At 21:30 on January 22, the two-day viy draft ended successfully.
Of the 1,201 female actors in 120 groups, the actual number was 1,193, and 8 were absent because they were out of town.
The three Kaufmans all agreed with Ye Wei's happy words, "We can open an elite girls' school!" There were so many outstanding talents that ten candidates were selected in two days. The three of them gave Ye Wei their opinions and it was up to him to decide.
Everything about these three independent projects is decided by viy.
Backstage at the small theater, Ye Wei drew up a list of top candidates:
ss Bethany: Emma Roberts s Alanna: Shailene Woodley
tlb Susie: Elizabeth Olsen
tlb little Lindsey: Saoirse Ronan
tlb Lindsay: Maudie Symington
tlb Ruth: Dakota Johnson
tlb Harley: Kelsey Zhou
tlb Clarissa: Blake Lively
w¡¯sb Rui:Jennifer Lawrence
w¡¯sb Gayle: Alicia Vikander
This is just a target list, not necessarily the final cast.
Because there may not be an agreement during the negotiation stage, or there may even be no need to discuss it at all. Among these ten people, Blake Lively is the least likely.
Probably no girl came here for "Clarissa". She was a minor character in the original work, the typical blond girl that people can think of, young, beautiful, sexy, hormonal, mindless, and in school troubles. Boys hanging out.
Blake Lively, 18, comes from an acting family. Her father is an actor and acting teacher, her mother is a manager and acting teacher, and her brother is also an actor. And she is already well-known. She emerged as the athlete "Bridget" in last year's movie version of "Summer of Jeans". She has two movies this year, "Simon Says" with a supporting role and "Admission" with a female lead.
Lively has a bright future. Blonde is always needed on and off the screen, and in blonde, her 178cm appearance is among the top and her strength is sufficient.
Although Ye Wei doesn¡¯t really like her role as Bridget, Lively is the most suitable candidate for the role of Clarissa.
However, Lively wanted to play Bethenny, which her manager mother had already revealed. At present, she and Emma are the most famous among the ten people. Film and television heroines are suitable for her status. She will not care about a small role.
So inviting her is just a try. Fortunately, Clarissa didn't have to worry about actors. It was easy to find a blonde.
Ramo? She has red hair and is not pretty enough. Although she is said to have been acting in movies since she was a child, she has played supporting or guest roles in four of her parents' movies, but her acting skills are very poor.
Dakota Johnson may not be able to negotiate. "Ruth" does not have many roles, and it does not match her family background. She is the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, and the stepdaughter of Antonio Banderas. With her appearance and strength, it is not difficult to find a bigger role than "Ruth" to launch her acting career.
¡°But her temperament really fits Ruth very well, it¡¯s a cool and quiet feeling.
Her performance is also good. It is impossible to ask everyone to be like Lychee. 37 performance points are enough to play Ruth well. The only problem is her hair color. She is blonde, so of course she can't match Susie and Lindsey's hair color. If she plays the role, she needs to dye her hair brown or black.
Except for these two people, the problems with the others are not big. They are either newcomers with no qualifications, or the roles given to them are already moving enough.
But considering that he changed his mind, the reason could be that a certain girl had a bad temper, there were problems during the audition, or various accidents caused the performance to fail, so he had to prepare a list of second and third candidates.
There is another situation where the future script adaptation is different from the current plan and the overall story feels different, so the actors¡¯ temperament must be adjusted accordingly.
For example, in the thriller and suspense genre, if you want to maximize the suspense, then another girl, Alexandra Daddario, would be a better choice for Lindsay. Her appearance and eyes are saying "What danger is coming" at a glance. "
In the current plan that focuses on the joys and sorrows of family, Maudie, who has the power of warmth and healing, is the perfect choice for Lindsay.
Little Lindsey¡¯s second choice is Ariana Reinhart, a pure newcomer who is almost 12 years old, has blue eyes, has a similar temperament to Mody, and is quite talented for her age group. Interestingly, this little girl looks a lot like Mia Sara, and maybe she will look more like her when she grows up.
But she couldn¡¯t beat the first choice, Saoirse Ronan.
If you want to talk about what Susie looked like when she was 11 or 12 years old, Ye Wei agrees with what Siebold said: Saoirse Ronan looked like.
"I can't play Susie, but I am the best choice for Little Lindsey. This person must be matched with Big Lindsey", we must also consider the coordination and chemical reaction of the overall lineup. This applies to all characters. At this point, Ana loses. Ana was brought out to be suitable, but not suitable to be put in.
Andangels should stay away from the black sheep.
As for Saoirse, her blue eyes and temperament match well with Moody and Lychee. Her penetrating eyes, the warmth of her smile, and her little stubbornness are great.
Kelsey Zhou, Ye Wei always felt that she had some impression of the name of this 14-year-old Asian mixed-race girl, but she couldn¡¯t remember where it came from. It seemed like a blog? In any case, there are only about 50 Asian teenage actresses out of 1,201 people. With such a small base, there are not many choices for Harley.
He originally wanted to be a 100% Asian girl, but this was something Kelsey didn't fit into. She looked mixed-race at first glance, and she also looked Asian at first glance.
This is actually not conducive to her career. Many prejudices in Hollywood are also in line with public stereotypes. One of them is the appearance of Asians. Asians in movies and TV usually follow the same old stereotypes. Men have square faces and women have pie-faced faces. They all have thin stature, single eyelids, small eyes, and lackluster temperament. If you look for Korean or Vietnamese people, they will be called Chinese.
"Zhang Qiu" Liang Peishi is the product of this casting aesthetic. If it were shot by Peter Jackson, Harley would look like that at any time, without any sense of beauty, regardless of the fact that Harley is a beautiful girl in the original book, "Her black hair shone like silk, just like the advertisements in fashion magazines promised."
Alice Sebold is a fair person, but damn Hollywood is disgusting.
According to that formula, Ye Wei himself can't act. He doesn't look like that. He just has double eyelids and big eyes. If he goes to some remote places outside California where there are no Asian immigrants, there are guaranteed to be locals who are surprised and say, "You are" Asians?¡± They don¡¯t know how big Asia is and what Asians look like.
Ye Wei has had enough of this bullshit for a long time. He personally played "Ray" and had the idea of ????showing off. Of course, Harley must be faithful to the original work and find an Asian beauty to play the role.
So the mixed race can only be ranked second, even if Vanessa Hudgens comes.
However, we are trapped in the fact that there are really very few Asian actors and good actors. It¡¯s not that they don¡¯t have talent, it¡¯s that Asian children have performed too few since elementary school and have even fewer opportunities. How can any Asian parent let their children take this path? ? Doctors, lawyers and scientists are the right way.
Among them, Kelsey Zhou is already in the first echelon. She performed well. She is beautiful enough and can match lychee. He also promised that the candidates for the ten roles would be born from the draft, so he wanted to give Kelsey a chance to see if she was qualified.
? tlb is not the urgent need, ss is.
Emma has been cast as Bethany, and all the staffing must be centered around her, so Alana also has to choose a petite actor. The 14-year-old Shailene Woodley, who is still young, is very suitable in all aspects, and she is also a direct descendant of Roberts. The problem all lies in Emma's acting skills
As for w¡¯sb, in terms of appearance and temperament, Jennifer Lawrence is perfect as Rui, and Alicia Vikander is also perfect as Gail.
Cold, simple, and gloomy are the tone of w¡¯sb¡¯s story. Beauty has no place in this story, and Gale cannot be beautiful either.
"Compared to Rui, as a mother, Gail will be more gentle, old-fashioned, and mature, like a sister, but she also has the feeling of a bottom-level broken flower facing the loess and turning its back to the sky.
The girl Alicia explains this perfectly. Her resume stated that she was from Sweden. Fortunately, her English was not a problem and her acting ability was within a sufficient range. An actor's performance is not only his own business, he also has to train and direct these people.
But her thinking ability was really not very good. He remembered asking, "Why do you think there was an ice age?" He asked because he thought of Sweden and the ice and snow. If it were lychees, he thought he might hear such an answer. " Because I¡¯m cool.¡±
That girl actually said "the adjustment of nature". What is this, a nature class?
The unattractive and unintelligent Alicia is matched with the unattractive and extremely intelligent Jennifer, just like Gail and Rui, they are a perfect match.
The list of first candidates has been decided, and a notification email will be sent to them tonight to start the next step of negotiations.
Will Emma accept Bethany with a smile? Ye Wei had some doubts, Emma had been nagging about playing Susie, and of course "Liz".
After finishing the finishing work backstage at the screening in Santa Monica, the paparazzi should have left. Ye Wei left the small theater and ended the two-day rental.
From arriving early on Saturday morning to leaving on Sunday night, he never stepped outside the theater. He ate here, slept here, worked out, played football, played karaoke and even bathed and changed here. The bathroom is done. For the convenience of work and to avoid dogsTeam.
When we got back to our residence, it was almost 11pm.
Ye Wei opened the door and walked into the living room, turned on the flat lamp in the living room, and it suddenly became bright. He looked at the empty fabric sofa and shouted into the room: "Hello? Is anyone here?"
It was quiet for a while, there was no response, no one was there.
"Lone and love are respectively n and v. But why? What does this mean?"
Sitting down on the sofa, Ye Wei leaned on the back of the sofa, looked up at the ceiling, and talked to himself.
Once you calm down, you don¡¯t know how to exist. Think of other things. The 17th Producers Guild Awards were announced today. There was no awards ceremony because there were only two film awards, the best picture was awarded to "Brokeback Mountain" and the best animation was awarded to "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit".
¡°Then¡there are awards ceremonies for the Directors Guild Awards next Saturday and the Screen Actors Guild Awards next Sunday, so I don¡¯t really want to attend.
"Did you know?" Ye Wei closed his eyes and fell asleep, "Snake eagle, this kind of bird can eat venomous snakes. Ancient Chinese people thought it was also poisonous. Drinking wine dipped in its feathers would kill you. There is one The idiom is "drinking poison to quench thirst", which means I understand it as using new problems to solve old problems, and the problem is bigger now. "
Come on, vulgar things, some problems have to be faced and solved. It¡¯s not about ignoring them and letting them go, and they will disappear.
How troublesome would it be if Amy Rossum was photographed by the paparazzi entering and exiting your residence?
"It's very, very troublesome. It's trouble you don't want. You have to die by yourself. Don't implicate others"
Ye Wei opened her eyes and knew in her heart that it was time to announce to the outside world that n and v had broken up. They should jointly declare a peaceful breakup, whatever would have the least negative impact on her. How did things come to this? You idiot. It's early morning in Toronto, so I'll call her tomorrow.
I looked through the text message box on my phone and saw a text message from Anna Sophia. Anna has been nervously inquiring about the news since yesterday.
Tell her too. Ye Wei called and was answered after a few beeps, "Hey, Ana, haven't you gone to bed yet?"
"Wei!" Anna's excited and expectant voice came from the mobile phone, "Can you tell me the result? What?"
"I think we can't cooperate this time."
"Ah!?" Anna suddenly exclaimed, "I lost? Oh noI've already entered puberty! But I haven't acted in your movie yet, it's like I'm an outsider."
Listening to her frustrated tone, Ye Wei laughed at himself and said warmly: "Ana, there are a lot of considerations when choosing a role. Considering the overall lineup, you are not suitable. Because your temperament is similar to that of Da Linxi and Da Linxi. Susie¡¯s initial appointments are all different.¡±
Anna sighed and said reluctantly: "It seems that I can only accept it. Who wins? Is it Saoirse Ronan?"
"She is indeed more suitable than you." Ye Weigang said, Anna whined, and he laughed: "How about you try your best to win the heroine of "Bridge to Wonderland"."
"Bridge to Wonderland" is a classic children's book. Walden Media, which has the rights to adapt it, recently announced that its film project has begun production and is scheduled to be completed within this year and released next year. AnnaSophia is the popular choice for the female lead "Leslie".
He continued: "You are really suitable for Leslie, much more than you are suitable for Lindsey, and Leslie is more lovable, like Susie." This kind of thing is that no matter how bad the movie is, as long as you act well, you will succeed. The character, Leslie, an angel girl, dies suddenly and no one can resist this.
"I want to act in your movie" Anna sighed.
"There will be opportunities. If there is any suitable role, you can come and play a guest role." Ye Wei said very seriously, "Listen to me, you just need a role like Leslie now. She can make all your wonderful things happen." Show, you can make Leslie live on the screen, I believe you can."
"Yeah." Although Anna was a little angry, she still agreed, "Then I will take down Leslie."
"Come on! You can do well in your true performance, but I know you will be better." Ye Wei encouraged her and prepared to close the line, "It's getting late, go to bed early."
"Wei, let's chat for a while!" Anna stopped, "Don't deal with me!"