There are a total of six people on the jury, except for Tang Moning and Zhou Yan who accompanied him, the remaining four are director Wang Lu, assistant director Xiong Yu, two screenwriters and producer Bai Guangjian who has the right to decide.
But what Zu Qi didn't know was that although Bai Guangjian was the producer of this film, he rarely appeared in the crew. Even Wang Lu, the director, only met Bai Guangjian twice in total.
The first time was when we talked about cooperation last year, and the second time was on the jury table today.
Bai Guangjian has always been busy with his affairs. As for why he took the initiative to ask to come over to select the actors for the audition, until now, no one in the entire crew can figure it out.
But Bai Guangjian's identity is here, even if he acts recklessly, others, including the director, dare not make a single word of protest.
The assistant introduced to Zu Qi several people on the panel, and asked Zu Qi to introduce himself to them again.
Zu Qi was a little nervous before he came in, but now that he saw Bai Guangjian and Tang Mo Ning's two familiar faces, all his uneasy emotions instantly vanished.
After all, he is facing acquaintances he has seen many times in his life, and the role of Wei Moyan has long been decided by him. Today is just a passing scene... Of course, he still has to show his best performance, he can't Let others guess at once that he went through the back door.
Zu Qi settled down and listened intently to the guide's explanation of the audition rules.
The content is very simple. Zu Qi and Yue Ji are in a group, and they will perform the script fragments designated by Wang Director one after another. compare.
The interviewers will not decide on the spot whether or not the actors will be auditioned, but will only make some general suggestions.
In Bai Guangjian's words, this method of selection is very suitable for going through the back door. Anyway, there is no fixed criteria for judging, and whoever is selected in the end depends on his mood.
The reason why the crew chose to recruit actors in such a high-profile way is more because they want to publicize and build momentum, and by the way, take a walk around the current little famous fresh meat.
I have to say that there are routines everywhere in the entertainment industry.
Both Zu Qi and Yue Ji have read the script over and over many times, but it is only limited to the script of the character Wei Moyan, and the lines and plots of other characters are completely unknown.
Therefore, when the director and assistant handed two brand-new counterpoint lines to Zu Qi and Yue Ji respectively, they were all a little stunned—
The segment they were going to perform didn't even exist in the script.
The content of the plot is that after Wei Mohan learned the truth about his parents' death, he was determined to kill all his enemies, but found that his best friend was also on the list. Before hitting, he suddenly hesitated...
Director Wang gave them three minutes to familiarize themselves with the script. Zu Qi quickly adapted to the changes in the script and carefully analyzed the dialogue and personalities of the two characters.
However, Yue Ji's face became more and more ugly. He licked his dry lips, hesitated for a moment, looked up at Director Wang, who was talking to Bai Guangjian in a low voice, and said hesitantly, "Director Wang, the script you gave us seems to be There is no piece of this."
Director Wang turned his head and frowned, "So what?"
"We're not familiar with this plot, and we haven't prepared enough. Can you change a plot from the script?" Yue Ji said very cautiously.
When Director Wang heard this, he sneered and asked Zu Qi, "How about you? Can you accept this script?"
Zu Qi nodded calmly: "I can accept it."
"Did you hear that?" Director Wang looked at Yue Ji again, more or less mocking in his eyes, "He can do it, why can't you do it?"
Yue Ji bit her lip and didn't speak, her flushed cheeks were full of embarrassment.
The assistant standing by the side explained calmly: "This plot is indeed in the script, but it is not given to you. After all, it is an unpublished script, and it is impossible to send everything out."
At the end, the director smiled suddenly, looked at Yue Ji for a moment and asked, "Have you read the script for so long, don't you even know if the script is complete?"
After saying this, Yue Ji's face was blue and white, his mouth opened and closed, but he couldn't make any sound like a mute.
The assistant's eyes were clear, and he didn't say anything. He took two steps back, and then made a gesture to indicate that Zu Qi and Yue Ji could start performing.
In the first scene, Yue Ji, the main performer, played Wei Moyan, and Zu Qi played his friend Xin Zihang to cooperate with Yue Ji. In the script, Xin Zihang was seriously injured and lay on the ground in critical condition. Wei Moyan rarely lost control of his emotions. , questioned why his friend killed his parents.
Zu Qi only took two seconds to sort out his thoughts. He quickly lay on his side on the ground and lowered his eyes for a moment. When he raised his eyes again, the light brown pupils were already surging.
The corners of his mouth were tightly pursed, his expression was full of pain and difficulty, and he said weakly and firmly, "Wei Binghua is the head of the family, but he is in trouble with the wicked, killing Zhongliang, and they will die!"
Zu Qi was originally a clear boy, but at this moment, he lowered his voice and sounded a bit hoarse, but he was more struggling and helpless, as well as the anger of hating iron.
Just after reading the first line, everyone present was stunned.
Wang Dao, who was still hanging around a minute ago, sat up instantly, his eyes fixed on Zu Qi lying on the ground, and an incredible expression gradually appeared on his face.
Bai Guangjian and others did not expect Zu Qi to be able to enter the play so quickly, and they were both surprised and delighted.
On the contrary, Tang Mo Ning and Zhou Yan, who were sitting at the very edge, had extremely gloomy expressions.
Tang Mo Ning's hands on his knees clenched into fists. He didn't even notice when his fingernails were embedded in his flesh. He didn't dare to be too obvious, but he couldn't hide the shock and jealousy in his eyes.
"What's the matter... He can't have such good acting skills..." Tang Mo Ning murmured in a voice that only he and Zhou Yan could hear, "why is this..."
He knows very well how bad Zu Qi's acting skills are. It is absolutely impossible for Zu Qi's vase acting skills to enter the play within a few seconds.
Could it be that Zu Qi went to steal the teacher to study art during this time
But Zu Qi is not such a diligent person at all, and he is also busy giving birth to children and courting the people of the Xue family, so it is impossible to have such spare time.
The more Tang Mo Ning thought about it, the more anxious he became. There was a panic in his heart that he was about to be compared by Zu Qi.
At this moment, a hand reached out and grabbed Tang Mo Ning's wrist. Tang Mo Ning was stunned for a while, then turned his head and looked at Zhou Yan with relief.
Zhou Yan squinted his eyes and quickly wiped away the calculations and sinisterness in his eyes. He lowered his voice and said, "Don't worry, a good show is yet to come." As long as they are still sitting on the judges' table, they are destined to be higher than Zu Qi.
Maybe Zu Qi will come to ask them later.
After so much self-comfort, Tang Mo Ning finally felt a lot better. He calmed down and looked at Zu Qi not far away.
Time passed minute by minute in silence, Zu Qi also temporarily added a few lines, but he never waited for Yue Ji's response.
Yue Ji didn't seem to have expected Zu Qi to enter the state so quickly, and was stunned on the spot. The lines that had been rolling around in his mind just now were stuck in the throat.
What should he do
What should he say
The script only wrote what he was going to say, but not what he was going to do before he spoke.
The nervousness and apprehension of hindsight immediately overwhelmed Yue Ji. He is not very experienced in acting. More often, he is a cameo in a famous director's film as a vase, and his on-the-spot experience is almost zero.
At this moment, Yue Ji's brain turned into a mess. Just when he was at a loss, Director Wang's angry voice suddenly interrupted his chaotic thoughts.
"What are you doing? Are you standing there doing sculpture? If you don't want to do it, let me go down, don't waste everyone's time!"
Wang Dao came to talk easily, but he was very serious when he was working. He slapped the table with the script that was rolled up in a tube. It seemed that he was miserable by Yue Ji's reaction.
"Yue Ji, it's your turn," Tang Mo Ning reminded, then turned to Director Wang and smiled, "Maybe it's because of inexperience and nervousness."
Director Wang glanced blankly at Tang Mo Ning, who was obviously speaking for Yue Ji, but didn't say a word. This Tang Mo Ning was the one that Bo Guangjian's ex-wife put in, and also squeezed out Zu Qi, who was supposed to be the male lead.
Now that Bai Guangjian's ex-wife has fallen, Tang Mo Ning's acting skills alone are not even qualified for a minor supporting role. His own position is at stake, and he is still worried about others.
Director Wang sneered in his heart, and when he turned his head, he saw Yue Ji, who was in a panic, bowing and apologizing non-stop.
Zu Qi likes to act, and he also enjoys the process of acting very much.
With the previous experience, this time Zu Qi's performance is more handy, and even people ignore his inappropriate short hair, but Yue Ji, who is wearing a wig and fully equipped, continues to be stunned.
For some reason, Yue Ji was clearly ready, but once he met Shang Zuqi's deep and painful eyes, all his thoughts seemed to fly away in an instant.
"He is only suitable for stand-alone acting, and other people's emotions can easily lead him to the side, and he can't act in the opponent's role." The assistant director pointed out the shortcomings of Yue Ji's acting skills.
Director Wang nodded, turned his head to look at Bai Guangjian, and found that the producer was playing with his mobile phone boredly. He was speechless for two seconds before interrupting Yue Ji, who was still stuttering and reciting his lines.
"Okay, this is the end of this paragraph, swap your positions."
Tang Mo Ning was stunned for a while, and then said embarrassingly, "Director Wang, Yue Ji is a newcomer with high popularity and great potential. Why don't we give him another chance."
Director Wang glanced at Tang Mo Ning without smiling, "Am I the director or are you the director?"
"..." Tang Mo Ning choked up immediately, and pursed his lips with a blushing face, daring not to speak at will.
Yue Ji knew that he had screwed up most of the audition this time. In desperation, she turned her eyes to Tang Mo Ning, who had received a lot of money from him, but Tang Mo Ning avoided her eyes with a guilty conscience.
For a while, the anger of being deceived and betrayed rushed to Yue Ji's forehead. His eyes were a little dark, but he did not dare to disobey Wang Dao's orders.
After a while of deliberation, he learned to lie down in the same posture as Zu Qi fell to the ground just now, and then recited his lines hard, even reciting the words that Zu Qi had just thought of temporarily.
Zu Qi: "..."
Bai Guangjian crooked the corners of his mouth and laughed, and then the other directors and screenwriters headed by Director Wang also laughed softly.
Yue Ji was so ashamed and angry that he wanted to lie on the ground and never get up again. He closed his eyes with a pale face, thinking that Zu Qi would be affected by the surrounding environment like him, but he didn't know that Zu Qi was in the play for a second.
"I took my heart and my lungs to be nice to you, but in return you stabbed me in the back. Every night when you come back in the middle of the night, won't your conscience hurt?!"
Zu Qi completely disappeared from the difficulty and pain when he acted as a friend. His body was almost tense into a string, his eyes were half-closed, and the hostility in his body poured out undisguised.
Even though he still has a modern hairstyle, his gloomy eyes and dejected temperament make him seem to have become another person in just half a minute, and this person is Wei Moyan.
Yue Ji was frightened by Zu Qi's moderate acting skills, and was stunned again on the spot, but this time Zu Qi, the main performer, did not give him another chance to recover, and squatted down and grabbed Yue Ji's collar.
"You talk! Weren't you very good at talking just now?"
"Shixi, what you owe me will never be repaid! I will keep your dog life, and I want to watch how you live in pain in this world." Zu Qi's face showed a hideous look, clutching Yue Ji Collar's hand was shaking.
And Yue Ji, who played the opposite role, was completely shocked by Zu Qi's explosive acting skills, and he didn't react for a long time.
The voice fell, and the conference room seemed to be silent for a long time, followed by a slow applause.
Wang Dao and the others saw Bai Guangjian stand up and clapped their hands.
"Okay! The performance is very good!" Director Wang couldn't wait to walk over and pat Zu Qi on the shoulder, looking excited to meet him late, "You are the Wei Moyan I was looking for, I finally waited for you!"
Yue Ji got up from the ground in embarrassment. No one around noticed his existence. When he heard Director Wang say this, most of the blood on his face disappeared in an instant.
"Director Wang..." Yue Ji carefully pulled Director Wang's hand, "I'm sorry I was a little nervous just now, can I do it again? I've been preparing for this role for a long time, and I've pushed a lot of cooperation to invite the teacher to guide me..."
Director Wang waved his hand to interrupt Yue Ji's unfinished words, he frowned, and said impatiently, "The first thing you have to overcome as an actor is stage fright, there are less than ten people here, but you have a complete sentence. If you can't say anything, there will be a large group of people surrounding you when you are filming, what will you do then?"
Yue Ji was speechless, he could not find any reason to refute Wang Dao's words.
Director Wang didn't want to entangle with Yue Ji any longer, so he beckoned the assistant to come over and take Yue Ji away, and at the same time told Zu Qi to stay.
"Director Wang!" Yue Ji's eyes reddened.
He thought that he was sure of everything, and this morning, he made a big talk in front of his agent and the boss. He didn't expect that Director Wang would like that sloppy bag of Shang Zuqi. How should he explain to everyone when he goes back
Director Wang didn't know what Yue Ji was thinking, no acting skills means no acting skills, even if he stood here for a few days and nights, he still had no acting skills.
"Xiao Xu, what are you still doing?" Director Wang shook off Yue Ji's hand, and scolded his assistant, "Hurry up and take people away!"
Daozhu knew that Wang Dao was angry, and hurriedly stepped forward to pull Yue Ji out. Unexpectedly, Yue Ji suddenly seemed to be stimulated. Sitting in front of Tang Mo Ning.
"Brother Tang, please tell me something, don't you guarantee that I can get that role? You can't say anything! You still charge me so much money, so hurry up and persuade Director Wang!"