Today to an interview, it is quite emotional.
These days about the high income of celebrities is a hot topic, on the one hand, everyone laments that "the money in the circle is too easy to earn", on the other hand, they are also questioning whether the business ability of the star and the banknotes in hand match.
In fact, it is never easy to become a good actor who steadily outputs high-quality works and has an evergreen career.
Matthew Barry, a casting director and acting teacher from Los Angeles, was recently interviewed by British media. "Every year, thousands of young people come to Los Angeles to look for opportunities to succeed in fame, and there may be 1,000 left in the first year and 100 in the second year, of which only about 10 will succeed," he said. ”
The people behind the scenes are unknown and not tight, and the superstars he has discovered and collaborated with are familiar to everyone, Rachel McAdams, Jude Law, Fat Kaley Cuoco, Sofia Vergara of "Modern Family", Charlize Theron, Young Master Leto...
What's more, many stars did not have a single work at that time, and it was completely a blank piece of paper, such as the Hulk who was still a newcomer.
Or newcomer Bradley Cooper
Matthew Barry's own story is quite interesting. In 1979, Bertolic's luna luna published a recruitment for actors in Variety magazine, and Matthew Barry was selected by the big director from among the vast applicants and won the role.
The film, which tells the deformed relationship between the runaway teenager and the mother, was greatly reverberated at the time, and also made the young Barry famous in one fell swoop. Under the huge impact of Vanity Fair, the 17-year-old quickly lost himself, began to fly leaves under the influence of Andy Warhol, made wild speeches on the set, and then was boycotted by insiders and soon lost his job.
In the end, he found his way through various ways and found his way behind the scenes, and finally saved a job.
What is the right actor? The standard answer, which is not at the mercy of capital, is, first of all, nothing to do with fame.
Matthew Barry's proudest work is The Notebook of Love.
Who would have thought that Britney Spears, the millennial superstar, would audition for the heroine of "The Notebook"?
Perhaps because she was too familiar with recording Disney TV shows together since childhood, the chemistry between her and the High Commander in front of the camera was really flat and was directly brushed off.
The role of "Allie" went through several rounds of selection, and finally fell to the Canadian actress Rachel McAdams, who was still unknown at the time, because her performance in the audition was really outstanding.
Everyone knows what happened after that.
Becoming a super star requires extremely high talent, and this dazzling light can be recognized by insiders at a glance.
Matthew Barry still remembers interviewing Amanda Seyfreid. By then she was already well known for her success in Mean Girls, auditioning for the 2006 crime thriller Alpha Dog.
Amanda, a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder patient, has been taking medication since she was 19 years old, and at its worst, she even had to remove the stove in her home to prevent a fire. The actor's innate sensitivity and the torment of illness have become more serious with the rise of fame.
Matthew Barry recalls: "As soon as she sat down in the door, she started crying, crying and muttering, 'I don't want to come here, I want to go home, I'm so tired, I miss my family, I don't want to play your stupid movie.'" Even so, she was fully prepared, and she knew that the film and the role she auditioned for, she was doing great.
What is gold always shines, this is it: "After the audition, we left her for an hour to talk, and her emotions were still very excited, and she was in tears the whole time. In fact, less than three minutes after she walked in, I knew that this role was none other than hers. ”
Although casting is an intuition for professionals, the decision on who is ultimately chosen is not on the casting director. At that time, Barry was very optimistic about two unknown young actors, but was vetoed by the producers, which became a regret that he choked his wrists at the thought of these two young people, one named Matt Damon and the other named Joaquin Phoenix.
"We liked Renee Zellweger, but she had a quirk at the time, which was that she liked to bite her lower lip, and the producer couldn't accept it, so he passed her directly."
Also drunk.
A recent graduate, Jennifer Garner, who auditioned for the 1996 film Unhook the Stars, failed, and Barry praised her: "She's very sweet, but she's not suitable for the role and too inexperienced." ”
Barry digs into the example of black actor Terry Crews, who is caught in the eye of Barry when Grandma Cruise is just a security guard on a movie set: "I put him in a Denzel Washington movie, and Denzel recognized him and said, 'Wait, you used to guard that truck,' Cruise said, "'Yes, that's me.'" ”
As mentioned earlier, the particularity of the profession of an actor determines that the personality of the person who can go to the top is different from ordinary people, and they often have stronger empathy and show a more unsociable artistic expression.
Matthew Barry revealed in an interview that when auditioning for the role of Cyrus in the movie "Prison in the Air", he was almost "stabbed in the throat" by the out-of-control actor Mickey Locke.
It was Mickey's craziest time, his wife at the time was the supermodel Carré Otis, and there were frequent scandals of Mickey's domestic violence during the marriage between the two, and then he put a gun in Carré's bag without his consent and his wife's knowledge, and as a result, Carré's gun went off the fire when he put the bag everywhere, she was shot in the chest, the bullet passed through the shoulder, and the bile was only 2 inches from the heart, almost killing Carré.
Carré Otis is a generation of supermodels, but his life is also quite bitter. Originally from San Francisco, USA, he entered the industry at the age of 16 and appeared on the cover of the French version of "Elle" at the age of 18.
At the time, she signed up with elite, a well-known agency, and was raped at the age of 17 by Gérald Marie, the ex-husband of another supermodel Linda Evangelista and former chairman of Elite Modeling Agency.
During the filming of wild orchid, she and Mickey Rourke, who was 16 years older than herself, faked the real thing, and the two married in 1992 and divorced in 1998, during which domestic violence continued, but never filed a case.
At the peak of his modeling career, Carré Otis said goodbye to the runway due to anorexia nervosa and now appears in public as a plus-size model.
It is such an uncontrolled madman, and the mood is quite violent when auditioning.
"When Mickey came... I played for him, reading Nicolas Cage's lines, it was an emotional confrontation scene, Mitch was smoking a cigarette, after hearing my provocative lines, he looked at me and twisted his neck a little, I knew that something was wrong, only to see him stand up, walk up to me, pull out a knife, put a knife against my throat and ask, 'What are you talking about?'"
"My brain was blank, I didn't even dare to look into his eyes, and the people present didn't know what to do. Finally he blew a puff of his cigarette in my face, snuffed it out of my jeans, said 'thank you,' and left, which was the end of the rehearsal. ”
Often subjected to this "inhuman" treatment, it's no wonder Barry complains: "To be a great actor, in a way you are different from other ordinary people, and even weird." 」 So if you look at Armie Hammer and Shia LeBoeuf, Hollywood is a gathering place for weirdos. (The original text is 'a cesspool of dysfunctional people', which is also very poisonous)"
Barry notes that over the past few decades, there have been many notorious filmmakers who have used their power to play with female actors and have had a negative impact on the industry, and he himself has faced an actress who has offered to do anything for a role," even when his female business partners were sitting in the same room.
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In Barry's opinion, Eva Mendez is both beautiful and talented, but the two have not yet had the right opportunity to work together. Barry introduced that Eva Mendez almost starred in "Rush Hour 2" that year, but this role was finally given to another hot South American girl, Roselyn Sánchez, and her career has since ushered in a breakthrough.
"I'm more than willing to work with Eva, and to this day I'm going to go to her with new projects."
For casting directors, it is also key to get started quickly and accurately, because once new people start to become popular, it will become more and more difficult to invite. Margot Robbie is a living example.
Prior to the release of Wolf of Wall Street, she auditioned for The Other Woman, the film in which Barry was casting director.
"The CAA guy called me directly and said, 'You'd better catch this girl sooner, she's so cute.'" By the time the candidates were left with either her and Kate Upton, we couldn't book her schedule, and the role was given to Kate Upton. ”
Today, Barry's main job is to work as an acting teacher, teaching students how to improve their acting skills and achieve good results in auditions.
"I've helped a lot of actors start their careers, and it's fun to teach these young people to start from scratch these days, even though it's not easy."
Affected by the epidemic, online teaching is now the mainstay
How to say, see more of the dream-like life experience of the top stars, and now we must also pick up the grounding, cheer up ourselves more, and the road of life is long and obstructive.
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