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Depp suddenly stood up.

He was so frightened that his face turned pale and his heart was pounding.

Opposite him, director Charlotte was looking at him with a funny face.

"That last sound feels really good!"

Charlotte held up her thumb and blocked all Depp's complaints with a compliment.

"Johnny, you've got the feeling!"

"..."

Depp wanted to curse, but he opened his mouth but didn't say anything in the end.

Although he didn't know how the strange beetle appeared, Depp understood that it was actually the director using a silent way to guide him into the scene.

As for the fright he received, it was probably a punishment for his lack of preparation and his delay in getting into the state!

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"Ikabu Karan, as a young police officer who believes in science, is just starting out. So, he has two sides."

After shocking Depp, Charlotte finally began to tell him a serious story,

"On the one hand, he is very persistent in science, even to the point of being dogmatic, and often shows unnecessary toughness."

"On the other hand, when faced with strange and terrifying cases, he, who was young and inexperienced, panicked and was often frightened to death."

"In short, this is actually a young man who pretends to be calm, an inexperienced academic, timid but ambitious, eccentric and very confident, and sometimes a bit effeminate..."

As he said that, he glanced at Depp,

"Johnny, grasp the feeling just now, you will definitely be able to perform well."

"All right!"

Although there were countless MMPs in his heart, after Charlotte’s explanation and the scare just now, Depp really felt that he had found the feeling of Ichabod Callan.

"Let's try it again!"

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This time, Depp is doing well.

Whether it was his confidence when he first arrived at the scene, his pale face when he first saw the headless corpse, or his weirdness when he put on weird props to inspect the scene, they all showed the feeling of a fledgling young man very appropriately. .

And while suppressing the fear of examining the body, he also murmured "interesting" to embolden himself, which made the people watching couldn't help but laugh.

——But I still like the "interesting" sound when I see the beetle crawling out of the neck of the corpse!

Charlotte sighed secretly.

The shot of the beetle crawling out of the corpse's neck is one of the highlights, or rather scary points, of this scene.

Originally, he had no intention of filming this scene directly——

After all, as many Hollywood directors will say, when filming a movie, the actors they are most afraid of encountering are children and animals.

Both are difficult to control.

Among them, animals are more difficult to deal with than children.

After all, children are still humans and can still communicate through words, while animals...

Mammals like dogs and horses are fine, but if you encounter something like insects, you really have to leave it to fate.

This is actually true for the beetles we are going to use today.

In order to avoid trouble, Charlotte originally wanted to use special effects to synthesize this shot in post-production.

Therefore, there is no special mention in the script.

However, in order to impress Depp, or to scare him, he had to create a real beetle.

It's not easy.

Not to mention where the real beetles came from, just trying to scare Depp is not a simple matter——

The timing must be very precise to catch him by surprise.

This is not something ordinary people can do.

Fortunately, Charlotte, who knows magic, has never been an ordinary person.

In fact, the beetle was transformed into a ghost he drove.

That’s why it was so timely!

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"Ruifan, do you want to have a few more scenes with your former friend?"

Charlotte asked the ghost in her mind.

River Phoenix!

This is the ghost that just turned into a beetle!

That is, Johnny Depp's good friend, the talented actor who died young.

After collecting River's ghost from the back alley of Depp's Black Mamba bar, Charlotte put him in an ant bottle.

——Just like Alexis before.

After many times of guidance from Charlotte, it was not until shortly before the filming of "Sleepy Hollow" that River's ghost finally got rid of the chaotic state of the wronged soul and could think normally.

——Of course, you still have to use Charlotte’s brain.

However, unlike Charlize and Alexis, who have become so intertwined that it is almost difficult to separate them, Charlotte, while allowing River Phoenix to borrow her brain, controls it very carefully.

He doesn't want the soul of a person who died of an overdose to become an existence similar to his second personality. That would be too bad!

——Even though he knew that Ruifan's death was directly related to the nightmare that possessed Depp and Winona.

In fact, most of the time, Ruifan's ghost is still kept in the ant bottle by him, and he will summon it with magic only when he needs to use it.

Then temporarily give him the ability to think.

For example now——

"It feels really good to be able to play opposite Johnny again!"

River Phoenix answers his question in Charlotte's mind,

"Although he is not aware of my existence, even so, it would be good to come a few more times."

"Really? Then just come more often!"

Charlotte agreed to Ruifan's request simply.

"How about you just get attached to Depp?"

"Is this okay?"

"certainly!"

Charlotte answered Ruifan's question in her mind,

"Unlike being sealed in an ant bottle by me, you can stay relatively awake by being possessed by Depp."

"But that won't affect Johnny's health, right?"

As a friend, Ruifan cares about Depp.

"As long as you don't want to affect him, he won't be affected!"

Charlotte said it very rudely;

"Of course, I will also cast a special spell to prevent you two from actually merging together."

Since what happened with Charlize and Alexis, Charlotte has specially improved her spells to avoid similar situations from happening again——

Now, even if River Phoenix's ghost is secretly placed on Johnny Depp's body, as long as he controls it well, one person and one ghost will not merge.

——After all, as a person who has dealt with ghosts for a long time, he hates having ghosts borrow his thinking ability.

Even if this ghost is under his control.

——What happened to the evil god at that time was disgusting enough!

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After finding the feeling of Ichabod Callan, Depp's performance changed completely. Many shots were shot in one pass, which was like a miracle.

——Okay, maybe "like Onisuke".

Charlotte saw it clearly. After he secretly put the ghost of River Phoenix on Depp, the former began to help the latter guide his emotions.

Depp's own acting talent is not bad, and with the help of the acting genius River Phoenix...

All in all, the filming went smoothly in the next few days until——

"Today we are going to film the scene where Ichabu dissects the body of the widow Winship. Johnny, are you ready?"

Depp smiled wryly and nodded.

PS1: "My Ghost Friend", also known as "Ghost Dormitory", is a Thai horror film released in 2006. PS2: Regarding the scene in "Sleepy Hollow" where the beetle crawls out of the broken neck of the corpse, who else remembers it?