Hollywood (我就是好莱坞) Part I

Chapter 136 - What qualifications do they have to refuse? Part 1,2,3

PART  1

Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio.

After reading their names, a list of movie names immediately popped into his mind, but he quickly dismissed them. With those images and names put in the corner, he got back to reading the names. In addition to the two previous superstars, he no longer saw any familiar names, even Chris O'Donnell who was in the original version of 《Scent of a Woman》 couldn't be seen due to him making the film 3 years before the original version was made.

Although Chris O'Donnell was 18 years this year, the same age as him, he will only show up in a movie called 《Men Don't Leave》 two years from now.

Of course, even if his name were on the list, Eric wouldn't give the role to him, because he didn't show a strong performance in the original version. Although there is Al Pacino performance to mask his weak presence, his performance was too lackl.u.s.ter and dull, so why bother wasting such important role on him.

After quickly going over the information of the thirty candidates, Eric took a pen from Martin Brestand put a mark behind Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio's names. But after hesitating for a moment, Eric decided to choose Matt Damon for the role of Charlie Simms, he decides to give him the role, because he was handsome, and he had just turned eighteen this year, you could even say he was perfect for the role. As for Leonardo DiCaprio, he was 14 years old this year, plus he looked scrawny.

After drawing a circle on Matt Damon's name, Eric told Martin Brest who was closely watching his movements: "Martin, give the role of Charlie Simms to Matt Damon, as for Leonardo Dicaprio, give him the role of Charlie's cla.s.smate George Willis. Also, I don't care if they are part of a brokerage firm or have their own broker if they want the role, they have to join the UTA."

"Eric, if the two don't agree to join the UTA?"

Eric gave Martin a strange look and said: "What qualifications do they have to refuse?"

At first, Martin Brest was surprised by what Eric said, but when he recalled the information of Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio, he laughed and said: "Indeed, the two rookies have no grounds to refuse."

Seeing Eric choose the two actors, in such a short time Martin Brest felt that Eric just wanted to show his dominance over the movie, just like Jonathan Demme felt when he saw Eric choose the young actors for 《The Others》.

Although Martin thought that Eric was hasty and childish, he didn't refute him. After all, he was already forty years old, in his eyes, Eric was really just a child, so he couldn't blame him for doing such a thing. All he and Al Pacino can do is to screen out the right actors, so no matter which one Eric chooses, they will end up with good actors.

Eric didn't have any justification to why he choose the actors without reading

all their resumes, and the reason he did so was exactly as Martin and others thought.

They spent forty minutes going from Columbia studio to Malibu, on the way Eric choose the actors for the other roles from the list, he mostly followed Martin advice, on who to select.

At the intersection of the Malibu coastal highway, Martin's car stopped, and Eric, wearing sungla.s.ses and baseball caps, got off and said: "Thank you for bringing me here, Martin, Goodbye."

"Goodbye," Martin waved toward Eric and told the a.s.sistant to drive away.

After the Pa.s.sat drove away, Eric walked to the villa not far away, took out the key Virginia give him, opened the gate, and walked in.

It was late in the afternoon, so the villa lights were already lit. As he walked through the door, he found Virginia standing there, she was wearing casual clothes, and carrying two big garbage bags."