After signing the contract with the crew of "Where Are You?", Lin Momo and Lin Cheng not only received a contract and a script, but also their original "D-category actor" pass was changed to "B-category".
After leaving the crew and returning to where everyone else lived, Lin Momo had an excited smile on her face all the way. She held the script and the new pass, looking at them over and over again, and refused to let go.
Seeing Lin Momo's happy face, the landlord smiled and asked, "Little Momo, what good thing happened to you?"
"Auntie Landlady, I found a job. Look, this is it." Lin Momo ran over and couldn't wait to share her new play with her.
Seeing the title of the film on Lin Momo's script, the landlord was stunned - although her job was not an actor, but every day there were guests coming to her shop to eat and stay, and she could hear a lot of news about the crew from their conversations.
The landlord had heard people say about this crew before, that although it was not as good as those big-budget commercial dramas with strong investors, this drama had a very good reputation and had veteran actors in the cast, and it was said that they were aiming for awards.
The landlord was a little surprised. She didn't expect that this father and daughter could get such a drama after just going out for a few days. Moreover, although Lin Momo didn't have many parts, she was also one of the protagonists in the drama.
"This is great news," the landlord said with a smile on his face. After a pause, he looked at Lin Cheng and said, "You guys stay here, I'll cook some delicious dishes to celebrate for you!"
The landlord went to the kitchen personally and prepared several dishes for Lin Cheng and Lin Momo.
Although the landlord firmly refused to pay after the meal, Lin Cheng and his daughter still insisted on paying.
"You are opening a business, there is no principle of losing money." Lin Cheng said as he handed the money to the landlord.
Lin Momo also nodded beside him and agreed, "And Auntie Landlord, my father and I will be paid a very high salary for this script. You don't have to worry about us not having money this week."
When Lin Momo said this, the audience in the live broadcast room laughed:
Oh my god, Momo still thinks that 2,000 yuan for a film is too high.
No, Momo doesn’t think it’s very high, it’s super high.
When I saw Momo bragging about her high pay... I'm sorry, I couldn't help it, hahahaha.
Same as Momo, but really funny.
…
Here, the landlord didn't know that the "super high" in Lin Momo's film was only 2,000 yuan. After hearing what Lin Momo said, and thinking that the role she played was the protagonist after all, he thought that Lin Momo and their pay was really considerable.
So the landlord nodded and smiled at the father and daughter in front of him, "Well, I'll take advantage of you, but I don't need that much. Just give me the cost price."
The landlord took the money from Lin Cheng, took only half of it, and returned the other half to Lin Cheng.
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The father and daughter returned to the room. After Lin Momo changed her clothes, she couldn't wait to start reading the script.
The living room outside was being used by other neighbors, and Lin Momo didn't want to disturb them, so she stayed in their room to watch.
The light in the room was a little dim, and Lin Cheng wanted to remind Lin Momo to watch her eyes and stop looking, but seeing Lin Momo's focused look, Lin Cheng thought about it and did not disturb her. Instead, he went to borrow a desk lamp from the landlord.
With the desk lamp, my vision is indeed much brighter.
Lin Momo grinned at Lin Cheng.
"dad."
"Um?"
"What is this word?" Lin Momo pointed at a word she had circled on the script and asked Lin Cheng.
Lin Momo knew quite a few characters, but she did not recognize some characters that she had not learned in school or had never seen before.
"Mao, which sounds the same as the word 'mao'," Lin Cheng said, and after a pause, he explained to Lin Momo, "This word refers to the age of 10 years old. In this case, 'Mao County' is a nickname."
Hearing Lin Cheng's words, Lin Momo nodded, then stared at the word and whispered several times "耄, 耄县..." and carefully memorized the word.
"What about this?"
"This character is pronounced yao, and three earths stacked together mean a mountain."
Lin Momo nodded again and marked the pinyin of the word "垚" on the script.
"What about this..."
…
There wasn't much content in the script of 'Xu Duo'. By the time I had recognized all the new words in it, I had almost finished reading Lin Momo's script.
Because there are very few lines in the play, although it is called a script, Lin Momo feels more like she is watching a story.
"Dad." Lin Momo called Lin Cheng again.
"What?"
"Did Xu Duo live with her parents and brother later?" Lin Momo turned her head and looked at Lin Cheng and asked. The script she got only wrote that 'Xu Duo' was found by the police, and there was no more story afterwards. Lin Momo was very curious about the story afterwards.
Lin Momo shook Lin Cheng's hand again and continued to mutter, "I don't know whether they continued to live where mom and dad worked, or returned to their hometown in the countryside."
"I think Xu Duo seems to like her hometown more. She doesn't feel comfortable with the city environment. She doesn't seem to like those buses, and she doesn't like food stalls either..."
"But if mom and dad were working in the city, Xu Duo would probably stay at home in the city with them."
"I wonder if my brother's illness has been cured..." Lin Momo suddenly smiled and said, "It's been a year, he must have been cured. If Xu Duo stays in the city, many things will depend on my brother to take care of her."
"But Xu Duo is so smart, she will definitely be able to adapt to the new environment quickly."
Lin Momo chattered on and on, her words filled with beautiful imaginations of Xu Duo's future life.
It seems that in Lin Momo's view: Xu Duo was finally found by the police, and the police uncle would definitely help Xu Duo find her parents.
Looking down at Lin Momo beside him, Lin Cheng's eyes twitched slightly.
- He didn't know how Lin Momo guessed that Xu Duo didn't like cities and buses based on such a script. After all, these were not mentioned in the script.
However, as the guardian, when Lin Cheng was on the crew, the materials he saw were more complete than the script that Lin Momo got, and it also included some background introductions beyond the script.
'Xu Duo' would never be able to find her parents and brother because they all died within half a year of leaving.
Due to illegal development, the water source of Lishu Village was polluted, and Xu Duo's brother's illness was caused by drinking water problems. Xu Duo's parents took her brother to the city hospital, but still failed to cure her brother. Seeing their son dying, in order to afford the high medical expenses, Xu Duo's parents had to go down to the black mine to work. As a result, the mine collapsed and buried people. Two weeks after the couple died, Xu Duo's brother also died in the intensive care unit of the hospital.
"Dad, do you think Xu Duo's sudden appearance in front of mom and dad will cause them trouble?" Lin Momo suddenly asked with some concern.
"No," Lin Cheng paused and continued, "Every parent loves their children very much, and they will only separate from their children when there is really no other way."
Hearing Lin Cheng's words, Lin Momo nodded thoughtfully: "That's right, Mom and Dad left home to work and earn money, and they must have not come back to treat my brother's illness."
As she said this, Lin Momo suddenly smiled again: "This time they can live happily together as a family, right?"
Lin Cheng looked at Lin Momo. This time, he did not answer Lin Momo's question.
"You should go to bed." Lin Cheng rubbed Lin Momo's cheeks and said.
After that, Lin Cheng added: "You have to get up early tomorrow to go to the crew. If you can't get out of bed, your pay will be deducted."
When Lin Cheng mentioned "film pay", Lin Momo obeyed him, packed her things and got into bed quickly.
"Good night, Dad."
"Good night."
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The next day, thinking about going to film, Lin Momo jumped out of bed before the alarm rang and started to pack up as if she had been given chicken blood.
Thinking about going to the crew, Lin Momo specially found a piece of clothes that was dirt-resistant and convenient. However, before she could change into them, she was stopped by Lin Cheng.
"Wear this." Lin Cheng took out the most expensive and best-looking set of clothes he bought for Lin Momo from the closet.
"This will get dirty." Lin Momo said with some hesitation, not wanting to wear this dress to the crew - Lin Momo had a little secret that she didn't tell Lin Cheng, this dress was actually her favorite one, and she usually didn't want to wear it, but if it got dirty or torn on the crew, Lin Momo would be heartbroken.
"No, I will change into special clothes for the filming when I get to the crew," Lin Cheng assured, "I will keep your own clothes for you."
After hearing Lin Cheng's assurance, Lin Momo nodded reluctantly.
At this time, the audience in the live broadcast room watched the interaction between the father and daughter and had already guessed most of Lin Cheng's thoughts:
Momo's clothes look expensive.
Haha, I guess Mr. Lin did it on purpose because someone blindly said yesterday that Momo looked like a kid.
Father Lin: Humph, you said my baby looks like a little beggar? Let me show you what a little princess is!
However, Momo is really cute when dressed like this!
He wants to trick me into giving birth to a daughter again.
…
Here, the father and daughter, who had joined an official crew, finally enjoyed the treatment of being picked up by the crew in a car.
The group quickly followed the crew's official car to the set.
In order to accommodate Lin Cheng and Lin Momo's program recording schedule, the crew adjusted the original shooting plan: this day's shooting will focus on the 'Xu Duo' unit. Therefore, apart from the actors of this unit, there are not many people on the set.
On the set, seeing Lin Momo again, Guo Fei and several staff members were stunned: compared to the wilted look of Lin Momo yesterday, the cute and energetic Lin Momo today was really not that good looking.
"Did the director and Teacher Li let this child play 'Xu Duo'?" the makeup artist who was not present yesterday asked in surprise.
"Yes, it's her. Don't doubt my vision as a director. You'll know once you try to put makeup on her." Guo Fei said: After all, Lin Momo still has great potential in playing the role of Xu Duo.
“Then let me try.” The makeup artist nodded.
Lin Momo was taken to the dressing room by the makeup artist.
The makeup artist first asked Lin Momo to change into clothes that the costume team had specially made to look old and dirty, and then started to put makeup on her.
It took me more than half an hour to tinker with it.
When Lin Mo came out of the dressing room and her skinny, dirty figure reappeared in the live broadcast, the live broadcast room's bullet screen exploded:
Oh my god! He looks so pitiful!
Although I know it's makeup, this look is still so heartbreaking.
No, I can't watch it anymore, it's too painful.
…
When the staff on the set saw Lin Momo's appearance at this time, they had the same idea as the audience in the live broadcast room.
Looking at Lin Momo, the director's eyes lit up and he nodded with satisfaction.
"Not bad, not bad, let's get ready and start right away."
The director took out the script and originally planned to talk to Lin Momo about the play, but he was surprised to find that Lin Momo had read the entire script several times and even memorized the details of the play very carefully. No matter what he said, Lin Momo could quickly follow it.
"Okay," the director said several times, and then said, "Let's get started."
"All the scenes on location will be put off until tomorrow. Let's just shoot the few scenes on the set today."
With the scene ready, the shooting officially began.
'Xu Duo' stumbled all the way from his hometown Lishu Village to the city, experiencing too many unimaginable difficulties in the process.
Today, the first scene Lin Momo filmed was the scene after Xu Duo came to the city.
From sneaking into the city on a truck to being discovered by the truck driver and forced off his vehicle, Xu Duo was lost in the busy streets.
The food she brought with her when she left home had long been eaten, and she had no idea how long she had been hungry.
When Xu Duo passed by a roadside bun stall, an adult at a table was coaxing a child who was throwing a tantrum. The child raised his hands to struggle, knocking over the soy milk and buns on the table. A bun rolled down the table and onto the floor, right in front of Xu Duo.
Lin Momo starts acting from here.
Seeing the buns rolling in front of her, Lin Momo held the woven bag on her back and squatted down.
The script says that 'Xu Duo' picked up the bun and ate it.
However, Lin Momo did not pick up the bun immediately, but hesitated for a moment.
Outside the venue, seeing that Lin Momo didn't pick up the bun, an assistant director frowned and asked, "Why didn't she pick it up?"
"Isn't it because it's dirty?" guessed the assistant director.
Just when the assistant director was about to call a halt and talk to Lin Momo about the scene, he was stopped by the director: "Stop talking."
The filming continues.
Lin Momo did not pick up the bun on the table immediately. Instead, she looked around nervously and cautiously, then carefully glanced in the direction of the guests at that table and the owner of the bun stall. After confirming that no one was interested in the bun in front of her, she reached out and quickly picked up the bun into her arms.
Lin Momo held the bun tightly, stood up and looked at the owner of the bun stall.
The actor who played the stall owner seemed stunned for a moment, then he reacted and quickly continued his role, waving at Lin Momo to signal her to leave.
Lin Momo then landed aside, spread out her hands, and looked at the bun in her palm.
This bun looks very dirty, but in fact, the dust on the wall and the bun is replaced by powdered sugar by the director team, so it is not dirty at all.
However, since it was already written in the script, Lin Momo pretended that the bun was dirty. She used her fingers to remove some of the "stone debris" that had sunk into the bun skin, and blew on the dusty side. With skillful and steady movements, she tore off the bun skin on the dusty side. Finally, she patted the bun, rubbed her hands, took the bun and took a bite.
It’s filled with white sugar bean paste and is quite delicious.
Lin Momo subconsciously curved her eyebrows.
Until then, the director shouted "cut", and the shooting of this segment was completed.
The scene, which lasted less than ten minutes, was performed in one breath without any pause in between.
As the director clapped his hands, many people on the set followed suit.
"Very good! Review it!" The director stood up and said: There is nothing wrong with this segment.
Although there are no major conflicts or dramatic performances in the entire 8 and a half scenes, this segment is so natural, so natural that every movement and look is very coordinated, making people subconsciously integrate their feelings into it, and completely regard Lin Momo as 'Xu Duo' herself.
At the same time, there was a hint of surprise in the director's eyes when he looked at Lin Momo, and he secretly sighed: This kid's acting skills are too good.
Not only the director thought so, but the audience in the live broadcast room also had the same idea.
After the program team of "Living with Dad" and the film company contacted each other, all the content shot by the program team will be censored, but there are also some on-site shooting content that the crew originally used for publicity that can be broadcast live.
Therefore, the scene just now was also played in the live broadcast room without missing a frame.
Oh my god! Momo's performance just now was so realistic!
When I saw her eating the buns, I cried!
This acting is amazing.
I feel like he can do it and beat most of the popular actors in seconds.
Isn't Lin Cheng a singer? Why is Momo such a good actress? Has she received any special training
Maybe Momo is the genius in this area! Haha.
…
Whether on the set or in the live broadcast room, everyone was impressed by Lin Momo's amazing acting skills.
Only Lin Cheng knew that this was not acting.
Lin Momo was able to act that scene so realistically that it was no longer just "acting". It must be because she had done the same thing before, and most likely more than once.
Others don’t know what Lin Cheng is feeling at this moment.
Li Jianhong came to Lin Cheng's side, and with a smile on his face, he talked about Lin Momo: "Little Momo's acting is pretty good, many veteran actors can't do it so naturally..."
Lin Cheng did not respond to the other party's words, but started to say: "I hope to add another request."
Hearing this, Li Jianhong was stunned and asked, "What do you want?"
"Don't let her know the truth of this story and its real ending." Lin Cheng said.
Lin Cheng specifically checked the prototype of the story behind 'Xu Duo' - 'Xu Duo' did not find her parents and brother in the end, but was sent back to the local rescue agency by the police. Not long after, the 9-year-old girl also died of the same disease as her brother and many people in their village.