Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

Yesterday, the group leader came to him personally and said that he had found a role for him. It was not just a simple role, but it had several close-ups, and there was also a scene with the male protagonist in the middle.

Let him go to the audition at four o'clock in the afternoon and ask him to cherish this opportunity.

"Xiao Xi, I saw that you are very capable of enduring hardships, so I got good words from Director Zhang. You have to perform well and don't embarrass me!"

Before leaving, the group leader also gave some instructions.

But, what to do now?

I usually don’t have the chance, but now I have two opportunities all at once!

"Liu Ming, what do you think I should do?" Lu Xiaoxi told his friend who rented a house with him, who was also an extra, about his hesitation.

Liu Ming smoothed his messy hair and thought about it seriously: "I think you should go to Director Zhang to audition for the role. I think this is more practical than hiring a leading actor."

"But this is an opportunity. Maybe I can really play the male lead, and then I will become famous!" Lu Xiaoxi retorted.

"Dream! Let me tell you, entering the re-examination is just the first level. I don't know how many people have asked to go to the re-examination? What do you have? Are you handsome? I can only say that it is okay. We here catch everyone like you. A lot of it.”

"What about your acting skills? I admit that, you are better than me, but you have no formal training! You have not attended art school!"

"The recruitment announcement didn't say that a diploma is required!" Lu Xiaoxi was a little stubborn.

"Okay, okay, I can't help you, just go and have your dream of being the number one male?" Liu Ming waved his hand helplessly after hearing this:

"Hey, Xiaoxi, if you don't go to Director Zhang's place for an audition, I'll tell the group leader that I went, but don't say you're supporting you."

"Go ahead."

"Okay, I wish you success!" Liu Ming patted Lu Xiaoxi's shoulder, wrapped his military coat tightly and went out.

Lu Xiaoxi no longer hesitated and immediately sent a text message back to the other party: "Video connection at four o'clock."

Of course, you have to prepare yourself.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Xiaoxi's WeChat message rang. When he saw that it was a video chat request from Meizi, whose online name was Xia Tian, ​​he knew it was the director Mingliang and hurriedly answered the call.

The screen shook a few times, but the face of a handsome middle-aged man appeared.

Damn it!

The director is actually a man? !

Lu Xiaoxi was very surprised. The director's introduction was clearly a woman.

But his doubts were soon dispelled, as a beautiful and ridiculous face appeared in the camera.

"Hello, Lu Xiaoxi, I'm Mingliang."

Sound good to hear.

"Hello, director."

Lu Xiaoxi felt a little nervous.

"Brother-in-law, why don't you ask first?"

In the video, Meili said to the man next to her.

Only then did Lu Xiaoxi find out that this man was the director's brother-in-law.

Yu Dongqing looked at Lu Xiaoxi in the camera carefully, her lips pursed tightly, revealing a hint of stubbornness and a little bit of rebelliousness.

This is exactly what Liu Beishan looks like in the movie.

Compared with the original time and space Yi Yang Qianxi, his facial features are not very refined, but more down-to-earth.

It's him!

Yu Dongqing secretly admired it, but remained calm on the surface.

"Hello, Lu Xiaoxi, my name is Yu Dongqing, and I am the screenwriter and consultant of this movie." Yu Dongqing gave his name. He could not take the exam in the name of Meimei's brother-in-law.

"Hello." Lu Xiaoxi suddenly panicked.

Yu Dongqing?

Brother-in-law!

A big singer.

He really liked listening to the song "Beijing, Beijing, Beijing" he wrote. Although it was written about people who drifted from the north rather than from the horizontal drifts, Lu Xiaoxi felt as if he was one of them.

I'm laughing here I'm crying here

I live here and die here

But today he didn't dare to think too much. The other party was testing him.

Yu Dongqing didn't ask the other party how old he was or why he wanted to be an actor. Instead, he sent the other party a document.

"Lu Xiaoxi, this is a brief plot of the movie, especially about the character Xiaoxi. You should read it first."

Lu Xiaoxi opened the document and looked at it carefully.

It wasn't long, it took him five minutes to read it.

"Okay, Lu Xiaoxi, let me ask you, what do you understand about the character Xiaobei in the script?"

Lu Xiaoxi thought for a while and said: "I think Xiaobei is a very bad person on the surface. He steals, robs and fights. He seems very fierce, but this is to protect himself from being hurt."

"But he has a soft heart. He longs for warmth, so Chen Nian only helped him once and risked his life to take the blame for her."

"Director Yu, I don't know if I am right to say this?"

"Very good." Yu Dongqing smiled and said, "Please do an impromptu performance as I asked."

"You say."

"It's the scene in the play where Chen Nian looks at the fish tank and Xiao Xi looks at her, okay?"

Yu Dongqing told the other party his request.

Lu Xiaoxi looked at the lines sent by Yu Dongqing, silently reciting them and brewing emotions.

After two minutes, he nodded.

"Start! I am Chen Nian."

Yu Dongqing made a concentrating gesture, as if he was really staring at a fish tank. Lu Xiaoxi looked at her immediately across the screen.

The eyes are gentle.

Both of them were speechless.

Meili was surprised to find that Lu Xiaoxi could get into the role so quickly, but he had no formal training.

The scene lasted for less than a minute, and Yu Dongqing shouted to stop.

"How are you, Meimei?" Yu Dongqing asked Meimei who had been observing Lu Xiaoxi just now.

"The performance was quite good!"

"Congratulations, you have been selected to play the role of Liu Beishan. The crew will notify you to come to Yanjing before the filming officially starts." Yu Dongqing said to Lu Xiaoxi with a smile.

"Thank you, thank you." Lu Xiaoxi was ecstatic, suddenly thought of a question, and asked cautiously:

"The pay?"

"How much do you think is appropriate?" Yu Dongqing asked.

"One hundred thousand, how about one hundred thousand? Eighty thousand is fine too!" Lu Xiaoxi reported a figure.

"Then it's 80,000. The contract will be sent to you soon. You sign it and then send it back." Yu Dongqing answered readily.

Eighty thousand.

It is said that in the original time and space, Yi Yang Qianxi's salary for filming this movie was 8 million!

Then Meiliang discussed some details with him before turning off the video.

"Brother-in-law, is the salary given to Lu Xiaoxi a little too low? It's only 80,000." Meiliang asked a little, "I think his performance is very good!"

"It's not high." Yu Dongqing smiled: "It's just this opportunity. I don't know how many times his salary will be doubled next time. We cherish this opportunity."

The actor of the male lead was determined in this way, and the actor who played the female lead Chen Ran was not found from the group of actors, but a girl from the middle school named Qin Xiao, who was in the same grade and in a different class as Meimei.

Yu Dongqing was not present during the audition. Afterwards, Mingliang sent him a performance video. He looked a bit like Zhou Dongyu from the original time and space, thin and small.

Of course, his acting skills are a bit more immature than those of Zhou Dongyu, but he is still above the passing mark, and his salary is only 150,000.

Ha, it’s also much lower than Zhou Dongyu’s original salary for Time and Space.

Although there are no reports on the Internet about Zhou Dongyu's specific salary for filming "Young You", it is definitely higher than Yi Yang Qianxi's 8 million. After all, she is the Golden Horse Best Actress.

"Did Qin Xiao agree to shave his head in the play?" Yu Dongqing thought of a detail and hurriedly called Meimei to ask.

"I didn't agree at first, but then I agreed with my insistence."

"That's good."

In the movie, the heroine Chen Nian shaves her head, which is a classic scene and cannot be distorted.

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