fringe artist

Chapter 1 1. Actors please take their place

March [-], [-].

In a large courtyard on Zhushikou Street in the capital city, an old man stood on the steps of the courtyard door and shouted at the top of his voice.

"Boy Chen! Are you up? Come out quickly, your notice has arrived."

In a wing room in the backyard of the courtyard, a young man with bright eyebrows and bright teeth ran out with a towel on his shoulders and mouth full of toothpaste foam.

At the gate of the courtyard, the boy called Chen Xiaozi came out, only to see the back of the postman leaving.

"Bah!" Chen Li'an spat out the toothpaste froth in his mouth and asked, "Why did the postman run away? Where's my notice?"

The old man leaning on the door frame at the door said with a smile: "If you are dawdling like you, the postman will not be able to do it anymore. The notice is given to me. I have a registered letter here."

"Where, show me."

Uncle Qi said cheerfully: "It's been more than a year since you graduated from high school, and you can still pass the exam. Well, here's it."

As he spoke, he handed the notice and the registered letter on his back to Chen Li'an.

Chen Li'an took the notice and the registered letter, and after seeing that the registered letter was from Yangcheng, he ignored it.

Holding the notice of passing the art examination, he checked it carefully. Chen Li'an was not too surprised, but there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Uncle Qi also followed suit, looked at Chen Li'an with relief and said, "Go out to fight every day and you won't be able to save four or six people. You have ruined this area of ​​Nancheng, and you can still go to college. Old Chen's family is really smoked from the grave."

Chen Li'an: "Don't slander, you made me fight."

Uncle Qi is a master of Baguazhang. According to him, his ancestor was a disciple of Dong Haichuan, so when teaching Chen Li'an Baguazhang, he was tricked every day to go out for actual combat.

It is said that Baguazhang pays attention to body skills, if you can't hit ten one by one, you will not be considered as a teacher.

Uncle Qi snorted and said, "Then I didn't let you go out and cause trouble every day, so hurry up and brush your teeth."

Chen Li'an: "Okay, I'm going back to my room. I'm going to have an audition this afternoon. I don't think I'll be back in these two days."

Uncle Qi stared at Chen Li'an with a straight face and said: "You can still audition at night, don't go out of your way again!"

Chen Li'an laughed and said, "Don't worry, I've turned my back on the evil and turned to the good."

"Go away, you'll be fooling around all day long." Uncle Qi kicked Chen Li'an angrily.

Chen Li'an patted the footprints on his buttocks, and said with a smile as if nothing had happened: "Okay, I won't say anything."

"Just remember not to mess up the mess."

"Alright, then I'll go back and wash my face and brush my teeth."

Chen Li'an responded, and went back with the qualification notice.

Back in his room, Chen Li'an looked at the Nortel qualification notice in his hand, and couldn't tell whether he was happy or disappointed.

I have passed the exam once in my previous life, and one more time is not worth being happy.

In his previous life, Chen Li'an was a drama actor, but in this life he wants to be a film and television actor.

As long as you take the college entrance examination in July, you will be a qualified college student.

Looking back on the past half a year, Chen Li'an is generally satisfied with his life.

The only thing Chen Li'an regrets is that he is still an orphan in this life and has not experienced the warmth of family affection.

Yuanben's parents passed away in an accident on the way to work a few years ago, leaving him with only 60 square meters of wing rooms in a large courtyard.

Chen Li'an didn't really care about the house, he would have it sooner or later.

Chen Li'an's idea in this life is very simple, to roll around in the muddy waters of the entertainment industry, um, by the way, discuss art with female stars.

It took a while for Chen Li'an to withdraw his thoughts, remembering that his second uncle in Yangcheng had sent him a registered letter.

When he opened it, he saw that it was a remittance slip and a letter from his second uncle. Seeing the numbers on the remittance slip instantly made Chen Lian feel at ease. The living expenses and tuition fees for the next two years have been settled.

There are a total of more than 6000, which is a proper household of [-] yuan.

Chen Li'an doesn't have high material needs, but he also understands a truth, Qian Zhuang is a hero.

This money was last year when the second uncle came to visit him from Yangcheng, and the second uncle asked Chen Li'an to give him all the family money to start a business.

It sounded like Chen Li'an was helping the second uncle, but in fact it was the second uncle helping Chen Li'an.

Chen Li'an opened the letter again. The letter was written by his cousin. He asked for a lot of care, and finally asked Chen Li'an if he had obtained a certificate from Nortel.

After reading the letter, Chen Li'an didn't reply right away, he just needs to call back tomorrow.

Now the first task is to prepare for the audition.

Chen Li'an put on a very old long-sleeved pair and went out. First, he went to the post office to get the remittance done, and then went to Wangfujing Street to buy clothes.

The movie I auditioned for was a very small, hypocritical, and artistic movie.

The work of the sixth generation director Wang Xiaoshuai is extremely cold.

Chen Li'an has watched this movie twice and was very impressed.

It's not that I think this movie is so good, but because of Jia Hongsheng who plays the leading actor.

A very crazy "artist" cannot be described as a simple actor.

Chen Li'an went to the audition this time because he wanted to compete with Jia Hongsheng for the leading role. Naturally, Chen Li'an couldn't compare to Jia Hongsheng in terms of fame.

But Chen Li'an is not completely without advantages, that is, he has seen the movie and knows what Wang Xiaoshuai is thinking.

I also know how to better fit the characters in the movie, and I know exactly what kind of "lunatic" I want to play.

In terms of acting skills, Chen Li'an thought that he would not lose to Jia Hongsheng, and he still had confidence in acting in dramas for more than ten years.

It's just that Jia Hongsheng has gradually determined his acting style now, and he wonders if the melancholy temperament on his body will attract Wang Xiaoshuai.

On Wangfujing Street, in a stylishly decorated clothing store, Chen Li'an walked around and picked out a black turtleneck sweater, and asked for two sizes too big.

Chen Li'an came out of the fitting room, looked in the mirror at his hair that had not been cut for two months, and flicked it casually.

Even the long black hair could not cover Chen Li'an's handsome face, and the dark and deep eyes seemed to be able to directly hit people's hearts.

The salesperson next to him stared at Chen Li'an intently, feeling his heart pounding, why is he so handsome.

The saleswoman put her legs together, and a poem suddenly popped up in her mind, flying down three thousand feet, suspected to be the Milky Way falling nine days.

A black large-size black turtleneck sweater was put on Chen Li'an's body, as if wearing a black robe to wrap his whole body.

Chen Li'an turned his head to look at a blue knitted hat on the hanger, picked it up and put it on his head.

At this moment, Chen Li'an put away his loose and detached temperament, and now he is about to transform into a character in the movie.

The character image in the movie is very different from Chen Li'an himself. If you want to win this role, you must enter the character state as soon as possible.

The most exciting thing about being an actor is being able to experience different lives and expand your limited life.

Facing the mirror, Chen Li'an slowly adjusted his expression, with the corners of his eyes down, his lips slightly pursed to look thinner, and the muscles on his face tensed and then relaxed, slowly adjusting to the right state.

After 2 minutes of adjustment, Chen Li'an instantly changed from a sunny boy to a melancholy and lonely "depressed patient".

"Are you OK?"

The waiter in the clothing store looked at Chen Li'an worriedly.

I don't understand why the man who was sunny and happy just now suddenly became so deep and melancholy.

His eyes were like a black hole, one couldn't help but sink into it.

Chen Li'an lowered his head and didn't look at the waiter's face, as if he was immersed in his own world.

"how much is it?"

Chen Li'an's deep voice was a bit ethereal, like the reverberation from a shriveled and empty abdomen.

"The jacket is 12 yuan, and the hat is 22 yuan, a total of [-] yuan."

Chen Li'an didn't make a sound when he heard it, but just took out a crumpled 50 yuan note from his pants pocket and handed it to the waiter.

The pale and slender fingers formed a sharp contrast with the frayed banknotes.

The waiter reached out to take the money, and the moment her fingertips ran across the back of Chen Li'an's hand, she seemed to feel a cold chill.

At this moment, she suddenly felt an impulse in her heart, wanting to step forward to hug this melancholy man, and cover him with her hot chest.

For women, a melancholy and handsome man has an irresistible fatal attraction.

After the money was taken away by the waiter, Chen Li'an looked down at himself in the mirror, then turned and left.

Throw away old clothes and so on. The characteristics of the times are too distinctive, and Chen Li'an doesn't like it.

He is very satisfied with his current state, but there is still a little feeling missing, not enough resentment.

Most artists in the 90s have been in this state for many years. It seems that good sunshine has nothing to do with art.

In fact, Chen Li'an feels that the artists of this era have similar characteristics to Sha Matt more than ten years later.

I like to express loneliness, depression and pain externally, but one is true depression and the other is emptiness.

The prelude to the stage has been opened, and the performance has officially begun.

　Open a new book, this time I have grown up, don't scold me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)