The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1498 Age Restriction
"Cooperation. Of course, no problem. Now, I mean, we can start right now and get to work right away, if you want."

"I'm ready. So, you're saying that you're ready to join my project, just like that, snap your fingers and appear like Aladdin's magic lamp."

"Wait, you mean my project, 'Children of Men', right? My, uh, my project."

He babbled and stammered, in a panic, and the expectation in his eyes could not be hidden. He spoke incoherently, his left hand holding his right hand and turning it over and over.

Alfonso could not hide his emotions, and like an open book, he revealed them to Anson without reservation.

Anson had a smile in his eyes and a slightly embarrassed expression.

"Uh, yes, you understand correctly, 'Children of Men', I am talking about this project."

"Sorry, please excuse my rusty Spanish. I can hold a normal conversation, I promise, I just need a little time to adjust."

"After all, the speed of Spanish is... wow... a little bit of a shock."

With a small joke, Anson tried to lighten the atmosphere.

Unexpectedly, Alfonso was stunned. Only then did he realize that he was too nervous and anxious, and his Spanish came out blurting out. No wonder Anson looked confused.

Alfonso, "Oh God, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Anson looked at Alfonso, who was full of guilt. He was at a loss as to what to do. Something was wrong. "Actually, you can say this in Spanish. I can understand it."

Now, Alfonso finally understood Anson's joke. He scratched his head nervously, stood there uncomfortably, and gave a shy smile.

Seeing the atmosphere quiet down again, Anson realized that Alfonso was probably not good at socializing, so he took the initiative to take over the conversation.

"Don't you need some time to think carefully?"

"Honestly, I'm not the best actor for this project."

"In the original book, Theodore is a middle-aged man in his forties. This is not a random age setting, because in the original book, no newborns have been born in the world for more than 25 years, so people have long forgotten what a newborn looks like, and Theodore is the same."

"But at the same time, Theodore and his ex-wife once had a child, but he died young. This has always been their regret and the reason for their divorce. It even led the two people to take completely different paths and face death and the disaster of the end of the world in different ways."

“So, age plays a key role here.”

"Also, I'm not British, so I might need professional accent training before joining the crew."

"There are countless actors in Hollywood who are more suitable than me."

Anson was talking and Alfonso was listening, never interrupting. This made Anson a little unsure about what was going on.

A conversation requires a back-and-forth, not a monologue.

When Anson paused, Alfonso looked him up and down. "Excuse me, but how old are you?"

Anson, "Under twenty-three."

Alfonso didn't hide his surprise. "But you looked nothing like that in 'The Sun Is Shining'. I mean, it's completely hard to tell that you're just a high school student."

"In fact, it was also very convincing in 'Cat and Mouse' and 'The Butterfly Effect.'" "If you have read the original book, you should know that I made a lot of adjustments to the story structure."

"In the original book, Theo - I prefer to call him Theo, which comes from the ancient Greek word for God. He is a law-abiding character. The reason he got involved in the activities of his ex-wife's rebellion was because his ex-wife Julian tried to get close to his cousin, the Executor, through him."

"Later, he came into contact with more and more resistance forces, and eventually became the new ruler of Britain."

"The original work tends to analyze society in structure, and it evolved into a political thriller. To be honest, this is not what I am good at. What I am good at is..."

At this point, Alfonso was slightly stunned.

“I don’t know what I’m good at. But in this script, I tried to switch a narrative entry.”

"Juliane found Theo because she needed a pass. Juliane was going to transport a girl away from here, and they needed a pass to pass the checkpoint. Theo had the pass, and even if Theo didn't, he could ask for an art project pass through his cousin."

"The point is not that Theo is trying to change the social structure, but that they need to escort the girl and the baby in her belly off the land."

“So the tone of the story completely changes, and Julianne becomes this nightmare that Theo has to face as a reality.”

“Naturally, Theo’s color and tone are different, and if he’s not going to be the next executive, then he doesn’t need to be forty.”

"On the contrary, his life, which had been stagnant, was stirred up. He reconnected with Julianne and took over Julianne's responsibility to escort the girl and try to leave the UK. This proved that he still had passion and still believed in hope. I think he could be younger."

"Correspondingly, I have been adjusting the details of the script to keep it close to the times. After all, this is a novel published in 1992 and it cannot perfectly match the atmosphere of the current era."

“I set up a scenario where the last baby in the world was born eighteen years ago, which means he had just reached adulthood. The accidental death of this teenager eighteen years ago led to the collapse of faith worldwide, and the shadow of the end of the world became clearer, which also awakened Theo and Julian’s painful memories.”

"So, why don't we assume that the baby is sixteen years old, and he 'died' before he even reached adulthood - I'm not sure about my English, can the death of a sixteen-year-old child be called premature death? But you know what I mean, a sixteen-year-old child who died before he even reached adulthood, which makes the shadow of doomsday hanging over the whole world more real."

"Before this baby, there was actually the second-to-last batch of babies born on Earth. If they were still alive, they would be seventeen years old now. Theo and Julianne's children were from this batch of babies. Unfortunately, they died in childhood. However, because they were not the 'last baby', no one mourned them."

"When this final baby died, all the memories of Theo and Julianne that had died were revived."

"In this case, there is no problem setting Theo and Julianne to be thirty-five years old."

Anson raised his eyebrows slightly, "Wow, so, Theo and Julianne had a baby when they were eighteen?"

Alfonso spread his hands. "It's very common in Mexico. What's more, in the background of the story, the world is being destroyed, and the birth of babies is becoming more and more difficult and rare. There are more and more young people who dare to try and take risks. This is also a reasonable development trend."

Anson had a smile in his eyes.

Alfonso, "I mean, you can definitely play this role. The point is whether you are willing to play such a tired middle-aged man."

"After all, you are..." Alfonso looked him up and down, "You are Anson Wood."

That's the perfect description.

"Are you willing to play the role of a father and a middle-aged man now, and not the romantic role in 'The Sunshine Inside'? If you are willing, I am 100% willing."

(End of this chapter)