[US Entertainment] Wild Child

Hollywood does not accept mediocrity. If you want to stand out, you must let people see your strength. Acting—sometimes it doesn’t matter. Popularity, agent resources, appearance, and personality are all your strengths. If you want to be able to decide If the people you work with remember you and are impressed with you, you must always be prepared.

And the world of children is sometimes more cruel, because they act on instinct.

Not surprisingly, most of the boys ignored Summer. They deliberately isolated her. Even if someone wanted to get close to her, they were threatened by other boys and were not allowed to talk to her.The girls are better. After fighting openly and secretly for a long time, Summer randomly appointed Wendy to play the role.

Summer then assigned other roles one by one, and then distributed the lines.

"Mr. Savachenko has told me the schedule. From the first week to the fourth week, it is all training time; from the fifth week, there will be a rehearsal every morning; performance." She looked around, "Originally there were 15 characters, each of which was divided into groups A and B, but now we have three less people, which means one less role, Kobe, you are the youngest, you play Tinker Bell , you don’t have a Group B backup.”

Training for 8 hours a day is also very tiring for children. Children over 10 years old are a little better, but they are training in the morning and afternoon, reciting lines, practicing singing and dancing. Most of the children cannot concentrate fully. Give them a few breaks, take a 15-minute break, and then give them another 15 minutes to focus.

Mr. Savchenko complained that the children were little devils, too lively, and it was difficult to keep their attention all the time. The only one who could concentrate from the beginning to the end was Sam Brooke. Sam kept a close eye on Kobe and took good care of him. He, even though he is only less than a year older than Kobe.

The mothers didn't know much about the situation in the training classroom, and Summer didn't say much to Suzanne.She actually doesn't know exactly what kind of child Disney wants, but it must be right to highlight her own characteristics.In the age of entertainment, the fear is that you have no characteristics and cannot be remembered by others. It doesn't matter whether you can get along with others happily.

I was very tired during the day, and I basically had a meal when I got home at night, so I had to wash and sleep.The child's body needs a lot of sleep to develop well, and being able to concentrate during training is already the limit of what she can do so far.

She didn't see her friends for a whole month.In the fifth week, the rehearsal begins.

In the morning, groups A and B took turns to rehearse. Mr. Savacchenko would randomly adjust the groups and roles according to the performance of the children. Summer has always been Peter Pan's group A.In the afternoon, according to the adjustments and deficiencies made in the morning, individual or collective strengthening training is carried out, which ends half an hour earlier than the previous 4 weeks.

In the sixth week, the official performance.

On Monday, Group A performed; on Wednesday, Group B performed; on Friday, after adjusting the roles again, the 13 best-performing children were drawn into Group C, and Kobe’s Tinker Bell was added for the third performance.

The 27 children still all got the standard answer of "go home and wait for the notification".

Suzanne is very optimistic and feels that her children will definitely get a formal contract.

Erin Kepler also said that it was no problem for Summer to sign.

Summer himself was a little excited: Signing with Disney is a long-term job. Disney’s long-term contracts are not bad. They will arrange professional classes and program promotion for young actors signed. To stop you from accepting a movie, you must have a suitable role. Of course, Disney's own movies will give priority to recommending contracted young actors to audition.

Anyway, lots of benefits.

Leonardo hasn't seen Summer for a month and a half.

Ilmelin had picked out a new school for him, and next term he was going to John Marshall High School, which was only a few blocks from his house and he could even walk to school.

He had grown a little taller, but was still shorter than his peers, and even Toby was a little taller.

Without Sam's little help, it would be hard for them to meet other girls.None of them—Lucas included—were not the kind of boys who would attract girls, who preferred athletic athletes with big limbs and were not interested in slender boys.

Leonardo tries to date a girl and ask her to see a movie, but he is too shy to look at her face for the whole movie and dare not kiss her.Toby laughed at him mercilessly after knowing this, saying that the girls just like you being a bit rude, don't think too much, don't you think those athletes are very smart and gentleman.

It's so reasonable that it can't be refuted.

But he still can't do it.

And if he asked stupidly "Can I kiss you", he would definitely be laughed at by the girl.

Samo had never heard of it before. The guy with countless ditch girls in the future is actually so shy and clumsy now.So how on earth did he evolve into an expert at picking up girls?

But also very cute.

Of course, girls are the ones that boys discuss the most together, and they are also very gossip, who is a couple with whom, who has a crush on whom, and who has a complicated triangle or even multi-angle relationship with whom, which leads to fights and the like.The problem of underage mothers in American high schools has always existed. Even private schools near high-end communities will inevitably have young girls going to school with big bellies. As for public schools with a high proportion of Mexicans and Africans, this situation is even more serious. .

Boys even take pride in having big girls' stomachs, thinking that it can show their "masculinity".

Although none of them had any sexual experience yet, the boys were quite sloppy when they spoke foul language. Summer always felt that they were all idiots, no different from ordinary idiot boys.

On this day, they were playing bowling again and called Summer.

Summer threw two balls symbolically, but Toby pressed her on the chair and stopped her from playing.

"We are going to compete, so don't make trouble." Slightly disgusted.She has little strength and poor ball skills, basically just throwing around, which is a big disadvantage to the score.

They were playing against another group of boys and girls, and their team was all boys.

Boys even want to win in bowling. Summer doesn't understand this kind of vigor to win. She thinks it's just a game, but the boy thinks it's competition.

She was sitting on the side playing the game console boredly, and soon a boy about 10 years old came over, snatched her Gameboy, and pushed her to the floor.

Emily was talking to someone else and didn't notice her.She fell and cried out in pain.

When Leonardo heard her cry of pain, he hurried over and pulled her up, "What's wrong?"

With tears in her eyes, she pointed at the boy who was quickly slipping away, "He stole my Gameboy!" Handheld game consoles are still a new trend, loved by adults and children alike.

Leonardo and Toby chased after, Lucas came to accompany her, and called his mother Emily to come over.

Emily came over quickly and asked where she had fallen.

The twins laughed at her for crying, which wasn't manly enough, and Lucas chased the brothers away, and Emily sent them to the counter for ice cream.

After a while, Leonardo and Toby came back.

"Here, your game console." Leonardo handed her the Gameboy.

Toby said proudly: "I warned that little bastard not to steal your game console."

The twins came back after buying ice cream, "Idiot! You shouldn't have brought the game console, those kids are savages." Expressing disdain.

"Okay, it's not a big deal." Emily gave her an ice cream, "It's time for Suzanne to pick you up, come on, let's wait for her in the car outside."

On the last day of July, Erin Kepler took Summer Brook and her parents to the Disney headquarters in Burbank to sign a five-year contract.

She is the only one who signed a 5-year long-term contract. The other 12 children only got a 1-year contract. Performance determines whether to renew the contract.

The Disney Channel assigned her an assistant to take care of chores, and Mr. Savachenko was her producer, arranging her training and performances.

Summer became busy, and she had to go to Burbank for training five days a week for the rest of the summer vacation, focusing on her weak point-singing.

After school started, she was promoted to the seventh grade. Toby and Leonardo were both in the tenth grade. Lucas went to high school and is now in the ninth grade.

In early September, the Disney Channel began to arrange for her to participate in "The Mickey Mouse Club", and the child stars she cooperated with were 9 and a half-year-old Keri Russell and JC Chaz, who just turned 14.Kelly has a round face, big eyes, sweet looks, and her signature long fluffy golden hair; JC is tall and thin, the boy next door.

Sam Brooke is a veritable starlet at the Creative Arts School.

By the time of the Christmas season, "Home Alone" has been booming at the box office, Macaulay Culkin has become the most popular child star in the United States, and even Sam Brook, who plays a role in the film, has also risen.

Before that, in October, almost every child actor was crazy about a new children's adventure movie: Steven Spielberg's new film.The project was planned many years ago with Walt Disney Pictures and Paramount Pictures, but then Spielberg dropped the project, and the project went to James V. Hart, who wrote a new script for the film .

Now, with Spielberg back on the project and greenlighting a new script, the film is moving to Columbia Pictures-owned Samsung Pictures for co-production with his own company, Amblin Entertainment.They signed Robin Williams to play a grown-up Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman to play Captain Hook, and Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell, which guaranteed a hit .

The film crew is looking for a large number of child actors of all ages, which is definitely good news for children who want to appear on the big screen as soon as possible.

The managers of Summer, Leonardo, Toby, and Lucas all sent the information of the child stars they represented to Spielberg Studios. Hundreds of children competed for several named roles, and The little ones on Never Island.

Every boy wants to get the role of Peter Pan's son Jack. Jack's role is set to be an 11-year-old boy.

The competition for girls is relatively small. Jack's sister Maggie is 5 years old, and the casting requirement is 5 to 8 years old.Summer thought that if she was a girl, she must be hopeless, she is too tall; but if she competes with Jack, she is still very hopeful.

The script required Jack to be able to play baseball, which eliminated a group of children; they called the boys who met the requirements one by one, and conducted a standard audition. The last few boys selected will have the final audition with Robin and Dustin .

Summer, Lucas, Elijah Wood and another little-known child actor Charlie Cosmo entered the final audition.Summer is 10, Lucas is 14½, Elijah is almost 10, and Charlie is 12.

In terms of age, Lucas is slightly older by two years, and Summer, Charlie, and Ilya are all quite suitable.

They hesitated for a week between Summer and Charlie, and finally chose Summer to play Jack, probably because she performed more smoothly and naturally when she auditioned with Robin and Dustin; In terms of performance, she is more self-disciplined, the kind of child who is easy-going, sensible and good at expressing herself in front of adults.

Spielberg worked with more than 3 child actors when filming "ET" before. There are more child actors in this movie. He very much hopes that these little boys can be obedient and don't let him bother too much. up.

Summer was able to cooperate with such a big director as Spielberg, but Suzanne was very happy.A famous director is almost half of the box office guarantee, and the other half is a big star who can carry the box office. With this experience, Summer will be a veritable KidStar in the future.

After signing the film contract, Suzanne asked her daughter what reward she wanted before she walked out of the gate of Amblin Entertainment.

If you want a reward, give it money.

How much to give?

1000 yuan, deposited into her personal account.

Suzanne immediately agreed.

Amblin Entertainment soon announced that they had cast Jack and Maggie Jr., and Sam Brooke's name began to appear in some high-circulation entertainment magazines.

Coupled with the sensational effect of "Home Alone", many people think that Sam Brook will be the next Macaulay Culkin.