Chapter 7: Chapter 7 - Actors Guild
I have to say that Claire's brain is also wide open. If you switch to the original little Laila, this might happen. It's not that she doesn't like her, but who wants to be looked after all day long if this can't be done, that can't be done? It was New Laila who had a mature soul to know that they were really thinking of her.
Claire sat down on a chair in the dining room with the script and read it. She is a very talented person, otherwise she would not be hired as Laila's special assistant, nanny and nurse, and she has been doing it for more than ten years.
So after browsing the script at the speed of one eye and ten lines, she found that it was not the naive plot she thought. Although I can't tell from the above what the finished product will look like, but she thinks it might have good results.
Shouldn't lose money?
"How?" Laila asked nervously when she saw her put down the script.
Claire gave her a reassuring smile: "It's great, dear, better than I thought."
"Then I don't worry." Laila also knows that she is not a professional, and she knows her words to make herself happy. A lot of the ingredients are accounted for, but that does not affect my good mood. Because she really knows how good the script is and how much surprises it can bring to her in the future.
The script was given to Claire, and she was put in the hands of company employees. Anyway, she is also a boss with dozens of idlers under her. She doesn't need to take all kinds of things on her at all. With work, I believe that employees will also have more confidence in the company.
With the script, the budget, setting and props are arranged by the people in the company. Finding suitable actors has become the most important thing for Laila now.
In Hollywood, a waiter or a taxi driver at any store may produce a certificate proving that he is a professional actor and tell what movies he has acted in.
Yes, this is Hollywood.
As long as you pay a small fee to the actors' union, you can enjoy the treatment of some actors. And when you have participated in some filming, your level will rise, just like those famous actors.
The domestic trade unions are completely incomparable with the trade unions there. The Hollywood actors' union has a very strong back and has a lot of power to speak. It will really help actors solve problems and disputes.
Take the script of this time as an example. If you need any actors, you will list the conditions to the actors and actresses union. They will give you the list of all the qualified ones, and then the film company will select them. Of course, you can recruit actors yourself, but more actors still rely on the arrangements of the union.
Laila has long been interested in the Screen Actors Guild in the United States. How could she miss this opportunity? So after a good night's sleep, after sweeping away the exhaustion of the previous period, she carried a small backpack and came to the Screen Actors Guild in a refreshing manner.
"Hello. If you want to apply for a union, please fill out these forms." As
soon as Laila walked to the front desk, the sweet-looking front desk lady handed over several forms.
Uh, did you think she was here to be an actor? She was a little bit dumbfounded and returned the form: "Hello, I'm not here to register actors. I wrote a script to start filming, and I need a few suitable actors." The
receptionist was surprised to receive the form: "Sorry, then may I ask for What kind of actor? How much is the salary?"
Although she was a little surprised, she didn't think much about it. Some students will find actors to shoot some similar documentaries or small theaters, and they are not surprised.
Laila thought about it before coming: "The salary is ten thousand dollars per person. I need an actress, aged between 18-25. The other two actors are also about the same age because they want to play. It's a college student, it's best to look like a college student with youthful vibes and show plenty of vitality and curiosity."
The soul of the movie is the three protagonists, and she is not interested in looking for the other extras, and her own employees arrange everything for her. Even if those people don't have much abilities, they are professional, and there is no problem in doing such small things.
"Okay, I have recorded your request. Is the audition location in the union or elsewhere?"
Ten thousand dollars was not a small amount at the time, even for some experienced actors it very attractive for a protagonist. Many people don't need money in order to participate in the show. What they need is a resume. Not to mention newcomers, they are willing to give everything in order to get a role.
But for Laila, someone with a little experience is more suitable. You get what you pay for, and she doesn't want to make herself a headache just to save that little money.
The final interview time was set at Phoenix Films two days later. Originally, she didn't want to pull the company out. Later, when she thought that her conditions were really not enough to be trusted, she was worried that actors with potential and strength would look down on her, so she had to take the company out. Although it is such a film company that only produces B-level films, it is also a film company, right?
The original heroine of the movie was Heather Donahue, and Laila didn't really want to use her. Because although she won a best actress nomination in the "Online Film Critics Association" for "Blair the Witch", she was also favored by the Golden Plum Award once.
The plum in the Golden Sour Plum Award is actually a wrong translation. The correct one should be raspberry. It is probably because this kind of thing is not well-known in China, so it has been translated into the current sour plum.
If the Oscar is the dream of all actors, then the golden plum is the nightmare of all actors. In history, the number of guests who personally came to the stage to accept the award is pitiful.
It started in 1980 and was founded by a man named John Wilson, who spontaneously awarded "trophies" to those bad American films of the year. The day before the Oscars every year, it is time for it to spray acid water into the world.
Laila doesn't want her first work to be associated with the sour trophy, so she will choose the heroine carefully.
Back to Phoenix Company, the secretary Demi greeted her quickly: "Miss Moran, your script has been sent down, and you are now calculating the budget. Also about the actors..."
"I just went to work as an actor, let them Find three suitable candidates for the protagonist, and let others find the remaining characters."
"Okay." Demi clumsily recorded her words in the notebook, but because of accident, the folder she was holding fell down. When they got to the ground, they even scattered all the documents inside.
"Oh, God!" She exclaimed, and squatted down to pick it up. A pair of huge chests was almost squeezed out of the poor suit.
Laila shook her head speechlessly, and walked in the direction of the elevator first. She could see the reason why the little secretary was nervous when she saw her. Obviously, her cheap dad played the secretary and boss game when he was alive. But now that the boss has been replaced by a young girl, the original methods of serving a male boss are useless. As long as she is upset, she can be kicked out of the company at any time, no wonder she is so trembling.
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