Chapter 145 - Casting

"The ringing of her cell phone woke Blake Lively from her sleep, and the first thing she did when she opened her eyes was not to answer the phone, but to shove it under her pillow and press it to death. It was only nine in the morning, no matter what that asshole called, she did not answer, sleep beauty sleep is the most important thing.

The thought rapped around in a blur in her head, and Blake Lively fell back into a deep sleep.

About half an hour later, the cell phone under the pillow stubbornly rang again, is sleeping soundly Blake Lively even lazy eyes open, her hand in the pillow under the fumble for a while, feel the phone, directly to the phone to press the phone off.

In order to prevent anyone else from calling and disturbing her good dreams, Blake Lively took her cell phone out from under her pillow and prepared to turn it off. But on the list of missed calls that popped up on the screen, the caller showed Felix Lin.

Blake Lively rubbed his eyes vigorously to make sure he was reading it right. "Oh my god, I can't believe I hung up Felix's phone, what will he think ... Will he ignore me from now on?" The girl's mind is the most sensitive, Blake Lively used her shell teeth to lightly bite her lips, her mind instantly turned over a thousand thoughts.

Just as she was torn between the dilemma of returning or not returning the call, her cell phone rang once again, and the caller display was still Lin Ming Yang. Blake Lively patted her chest and took a long breath before she pressed the answer button.

"Baby, I hope I didn't disturb your good dreams!" On the other side of the phone, Lin Ming Yang's magnetic voice carried a lazy afternoon sunshine-like aura that made Blake Lively's heart pound like a deer in the headlights. Hearing Lin Mingyang's intimate name, Blake Lively immediately blushed, and although she was the only one in the bedroom, she covered her head with the quilt.

Hiding under the covers and whispering to her lover, girls at this age liked to do this.

"But I did wake up to you!" Blake Lively said with puffed up cheeks and feigned exasperation.

"Then I sincerely apologize to you!" Lin Mingyang on the other end of the phone laughed.

"Just one apology won't do." Blake Lively beamed, her petulant voice still full of seduction despite the phone across the room.

Before even coaxing a few good words, Lin Ming Yang's fox's tail revealed itself, "Then I'll compensate you for a movie role?"

Blake Lively giggled under the covers, as pleasant as a silver bell, "What movie are you going to make this time?" She didn't answer Lin Ming Yang directly, but subconsciously she had actually taken herself as the heroine of the story.

"A very funny story that takes place on a college campus!" Blake Lively curled up under her own comforter while Lin Mingyang narrated the entire plot of the movie as if he were telling a story, his eloquence was already good, coupled with a very rich way of expressing himself verbally. Across the phone, Blake Lively seemed to have returned to his childhood, listening to his parents tell him a bedtime story. The only regret is that Lin Mingyang's story hypnotizing effect is not very good, the funny plot makes Blake Lively hilarious, where there is still the idea of sleeping.

In the end, Blake Lively couldn't stop laughing in bed, she propped herself up and leaned back on the pillow, "You're going to let me play the daughter of that curmudgeonly dean of North Harmon Institute of Technology?"

The name North Harmon Institute of Technology corresponded north and south with South Harmon Institute of Technology in Lin Ming Yang's last directorial effort, Admission Notice, which was a tricky maneuver on his part in order not to make the audience right in reality. By making this movie, Lin Mingyang only wanted to expose some of the shortcomings of college education, not to directly satirize a particular school.

But what the school was called in the movie was not the focus of Blake Lively's concern, a question she had smothered in her mind from the beginning, "Is the male lead of the movie you?"

"Do you want it to be me?"

Blake Lively pursed her lips and hesitated, "Of course!" Even though Blake Lively herself knew that it was unlikely, she still said the truest thought in her heart.

"I'm sorry..."

"It's actually okay, I know your goal is to become a great director, so I will always support you!" Blake Lively was originally a sexy and cheerful girl, she quickly accepted the result and in turn comforted Lin Ming Yang.

"So you're saying yes?"

"Did I say I'd say no?" Blake Lively giggled.

"You have to think about it, this movie probably won't be used for commercial distribution, it's just a piece I'm using to enter the International Student Film Festival." Although the relationship with Blake Lively was extraordinary, there were some things that Lin Ming Yang still had to say first, "The pay is not high!"

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"1 hour, 26 minutes and 8 seconds!" The moment Lin Ming Yang hung up the phone, Billy Olsen pressed and stopped the stopwatch, and then reported a series of numbers that were precise to the point of being wonderful, "Does the director need to take so long to communicate with the actors?"

"Is there a problem?" Lin Ming Yang glared at him without a good look, "Have you gotten any results from the online screening yet?"

The tentative title of the movie was Three Idiots, Lin Ming Yang asked Billy Olsen to put up the casting information on Facebook's Harvard community, and the first round of casting was done by email casting, where interested parties only needed to send their life photos to the formulated email address, and then leave their exact contact information.

The post was seen as a joke by everyone at first, and later on it was another opportunity for some unscrupulous guy to try to collect photos of beautiful women. But soon there were well-informed people in the Kirkland dormitory who corroborated this news from the mouths of the members of the H33 dormitory, and then like a virus spreading, soon the whole school knew about it. In an interview with Ginny, the exclusive reporter of the Harvard Crimson, Lin Mingyang personally confirmed this matter, and then the e-mails came in like snowflakes, fortunately, there was no such thing as an overcrowded e-mail address, but Billy Olsen still had to deal with thousands of e-mails every day.

This call for actors was initially limited to Harvard students to sign up, but because of the spread of the news, this move caused dissatisfaction among students from other colleges and universities in Boston, and after receiving a letter of protest, Lin Mingyang had to expand the call for actors to the whole of Boston, which increased Billy Olsen's work several times out of nowhere.

When Lin Ming Yang asked about this, Billy Olsen started pouring out his bitterness: "Felix, I strongly request a raise in my salary, you don't know how crushing it is to browse through more than a thousand photographs of men every day, I think you'd better let Grimm Nutt do the job, he's got a liking for this area again, and I reckon that he'd be happy to take over this job. "

"If I let Nat do it, I think the first thing he'll do is find a whole bunch of people who are more suitable than you and convince me to let you get out!" Lin Ming Yang smiled wickedly, "If you're still prepared to stick to that suggestion you just made, then I'll go talk to Nat right away!"

"Just kidding, how can you leave something as important as casting to that unreliable guy Green Nutter!" Billy Olsen's attitude immediately took a one hundred and eighty degree turn, but the corner of his mouth trembled a little as he laughed, if he really let Grimm Nutt cast the movie, it was estimated that he would really be kicked out of the cast list by that guy.

Billy Olsen made a slide show of the photos and basic information of the part that he had screened out, and in order to show that he was serious about his work, he busily opened up his own laptop and began to make a presentation for Lin Ming Yang.

Turned over more than a hundred pages, most of the photos Lin Mingyang just hurriedly skimmed over, his mind simply did not leave much of an impression, until a guy named Michael Newman appeared on the computer screen, Lin Mingyang held down the mouse wheel finger termination to stop dialing, he seriously and carefully look at the person's photo, always feel that he in the brow and a Hollywood star is very similar.

"Doesn't this person look a bit like Adam Sandler?" Billy Olsen had this feeling when he first picked it out, and seeing that Lin Ming Yang seemed to be interested in the guy, he mentioned it from the sidelines.

Lin Ming Yang nodded: "No wonder it always feels a bit familiar, there are indeed a few similarities between his eyebrows, but he looks like he should be a bit more resourceful than Adam Sandler, should we meet with him first?"

"You're going to cast this guy as the lead?" Billy Olsen's eyes widened.

"That's the type of actor I need, you know this is a comedy, I don't need the main character to be as handsome or handsome as he looks, it's best to be the kind of guy who's straightforward with a bit of wit and a naive sense of humor." Lin Mingyang explained.

Billy Olsen nodded, "Then I'll contact him now!"

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The enrollee named Michael Newman was a junior at Boston University, and he happened to be in class when he received the call from Billy Olsen. Luckily, he was seated relatively far back, and when the professor at the podium wasn't looking, he shrank halfway down and hunkered down under the desk to answer the call.

"Hello, this is Michael Newman, how may I help you?" He kept his voice low so as not to disturb those around him.

Billy Olsen on the other end of the line didn't even hear what he was saying, and he raised his voice, "This is Billy Olsen, this is the Three Stooges cast and crew, is this Michael Newman, please?"

Billy Olsen...The Three Stooges crew, hiding under his desk, Michael Newman's mind was blown, when he first saw the call for actors on the internet, he was still encouraged by a few friends to sign up, he never thought that the other party had really approached him.

"Yes, yes, I'm Michael Newman." He raised his head violently in his excitement, and hit his head heavily on the desk, this time the noise made was not small, the people around him looked at him, and the professor also stopped lecturing, and followed the source of the sound to look over this way.

Michael Newman rubbed his head to get out from under the desk, the professor looked at him with a serious face, "Mr. Newman, do you have the habit of hiding under the desk to listen to the lecture?"

Michael Newman had already put his cell phone into his coat pocket when he came out, he scratched his head and explained with an apologetic face, "Professor, I just dropped my pen on the floor, and I accidentally bumped my head when I picked it up!" His naive and honest look, combined with his sincere attitude of admitting his mistake, easily fooled that professor.

"Alright, you sit down, we'll continue the lesson now?" The professor continued to write on the blackboard while speaking, and when he had finished his lecture notes and was about to expand further, he turned around only to find Michael Newman's hand raised high.

"Mr. Newman, do you have any doubts about what I just said?" The professor assumed he was trying to ask a question.

Michael Newman, on the other hand, covered his stomach in pain before his face turned red as he held it in, "I...I might have eaten something bad today."

The surrounding students roared with laughter, the professor already had three black lines on his face, the class was continuously interrupted by Michael Newman, he was definitely not happy. Waving his hand very impatiently, Michael Newman was like an amnesty and rushed out of the classroom in a hurry, covering his stomach.

In the classroom he really looked like he had diarrhea, but as soon as he left the classroom door, he immediately stood up straight, where was the slightest hint of pain on his face. If Lin Ming Yang was here, he would have been pleasantly surprised, because Michael Newman was simply a born actor.

Such a trick Michael Newman often used when he was in high school, but at this time he didn't have the leisure to be smug. He found a secluded spot and then rang back the phone number he had just hung up on himself in class.

Billy Olsen was depressed, wondering in his heart if this Michael Newman guy had run into some deep forest, the signal was so poor that the phone was disconnected when he was talking. After about five minutes of like, the other party finally called him back.

Before Billy Olsen could open his mouth to complain, the other party's excited voice began to hit his eardrums, "You're Billy Olsen, I often browse your homepage, you and Felix Lin in the same dormitory...I'm really being watched by the cast of Three Stooges, I'll be playing the lead role right?"

The incoherence coupled with the barrage of questions left Billy Olsen at a loss for words, "I'm telling you it's all true, but only if you pass our audition. When do you have time, I think it would be best if it was tomorrow, you come to our dormitory, the interview will be here, and the code word when you knock on the door is 'I'm a fool!' , remember?"

Michael Newman thought the code word was like a fool's joke, which made him doubt the authenticity of the call, "Are you really Billy Olsen?"

"I suggest you check your calendar first, it's not April Fool's Day!"