Zhou Yan came back with two bottles of Arctic Ocean and gave one to each of the two girls. He himself sat across from them holding a tea cup.
Seeing him holding the teacup, Chen Derong joked, "Brother-in-law, you are so young, but you are already living the life of an elderly person."
Zhou Yan smiled, "What do you mean to young people?" The definition is to drink Beibingyang."
"Absolutely."
"Beibingyang really needs you to speak for them." Zhou Yan took a sip of tea and asked, "What have you done recently? Any other drama? ”
Chen Derong shook his head, "No, we have finished filming "The Kid" and "Lily in the Wind" in succession, and we will not start filming "Tomorrow With You" until next year."
The two TV series she was talking about, Zhou Yan is not very familiar with it, and has only heard the name from "Jianghu Boy".
Zhou Yan has watched very few TV series of this kind. Most of them have only been watched a little bit, and they were all the kind that he glanced at in passing when others were watching them.
The reason why Zhou Yan asked Chen Derong this was to make sure that she had no problem with her schedule, and not to wait until the role was confirmed before scheduling conflicts would arise. For the role of the male protagonist’s sister, Zhou Yan only asked Chen Derong to audition for the time being.
If nothing else happens, this role should eventually go to Chen Derong. He had communicated with Chen Derong before, telling her that this role was not the protagonist and the image was not very beautiful, and asked her if she would mind.
Chen Derong doesn't mind at all. It can be seen that she is really obsessed with acting in movies, so she is not willing to let go of this opportunity.
Especially after knowing that the heroine is Wang Zuxian and the hero is Zhou Yan, she has no worries.
No matter how popular her TV series is, she has never achieved very good results on the big screen. Although there is a role like Xiao Shuang'er, it obviously does not help her film career development much.
"After the audition tomorrow, if there is no problem, you have to start preparing to finalize your makeup. The shooting time this time is relatively tight, so everything will be faster."
Chen Derong smiled, " It’s okay, I’m used to it. When filming TV series, time is tighter.”
Generally speaking, filming a TV series takes longer than filming a movie, but when it comes to workload, a TV series is definitely bigger. After all, TV series have more scenes, and two or three episodes of a TV series can be worth as much as one movie.
When making a movie, we often have to shoot a scene for several days, but this cannot be done in TV series. On average, there are more than a dozen scenes in a TV series every day. If it is just a scene, the producer will People are probably going crazy.
This is also why many film directors look down on TV dramas. After all, it is impossible to ensure that the quality is comparable to movies when shooting more than a dozen scenes a day. Even if TV drama directors want to focus on the details, they cannot do it.
When you choose to film a TV series, you must lower your own requirements.
Sometimes directors know how to shoot better, but they can’t do it because time and money don’t allow it.
"Springtime of the Cowherd" only has a hundred scenes. If it were filmed at the same pace as TV series, it could be filmed in one week, and the resulting film would be unwatchable at all.
Zhou Yan saw that Chen Derong was quite confident, but just smiled and said nothing. It seemed that although she had acted in movies, she had not been abused by the director. If you were really abused by the director, it wouldn't be so easy.
Seeing that Zhou Yan was silent, Wang Zuxian gave Chen Derong a vaccination, "Although you are not the protagonist this time, you cannot take it lightly. The pressure on the shooting scene is very high, so you must be mentally prepared."
"Well, I know, don't worry." Chen Derong nodded.
But looking at her expression, you can tell that she definitely didn't take Wang Zuxian's words too seriously.
In her opinion, after all, she has acted in many movies and collaborated with many big names, and she is also quite familiar with the filming situation. And looking at Zhou Yan's gentle appearance, he must have had a better time on set than those directors from Xiangjiang.
Wang Zuxian also knew that Chen Derong could not understand it just by talking about it. She had to wait until she actually arrived at the set to understand how much pressure the actors were on during the filming of Zhou Yan's movie.
Although Chen Derong has made several movies, many of which are relatively famous works such as "The Deer and the Cauldron" series and "Casino Tycoon", and he also collaborates with great directors like Wang Jing.
Many people say that Wang Jing’s requirements on the set are strict, but to be honest, in Wang Zuxian’s opinion, compared with Zhou Yan, Wang Jing’s requirements cannot be considered strict at all.
Wang Zuxian still remembers that when filming "The Sixth Sense", the young actor Hu Ke did not perform well on set. Zhou Yan would rather spend a lot of time and take the entire crew with Hu Ke to grind over and over again. Be willing to lower your demands.
At that time, Zhou Yan even thought about changing actors temporarily.
In that situation, Hu Ke faced great pressure, but Hu Ke’s father couldn’t bear to stay at the scene and watch his son being abused.
Fortunately, Hu Ke's mental endurance is pretty good. If he had been replaced by a child with a weaker mental endurance, his mentality would probably have collapsed in those few days.
Zhou Yan does not curse on set, but he will grind for one detail over and over again, so that when filming Zhou Yan's movies, many actors will have self-doubt because they cannot meet Zhou Yan's requirements.
The two girls didn't stay in Zhou Yan's office for long. After finishing a bottle of Arctic Ocean, they got up to leave.
After getting up, Chen Derong smiled strangely and pushed Wang Zuxian towards Zhou Yan, "Sister Xiaoxian, just stay, don't be embarrassed."
If she hadn't done this, Wang Zuxian might have stayed, but The more she teased him, the more embarrassed Wang Zuxian became.
“What nonsense are you talking about? Let’s go back to the hotel.”
“Really follow me back to the hotel? Don’t regret it again tonight.” Chen Derong said to Zhou Yan with a smile, “Brother-in-law, it’s not me who’s holding you back. She left with me, don’t blame me.”
Before Zhou Yan could respond, Wang Zuxian pulled Chen Derong away.
Watching them leave, Zhou Yan shook his head with a smile and continued to look at the audition list.
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The next morning, many people gathered in the studio.
Today’s audition range is very wide, not only the main roles, but also many supporting roles.
There are three venues in total, one of which is used for auditions for main roles, and the other two are used for auditions for supporting roles.
Many actors came today, most of them were recommended by various units, and some came through self-recommendation and signed up on their own initiative.
In addition, there are actors invited by Zhou Yan and the others.
The audition officially started at nine o'clock. Zhou Yan arrived at the studio at eight o'clock. He sat in the office until eight fifty, then got up and walked towards the film studio.
The three audition rooms were arranged on the first, second and third floors respectively. The audition for the main roles was on the third floor. As soon as Zhou Yan arrived on the third floor, he saw three people standing in the corridor. The studio has arranged a special room for the actors who come to audition to rest and wait, so most of them are in the lounge waiting for their number to be called.
"Fourth brother!"
Hearing this shout, Zhou Yan laughed.
The person calling him was none other than Li Jingfei, who plays Zhang Fei.
Li Jingfei is probably the only person in the world who can call Zhou Yan his fourth brother.
Because Zhou Yan got along better with the three brothers before, Li Jingfei sometimes jokingly called Zhou Yan fourth brother in private.
However, this title has not been made public, and they will not call Lu Shuming, because logically, they have a fourth brother, which is Zhao Yun. It would not be good if they publicly call Zhou Yan the fourth brother. If they call him the fifth brother, then It seems a little strange.
There were two people standing next to Li Jingfei, one was Jiao Huang and the other was young actor Li Naiwen.
Li Naiwen has not graduated yet and is the only school student among the main characters to participate in the audition. He was recommended by Gao Jinwen, Zhou Yan’s first acting teacher.
Now Li Naiwen is a senior student in the Department of Performance of Chinese Opera, and Gao Jinwen is also his teacher.
When recommending Li Naiwen to come over, Gao Jinwen didn't give any special instructions. He just told Zhou Yan not to take it for his sake but to give special care to Li Naiwen. If he felt it was inappropriate, don't use it.
However, Zhou Yan knew that Gao Jinwen must be very optimistic about Li Naiwen, otherwise, he would not have called specifically to recommend Li Naiwen. They had known each other for so many years, and this was the first time Gao Jinwen took the initiative to call and recommend someone.
Zhou Yan was also very happy to see Li Jingfei. He went up to hug him and said hello to Jiao Huang and Li Naiwen.
Immediately he took out a pack of Zhonghua from his pocket and offered cigarettes to them one by one. Li Naiwen didn't smoke, but Jiao Huang and Li Jingfei both took the cigarettes.
Li Jingfei lit up the cigarette with a smile, "A few years have passed, but your habit has not changed. If you don't smoke, you still have to put a pack of cigarettes in your pocket."
In fact, Zhou Yan is basically the same now. He no longer puts cigarettes in his pocket, and he doesn't give up a cigarette to anyone he meets like before, but today he knew that Li Jingfei and the others were coming, so he specially took a pack of cigarettes and brought them with him.
Jiao Huang was not familiar with Zhou Yan, but he followed Li Jingfei's words and said with a smile, "Director Zhou's habit is good and worth encouraging. If everyone can be like Director Zhou, we old smokers won't need to bring it with them when we go out in the future. "I'm done smoking."
Li Jingfei took two puffs of his cigarette and said with a smile, "I still remember that time when my eldest brother was caught picking corn. Fortunately, my fourth brother had a bag of red Tashan in his pocket and he was able to rescue him. Come back."
Zhou Yan rolled his eyes. They were not ashamed of stealing corn, but were proud of it. They even took the initiative to talk about it, which made many people know about it.
And this story became more and more outrageous as it spread. Zhou Yan heard a version that said he took three brothers to steal corn. He was obviously a victim, but he suddenly became the mastermind.
“I still remember that you and your second brother ran very fast.” Zhou Yan teased, then looked at his watch, “The audition will start soon, let’s talk after everything is over.”
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"It's okay, go ahead."
Zhou Yan nodded with the other two people and was about to leave, but was stopped by Li Jingfei again, "Leave two more for us. I was in a hurry today and forgot to bring my cigarettes." ."
"Take it." Zhou Yan handed over a package directly.
"How can you be so embarrassed..."
Li Jingfei said this, but his hand was not polite at all and he directly took the cigarette.
After giving the cigarette to Li Jingfei, Zhou Yan walked into the room.
Li Jingfei happily put the cigarette into his pocket, "Even if the audition doesn't go well today, it's not in vain."
Jiao Huang asked with a smile: "It seems, You have a good relationship with Director Zhou."
"Of course, we have a revolutionary friendship. When we were filming "Three Kingdoms", he lived in the same room as us. He is young and can get along with us. Speaking of it, he has changed so much in just a few years."
Li Naiwen was more curious about Zhou Yan and couldn't help but ask, "Who was Director Zhou before? What does it look like?”
"In terms of appearance, there is actually no change, but his identity has changed. We had just met him at that time, and we didn't know who he was. We only knew that he was a music director, and he was not in the same system as us. We thought he was just here to stay for two days. , He didn’t have much contact with us. Who would have thought that our relationship would be so good later?”
“When we were filming “Three Kingdoms”, Director Zhou was already quite famous.”
“Then. How can it be compared with now?"
"That's true." Li Naiwen nodded, "I heard from our teacher Gao that Director Zhou is a very hard-working person, and sometimes he even treats Director Zhou in class. He took it out and said that if we work as hard as Director Zhou, we don’t have to worry about being professional.”
“Don’t listen to your teacher Gao’s nonsense.” Li Jingfei laughed, “You can work twice as hard as him. It is impossible to achieve his achievements. Anyway, my biggest impression of him is that he is a genius, an unparalleled genius. His brain is not comparable to ordinary people, and he can burst out superhuman inspiration anytime and anywhere."
Li Naiwen pursed his lips. The Zhou Yan in Li Jingfei's mouth was completely different from the Zhou Yan in his teacher Gao Jinwen's mouth.
In Gao Jinwen’s words, Zhou Yan’s level of effort is beyond ordinary people.
Teacher Gao often likes to talk about how Zhou Yan learned acting on the set of "Raise the Red Lantern". He believes that Zhou Yan's acting talent is no different from ordinary people, but Zhou Yan is extremely serious in his studies and is very special. Pay attention to methods.
At this time, Jiao Huang said beside him, "I think that Director Zhou's current success is inseparable from his hard work and talent. He must have both talent and hard work at the same time. However, in order to let Teacher Gao You have worked harder to study, so I focused on Director Zhou’s efforts.”
Li Naiwen nodded, “That should be the case. Anyway, I came here just to study, so I can meet all the seniors. Teacher, I am very satisfied.”
Li Jingfei laughed and said, "You don't have to be modest. The world is dominated by young people now. Let's all perform well in this audition and strive to be able to cooperate in the movie."
"Well, I will definitely work hard."
Li Jingfei and Li Naiwen had known each other before. Li Naiwen's mother was an actress at the Tianjin People's Art Theater, and Li Jingfei was an actor at the Hebei Theater. The two theaters had quite a lot of exchanges before.
To talk about it, Li Naiwen has to call Li Jingfei uncle.
Because of this, Li Naiwen, a college student who has not yet graduated, can stand in the corridor chatting with Jiao Huang and Li Jingfei at this moment. (End of chapter)