Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 185 The shocked Swann

Although Wayne didn't count carefully, he could roughly estimate that there were at least more than 5 supporting female characters whose faces were shown in the film for more than 10 seconds.

The 5-second shot may seem short, but don’t forget, this is a movie starring Wayne.

How many viewers can this 5-second shot be seen by?

It is no exaggeration to say that even a heroine with a production cost of 400 to 5 million yuan is not as valuable as a supporting actress with a [-]-second shot, right?
This is like appearing alone for 5 seconds on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, which is worth far more than being the heroine in a rural drama troupe.

Therefore, not only did the number of actresses who came to audition today nearly double that of the last time, the quality of the auditions has also improved a lot.

Even Anne, Martina, and Eva Green wanted to come over and make a 'guest appearance'.

It was just rejected by Wayne on the grounds that it was unnecessary.

However, after he considered it, Sister Zhiling and Xu Ruoxuan were included in one of the 17 weddings, a Chinese and Western wedding.

Among them, sister Zhiling plays the role of the bride, while Xu Ruoxuan plays the role of the bridesmaid and plays poker with him.

If Anne Hearst's recruitment goes smoothly after acquiring SM Entertainment, he can also arrange for two more female stars there to come in.

After all, it makes sense for the woman to have more Asian friends and bridesmaids, right?

"Sir, this is the audition list."

"OK, thanks."

Wayne took the audition list handed over by Nina Jackson's assistant and looked through it.

Of course, the audition list at this time can no longer be regarded as a list, it should be called an audition book, although each person's information only has a small amount of information such as name, age, and headshot, which only occupies one or two lines.

But with so many people coming, the entire audition list was almost twenty pages long.

"Then let's get started."

At Wayne's signal, the audition officially began.

As the leading actor, he obviously does not need to audition. Not to mention that Peter Farrelly is just a first-line director. Even Cameron and Spielberg will not be so ignorant when they come.

So the first one in line became Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played the heroine.

To be honest, compared with Rachel McAdams, who played the heroine in the original version, Sarah Michelle Gellar's acting skills are definitely inferior.

However, this film does not require her to show too superb acting skills, so her acting skills are completely adequate.

Wayne didn't pay much attention to her audition performance. Anyway, as long as the director didn't think it was too bad, her role would not be replaced.

While Sarah Michelle Gellar was performing, Wayne continued to look through the audition list.

Just kidding, of the more than 300 actors who came to audition, nearly [-] of them came to audition for the supporting female roles. How long would he have to audition one by one?
As for leaving it to the director to decide, he will leave first
Are you kidding me? He finally traveled through time, owns such a big production company, and has the influence he has today in Hollywood. Wouldn't this power be wasted if he doesn't use it?
But before he saw the actresses, he saw a surprise among the actors who auditioned for the third male role of the villain.

James Marsden made his debut in 93. After seven years in Hollywood, he was still an unknown [-]th-tier actor. It was not until he starred in Laser Silver in "X-Men" that he was finally promoted to a third-tier actor.

Nowadays, "X-Men" has only been filmed once, so his reputation is still very average, and the salary is not expensive. It only costs 30 US dollars, which is almost a bargain.

But the one who is more cost-effective than him is Paul Walker.

That's right, it's Brian, the second male lead in the "Fast and Furious" series.

Today, Paul Walker is just an 6th-tier actor. The "Fast and Furious" that made him famous will not be released until June 22, so his current salary is only 30, which is "Laser Silver" One-thirtieth of the small third line.

In addition, 'Venom', 'Hawkeye', and 'Star-Lord', who previously failed to audition for the American version of "The Ring", are all here.

There is also a second-tier Hollywood comedy star who later received many nominations and awards, Simon Pegg, the male protagonist in "Shaun of the Dead".

There is also Colin Farrell, who made his debut last year and barely managed to be promoted to a second-tier star with only two movies, "Tiger Camp" and "Ace".

Oded Fehr, who is famous for his role as the leader of the Pharaoh's bodyguard in the "Mummy" series, and so on.

Wayne took a rough look and found that there were more than 20 active third-tier male stars, and seven or eight active second-tier male stars.

As for the front line, there is none.

Because when you reach the level of A-list male stars, you need to communicate in advance.

Otherwise, how embarrassing would it be if I came to the audition rashly and was rejected?

Of course, these third- and second-tier male stars are not just auditioning for the third and fourth male stars.

Because Wayne has not decided on a candidate for the second male lead, they are more hoping to pass the audition for the second male lead.

Not to mention, looking at Simon Pegg, who is just 31 years old now, and his hairline has moved back to almost the middle of his head, think about the comedy roles he played in his previous life.

Wayne really wanted to replace Vince Vaughn and let him play the second male role of 'Jeremy'.

Of course, the specific results will still have to wait until the audition.

Then Wayne turned his attention to the actresses.

Perhaps because they are all minor supporting roles, there are only five actresses who have reached the second-tier level in Hollywood, including Liv Tyler, whose "Lord of the Rings" has not yet been released.

Claire Danes won the 52nd Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the TV series "My So-Called Life" and received widespread attention for her role in the movie "Romeo and Juliet".

Due to his roles in "Lori TA" and "Face/Off", Dominic Swann was at the top of the second tier when he was most popular. Now that his popularity has declined, he can barely stay in the second tier.

Anna Paquin's popularity has increased a lot due to her role as Rugrats in "X-Men".

and the five Reese Witherspoon who failed her last Mean Girls audition.

As a second-tier female star in Hollywood, she came here specifically to audition for a small supporting role with only a few scenes, so her motives were obviously impure.

So Wayne didn't coddle them.

Except for Liv Tyler, who only asked for a token fee of 20 US dollars and was retained by him because the salary was really cheap, the other four were all given to Paz.

The number of third-tier female stars is more than 30.

Among them, only a small number have been seen before, such as Amy Adams, Rose Byrne, Emmanuelle Chriqui, etc.

Most of the rest have only been seen in movies in previous lives and have not been seen in this life.

For example, Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez, who play Mia and Letty in "The Fast and the Furious".Brittany Murphy gained a certain popularity with the movies "Clueless" and "The Girl Who Moved."

Alisa Dushku, who also starred in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" like Sarah Michelle Gellar. Although she later made many movies and TV series, her popularity has always only lingered at the bottom of the third tier.

Wayne paused for a moment before marking the names of Rose Byrne and Emmanuelle Chriqui, as well as Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez.

Needless to say, Emmanuelle Chriqui was chosen simply because she is beautiful enough.

I chose Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez not only because of their good looks, but also because "Fast and Furious 1" will be released in more than a month. At that time, the two Your reputation will be greatly enhanced.

Now Jordana Brewster only needs 3 US dollars to win, and Michelle Rodriguez only needs 5 US dollars, which is really a bargain.

It is worth mentioning that although Jordana Brewster played a girl from a lower-class family in "Fast and Furious 1" who dropped out of high school without even finishing high school, she was actually a top student at Yale University.

After learning this, Wayne was also very surprised.

However, he is not very interested in Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez.

Michelle Rodriguez is okay.

Jordana Brewster's shelf life is too short. She looks as if she is in her 30s when she is only 40 years old. She ages too fast.

The only one among them who interested him was Emmanuelle Chriqui.

As for Rose Byrne, it was purely because of her very good acting skills.

And Rose Byrne, like Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, is obviously very good-looking, but she always likes to ruin her image in movies.

For such a powerful actress, if it was harmless, he would naturally be happy to give her a chance.

"Next, Vince Vaughn!"

Just as Wayne was making his mark, Isla Fisher also just finished her audition performance for the second female lead, 'Glory'. Director Peter Farrelly saw it and thought there was nothing wrong with it.

So the next step was the audition for the second male lead.

After all, he was invited, so although Vince Vaughn was not the highest-ranking actor among the actors who came to audition, he was still ranked first.

"I'm Vince Vaughn."

Wayne looked up and down at Vince Vaughn who was introducing himself, and he couldn't help but wonder how blind Jennifer Aniston was to fall in love with this guy.

Slightly fat and ugly, his whole body exudes a greasy feeling from the East Eighth District. Apart from his height of 196cm, he has no other advantages at all.

It’s really incomprehensible that Jennifer Aniston was able to date him for two years.

"But it is precisely this kind of ugly, fat, and greasy guy that can make a sweet and sexy little beauty like Isla Fisher chase after her with all his heart, so that he can satisfy the fantasies of those viewers." Wayne couldn't help but secretly think. think.

Afterwards, he directly adjusted the order of auditions, placing Simon Pegg, who was originally in the 30s, in second place.

I don’t know if it was because of preconceptions, but he felt that Simon Pegg looked much more pleasing to the eye than Vince Vaughn.

More greasy and ugly, Simon Pegg is indeed no match for Vince Vaughn.

But Simon Pegg looks more cheerful than Vince Vaughn.

"Peter, which one of these two people do you think is more suitable for the role of the second male lead?"

After Simon Pegg's audition performance was over, Wayne turned to Peter Farrelly and asked for his opinion.

"Both of them have enough acting skills to play this role," Peter Farrelly didn't know what he was thinking. After thinking for a moment, he gave a more objective evaluation.

"Vince Vaughn is more in line with your character's setting of a 'middle-aged greasy and ugly man', while this Simon Pegg is more cheerful and likable. "Wedding Crashers" is positioned as a romantic comedy, so I More towards Simon Pegg.”

Wayne frowned slightly when he saw that Peter Farrelly gave a completely different choice from the original version.

Then he glanced at Simon Pegg, who was still standing there waiting for the result, thought for a while, turned to Nina Jackson and said: "Ask your assistant to help him look like a middle-aged greasy man. Look. Let’s see the effect.”

"Okay boss." Nina Jackson immediately asked her assistant to take Simon Pegg to the dressing room.

In order to save time, Wayne simply ended the audition for the second male lead.

Peter Farrelly took the assistant director to continue the auditions for the third and fourth male actors, while he took Hannah and Nina Jackson, who was the producer, to change conference rooms and directly auditioned those Supporting Actress.

"How about just conducting auditions one after another? Just like auditions at a modeling agency?"

Wayne looked at the crowded corridor outside the conference room and couldn't help but have this thought.

Anyway, they are just small supporting roles with few roles, and since the number of roles required is relatively large, this audition method is also very reasonable.

However, thinking that there were several second-tier and a lot of third-tier female stars coming to audition, he could only suppress the idea for the time being and planned to finish the auditions of these people first.

"Miss Dominique Swann, please give me a performance where you excitedly come up to chat with a handsome guy after seeing a new idea at a wedding. The time limit is 2 minutes."

An unscripted improv performance with a time limit of only 2 minutes.

This was Wayne's best effort to save time.

"Isn't it said that there is also a poker scene? Doesn't this require an audition?" Dominic Swann couldn't help but be very surprised.

When she went for auditions in the past, many directors and producers wanted to play poker with her, or let her give a seductive performance.

This was the first time she had encountered such a 'simple' audition.

However, looking at Wayne's deliberately expressionless face, she suppressed her surprise and began to perform impromptu.

2 minute later.

"Crack!"

"Okay, Miss Dominic Swann, that's it for today's audition. We will notify you of the audition results as soon as possible by phone or email."

"Next, Miss Liv Tyler."

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(End of this chapter)