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Chapter 480: The Veil (Part )

Chapter 480: The Veil (Part )

After a rustling sound and white noise, the screen turned from dark to bright, and the movie officially began with a chattering narration.

“The date is August 2015, 8.”

The iconic Empire State Building flashed by, and then the prosperous scene of all kinds of luxury cars flowing on New York's Fifth Avenue came into view. On the spacious and bright driveway, a black sedan driving at high speed caught Catherine's attention.

With the intuition of a veteran actor, she quickly determined where the subject in the picture was.

The camera smoothly followed the speed of the car and switched to the door of a white arched building: this is a single-family building located in the center of Manhattan. It has tall columns, wide corridors, and symmetrical and perfectly carved lines. One can tell at a glance that it is very expensive.

Soon, the black car stopped steadily in front of the door of the white building.

Through the long shot, Catherine could only see a woman whose face could not be seen clearly getting out of the car. The rustic cotton dress she wore made her look a little bloated, and her unshaped black hair was mostly covered by a sun hat, leaving only a part of the hair ends visible.

"Merde, this is such a disastrous look." Catherine looked at the woman in the picture hesitantly. "Is this really Nicole? It's unbelievable..."

The next overhead shot once again confirmed her guess: looking down from the top of the spiral staircase, starting from the top of the woman's head, the outdated sun hat, the dull and severely split hair ends, every detail showed that the woman was in a very bad condition at the moment.

The camera slowly moved downwards. After the woman reached the second floor, she stopped, reached out to touch the dry ends of her hair, and carefully put her hair up. Her eyelashes flickered, and then she looked at the camera blankly and quickly looked away.

Whether it is her old-fashioned dress style or her complex, real and delicate micro-expressions from the moment she appears on the stage, they all convey a lot of information to the audience invisibly: this woman seems to be quite old, and although there are not many wrinkles on her face, she looks so weak and numb, and her words and actions are very restrained, and her expression reveals a hint of sadness from time to time - this sadness is so contagious that it seems to pull Catherine, the audience, into the play in an instant, making her want to explore this character involuntarily.

Why did she walk into this private clinic with such a sad face? What was her relationship with the owner of the car? Since she could afford the car, why didn't she change into nice clothes? Was her sadness related to her illness?

"Mrs. White?"

"Yes."

"Dr. Luther, here comes Mrs. White. She is the lady Dr. Watkins wrote to you about..."

The plot continued to move forward smoothly, but Catherine's thoughts lingered for a long time on Nicole's almost reborn "ugly" look: yes, ugly, this is the most common breakthrough method chosen by many actors with good facial features - but Nicole did not deliberately gain weight or put on old makeup, looking closely, her facial features are as delicate as usual, even still beautiful - but Catherine dared to guarantee that any audience looking at her would not notice her beauty, they would first feel her sadness and her overly restrained and timid state.

"Without changing her appearance, she was able to achieve such a strong effect just by changing her look." Less than five minutes into the film, Catherine was already deeply attracted by the opening scene. "Her entire temperament changed because of it. This is definitely not something an ordinary actor can do... Maybe those reporters really underestimated this girl."

When it comes to Hollywood stars, many European media reporters are accustomed to criticizing everything with a harsh eye - they are eager to take advantage of their fame and star effect around the world, but they also like to step on them secretly. It is no exaggeration to say that they love and hate them.

Since the Cannes Film Festival shortlist was announced, Catherine has seen no less than six versions of award predictions on the website. In each version, "The Painted Veil" ended up with nothing, and there were also a few sarcastic remarks against the heroine.

"The script is quite interesting. The theme is not overly grand and narrative. It is about women's self-discovery, self-awakening and self-pursuit, which is in line with the current trend... But the expression is a bit dull, and most of the images are in cold colors, which is very different from Mirren's previous works. I'm afraid it will be difficult to get a good box office." With this in mind, Catherine subconsciously speculated on the award prospects of "The Veil". "The Oscars will not like this kind of film, but those Americans always prefer Mirren. Maybe this film will be an exception. In any case, this is more like an art film for the film festival. Nicole's performance is very fresh and can completely achieve a bright effect - I guess Green will definitely vote for her for the best actress. It's a pity that this girl is determined to stay in Hollywood..."

Catherine watched Nicole's performance in every frame with appreciation, and waited patiently and expectantly for Eve White's second personality to appear. What kind of person would the second personality be? All of these plots came from the original script written by Greta Mirren. Even though Catherine was extremely curious, she had no way of knowing the news.

The time in the movie quickly came to a few weeks later, and the plot then turned to the scene where Eve went to the private clinic alone for the second time. The melancholy and deep close-up shot of Brandon Emerson drew Katherine's sneer: in her opinion, Brandon's acting skills were still too immature, he only had the perfect "form" but not the "soul".

In comparison, Nicole's performance can be described as "spiritual and spiritual".

"She is simply a rare acting talent!" Catherine stared at the woman on the screen who was wearing coarse linen but still had a natural charm. Her breathing suddenly became rapid, and a long-lost thrill passed through her mind - this was a unique reaction of Catherine when she saw a good performance.

"It's incredible. She was completely overshadowed by all those commercial films before! This girl's acting skills are no less than Sigourney Weinstein's. She showed an amazing personality switch. Yes, it was very thorough, very bold, and completely different... How did she do it?"

Catherine was so excited that she kept swearing and was completely turned on.