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Chapter 390 The Big Guy's Troubles
🕑 Added 2025-07-12 15:19:54 +0000 UTC"Ah--sneeze!" Nanaya, who was discussing the action scenes, sneezed. "Are you kidding me? Can you catch a cold in this weather?" Nanaya rubb
"Ah--sneeze!"
Nanaya, who was discussing the action scenes, sneezed.
"Are you kidding me? Can you catch a cold in this weather?"
Nanaya rubbed his nose. He seemed to sense something and turned his head to look behind him.
I saw Shion and Elle talking about something, but Nanaya was too far away to hear anything.
But seeing the mocking expression on Shion's face and the shocked look on Elle's face, Nanaya felt that there must be something wrong with these two people.
"What are they doing?"
For a moment, Nanaya wanted to sneak over to listen, but he just couldn't bring himself to do it.
So Nanaya missed the only opportunity to find out the real purpose of his boss. When he found out later that his sister-in-law had been fooled by Shion, it was too late.
But Nanaya doesn’t know about this yet. Compared to exploring the little secrets between girls, filming is more important to him.
After all, this is a damn place, and Nanaya thinks it would be good to stay one less day.
"Johnson, you're doing great. You've improved a lot since the beginning."
Nanaya patted the back of the big guy next to him - because he didn't want to stand on tiptoe to pat the other person's shoulder. Johnson's improvement in acting skills was indeed something that Nanaya was very happy about.
You have to know that Johnson's acting skills were not that outstanding when he first joined the crew. Although he showed the lively and friendly side of the emperor, the domineering side of the emperor was still missing something.
This time facing Hassan's army, Johnson finally showed off his emperor's aura, although it cost him nearly 20 NGs in seven nights.
"No, that's because you taught me well, Director."
In response to Nanaya's praise, Johnson grinned and acted very shy.
Even though Johnson looks like he has only muscles on his body, this guy has a high EQ.
Johnson is well versed in this office philosophy of "if you succeed, the leader takes all the credit."
Of course, Johnson would not deny the efforts he had made in the past few days, but this kind of thing is something he should just think about in his mind and avoid speaking out loud.
Johnson is never bad at simple action scenes, as he just needs to show off his muscles as much as possible, but literary scenes really stump this big guy.
But for the literary part, Johnson must be able to perform, or at least show his own characteristics.
Johnson is a smart man. He knows that the simple macho routines of Stallone and Schwarzenegger in the last century will no longer work in the new era.
Needless to say, just look at the box office charts in recent years and you will find that there are really not many of the macho action movies that were popular in the 1970s and 1980s left now.
Therefore, Johnson, who aspires to become a big star, knows very well that his strong body is his asset, but if he only relies on this body of tendons, he will never be the best one.
After saying goodbye to Nana, Johnson returned to the rest area to touch up his makeup.
Two interns came over immediately and replaced the ice pack on his back.
In fact, Johnson should be the most comfortable among all the actors in terms of weather. Not only can he put a lot of ice packs on his back under the cover of his cloak, but Iskander's costume is not as tightly wrapped as his soldiers.
As for sun exposure, it's a small matter and all you need to do is apply sunscreen. Johnson, who was a wrestler, said these are all small issues.
Because he had to go on stage soon, Johnson didn't eat anything. He just drank some water to replenish his body's water, and then asked the makeup artist to touch up his makeup quickly.
Coincidentally, at this time, Gal Gadot also came to the makeup area. When their eyes met, they nodded slightly as a greeting.
Gadot entered the women's dressing room, which was converted from an RV behind the makeup area, and Johnson knew she was going to add talcum powder to her tights.
In such hot weather, a lot of sweat will accelerate the consumption of talcum powder inside the tights, so each actor who plays Hassan needs to replenish it every one or two shots.
Otherwise, the tights will stick tightly to the joints of the body, making it extremely difficult for people to make the slightest movement.
Johnson has average feelings towards this sexy and beautiful female partner. He neither likes her too much nor hates her too much. It is just a simple cooperative relationship.
The reason is simple. Although he is the winner of the battle according to the script, at least one-third of the shots in this scene are given to this unknown little actor.
Even though this woman doesn't have very big breasts, they are still somewhat visible thanks to the tights, so at least they don't make her look barren.
But Johnson knows very well that the real amazing thing about this woman named Gal Gadot, or her most attractive part, is her long legs.
Although he has not seen the filming footage, according to Johnson's observation, the director focused more than half of the shots on the other person's legs.
Such a situation made Johnson feel a little jealous, after all, he was the protagonist of the battle between the Macedonian Army and Hassan.
The higher that woman named Gadot appears on screen, the fewer shots her own screen time will have, and those two long legs are stealing all the spots from him.
Of course, this situation only made Johnson a little unhappy. After all, the other party was just a supporting actress and could get her job after performing this scene (even though the filming had not been completed yet), while he, Dwayne Johnson, still had many scenes to perform on the set.
The person who really made Johnson develop a sense of competition was Tom Hiddleston, his long-time partner and the actor who played his Master Waver Velvet in the movie.
Although Johnson himself is the dominant party in terms of character interaction, the same cannot be said for his acting skills.
Hiddleston, who graduated from a professional acting school, really beats Johnson, a big guy who changed his career halfway, in terms of acting. Obviously, the two sides were in unequal positions in terms of lines and roles, but in the end, Hiddleston and Johnson performed equally well.
This made Johnson very unhappy. Unlike the supporting actress Gadot, Hiddleston's role was almost as long as his own.
It would be bad if my acting skills continued to be covered up like this.
Johnson was a little anxious. He hoped to take the initiative in the acting with Hiddleston, at least to avoid being completely crushed like before.
But if you ask him to do something bad to Hiddleston or tell on the director, Johnson wouldn't dare.
Having experienced the events of "The Scorpion King", he was very clear about his position as an actor in the crew. As he was not yet a big star, he had no qualifications to discuss how to shoot the film with those in power in the crew.
Don't take yourself too seriously.
This is the most profound lesson Johnson learned in The Scorpion King.
Although he would definitely fight back if he was bullied, given the current situation, Johnson felt that it would be better for him not to look for trouble.
If I were to anger the great director Nanaya Kiryu, I would really have to give up my career as an actor.
"I really envy that guy named Ishida." Johnson sighed slightly and said to himself.
If we want to find out the biggest difference between FSN and FZ, it is that although new actors were used as much as possible, the average acting level of the actors in the two crews is really too different.
Think about it, they are all athletes from sports departments, so why did Junichi Ishida only meet idols who are not very good at acting, while he met guys who were all trained in acting?
Thinking of this, Johnson really wanted to look up to the sky and sigh, "Director, you plotted against me!"
But before Johnson could figure out how to deal with Hiddleston, the crew had already started calling for help.
"All departments, get ready! Filming will begin in 5 minutes!"
[Forget it, there is still a long way to go. I don’t believe that I will be crushed by him in the end.]
Johnson never thought that his acting skills could be better than Hiddleston's. The gap between the two is so huge that Johnson doesn't even have the mind to compare.
But stealing the spotlight, or attracting the audience's attention, does not rely entirely on acting skills. Johnson believes he can do it.
Johnson, wearing a cape, got on a specially made prop horse with the help of others.
Although it is called a prop horse, the prop that Johnson rides does not look like a horse at all. Wrapped in the green screen, it looks more like a toy with wheels.
Because the weather was too hot, Nanaya did not choose a live horse.
Regardless of whether the horses can bear it or not, Nanaya himself can't stand the members of animal protection organizations.
Nanaya had suffered once when filming "Brother Slayer", and he didn't want to go through it again.
[Well, it seems this guy has a strong sense of confrontation. ]
Nanaya noticed the provocative look Johnson gave Hiddleston when he was getting on the horse.
Nanaya knew that the two members of the Rider team did not get along.
After so many years of filming, he can guess how the actors get along with each other just by watching the interactions between the two.
Nanaya knew that Johnson was unhappy that Hiddleston was stealing the spotlight, but because the big guy was very restrained and it didn't affect the filming, Nanaya didn't say much.
And what about Tom Hiddleston?
He didn't have much affection for Johnson either. Even though Johnson got along well with his good friend James MCAvoy, he himself was not very fond of the former wrestler.
Although he didn't look down on the other student, as a graduate student in the performing arts department, he would definitely feel a strong sense of superiority when facing an undergraduate student in the physical education department.
If the same situation happened to other masters and servants, Nanaya would just leave it alone.
But this group is not acceptable. You know, the CP of [EmperorXWaver] is one of the most eye-catching selling points of the entire FZ.
If these two actors can't create sparks, how can Nanaya sell homosexuality? Bah, how can Nanaya show this sincere love between the monarch and his subjects?
"It seems that we need to add some scenes for the two of them." Thinking of this, Nanaya called Tom to his side, "Tom, there are some changes in the filming here, and your performance content needs to be slightly changed."
