Birth of an actor

"Los Angeles Times": "The highly competitive ratings report for Thursday's 90210 o'clock slot has been released. "Story of the Emergency Room" won the No. However, the ratings of FOX TV's "Leap to Beverly 0.4" unexpectedly increased by 2.1 compared with last week, reaching the highest ratings of [-] since the broadcast of this season."

"According to the survey, "90210" can achieve such good results, thanks to the appearance of the new character Princeton. The plot of Naomi and Jane, two wealthy sisters fighting for a boyfriend, is very popular with the audience."

"It is worth mentioning that William Bradley, who plays Princeton, also had a guest appearance in the [-]th episode of "Louis and Clark" aired on ABC last night. The different roles of the two episodes made him give a lot of The audience was impressed."

《好莱坞电视报》：“极被青少年追捧并喜爱的《90210》昨晚吸引了1129万观众守候在电视机前，并夺得了18岁以下年龄段的收视第一，就连18-49岁的关键年龄段也有380万观众，打破了第四季播出以来的收视纪录。”

""90210" tells the growth story of a group of rich children living in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. The handsome men and women and the luxurious costumes have captivated the hearts of countless young audiences. The ratings have been declining all the way. Although FOX TV has already booked the fifth and sixth seasons of the show, the development prospects of "90210" are not optimistic. However, the appearance of the new character Princeton last night brought the ratings back to life and won the first prize. The best result of this season. What is the future of "90210"? I am afraid that a large part of the fate will be dominated by new characters."

"Variety Show": "Is it a dewy marriage? Or is it true destiny? In the new episode of "Leaping over Beverly 90210", the appearance of Princeton, the son of a wealthy Manhattan family in New York, marks that Naomi's love has once again reached an unknown fork in the road—— That's right, again."

"Since the ratings decline in the third season, the screenwriters of "Fly" seem to have pinned all their hopes of increasing the ratings on arranging various romantic encounters for the protagonists. The male and female protagonists have true love in their hearts. Under such circumstances, the lovers had to be changed frequently for the sake of ratings. The feeling of youth and passion in the first two seasons seemed to be gradually disappearing. After breaking up, whoever will reunite with whomever."

"The tactic of pulling up ratings with bloody plots is a good skill of the screenwriters, but a good show that reverses and increases the ratings does not work every time, especially when the audience gets tired of watching the screenwriter's trick in the future, so a Princeton may save the season-ending ratings of "90210", trying to reverse the situation and save the entire series? Very, very difficult."

The American entertainment industry is extremely developed, and of course the newspaper industry is also very developed. Washington, New York, and Los Angeles are the three cities with the best media development in North America. Of course, the former focuses on politics, while the latter two pay more attention to Hollywood. The newspapers and magazines published in Los Angeles today It mentioned that ABC and FOX broadcast a lot of episodes last night, but there were not many that specifically mentioned William, almost three of them were "Los Angeles Times", "Hollywood TV News" and "Variety Show". newspaper.

But even if there are only three newspapers, it is an excellent achievement for a newcomer-Hollywood produces countless movies and TV series every year, and the protagonists are too numerous to count, but the supporting roles that only appear in a few episodes leave a deep impression on people The impression was also named by the newspaper?That was really God bless.

After reading the newspapers in hand, William pointed to the ones that mentioned his name: "Can you give these to me?"

"Of course no problem, you can take it all away." Danny said generously, a little proudly: "Am I right? Although there is not much content mentioned about you, it is purely praise and no criticism. How rare for an actor!"

William smiled: "Thank you."

Danny looked at William with a hesitant expression.

William saw that the other party seemed to have something to say: "I see that you look like you have a question and want to ask?" He joked: "Is it because you want to finish Dean Kane's autograph and want Teri Hatcher again?" Right? Let me tell you first, I don’t have a role in "Louis and Clark", and if I want to get an autograph again, I can only hope for chance encounters on the street."

When it comes to Teri Hatcher, William has a little impression of this glamorous actress, not only because she is currently popular in Hollywood, but also because William vaguely remembers "Desperate Housewives", which became popular all over the world more than ten years later Teri Hatcher played the role of popular single mother Susan in the first episode.

"No, no, no, I don't want to sign, but." Danny lowered his voice and said, "I know you have an agent, so, do you have an agent?"

"Manager?" William froze for a moment, "No, not yet."

In Hollywood, brokers and managers are two completely different types of work. Brokers are necessary for every actor. They have full authority to represent actors in their business, make long-term plans for actors, and are responsible for negotiating scripts with producers, crews, and manufacturers. Negotiate contracts, etc., and then draw commissions based on the total value of the contract.

Generally speaking, agents are not exclusive to any actor. They often have many star actors under their hands, and sometimes act as an agent for screenwriters. William Murray, who was signed by Amon Goffman as William's agent, There are only about 2000 brokers in total, but there are more than [-] clients. On average, each broker brings about [-] clients—of course, this is just an average number. The reality is that a WMA partner A person may have signed dozens of big-name stars, and at the same time, several junior agents act as assistants to serve him, and some of the junior agents do not even have a modeling contract in their hands.

And managers, because they are responsible for too much work, not only have to take care of trivial matters inside and outside for actors, but also be responsible for public relations, publicity, crisis management and other things, they are like private secretaries and assistant nanny, the inside and outside of a big-name actor Chores can make a manager busy and dizzy, so most of the managers provide actors with one-on-one services. On the surface, the status and income of managers seem to be lower than that of agents, but if they are more popular with actors In other words, the manager also earns a lot, because according to Hollywood rules, the manager can only get the contract commission, and the manager can get the shares of the project.

It is precisely because of this that in Hollywood, only some well-known stars will hire managers, and the managers they choose are often either relatives or friends. For example, Tom Cruise's manager is his sister.

"What do you think of me as a manager?" Danny looked at William with great anticipation: "I'm not going to go to college anymore, you see, I was born in Los Angeles, and I'm so interested in Hollywood, plus you, my friend He happens to be an actor with lofty aspirations, don't you think the two of us are perfect work partners?"

William blinked, but said nothing.

After a long time of no response, Danny said with some disappointment: "Well, after all, I am too young, and you should not trust me to be a good manager. If I were you, I might choose my mother as a manager too. people."

"Madeleine is even less suitable for this job." William shook his head and said, "She is a painter, and she has more art cells in her mind than life cells. Let her learn to be a manager. Not only does she not like it, but she is not suitable. It will also mess up my work. Danny, my hesitation just now was not about rejecting you, but thinking about the possibility of you being a manager."

Danny's eyes sparkled: "What's your answer?"

William shrugged and said: "You like to be lively, you are sociable, you are very enthusiastic, and you can get all kinds of weird things from various channels. See, your advantages are so outstanding, and you can learn some professional skills If so, isn’t it the seed of a good manager?”

Danny shouted excitedly: "I knew it! I knew you would promise me!"

Dodging Danny’s enthusiastic bear hug, William said with a smile: “But let me tell you, you still have to go to college, even if it’s just a public relations course at a community college, it will help broaden your horizons. Otherwise, if you How bad is it that I have to deal with a big incident and you have to deal with it, and you don't know how to deal with the media when you are in front of the camera and the microphone?"

"No problem!" Danny said with great ambition: "I will work hard to become a top manager!"

……

The premiere ratings of the fourth season of "Leaping over Beverly 90210" were only 1.5, and in the next dozen episodes, it once dropped to a miserable rating of only 1.3.

However, since the broadcast of the 20th episode, the ratings of "90210" have miraculously picked up, from 2.1 to 2.3, then to 2.4, 2.6, and the ratings of the final episode even reached an astonishing 2.7!Even the rebroadcast of the final episode has nearly 400 million viewers!

For a youth drama that has begun to show signs of decline, such a result is undoubtedly very surprising.

As a major contributor to boosting ratings, William has also officially entered the sights of many TV drama lovers through the role of Princeton, and has become a "familiar face" that people can remember at a glance.

Newspapers and magazines have given good comments on the role of Princeton, and "L.A. Weekly" once wrote: "In "Leaping over Beverly 90210", Princeton played by William has used extremely fresh and invincible handsome characters since he appeared on the stage. His face attracted the attention of many viewers, and in the next few episodes, he conquered people with his natural aristocratic temperament."

"Even if Princeton was revealed by the screenwriters to be a villain at the end, the audience couldn't bear to blame him, and even felt sorry for the failed relationship between him and Naomi—because when Naomi said to break up, William Bradley's expression of Princeton's injury is so real that everyone thinks he is really heartbroken, and then can't bear to criticize him for cheating in the first place."

"However, if you only read the pure text script, the role of Princeton is indeed not very pleasing, but after Bradley's performance, he immediately becomes lovable. I have to say that this is the role given by the actor A special, endearing charm."

In the street interviews conducted by FOX TV, the interviewees’ speeches were obviously more lively:

"We love Princeton!" Several female students in a public high school in New York scrambled to say: "He is the most handsome man who has ever appeared in this show, even more handsome than Ethan and Liam! And he behaves like a A born noble son!"

"Naomi shouldn't give up on him, she will regret it!"

"Do you have William Bradley's contact information? We want to date him!"

A professional woman in her early twenties in Boston is obviously also a lover of youth dramas: "Will Princeton appear again next season?" Although the woman was in a hurry to go to work, she still chose to stop after seeing the logo of FOX TV station. Came down for a short interview: "Honestly, why didn't you pick him as a regular in the first place? He definitely deserves a regular role!"

On the official website of "90210", there are endless similar messages. Many viewers strongly demand that the screenwriters add Princeton to make him a regular character that can appear regularly, and reunite with Naomi.

However, the producer of "90210" finally issued an announcement on the official website, regretfully informing all audiences: "All the roles of the actor William Bradley in the play have ended, and the crew has also communicated with him. Ended the contract, so Princeton won't be around next season."

After the announcement was made, there was a lot of mourning in the forum of the TV drama's official website, and fans of the drama expressed their dissatisfaction with strongly worded posts.

It wasn't until a few days later that the gossip spread that the real reason why Princeton's character would not appear again was that the writers had other arrangements for Naomi's true love, and the audience's boiling emotions were calmed down and they started Guess who the eldest lady Naomi will fall in love with in the end.

However, is the truth really like this?

"Of course not! Which TV station would be so stupid as to know that there is a elixir for ratings but not use it, and just watch the ratings of TV dramas become half-dead again?" In the cafe, Amon Goffman sat opposite William happily Said: "The screenwriters of "90210" are already considering rewriting Princeton as a regular character. Anyway, this TV series will have at least two more seasons. Even the new characters that have just appeared now have a lot of room for development in the future. The crew An invitation was even extended to me, however, I declined."

William looked at Amon with his get off work in his right hand, without speaking.

William's cold response made Ammon feel a little disappointed. He curled his lips and said, "Why don't you ask me why?" Ammon Goffman was not happy when the trick was unsuccessful.

"Because I know there must be a reason for what you do, my friend."

The corner of Amon Goffman's mouth curled up involuntarily. He quickly tore it off, coughed, and solemnly took out two thick notebooks from his briefcase, put them on the table and pushed them to William: "Look what these are."

William stretched out his hand to look through it, and his heartbeat suddenly started to speed up: "This is, a movie script?"