Li Yan's audition for "Waiting for the Aurora" was arranged at his home in City B, a small villa.
Li Yan's audition style can be said to be completely different from Xu Ping's. He doesn't follow a strict audition process, he only says he wants to "chat" with the invited actors, and he doesn't strictly set everyone's appointment time like Xu Ping, and staggers everyone, that is, whoever comes first will follow Whoever talks, just won't receive two at the same time.
He is also not like a normal crew audition, a mighty group of people lined up, a dozen pairs of eyes staring at you, he has only one person, one person watching, one person judging, all the decisions are made by him alone , "arbitrary", but also very chic.
When Xia Rong arrived at his house, the previous one seemed to have left for a while, Li Yan directly opened the door to let him in, and invited him to sit down in the living room.
Li Yan is a foreign Chinese, and his ancestors are of mixed British and American blood. Therefore, he has deep contours and sunken eye sockets. When he is young, he will look older. In his 30s and 40s, he looks like a glass of well-brewed wine, exuding elegance and charm. temperament.
After sitting down, he first raised his hand and poured Xia Rong a cup of tea. Seeing his gentle, calm and unhurried movements, Xia Rong couldn't help but think: Li Yan is still unmarried at this age, so the number of suitors must be spectacular, right
"Taste how it tastes." Seeing that Xia Rong was in a daze, Li Yan only thought that he was nervous, and reminded him with a smile.
"Okay, thank you!" Xia Rong picked up the tea and took a sip. When he looked up inadvertently, he found that the TV was on, but the volume was turned down. There was a cheerful and funny variety show in it, which was "Liang Shanbo" With Romeo.
Because the ratings are quite satisfactory, "Liang Ou" is often used by Chengzi TV to fill in the files, and it is played repeatedly during the day. Now it should be another round from the beginning, and it is the first indoor obstacle course, where they wear doll costumes and fight each other's tails.
Xia Rong was sitting in Li Yan's living room, looking at the screen, laughing gleefully and pounding the ground because Kang Yifan was caught off guard and his tail was pulled off. Ask Li Yan: "Do you like watching this kind of program?"
"Well, it's quite interesting." Unexpectedly, Li Yan answered him with a smile, "It's fun for you to be inside."
fun? Is this evaluation positive or negative
However, after this episode ended, the show came to an end soon. Li Yan turned off the TV, turned sideways, put away his smiling expression, and became a lot more serious. He nodded slightly at Xia Rong and said, " Have you read the script? Try it now."
Xia Rong was nervous for a while, waiting for this moment.
There are two scenes given in the test playbook, one is when Ran Yi and Yan Jun confront each other and complain when they are just trapped; the other is when Ran Yi and Yan Jun go out to find rescue, encounter an avalanche, and Ran Yi is trapped alone Injured and collapsed, reminiscing about childhood scenes.
Such a play is actually very difficult for Xia Rong. Because he has never experienced the extreme environment of Antarctica. When he is acting, he makes himself believe that he is in that scene and that person. This kind of real experience is difficult to replace, so he is affected by the environment. Larger non-physical performances are serious challenges for him.
In order to perform this scene well, he and Su Chi went to the Ice and Snow World, wrapped in thick down jackets, and found a remote location where there were no people, and felt the scene while playing. Because they couldn't delay the filming progress of "Lanzhou Ji", they went there at night and came back in the middle of the night. After a lot of tossing, they almost caught a cold.
Xia Rong also realized that his acting method is really a little tricky. Could it be that one day he will make a disaster movie about the end of the world, and he really has to experience the end of the world before he can perform it? No wonder Su Chi said that, no matter how talented an actor is, he will not only use one acting method for his whole life, unless he only shoots the same theme and the same type of role for his whole life.
However, all his uneasiness and apprehension stayed before entering the play, and when he opened his mouth and said the first line he thought he should say, all the anxieties disappeared.
In other words, it is difficult for him to feel the world outside the character world.
Ran Yi looks cheerful and sunny on the outside, but actually suffered from severe domestic violence in his childhood. He was locked up in the utility room by his alcoholic father for a day and a night, and thus suffered from claustrophobia. When the avalanche came, he was trapped alone in the dark snow cave, and because of his injuries and blood loss, he developed an extreme emotion of despair, collapse, and self-destruction.
"It's too dark... too dark..."
"Why am I still not dead, why... dead, dead, dead..." Ran Yi twitched slightly in pain, murmured blankly, he fell to the ground due to exhaustion, and the instinct of survival made him tighten the hat on his head , but his fingers were so convulsed that he couldn't hold them tightly.
I don't know how long it will take before someone comes to rescue him... If Dad comes, if Dad is willing to come and open the door, he swears that he will be obedient, more obedient than anyone else...!
Xia Rong didn't know how long he had endured it until he was handed a tissue in front of him and Li Yan's worried face appeared in front of him, which made him wake up a little bit.
His fingers still seemed to be a little uncontrollable, Xia Rong got up in a state of embarrassment, and took the tissue, only to realize that he had already burst into tears.
"Why are you so stupid."
Li Yan looked at him condescendingly, and said something like a sigh. His eyes were both worried and painful, and looked extremely gentle, but Xia Rong felt a slight twitch in his heart when he just recovered—
Li Yan's eyes didn't seem to be looking at him, but more like looking through him, staring at another person hidden in the depths of time.
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When Xia Rong came out of Li Yan's small villa, Li Yan politely sent him outside the door.
Xia Rong was still in a daze at first, but when he saw Su Chi driving to pick him up outside the door, he suddenly regained a sense of being in reality: "Why are you here?"
"It's snowing too much today, and the director announced that the group will have a day off." Su Chi wore a camel-colored long woolen overcoat with his hand in his pocket, looking clean and warm, "I can have a good sleep when I go back."
"I asked for leave yesterday, and I feel so bad." Xia Rong complained, "It seems like a hundred million is missing!"
Su Chi laughed when he heard the words, and turned around and took out a doll pillow from the car: "This is for you, to celebrate the end of the audition."
Xia Rong took a look at the doll pillow, and it turned out to be a short silver gradation. It was vivid and exquisitely crafted, and it was obviously custom-made in advance. He glanced at Li Yan next to him, a little embarrassed: "I don't know if it will succeed or not."
"Whether you succeed or not, this is to celebrate the end of the audition." Su Chi said, "If you succeed, I will give you something else."
Su Chi's behavior like this is actually a bit ambiguous. Xia Rong doesn't know why he did this, but after thinking about it, anyway, he tried a gay movie anyway, so Li Yan shouldn't mind too much, right
Thinking of this, he calmed down, hugged the cat doll, turned around to thank Li Yan, Li Yan looked at them thoughtfully for a while, and said, "Wait for me, I'll go get something."
Xia Rong looked at him in a daze as he turned back again, and glanced at Su Chi. He seemed not too surprised, nodded to Xia Rong and said, "I'll tell you when I get back."
They were waiting beside Su Chi's car. Before Li Yan came out, another car stopped beside them. Two people got out of the car. One of them was a young student who was the same age as them, named Sheng Guangji.
Sheng Guangji was born in an anti-Japanese drama, but because of his outstanding looks, after being signed by his current agent, he transformed into an idol fresh meat route. In the IP era, he has played many popular roles in big IPs, and his popularity has soared, and his fans have also increased. It's just that his manager has always liked to take the route of "stepping on others to get ahead". Drafts are flying all over the place, peers in the circle must be stepped on, co-actors must be stepped on, competitors must be stepped on, cooperating with actresses to stir up a scandal, even if the hype collapses Step on, was given the name "Little Prince Pull Step" in the circle, almost everyone's scalp numbs and their hearts tremble when they hear that they want to cooperate with him, afraid of being entangled in his draft.
Probably because of this reason, Sheng Guangji's acting career has not improved in the past two years, and he has always been in a vicious circle. It can be said that he is also a manager, and he is also a manager.
Seeing Xia Rong and Su Chi, Sheng Guangji came over to say hello, "Are you coming to audition too?"
Xia Rong smiled and said, "It's just me, Su Chi is here with me."
"Really?" Sheng Guangji showed a rather sincere smile, apparently happy for the loss of a strong competitor, "Which role are you trying, Xia Rong?"
"Ran Yi."
"Great, I tried Yan Jun, there is no conflict now, I hope we can really cooperate!"
...but I don't really want to work with you. Xia Rong said "hehe" twice, his attitude was obviously perfunctory, but Sheng Guangji acted as if he hadn't seen it, and still smiled enthusiastically: "It's a pity, I don't have time to chat with you, so I'll go to the audition first, Hope to have the opportunity to work with you in the future!"
When he turned around, he raised his hand to gather his coat, and brushed Xia Rong's waist intentionally or unintentionally with his elbow.
Xia Rong: …
I said why is he so enthusiastic!
Damn, what should I do if I feel sexually harassed!
Before Xia Rong had time to say anything, Sheng Guangji turned around and found Li Yan who was hurriedly coming out of the villa. He quickly smiled and said, "Why do you bother to come out in person..."
Li Yan waved to him, passed him, and handed the things in Xia Rong's hands.
Sheng Guangji: …
Xia Rong lowered his head and saw that what was handed to him was actually a book, with deserts, planets and foxes painted on the cover, it was a well-preserved copy of "The Little Prince". Li Yan lowered his voice slightly, and said, "Please pass this on to Ye Mang, thank you."
Xia Rong accepted the book without knowing why, Li Yan seemed relieved, turned back and called Sheng Guangji: "Hi, come in with me."
Sheng Guangji was even more confused than Xia Rong, but he obediently followed Li Yan in. His manager seemed to want to follow, but Li Yan politely turned him away.
Xia Rong got into the car, and Su Chi was in charge of driving. He said, "Let's go home first, and talk slowly after we get home."
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Returning to Su Chi's residence in City B, Xia Rong really had a feeling of "going home". After all, everything here came with his intentions, and some details that he didn't notice, all let Su Pool noticed and added it.
Xia Rong sat barefoot on the bed, playing with the silver gradient cat doll, but stared at the book "The Little Prince" on the table. Because it was handed over, without permission, he couldn't open the book without permission to see what secrets were hidden inside, so he could only ask Su Chi for his curiosity: "Su Chi, does Li Yan know Ye Mang? What do you think?" What's their relationship?"
"Before I came, I heard some gossip." Su Chi also came to bed and said, "Actually, if you ask Sister Yi, you should know more or less. After all, she and Fang Ru are good friends."
"Yeah, I forgot!"
Su Chi wanted to stretch out his arms and take Xia Rong into his arms, but seeing Xia Rong leaning against the head of the bed and hugging the doll, unaware of it, he couldn't help sighing inwardly, and simply turned into a silver gradient The British shorthair cat crawled up Xia Rong's leg.
Xia Rong stroked the real cat, decisively discarded the doll in his hand, and naturally hugged Xiao Ying short, letting him nestle in his arms.
Su Chi rubbed the warm skin under Xia Rong's pajamas with his cat's body, and heard him urging: "What kind of gossip is it? Tell me first."
Su Chi said: "Li Yan had a relationship with a domestic star four or five years ago."
"Star? Male, male?" Xia Rong was dumbfounded, "Could it be Ye Mang!"
"How could it be Ye Mang, Ye Mang is very straight, have you forgotten?" Su Chi patted his stomach with his paw helplessly, "Actually, I also speculated. Think about it carefully, the script you filmed this time , what are the names of the two protagonists?"
"Ran Yi, Yan Jun." Xia Rong scratched the cat's chin, thinking seriously, "Yan Jun... Yan... Yan? You mean, Li Yan actually used Yan Jun as his alias, and used a story to tell Tell your own story?"
Su Chi was very comfortable being scratched by his fingers, and narrowed his eyes slightly: "There is another name."
"If Yan Jun represents Li Yan himself, then the other name is likely to be his lover?" Xia Rong said, "Ran Yi... Ran Yi?... Still?... Yi Ran?!"
"An Yiran?!"