director of the millennium

Chapter 51 Fixed Angle (Please follow up!)
Chen Hong.

Diao Chan in the 91 edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The adult Princess Taiping in "Daming Palace Ci".

Chang'e Fairy in "Bright Spring Pig Bajie".

She has acted in many Qiong Yao dramas and is one of the most well-known Qiong Yao girls.

She is undoubtedly a well-known actress in the film and television industry. She plays the role of love and resentment in Qiong Yao dramas, and has a charming appearance in costume dramas. She is also famous for her good temperament.

Leaving aside her personal feelings, in terms of image and temperament alone, Chen Hong undoubtedly fits the heroine of "The Undertaker" in Wu Yuan's mind.

In fact, after she married Chen Kaige, she did become a good wife and mother.

In another two years, she will fully transform into a producer. Starting from "The Promise", she will be the good wife of Director Kego, and fully support her husband's work in career and family.

In fact, she has already focused her work on director Kai Ge. For the new movie "With You" directed by Kai Ge, Chen Hong has become the producer and starring role, and even sacrificed her image to act as an escort .

This is why Wu Yuan was so surprised to see Chen Hong come to the audition.

In his memory, it seems that starting from "With You", Chen Hong stopped taking foreign films in the next few years, and only made films directed by Ke Ge.

Unexpectedly, she came to audition for "The Undertaker".

"Lao Chen's "With You" is almost finished shooting, and my role has already been wrapped."

Chen Hong smiled gently, and explained in a very gentle tone: "I heard that Director Wu's new movie is recruiting audition actors, so I just want to give it a try. Old Chen also supports me."

Chen Hong's words are very decent, but the real situation is not the case.

In fact, she didn't intend to audition for "The Undertaker", it was Chen Kaige who suggested her to give it a try.

Director Kego, he has a rather arrogant personality.

Born in a family of intellectuals in Xicheng, Beijing, he was influenced by art since he was a child. Later, he was successfully admitted to the film academy. At the age of 28, he debuted in the film "Yellow Earth" and won a foreign award.

It can be said that his life is simple and difficult at the beginning, and his life is precious.

That's why he looked down on those directors who were of similar status to him. He always felt that their talents were mediocre, and they all relied on hard work, not as good as himself.

He prefers geniuses like himself!

There is no doubt that Wu Yuan is such a genius that Chen Kaige appreciates very much.

Born in a family of intellectuals in Dongcheng, Beijing, he was admitted to the Film Academy as a teenager, and he is a direct junior!

His debut work won awards from foreign film festivals. Although the artistry is not as good as "Yellow Earth", it is also worthy of praise. He was only 18 years old when he made this film!

In Chen Kaige's eyes, Wu Yuan is his second self!

Another talented director who became famous at a young age!

He admires Wu Yuan very much and thinks he is like me!

So when he heard that Wu Yuan's new film was an art film that was going for awards and lacked a heroine, he immediately persuaded his wife to audition.

In Chen Kaige's view, his wife is good everywhere. If she can play the heroine in the movie of the younger brother, it will definitely add a lot of color to the younger brother's movie, and it is a support for the younger brother!

In fact, Director Kego's idea is indeed correct.

At least the heroine of "The Undertaker" is really suitable for Chen Hong.

When Wu Yuan finished watching Chen Hong's audition performance, he slapped his thigh and felt satisfied.

Chen Hong has both the gentle temperament of a Jiangnan girl and the tenacity of a northern girl, gentle but not cowardly, tough but not sharp.

And her face matches the actor Zhang Guorong very well.

That is to say, when two people stand together, they will have a sense of CP, and even have a little bit of husband and wife.

Because their faces are very similar, they are both bigger at the top and smaller at the bottom, with round chins and an oval face!

Thinking of this, Wu Yuan asked with a smile: "Mr. Chen Hong, if you join the group, you will have two months of life experience with the group and one and a half months of filming. Is this schedule okay?"

"No problem, I don't have any work arrangements for the next year." Chen Hong replied with a smile.

Among so many actors who came to audition today, she is the one who has the most free schedule. After all, she is transitioning to become a producer and is no longer acting.

"Okay, let's discuss it again. If there is confirmed news, we will notify you as soon as possible."

"Row."

Chen Hong still looked dignified and elegant, and left the audition room with a smile.

"Why, did you fall in love with her?" Dong Han chuckled, the appreciation on Wu Yuan's face was undisguised.

Wu Yuan nodded: "Yes, sister Chen Hong is really suitable."

"Let's look at the rest of the actors. If there is no one more suitable than her, then I will choose Sister Chen Hong."

The casting audition for "The Undertaker" lasted for three full days.

In the end, the heroine Lin Mei decided on Chen Hong. Among all the actors who auditioned, she was the most suitable.

The other secretary, Xiaowei, who needed a young actor to play, decided on Sun Li, Huang Lei's future daughter-in-law.

In the absence of Zhou Xun's schedule, Si Dan Shuang Bing is not suitable for the role of secretary Xiao Wei.

The positioning of this role is pistachio, and at the same time, she is also a caring little girl. It is under her persuasion that the male protagonist abandons his previous suspicions with his father.

Sun Li's appearance is more like that of Xiaojiabiyu, and she is most suitable to play this kind of caring sister who is responsible for enlightening people.

And the boss of the male protagonist, the master who brought him into the mortician industry, finally decided to play the role by Mr. Li Xuejian.

There is nothing to say about the old drama, as long as the image is suitable, it can definitely play this role well.

The only difficult choice is the role of the bathhouse owner in the script.

This role requires an actress over 60 years old to play. She is responsible for the entire bathhouse affairs alone. She gave the male protagonist a lot of encouragement and support when he was new to the job of an undertaker and was very confused and wasted. .

At the end of the movie, she passed away unexpectedly. The male protagonist who accepted and understood the job of an mortician frankly, sent her the last journey as a relative, and also for this movie and for the profession of an mortician. the most profound interpretation.

The role is pretty good, but the actor is hard to find.

Now it is 2001, not 2020. There are not so many "grandma professional households" in the market, and the first batch of popular film and television actors are only 40-50 years old.

To find such an actress who is over 60 years old and has sufficient acting skills, it is not enough to rely on wide-ranging auditions.

If you want to find such an actor, you have to go to the major domestic drama troupes to find it.

With the help of Director Han, Wu Yuan almost traveled all over the country's major drama troupes before choosing two more satisfied actresses.

One is teacher Wu Yanshu from Shanxi Drama Troupe, and the other is teacher Lu Zhong from Renyi.

The former has worked as a drama actor in Shanxi Drama Troupe all his life, and will retire at the age of 65 in two years.

Wu Yuan actually watched some of her retired film and television works in her dream. She is very good. She only started to act in TV dramas when she was 70 years old, specializing in playing the image of a kind and kind grandma.

Characters like Tang Xiuyi who was loved by the grandfather in "BJ Meets Seattle", the rural grandma in "Love and Blind Date", Grandma Jiang in "Golden Years", and Grandma Xie in "To a Windy Place", etc. It was her contribution.

Teacher Lu Zhong is also an excellent actor. Later, she played Wu Zetian in the "Detective Di Renjie" series, and her acting skills are very good.

However, after comprehensive consideration, Wu Yuan chose Teacher Wu Yanshu. After all, the owner of the bathhouse is a kind and enthusiastic old lady.

It took half a month of hard work to finally decide on the actor for the main role.

After signing contracts with the actors, Zhang Guorong, who Wu Yuan had been waiting for for a long time, also finished all the work in hand, freeing up the schedule for the next six months.

After receiving Zhang Guorong at the Beijing International Airport and gathering the main actors of the film crew, Wu Yuan immediately took them with him and started a journey to experience funeral parlors across the country!

(End of this chapter)