Chapter 702 Fan Binbin's Training Results
When he persuaded Fan Binbin and Li Binbin to leave Huayi, Zhang Ran made a promise to let them participate in Hollywood movies. Last year, Li Binbin made a soy sauce in the Hollywood movie "The Supernatural", and it was Fan Binbin's turn this year.
The movie Fan Binbin wants to make a so-called "Edge of Tomorrow", which will play Lance, a member of the J team, who is the role played by Charlotte Lai in the previous life.
Five months ago, Fan Binbin received an invitation from the crew of "Edge of Tomorrow" to audition. After a round of auditions, director Doug Lieman introduced the role of Lance and asked: "I need to put down all the work at hand and leave home to complete the fully closed action and performance training for half a year. Are you willing?" Fan Binbin nodded: "Yes." Doug Lieman asked again: "You are not the only candidate, there are other competitors, but you won't tell you who it is. After the half-year training is over, will you still be willing?" Fan Binbin nodded again: "I am willing!"
After that, for five months, Fan Binbin disappeared from the public's perspective, only showing off when Xie Jin passed away. During these five months, she even changed phone calls and broke off contact with her friends. She only had the only thing to close training for "Edge of Tomorrow" in her life.
Fan Binbin's mysterious disappearance aroused great curiosity among netizens, and various rumors emerged one after another. It was not until a New York international student revealed that she saw Fan Binbin in New York that everyone knew where she was. However, this not only did not dispel everyone's doubts, but instead caused more speculation. Some people even said that Fan Binbin was seen in a hospital in New York, and her belly was very big. So, everyone began to guess who the child was. Half of the entertainment industry was shot, and even Zhang Ran was shot twice.
When Zhang Ran walked into the training hall, he saw Fan Binbin at a glance. She was the only one in the yellow race at the scene, which was easy to identify.
At this moment, Fan Binbin was training with the line coach in a London accent. Their training method was quite strange. The two of them stood face to face, staring at each other and repeatedly saying the same sentence, "Are you talking to me?"
Ordinary people may find this scene strange or even feel sick, so why do they repeat it in one sentence? However, Zhang Ran knew that this is one of the two most basic and important training methods in Metzler's technique. He was a little surprised when he repeated the exercises. Unexpectedly, Fan Binbin received training from the Metzler school in the United States.
The Metzler school is an American method school. In addition to Strasberg and Strastra Adler, another genre with a relatively large influence is that actors such as Diane Keaton, Gregory Parker, and Sandra Brock are from this school.
However, Zhang Ran has no good feelings for this school and is completely unacceptable to their concepts. The Metsler school's concepts are very different from other schools. They believe that when an actor performs, he should not focus on the role he plays, but should rely on his own practical experience to make a real and instinctive reaction to external stimuli. For example, if you do nothing, you poke you with a needle, you really hurt. This is the best performance.
Simply put, this school's performance emphasizes improvisation, which makes it a bit like Wong Kar-wai's filming movies. Of course, the actors trained by this school are also very good.
However, in Zhang Ran's opinion, the biggest problem in this school is that when acting, we need good opponents, and we all stimulate each other and achieve each other. If we face awesome actors like Feng Yuanzheng and Chen Daoming, there will be no problem; but if you act opposite Angelababy, Yang Fan, and Liu Shishi, how can you still act in this drama?
Zhang Ran smiled and applauded Fan Binbin: "Binbin, the London accent is very authentic, and he is becoming more and more international. I haven't practiced these few months in vain!"
When Fan Binbin saw Zhang Ran, he looked surprised and said to the line coach. Yu Xiaoran walked over: "Director, why have you come to New York?"
"There is something to do. When you hear that you are doing special training here, come and have a look!" Zhang Ran looked at the muscles on Fan Binbin's arm, and remembered a sentence from "Water Margin". He stood on his fist and walked on his arm. He felt like a real man with iron blood. He couldn't help but smile, "It's not bad, I've trained it. Now you are the most heavyweight actress among Chinese actresses!"
"Oh, director, you're making fun of me!" Fan Binbin said coquettishly.
After chatting for a few words, Fan Binbin sent an invitation with anticipation: "Director, I'll treat you to dinner tonight!"
Zhang Ran laughed at this: "Okay, I originally said to invite you, but now I've saved it. I like to eat free food in my life and I like to invite me the most."
Fan Binbin giggled: "Then we're going to make a decision! I don't know what you want to eat?"
Zhang Ran shrugged: "You are the master, so of course you are making the decision. Anyway, I will be with you today!"
Fan Binbin thought for a while and said, "Then let's go to Chinatown to eat hot pot. I haven't eaten hot pot for a long time. I really want to eat it. When it comes to hot pot, I drool!"
Zhang Ran nodded: "That's it!"
Soon, Fan Binbin started training again and said over and over again, "Are you talking to me?" Zhang Ran did not leave either. While watching Fan Binbin's training, he whispered to her agent and asked about their training situation during this period.
At 6 pm, Fan Binbin completed the training, and came out of the training hall with Zhang Ran, and drove to a hot pot restaurant in Chinatown.
After entering the hot pot restaurant, Zhang Ran and the others found a remote location to sit down, called the waiter to order the dishes and started eating.
Zhang Ran asked while eating: "You have been training for five months, how do you feel?"
Fan Binbin chuckled indifferently and said, "I couldn't stand it at the beginning. I felt very hard and tired. Moreover, I didn't have any Chinese food in my place, so I couldn't do it. I was so tired and moved on the way home several times when I was so tired that I couldn't move. Why did I come to the United States to suffer this foreign crime? Not only was I a small supporting role, but I hadn't decided yet. In the end, it's not necessarily mine. Why am I doing so hard? What am I doing?"
Zhang Ran did not comment on this, but just listened quietly, as if thinking.
Fan Binbin breathed a sigh of relief. If he hadn't thought that the protagonist of the movie was Tom Cruise, he hadn't thought that he had the opportunity to play opposite Cruise, or he had the opportunity to enter Hollywood, he might have given up long ago: "But later I got used to it, and I gradually felt a sense of peace and joy from the bottom of my heart, and now I even enjoyed this kind of life. In a place, no one knows me, and I stayed quietly, without so many open and secret fights, nor so many intrigues, which was very comfortable! Sometimes I think that it would be great to live like this!"
Zhang Ran thought of his sharp eyes, as if he could see Fan Binbin's heart. Fan Binbin did feel calm, and this cannot be performed, it comes from his inner strength. He was a little surprised. It seemed that Fan Binbin had gained some gains in the past few months of training. He nodded slightly and said, "For actors, mentality is more important than skills. Many actors have no problem with skills, but they have too many in their hearts. The performance is out of control and cannot grasp this level accurately. This is why most actors can only complete their transformation until they are in their forties and fifties and be able to be free to restrain and be free to restrain and be free to restrain and be free to restrain and be free to restrain and be free to. Because when they are in their forties and fifties, they have seen through many things and let go of their obsessions. Just like the peerless master in martial arts novels, they can return to nature and be free to restrain and be free to restrain and be free to restrain and be free to. If you have this kind of insight now, then your performance should be up to the next level!"
Fan Binbin's eyes were curved into two crescent moons, and his expression was very excited: "Really? Director, then you will come to me for the next movie, and I will never let you down!"
Zhang Ran thought that despite some changes, Fan Binbin was still the one in his heart. He smiled faintly: "Tomorrow you go to say goodbye to the school teacher and then go to Los Angeles. This morning, I spoke to Robert Freman with the phone and told me that the role of Lance is determined, it is you! They have seen your efforts over the past few months, and they all like you very much!"
Fan Binbin was stunned for a moment, tears gushed out, and he burst into tears.
For the past five months, she has gotten up early in the morning and drove to the actor training studio for two hours at 7:30 after breakfast. The four-hour training in the morning included basic limb stretching, and slowly took the props and firearms that she might use in the movie. After lunch, she was a performance class. Starting from the most basic relaxation training, including English line practice, and after dinner, she was a fitness class, and after dinner, she was a practice until nightfall.
During these five months, Fan Binbin continued to train regularly, and trained himself from a graceful girl to a true man with an iron-blooded body. He gained 30 kilograms in total, and now he weighed nearly 130 kilograms and was covered in muscles.
But all this was not in vain. She finally won this opportunity. At this moment, all the grievances and sadness turned into tears, and the huge sense of happiness filled her heart.
This is Chinatown, and most of the people who come to eat are Chinese. Zhang Ran and the others were sitting in a remote communication but did not attract everyone's attention, but Fan Binbin's cry attracted everyone's attention and was immediately recognized.
"Isn't this Zhang Ran! Fan Binbin is here too. Why is Fan Binbin crying? Damn, it seems that he has an affair!"
Someone took out his Apple phone and started secretly taking pictures and posting them on Weibo.
Zhang Ran looked around and said helplessly: "Binbin, your crying not only made myself cry on the headlines, but also made me cry on the headlines. I guess tomorrow the newspaper is full of news such as 'Zhang Ran's night meeting in New York, Fan Binbin burst into tears'!"
Fan Binbin then remembered that this was in Chinatown. Looking around, countless eyes were focused on his table. He quickly wiped his tears and apologized in a low voice: "I'm really sorry to the director, I've caused you trouble!"
It's all like this, and Zhang Ran doesn't have any idea. Besides, no one else did it on purpose: "Forget it, I've been accustomed to being shot in so many years. And this is also an opportunity. You can hype it up for "Edge of Tomorrow" and my new film!"
Fan Binbin covered his mouth and chuckled: "Director, I didn't expect you to hype it too!"
Zhang Ran rolled his eyes: "How fresh, I'm also good at the entertainment industry. Normal hype in the entertainment industry is necessary, but malicious hype will be very bad!" At this point, he glanced at Fan Binbin.
At almost nine o'clock, Zhang Ran and the others came out of the restaurant. Fan Binbin and his assistant drove Zhang Ran to the hotel. Zhang Ran got out of the car and said good night. Just as he was about to go upstairs, Fan Binbin smiled at him: "Why, don't you invite me to come up and sit?"
Zhang Ran was slightly stunned and smiled at her and said, "It's too late. I'm going to take a plane to Boston tomorrow morning. I want to rest early. You have a lot of things tomorrow, so you should rest early too!"
Fan Binbin looked at Zhang Ran's eyes, but Zhang Ran did not avoid her gaze. He was gentle and confident, but he could not see anything from his eyes. She thought to herself, she was really a person who couldn't understand. Yanran smiled and said, "Then you rest early, I'll go back."
Just as Fan Binbin and his assistant returned, Zhang Ran and Fan Binbin had dinner together, and the photos of Fan Binbin crying were posted on Weibo by netizens, which caused an uproar on the Internet.
Chapter completed!