"I stood in the kitchen, cutting chicken to prepare dinner.●⌒"

The extremely tall black female walked out of the iron gate, stepped on the rhythm of music, and skillfully came to the camera, and took dance steps around the camera that was rotating at a constant speed of 360 degrees. "I was doing my own thing wholeheartedly, but my husband Webber walked in..."

Although this black female named Mia Valentine looks average, her performance is extremely contagious, showing the deep stage skills of a Broadway actor. She skillfully took the dance steps and slowly turned to the direction facing Duke.

“cut!”

Looking at this angle, Duke immediately discovered something wrong. Valentine was stunned for a moment and asked, "I... did I make a mistake?"

"Mia, you're doing well."

If we talk about acting and singing and dancing alone, this black female lead is Naomi Watts and Catherine Zeta Jones, but the movie is not just acting and singing and dancing. Even if she is the candidate for Velma in "Chicago" released on Broadway in the new performance season, her very ordinary image is destined to be the heroine of the movie.

Duke walked over to Valentine and pointed to her bra, "Who did this? Don't have the next time."

Valentine's outfit was fine, and the micro-micro that should have been stuck in the bra for recording was exposed.

The recording team was dealing with these small issues. Duke called Lily Fred to discuss with her about Valentine's singing and dancing. Her only part of the singing and dancing scenes was very good. According to common sense, this is a good phenomenon, but she is not the heroine. Verma, one of the heroines, will also play later. If she is suppressed by a supporting role, it will inevitably have an impact on the film.

The filming was temporarily interrupted, and Katherine Zeta Jones, who was waiting on the side after putting on makeup, fiddling with her hair cut out. I don’t know what she was thinking, but another actress who also appeared in this scene came over.

"Kate, you should think of something." She whispered.

"Hmm?" Zeta Jones looked at her in discomfort, "Rolla?"

"Don't say you don't know."

The blonde woman named Rora said, "She was snatching your show during rehearsal. She was so excited today. Obviously she wanted to show you something nice. Don't forget that you are the heroine!"

"Thank you, I know what to do."

Although Zeta Jones looked at the black female with cold eyes, she didn't plan to do anything, after spending time together, she knew where the director's bottom line was. It was easy to say in other aspects, if it affected the filming...

Yes. She had a lot of intrigues with people during the rehearsal, but she knew what to do now is the most suitable one.

Seeing Zeta Jones walking towards the director's chair, the smile on the corner of Rora's lips was fleeting. She was also from Broadway, and the first role to be auditioned was Velma.

"Tina, can I talk to Duke?"

Zeta Jones was very smart. Instead of going to Duke stupidly, he walked to Tina Fey. "About the character."

Tina Fei nodded, and after Duke and Lily Fred finished their discussion, she walked closer and asked a few words, waved to the back, and Zeta Jones immediately walked over.

"Is there something wrong?"

Sitting behind the monitor, Duke looked at Zeta Jones in the scene. This woman was really smart. On the eve of the crew's start-up, he took the initiative to find Duke and asked to cut off her long hair to avoid the audience from not seeing her face while singing and dancing.

In this era, long hair can be said to be the second life of actresses, and very few people can do it.

Zeta Jones touched some of Duke's temper. Without going around the circle, he said directly, "I think Mia's excessive force today may affect me."

"I see."

Duke also noticed this issue. Mia Valentine's performance is indeed excellent, but the supporting role is the supporting role.

He pointed to the side, Zeta Jones walked over and sat with Tina Fey, no longer talking, but his eyes were always on the monitor.

"Anna." Duke said to the deputy director, "ready to start filming."

No change was made? Zeta Jones couldn't help but frown, but she still forced herself to sit here. The successful directors all had a paranoid side...

However, after the shooting started, she immediately realized that she was wrong, and Duke obviously made a change, and the change was agreed before she came.

There were not many changes, but Zeta Jones looked over here and there, and the effect taken from the monitor was significantly different from Mia Valentine's infectious performance.

The camera lens is no longer directed towards Mia Valentine, but is taken from a forty-five-degree angle. With the side of Mia Valentine as the capture point, no matter how outstanding she performs, it can only be said to be average when she appears in the camera.

Very simple, isn't it?

Zeta Jones couldn't help but smile. The director could easily destroy the actor's carefully prepared performance by just a little adjustment of the shooting angle. Mia Valentine would probably only see her singing and dancing scenes on the side until the movie was released.

For other shots, Zeta Jones believes that using only her own face can suppress her.

After a song and dance between the two black men ended, Duke shouted to stop, and after ten minutes of rest, he started again and adjusted the camera position again. In the footage shot this time, Mia Valentine's performance was better than just now.

After watching the two shots that were taken again, Duke turned his head and said, "Kate, go and prepare, take your part first."

Then he turned back and shouted to his assistants, "John, the main camera is back in place. Zach, pay attention to the red light you control."

"Anna, inform the other actors to prepare for group dance."

Anna Prinz nodded and turned away. Duke waved to the side, waiting for Lily Fred to walk past, and said, "You control the singing and dancing scenes, my request is still the same, and I must have explosive power."

"I see."

The crew worked hard, and twenty minutes later, Catherine Zeta Jones stood behind the prison gate, and the other actors were in place under the command of Lily Fred.

"Scene 45, Scene 11." The game card in Anna Prinz's hand was placed in front of the camera, "Start now!"

The actors and actresses turned to both sides to highlight the heroine Kathar Zeta Jones, who played Velma, twisted her body and walked out of the crowd.

"My sister Vinika and I were in a duo show, and my husband Charlie was between us..."

This is a very simple monologue shot, Duke shouted through directly, but the next shot encountered some trouble.

A group dance mainly consists of Velma. Because it was rehearsed for several months in advance, it was not a problem to cooperate. Zeta Jones' performance was also OK. Perhaps Mia Valentine's performance was ahead of him, Duke always felt that there was something missing from Velma.

The crew was temporarily stopped, and Duke looked at the footage he had just shot through the monitor, "John...and Kate, come here."

John Schwartzman and Catherine Zeta Jones walked over together. Duke selected the group dance scene of the murderer six. He pressed the pause and pointed to Rolla Young and Mia Valentine on both sides of Zeta Jones and said, "John, adjust the aperture and blur the two of them."

Duke looked at Zeta Jones again, "You can be better!"

"I..." Zeta Jones opened his mouth, but said nothing. In the eyes of the director, actors are always better and no best.

"You are too subtle." Duke frowned and thought for a moment, staring at Zeta Jones and said, "I want your singing to be more explosive, the dance to be more casual and wild, and sing all the anger and dissatisfaction in the character's heart and jump out!"

Duke coldly warned her, "You were overwhelmed by Mia Valentine. This is not the quality that a heroine should have."

Katherine Zeta Jones took a few deep breaths and knew that it would not help at all when he had sex with the director. The only persuasive thing was singing and dancing and performance.

"Can you give me ten minutes?"

Hearing Zeta Jones' words, Duke nodded and sat back in the chair, "Don't let me down, Kate."

Catherine Zeta Jones worked very hard, Duke confirmed this, and after several months of rehearsal, she was very skilled in dancing and singing. Although she was also a professional, no matter how hard she worked, she could not change her talent disadvantages. Her voice and movements were always slightly inferior to black actors with innate advantages.

It is not unreasonable that Mia Valentine can get the role of Velma in the opera.

Ten minutes later, the crew started filming again, and Zeta Jones' performance still couldn't satisfy Duke. If it weren't for John Schwartzmann's use of camera skills to downplay Mia Valentine on her side, the role actor would really be stolen from the limelight after the film was released.

He shouted five times in a row, and Duke didn't say anything, and everyone knew that the problem was with the actors.

“You have a lot of dance dramas too.”

In the temporary resting place of the studio, Naomi Watts was wearing casual clothes and was talking to the agent Nancy, "Are you mentally prepared? Naomi? You should understand Duke's personality, and he will treat you like this. As long as you can't satisfy him, he will keep taking pictures and letting you jump."

Naomi Watts looked at the director who was once familiar and now unfamiliar, "If I had been preparing for this role for two years from the beginning, others thought Duke would fail, but I believe he would succeed, and I would succeed!"

"As long as "Chicago" meets expectations," Nancy seemed to be encouraged, but also seemed to be encouraged. "As the heroine, you can be among the top, or even the top."

"I will show all my abilities!"
Chapter completed!