I make a thriller, it's God chasing and feeding

Chapter 324 [I hired another special employee]

"Anihasa, I am Li Zhien."

"Good director Lu, good screenwriter, good assistant director Bai Wei, and good senior Zhou Jie."

"I am very honored to be invited to audition for the script 'Fujiang'. I..."

In the hotel arranged by the crew,

An unused room was used as the location for the audition.

There is still a long table, a few chairs, a fixed camera position and a mobile camera position.

But this time, sitting next to Lu Zhengyi was no longer Lao Zhang, but his student Bai Wei.

In addition, there is an additional screenwriter this time.

Compared with before, the selection of actors was determined by Lu Zhengyi's words.

"Hey, I remember, hasn't this movie been released for a long time? Why are there so many people?"

So this time in the Southern Dynasty, the actors who were invited to the hotel to audition were almost all capable actors who had a certain reputation here and even won awards.

In front of them, a woman with exquisite makeup was carefully introducing herself.

This time, in addition to his opinions, Ito, the screenwriter, had to be satisfied.

"Won Bin!"

she asked cautiously.

"Okay, then we won't be polite."

……

Lu Zhengyi has read her information and naturally also seen some works. This method of highlighting her excited emotions through "breaking sound" shouts seems to be a method she often uses.

Some relatively famous but capable actors were hired.

So you're playing a kid?

The astonishment in Li Zhien's eyes was even worse. Playing a child at her age, with her appearance, and her figure, it was not easy to act well and get into the role.

Lu Zhengyi was also very direct. After discussing with a few people next to him, he said softly, "Just try to play an infatuated man."

"..."

"Zhengyi Lu, who? The actor inside?"

Hearing that there was no script, Li Zhien in front of him was a little stunned at first.

"Any situation is fine."

Based on his current situation, it is indeed unrealistic to find some young, unqualified, but capable actors like before.

Compared with Li Zhien, the actors who auditioned later were more straightforward.

His fame was so great that he was even famous in the Tang Dynasty.

"But before we start the audition, I have a question to ask you." Lu Zhengyi looked at him, "How is your mental endurance? If you were asked to kill someone to act in a play, would you accept it? "

No, this kind of interpretation should be common in the Southern Dynasties.

But we can't rule out that Li Zhien, who went out before, told others about it.

But her years of experience as an artist allowed her to quickly calm down and think about the topic.

After just a simple greeting, I quietly waited for the question.

Li Zhien, a famous singer and actor in the Southern Dynasties.

"Infatuated man?"

"Let's improvise for now. There is no script." Lu Zhengyi nodded politely, and then said casually, "As for the title, I will play a woman who is so jealous that she goes crazy."

Lu Zhengyi hesitated, "If I have to say it, I saw that my mother was very kind to other children, so I became jealous."

In order to cater to the director, she still used Tang dialect, which she was quite proficient in. It was obvious that she had studied it for a while before.

"Hello teachers, I'm Lee Jong Suk."

The voice was so low that it even broke.

……

Lee Jong Suk looked at him blankly, wondering if this question was too simple.

Lee Jong Suk, who was still at a loss, suddenly paused. He looked at the burly man opposite him, feeling the serious emotion conveyed in his eyes, and took a step back unconsciously, "Huh?"

But now, accompanied by her agent, she came to the Fujiang crew to audition very solemnly.

But no matter how difficult it is, you still have to give it a try.

This requirement was relaxed when he started trying to shoot some other styles of films.

She suddenly shouted to the side with a frown on her face, "That's mine!"

"Excuse me, under what circumstances did you become jealous?"

Well, they like to embody emotions through their sounds.

"Because Lu Zhengyi seems to have come to film with us recently, and many people have only recently paid attention to this movie."

"It's not an actor, it's the director of this film. Haven't you heard about this news recently? Then your information is a little unclear. He is a famous director in the world."

"It's true that my classmates have been mentioning it, so I just came here. I always feel that if I don't read it, I won't be able to keep up with the topic."

……

Inside Lotte Cinema,

As a bustling commercial area, there is not a lot of people, but in this noisy environment, Lu Zhengyi can easily catch some words related to him and listen to what he wants while walking on the road.

Although, they have already started preparations for the filming of 'Fujiang'.

But The Grudge 2 is still in the release stage.

Although this movie was not originally positioned for the market of the Southern Dynasties, even in terms of language, no dubbing actors from the Southern Dynasties were invited to provide additional packaging, and only the translation of the subtitles was done.

But now, apart from the Tang Kingdom, their box office figures are the highest among all channels.

Tomie's audition process takes several days.

There are also many candidates, and they need to be carefully selected.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was still time before the film was launched, Lu Zhengyi came to the cinema here alone in his free time, wanting to experience the evaluation of his works up close.

The perception of the audience here is very similar to that in China.

Almost... overwhelmingly positive reviews.

This is somewhat surprising.

Lu Zhengyi's domestic praise has been accumulated through one work after another.

There is a process from being 'okay' at the beginning, to being 'not bad' for several subsequent works, to finally winning awards and receiving reviews such as 'excellent' and 'classic'.

Even on the Heguo side, the curse only made some people in the Heguo know that there was such a Tang director, nothing more.

But in the Southern Dynasties, this was obviously not the case.

For some people in this country, it seems that Noh is already a world-famous director in their minds.

In some speeches, it is as if you don't know yourself, which is so incredible and outdated.

With his career and reputation reaching this point, Lu Zhengyi has worked hard for a long time in China before people feel like they don't know Lu Zhengyi. Is it impossible? You should have seen his movies.' Such an impression.

But here... have these two works made people in the Southern Dynasties so popular with me? He doesn't think he's that charming.

Even colleagues, friends, family members who are right in front of you...

Mutual trust has to be accumulated little by little, let alone a relationship that has never been met in person.

"You really went out of your way to help."

Although he is a great director in everyone's opinion, when Lu Zhengyi walked in the theater, others seemed to have not heard of him.

Of course, this is because he deliberately lowered his sense of existence.

In fact, Lu Zhengyi could still guess the reason for the current situation. It was probably because the media in the Southern Dynasties praised him.

The reason why they paid so much was because of the terms of cooperation that Light and Shadow had set with them.

As long as they can occupy a larger proportion of investment in The Grudge 2 and the following Fu Jiang, they are willing to assist in the publicity work.

But Lu Zhengyi did not expect that they could achieve this.

No matter what, I belong to an outsider, an outsider.

It's like when a foreign brand enters the country and seizes the market, people on your side will be more or less repulsive.

This is the same whether it is Tang or He.

But on the Southern Dynasty side, there seems to be no sense of territorial awareness at all. They welcome Lu Zhengyi to enter the market with his works and take money out of the pockets of the people in the Southern Dynasty.

But the premise is that they can get a share of the money they paid out.

……

"I've probably decided on the actors."

"Lim Joo-hwan and Yoo In-na are both well-known in the Southern Dynasties, and... they have a wide range of acting roles. In the audience's impression, they are not that limited."

"Coupled with Fumi Takahashi and Kyoko Kanda from Wagong, the number of starring roles is enough."

Inside the hotel,

After a few days of simple auditions, Lu Zhengyi finalized the actor.

"Is there anything... special?" Looking at the two people he listed, Ito sat opposite him and asked with some confusion, "Judging from their performance and information, there doesn't seem to be anything particularly outstanding. place."

"Whether it's in terms of appearance or the number of fans."

"I'm sorry, because I have never participated in the production of film and television dramas, so I raised such a question."

Although he is a screenwriter, Ito has not worked in this area.

He spent his entire life as a cartoonist.

He didn't quite understand why he chose these two people.

Forget it about Fumi Takahashi and Kyoko Kanda, they have played The Grudge before.

He had read "The Grudge" and had a good impression of the two of them, so he agreed to choose them.

But the first impression of these two actors from the Southern Dynasties was a bit ordinary.

As for actors, shouldn't they be more outstanding in appearance? Otherwise, it is ugly, but it must at least leave an impression on the audience.

And these two people, neither good nor bad, can only be regarded as ordinary and ordinary.

If appearance is not enough, then the next best thing is, if the number of fans is more, it will also be helpful for the drama.

However, these two people on the audition list did not have such a large number of fans.

For example, Song Joong Ki, Lee Jong Suk, Bae Suzy, Lee Ji Eun...these people seem to have higher fan numbers and fan activity than them.

So why did Director Lu choose them?

"Xiaowei, come and explain to Mr. Ito."

Lu Zhengyi looked at Bai Wei sitting next to him, intending to test him.

He and Ito were not the only ones in the room.

As the first assistant director, Bai Wei was also present.

In addition, Zhou Jie, the star of This Time Ichiban, was also there, but she just sat aside and had no intention of participating in the casting discussion.

"I think the secondary reason why Director Lu chose them is probably because... the protagonist is Teacher Zhou Jie." Bai Wei thought, "In the final analysis of the play Fu Jiang, the protagonist is Fu Jiang."

"As for the others, they are all supporting characters. They all have the opportunity to appear on the screen because they are attracted to Fu Jiang."

"Whether they have outstanding looks or are famous is not important. What is important is that... they can put down some of their own baggage, adapt to the role, and perform performances that vilify themselves."

"Is such that."

Lu Zhengyi smiled and nodded, translated his words once, and told Ito.

"So that's it."

After listening, Ito recalled the performance of the actors who auditioned in the past few days and nodded, "The more famous you are, the less you can let go of your real self to enter the drama and enter the role. It's like this."

With such a reminder, he did realize that some actors were unable to absolutely fall into the role.

Even with their acting skills, they can better highlight the emotional state required by the character at that time.

But after careful comparison between the two actors mentioned by Lu Zhengyi and other actors, there seems to be some differences.

One is a good actor, but it can be seen that he is acting, and his demeanor, voice, and movements seem to have certain norms and methods.

The other is that the acting is good, and it doesn’t look like he is acting, it comes out naturally.

This is the difference between being able to let go or not.

"The main reason, I think, is... psychological quality."

Then, Bai Wei continued, "This should be more important to Director Lu than acting."

"I remember that Director Lu would ask a very special question to every actor during their audition."

"It's like asking questions like whether you are willing to kill someone for the sake of acting, or whether you are willing to fall off a building for the sake of acting. But these two answered without hesitation, yes, and they looked very serious."

Yes, as an old employee who has been working together for many years.

Bai Wei felt that what Lu Zhengyi considered in this audition was not acting skills or image, but courage.

After all, the actors invited by their crew for this audition were all relatively well-known actors.

These actors can be recognized by the audience in a country like the Southern Dynasties, a country with serious entertainment involution, and they must have certain uniqueness in their acting skills.

Therefore, the real content of Lu Zhengyi's audition is not the difference in these acting skills, but to test their psychological quality.

But this seems to be more elusive than ordinary auditions.

"But Director Lu, is there anything different about our shooting this time?" After seeing off Ito and Zhou Jie, Bai Wei returned to the room and asked curiously. In fact, since arriving in the Southern Dynasties, he I've always wanted to ask.

Because Wang Xiaoxu was not on the list of people traveling this time.

Yes, isn’t the biggest special effects artist on their crew participating in Tomi Jiang’s filming this time?

As for the special effects, who will do it?

"Not just this time, there may be some differences in the future." Lu Zhengyi smiled and replied, "I have recruited a special employee, but he has to wait until the machine is turned on to come. It is considered voluntary labor."

"Voluntary labor?"

Bai Wei muttered this word, but it sounded like someone squatting inside.

(End of this chapter)