Huayu’s ex-husband

Chapter 45 45. Chen Kuai encounters a substitution crisis

"Ka, Chen Kuai, please pay attention to your positioning. Didn't you notice that it was out of the camera?"

"Get ready, here's another one."

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"Kah, Chen Kai, pay attention to controlling your expression, you used a little too much force!"

"OK, let's get ready to reshoot."

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"Ka, Chen Kuai, give me your test paper."

Chen Kuai handed over his test paper without knowing why. Wei Wu glanced at it and cursed:

"What are you doing with your pen and drawing talismans? I want you to be completely involved in the situation and really do the test, I'm not asking you to pretend to perform and draw strokes. Do you know how fake you were just now!"

Chen Kuai quickly bowed and apologized: "I'm sorry, director, I understand."

Wei Wu waved his hand angrily: "Okay, let's get ready. Pay attention to one more thing."

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How should I put it? The first few days of filming of "Those Years" were not smooth. The main problem was of course Chen Kuai.

Compared with other main actors, his acting experience and skills are undoubtedly the least.

Before Chen Kuai took the art exam, he had some superficial exposure to some acting theories and basic techniques, but in terms of practice, he had absolutely zero experience in serious film and television drama acting.

Relatively speaking, the situation of others is much better, like Qiao Shan and the trio on the show, they are basically sophomores and juniors, and have at least 2 to 3 years of systematic acting courses in college.

In addition to arranging some stage plays or dramas to take exams during school, they will also find opportunities to intern with outside theater groups during winter and summer vacations to gain some practical experience.

Not to mention Liu Tianxian, who has been in the industry for 4 years and has already starred in four TV series and two movies.

Although Yang Mi has not yet been a starring role, she has not yet gone to university to systematically study acting. However, the child actor debuted at a very young age, and has been playing minor roles a lot in recent years. Relatively speaking, he has much richer acting experience than Chen Kuai.

Appearance, temperament and age are important bonus points for Chen Kui's selection, but his biggest problem now is that he is too lacking in acting experience.

If he had known that training amateur actors would be so difficult, Wei Wu might not have used him.

In fact, it's not that Chen Kuai has no talent or understanding. The main reason is that he has too little experience and is prone to making stupid mistakes.

If I had already attended Chinese Opera and studied systematically for a year, my situation would definitely be much better now.

Of course Wei Wu has the ability to train him well, and he is still confident that he can do it even now, but the problem is that he doesn't have that much time.

He could afford to wait, but his wallet couldn't.

The budget for this movie is already somewhat stretched. If Wei Wu is not a reborn veteran but a new director, there is a high probability that the film will not be completed before the funds are exhausted.

In this case, if too much time is spent training the actors, the shooting period will inevitably be extended, and overruns will almost be a certainty.

Although he could borrow money from Liu Tianxian after overspending, Liu Xiaoli's impression of Wei Wu finally changed.

As soon as he borrowed money at this time, all his previous efforts would be wasted, and Liu Xiaoli would even have a worse impression of him.

Wei Wu had been frowning for the past two days, and Chen Kuai was of course in a heavy mood, so he took advantage of lunch break to secretly find Liu Tianxian to hear what he said:

"Sister Fei, have you eaten?"

Liu Tianxian nodded: "Well, I've eaten. Are you okay?"

Since the male and female protagonists need to have a lot of dialogue dialogue and develop a tacit understanding, so during the two days when they were not filming, the two spent most of their time together dialogue dialogue, so they became quite familiar with each other.

Mainly because of the contact, Chen Kuai saw that Liu Tianxian had no pretensions and had a gentle temperament, so he plucked up the courage to come and inquire about the situation, otherwise he would not dare to act rashly.

The reason why Chen Kuai found Liu Tianxian instead of anyone else was not mainly because of her celebrity status, but because he had heard a lot of gossip in the past two days.

According to reliable gossip, both Liu Tianxian and Yang Mi have an unusual relationship with the director. The three of them have worked together on the set of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" before.

During this period, Liu Tianxian launched a fierce pursuit of Wei Wu, and later Yang Mi also got involved... So now many staff members jokingly call: Liu Tianxian is the director's eldest wife, and Yang Mi is the younger wife.

According to Chen Kuai's own observations over the past two days, Liu Tianxian and Yang Mi did have an ambiguous relationship with the director, and the two women were completely obedient to his requests. This news was by no means groundless.

Compared to Yang Mi, he was more familiar with Liu Tianxian, and Yang Mi didn't seem to be as easy to talk to as Liu Tianxian, so Chen Kuai approached Liu Tianxian.

Chen Kuai hesitated and said: "Yes... there is something... I want to ask you for a favor?"

"Oh, what's going on? Just tell me!"

Chen Kexin said directly: "I've been getting scolded for making mistakes these past two days, and I'm worried that the director might want to replace me.

"Look...can you please put in a good word for me and ask the director to give me another chance. I really need this opportunity. If I miss it, I may not have another chance to play the leading role in the next five years.

"I swear, I will do my best to perform well next time, and I promise I won't let you down."

Liu Tianxian couldn't help but wonder: "Who did you hear that someone was going to be replaced? Are there any rumors?"

"No," Chen Kuai shook his head and said, "I just thought about it myself..."

Liu Tianxian's face straightened up and he said, "You can't just think about it! What you're talking about are all things that have no shadow, not to mention how can the male lead be changed at will?

"At least I've never heard Director Wei say this. Besides, you were the person that Director Wei personally found. How could you just change him at your request?"

From Liu Tianxian's perspective, Wei Wu should be unlikely to make a substitution at this time. Not because of anything else, but because objective conditions do not allow it.

Because the funds for this film are not very abundant to begin with, if we change people at this time, it will be a trivial matter to pay liquidated damages. The key is to re-interview and find people. The shooting time will be greatly extended, and the budget will obviously not be enough.

The other thing is the schedule. The main thing is Yang Mi. Basically, as soon as this drama is finished, she will start filming "Wang Zhaojun", and the filming will be until the end of the year at the earliest.

Then the second female lead will definitely have to be replaced. It is impossible to wait until next year to film "Those Years"!

The stone in Chen Kuai's heart immediately fell to the ground, and he breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Are you saying that Director Wei has no plans to replace me yet?"

Liu Tianxian nodded and said, "Generally speaking, no. Novices will inevitably stumble on the road. As long as you have a correct attitude, even if you make mistakes, as long as you learn lessons in time and avoid making mistakes again, the director will definitely give you a certain amount of tolerance."

"Besides, when the director scolds you, he is also trying to help you correct your mistakes. If he doesn't scold you, I'm afraid you won't remember it! If he stops scolding you, then he might be really frustrated and planning to replace him!"

Chen Kuai nodded like crazy: "Yes, yes, I will have a correct attitude from now on, concentrate on it, and try to avoid making mistakes. I hope the director and Sister Fei will take care of me in the future."

Liu Tianxian nodded slightly and said: "Well, don't be too mentally burdened. We all came here from this time, and it was like this in the beginning. Use some snacks to summarize more, and things will get better after you get used to it."

Chen Kuai nodded in agreement: "Okay, thank you Sister Fei, I will definitely perform well with my heart."

"Well, that's fine. Don't scare yourself. Are you okay now?"

Chen Kuai rubbed his hands and said sheepishly: "Actually, there is one more little thing..."

"Well, let's finish it all at once!"