Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 253 Chapter 204 Tear!

   "Ah...ah...!"

   "Ah...you Bichi."

   Ronald and the three of them heard the sound outside getting louder and louder, and quickly got up and walked out of the room to take a closer look.

  I saw two women scolding each other in the rest area.

One of them was Melanie Griffiths, who was auditioned for "Endless Love" by Ronald. She hasn't seen her for a year. She's not as baby fat as she used to be, but a little thinner. Her fair skin is very fair. Conspicuous.

   "You little Bitchi, who seduced my father, came to my house with your mother Bitchi at the age of 20 and refused to leave." Another girl pointed at Melanie's nose and scolded away.

   "You rotten **** who is dating Nigger." Not to be outdone, Melanie pretended to be a child to imitate the other party, "M...J..., when are you coming to my house, I have something good for you to see."

   "How old were you then, eh? 16?"

   "You bitch, you overheard me and MJ talking at my house."

   "Ah... I'm going to kill you." Another girl rushed over, grabbed Melanie's hair, and pulled it down.

   Melanie was in pain from being pulled by him, and her head lowered. The girl took the opportunity to scratch her face with one hand.

   Melanie's face was scratched by her, and she cried out "Ah...", which was the biggest damage to the actress. Relying on being taller than the other party, she also grabbed the other party's hair with one hand, and then slapped her with the other hand.

"Snapped!"

   A slap in the face was crisp.

"what…"

   The other party shouted, and then with a force, the hair of Melanie, who was in his hand, was pulled down a lot.

"what…"

   Melanie Griffith gave a shrill scream, rushed up and pushed the opponent down, mounted her on top of her and raised her hands, slapped her twice, and slapped her with both bows and slaps.

   "Oh oh... oh..." Ronald hurried forward, grabbed one with casting director Don Phillips, and moved out.

  The two were hugged and tried to take off and kick each other. Ronald had to separate them and reassure the people who accompanied them to the audition.

Ronald was holding the girl Melanie had quarreled with, and he found out that she was auditioning with the famous singer Cher, who used to be on Staten Island and often saw her and ex-husband Sonny Bono Performed the male and female duet "IGotYouBabe" on TV.

   "Is this your daughter? Ms. Cher?" Ronald asked.

   "Oh, no, this is Ryan O'Neal's daughter, Tatum. She lives in my house." Cher replied, "Thank you just now, are you?"

"I'm director Ronald Lee." Ronald thought to himself, it turns out that this girl is the little girl in the movie "Paper Moon" directed by Bogdanovich. With this role, she won over her father. Ryan, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. (Ryan played the male lead but was not nominated)

  How does someone else's daughter live in your house? It seems that the relationship is quite complicated.

  Ronald looked at Tatum O'Neal and saw that she was nothing serious except that her face was a little red and swollen. I asked them to sit down and rest first, and asked her if she needed an ice pack and whether she should go to the hospital for a checkup.

  Tatum heard that Ronald was the director, and immediately straightened her hair and tried to smile, but unfortunately pulled her injured cheek, and a burst of pain made her grin.

   "None of you are suitable for audition today, I will let the casting director choose another time so you can stagger the audition." Ronald gave a promise first to reassure the little girl.

   Cher comforted Tatum, took the ice pack handed by the assistant, and asked her to put it on.

   Taking the opportunity, Cher and Ronald quickly talked about the whole story.

   It turns out that Tatum O'Neal and Melanie Griffiths have a personal grudge. Melanie lived at the O'Neal's for some time in the seventies, having an affair with her father.

   I saw it at the audition site today, I don't know who provokes the other first, it developed into two people revealing each other's bottom line, scolding each other's privacy, and finally it turned into a fight.

   "Then why did you send her here today?" Ronald asked.

   "Her father moved to live with Farah Fawcett two years ago. She was left at home alone, and she had to take care of her brother. We used to be on TV together, and she would come to me when she had something."

   Ronald was speechless, he had to let them go first, and then make an appointment to audition.

   "Will there be anyone here..." Cher asked while holding Tatum O'Neal.

   "They are all employees of Universal and know the rules." Ronald knew that she was asking if anyone would speak out. The news media doesn't. Everyone here knows the importance, but it is inevitable to spread the word in private.

   Look back at Melanie Griffiths. Her injuries were more serious, with a few strands of hair falling out and a few scratches on her face, but fortunately there was no disfigurement.

   also persuaded Melanie and her boyfriend away, Ronald went back to continue the audition. The actress tearing up is no worse than the average girl fighting. I heard that Melanie Griffiths lived with a lion when she was a child, and this wild power is still more powerful.

  The next audition for Kelly Preston is still an old problem. She looks too beautiful, but her acting skills are not enough. She can't act the yearning and fear of innocent girls facing love. Ronald had to let her go back and wait for news.

  Preston made a phone call gesture to him before leaving, causing Heckling to look over.

   What is this? Didn't eat it and caused gossip?

   Ronald inwardly sentenced this beautiful actress with a low IQ to the death penalty for auditioning.

   "Princess Leia" Kelly Fisher is still as beautiful as ever. The lines and acting skills are also sufficient.

   But Ronald was a little unsure. On the one hand, her age has grown irrevocably. Born in 1956, she is already 25 years old, and the gap between her and high school students is too big.

   On the other hand, she has to participate in the subsequent Star Wars, and she may not be able to accept the **** scene, maybe she will have to let George Lucas decide. Although there are certain marketing benefits, she can play her brand, but the constraints on this scale may in turn force the crew to change the script.

   "What do you think?" Ronald asked the three of them for their opinion.

   "Have you ever thought that the audience has too much memory of her image of Princess Leia?" Don Phillips whispered.

   "You're right, Don." Ronald understood, an image that was too impressive for the audience often limited the actor's performance.

   If the audience yelled at Princess Leia as soon as they saw Stacey on screen, the movie wouldn't go on.

   Ronald had no choice but to cross out Fisher too. In this way, the two actresses who have torn apart each other have no suitable candidates for the roles of Stacey and Linda.

   "Anything else we can audition for?" Ronald asked.

   "Paramount's big production 'The Officer and the Gentleman' happened to be auditioning, and many actresses went there to try their luck first, and it was a women's play, we are a girl's play.

  18-22 actresses are actually more inclined to 'officers and gentlemen'. After all, if you become famous in one fell swoop, you can play directly until the age of 35 without changing the way of acting. "

   "Who's there?" Ronald asked.

   “Debra Winger, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay…”

  Don Phillips reported a list of actresses' names.

   "Okay, send them audition invitations."

  The story of the actresses tearing each other at the audition site was known to the executives of Universal. The next day President Tom Mount, and the two producers, called Ronald and Heckleyn to a meeting.

"You are behind in progress, and you need to step up the audition for the heroine. The two actors who fought each other on the audition site can't be asked. What if you fight with other people on the set?" Tom Mount came up and put pressure on Luo Nader.

   "Mr. Mount, we still have some scheduled auditions for actors in the next few days. I believe we can find suitable candidates." Ronald handed over the prepared key list.

   "Your information is not well-informed, Ronald." Tom Mount flipped, "Jennifer Jason Lee is likely to win the heroine of 'The Officer and the Gentleman', you have to find another one."

"Okay, we'll speed up the process." Ronald didn't know what Mount's hidden plans were. He always felt that he had another purpose in calling him. , it's normal for an audition actress to have other options.

   "Why don't we jump out of this box and think of a different solution?"

   "Come on, come on," Ronald thought to himself, then replied to Mount, "I don't know what the solution looks like?"

   "How about we try actresses who are the same age as the 12th graders? Like Brooke Shields?"

   "We can't afford her salary, and her mother Terry would not agree to the frontal **** scene if she participated."

   Ronald replied. Then I thought to myself, Bo Ji's acting skills must not be able to play the two heroines. In addition, if she participates in the show, she must abide by the 6-hour working time that cannot be overtime every day, which will further drag down the shooting progress.

   "I think it can be considered. After all, she is a popular star, and it is not impossible for us to modify the script for her." Hecklin was a little excited. If a popular star participated, the scale and budget of the film would be expanded accordingly.

Ronald looked at Hecklin and thought to himself, "Then the script has to be revised, and the schedule has to be postponed. Of course, I may not be able to be the director of this big production, and maybe you won't be able to either." What are you thinking. This kind of production hell, he didn't want to do it again.

   "I can consider an additional $1 million, as long as Brooke Shields can be hired. The script can also be revised. Didn't she also star in Blue Coral Reef, and Endless Love? We can do the same with a stand-in."

   "I will contact Brooke's mother Terry." Ronald agreed, he knew that Terry was very greedy, and the price offered here would not satisfy her. But Brooke may just be an interlude, what is Tom Mount really thinking?

   "Now let's discuss the male lead candidate."

   "It turns out that the real purpose is still the male protagonist." Ronald thought to himself.

   There were audition clips of several candidates on TV.

   "I think this Judge Reinhold is good." Heckling commented.

  Judge Reinhold is the boyfriend of her best best friend, a secret no one knows on the set. Originally, she wanted to recommend her best friend who works at the Academy of Film (AFI) as a casting director.

  Although the producer Lin Sen's friend has taken this position now, she still wants to recommend someone of her own to be the male lead, so that she can use her own abilities to squeeze out Ronald as a related household after starting the game.

  A screenwriter just over 20 years old who sold Jane Fonda a script by luck. How can a director's professional knowledge compare to himself, a top student with a bachelor's degree in New York University and a master's degree in AFI? He has also made documentaries and an excellent graduation short film, which is how he got Mount's appreciation.

   "He's good at acting, but he's a little older, why don't we try Nicholas Coppola?" Ronald said Nicholas' surname, implying that he could sell a face to director Francis Coppola

Tom Mount smiled. This kid has a good idea. If it wasn't for Coppola's new film "Old Love, New Love", which was seen by Paramount executives and canceled the October internal preview, this face could also be sold to he.

  Paramount was dissatisfied with Coppola's daily samples, and was ready to give up on releasing Coppola's new film.

  Coppola is carrying a high debt of tens of millions of Chase Bank. If the new film cannot sell well, it is likely to go bankrupt. Now the high-level circles are guessing whether Coppola has run out of money.

   Producers who still have confidence in him don’t want to reach out to help. It’s better to wait for him to go bankrupt and sign his multiple film contracts at a low price to get a bargain.

   "No, we can't use him."

   "Why? Because his performance is too 'dark'?" Ronald was surprised. This was Mount's direct rejection of his candidate. Enter Brad, both of his candidates failed?

   "Because he's underage."

   "But his audition papers say he's 18?" Ronald remembered Nicholas Coppola's profile, obviously an adult.

   "He made a fake, we have confirmed with Francis. He admitted that Nicholas was only 17 years old and could only shoot 6 hours a day."

   "But Brooke..." As soon as Ronald said, he knew he was wrong, and he shouldn't have agreed to ask Brooke.

   "Yes, Brooke is a star. If she wants to come, we can revise the script for her, and then see if an actor with the same level of acting as her will be invited to cooperate."

  If Bo Ji is willing to come, he will increase the budget, and the actor will also need to change to a big name. If Brooke does not come, there is a high probability that he will not come, then Nicholas is not old enough for this small production movie.

   "Um..." Ronald was sulking, looking at Hecklen and Mount, how should he deal with this casting problem?

   (end of this chapter)