Chatty Hollywood

Until she officially joined the crew, Natalie did not find what she felt was the perfect performance feeling.

Of course, you can't say that you don't feel anything at all. However, compared to the roles she has performed in the past, Natalie always feels underprepared.

This made her a little lack of confidence when facing the guide in charge of Charlotte.

In this situation--

"Cut!"

——Nature has become a very natural result.

Charlotte couldn't help but be speechless.

Having coached so many actors, he could naturally see the timidity deep inside Natalie at a glance.

He realized that although Natalie Portman was the kind of person who cut her face to reveal black inside, she was not very good at performing this true character.

On the contrary, she is better at repressed ascetic characters.

——To a certain extent, it is more in line with Natalie's relatively flat figure.

But the problem is, what Charlotte needs is the black swan-like character of "Matilda"...

"Fortunately, I was prepared!"

Charlotte was thinking in her mind, but she didn't call Natalie over to give her some advice, as she had done in the past when directing inexperienced actors during filming.

On the contrary, he let the other party cut without caring, and instead pointed to Jesse Eisenberg on the side.

Jesse Eisenberg, nicknamed "Curly" and "Curly" in Charlotte's original time and space, is particularly good at portraying the image of a slightly neurotic and evil otaku.

In David Fincher's "The Social Network", Jesse Eisenberg played Mark Zuckerberg, and he played the founder of Facebook very well.

Later, in "Batman v Superman", he became the only Lexer Luthor with hair in the DC comic movies because of his characteristic curly hair.

——Even if you don’t stick to it until the end.

In general,

Charlotte feels that Jesse Eisenberg is a relatively talented actor. Although in the later stages, it may be a little difficult for him to break through the limitations of the image of an evil and neurotic otaku, but for Charlotte, this is enough.

What's more, in the original "Now You See Me", Jesse Eisenberg was also the leading actor.

In this case, Charlotte felt that it was okay to guide the other party in advance so that they could meet her own requirements.

In particular, Charlotte also shot the two movies "Blackjack" and "Now You See Me" together this time, which put forward better selection requirements for the actors' acting skills——

After all, one moment you may be killing everyone in Las Vegas, and the next moment you may be a magician, performing disappearing magic in front of a large audience.

——This requires actors to have high switching abilities.

In fact, this is the biggest difficulty for Charlotte's filming this time. Both Charlotte herself and the other actors who have accepted the two film appointments understand this.

However, understanding does not mean being able to do it. At least, Jesse Eisenberg and Natalie Portman, as the protagonists, are not very good at this aspect.

In this regard, Charlotte adopted a method of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude——

Yes, his deliberate play on Natalie Portman was his way of guiding her.

After all, for a scheming girl who has been working in Hollywood since she was a child, has worked with many famous directors, and is smart and cunning, talking about drama in the ordinary sense is actually not of much use.

——Natalie Portman’s acting style has been formed, and it is not easy to break and reshape it.

It is not easy for all actors to break through the bottleneck of acting skills, and the more intelligent, rational and sophisticated an actor is, the more difficult it is to break through.

In Sherlock's view, this is actually a kind of knowledge barrier. Excessive thinking and rationality can sometimes become obstacles to improving acting skills.

In contrast, actors who think less and are more emotional are sometimes more likely to break through themselves.

Especially at the top, most of the acting masters in Hollywood and Europe are sentimentalists who cannot live without going crazy.

——Just like the former couple Daniel Day-Lewis and Isabella Adjani.

Not only does the former have various mental problems, she will completely transform into a character after entering the drama, and she will not recognize her relatives. The latter is recognized as a lunatic among European and American actresses, and the experience of their relationship is explained to the world. It's amazing how much two emotional actors can destroy each other.

——Of course, it also once again confirmed the fact that emotional good actors are often scumbags. After all, it is not something ordinary people can do without telling their girlfriends directly about breaking up...

In short, these years of directing experience have allowed Charlotte to fully realize that an actor's acting talent is often inversely proportional to his wealth and directly proportional to his scumbag level.

Of course, there are not no counterexamples, but at least with Natalie Portman, Charlotte feels that the rule she summarized has not been broken——

The Nagashima girl's all-black scheming makes her tend to subconsciously control the scope of her performance - this is why the roles she played in the past often have a "contained" feeling.

As she gets older and has more thoughts on her mind, Natalie's "containment" or "suppression" becomes more and more obvious, and has even become a characteristic of her performance. This is why many people think this " Matilda" lost her spirituality when she grew up.

In fact, to a certain extent, it can be said that Natalie Portman's character has an inevitable impact on her performance style.

And there are no other ways to break through this influence - after all, Natalie is not the only scheming girl in Hollywood.

However, no matter how you put it, this is a breakthrough in acting skills. It can be said that it is not an easy thing to break out of a cocoon and become a butterfly——

This not only requires a lot of time, but also requires the actor's perseverance and talent, as well as essential guidance and opportunities.

——However, these are exactly what Natalie Portman currently lacks.

At least, Charlotte doesn't intend to be a live *** and spend a lot of time giving advice to the other party - for him, "Blackjack" and "Now You See Me" are not key projects, but more like temporary projects. experimental work.

In this kind of project, he doesn't want to put too much effort into training the actors, especially because of the latter's personality, it is difficult to easily train them to the extent he needs.

Fortunately, the reason why Charlotte chose Natalie Portman was largely because of her "black swan" nature when cut into black parts——

In fact, he doesn't need Natalie to break through the bottleneck, as long as the other party can let go of his instinctive "retention" and act with that deep character.

But there is a simple way——

He just needs to silently put pressure on this girl who likes to put on pretense and let her continue to accumulate anxiety and anger because of NG.

——When quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, and the string that restrained herself in Natalie Portman's mind was disconnected, what was released was naturally the "black swan" that Charlotte wanted...