[US Entertainment] Wild Child

Summer didn't expect that "too beautiful" would become an obstacle one day.

In fact, it's not perfect. Irene said that although she looks cute and beautiful, she is a bit tough, with short hair like a boy.

Suzanne cut Summer's hair short, dressed her in boy's clothes, asked her to learn how a boy walks and speaks, then made her a boy's resume, asked her to audition as a boy, and changed her name from Change "Summer" to "Sam".Later, he simply transferred her to a new elementary school as a boy.

This is also a very fresh experience for Summer: it is not difficult to adapt to becoming Sam. An 8-year-old child still has a child's voice, and it is difficult to distinguish gender only by voice, and it is not very easy to learn to walk with a boy's pace. Difficult, just be careful not to show it during swimming lessons.

Learning how to disguise a boy with a rolled-up sock at home with Suzanne was so much fun, the mother and daughter were a little embarrassed at first, but then laughed.Although she is only a housewife, Suzanne is also a college graduate and has received higher education. She thinks it is nothing, and Summer just "shows" how to be a boy at school.

She had a long talk with her daughter to make sure she liked acting.

"This line of work is not easy," Suzanne said worriedly, "not to mention the skills you need to learn - Dad has the money to pay for your tuition, so you don't have to worry about that, as long as you go to the audition, the competition you meet is enough. Yes, you have to be very, very sure you want to be an actor."

After receiving an affirmative answer from Summer, she said: "Also, no matter what career choice you make, you'd better go all out, so that even if you fail in the end, you can say that I have worked hard and I have no regrets." .Can you understand what Mom is saying?"

Summer's expression was a little strange, "I understand."

"Okay, now you don't need to know too much, my baby is so smart and beautiful, she will definitely succeed." Suzanne reached out and raised her chin, "Mom and Dad will try their best to satisfy your wishes."

"Thank you, Mom." Summer hugged Suzanne's neck and kissed her on the face.

She is now taking modern dance, acting, and music classes outside the school. Suzanne picks her up at 3 p.m. and will send her to class. A class lasts 2 hours, and it will be after 6 p.m. when she returns home.The work of housewives is actually very hard, and most of the time they have to revolve around their daughters.

Dennis suddenly found that if he came home at 6 or 7 in the evening, he couldn't eat dinner quickly, which was a bit scary for a good family man.The bank executive has a lot of entertainment, but he can usually go home before 12 o'clock in the evening; if he comes home after work, he hopes to have dinner around 7 o'clock, then watch TV, read bedtime stories to his daughter, 9 Put her to bed at 10:[-]; then have a drink with my wife before going to bed at [-]:[-].

But now because of Summer, Suzanne is too busy to go home before 6 o'clock, and the schedule for dinner at 7 o'clock cannot be maintained stably.After a few days of swinging between cooking by himself and finding a nanny to cook, Dennis was forced to change his habit of throwing away the shopkeeper. Suzanne asked him to learn to do a little housework and help her so that he could eat at around 7 o'clock dinner.

After months of chaos, Brooke's dinner time is finally stable at 7:[-].

Summer feels that his parents can probably be regarded as a typical middle-class couple in the United States.Husband is handsome, 6 feet 1 inch tall, funny, of course he can be considered smart, he rose to the position of bank executive at the age of 36, and lives in a high-end white neighborhood with a high safety factor; his wife is good-looking and highly educated , the housework is in order, and she takes good care of her husband and daughter. She can also secretly use the family savings to make a small investment without telling her husband, and she has never lost money.

Susanna probably felt that she was a child who didn't understand these things. Sometimes she would take Summer with her when she went to the bank, but of course not to her husband's bank.Summer has seen her bank account, and it actually has more than 20 yuan-this can be considered a huge sum of money in 1989. You must know that the starting salary of ordinary college graduates is less than 5 dollars a year. .Summer thinks that Susanna's behavior of secretly saving private money is quite cute.

Summer also has her own bank account, and Dennis has saved all her income from advertising, and said with a smile that she hopes she can earn enough for her college expenses.Just kidding, of course, they have another account dedicated to depositing her college funds, depositing $1000 a month into it.

The TV series was filmed on a soundstage in Burbank.

The crew issued the notice at the specified time, Susanna went to get the notice back, and sent Summer to the studio on time according to the time required by the above.

On the first day of filming a TV series, Summer was full of curiosity.Similar to the set for filming commercials, most of the set for this family drama is made of wooden walls, and only the part that will appear in the camera is made. Some tables and chairs are real furniture, and some are cardboard.A TV series always needs one or two stars to handle the ratings. In this series, they are the actors who play the roles of parents.

The first part of the shooting process is to check the lines. The actors who have a part in the scene today, including her son, have to sit in a row in the conference room to check the lines first.Experienced actors can quickly find their own positioning, what tone to use, whether they are happy or depressed, and change the level of voice, tone, and performance method according to the lines and situations and the director's requirements.

The director knew that it was the first time for Summer to make a TV series, but he would not take special care of her, so he mentioned to her, what is required of you here, just be like an ordinary 8-year-old boy, and act with your basic qualities.

It can be said that the first day of shooting went smoothly, Summer spent most of the time waiting.The two leading actors have their own exclusive seats behind the camera. The names of the actors and characters are printed on the folding chairs. She does not have this kind of treatment. An assistant finds her a child seat so that she can Sit and rest.

When the assistant called her name, she hurried to the set.The main ones who play opposite her are the actors who play the mother, and there is no problem. Who would have trouble with an 8-year-old child? It doesn't exist.She didn't have stage fright either, and finished filming her own scenes very well, and didn't shoot many. There were no more than 5 scenes in total, and the scene ended.

After the filming, "Mom" touched her head and asked her assistant to take her to drink hot cocoa.

This is a trial episode. The trial episode is very important for a drama series. It will decide whether the episode can be sold to a TV station and how many episodes will be reserved. Actors, screenwriters, directors, and producers all attach great importance to this. , This will determine at least this year's work and income. If you are lucky, if the drama hits, you don't have to worry about at least several years of work.

For Summer, of course, it is also very important, who doesn't look forward to the big hit of the drama.Although her salary is very low, only 1000 knives per episode, her work is not tiring. For example, she only needs to come for two days for the pilot episode. The daily salary is 500. If the episode is booked, it must be at least 10 episodes or more. 20 episodes is an income of 1 to 2 dollars, and she only needs to work for 20 or 40 days at most, which can be said to be very easy.

Moreover, the significance of this series is that she is now an "actor" instead of a small advertising model.

First jobs are always tough, but with that start, her future auditions will go a lot smoother.

According to industry rules, child actors are usually accompanied by guardians, either parents or agents. Suzanne accompanied her in the studio, and was almost regarded as a staff member during the period.Relying on her appearance, eloquence and observation skills, she actually learned a lot of secrets in the studio that were unknown to outsiders in just one day.

When I went home at night, I mentioned to Dennis that there were a lot of unspoken rules in this line, and I was afraid that the baby would be hurt.Dennis was a little worried, "But you can't tell her this now, it will scare her."

"I'm worried about that too. Or should I study something about it? Like, law? Or being a producer?"

Dennis didn't think about it at all, "You want to go back to school? What about Summer?"

"I could go to night school."

Dennis was stunned for a while, "Let's talk about it later."

School is pretty interesting, relatively speaking.

Probably because she is not a girl now, but a boy.

8-year-olds haven't started developing yet, and it's okay to go topless for weekly swimming lessons.A primary school student is easy to deal with. She is tall and almost no one dares to bully her.

Eileen Kepler knew she was a boy now, said nothing, and found her some auditions that needed a boy.

"Boys do have more chances," she said to Suzanne, "but I really didn't expect that you would have this idea and it would be successful. Just think about it, after she starts to develop, she can no longer pretend to be a boy." It's gone." This matter is also a bit of a headache, in fact, she is quite curious, why the people who auditioned didn't find out. "When she becomes a young girl, she finds that she can't use her previous experience to find a job, and she may still have to start with a newcomer. She may not be able to bear it."

Susanna didn't think about this at all, "You're wrong, Erin, what is this era afraid of? What is this industry afraid of? It's not topical. If Summer can be a good boy for several years without being exposed, Isn't that good news?"

Irene was speechless, and after a while, she smiled and said: "You are very suitable for this industry, you should consider being a publicist for Summer, only responsible for her, so that you can also participate in her career. I see Mothers who have had many child stars, do you know what kind of family composition these children have the most? The most common ones are not those whose parents are employees, but those who were born in poverty. I don't care if they are happy or not. This business is not as glamorous as you think. Maybe you won't let her continue after you know more. How many children are signed to be child models or child actors every year? Just as many kids drop out, not every kid can stick around."

Susanna was quite anxious, "I know."

Leonardo knew that the audition that day signed the boy with a pair of beautiful eyes, his name was Sam Brook.

That's okay, it's normal for him not to be successful in the audition, and besides, he's really not suitable, and he's already exceeded the age requirement.

He has reached puberty, but his height and appearance are delayed, so that what he is most worried about now is not that he can't find the next job, but whether he will fall into the "child star curse" and will always have a baby face, and, Be no taller than 5 feet 7 inches (170cm).

He regards the height of 5 feet 7 inches as a threshold. The height of an actor does have restrictions on his career. Of course, it is not absolute, but tall boys are always more flattering, and there will be fewer restrictions on acting with actresses. One point, almost all casting requirements will include height, mostly because you need to match the height of other actors, unless you are Tom Cruise, you can make other actors' height match you.

At the age of 5, he acted in a children's sitcom, but because he was too skinny, there was no next time.At that time, he was too young, he only knew how to be naughty, but he didn't understand anything.Until the age of 9, his 12-year-old stepbrother Adam took a cornflakes commercial and got a check for $5. , Adam only went to shoot for a week, shot several commercials, and earned more money than their father's annual salary.

Ilmelin had long since divorced his father, George DiCaprio, who married Adam's mother a few years later, and Adam became his non-blood stepbrother.

Leonardo has a good relationship with his stepbrother.Although divorced, George still cares about his son, but because he has another family, he has no way to pay more financially. Irmelin moved several times. At the worst time, they lived in almost slum places.

After Leonardo decided to become an actor, Irmelin sent him around to find an agent willing to sign him.They found a lot of child actor agents, many people thought he was "not good", finally someone signed him, he started to shoot some commercials, the income was not much, but it was enough for Irmelin to make up his mind to send him Go to a reputable art private school.

He studied acting and dancing in this art school. The school will recommend students to participate in various performances as much as possible. In addition to shooting commercials, he also has some work in shooting school educational films, which makes him a famous actor in the school. Little man of the hour.During the holidays, he usually went to Germany and spent a few months with Ilmelin's parents, which also gave him a little talking point among his classmates.

But he still suffered what most skinny kids do: At a school function, he was beaten up by some older kids, presumably because they were playing basketball, and he wanted to dribble and score instead. Pass the ball to them.