Volume 1 Chainsaw Man Chapter 26 The Four Great Titans!
The entire restaurant was empty, but outside it was packed with people, all chattering and craning their necks to look in.
Jeremy held the scissors, seemingly hesitant about which thread to cut, gritting his teeth and bulging his cheeks, closing his eyes.
"Twenty seconds left!" Reyna shouted out the countdown, her eyes wide open, highly concentrated, as if choosing a difficult breath, her chest heaving violently.
"Ten seconds left! Damn it, I have to choose a line! Headquarters! Is it that damn red or this damn yellow!" Jeremy yelled into the phone.
"Damn it, damn it!" Jeremy slammed the scissors to the ground and clutched his head in agony, muttering "I can't do it! Can't do it!"
But soon, he gritted his teeth and pounced on the scissors, as if resigned to his fate, closed his eyes, clenched his jaw, and fiercely cut towards a non-existent route.
Slowly opening his eyes, as if he had just survived a disaster, he fell to the ground and shouted at his phone: "Oh my God, don't call me for this kind of mission again! Let the bomb disposal expert from headquarters come instead! Yeah, that's right, Smith Zhou!"
"Bravo! Bravo!" George rose to his feet, applauding enthusiastically for Jeremy's spirited performance. With great respect, he said: "Mr. Jeremy! You're a born performer! You'll become the best actor, this is a perfect show!"
"Thanks!" Jeremy said with an embarrassed smile, then scrambled up and nodded at George.
"No, it's not perfect, close but not quite." Zhou Shaoming also stood up and said calmly.
"Oh, is there anything else I need to improve on in my performance?" Jeremy asked puzzledly, his previous performance was somewhat extraordinary and he himself was a bit excited.
"Go out and tell them it's all fake, that you've been fooling them. If you can do it without getting beaten up, then that's the real show! What just happened was just the background for your real performance, just a setup." Zhou Shaoming said slowly.
"This is Smith's week, isn't it?" said George with some reluctance.
"Not just anyone can be a good actor, only those who can deceive everyone into thinking it's real without revealing any signs of acting are true performers! I may sound a bit extreme, but I think the actors I acknowledge must be able to perfectly achieve the director's goal under any strict conditions. Jeremy Renner, an actor, must also be a smart person." Zhou Shaoming gave Jeremy a thumbs up and continued, "You can do it!"
Jeremy gazed quietly into Zhou Shaoming's eyes, as if wanting to see into his innermost heart, while Zhou Shaoming maintained a smile, with clear and bright eyes, trying to let Jeremy know that he was not joking.
A moment later, without a word, Jeremy simply strode out of the door.
The frantic restaurant owner outside was desperately making a 911 call, and when he saw the federal agent running out of the restaurant, he grabbed Jeremy and asked anxiously: "How's it going? Has the bomb been defused?"
Jeremy burst out laughing, hugged the restaurant manager and pointed to a certain window on the opposite high-rise building: "Sorry buddy, we're from BBC Cable TV, staff of the latest show 'Laughing for Three Minutes', wave at our camera! You'll be on TV tonight! Two hundred million Americans will see your face! There's no bomb, just a camera lens!"
"Ah!" The restaurant owner finally caught on, and the American's open and generous nature made him laugh out loud. He waved his hand at a distant building: "Hey Lucy, you'll see me on TV tonight! Haha, I've been had, this is hilarious!"
"Right, just like that, smile a bit more, you'll look great on TV! Come on, come on, we've got our cameras here too! That's it, be happy! This smile is fantastic, I guarantee that after this episode airs tonight, American beauties will be flocking to you like snowflakes!" Jeremy exclaimed, hugging the restaurant owner and pointing here and there.
The restaurant owner and waiters, one by one, smiled and waved at the non-existent camera lens, laughing loudly or striking various poses they thought were cool and handsome.
No one noticed anything was off, no one suspected a thing. It wasn't that these people were all being fooled, it's just that Jeremy played his part too well, too convincingly.
If it were an interview process with over 600 people, it would be absolutely impossible for anyone to achieve such results.
Zhou Shaoming finally stood up and applauded: "Perfect performance!"
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Everything is ready, Tobin Bell, Robert, Jeryd Renner, each one is an indispensable genius performer, they will make Saw IV leave the mediocre performance of low-cost production behind, and bring this film that carries all Zhou Xiaoming's family property, all his hopes, and the desire to revive that giant who has been dormant like winter, to a new height, a breathtaking height.
Zhou Shaoming has been waking up with a smile on his face these past few days. Who would have thought that he could own Tobin-Bell, an old actor with superb acting skills, Jeremy-Renner, a professional new star who will be nominated for the Oscar in the future? Although Robert looks unreliable, his performance is absolutely comparable to Bell's, and even surpasses Jeremy-Renner, whose acting skills have not yet reached their peak.
No matter how Zhou Shaoming looked at Robert, the guy couldn't squeeze out a word of information, as if he wasn't an actor at all, but just an ordinary person you could see anywhere on the streets of Hollywood.
But that performance has gone deep into people's hearts, which makes one wonder inexplicably.
"OK! The four big shots have finally gathered under my efforts! This is a day worth celebrating!" Zhou Shaoming looked at Kristina, Tobin-Bell, Robert and Jerry-Rena sitting in front of him with a proud smile.
The four of them were all called by Zhou Shaoming to his own home, sitting comfortably on the sofa, listening intently to him.
This feeling is great! The feeling of being respected and admired! Zhou Shaoming tried to hide the joyful thoughts in his heart, handing out four copies of the script to each person.
If Robert could be more professional and not sit there with his hair a mess, drinking his own red wine from time to time, taking drags on his cigarette without even flicking off the ash, just letting it fall to the ground so carelessly, Director Zhou might have been happier.
Look at Jeremy Renner, who is dedicated and professional, holding the script carefully. Can't you be more restrained? Zhou Shaoming looked at Robert with an unpleasant expression, who didn't care at all and hadn't even opened the script, suppressing his anger.
"Director, this script is great! I've never seen a movie like it! I think if we make it, it will be very, very attractive! This is the perfect script!" Jeremy Renner was extremely excited when he first saw the formal script of Saw, and it's clear that the script completely moved him.
"Yes, the same reaction as when I first saw it, the structure is compact, the content is unexpected, and the horror elements are all here, which also elevates the level of the entire film. It's a very high-level work!" Despite having read the script many times, Bell still took it very seriously and read it again, putting down the manuscript and continuing to speak with Laina.
"No wonder, I knew this guy wasn't a simple person, I really don't know how he came up with such a good script!" Christina will play Amanda in the drama, although the role is not a lot of scenes in the movie, but it's still an important step from TV to film, so Christina is very happy and said with a smile, her eyes lightly scanning Zhou Shaoming's face with a strange tenderness.
"Thank you everyone for the praise. This is the first and last meeting before filming starts, so if there's anything in the script that affects performance or doesn't seem quite right, please speak up. If no one has any opinions, we'll start filming within a week!" Zhou Shaoming made a sweeping gesture with his hand, making the decision final.
