director of the millennium

Another day passed.

Li Wei hurriedly came to Shanghai, and then hurriedly brought Peng Yuchang back to Beijing.

Everything is going smooth.

There is no problem except that the little guy Peng Yuchang feels that his experience is extremely magical and unreal.

"Director Wu really invited me to audition?"

"How did he know about me?"

“No one knows me at school!”

"You're really not lying to me?"

Along the way, Peng Yuchang never stopped wondering.

Even though Li Wei had explained it many times, he didn't know where Wu Yuan heard about Peng Yuchang. Anyway, the task given by the company was to bring him back to Beijing for an audition.

But Peng Yuchang still found it unbelievable.

Let’s put it this way, now that he has grown up, the word “lucky” has nothing to do with him anymore.

If he's lucky, he'll be more handsome.

If he is lucky, he should be admitted to the acting department of the Film Academy.

He originally thought that this would be his life. Relying on his status as a Shanghai Theatre Academy graduate, he worked hard to send his resume to various major crews after graduation, hoping that a TV crew would give him a small role to play, and then work hard to climb up step by step, striving to play the leading role before he turned 30.

If it really doesn't work, you can play the leading role once before you are 35 years old, and then work hard to gain a foothold in the acting circle. Anyway, the golden period of male actors is relatively long, and you will still have opportunities when you are in your forties or fifties.

As long as he can stay in this circle and continue his dream of becoming an actor, that's enough.

This is Peng Yuchang’s plan for his future, and even for him this plan is difficult to achieve, after all, the first step of “playing a role” is difficult.

Which production crew would want an actor who graduated from a puppetry department?

Unless there happens to be a character whose character setting is a puppeteer or something like that, but the probability of this is really too low.

But what he didn't expect was that he would have such a great opportunity before he even graduated from college!
The famous director Wu Yuan actually sent him an audition invitation!
And he even sent someone to pick him up personally!
If all this is not a dream, then he will definitely be very successful.

Peng Yuchang is not a fool.

He knew very well that since someone could come to him in person, the role he was auditioning for would not be a small one. It would at the very least be an important supporting actor, or possibly even the second male lead.

Well, even if he was dreaming, he never dared to think that he, a newcomer with no experience at all, could play the leading role in Wu Yuan’s new movie.

Even if his new movie is an art film or a low-budget drama, it is unlikely.

Let’s take a look at who played the leading actor in Wu Yuan’s last movie.

30 billion box office winner Huang Bo!
The previous one was even more outrageous, it starred Hollywood superstar Matt Damon!
He even directed and starred in the previous one himself!
Let’s put it this way, even the artists contracted by Wu Yuan’s company have almost no chance to play the leading role in Wu Yuan’s movies.

He either works with big-name movie emperors and international superstars, or with veteran actors and artists. Except for his public girlfriend Liu Yifei, he never works with "little ones".

This is completely different from the situation where directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige like to use newcomers.

So Peng Yuchang could only fantasize that there was a second male lead waiting for him.

And he must and must seize this opportunity which may only come once in his lifetime!

That afternoon, Peng Yuchang met Wu Yuan, who was alone in the conference room on the top floor of Light and Shadow Times.

As soon as they met, Wu Yuan looked Peng Yuchang up and down carefully without any concealment, and then, with his nervousness so intense that he couldn't control his slightly trembling emotions, he said with satisfaction:
"Yes, it fits the image in my mind."

"There is the youthful vigor of youth!"

The protagonist of "Ready Player One" has two faces.

In reality, he is an ordinary person living in the slums, shy, unsociable, and without a sense of existence. But in "Oasis", he is a superhero in people's minds, confident, brave, and witty, and is quite popular with everyone.

It can be said that he is more real in "Oasis", or his personality is more extroverted, and he is the 18-year-old young man.

Peng Yuchang, who is only 18 or 19 years old this year, is at the most "energetic" and "high-spirited" age.

He was just nervous and anxious facing Wu Yuan, a famous director.

"Keep your head up and don't be so nervous."

Wu Yuan sat down with a smile on his face, and said with a malicious look, "If you are so nervous and can't show the youthful vigor and vitality, you will definitely not be successful in this audition."

Upon hearing this, no matter how nervous he was, Peng Yuchang raised his head stubbornly and looked at Wu Yuan bravely.

Young people are really a bit bold and fearless.

If it were actors who were in their twenties and had already been working in this industry, although they were still young, they would definitely not dare to face Wu Yuan, and they would not have the courage to do so.

This is the spirit that is unique to teenagers of seventeen or eighteen, the courage to resist the world.

"good."

"Come on, act out this line with your most confident and spirited attitude."

Wu Yuan handed over a note with only one sentence written on it.

"It should be noted that when I was young, my ambition was high and I was promised to be the best in the world."

Peng Yuchang remembered the line at first glance.

Looking at Wu Yuan's playful smile, he took a deep breath, without even hesitating, and suddenly raised one hand, pointing to the sky, like a lion that dared to raise its head and roar in the face of oppression from heaven and earth, and shouted in a clear, loud, confident and majestic voice:

"It should be noted that when I was young, my ambition was high and I was promised to be the best in the world."

In fact, he didn't shout very loudly. The volume was just controlled at the level of speaking loudly. It was not a roar at all, and he was not hysterical at all.

But it was precisely in this voice that Wu Yuan heard the young man's confidence and high spirits.

It seems that the person who said this will definitely succeed. This is not an expectation, but an affirmation.

It’s not “I want to be successful in the future and become the best in the world.”

It's "I will definitely succeed and become the best in the world."

Yes, he is indeed a talented actor and very smart.

It was worth it that he deliberately stole a classic line from "The Sky of the Wind Dog Boy" to satisfy his bad taste.

Wu Yuan applauded generously: "Not bad, very talented."

"Congratulations, you are the male lead."

"Get ready and go sign a contract with the company. By the way, sign your agency contract with the company as well."

"As for the script, it will be sent to you within half a month."

"As for the specific start date, it should be before the New Year, or at most after the New Year."

"Perhaps this will be your last peaceful Spring Festival."

"Huh?!" Peng Yuchang was completely stunned when he suddenly heard this. The string that had been tense in his mind finally broke.

"I?!"

"Male protagonist?!!!" (End of this chapter)