Alice used a drone to monitor the surroundings of the bus all the way, and would issue an early warning if she found any danger.
Fortunately, the journey was smooth and unimpeded, and when they arrived at the dreamland childrens park, no accidents happened.
A closed sign had already been hung outside the park, and at this moment, it was full of extras and crew members.
After Rosalie and the rest of the actors entered the dressing room and finished their makeup, Caleb announced the official start of filming.
“Act 1, Scene 1, Action!”
At Caleb’s command, the entire crew immediately started operating.
The first scene was Joanna Perry, played by Rosalie, who finally found a job as a mascot actor at the dreamland childrens park after being unemployed for half a year.
Then, because of back rent, she and her son Mark were driven out by the landlord and had to move into the park’s employee dormitory together.
This scene was still a great test of Rosalie’s acting skills.
She had to layeredly portray the emotions of a single mother’s sadness and helplessness from bankruptcy and unemployment, the joy and elation after finding a job, and the shame and loss of being driven out by the landlord.
If it were the old Rosalie, she definitely wouldn’t be able to do it, and would need the director Caleb to teach her hand-in-hand, making everyone in the crew wait for her to grind it out bit by bit.
But after Alice’s training, Rosalie’s acting skills improved significantly, and her scene was completely passed in one take.
Mark also played out Mark’s innocence and ignorance, but to others, it was just a true-to-life performance, and no one cared too much.
“CUT! Clap clap clap, Rosalie, well done!”
After the scene was filmed, Caleb immediately applauded happily.
The rest of the crew, whether sincere or feigned, could only applaud along.
Originally, he only decided to let Rosalie play the female lead of this play for Mark’s sake.
But the acting skills Rosalie showed this time gave him a surprise.
Due to Rosalie’s outstanding performance, the filming progress was very fast, and eight scenes were completed in one morning.
When the crew finished lunch in the afternoon and prepared to continue filming, more than a dozen young men in suits and of various skin colors pushed aside the staff blocking them and broke into the set.
Caleb could only helplessly pause the filming and prepare to step forward to negotiate.
“Dangerous target detected! Dangerous target detected!”
The moment these people appeared, Alice immediately issued a warning to Rosalie and Mark through her earphones. This story is hosted at g.com.
The two were taken aback, and Mark hurriedly pulled out a monitor from the messenger bag behind him.
Alice projected the pictures captured by the drone onto the monitor.
It clearly showed the holsters and gunstocks faintly exposed at the lower back of these people when they walked.
Seeing this, Rosalie and Mark immediately raised their vigilance and turned their heads to look for nearby cover.
Mark even secretly put on insulated gloves, ready to take a stun gun out of the messenger bag for self-defense at any time.
However, after these people broke into the set, they didn’t make any other moves; they just looked around with interest, and some people even took out their mobile phones to film.
At this time, Caleb walked over and talked to the leading white youth for a couple of sentences, then pulled out a stack of banknotes and handed them to the other party.
The leading white youth appeared polite, took the banknotes, shook hands with Caleb, and left with his people.
Seeing these people leave, Rosalie and Mark breathed a sigh of relief.
“What bad luck! The gangs here in New York are truly lawless!”
After Caleb came back, he was still cursing and swearing.
The major film and television companies in Hollywood are powerful, with strong financial resources, legal affairs, and security forces.
Ordinary gangs dare not provoke them at all, let alone demand protection money from them.
But their crew was unfamiliar with the place in New York, and facing the extortion from those gang members just now, Caleb could only pinch his nose and accept it.
“Alright! Let’s continue filming!”
After calming his anger, Caleb announced the start of filming.
Everyone in the crew thought the matter had passed like this and threw themselves back into the afternoon’s filming.
Little did they know that the gang members who had just collected the protection money had not gone far.
Just after leaving dreamland childrens park, they stopped in their tracks.
The leading white youth took out a high-definition camera and took dozens of photos in succession towards the direction of the crew.
Half an hour later, the white youth entered an office building and took the elevator to an office on the top floor. This story is hosted at g.com.
“Boss!”
He bowed and saluted a plump middle-aged white man sitting behind the desk.
This middle-aged man was Derek Wade, the boss of the Black Fire Gang.
The Black Fire Gang was a medium-sized gang in New York, with more than 200 members, governing two nearby blocks.
Their main industries were drug trafficking, sex trade, and human trafficking.
All the women trafficked by them were first controlled with drugs and then taken to the entertainment venues under their banner for sex trade.
“Damir, has the situation of that crew been figured out?”
Derek took a puff of his cigar and asked the white youth in front of him.
“Boss, I’ve already asked people to find out. The Bell Film Company behind this crew is only a small and medium-sized film company in Hollywood, and the actors in the crew don’t have any big stars.”
Damir told Derek the information he had someone inquire about.
Then he handed over the camera in his hand, revealing a smile that all men understood: “The women in this crew all look quite good, and their figures are very hot.”
Derek took the camera and casually swiped his fingers across the screen.
“Although these women are not big stars, they are public figures after all. Once something happens, it’s still very easy to attract public attention! We must be cautious if we want to make a move against them, and we can’t implicate the Black Fire Gang…”
Derek said casually.
Although the women in the photos were all very beautiful, he had seen and played with too many women, and these could hardly attract his attention anymore.
But when he turned to the last photo of Rosalie and saw Mark standing next to her, Derek’s eyes suddenly lit up.
“Oh, God! This child is so pretty, he is simply like an Angel!”
He immediately beckoned Damir to come over excitedly, pointed at Mark’s photo, and asked: “What is this child’s name? Tell me all his identity information!”
“He should be the child of this actor named Rosalie. What his specific name is, I don’t know.”
Damir first shook his head, then looked at Derek with a strange look in his eyes: “How about I go find someone to inquire about it again?”
He had previously placed all his targets on the women in the crew, and taking pictures of Mark was just by the way, so he hadn’t asked people to inquire about Mark’s identity information.
Unexpectedly, Derek, who had always only liked women, suddenly became interested in a little boy.