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Charlize didn't have Charlotte's desire to challenge herself, but she had to challenge herself.

No way, who made her the heroine of "Happy Death Day"?

As the only one among the current actors who understands the context of the entire script, she has to take on the responsibility of connecting the plot.

In Toby's opinion, she might just be performing randomly over and over again, relying on her relationship with the director to avoid being scolded.

But she herself understood that what she was performing was actually one completely different plot after another.

One moment, she may be performing the first time she woke up without the memory of being killed. The next moment, she may be performing another awakening after being stabbed to death.

It's really hard!

Even the first few waking scenes were performed by Alexis.

In the script, when the character Cui wakes up the first few times, her heart has not changed yet, which requires her to show enough Bichi flavor.

Charlize is not very good at this.

So Charlotte asked Charlize to hand over control of the first few performances to Alexis.

This is not only in line with their original plan to make Alexis look like a living person, but it is also limited by Charlize's acting skills.

Of course Charlize was unhappy about this, but after subconsciously watching Alexis' performance, she had to admit that she couldn't make such a flexible expression.

"No wonder Charlotte calls the acting requirements for the role of "Cui" Yan Yi! It is indeed difficult for me to make such many expression changes."

Charlize thought a little depressed.

However, she is not without strengths.

After discussing with Alexis, all the performances that took away the aggression were left to her to control. Because of her sharp personality, Charlize was able to perform this aspect with ease.

"If this continues, I will become very good at playing bad women in the future!"

The girl seems to have seen her future.

*******

The crew filmed the scene in the dormitory for two and a half days.

At the beginning, Toby really didn't understand, so he could only follow Charlize's performance and deal with it with a little embarrassment.

But one day later, as he watched the director repeatedly filming a set of scenes, the contents gradually became different, and he gradually came to a realization——

Maybe the director wanted me to give some natural reactions without knowing it?

This idea made him feel much more relaxed when performing than being targeted by the director. He improvises more in his own way, no, in a "lovable nerd" way to be precise.

Although, the act of improvisation itself is not an easy task for a novice like Toby.

"Well done, Toby!"

In the end, he was praised by the deputy director Lao Qiang.

——By the way, but now Toby doesn't understand why Mr. Richard Arsenal is called "Old Gun" by everyone. But everyone was calling it that, so he just went with the flow.

After Lao Qiang encouraged him, he handed him a new script,

"Young man, take a look at this! All the answers to your previous doubts are here!"

Toby flipped the script...

"So this is ah!!"

As Lao Qiang expected, Toby showed an expression of sudden realization.

"It's a really interesting story."

"Right!"

Lao Qiang nodded,

"Study carefully. Sally will not lead you in the following performances."

——It would have been better if it had been like this earlier!

Although Toby wanted to complain like this, he, a newbie, still didn't have the guts to face the assistant director.

"Old, old gun?"

Toby spoke awkwardly - he was still not used to Lao Qiang's nickname.

"Does Mr. Director not like me very much?"

——Okay, he is still a little worried about this issue.

"How could you have such an idea?"

Lao Qiang glanced at this big boy with an honest face strangely.

"Otherwise, why didn't I see him at all during my audition?"

Toby expressed the suspicion that he had been harboring for several days.

"Also, he rarely communicated with me during filming?"

"He happened to have other things to do when you auditioned, so he didn't come."

Lao Qiang patted Toby on the shoulder,

"Young man, film well and don't think too much! He recommended you to play the leading role, so how could he not be optimistic about you?"

——Is that so?

Toby didn't know what to say for a moment.

Lao Qiang continued to answer his following questions:

"As for rarely communicating with you... To be honest, he is not the kind of director who particularly likes to communicate with actors during filming."

——Actually, you should feel lucky that he doesn’t communicate with you.

Lao Qiang muttered in his heart.

When filming "Fatal Turn", Lao Qiang discovered that once Charlotte sat in the director's seat, she would be in a completely different state than usual——

Although this guy doesn't usually talk much, he can't be said to be taciturn either. But when it came time to shoot, he rarely spoke.

He is more like a tiger lurking in the grass, always watching the performances of the actors, ready to pounce at any time and tear the worst among them.

But once the tiger pounces, he will not remain silent. However, communicating with him at that time was definitely not a good experience.

Even Charlize, who has an unusual relationship with Charlotte, is not immune to this.

“However, this time he is definitely more relaxed than in ‘The Turn’.”

As an assistant director, Lao Qiang also understands that that sense of oppression is actually not only Charlotte's style, but also a feedback of the pressure he is under.

In fact, most directors, no matter how they usually have a good temper, don't have a particularly good temper on the set.

They are under the pressure of the success or failure of the entire film, and they are often made things difficult by the producers. It is strange that they can have good tempers.

The so-called "tyrants on set" are not the directors with the worst tempers, but just the more famous among them.

Of course, it cannot be said that there are no good-tempered directors, but most of them are well-known directors who have been famous for a long time and have made countless films.

On the one hand, they have enough experience to bear the pressure of being directors, and can even ignore it;

On the other hand, they also have enough authority to direct the crew and actors without the help of bad tempers.

But even for these famous directors, their tempers were not much better when they were first starting out.

"I can only say that the job of directing is not easy!"

Lao Qiang smiled helplessly.

This was also one of the reasons why he was unwilling to take over the guide for "Fatal Turn" -

He is a good old man, and as an assistant director coordinating the crew, he can do it easily.

But when he was asked to direct others as a director, he felt that he couldn't bear the pressure.

"Being a director requires talent!"

In fact, before the filming of "Fatal Turn", Lao Qiang didn't know that Charlotte had talent in this area.

But after the filming of "Fatal Turn" and comparing it with today, Lao Qiang discovered that Charlotte did have the talent to be a director, and he was improving very quickly——

During the filming of "Fatal Turn", his shooting pace was still a little irritable, but now, it has become much calmer;

He has learned to re-work on some key shots instead of blindly rushing forward.

But even so, the overall filming progress of the movie has not slowed down.

This shows that he has a clearer conception of the film in his mind, and at the same time, his command of the crew has become clearer.

Only in this way will the shooting efficiency be improved and the time lost due to repeated carvings can be recovered.

Of course, the crew has many acquaintances, and after experiencing the cooperation in "Fatal Turn", the improvement of tacit understanding is also a factor...

*********

Little did Charlotte know that the old gunslinger was praising his progress.

After all, although he can do magic, he cannot read minds.

At this time, he was directing the stage management and extras to arrange the scene at the entrance of the male protagonist's dormitory——

This scene, like the scene in the dormitory, had to be shot in dozens of different versions.

And, the key is, the heroine Cui wants to play Go·Ben here...