study and bring me the laptop and make another pot of coffee."
"Yes, sir," Natasha replied, got up and ran to the study to get Eric's laptop, and ran downstairs to boil water and make coffee.
Eric opened the laptop and put it on the coffee table before letting go of the files in his hand.
The several documents in hand are the draft transaction contract for Firefly Group's acquisition of Viking Records, and the balance sheet of Viking Records.
Firefly offered EMI Group a final transaction price of US$1.2 billion. As Eric expected, EMI Group did not intend to keep Viking Records in its hands, and finally accepted Firefly's offer.
During the long negotiation time of two months, a lot of work has been completed ahead of schedule, and the focus of the two parties' wrangling has always been on the transaction price.
The intention was reached, and neither company intended to delay any further. Barry Weiss flew to Europe in a hurry again yesterday, and Eric received the information in his hand last night.
Winning Viking Records, combined with the group's existing North American record distribution channels, the distribution network of Firefly Records will completely cover the entire European and American regions.
At the same time, as an old record company established for more than 20 years, Viking Records has accumulated copyrights of tens of thousands of songs over the years. In addition to mainstream English songs, there are also French, German, Italian and other European languages. music.
The number of music copyrights in this batch is naturally incomparable to the major record giants with millions of song copyright reserves, but it is a very good content supplement for the Yahoo music store that will be opened in Europe at the same time as the release of Fireflyer2.
Through the Spice Girls who have been popular in Europe with several consecutive singles, the next release of the first album will also be rapidly spread with the help of Viking Records' complete record distribution channels in Europe.
Natasha Henstridge made coffee and carried it upstairs, poured two glasses and put them on the coffee table. I found a magazine from the shelf under the coffee table and leaned comfortably next to Eric. I consciously didn't express any curiosity about the information in Eric's hands, but asked: "Eric, let's go with the crew this afternoon. Back to Los Angeles?"
Eric turned a page of the document in his hand and said casually: "No, we'll go back tomorrow morning and take you to play in the evening, how about it?"
"Well, although I've been to Las Vegas before, it's basically work and I haven't had fun yet," Natasha Henstridge nodded, paused, and said, "Eric, next Monday The Oscars, will you go this time?"
"I can't go this time. This year is the 70th anniversary of Oscar." Eric smiled and glanced at the girl beside him, and said, "You want to go too?"
Natasha nodded honestly.
"There is no way this time. The ceremony will be held next week, and all the guests have been confirmed. However, the feeling of participating in the Oscars is actually not good at all. Think about it for yourself, sitting in one seat for three hours without moving. It needs to cooperate with the camera, the guests, and so on.”
"Eric, the Oscars may not matter to you anymore," Natasha said frankly with a little hope, "However, for us little people, it is an honor to be able to attend the Oscars ceremony. "
"If you really want to go, next year I will say hello to you and be an award presenter or something. But you have to remember to remind me next year, or I will forget about it."
Natasha threw away the magazine in her hand, and Cookie turned her legs to look at Eric, and said with a smile: "The tone of your words is really shocking, but I suddenly feel that I still work hard to get these things by myself. Chance."
Eric made a mark with a pencil on a transaction term that he felt was unreasonable, continued to read, and nodded at the same time: "Very good, I like self-motivated girls."
"However, Paulina said that according to our qualifications, we can't do anything in Hollywood, we can only act as vases. She has acted as vases several times before, but she didn't have any influence in Hollywood. A friend of hers asked her to She even refused to make a cameo appearance in a movie.”
"Polaina Pryskova?"
"Um."
"Oh, her face is so perfect, she can only be used to shoot commercials, but you are different."
Natasha Henstridge gently pushed her knee against Eric's leg, with a little dissatisfaction, and said with a smile: "You mean, I'm not perfect enough?"
"You goblins don't know how many people are jealous of you. There is no need to pursue perfection. What's more, perfection means the loss of plasticity, and this is precisely the most important thing for an actor. When I saw Paulina, I just I just want to take her to shoot commercials, and when I see you, it will be different, and you can knead and knead, and put it in a movie as a big vase."
"Then," Natasha's tone suddenly became more cautious and expectant: "Eric, do you think I can be the heroine?"
"Yes, according to your performance in "Iron Man", when the movie is released next year, you will definitely gain a lot of recognition and corresponding fame. At that time, it is unlikely that the heroine of a big-budget movie will be achieved overnight. This requires opportunities, but in Hollywood It is still easy to get a few leading actresses in medium and low-cost productions."
Eric said, thinking again of "Alien", which will be released during Easter next month. Natasha originally gained a firm foothold in Hollywood with her amazing performance in this B-grade sci-fi horror film series. Although she has never been a big hit, she can be regarded as a well-known second-tier actress.
Speaking of which, in Hollywood, if an actress who is too beautiful wants to maintain her influence for a long time, it is indeed a good choice to have a long-lived B-movie series, just like the original Milla Jovovich's "Resident Evil" " series, Kate Beckinsale's "Underworld" series and more.
"Resident Evil" has been changed by Eric to another look, but "Underworld" is still there.
Thinking of this, Eric immediately looked up at the girl beside him: "Natasha, stand up and show me."
Natasha Henstridge didn't know why, but got up obediently, posed a pose skillfully, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Eric didn't answer, and continued: "Make another indifferent expression, and be more decadent."
Only then did Natasha realize something, and she immediately made a decadent and indifferent expression in coordination. If she was asked to perform immediately, she might not be able to do it perfectly, but this kind of requirement is similar to shooting a print advertisement. As a supermodel, she can handle it It couldn't be more skillful.
Eric looked up and down. The girl was wearing a white turtleneck thin sweater and light blue casual trousers. Although her expression was in place, she couldn't meet the temperament Eric needed at all, so she asked again: "Do you have a leather jacket?"
Natasha said: "I brought a pair of leather pants, wine red, is that okay?"
"No, it's black," Eric shook his head, and said, "Well, now, you drive to the street to buy a set, and I'll also read the things in my hand. I'll give you a surprise when you come back."
Although she had guessed the general idea, Natasha still asked, "Eric, is it a movie?"
Eric nodded: "Yes."
"Then I'll go now," Natasha nodded excitedly, put on her high heels, leaned over and kissed Eric's lips, and walked downstairs.
After Natasha left, Eric read through the few documents in his hands intently, and wrote the questions he had as emails to Barry Weiss in Europe. Pick a URL and open it.
A concise Google search page immediately appeared on the page, and the familiar Google logo was 'designed' by Eric himself, exactly the same as the original one.
After the video conference at the end of last year, Yahoo immediately began to work on spinning off the search engine alone.
Now, Yahoo has not only pre-registered the Google trademark around the world, but also has basically completed its independent search engine system, which is currently in the stage of internal testing and is expected to be officially opened to the public in June this year.
Now that there is no "Alien" series, with Kate Beckinsale's current status, it is impossible to play "Underworld" again, so it is also a good choice to give this series to Natasha Henstridge . Natasha does not belong to Kate in terms of appearance or figure. As for acting skills, uh, this film does not seem to require any acting skills.
However, if you want to shoot "Underworld", you need to get the copyright first.
The original "Underworld" series scripts, director and screenwriter Len Wiseman claimed to be saved by several friends, but actually plagiarized a 1994 novel, the two sides fought a lawsuit, and finally settled out of court It's over.
Ten years later, the original complete memory of the previous life inevitably began to be forgotten a little bit. Eric racked his brains for a while before he remembered the name of the author of the original novel by Nancy Collins, so he quickly searched.
In fact, even if he didn't think about it, Eric didn't have too much burden. He just used it directly, and if he couldn't, he would settle out of court.
Over the years, Eric is no longer worried that his 'creative' will collide with the original author, because there are too many such confusing lawsuits in Hollywood. Any famous director, whether it is Spielberg Whether it's Martin Scorsese or Martin Scorsese, they have basically endured script lawsuits. (To be continued.)