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Most of the actors she was seeing were fresh from drama school or newish to the profession.[qh]
她见到的大多数演员都是刚从戏剧学校毕业的，或者是刚入行的新手。[qh]
All were contending with irrepressible nerves: flushes, sweats, frantic over-eagerness.[qh]
所有人都在与无法抑制的紧张情绪作斗争：脸红、出汗、极度的过度渴望。[qh]
In the few lines they had, some couldn't help but try to portray every possible human emotion.[qh]
在他们仅有的几行文字中，有些人忍不住试图描绘出每一种可能的人类情感。[qh]
Early in the afternoon, Elliot Baxter came into the room, the actor Gold had noticed from the Royal Scottish Conservatoire.[qh]
下午早些时候，艾略特·巴克斯特走进了房间，这位演员是戈尔德从苏格兰皇家音乐学院注意到的。[qh]
(Baxter had got the call from Gold's office while having a cup of tea with his parents after the showcase.[qh]
巴克斯特在展示会后与父母喝茶时接到了戈尔德办公室的电话。[qh]
He'd watched Game of Thrones with his dad.[qh]
他和他爸爸一起看过《权力的游戏》。[qh]
“To get a call from her is just, like, wow.”)[qh]
接到她的电话，就像是，哇哦。”)[qh]
Gold tried to put Baxter at ease, chatting about whether he'd had much interest from agents.[qh]
戈尔德试图让巴克斯特放松下来，聊起他是否对经纪人有很大兴趣。[qh]
Then she told him where to stand, in front of a white screen and opposite a camera operator who was filming the audition, and sat facing him to read the scene.[qh]
然后她告诉他站在哪里，在一个白色屏幕前，对着一个正在拍摄试镜的摄影师，然后她坐在他对面读剧本。[qh]
Before they started, she offered a little guidance to the character's state of mind in the face of nuclear catastrophe.[qh]
在他们开始之前，她提供了一些关于角色面对核灾难时的心态的小指导。[qh]
“I think they're all quite, you know … ” Gold paused, seeking the catch-all phrase.[qh]
“我认为他们都相当，你知道……”戈尔德停顿了一下，寻找一个能概括一切的词语。[qh]
“They've been doing this terrible shit for a long time.” Gold, as a soldier: “Janek, you Latvian whore.”[qh]
他们一直在做这种可怕的事情，已经很长时间了。戈尔德，作为一名士兵：“雅内克，你这个拉脱维亚婊子。”[qh]
Baxter, as Janek: “I'm not Latvian, I'm Estonian.”[qh]
巴克斯特，饰演简尼克：“我不是拉脱维亚人，我是爱沙尼亚人。”[qh]
Gold: “Well, guess what? No one gives a shit.”[qh]
黄金：“嗯，你猜怎么着？没人在乎。”[qh]
Gold played her part with admirable restraint.[qh]
戈尔德表现得非常克制，令人钦佩。[qh]
“Shall we do it again?” she said, when they'd finished.[qh]
“我们要再来一次吗？”她说，当他们结束的时候。[qh]
They did it again, Baxter ever grimmer.[qh]
他们又这么做了，巴克斯特更加阴沉了。[qh]
“Great!” she said.[qh]
“太好了！”她说。[qh]
“This is all right isn't it?”[qh]
“这没问题，不是吗？”[qh]
Another vital, if more prosaic skill of a good casting director is small talk, the pre- and post-audition chatter.[qh]
另一个重要的技能，如果说更平淡无奇的话，那就是闲聊，也就是试镜前和试镜后的闲聊，这是一个优秀选角导演所具备的。[qh]
“I hope you sign with an agent that you really like,” was her parting shot to Baxter.[qh]
“我希望你能和一个你真正喜欢的经纪人签约，”这是她对巴克斯特的临别赠言。[qh]
Gold has developed the ability to say: “That was really good!” in a thousand different ways, none of which sound insincere.[qh]
黄金已经发展出了这样的能力，可以说：“那真的很好！”以一千种不同的方式，没有一种听起来不真诚。[qh]
She made the audition – a transaction in which she had all the power and the actor had somehow less than none, being one of a limitless number of options – seem deceptively balanced.[qh]
她让试镜——在这场交易中，她拥有所有权力，而演员不知怎的几乎没有权力，因为演员是无限多的选择之一——看起来是一种欺骗性的平衡。[qh]
More than once that afternoon, Gold patiently allowed herself to be lectured by a young actor on what actually happened at Chernobyl.[qh]
那天下午，不止一次，戈尔德耐心地听一位年轻演员讲述切尔诺贝利到底发生了什么。[qh]
For every charmed arc of a Redmayne or a Foy, there are a thousand actors waiting, hoping.[qh]
对于每一个像雷德梅恩或福伊那样迷人的弧线，都有成千上万的演员在等待，在希望。[qh]
“Every time you choose somebody, you are not choosing someone else,” said Gold.[qh]
“每次你选择了某个人，你就不会选择其他人，”戈尔德说。[qh]
“There's a hell of a lot of dashing of hopes and dreams involved.”[qh]
“有很多希望和梦想被破灭了。”[qh]
Audition experiences vary just as wildly.[qh]
试镜经历也同样千差万别。[qh]
At one end, there is the platonic ideal of Mike Leigh who meets every actor alone for 20 minutes, just to talk, then calls them back for an hour for a more thorough acting audition, and never films them.[qh]
一端是迈克·李的柏拉图式理想，他单独与每个演员见面20分钟，只是为了聊天，然后再把他们叫回来一个小时，进行更彻底的表演试镜，而且从不拍摄他们。[qh]
More typically, there is a roomful of directors, casting directors, producers and assistants, plus a guy behind a camera recording it all.[qh]
更典型的情况是，有一屋子的导演、选角导演、制片人、助理，再加上一个拿着摄像机记录这一切的家伙。[qh]
And then there's the kind of commercial audition one actor told me about, where she sat outside the audition room in a row of replicas of herself and an assistant came out to pre-warn them all that the director – who was auditioning from a horizontal position on the sofa with his hands behind his head – really hated actors.[qh]
然后还有一种商业试镜，一位演员告诉过我，她坐在试镜室外面，和一排长得很像她的人坐在一起，这时一个助理出来预先警告他们，导演——他正躺在沙发上头枕着双手进行试镜——真的很讨厌演员。[qh]
