Gus Van Sant, born on July 24, 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, like most directors, began to be interested in films very early. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, he shot commercials and short films in New York, and also worked as assistants for many directors. In 1985, he released his debut work "Down the Night, Love Can't Sing".

But what made him show off was "The Psychedelic Cowherd" in 1989 and "The Unruly Sky" in 1991, both of which won the Best Screenplay Award at the Independent Spirit Award.

Then, he began to move closer to the mainstream, nominated for the Oscar for Best Director in 1998 for "The Mind Catcher" and finally won a place in Hollywood. And winning the Palme d'Or for "The Elephant" in 2003 showed that he did not give up independent films and could go back and forth between independent films and mainstream studios.

Logically speaking, such a director and Sean have almost no intersection, why did Sean show an annoyed look after hearing this name?

"Just because you were once called Revan? Phoenix No. 2?" Neil blinked, looking completely unaware.

Although he has been in this group, because he has been in New York most of his time and did not return to the West Coast until 2005, he is not very clear about many things, and needs Sean and the others to explain it.

"It's just one reason," Sean shook his head helplessly, "and the Ben Affleck thing. Sant established his position in Hollywood with "The Mind Catcher". His relationship with Affleck and Damon has always been very good. And Affleck and I had a big conflict before. Now he doesn't dare to provoke me, but do you think he will say good things about me in front of others?"

What's more, Sant is a well-known homosexual. Sean said maliciously in his heart. Thinking about Affleck's actions, he didn't know the two of them... Humph!

"When Sean was called the second place in Phoenix, many people were unhappy with him, including Keanu Reeves, and Affleck, how could Santer have a good impression of Sean?" Garen added next to him.

"In fact, we have met Sant before. He is very cold to Sean and thinks that his maturity is all pretending to be." Sanders, who was holding his arms, also said.

"Anyway, Gus Van Sant hates me, and the director of this independent film has great power. He can't handle him, and there is no hope for anything." Sean grabbed his head and sighed deeply.

The living room also fell silent. This was indeed a problem that could not be avoided. Paul Thomas Anderson's troubles were a good example. Once such an independent director became stubborn, he would not surrender even if he was defeated.

"Shawn," Sanders spoke again at this time, "Do you need this character?"

"What?" Sean was a little puzzled.

"I mean, do you really need this role?" Sanders looked at him seriously.

Sean did not answer immediately, but frowned and pinched his chin and began to think.

Milk...Milke... He did hear his name when he was in San Francisco. He should be very famous among gay groups... So, celebrity biographies, politically correct homosexuals, and directors who have been nominated for Oscars... So, what about intuition?

"I need it!" Sean took a deep breath and gave a positive answer.

"Even if you need to kiss a man or even do some more intimate actions during the shooting?" Sanders asked.

"I'm an actor, Sandy," Sean said without hesitation, "I want to be the best actor."

"Okay, I'll create opportunities for you with Fred." Sanders nodded immediately and said.

"What are you going to do?" Frederick was a little surprised.

Sanders did not answer directly, but waved his hand and pulled the agent aside to discuss. Although Sean was very curious, he still sat in his seat and waited for them to agree.

They discussed in a low voice for more than ten minutes. Frederick was a little surprised at first, then shook his head repeatedly, but soon frowned and thought seriously, and finally gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Leave it to us, Sean." Frederick said after they came back.

"What do I need to do?" Sean asked directly.

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Christmas in 2006 is coming soon, and it is as lively as ever. At this time of year, the mall will carry out various promotions, and then the crowds will start shopping, and by the way, you can go to the theater to watch movies released under this opportunity.

"Barber Todd" was released on the 21st, just like all Burton's works, with good reviews and bad reviews.

"Burton makes the film vivid and smooth, and is not inferior to other excellent works (including musical and dance films) released this year." - USA Today

"The film has no flaws, horror, weird humor and intermittent frightening from beginning to end. This is the most elegant perverted murderer movie ever." - "Rolling Stone"

“The song and dance are great, and the music is perfect, but Burton seems to have used his sense of humor in the wrong place.”—The New York Times

"A layer of unchanging Gothic style, although new, is mostly unchanged." - The Chicago Tribune

Unexpectedly, most commentators gave positive comments on Sean's performance, such as "as excellent as ever" and "he is competent for any kind of character".

This surprised Sean. He participated in the premiere. When he sat down to watch his performance, he only felt that he was just a good person and had some outstanding features, but it was not necessarily true that he could be. Unexpectedly, the critics thought it was very good. The tabloids who used "The Blood is Coming" to attack him were naturally silent.

In this way, I can only say that I don’t guess the taste of the film critics. As for the audience, they just need to be happy and think it looks good. Why don’t you care about the things like good looking?

However, Sean did not focus more on this. He now had more important things to collect all the information related to Harvey Milk, and then watch and analyze it.

"It's Christmas now, and then the New Year is coming. During this period, everyone is relaxing. Even if Santer has already started preparing and there are already candidates for actors, they have to wait for the holiday to take action. So, this is our opportunity, a chance to catch up." Sanders said at the time.

"We will use this time to find opportunities as much as possible. At the same time, you should read as much information as possible on Milk, experience his emotions as much as possible, and then design a performance method that suits you. Of course, it would be better if there is a short plot." This is Frederick's opinion.

So, from the beginning of his decision, Sean stayed in his mansion in Beverly Hills. He stayed in the room, repeating the information of the politician over and over again.

Fortunately, Milk became famous in the late 1970s and had sufficient video materials to refer to, especially a series of speeches in public places, which not only allowed Sean to understand him more intuitively, but also used imitation to further integrate his traits into himself.

In this way, you don’t have to use various memoirs and various written descriptions to guess the character’s personality like you did when you play Howard Hughes. Of course, this may also make him a little rigid, but Sean believes that with his own abilities, he will definitely be able to overcome it well.

He was very hardworking, and in the days before Christmas, he imitated Milk's speech and posture to the TV almost every day, and also found a makeup artist to try to make his appearance close to the other person by not having to make major changes.

It can be said that he put in more effort than he did when he was thinking about "The Aviator", because, deep down, Sean still hopes that if he can, if he can get it, if the script is good enough, if time can catch up... Then use this movie to compete with "The Blood is Coming"!

He will never admit defeat.

Of course, even if he devotes his energy to this, he still needs to do what he should do. Yes, take his kids home on Christmas.

"I heard from Sean that after he became an actor, you helped him a lot. The movie "Tower Tower" was introduced to him." At the dinner table with a relatively harmonious atmosphere, my mother asked with a smile while adding soup to Naomi.

"In fact, he helped me a little more. You know, I worked hard in Hollywood for a long time before I got the opportunity to become famous, and this opportunity was obtained by Sean." Naomi replied modestly.

Today she specially changed into more solemn clothes and put on some light makeup, which looked generous and elegant. So after getting off the bus, her mother quickly became familiar with her after she had her initial surprise.

"You don't have to talk to him, Nami," the father said at this time, "We all know what kind of person he is, thank you for taking care of him."

"Yes, that's it." Liana followed suit.

Sean, who was feeding Alexander, ignored Liana and rolled his eyes secretly at his father. Even at this time, he still refused to let him go. Well, whatever you want, anyway, I promised my mother not to quarrel with him today.

"No need to do this, Tony, in fact, I'm very happy to meet Sean, although we..." Naomi smiled, pulled out a tissue and handed it to Sean.

Although he didn't say anything more, the people present could more or less guess what was behind. The atmosphere at the scene became a little dull. Sean, who took the tissue and wiped the little guy's mouth, couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. From the beginning of his decision to bring Naomi back, he had expected this situation. However, although he had prepared several ways of dealing with it in his mind, he didn't know which one to use at this moment.

In the end, Alexander came out to save the scene. The active little guy grabbed a spoon for some reason, so he whispered and raised the spoon and waved it around. Sean hurriedly reached out to stop him, but who knew how he waved it. The spoon was inserted into the soup basin and poured a spoon out, and it happened to be poured on Sean's face.
Chapter completed!