Chapter 121: This is the feeling I want

In Cao Yang's newly written *Despicable Milk*, the characters almost didn't change, so those future stars chosen before still had the same scenes.

The scenes of Milk's lover, who was also his assistant during the campaign, increased greatly, almost counting as a vase-type female lead.

On this role, Cao Yang initially considered whether to choose a domestic actress to play it. Chinatown in San Francisco is so famous and is also one of the places where the most Chinese people gather in the old U. S.

It makes sense for Milk to have a Chinese lover.

Although there are a lot of passionate scenes, for this role, domestic actresses would definitely fight to the death.

But later, thinking about it—screw that. Why should Milk have a Chinese lover? Even if some "bananas" are very willing, it won't work.

Isn't this smearing the image of Chinese people? Absolutely not.

Then audition. Let those who dare to strip come.

Cao Yang's explanation to the casting company was that this is the male lead's lover. Although it's not the female lead, it is the female role with the heaviest scenes in the whole film.

There are passionate scenes.

There is exposure.

Those who are brave enough to try, come to audition.

As soon as the casting company released the news, many actresses in Hollywood inquired about the role's news.

That is Cao Yang, who produced three European Big Three Best Actresses. For actresses, building a good relationship with such a director is more important than anything else.

Even for Hollywood actresses, if they can win the European Big Three Best Actress, their status and compensation will also increase. How can this not make people tempted?

However, the news they inquired about was that it wasn't the female lead, it was a vase role, and the scenes weren't heavy, which made many actresses who had been famous for a long time and were in a rapid rising period hesitate.

Passionate scenes can be accepted, but if there is exposure, it's a bit not worth it.

If there is a chance to win an Oscar Best Actress or European Big Three Best Actress, then exposure is exposure. But for such a role that clearly can't win an award, let's forget it.

So, only some who wanted to become famous quickly or didn't see hope of rising in status wanted to audition.

Even so, after the casting company screened it once, the list Cao Yang got from the casting company still had more than a dozen people.

Cao Yang looked at it, crossed out the unknown ones, and after only five names remained, he let the casting company notify these people to come to audition.

Keira Knightley—coincidentally, she can be considered the female lead of *Pirates of the Caribbean*, but this film hasn't launched yet.

Rachel Weisz—she was quite famous in the future. Now her fame is average. She acted in *The Mummy*. This is also an actress who dares to expose.

French actress, well, other advantages may not be many, but they are really brave enough to strip. Her French film *The Dreamers* was performed well.

Naomi Watts—this one should be the most famous of the five. She acted in the famous film *Mulholland Drive*.

In two years, this one will make that awesome gorilla hit a plane for her at the Empire State Building—a classic scene.

The last one's fame is very small now, but her fame will be very big in the future.

Anne Hathaway—also an actress who dares to strip, and will participate in many large-scale films in the future.

Among them, in *Love & Other Drugs*, the performance was still very brilliant.

In *Brokeback Mountain*, that two-minute car scene was also worth watching.

The role Cao Yang wanted to audition for didn't have heavy scenes—a vase role. Choosing which one is actually fine. Since that's the case, why not choose the one with the biggest fame in the future?

So, Anne Hathaway was finalized. Actually, before the actress was finalized, several actresses who auditioned had contacted Cao Yang, saying they wanted to go to Cao Yang's office at night to sit and ask for advice on acting.

Cao Yang couldn't help but think of one thing: Harvey Weinstein's famous "red sofa" incident in the future—who was the active one?

Anyway, those actresses who broke the news all said that Harvey Weinstein called them to talk about work, and then harassed them, and they swore not to follow...

Cao Yang rejected several people. For those not used, there was no need to engage in this set.

As for the finalized role, acting on the occasion is also not impossible.

In early September, the film officially started shooting.

To be honest, Depp is indeed a bit evil. If you let him play that kind of slightly neurotic role, or a slightly gloomy role, he will definitely perform it vividly and perform very well.

But for a sunny, upright role, he always feels unsatisfactory.

In *Despicable Milk*, the protagonist is a role that looks sunny and passionate on the surface, but is gloomy, sullen, and slightly perverted in private.

So, he can perform the other face that doesn't appear in front of people very well, but when he needs to be sunny and passionate, he is a bit lacking.

When shooting Milk's campaign speech, Depp NG'd again and again, and always couldn't pass.

!

Fortunately, what was being shot today was his speech in the neighborhood. At the beginning, only two or three people were needed underneath, and then people would be attracted by the speech and gather more and more.

The scenes with more and more people gathering weren't shot today. That shot was shot together with other shots that required many extras. When the time came, they only needed to change clothes, and it would still be those people, just appearing in different scenes.

Cao Yang wasn't in a hurry about this situation of constant NG. He still had Role-Immersion Experiences that he hadn't added to Depp.

So, Cao Yang called Depp over and patiently coached him on how to perform here.

Starting over, Depp performed better, but still couldn't reach the desired effect.

Cao Yang called him over again, then explained to him how to perform the character, the character's psychological activities here, etc.

Depp was clearly very moved. He didn't expect Cao Yang to be so patient.

NG again. Even if Depp had a bad temper and was irritable in his heart, he still kept apologizing to the staff. If it were before, this was something he couldn't do.

It was all because of Cao Yang's patience, coaching him over and over again, that he felt the same way.

"Sorry, Director, I, I still can't perform the effect you want," Depp apologized to Cao Yang.

Cao Yang smiled and waved his hand. "It doesn't matter, Depp. You have already made great progress. Your speech is already full of passion, just lacking a little bit of a kind expression."

After hearing Cao Yang's words, Gu Changwei was stunned. Was what Cao Dao said true? Why didn't I feel that this guy had any progress?

Hmm, there was a little bit, at least the lines were spoken more smoothly.

However, was Cao Dao's requirement too high this time? This guy performed quite well sometimes.

They shot like this for three days. Cao Yang had been patiently coaching Depp, and Depp was NG'd to the point of doubting life.

He sometimes felt that he had performed very well, but he just couldn't pass.

Sometimes he felt he had performed very well, but he just couldn't pass.

Seeing that the heat was almost there, the whole crew knew that Cao Yang had been coaching and guiding Depp. After returning at night, Cao Yang didn't hesitate to add a Role-Immersion Experience to Depp.

After hesitating for a moment, since this film decided to impact the Cannes Palme d'Or and also wanted to perform well in Hollywood, then add another one to Depp. Only when his expressiveness is good can the whole film be more brilliant.

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