Hollywood Secret Garden

"Look, who's here?" Peter Jackson yelled from a long distance away, drawing the eyes of the people around him, "Miss Genius is here, we are really honored!"

"It's really a special welcome word, I think I will definitely remember it very firmly." Angela smiled and looked at Peter who walked a few steps in front of her. His disheveled hair and big beard were still very eye-catching, but he was only wearing a plaid village shirt and baggy shorts are more like being on vacation than directing a movie.

"I will too." Peter raised his eyebrows with dissatisfaction written all over his face.He also looked Angela up and down, and snorted softly: "The clothes are nice, relaxed and comfortable, and perfectly set off your beauty and figure."

Although Boston in the northern hemisphere is covered with snowflakes, it is hot summer in Wellington in the southern hemisphere. Angela has already changed into thinner clothes on the plane, but after arriving at the destination, she finds that the local temperature is higher than expected even higher.Fortunately, Annie specially stuffed a few summer clothes when she packed her luggage, so that she would not have to rush to the clothing store after getting off the plane.

In the end, it became what it is now, with a straw hat, a short-sleeved T-shirt and knee-high shorts. If Peter's praise is taken literally, it is still very pertinent.

"Okay, I'll take it as if you're complimenting me." Angela waved her hands generously, as if she didn't care about you.

Peter stared at her for a while, and then sighed: "Inviting you to play Legolas is probably the worst decision I've ever made."

"It's a pity that you can't prove it now." Angela grinned, clearly saying that she wanted to piss you off.

"Okay, okay, I don't bicker with you, and I never bicker with women," Peter raised his hands, "I'm currently filming Isenger's scene, you can chat with other actors first, and—— Parker!"

"Yes, Mr. Director, what can I do for you?" A young assistant about 25 years old ran over from the crowd at this time, with a round face and slender eyes, giving the impression that he was always smiling.

"This is Parker Baldry, one of the assistants. He will be responsible for showing you around and explaining about the shooting progress, venue, etc.," Peter introduced to Angela, "I will arrange another person to introduce you to your specific scenes. , during the test shoot in the afternoon, I need you to have a general understanding of the current situation and be able to basically substitute into it. Is there anything else you want to ask?"

"Not yet." Angela smiled and spread her hands.

Peter nodded and turned to the young assistant: "Parker, this is our young lady genius who is about to play the Elf Prince. Take her around the set and introduce her to other actors by the way."

"Angela Mason?" Parker's slender eyes suddenly glowed with fiery light, and he stretched out his hand excitedly to the girl: "Nice to meet you, Miss Angela, this is so surprising, you are so beautiful!"

"Nice to meet you too, Parker." Angela shook his hand politely.

"You know, I really like to hear you sing, it's really beautiful, whether it's the theme song of "Titanic" "My Heart Will Go On" or the latest EP's "Above the Clear Sky" and "stopstopstop", they are very beautiful... ..." The other party clasped Angela's hand tightly and chattered, which made her a little dumbfounded and also got a lot of goosebumps, whether it was because of her own radar reaction or the compliments in his mouth.

Fortunately, Peter next to him interrupted his words: "Parker, it's working time now, not a fan meeting!"

"Ah? Oh, yes, Mr. Peter, I'm really sorry." Parker, who was taken aback, quickly apologized, and then smiled at Angela and made a gesture of invitation: "Then, please come with me, Miss Angela."

The filming location of "The Lord of the Rings" crew is not limited to the outskirts of Wellington. The surrounding towns and islands like the star-dropped chessboard have all been selected. The rainforests, mountains and grasslands that can be seen everywhere in New Zealand are very suitable for shooting such scenes. What's more, there is Peter Jackson, a local snake.

The entire production crew is like the houses and cars that can be seen everywhere in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. Various types of trailers are parked everywhere, and there are many props in the empty space, which looks a bit messy .

There are also many cars for living. After all, it is impossible to go back to the hotel in the town every day for long-term shooting in the suburbs. Besides, the houses and cars prepared by the crew are also very comfortable.

Most of the actors have also reported to the crew, basically the same as what Angela knows, such as Elijah Wood who plays Frodo, of course, he is definitely not that short and he is a year younger than Angela or Viggo Mortensen who plays Aragon. The crew originally looked for Irish actor Stuart Townsend. Fortunately, God bless, Peter thought he was too tender and passed him a few days before filming started.

In addition, there are several acquaintances of Angela, King Aaron "Agent Smith" is one of them, even after running to the fantasy world from the future, he still looks good after putting on makeup.But what made Angela happiest was seeing Liv.

"God, you didn't say hello before you left New York!" The girl ran over yelling, and flew into her arms before the other party could react.Liv cried out in surprise, hugged Angela, took a few steps back, and turned around a few more times before she lost the impact: "Angele, are you finally here?"

"If you don't come again, someone will go crazy." Angela curled her lips and glanced at the director who was shooting in the distance.

Liv followed her gaze, touched her ears when she remembered something, and then became a little panicked: "Oops, my ears are gone again, Peter will be angry again if it's like last time."

"Ear? What ear?" Angela asked puzzled.

"It's the one over here." Liv pointed to her left ear and quickly searched around.Her left ear is obviously higher and pointed than the square one, it should be an elf ear for props.

"It probably fell off when you jumped on me, which is too bad." Liv said in a complaining tone.

Angela rolled her eyes, and helped to find it on the ground without saying a word.

She wasn't angry at all. After several years of getting along, Liv's slightly confused character of saying whatever comes to mind has long been understood. Even though she can basically spell her name correctly, she still calls her Angel occasionally. Like just now.

"Is it this thing?" Angela finally found a triangular-shaped soft brocade thing on a nearby square table that couldn't be more different from human skin.

"It's great, this is it." Liv happily took the prop ear from her hand, and patted her chest exaggeratedly: "I accidentally dropped my ear on the car when I came to the crew for the first time. When it was found, it had already melted due to the high temperature, and the filming time was delayed in the end, so Peter was very angry."

"It's too bad, no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents, why is he so angry?! If Peter dares to do this again, don't worry, I will stand by your side!" Angela pretended to be filled with righteous indignation.

Turning his eyes after her, he pinched his chin and looked at Liv with an interested look: "By the way, how do you plan to explain the previous question?"

"The previous question?" Liv blinked her blue eyes, her blank look was definitely not faked.

"Let me think about it," Angela waved her hand in a serious manner, "If I knocked off your prop ear when I jumped over, then it is most likely to fall on the ground instead of the table! Even if it falls on the table It is also impossible to fall on a place where there is nothing around. Because the biggest possibility is that your ears flew out when you hugged me in a circle, so unless it hits something, it will not stop its flying movement. To sum up, there is only one truth! Your prop ear was not dropped because of me, but you forgot it on the table yourself!"

Angela shook her head and said here, and suddenly clapped her hands and changed her tone of admiration: "I am so smart that I can find the real answer from such a complicated problem. I really am a genius! In the future Please call me Angela Sherlock Holmes Mason!"

Liv pursed her mouth and thought for a long time before she reluctantly said, "Okay, Miss Angel Charlotte Holmes Mess, do you want me to apologize?"

"Then what do you think, Miss Liv Tenet?" Angela gritted her teeth, expressing dissatisfaction with Liv's unclear pronunciation on purpose or on purpose.

"Okay, I apologize, I misunderstood you, I'm sorry." Liv still pouted, suddenly thought of something, smiled and quickly stuck to Angela's face and kissed her.

Angela, who was suddenly attacked, couldn't help opening her mouth, especially the one who kissed her was a confused princess-to-be who often talked about finding a girlfriend in private, but never saw any action.

"This apology should be very sincere, right?" Liv said happily while bending her beautiful eyes.

"Yeah, very sincere." Angela suddenly sighed, "I suddenly thought of when we first met."

"Meeting you for the first time?" Liv turned her head and recalled carefully.

"You were the female lead in the MV shoot for "An Angel", we had a good talk in the trailer, and then you kissed my face..." Angela looked around, people's attention was not on them , and the chattering assistant Parker was sent away by her and hasn't returned yet, "Remember how I responded?"

Before Liv could answer, Angela tiptoed and quickly touched her red lips: "That's it!"

As if stunned by her actions, Liv didn't speak for a while, touched her lips, and a complex look flashed in her eyes before sighing softly: "But the feeling is different."

"That's for sure. After all, you were only 16 years old at the time." Angela waved her hand indifferently, "Okay, let's go and see how the great director, Mr. Peter Jackson, made this movie."

"Great director?" Liv couldn't help laughing, and resumed her previous playfulness, "Honestly, Angel, who else in this place can be called a great director than you? Well, a great director to It's fun to be in someone else's movie."

In fact, most of the crew, including Ilya, Vigo, Sean Bean who played Boromo, and John Rhys-Davies who played Jinli, are also very strange.Why is Angela Mason, the youngest director nominated in Oscar history, who is Hollywood's Miss Talent, played a role in the movie "Lord of the Rings"?If it is because I like this novel very much, then why did I play a male role in reverse?

"Because I dressed myself up as Legolas during the Halloween parade last year," Angela spread her hands with a smile in the face of these questions, "and Peter just saw it, and he thought it was very suitable, so he sent out An invitation to audition, and... I passed the audition."

"I can't believe that Peter would choose you to play Legolas." Vigo rubbed his chin as if he didn't know what to say, "Of course, I don't mean any disrespect, I'm just a little surprised."

"I can understand. After all, I don't look like a man." Angela shrugged, and the self-mockery in her tone was well covered up.

"Anyway, this really shows that you won't give up your acting career, right?" Elijah looked a little excited. He was almost one of Angela's fans. Fortunately, he wasn't as nagging as Parker.

"Of course, as long as there is a character I am interested in, I will definitely not let it go." Angela replied with a smile.Vigo's directness and Ilya's baby face both made her feel good.

"Then, I want to ask, just to ask..." Ilya suddenly hesitated, and he looked around with flickering eyes before mustering up the courage—yes, he mustered up the courage to ask: "Why... …you haven't thought about directing a...um...Lord of the Rings movie?"

Then he began to defend impatiently: "I'm just asking, there's no other meaning."

"I understand," Angela nodded amusedly, "I thought about it before, but Peter got the right to adapt "Lord of the Rings" a long time ago, and my director level still needs to be improved. You see, in the first half of the year The controversy that has arisen has not subsided yet.”

"But Peter doesn't seem to..." Ilya was still muttering, and Peter's voice suddenly sounded: "Do you think I have any problems with directing, Mr. Ilya?"

"No, no, no, nothing, Mr. Director!" Ilya jumped up immediately, like a frightened little rabbit, making the people watching the fun chuckle.

"I'm just curious, I want to know what it would be like to let other people direct. I'm just curious, nothing else." Ilya waved his hands again and again to defend himself.

"Okay, I see." Peter straightened his glasses, the sunlight flashed on the lenses but he didn't say much.However, he immediately turned his head and turned to Alex Cope who was following him: "Alex, remember to remind me in the future, never ask those who look like actors but are actually directors to play roles again!"

He spoke in a serious manner, making the people around him laugh again. Even Vigo, who was originally a gentleman, couldn't help turning around and covering his mouth. Only Ilya looked like he was crying or smiling. expression.

"I've never seen such an unmannered director," Angela didn't bother to talk to Peter, "Ilya is just asking out of curiosity, and I won't really compete with you for the director, but I want to show a stingy look."

Peter rolled his eyes, shook his fingers and said again: "I don't want to bicker with women, I just want to ask how your archery is doing, and you promise to achieve what you want."

"If I can't do it, are you going to change?" Although she said so, Angela still looked at Alex behind Peter: "Alex, can you find me a bow?"

Soon, a short bow was delivered to her hand. Angela tried it and found that the prop bow was looser than the ordinary bow. Of course, it was not too loose, otherwise it would affect the shooting effect.For beginners like Angela who have only practiced for about two months, such a bow is just right.

"How is it?" After setting up the posture and nodding the arrow, Angela raised her eyebrows at Peter a little proudly, and then aimed at a big tree not far away: "I want to shoot at the tree that protruded from it." A branch!"

After speaking, he let go of his hand, and with a bang sound, the long arrow that hadn't even started hit the branch and bounced away.

"Wow, your shot is really accurate!" Ilya couldn't help applauding, but Angela was a little embarrassed: "Actually... I originally planned to shoot the one below it."

"So, you admit that you are still a little unqualified?" Peter couldn't hold back in the end.

"Or, are you going to find an Olympian to play Legolas?" Angela immediately asked with a hum.

"If he has good acting skills, I will definitely consider it." Peter was quite confrontational.

"I don't understand why Sir McKellen can report for duty next year, but I have to do it this year?" Angela immediately changed the subject, "Don't tell me you respect the old and love the young, Peter."

"I'm sorry to tell you, Miss Angela, Sir Ian has no schedule at present, he is making another movie, and that movie happens to be produced by your company." Peter said unceremoniously.

"Oh, yes, that's right, "X-Men", I really regret stealing his schedule, but..." Angela stared at him with her hands on her hips: "Do you think my schedule is sufficient?"

The two people stared at each other with a bit of a cockfighting look, which made the people watching the fun roll their eyes, and at the same time tried their best to hold back their laughter. Finally, Alex stood up and said, "Okay, two, what's the end of today?" Let's talk about your work. Peter, it's time for a break; and Angie, it's time for you to get dressed."

"Okay, I'll go now." Angela was the first to give up this "hostile" state, "I always have to come up with something convincing, right?"

"I really hope to see it right away," Peter immediately gave in. "After Thanksgiving, there will be a big holiday at most half a month. If you have something urgent, you can leave a few days earlier."

"Thank you." Angela shrugged, turned around and followed Alex to the trailer, which was considered to have completely ended the dispute.