One Hundred and Seventy-Eight - Li Guohao's Audition Roller Coaster

While the girl performed, Wayne and Bruce Rosenblum said nothing, watching Schwartz adjust the camera and play with her.

Drew Barrymore's face changed instantly, as if she had really seen the scary clown. She kept looking back, and the expression on her face also changed with time.

"Okay, that's it." Almost as soon as her performance started, Wayne stopped. "Ms. Derrymore, the crew will notify your agent of the audition results later."

"Okay, thank you!" She nodded to Wayne and the producer, opened the door and walked out.

"Bruce, when discussing the contract with her agent, be sure to emphasize the contraband clause." Wayne shook his head. "This child has been reported by the media. No one knows whether some of the rumors are true or not..."

"no problem!"

Although this girl doesn't have the aura she had when she was a child, she is no stranger to acting and can be called a veteran. And she doesn't have too many scenes. Seeing that she can meet her own requirements, there is no need to continue.

The audition work has been proceeding in an orderly manner. Most of the time, Wayne acted very calmly about it, not at all as serious as he was in "Joker".

This is a youth horror film. To put it bluntly, there are no high requirements for acting skills. The main perspective is on the children. As long as the young actors selected by Schwartz are not afraid of strangers in front of the camera, dare to act, and have some aura, Wei Wei Endu would not object.

The door was pushed open again, and this time an acquaintance came in. Li Guohao seemed to be thinner than before. After he came in, he nodded to several people, said hello, and started his performance in front of the camera.

"Lee! What you are going to perform is not a human being. Pennywise is a dancing clown who sucks energy by scaring children." Wayne sat behind the camera and frowned after Li Guohao finished his performance. The substituted emotion is wrong!

"Listen, this clown is completely different from the clown Arthur in the last movie. Do you understand? You are just a pure monster, a monster that comes back every 27 years!"

To be honest, if he can't even do the most basic thing, Wayne will have no choice but to change his mind and replace him. Li Guohao obviously made a lot of preparations in advance, but his preparations were in the wrong direction. It was better to do nothing and adapt to changes.

"Give me five minutes!"

Fortunately, Li Guohao inherited the clever mind of Chinese Americans. He took the scene described on the page of the script, turned around and carefully contemplated it for a while, facing the wall. This time, when he turned around, his expression completely changed.

It could be seen from the monitor that Arthur's nervousness was no longer on his face, replaced by another smile, eerie and terrifying.

As if the male protagonist was really standing in front of him, he slowly squatted down into the air and turned his face to the camera.

"How about this time?" Li Guohao looked at Wayne and Bruce Rosenblum anxiously. "Sorry, I thought this clown would be similar to the one in the previous film, so I practiced in private for several days!"

The producers were also watching the monitors and cameras. Generally speaking, the difficulty of the clown's performance was countless times easier than that of Arthur. There were basically no problems with his second performance.

He nodded to Wayne and Schwartz, indicating there was nothing wrong on his end.

"Lee, go back and wait for the notification. We will notify your agent of the audition results within three days." Wayne's tone was not very good. He didn't expect that he could almost screw up such a simple role and performance.

"OK, thanks!"

After walking out of the conference room, Li Guohao felt a little downcast and gave himself a chest beat. He was not sure about the performance he had just performed. I thought he would be another neurotic character with complex emotions, but he didn't expect that it was actually much simpler than he prepared.

The emotions he had finally absorbed before the audition completely became a burden on his performance. He thought that this role must be his. He inquired with Schwartz and found out that it was Wayne who asked him to participate in the audition.

This film is very important to him. He has already participated in the previous film as a stuntman and stuntman, and witnessed with his own eyes how Nicolas Cage became popular in the United States. But the opportunity finally came, but I screwed it up!

"Lee, what's the result?" Agent Jeremy Tamir is also full of confidence in his performance. Normally, with the relationship between his client and the crew, there will be no surprises in this role.

"Jamie." Li Guohao said with a very ugly expression as he walked out of the studio. "I messed up!"

"What?" Jeremy Tamir couldn't believe it as he chased his client. "Hey, hey, Lee."

"You should understand that this is Wayne Greenberg's masterpiece next year! It is a hit film that countless media, film critics and fans are looking forward to! We have to find a way. If you can star in this film, all the shit after that will We will never discriminate against your bloodline again!"

At the door of the studio, the manager grabbed Li Guohao and kept talking to him about the importance.

"Damn it, I don't blame Schwartz and Director Greenberg for this, it's all my fault for being so smart!" He looked at his agent and recounted what had just happened in the audition room.

"Obviously as long as I perform normally, this role will definitely be mine, but because of Arthur's state after practicing for a few days, I performed very poorly due to temporary changes. I was called a clown. I thought..."

"Haven't you read the original work? Lee!" Jeremy Tamir suddenly felt helpless. "I thought you knew, Stephen King's original novel is so famous!"

This is a mistake. After all, Li Guohao is not a pure North American, especially those best-selling writers in North America, and it is impossible to be familiar with them.

The agent and he looked at each other, both feeling like they were being teased about this matter.

"Tell me, should I call Director Greenberg? Maybe he will give me another chance?"

Looking back at the direction of the conference room, Li Guohao asked his agent with some uncertainty. The director's noir films have already made Ethan Hawke, Naomi Watts, Nicolas Cage and others popular, and he himself had the opportunity to ride on this ride.

And not only himself, Li Guohao knew very well how important this opportunity was. There were countless actors and actresses in Hollywood who all wanted to take advantage of this dark director!

"Don't think about it, Lee." The agent patted his arm. "Let's wait for the call first. If we don't receive a notification from the crew before tonight, we are thinking of other ways."

Call that director now? How is it possible? This matter might turn around. Jeremy Tamir has heard about Wayne's attitude towards his clients.

However, before nightfall, they received a call from Bruce Rosenblum, informing them that they could come to Warner Bros. tomorrow to negotiate a contract.

This role finally fell into the hands of Li Guohao, and it was not as he feared.

While the crew was busy preparing and auditioning, accountant Colin Howard brought good news to Wayne. Warner Bros.'s first director's share had arrived.

"Joker" has now been canceled in most regions around the world, with only a few remote areas still showing, but the global box office has surpassed the first place on the global box office list.

Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" follows closely behind, and its box office is about to exceed that of most countries in the world. All countries have a deep understanding of the influence of Hollywood blockbusters.

This time, Warner Bros. paid the first share of US$20 million to Wayne's studio account. This is also the first time that theaters pay Warner for box office share. Subsequent shares will be paid after the film is completely released.

However, Colin Howard has not moved this money this time. He is the main financial person of the negotiating team. Looking at the current progress, not only can this money not be moved, but he is also ready to sell Wayne's stock at any time to raise funds to invest in Warner Bros. .

"If we sell all the stocks, how much money can we raise now?" Wayne asked curiously in front of the accountant who reported the progress of the negotiations to him.

Most of his income in recent years has been invested in the stock market through Colin Howard. Although he has been checking through Nina regularly, he still doesn't know how much money he has.

"About 70 million!" When talking about this, the accountant gave a surprising figure without even checking it. "If we sell our shares in Microsoft and Oracle now, we would probably be worth about 70 million U.S. dollars. Now Internet companies have gone crazy."

"Let's get a loan. Contact the bank for me in advance. It's best to get more loans." Wayne blew out a puff of smoke and wondered if there were more ways to raise money.

Now it seems that loans are a good choice. If you use your house and stocks as collateral, it should not be a problem to raise hundreds of millions of funds in a short time.

"You just need to contact us in advance, but don't worry, let's see how much money we can loan."

"At least hundreds of millions." Colin Howard said confidently.

He knew that his boss was almost as clean as a piece of white paper, except for the loans from these manors that had not yet been repaid. It would not be too difficult for banks to lend money to such customers with good credit and the ability to repay.

And it's a pity to sell those stocks now. They are worse than mortgage loans. Internet company stocks are rising like crazy.

"Wayne, if we continue talking at this rate, we will be almost at the same level as Warner Bros. before the New Year. What exactly do you think?"

When faced with Colin Howard's question, he smiled and said: "Put it off. It's best to wait until after my movie is released next year. There will be bigger surprises then. Remember, get in touch slowly and don't be in a hurry!"

At the end of October, after simple preparations, the crew began to rush to Canada in several batches. Wayne also flew to Canada in advance, preparing to visit the famous Port Hope first.