"Boss, can I take a day off?" Portia called Chen Zhao carefully.
"Sure," Chen Zhao said. "I don't have anything tomorrow anyway."
Portia was very excited. Chen Zhao didn't make things difficult for her.
The next day, Portia contacted the Screen Actors Union.
She also got the address of the set from the union.
The union had resources, but their biggest disadvantage was that they couldn't guarantee any roles.
They couldn't even guarantee minor roles.
All the major film companies would cooperate with the union. It was a mutual benefit.
However, this cooperation was very fragile.
To put it simply, the union had the right to recommend roles, but not the right to decide.
For example, when a movie started filming, the producer would send a list of required roles to the union.
The list wouldn't only be sent to the union. It would also be sent to all the major management companies.
In this aspect, the union didn't have an advantage over the management companies.
The managers of the management companies would help their artists with PR and travel.
And the Screen Actors Guild wouldn't help their registered members move around.
Portia hurried to the set.
She still didn't know what role she was going to audition for.
There were a lot of people in the audition studio that day, and they were all mediocre actors just like her.
However, it could be seen that the producers had released many roles today.
They were minor roles, but they were very important to every actor who came for the audition.
Every actor had heard all sorts of stories before entering the industry.
How hard it was for an actor to become famous. How he started from a young age and finally became famous.
This story was common in the entertainment industry all over the world.
Of course, it was also the truth.
However, it was still a minority.
In fact, most of the famous actors were.
Their first role might be a role with a close-up and a line.
Only a small number of people with no foundation could become successful and famous in the end.
However, most actors who could enter Hollywood had the mentality that it was either success or death.
They knew that their chances of winning were very low, but they still kept going.
They lived in the slums and worked three jobs every day.
However, as long as there was a role, they'd spend half a year's salary on clothes and makeup. They'd work hard for a role that a dozen or even dozens of people were fighting for.
In Hollywood, there were many unspoken rules of using sex to get a role.
And this unspoken rule was not limited to men and women.
Portia got her script and the requirements for the role.
Her script only had one sentence, but there was a close-up shot.
For an extra like her, getting one line and a close-up was already a great stroke of luck.
For today's audition, Portia had specially put on the clothes and shoes she had bought in Japan's Ginza.
She was lucky today because she felt that she fit the role.
The ones auditioning were the casting director and a camera director. Both of them were assistant directors.
The two of them set up a platform in front of them.
Then, the actors went up one by one, did a performance, and read their lines.
The process was very fast, and each person had less than 30 seconds to perform.
Both of them replied in unison, "Thank you for your cooperation, please go back and wait for further notice."
"Portia, you look so beautiful today."
At this moment, a blonde walked over and greeted Portia.
"Aulisa." Portia turned to look at the woman.
Angelisa, like Portia, was an extra.
They had arrived in Los Angeles at almost the same time and had been roommates at some point in time.
However, the difference between them was that Aulisa already had a management company.
Portia, on the other hand, was still a lonely ghost.
Compared to a year ago, Aulisa seemed even prettier.
She seemed to have done some minor surgery.
From a woman's point of view, Portia could still tell which minor surgeries Aulisa had done.
It seemed that she had made some money in the past year.
Portia wanted to do some minor surgery too.
She had always felt that her jawbone was a bit big.
She wanted to make it smaller so that she would look more feminine.
However, the surgery was not cheap. It would cost at least eight thousand dollars.
"Your dress doesn't look cheap." Aulisa tugged at Portia's clothes.
Her behavior was a bit rude and seemed very impolite.
Portia pulled back her clothes.
Aulisa covered her mouth and chuckled. "Your taste is still so bad. You should ask me to be your advisor. I can give you the right guidance."
Portia's face darkened. "Don't touch my clothes. You might not be able to afford it."
"Do you know that this dress looks really old-fashioned on you?"
In Hollywood, there were no real friendships between women.
Even for actresses who had yet to become famous.
Back then, when they were competing for the same role, Aulisa set the alarm in Portia's room two hours late and cut the clothes she prepared.
In the end, Portia naturally missed out on the role, while Aulisa managed to snatch the role.
Their friendship and roommate relationship ended there.
Portia turned to leave. Aulisa looked at Portia's back.
Although she said that Portia had poor taste in clothes.
In fact, Portia's dress was very expensive.
It matched Portia's temperament very well. It was fashionable and sexy.
Moreover, they were auditioning for the same role today.
Moreover, the role was set to be a fashionable woman.
Therefore, Portia's appearance made Aulisa feel threatened.
Aulisa went up and probably kicked Portia's high heels with her toes.
"Ouch …" Portia immediately lost her balance and sat heavily on the ground.
The heels of her high heels broke. At the same time, the tightly-fitting dress also split due to the movement.
"Portia, are you okay?" Aulisa pretended to help Portia.
Portia didn't know that it was Aulisa's trick. As soon as she got up, she heard a tearing sound.
It turned out that Aulisa had deliberately stepped on the corner of Portia's dress.
In an instant, half of Portia's clothes were torn.
The originally sexy and dignified dress now made her look like a beggar.
"Haha …" Laughter came from the audition studio.
"Ah …" Portia covered her face and fled the scene.
In fact, both the two assistant directors and the actors auditioning knew what had happened.
And this kind of thing happened too many times in the audition studio, so many that they were already numb to it.
However, they wouldn't feel sympathy for the actress who was schemed against.
They could only say that she didn't have the mentality of a real actress.
。 Jiutian Shenhuang
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