director of the millennium

Chapter 121 Casting for "Legend of Sword and Fairy", Audition
The era of light and shadow, audition room.

Wu Yuan sat alone, flipping through the resume in his hand with some boredom.

"Dong dong dong." There was a knock on the door, and the staff led Cai Yinong and the actors she brought into the audition room.

"Mr. Cai."

"Director Wu."

After the two bosses smiled and nodded, Wu Yuan turned his attention to the actors brought by Cai Yinong.

Hu Ge, Yuan Hong, Sun Li.

Now that he has signed a cooperation agreement with Tang Ren, Wu Yuan is not the kind of person who will break the contract. If it is suitable, he does not mind using Tang Ren's actors in "Your Name".

Hu Ge and Yuan Hong have just finished their sophomore year, less than 21 years old.

Letting them, who are still very young, play the role of a third-year high school student, it wouldn't be out of harmony.

As for Sun Li, we have worked together before. Although she didn't play much in "The Embalmer" and was just a supporting role, Wu Yuan was quite satisfied with her acting skills.

It can only be said that Huang Lei does teach well. His teaching level is better than his own acting, and he has brought out quite a few outstanding actors.

His eyes stayed on the faces of Hu Ge and Yuan Hong for a moment longer, and Wu Yuan sighed in his heart.

The two of them are really tender now!

Hugo is a complete niche.

He has seen Hu Ge's debut work, an urban drama called "Dandelion". In the play, Hu Ge also wore a pair of glasses and had half-long hair. He didn't look like a male god in ancient costume at all. Young artists.

But now, he looks similar to the one in "Dandelion", with half long hair, but without glasses.

"This hair, if you join the group at that time, you have to cut it shorter. Now this hairstyle is too long." Wu Yuan pointed at Hu Ge's head.

The first thing he heard when he entered the door was accusations, which shocked Hu Ge. He nodded nervously, "Good director! I'll cut my hair as soon as I get back!"

"Hey, don't worry." Wu Yuan showed a playful smile and said deliberately: "It's not sure whether you can join the group. If you can't fit the role, then there is no need to cut."

Hu Ge became more nervous, and even Yuan Hong next to him tensed up nervously. Director Wu's words were too straightforward, and the pressure was ample.

Only Sun Li covered her mouth and snickered. She knew that Director Wu was deliberately teasing the two newcomers.

"Oh, Director Wu, both of them are honest children, so you shouldn't be scared." Cai Yinong complained with a smile on his face.

"Okay, I'm not kidding anymore." Wu Yuan also smiled and shook his head. The young Hu Ge is really interesting to tease, and it's completely different from the calm Hu Ge who was neither arrogant nor impetuous.

"Here are two scripts, you two take a look, and then give it a try."

"Hu Ge tried the male lead, but for the role of Ni, about half of the scenes are the female lead after body swapping, that is to say, you want to play a girl."

"Take the script and try to figure it out."

Handed a prepared script to Hu Ge, Wu Yuan looked at Yuan Hong again, and handed him another script: "This is your script, you want to act for Hu Ge, play him classmate."

"The two of you read the script first, and try the play again later to see the effect."

After much deliberation, Wu Yuan decided to give Hu Ge a chance to audition for the leading role. Not just because of the cooperation agreement with Tang Ren, he really felt that Hu Ge was quite suitable for the leading role.

After several months of drama rehearsals with Luo Jin and Zhu Yawen, Wu Yuan can be said to know these two actors very well.

The more he got to know, the more he felt that the two of them were not suitable for the male lead of "Your Name".

Luo Jin is not handsome enough, and his appearance is not sunny enough, especially when he is not smiling, he looks too gloomy.

Zhu Yawen is quite sunny, but his sunshine tends to be that of a strong and handsome man.

The future Zhu Yawen is always teased by the audience that he is suitable for playing the role of eunuch and looks very feminine, but the current Zhu Yawen is really not like that
You must know that he was spotted by the director of "Crossing the Guandong" because of his appearance, and he was chosen to play the masculine Zhu Chuanwu.

Later, due to his appearance, he was spotted in "Red Sorghum" and played the more hormonal Yu Zhan'ao.

Regardless of whether his acting is good or not, the fact that several directors can choose him to play such a masculine role shows that his image is indeed very advantageous in this regard.

The male protagonist of "Your Name" is just a sunny urban high school student, not yet "masculine".

On the contrary, the classmate of the heroine in "Your Name" is the tall and powerful boy with a shaved body, which is very suitable for Zhu Yawen to play.

The boy also has a crush on the heroine.
Of course, Wu Yuan didn't refuse to give Zhu Yawen a chance, and he would also give Zhu Yawen a chance to audition for the leading role in the future. If he performed better than Hu Ge, he could be used as well.

"As for Sun Li, you can try the role of Sun Meimei later." Wu Yuan said to Sun Li again: "Sun Meimei is the foreman of the western restaurant where the hero works part-time."

"She is a very attractive and beautifully dressed female college student."

Calling Sun Li to audition is really just making up the numbers. Wu Yuan mainly considers that he has worked with Sun Li before, and now he wants to use an actor from Tang Dynasty. It seems a bit inappropriate to call two newcomers and not call her to audition. He called her by the way.

But Wu Yuan doesn't think Sun Li is more suitable for this role than Chen Hao.

Without him, the image of Chen Hao's heartthrob is really too deep-rooted in Wu Yuan's heart.

Chen Hao's acting skills are not bad, and later she returned to teach in Chinese opera, so there is no reason not to choose her.

Just like that, after distributing the audition script to the three of them, they chatted with Cai Yinong.

And the three actors also walked to the corner of the audition room by themselves, holding the script to figure out, Hu Ge and Yuan Hong, two rival actors, were still muttering about each other.

"Director Wu, we have plans for the next TV series on Tangren's side."

On the other end, Cai Yinong also pulled Wu Yuan to chat.

She told Wu Yuan in detail about her preparation for "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

When she said it, she also had some worry on her face, fearing that Wu Yuan would not approve of the project of adapting this kind of game into a TV series.

Before "Legend of Sword and Fairy", there was no TV series based on a game.

However, Wu Yuan smiled after listening to Cai Yinong's project plan.

"Sounds good. I know "Legend of Sword and Fairy". It is a very popular game. There are many people playing it in the Mainland. If you go to any Internet cafe, you will see people playing this game."

Cai Yinong was stunned for a moment, Director Wu still went to the Internet cafe?

Cai Yinong was in a daze as his eyes stayed on Wu Yuan's young and handsome face.

Wu Yuan's achievements are so high that when Cai Yinong chatted with him, he didn't treat him as a young man.

But the fact is that he is a young man, and Wu Yuan understands everything young people play and understand, even better than Cai Yinong.

With some complicated emotions on his face, Cai Yinong nodded: "Yes, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is particularly popular among young people."

"I believe that if it is adapted into a TV series, it will definitely attract many young people to watch it."

"Actors choose a group of handsome men and beautiful women. Maybe we can open up a road of ancient costume idol dramas, or Xianxia idol dramas in addition to urban idol dramas."

I have to admit that Cai Yinong is really discerning when it comes to TV drama production.

Wu Yuan agreed very much and echoed: "Boss Cai's idea is very good. I know that you Tang people focus on high-quality film and television dramas. If you want to make a good TV series about fairy tales, you will need to spend a lot of money, right?"

"I understand what you mean. Since the cooperation agreement is signed, we will definitely fulfill it in the Light and Shadow Era."

"We have invested in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", but our company will have to send people to follow up on the specific shooting budget."

"Of course." Cai Yinong agreed naturally.

Since the light and shadow era needs to invest, it must fully follow up the budget formulation and production, otherwise how can we know how much money will be spent and where the money will be spent.

Seeing that Wu Yuan agreed to vote for this drama, Cai Yinong breathed a sigh of relief, and his tone became more relaxed: "I also have an idea for the leading role of this drama."

"Most of the company's top executives think that we should continue to invite first-line actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan to perform, but I still want to use the company's own actors."

Facing Wu Yuan, Cai Yinong said frankly: "Since Tang Ren is going to be an actor brokerage business, the TV series produced by himself should give priority to the actors under the company."

"Whether it is Hong Kong, Taiwan or mainland film and television production companies, they are doing this now."

"Zhouyi is also cultivating the actors he signed, not to mention Huayi and other big film companies."

"So I plan to let Hu Ge play the leading actor Li Xiaoyao, Yuan Hong play Tang Yu Xiaobao, and Sun Li play the queen of Nanzhao."

The strength of this support is good, Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows, a little surprised.

In the protagonist of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" in the dream, Tang Yu Xiaobao was not played by Yuan Hong, but Peng Yuyan, who later became synonymous with handsome men.

Perhaps it was because of his own intervention that Cai Yinong became more confident and challenged the company's top management, forcing all the main actors to use his own artists?

Could it be that, on the original trajectory, when the Tang Dynasty filmed "Legend of Sword and Fairy", Taiwanese capital was introduced?
Tang Ren's own family shouldn't be able to spend tens of millions to make this TV series, right?
It is definitely necessary to bring in other investors to co-produce and share the risks, and "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is a game produced by Taiwan Island. There must be Taiwan Island Capital who is optimistic about this adapted TV series and is willing to invest in the production.

Now this Taiwanese capital has become the era of light and shadow, everything has changed, and Wu Yuan is not a Taiwanese capital, so he will not ask Cai Yinong to use Taiwanese actors.

Then she must give priority to her own actors!

After figuring this out, Wu Yuan said with a smile: "In principle, I have no objection. Anyway, we don't sign actors in the light and shadow era. It's the same to me which actors are used in "Legend of Sword and Fairy".

"As long as these actors are qualified for the roles and can play this TV series well, anyone can be used."

Although Wu Yuan's words were light and light, Cai Yinong felt the sternness in the words, she nodded with a serious expression: "Don't worry, Director Wu, if they are really not suitable, I will definitely change the actors."

"A TV series with an investment of tens of millions must be cautious. I will not force the actors under my banner to hold back the TV series just because they want to praise them."

"The opportunity is given, if I really can't afford it, then I will give up decisively."

In order to show his attitude, Cai Yinong couldn't help but speak louder, so that Hu Ge and Yuan Hong, who were sitting in the corner of the audition room, also heard these words.

The two of them managed to relax a little, and were lifted up again.

What does Sister KK mean by this?

Give up what doesn't fit?

We haven't started the audition yet, so we are about to be given up?
Wu Yuan glanced at the two of them in a funny way and motioned for them to continue studying the script. Then he said to Cai Yinong, "Okay, I'll be relieved if you understand this."

"But your company doesn't have any suitable actresses for the leading role, who are you going to find to play the leading role?"

Wu Yuan wondered if he should introduce Liu Yifei to Cai Yinong. After all, she was the heroine of "Legend of Sword and Fairy". The role of Zhao Ling'er was still very important to her, and she could even be called the white moonlight of a generation.

It would not be a good thing if the role of Liu Yifei was lost due to the intervention of the light and shadow era.

Unexpectedly, Cai Yinong himself said first: "I saw a little girl in the reception room just now, and I think her image is very suitable for Zhao Linger."

"And I asked her, she also acted in Zhang Jizhong's version of "Tian Long Ba Bu", in which she played Wang Yuyan."

"Since she can play the fairy sister, I feel that playing the fairy sister will be very suitable."

Have a vision!
Wu Yuan chuckled: "You are talking about Liu Yifei, right? She is indeed suitable for the role of Zhao Linger."

"To tell you the truth, she is also my preliminary heroine for this movie."

Wu Yuan personally trained Liu Yifei for several months. Although he can't say that he can train her into an acting star in a short time, it should be no problem to act in a youth movie.

Even if the heroine needs to be reversed, playing a contrasting character who looks like a girl on the outside but actually has a boy's soul, Wu Yuan believes that Liu Yifei can also handle it.

As he got to know her better and better, Wu Yuan could already see that this girl usually looks very peaceful, but in fact she hides a carefree tomboy in her heart.

Otherwise, she wouldn't always say that she was just a dick and a girl in her life.

Letting him play a reverse role is purely liberating nature, and it may produce unexpected effects!
"She is a preparatory heroine?" Cai Yinong's eyes lit up!
If Wu Yuan's new movie finally casts Hu Ge and Liu Yifei to play the male and female protagonists, and with the blessing of this movie, they will star in "Legend of Sword and Fairy" again, then will this TV series still need to be sold?

Cai Yinong looked expectantly at Hu Ge, who was looking at the script and thinking hard, "You kid, you have to fight for it!"
Wu Yuan's eyes also moved to Hu Ge and Yuan Hong, and asked aloud: "Are you two ready?"

Hu Ge really wanted to say that he wasn't ready, but facing Wu Yuan's gaze, he could only bite the bullet and nod: "Ready!"

Seeing that her partner had said that, Yuan Hong could only nod her head: "I'm ready too."

"Okay, then you two should try the play first to see the effect."

Cai Yinong took a few steps back and gave them the space.

Hu Ge and Yuan Hong looked at each other and didn't mind that the ground was dirty, so they plopped down on the ground.

However, the sitting postures of the two are completely different.

Yuan Hong just sat down with her legs crossed normally, but Hu Ge looked like a girl, with her legs close together and sideways, only half of her buttocks touching the floor, and she covered her legs with both hands.

Although he was wearing a pair of jeans, he gave the impression of a girl sitting down in a short skirt.

With just such a movement, Wu Yuan secretly nodded.

This kid's comprehension is still okay.

In the script for Hu Ge, Wu Yuan did not write about the specific sitting posture, but only wrote that the male protagonist Lin Wenjie and the female protagonist Luo Sanye exchanged souls at this moment.

Hu Ge can design such a feminine action detail by himself, which shows that he is indeed somewhat spiritual.

After both of them sat down, they looked at each other again, and the play began.

"Let me tell you, why did you get lost in school?" Yuan Hong patted Hu Ge's shoulder with a smile, her expression and tone were full of ridicule.

A trace of panic flashed across Hu Ge's face, and he subconsciously shook his shoulders and shook off Yuan Hong's hand. One hand touched a few strands of long hair on the temples, and the other hand rubbed the hem of his shirt, murmuring in a panic. Said: "That person"

"He?" Yuan Hong interrupted him in surprise.

"No, me!" Hu Ge quickly changed his words: "I'm so happy. Everywhere in the capital is as lively as a festival. The roads are full of cars and pedestrians. I'm too dazzled."

Yuan Hong didn't listen carefully to what Hu Ge said, but looked him up and down.

When Hu Ge's voice became quieter, he interrupted: "Where's the new Jay Chou album I asked you to bring?"

"Ah?" Hu Ge's expression became flustered again, and he subconsciously took out his pocket, but he didn't take out anything, so he could only smile awkwardly, folded his hands together and apologized, "Sorry, I forgot."

This was exactly the effect Wu Yuan wanted, and he raised the corners of his mouth with satisfaction.

Generally speaking, boys, especially high school students and good brothers, will never panic or be embarrassed when encountering this kind of situation. They will just say "I didn't bring it!" and get over it.

If you didn’t bring it, you didn’t bring it. There’s nothing to be sorry about for this little thing.

Only girls feel embarrassed and full of apologies because this kind of please is not fulfilled.

Girls pay more attention to this kind of details, unlike big boys with rough nerves.

Sure enough, seeing Hu Ge's serious apology, Yuan Hong showed a very unaccustomed expression, and trembled viciously, "If you forget it, forget it, there's nothing to apologize for."

"Remember to bring it tomorrow!"

"Listen to me first. I brought Stefanie Sun's new album! It's very nice!"

"By the way, do you want to go to the coffee shop after school? The newly opened one in Houhai."

"What? A coffee shop?!" Hu Ge gave a good look of a girl when she hears something she is interested in.

He leaned to the right, moved towards Yuan Hong, his eyes lit up, and he nodded his head excitedly: "Go!"

Wu Yuan was delighted to see it, this kid Hu Ge can do it!
No wonder she acted so well when she played Zixuan in "Sword and Sword III".

This kid won't be thinking about how to play a woman in private, right?

Or is there a special class in the theater to teach students how to play reverse roles?

No matter what the reason is, anyway, the performance effect presented by Hu Ge is very good.

Wu Yuan smiled at Cai Yinong.

"Good performance, just the two of them!"

　Five thousand words.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)