Chapter 20 The hard work of acting
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Ring--
The alarm clock suddenly rang, Matthew opened his eyes, reached out to turn on the switch, and the desk lamp lit up softly. Although it was pitch black outside the window, he put on his clothes and quickly got up, walked towards the bathroom, and shouted to his roommate who was still sleeping soundly, "Mac! Get up!"
Michael Sheean tried hard to open his eyes and asked, "It's time?"
Matthew's voice came from the bathroom, "Hurry up!"
Today, the war scenes officially started. We don’t sleep until dawn like we did a few days ago. Helen Hermann reminded him last night that he had to get up at three in the morning and rushed to the set outside the town before four o’clock.
When Michael Sheehn got up, Matthew had finished washing.
"I'll go and occupy the seat first." He opened the door, "waiting for you in the restaurant."
"Okay..." Michael Sheeen stretched.
The second floor of the hotel was quiet, as if not many people had gotten up yet. Matthew followed the stairs to the first floor. After entering the restaurant, he found that the buffet breakfast had been set up. He chose a few of them and walked towards the dining area. In the small restaurant, there was only one person eating.
Matthew walked over, "Good morning, Helen."
The only person to eat was Helen Herman, who remembered the company's first client and nodded, "Good morning, Matthew."
"Can I sit here?" Matthew motioned for the seat opposite her.
Helen Hermann had no intention of refusing, "Sit as you like."
Matthew put down the dining plate, pulled open the chair, sat opposite Helen Hermann, and casually said, "You get up earlier than the actor every day."
"You observed it very carefully." Helen Hermann meant something.
These days, Matthew has indeed paid special attention to Helen Hermann and appears in front of her from time to time.
It was obvious that Helen Hermann noticed, but Matthew was not embarrassed at all and said directly, "I'm just a little curious that you can actually get the role of the "Gladiator" crew."
Helen Hermann smiled formulaicly, "Good luck."
Seeing that she didn't want to say it, Matthew stopped asking and focused on dealing with breakfast. He probably would have to be busy all day today.
Halfway through breakfast, someone entered the restaurant one after another. Helen Hermann put down his knife and fork, picked up a tissue and wiped his mouth, stood up and said casually, "I'm done, you continue."
Matthew had Bacon stuffed in his mouth and was inconvenient to speak, so he simply nodded to her.
As soon as Helen Herman left, Michael Sheehan hurried over with a plate, sat next to Matthew, and asked curiously, "I just saw the Angel's boss here, what are you talking about? Are you going to fuck her?"
Matthew gave him a pair of eyeballs, "Do you think this is possible?"
"Impossible!" Michael Sheehn asked muttered, "What are you talking about?"
Matthew didn't hide it, saying, "I asked her how she got these characters."
There is more than one curious person, and Michael Sheehn is also very concerned, "Have you asked?"
"No." Matthew shook his head, "This woman is very tight."
After breakfast, they came outside the hotel. The night sky was dark and the streets were brightly lit. Nearly fifty extras from the Angel Company quickly gathered together. Under the leadership of Helen Hermann and her assistant Amanda, they left the town and came to the edge of the woods.
Countless headlights were raised around the woods, dispelling the darkness of the night sky and illuminating a large area nearby as bright as day. More than 20 makeup trailers lined up horizontally, and more than fifty makeup artists and their assistants were already in place.
Standing outside the makeup trailer, Matthew saw Helen Hermann say a few words with the bearded man, and then walked back.
"We are divided into two teams now!" Helen Herman said loudly, "One team follows Amanda to put on makeup! The other team goes with me to change clothes!"
The extras quickly divided into two teams. Michael Sheen wanted to go to the makeup team, but Matthew pulled him into the queue for changing clothes.
"What are you doing there? We all have to stick our beards on our faces."
After the rehearsal ended yesterday, Matthew asked someone to inquire, "It's not yet four in the morning, and the crew will start filming after nine o'clock at the earliest. Is it comfortable to stick glue to the face for five hours?"
Michael Sheeen quickly stood in Matthew's team.
It is very troublesome to make epic movies, especially the actors' styling. Matthew has not been idle in the past few days except for rehearsals. He has been talking to many assistants or handymen. Although they are temporary actors, they come to queue up to make makeup and styling before four o'clock, the main actors will not come to the set after seven o'clock. The male protagonist Russell Clow is a famous and difficult-to-serve star. It is common for him to be late for more than ten minutes or even half an hour.
This is the privilege of celebrities.
After joining three crews, Matthew discovered that it was a matter of time. It seemed that extras or ordinary actors were waiting hard, and big-name stars were late.
He has only been to three crews, and I don’t know if this is a common phenomenon.
Matthew lined up and walked towards the trailer where the costume team was located. At four o'clock in the morning, the entire Gladiator crew was running all their strength.
In today's era, "Gladiator" can definitely be regarded as a production of A-List in Hollywood, especially this war scene, which uses more than a thousand actors, plus staff from various departments of the crew, and this small area has concentrated more than 2,500 people.
As they lined up by the trailer in many departments, Matthew saw it clearly, like a large machine that was running accurately, and the entire crew was in order without any sign of panic.
"Is this the crew of the big industrial era?"
Compared to the behemoth like the "Gladiator" crew, the "Soul-Escaped Girl" crew can only be regarded as a little sparrow.
The team arrived near several trailers in the costume group and gradually stopped moving. Matthew waited quietly, with hundreds of extras gathered here. Even if the crew was more efficient, they would have to wait for a while.
It took more than an hour to wait until the sky was white, and it was Matthew's turn to enter the trailer. The extras played passers-by and there was no special design. The costumer looked at his figure, found a dress-up piece of cloth, and took a shawl of imitation fur to help Matthew change it.
The clothes were a little small and not very fit, but the role of passers-by was not so particular. The costumer looked at it again and patted Matthew on the arm, "Okay!"
Finally, Matthew changed into shabby shoes and walked out of the trailer like a barbarian.
"Go over there to put on makeup." Helen Hermann was waiting near the trailer, pointing out the direction, "Hurry up."
"good!"
Matthew responded and lined up in front of the nearby makeup trailer. His costume was a bit thick. Fortunately, Los Angeles in March was cool in the morning. If such a scene was done in summer, the extras would be so hard that they would probably be so hot.
When it was dawn, it was finally Matthew's turn to put on makeup. Sitting in front of the makeup trailer, a female makeup artist first made one of his medium and short hair into a mess, and then called the assistant next to him to put a beard on Matthew's face.
Matthew has watched many Hollywood commercial epic movies, and the male characters on it left the deepest impression on him, that is, whether it is handsome or ugly, most of them have beards.
This uncivilized Germanic barbarian is no exception.
The assistant found a fake beard with a basically the same color as Matthew's hair, and began to use special glue to stick it on his face. Unlike Matthew imagined, the beards were not sticking one by one, but the finished product was glued to his face.
With so many extras, if one mustache and one mustache stick, these fifty makeup artists and their assistants will probably be busy until this time of tomorrow.
Matthew guessed that the sticky beard should be the treatment that only the main actors can enjoy.
His beard was glued and he applied some ghost-painted talismans on his face. Over time, even if the glue on his face was for makeup, it made him feel uncomfortable.
But he could not scratch or scratch with his hands, otherwise his style would be ruined and he could only endure it.
Finally, Matthew came to the prop group and received the weapons used by the barbarians.
This was much sooner. A prop master saw that he was tall and strong, so he specially gave him a two-handed battle axe. The double-edged axe looked quite powerful, but Matthew was very light in his hand. He was not a metal product at all. He was probably made of plastic or resin, and at most it was only five or six kilograms.
At this point, a mighty barbarian warrior was successfully released.
Carrying the mighty two-handed battle axe, Matthew, guided by the crew, came to the edge of the woods and accompanied the other actors to wait for the filming to begin.
Matthew asked someone to ask, it was already past eight o'clock in the morning!
It took more than four hours from the time I joined the group at less than four o'clock to the completion of the styling, and most of the time was waiting.
My legs are sore, my feet are a little numb, and some people are even tired and sleepy.
But if you want to appear in the video, even if it flashes by, you have to continue waiting.
Time passed slowly, and the sun was rising higher and higher. Matthew could see that the cameras, booms, tracks and other equipment were all set up, and it seemed that shooting could be started at any time.
The bearded man walked over with an old white man in his fifties and sixties, and Helen Hermann followed them, looking very familiar.
"Okay, guys!" The bearded man showed his high voice, "Go up and prepare to start shooting!"
He looked at the old white man, nodded when he saw the other party, and said loudly, "Okay, prepare now! Follow what we rehearsed."
"Quick!" Matthew felt that someone was pulling it. It turned out to be Michael Sheehn, "That old man is Ridley Scott! Let's move forward!"
Not only Michael Sheehan, but many of the extras seem to have such ideas, wanting to squeeze in to the front, as if this can appear in the camera, leaving a deep impression on a great director like Ridley Scott.
Michael Sheehn is an activist. He took advantage of his height and strength and fought hard on his shoulders. He wanted to grab the person who was one shorter in front and squeezed into the tree, then grabbed another person's clothes, and appeared in front of him at the front of the entire queue.
He seemed impatient to appear in front of Ridley Scott.
Chapter completed!