Chapter 259 The heroine is in place
Training has gradually become a daily routine.
Matt officially joined the "Yip's Martial Arts School" and started training with Anson. Fixed time, fixed training, repeated day after day. Time flies, and it seems that there is no time to count the days. , Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and then, New Year’s has arrived.
Unfortunately, it didn’t take long before Anson and Matt’s days of training side by side came to an end, because both of them had other things to learn, even though they still insisted on coming to the martial arts gym to report. , but the time allocated for martial arts training gradually slipped from the schedule.
——Yoga, rock climbing, strength training.
Anson's schedule is already full.
Moreover, Anson also arranged additional tasks for himself.
Go to the library to borrow books, books related to nature, biology, and astronomy - including spiders, and actually put the original audition preparation tasks into action, and in this way make the role of Peter Parker full. And it comes alive, filling in Anson's understanding of the character.
You can be 100% sure that these contents will not appear in the movie, but they can help Anson understand the character, understand the story, and fill the soul of the character with these invisible and intangible details.
Although Anson cannot be sure of the effect, there is a first time for everything.
He truly believed that acting could be a fun thing to do.
So, it was a bit regretful that there was no way to continue daily training with Matt in the martial arts gym; but Anson found something equally interesting to start an adventure.
Focus, immerse yourself, wholeheartedly, and you will not notice the passage of time.
At the same time, the preliminary preparations for the "Spider-Man" crew are also in full swing.
One thing is the battle uniform.
For superheroes, the suit is an important part of the image. An excellent suit can add a lot of points to the character and the movie.
The crew has a team of thirty people who are responsible for designing the battle uniforms. They not only need to look good, but also must not affect the actors' performances.
Anson temporarily lives in New York, which saves the crew a lot of trouble, not only because Anson can go to the studio to test the suit at any time, but also because Anson can participate in the design of the suit and give feedback based on his own testing opinions and discuss with the styling team -
Brainstorming.
In fact, Anson’s hands-on and active participation helped a lot and laid the foundation for the final design version, which won high praise from the styling team.
Even before filming started, the cooperation between Anson and the crew had already started smoothly, conquering some of the staff and garnering a wave of word-of-mouth praise.
Here, there is another little episode.
After the Christmas and New Year holidays, the styling team returned to the studio to continue work, but unexpectedly discovered that the studio had been broken open and stolen -
Four sets of costumes were missing.
Although Sony Columbia has enough spares, it will not delay the crew's start of filming; moreover, the four stolen costumes are not the final version, and even if they are leaked in advance, it will not affect the confidentiality of Spider-Man's appearance.
However, Sony Columbia still issued a high reward of 25,000 US dollars and promised not to pursue legal responsibility. It only hoped to redeem four sets of costumes and set up a special telephone reporting hotline for this purpose.
This incident made headlines in the entertainment pages of major newspapers and magazines, becoming the hottest and most widely discussed focus since the New Year in 2001. The "Spider-Man" crew, which had always been low-key, made headlines for the first time. .
In fact, Sony Columbia has been strictly guarded and maintained a sense of mystery. Not to mention the costumes, even the news of the successful casting of Anson and James has been completely blocked, and no news has leaked from the beginning to the end.
This is why Sony Columbia hopes to redeem the costume——
Sincerely, they do not want Spider-Man’s suit to be leaked in any form before the movie is released, even if it is stolen The suit is not the final version. But no matter what, no information about the stolen costumes has been found, and no clues can be provided through the hotline, so some people began to suspect that this was directed and performed by Sony Columbia, and there were no thieves at all. They were just promoting "Spider-Man" a means.
Sony Columbia declined to comment.
As for the others?
Still confidential.
This action instead aroused the curiosity of the paparazzi. Even if there was suspicion of fishing, the paparazzi could not control their curiosity and jumped into the pit, trying to find out the truth.
Even before officially joining the cast, "Spider-Man" has already begun to create buzz.
One thing is casting.
Not only were the media curious about the news about stolen costumes, but Anson and James were also curious about what Sony Columbia was mysteriously covering up and tossing about, and what stage the casting process was at.
It has been kept secret and blocked. Could it be that the casting process was unsatisfactory?
The answer is, very close.
Although Sam Raimi thought Alicia Witt was a good choice, other producers had different opinions, and Sam was not so committed, which stalled the selection of the heroine.
Later, Sony Columbia conducted a new round of auditions.
The result is still unsatisfactory.
In Sam Raimi’s view, Anson is very handsome, and it is not easy to choose a beautiful actress to partner with Anson; but their expectations are more than that, because Anson’s temperament can bring more, Naturally, I hope that the actress of the heroine can collide with Anson.
Going round and round, until a month before the crew was ready to start shooting, all other characters had been settled, but the heroine position was still vacant.
Then, things finally took a turn -
After Kristen Dunst learned that Anson was about to play the role of Peter Parker, she was so impressed by this unexpected choice that she nodded and agreed to audition. , after passing the first round of auditions, he flew to Berlin in person, where he met Sam who was inspecting the filming scene for the second audition.
This move shows Kristen’s sincerity.
Kristen is the same age as Anson and is 18 years old this year. This child star actor gained a foothold in 1994 with her stunning performance in "Interview with the Vampire". Risten showed no stage fright even when performing on the same stage with two superstars, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
To be precise, not only does she have no stage fright, her smart and lively performance has become the highlight of the entire movie.
In the past few years, Kristen's career has been smoother than that of her peers, with films such as "Little Women", "Jumanji", "Girls Step Up" and "Charming". Although she did not become a big hit, she She gradually revealed her acting talent and has undoubtedly become an important actor of the new generation.
Of course, like all child stars, Kristen is also facing the pain of transformation.
It is precisely because of this that Kristen was slightly hesitant when faced with the opportunity to audition for "Spider-Man" and did not want to stereotype himself as a vase in a superhero movie.
No matter what, Kristen took this step and showed her sincerity, and finally impressed Sam with her audition and convinced other producers.
Mary Jane has finally found her actor, which also signals that the "Spider-Man" crew is ready.
(End of this chapter)