Actors have no vacation

Chapter 2 Can I come to your house tonight?
"Can I go to your house tonight?" The content of the program is to interview a passerby at random, and then go to the other party's home to shoot.

[Where a person lives can best reflect the person's essence], the program team uses this point to try to present a variety of residences, and then reverse the essence of a person.

Four episodes have been aired so far, but the ratings are very low, and it is currently in the midst of life and death.

"Director Zhou... Are you really looking for someone to act?" the young cameraman asked the director, his tone full of hesitation about what to say.

"Otherwise?" Director Zhou exhaled two puffs of smoke from his nose, "The show is about to end, so why bother with so much. Remember, we're just a variety show, a variety show, not a documentary, or news. And it's just a variety show. Make a transition at a critical moment, many programs have done this in the early days." Although it was explained to the young cameraman, these words were not meant to be said to myself.

From the idea to the implementation of a program, there are countless troubles in the middle, and when it comes to the shooting stage, there are all kinds of disappointments.

When they took to the streets to find interviewees, few passersby were willing to be interviewed.The other party either knew that the house was a mess, and all he could show was superficiality and sloppyness, so he refused;

Think about it too, but not everyone's essence can be displayed on TV calmly.

Even passers-by were disgusted by this, thinking that this was just a show made to satisfy the audience's voyeuristic desire, and they didn't want to be pitifully watched by the curious.

The few passers-by who agreed to the interview, the final materials and effects obtained were also lackluster.The show crew was frustrated.

Director Zhou believes that if he is given a little more time, he will surely find someone worthy of shooting.However, the station leaders did not have much patience left, and they issued an ultimatum - if the ratings and topics continued to drop, the show would be cut off.

After Zhou Dao was distressed, he could only come up with the last resort - to find someone to play the role of "passer-by".

He is about to have a second child, and the responsibilities and pressures on him are enough to give way to any ideal.

"Is this Guan Chen good? Although he is an actor, he doesn't look very reliable..." said the young cameraman.

"According to the ordinary manuscript first. If it really doesn't work, let him act according to the script." Director Zhou replied.

There is a team in the circle who specialize in this line-appearing in variety shows as passers-by.Those people's acting skills are not necessarily that good. At most, when facing the camera, they can complete the words according to the script without making any mistakes.

Director Zhou felt that Guan Chen's level should be higher than those of those people, and it might be overkill to use it as a passerby.

Ordinary people suddenly stand in front of the camera, either excited and at a loss, or shy and embarrassed.The camera is like a magnifying glass, magnifying the flaws of the person in front of the lens.Any unnatural behavior will attract attention.

And Guan Chen stood in front of the camera, like a dense rock. When he pressed it into the picture, all the magnetic fields were concentrated on him.

Restrained and wild, harmless and dangerous, simple and complex, it feels contradictory.It doesn't take much for such a person to appear in the picture, even if you just look at it, you will know that this person must have a story.

Coupled with Guan Chen's good looks, Director Zhou believed that as long as Guan Chen was still on the road of being an actor, it would be a matter of time before he came out.

Before Guan Chen became famous, hiring him to play the role of a passerby must be a profit.Even if he was interviewed as an ordinary person, it was enough for Director Zhou, as the director of "Can I Go To Your Home Tonight", to have a deep interest in him.

The place where they were standing at this time was a place far away from the subway station and modern civilization.

Gloomy buildings; dim street lights; no sorting signs for trash cans; dilapidated blind lanes; far from subway and bus stations; no one around...

Director Zhou is a native of the Old Demon City. He knows that this area is a gathering area for black households, and there are foreigners who stay in Huaxia by various means to pursue [Huaxia Dream].

I didn't expect Guan Chen to live here.

"The light switch in the hallway is a bit hard to find. Anyone of you can lend me a cell phone to take a picture of it."

Guan Chen's voice sounded from the entrance of the dark corridor ahead, and then a shadowy figure walked over.

Director Zhou asked Guan Chen, who was returning, "Where's your cell phone?"

Guan Chen replied, "It's really gone, or I'd have you transfer the money to me just now."

"What transfer??" Director Zhou strangely took out his mobile phone from his pocket and turned on the flashlight search function.

The light illuminated the front and also illuminated Guan Chen who was talking.

Guan Chen's clothes were very thin, wearing only a gray sports suit, his shoulders shrank and shivered.Mostly because I rarely go out, I couldn't judge how thick I should wear clothes at night.A long mess of hair fluttered in the autumn wind like a lion's mane, but unfortunately the whole person was very thin, like a poor worm who was driven out by the lions because of idleness.

"How much did you pay for this phone?" Guan Chen was the first to touch a phone in this world and was very interested.After taking over the phone, he looked over and over, swiped his fingers on the screen, and started a self-assessment: "The domestic brand... is smoother than Apple's... The lens has only one eye, how can this pixel work... …”

"Hey! Hey!" Director Zhou didn't know what Guan Chen was muttering.But seeing the other party blatantly open the photo album, trying to spy on the privacy of the mobile phone, he immediately stopped: "Don't you want to use the flashlight to find the switch!"

Guan Chen put down his mobile phone still, and left a very threatening word like "you wait for me". He took his mobile phone, followed the road, and re-entered a spooky house in front of him.

Director Zhou was a little worried that Guan Chen was secretly looking at the privacy of his mobile phone again, and he was even more worried that the other party would run away with his mobile phone, so he snuffed out the cigarette in his hand and followed him.The young cameraman also hurriedly followed behind with the machine.

The three entered the corridor, and Guan Chen took his mobile phone and honestly looked for the switch. After searching for a long time, he finally found it.

"Click." One click.

The light didn't come on.

Director Zhou and Guan Chen looked at each other in the dark.

"Isn't this your home...?" Director Zhou was a little puzzled.

I saw Guan Chen smiled slightly: "It's normal, because I'm an otaku." As he said that, he turned and walked upstairs, "I don't go out much since I moved here, and I rarely go home so late. It's been a long time. , kinda forgot the hallway switch and didn't know the lights were broken."

Zhou Dao recognized this reason.After all, Guan Chen's thin dress proves that he really rarely goes out at night, otherwise he wouldn't have brought an extra piece of clothes because of the large temperature difference between day and night.

Director Zhou used the mobile phone of the young camera as a searchlight and followed him upstairs.

A large area of ​​the building is made of wood materials, and the old corridors make people nervous to step on them. The stairs and corridors are full of debris placed by residents, including wheelchairs for the elderly and toy cars for children.The surrounding walls are very thin, and the sighs of the people inside can be heard through the door.Listen carefully, the net is some foreign language.

Going to the third floor, Guan Chen stopped.He stretched out his index finger and counted the doors from left to right, "1, 2, 3, 4...this is the one." Then he walked over and opened the door with the key.

Director Zhou hesitated again: "You..."

"I'm an otaku with poor eyesight, so I use counting to remember the location of my door." Guan Chen's voice was full of the righteousness of an otaku.

Director Zhou nodded and swallowed his doubts again.But I was actually a little unhappy.

He is here to shoot actors who are full of ambivalence and mystery, not some kind of otaku.

He didn't know how many shots of the otaku's house last month, but it's really nothing new.The profession of an actor is destined to be linked with dreams, and in the process of chasing dreams will inevitably be accompanied by ups and downs. Those ups and downs are valuable material for media practitioners.If it's a failed actor, there's more to the story.

Guan Chen took out the key and was opening the lock.

Zhou Dao had a vague hunch that if Guan Chen failed to open the door after trying several keys in a row, he would probably excuse himself as an otaku, not going out for a long time, and it would be reasonable to not recognize his door...

Fortunately, Guan Chen opened the door all of a sudden, and the situation where the IQ was insulted in Director Zhou's fantasy did not happen.

If that happens, Director Zhou will really prepare to go back.

With a sigh of relief, Director Zhou asked the camera to set up the lens and prepare to go in.

Guan Chen reminded on the side: "I'm sorry, at first glance, it may be a little messy."

"It's alright, it's alright." Zhou Dao didn't take it to heart, because almost all the interviewees would say that regardless of whether the house was really messy or not.Director Zhou is a trained person. Even if it is really messy inside, he will not react rudely.

[I haven't seen a house where single young people live alone. Even if it's messy, where can it go? 】

"Click." Guan Chen turned on the light in the room.

The lights are a bit dim, but at least one can see.

Director Zhou looked around and immediately took two steps back: "This!..."

What appeared in front of him was a mess, almost like a product after an explosion. The wardrobe was wide open, the box was dumped, and various things were scattered all over the floor.

The whole house was a mess, as if it had just been spoiled by thieves and robbers.

"Hurry up and call the police!" Director Zhou grabbed Guan Chen's hand and said, "Your house has been burglarized!"

Guan Chen stopped the other cameraman from calling the police, and explained with a smile: "This is how it was originally, and there was no thief."

"That's how it was originally?" Director Zhou looked at Guan Chen in disbelief and spit out slowly, "Could it be, because, you are..."

"Yes, just because I am..." Guan Chen slowly raised his chest:
"otaku!"

【otaku……】

The voice in reality and the voice in the heart overlap.

Zhou Dao closed his eyes in pain.

Do I want to go.

It's too late to go now...

He began to doubt whether it was the right choice to ask Guan Chen to act as an extra or an interviewer.

Guan Chen kicked away the rubbish on the road and walked inside, and said boldly: "The room of the otaku who lives alone is very messy, which is not bad, at least there are no cockroaches and mice."

Director Zhou stood at the entrance, looking at the messy "crime scene" and complaining about it.Sitting in this garbage heap, I am afraid that I will not be assimilated by garbage.

Guan Chen was very polite. He pulled out two cans of unopened beer from the cans, which he planned to use to entertain the two of the show crew.

"The only drink here is beer."

"No, no." Director Zhou and the young cameraman waved their hands again and again.On the one hand, working without drinking, drinking without working.On the other hand, animals have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. They feel that in such an environment, any drink or food will be suspicious.

Seeing that the two were not drinking, Guan Chen put the beer back on the ground.

"You can drink, don't worry about us, it's okay." Director Zhou asked Guan Chen to be casual.It may be a good thing for respondents to drink a little, and they can pour out their hearts more freely.

Guan Chen still didn't plan to drink it, saying: "Beer can provide calories and can be drunk when there is a famine."

Director Zhou was speechless.

Guan Chen stepped on the garbage bag, sat down at the low table in the center of the room, took out the sausages and steamed buns bought from the convenience store, and happily prepared to eat, before asking, "Who are you? Wait until I finish eating or shoot now?"

"You eat first, let's just pat..." Director Zhou replied.

It was said to be filmed casually, but Director Zhou looked at the messy house and was full of distress that he didn't know how to film the show.

The young cameraman on the side didn't have this trouble, and just photographed Guan Chen.Due to Guan Chen's natural and incomparable sense of the camera, coupled with the fact that he is only ordinary "common people food" that can be bought everywhere, he has eaten an unparalleled sense of happiness. It's not bad to change it into a food show after being cut down..." thought.

"Let's go first." Director Zhou patted the camera on the shoulder.

The house Guan Chen lives in is about 20 square meters, with very little furniture, and its purpose is unknown.There are screwdrivers and bowls and chopsticks in the closet, clothes are stacked on the low table, stacks of papers and pens are placed on the bed, and quilts are piled far away on the ground...

Black trash bags and white takeaway bags bloomed like potted plants, beer cans were scattered everywhere, and a few sneaky pills were dotted.

Idle, decadent, depraved.

Director Zhou sighed, feeling that his judgment was wrong.

No matter how talented an actor is, if he is so rotten inside, he will definitely not be able to go very far.

Thinking of Guan Chen's behavior of being forced to sell books to make a living, he originally guessed that he was experiencing life and approaching the role, but now it seems that he really thinks too much, but he is desperate and becomes a seller.Selling books is like selling yourself.

Guan Chen asked: "I'm sure it's just a few simple questions, and then you buy my book, the whole thing is over, right?"

Director Zhou responded: "Yes."

When he was in the convenience store, he was tempted to buy a book and planned to interview Guan Chen.However, he is not sure whether buying books is helping or accelerating Guan Chen's depravity.

Zhou Dao lowered his head and ran through the garbage at a speed of five centimeters per second.He quickly came up with an idea. If there are not many books left in Guan Chen, he will buy them all and store them here, so that Guan Chen can read books in his spare time and cheer up again.So he asked Guan Chen, "How many books do you have here?"

"How many copies are left?" Guan Chen turned his head and looked around, "Probably...a few thousand copies."

He had no idea about the number of books at all, he just felt that there were so many, so many, that he felt dizzy just looking at them.

"How many books?" Zhou Dao sadly thought that Guan Chen was probably suffering from a mental illness.

Director Zhou paid attention to his feet all the way, and when he came to Guan Chen's vicinity, he raised his head and glanced at everything in the house, and then he saw the "family belongings" that Guan Chen ate for meals.

book.

Nearly two thousand books.

Two wall-sized bookcases, standing at right angles, are filled with various books.

Vertical and horizontal, the books are stacked on top of each other, and the entire bookcase is not exposed at all.I really couldn't put it down, so I put it in the right-angled corner and built it into a potted plant of thought.

In the dim, cramped, and chaotic room, the two walls of books slammed into the face, exuding an amazing light.

Under the light of knowledge, even Guan Chen's actions of eating buns seemed so unfathomable.

These two thousand books are worth less than [-]. Even second-hand books are worth tens of thousands.Guan Chen has the money to buy so many books, how can he be reduced to a situation where he has no money to buy a lunch?

Why does Guan Chen, who owns [-] books, live in a gathering area full of foreign gangsters?How long have you lived?
Is it related to domestic violence in childhood?Or did you suffer any major setbacks in the middle of your life?

He has always been an actor but called himself an otaku. So far, what kind of life has he had?
Director Zhou was caught off guard and felt like a hole had been opened in his chest, and his heart was pounding like it was about to jump out of the hole.This kind of feeling is very unfamiliar to him, as if only by exploring Guan Chen's story, the void in his heart can be completely filled.

　I hope to reach a consensus with everyone: the views of the characters in the fictional works are not necessarily the views of the author himself.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)