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Chapter 196 Finalizing the Female Lead

Noting some of this person's outstanding strengths, Huang Ze lowered his head to glance at his resume.

Jennifer Connelly.

Forehead!
It's her!
That's not as stunning as Deborah in Once Upon a Time in America a few years ago.

However, she is thinner than the plump figure she had in her twenties, and she even had to undergo surgery to reduce one of her enviable and drool-worthy advantages. Now at the age of 18, she is thinner.

To sum up, it is the pinnacle of appearance.

"It would be better if you could lose a little weight!" Huang Ze said directly, "If you are given this role, can you lose 5 kilograms in a month and a half?"

"No problem!" Jennifer Connelly nodded quickly.

Controlling weight is an essential quality for an actor.

This role is also very important to her and is worth her full efforts!
"Once Upon a Time in America" ​​did make her famous in the film and television industry.

But she was fourteen years old at that time, which could be said to be the tail end of her child star period.

Entering adolescence and now adulthood, this is the real test of her acting career.

If you are not careful, it will completely slip.

In the past, there was Shirley Temple, and recently there is Brooke Shields.

She didn't want to follow in his footsteps.

Then the first movie shot as an adult is very important.

She knew Huang Ze, but she knew more about him as a singer. It was not until her agent told her that Huang Ze was looking for a female lead for his new film that she thoroughly understood Huang Ze's career as a director.

He won the Golden Lion Award when he was less than 30 years old. His previous work "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" sold more than 50 million US dollars worldwide. His debut work was "Good Will Hunting". Later, Warner found Tom Cruise to remake the Hollywood version, which earned nearly 100 million yuan at the box office.

Looking through his resume, there are only two words to describe it: scary!
There is no defeat at all.

He wrote the script for Pulp Fiction himself, and Jennifer Connelly has a feeling that the box office of the film will not be lower than that of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

And if the box office is like that, her leap from a child star to a serious adult actor will be a sure thing.

"Even losing more weight is fine!" Jennifer Connelly said with determination in order to get the role.

"You don't need that much. Five kilograms is enough."

"Okay, can you dance the swing dance?"

"Is that so?" Jennifer Connelly raised her hands and imitated.

A little unfamiliar, but coordinated enough.

"Oh, that's right!" Huang Ze remembered that his most classic scene was dancing. If he didn't have enough coordination, he couldn't dance. That was not a big problem. "In the last scene, you have to play a person who overdosed on illegal drugs."

"..."

Jennifer Connelly is stuck.

No life experience!
She had heard that some classmates would take contraband drugs, but she had never seen that!

What does it feel like when you inhale it?
"I haven't seen it before, can I try it with my imagination?"

"Please." Huang Ze made a inviting gesture.

Then, the other party picked up Huang Ze's pen and made a gesture of sucking something with a straw, then he turned over and lay on the ground, twitching all over.

Trembling.

No, it's shaking.

All in all it was wonderful.

Ah!
What did I see!

I am a person of high moral standards, and even if I did some bad things, it was because I was forced to do so.

This is not something a gentleman like me should watch. Huang Ze stopped Jennifer, "That's enough! Go out and wait for the news first, don't leave. Whether you are selected or not, we will give you an answer."

If there is no better choice, it's basically her.

In fact, after interviewing the remaining three, Huang Ze did not see any familiar faces.

That’s decided.

Huang Ze asked the assistant director to call Jennifer Connelly in and extended his hand to her, "Congratulations! The role of the heroine is yours."

"Thank you, thank you, Huang." Jennifer Connelly grinned.

"Don't thank me yet." Huang Ze shook his head, "Five kilograms! If you can't lose weight, I might have to recast this role."

"In addition, you need to do a lot of things in the next month and a half. You need to watch more scenes of smoking contraband, observe the more unruly friends around you, and do swing dancing. Of course, our professional dance teacher will teach you this, and he will only teach you the part of the dance that you need."

"You don't need to dance very well, just enough sense of rhythm is enough."

"I will definitely do it!"

"Well! Do your best!"

Finally, all the actors who would appear for a longer time were gathered together. Time was running out, so Huang Ze handed the rest of the preparation work to Tommy, Quentin, and Liu Weiqiang. The three of them went to scout locations according to the storyboard and prepared props and so on.

If three people have different opinions, the minority shall obey the majority.

Anyway, he wouldn't be able to stay back for a few days, so Huang Ze felt that the three of them wouldn't mess things up so easily.

Besides, there's Quentin here.

After giving Quentin some emphatically instructions, Huang Ze flew back to Hong Kong Island.

……

At the end of October, Huang Ze and Gong Xing came to Pan Disheng's villa arm in arm, holding invitations.

His wedding with Yang Ziqiong was held here.

"Welcome! Director Huang, Mrs. Huang." Pan Disheng and Yang Ziqiong were at the entrance of the wedding venue to greet the guests. When they saw Huang Ze, they reached out and held his hand. "I heard that you went to Hollywood to make a movie? Try to shock them."

"Hahaha, then I'd like to borrow your auspicious words for the newlyweds. Congratulations! I wish you a happy marriage!" Huang Ze laughed and stopped disturbing the other party and walked in.

As soon as he entered, Huang Ze saw an acquaintance.

Of course, familiarity only means being familiar with his face and his name.

In terms of true relationship, we haven't even talked.

Instead, there are more competitors.

The man was thin, in his eighties, and wore glasses.

It was none other than Shao Yifu, also known as Uncle Shao Liu.

Well, logically speaking, it is necessary to have a chat.

After all, they are both in the film and television industry, and the other party is from Ningbo and also lived in Shanghai when he was young.

But wasn't TVB just suppressed by Justice Bao? When I came back, I checked with ATV and found that Justice Bao had declined, but it still occupied 55% of the market share.

If I go to see Shao Yifu now, will he think I am provoking him?
Therefore, Huang Ze decided to keep his troops in place.

What I didn't expect was that the other person walked towards me with a smile.

Then they had to talk. Huang Ze also walked over with a smile and shook the other party's outstretched hand with both hands, "Uncle Shao Liu, hello, seeing is believing!"

"Just speak your local dialect!" Shao Yifu spoke Ningbo dialect. Ningbo dialect and Shanghai dialect are actually not much different, and people from both places can basically understand each other.

"You guys did a great job with the production of Justice Bao!"

"No, no." Huang Ze smiled, "TVB still has a deeper foundation, and the audience prefers watching TVB. Programs like this can only achieve half of the market share."

(End of this chapter)