162. Chapter 162 Need more effort
"Can I listen to more plots? You must know that the script I got is not very complete." Frederick asked calmly.
Zach and Schumacher looked at each other, and the former began to introduce it briefly: "Simply put, the male protagonist Stu is an advertising salesman who has not achieved much in his thirties. He talks loudly every day and lives by cheating. He has a wife who loves her very much, but at the same time he is fascinated by a young girl and wants to cheat. In order to deal with his wife's examination, he dare not contact the other party on his mobile phone, so he can only use the telephone from a public telephone booth.
Then, one day he called his lover on a public phone as usual. After the phone ended, the phone suddenly rang. Stu hesitated for a moment and took the microphone. This was a bad decision. There was a perverted sniper on the other side of the microphone. He stared at Stu, threatened him to tease him with a sniper rifle, and asked him to recruit police, wife, lover, and asked him to admit in front of the camera that he had cheated and was a dirty man."
He stopped when he talked about this. There was a script about how the male protagonist was trapped in the phone booth and how he struggled. There was no need to repeat it again.
After Zach spoke, Schumacher began to add: "Larry had the idea of this script very early. He had seen it for Hitchcock, and the other party liked it very much. But the only question was how to trap a man in a telephone booth for 80 minutes, so the story was put on hold. It was not until the late 1990s that he had inspiration and used a sniper to complete the idea. I like his script very much, so David was too. We spent a lot of effort to prepare, so we didn't want to leak the news before the preparation came to an end."
This is just to emphasize the importance of the movie. The so-called "not wanting to leak the news" is just to cover up. Frederick has seen this trick countless times, so it is not difficult for him. In fact, Schumacher's recitation is a good thing. These words have bought him a lot of time to better organize words and sentences.
"I declare again that I will not reveal any news, so you can rest assured of this," Frederick said first, and then changed the subject. "Then, I don't think there is any problem with Sean playing this role."
There was a smile on his face and a strong sense of confidence in his tone, as if it was an unquestionable thing. Indeed, if a salesman could not believe that his things were excellent and perfect, he would not recommend anything.
"I know you're concerned about his age," Frederick quickly spoke before Zach and Schumacher spoke, "But Anthony Mingella had also been concerned. This does not mean that he has a good vision. In fact, in a sense, his vision is really not very good, because Sean had been with him for several months, but he never saw his real age.
However, this also shows that Sean is definitely not the kind of young man who looks very immature. Whether Mingla hasn't seen it, there are so many people in the "Genius Ripley" crew, but none of them can see it. If Sean hadn't admitted it on his own initiative, then perhaps someone would have determined his real age through observation."
He stopped and then continued to say: "The second concern, acting is not a problem. I think in Hollywood now, no one knows that Sean successfully performed the temperament and attitude of a 25-year-old mature man at the age of 18. Although he is only 20 years old, it will not be a problem to play the role of a nearly 30-year-old character. As for experience, according to David's previous description, we can conclude that the male protagonist is in the telephone booth most of the time, so there is no need to show the warmth or quarrel between his wife at home, so it is OK to deal with it as a relationship that is on both sides and then have to choose one side, right?"
Zach and Schumacher looked at each other unexpectedly, pondered for a few minutes before the director spoke again: "I have to say that you are good at avoiding the important things, Fred, but this is like persuading us, I'm afraid it won't work."
"It's okay, then I'll have an audition and a private exchange, how about it?" Frederick shrugged without any frustration. "I think you haven't considered the candidate for the actor now, right? Then during the audition, pay a little attention to Sean, if you want, you can give him the most difficult test. At the same time, communicate again in private, observe him in all aspects and see how he is. Shouldn't this be fine?"
Finally, he summarized in a sincere tone: "I like Sean's words very much. Sometimes you have to dare to try and be good at trying new things so that you can constantly break through yourself. I think there is a soul in his body that is far more mature than his actual age, and I also think that he can get more opportunities."
Zach grabbed his head and exchanged glances with Schumacher: "I have to say, Fred, you're a little difficult. If you don't agree, you will definitely not stop, so... that's it."
"I will observe the young man in your mouth and use my own eyes." Schumacher added with a smile.
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"Audio between the 10th and 15th next month? Why can't you be sure?" Sean murmured.
"Do I need to repeat the previous words?" Frederick rolled his eyes, "I tried my best to agree."
"Well, I know you are very professional and hardworking, Fred," Shyn sighed, "but... the test will be very strict... This makes me very depressed, Fred, it's like when the exam is the only C difficulty for the others, but I'm only A+, which is too unfair."
"This world is unfair," Frederick looked quite proud. Indeed, it was rare to encounter such a difficult time when Sean could make things difficult. "Since you want to get this role that may be close to 30 at the age of 20, you naturally have to work harder to fight for it."
"Okay, I have to know where the direction of my efforts is?" Sean spread his hands.
"Where can you be as mature as possible," Fred shrugged. "You can find some mature characters, perform in front of the mirror at home, and find a makeup artist if necessary to dress you up more maturely. Besides, you have already read the script and you can practice it in a targeted manner."
"Didn't you tell them that I like this character very much?" Sean pondered for a while and asked again.
"That's another thing I want to tell you. Don't act too eager for this character in front of them. We are asking them to act more weakly and thus they can grasp the rhythm of things." Frederick said solemnly. "In general, Joe Schumacher is a little moved, but David Zach has no obvious reaction, so you should try to speak in a targeted manner while practicing."
He said and sighed again: "It seems that I got their promise easily, but in fact there are many other factors, such as they don't want to leak the news for the time being, or they are worried that I will keep getting entangled, etc., so you still need to do a lot of things if you want to get this role."
"Okay, Fred, I know," Sean laughed at this moment, "then work hard, no matter what, it will not be worse than the competition for "Genius Ripley""
"Very good, then you'll have to go to a party with me in two days," Frederick said immediately. "We need to know some people from 20th Century Fox, a production company that has been responsible for the film."
He said very well, not giving Sean a chance to refuse, and even joked: "You always play roles older than you, maybe this will become your feature."
After sending off the agent, Sean could breathe a sigh of relief, but soon became depressed again.
"Damn, I can't rest for the next half month." He sighed.
It was discovered that the script of "Sniper Telephone Booth" was one week after the end of "Death Shooting", so it is still late July, and there is still half a month left before August 10th to 15th. Although this gave him enough time to prepare for the role, the rest time was greatly reduced.
"Don't complain, Sean, this is your choice." Galen reminded as always, "so you have to bear the consequences."
"If I tried my best and used 200% of my strength, but I was defeated in the end, it would be so sad." Sean said pretending to be exaggerated.
"Who said it? As long as you try your best, it doesn't matter what the result will be?" Garen continued to tease and deliberately pulled Sanders onto the ship: "Did you say so, Sandy?"
"Yes, that's right." Sanders answered perfunctorily. He looked strange, sitting there in a daze, as if thinking about something important.
In fact, he has always been like this since the agent came. If it were other times, he would have to argue with Frederick, but today he has nothing to say. It's really strange.
"Hey, Sandy, what are you thinking?" Sean asked immediately, "Did you know which cute girl you met without us?"
"Maybe it's Emily No. 146. When you invited your neighbors to come to the party before, he stared at the other party for a long time." Galen helped out.
"It's okay, I'm just thinking about some questions about Sean," Sanders shook his head. "Since Sean intends to let me develop to the agent, I always have to look like I do."
Sean and Galen looked at each other and then laughed: "Don't be so anxious, Sandy, take this kind of thing slowly."
Then he looked at him: "This way, tell me what you think, maybe Garen and I can give some advice."
Sanders opened his mouth but said nothing. He hesitated for a moment before saying, "I'm not sure, I want to try it first."
Chapter completed!