Chapter 1060

Surrey, located just 30 minutes southeast of London, is a quiet town. The winding Thames River quietly passes through the whole town. It is comfortable and peaceful, comfortable and beautiful. Surrey University is a century old famous university in England. The bustling students bring a trace of vitality and youth to the local life.

However, compared with the beautiful or magnificent scenery in other parts of the British Isles, Surrey has a stronger flavor of life and a more distinctive rural flavor in the suburbs. It's a small town suitable for settlement, but it doesn't seem so attractive to tourists on vacation and travel.

Standing beside the reeds on the country road, you can see the dark red brick walls of rural residential buildings slowly spread out. The disordered bushes, damp soil and shabby huts outline the disorder of lack of order. The dark clouds above the head block the sunlight tightly, and make all the scenery dim, Hasty steps do not want any stay.

But Lan Li's steps stopped and stood on the path, enjoying the scene of life in front of him.

The old man in the garden bent his back and focused on pruning the lilac tree fence. The sound of the scissors had a special rhythm in the wind.

The postman, who was riding his bicycle to deliver the mail, with a bright smile on his face, warmly welcomed the residents standing in the balcony on the second floor.

There is also an old woman in a floral dress standing at the intersection, carefully looking at the empty intersection, looking for the opportunity to cross the intersection.

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There are no special images and pictures, full of rich life atmosphere, even some trivial, but let the mood slowly precipitate down, a light warmth floating in my heart.

"What are you looking at?" Nathan looks around curiously and stands next to him. He looks along Lan Li's line of sight, but he gets nothing. His question mark is not only unanswered, but also more confused.

The corner of lanli's mouth outlined a smile and said with a smile, "that's it, a corner of the town."

Nathan frowned a little. So, what's special about the corner of the town? I've been standing here for at least three minutes. It looks more like I'm enjoying a masterpiece.

"Artists' quirks are always elusive. Don't guess." Behind him came a voice with a slight smile, without turning his head, while Nathan turned his head directly, and then saw the oncoming Rooney Mara.

Today's Rooney, a light-weight dress, white shirt and sky blue jeans, with a pair of white canvas shoes, finally put on a smoky gray jacket, a long dark hair randomly tied into a bunch of ponytail, all over without any unnecessary embellishment and dress up, simple and generous, but reveals a sense of northern European coolness, Let the vision involuntarily fall on the corner of her mouth.

Nathan blinked, and the unsolved question mark on his head added more: when did Rooney appear? Why didn't he hear any engine noise? Did Rooney come on foot? And what's the meaning of Rooney's words? Is it him or Langley?

Between thinking and hesitation, Nathan saw that Rooney blinked with a smile, revealing a bit of playful look. In an instant, the cold faded away quietly, as if he could see a glimmer of light brightening up little by little, revealing a touch of warmth.

Lu Ni's steps stopped at her side. Instead of opening her mouth immediately, she cast her eyes to the front and joined the ranks of Lan Li, quietly enjoying the quiet rural scene in front of her.

The tranquility between the two people, inexplicably, calmed Nathan's anxiety and irritability. Countless questions still haven't been answered, but he is no longer anxious to pursue the answer. Then, Nathan joined them, watching the scene, but still confused.

"Long time no see? I guess you'll miss it all Rooney broke the silence, and her cold voice revealed a shallow smile.

"Ha." Lan Li chuckled, and then left and right waved his head, not denying, but noncommittal.

It's been ten months, more than ten months. I've been in the city, from Berlin to Los Angeles, then to London, and finally to New York. Since 2012, I've been running back and forth among these cities all the time, working one after another, and I can't stop.

Now, I have finally left the city for a long time and come to the countryside. All the buildings and the bustling crowd in my sight have faded away, and even the noise and calls in my ears have completely disappeared. The quiet from the inside out makes me want to immerse myself in it and walk slowly.

Of course, it's the same with the crew.

Stage and crew are two completely different ways of performance. After further polishing the acting skills on the stage, lanli can't wait to return to the crew and stand in front of the camera lens to test his own gains in the past six months.

So, standing on the country road, lanli still stopped and let the tight heart relax little by little.

Rooney understood, really understood, what Langley was feeling.

Just like last year's Oscars, Rooney almost ran away from Los Angeles to Seattle. Standing in the architectural space of Seattle, she can still feel the dull and oppressive suffocation. If she didn't sit on the bench and chat with Langley, Rooney would choose to go to the city park and disappear in the big green.

"Are you sure the nerves won't be too tight? Just a week ago, you just finished your broadway show, and I thought you'd take another break Said Rooney again.

"Yes, I regret it." Lenley readily admitted that it made the smile on the corner of Rooney's mouth rise, "but it's worth it, this work is worth it." And then he added, "in fact, after the last show on Broadway, I just couldn't put down the script and really start to plunge into a whole new world."

"Er..." Nathan made a hesitant voice and said slowly, "after the show, didn't you go surfing in Hawaii?"

Nathan's exposure on the spot made Rooney laugh, but lanli was not embarrassed at all. He said frankly, "between surfing, I mean."

After the Broadway show, Langley bought a ticket for the next day and went directly to Hawaii. He stayed there for seven days to relax and have a good vacation. He completely emptied his brain during surfing. Otherwise, as Rooney said, the journey from Broadway to gravity is too intensive for Langley.

"Are you sure this skin color is suitable for becoming an astronaut?" Rooney looked up and down at Langley, joking.

But Langley said calmly, "there is no rule that astronauts can't like surfing." Seeing that Rooney's eyes showed a banter smile, he knew that he could not continue to talk nonsense. The skin condition of astronauts after working in the space station for a long time really could not be compared with that during surfing. "Well, if the director needs, I will whiten my skin."

The helpless expression made Rooney laugh happily, but she didn't keep on pestering. "But I have to admit, this is a very special play. To be honest, I don't have a lot of ideas right now. I don't even know how I got the role

"When we communicated by email, didn't you just join a new crew?" Before the question, now finally have the opportunity to ask face to face.

Rooney turned her head and looked at him with wide eyes. "That was two and a half months ago. Soderberg's shooting progress was very fast. It was finished in less than a month." That's why Rooney has enough time to join the "gravity" crew for the first time.

Leng Leng, then lanli realized that when she was working on Broadway, Rooney's work was also in full swing. Obviously, he made a mistake just now. It seems that his head has not been fully tightened.

"Maybe, from today on, I should get back to the habit of thinking." Lanli made fun of himself. Both Rooney and Nathan laughed. "So, after studying the script, what's your conclusion?"

"The space left by the script itself for actors to think is actually limited, and the real performance space comes from the director." Without a pause, Rooney immediately expressed her opinion, "so before the shooting, the creative team needs to have a good communication. What do you have in mind about the character? "

As Langley and Rooney put it, "gravity" is a very special play. Not only because of a large number of one-man plays, but also because of a large number of blank space, the use of actors' performance to complete the exploration and deepening of the core ideas, which means that actors must fully understand the creative intention of the director, as well as the deep meaning behind the composition of the picture.

What's more, the actor must know enough about the role. What happened to the character in the past leads to the thinking and struggle in the film time; What kind of fit does the character's psychological state have with the story situation, which leads to the thinking under the situation; What's more, what's the driving force of the character? It drives the whole story forward.

Before the performance, actors must have a clear understanding of the whole story and the whole role, and have an accurate control of the whole film and the director's conception. Only in this way can the work be carried out smoothly.

Now, Langley and Rooney have a discussion, and it's just the first day of their arrival, and they haven't even officially entered the set.