美語情景對話 第682期:Big Break 大突破

Todd: OK, now Matt, you used to work in Hollywood as an actor. Can you talk about what kind of actor you were?

託德：馬特，你曾在好萊塢做過演員。你能談談是哪種演員嗎？

Matt: Sure. I acted mainly in commercial work and that is I auditioned for commercials and basically in Los Angeles it's unlike any other city in the world for acting and it's just so heavily centered around Hollywood and television and screen work that there isn't really a lot of work in theater so I didn't have a ton of training going in to the acting world when I entered L.A. so like many others I opted just for commercial work and tried to get experience that way.

馬特：當然可以。我主要出演商業作品，我基本上是在洛杉磯進行商業廣告的試鏡，與世界上其他城市不同，洛杉磯的演出行業集中在好萊塢，主要是電視業和電影業的運作，並沒有太多的劇院演出，我在進入洛杉磯的表演行業時，並沒有進行過太多的訓練，與其他人一樣，我選擇了商業作品，來積累經驗。

Todd: Oh, cool. So how do you actually get a gig? Tell me about the process.

託德：哦，真酷。你是怎麼獲得表演機會的？跟我說說過程。

Matt: It actually... It's a lot more complicated than I thought when I first got there and competitive. Basically, there are two types of actors in Los Angeles. There's union actors and non-union. And to really progress you need to be a union actor which takes getting a speaking part or doing commercial work, which took me about six months and from there becoming a SAG member, screen actor's guild member. You're in the union which looks a lot better on your resume to go after agents so that was my next step and after I got an agent then I was able to be sent out on auditions and look for work that way.

馬特：那比我剛進入這個行業時所認爲的情況要複雜得多，而且競爭也很激烈。基本上來說，洛杉磯有兩種演員。一種是表演工會的演員，一種是非工會演員。要成爲工會演員，需要出演過有臺詞的角色，出演過商業作品，我用了六個月的時間成爲了美國演員工會的成員。在找經紀人時，演員工會成員這個身份可以使你的簡歷看上去更好些，然後我找了名經紀人，這樣他們就會安排我去試鏡，尋找演出機會。

Todd: So how did you get your first big break?

託德：你是怎麼得到突破機會的？

Matt: It was just by chance really. I was acting and I was doing a lot of non-speaking work on television and movies and really not progressing as fast as I wanted to and I was on a commercial for I think it was Pepsi and they liked my look and they needed an extra guy in the scene in a library and they put me in and from that thirty second spot which was shown all the East Coast of the United States I has half of my income for my first year because you get royalty checks every time a commercial is shown on television. You get paid, so...

馬特：那真的是偶然。我在很多電視劇和電影裏出演的都是沒有臺詞的角色，我的進步並沒有我希望的那樣快，然後我出演了百事可樂的廣告，他們說很喜歡我的外貌，當時他們有一場在圖書館拍的場景需要羣衆演員，所以他們選中了我，讓我出演了那30秒的廣告，而且那支廣告在美國東海岸各州播出，我拿到的報酬是第一年收入的一半，一個商業廣告片每在電視上播放一次就會有版權收入，你就會得到報酬。

Todd: Nice.

託德：真不錯。

Matt: Yeah... But from there I went back to television and movies.

馬特：嗯，那以後我又回去拍電視劇和電影了。

Todd: Cool.

託德：真酷。

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重點講解：
1. opt for 選擇；作出抉擇；
例句：After graduating she opted for a career in music.
畢業後她選擇了從事音樂工作。
2. be able to do sth. 可以…的，能夠…的；
例句：He was able to put complicated thought into simple words.
他能用簡單的話表達複雜的思想。
3. look for 找；尋；
例句：They look for foods that are low in calories.
他們要找低卡路里的食物。
4. by chance 偶然；碰巧；
例句：He had a slip of tongue by chance.
他偶然說走嘴。