The elf priest stood by and watched for a while, and the producer followed in trepidation. However, after a while, Xia received a certain communication. After reading it for a few seconds, he gave Wen Xingze a few words and walked out.
Wen Xingze finally got rid of the horror scene of "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law meeting" and focused on the script.
Although the entire audition scene was not long, Wen Xingze was not particularly focused at the beginning. Because of too much tension, the whole brain is crowded with all kinds of chaotic thoughts.
For example, how could director Li Mingzhou fall in love with him. Although Wen Xingze first heard that 'Director Li wants to chat with you', he more or less guessed that it was related to the audition, but who would have guessed that it was the protagonist!
For example, why is Teacher Chi here
For example, if you can really get this role...
But these cranky thoughts only lasted for a short ten seconds. Looking at the words on the audition script, Wen Xingze could only feel that the world around him gradually quieted down, and finally became completely silent.
He seems to have entered another world without interference, only those characters are gradually crushed and reassembled into his mind, and his reading speed is surprisingly fast, which is a state that can maximize the potential of an actor.
Five minutes flew by.
Director Li said, "Have you read the script of the audition?"
Wen Xingze nodded.
Chi Yan: "Yes."
Li Mingzhou looked at Chi Yan, and couldn't help but said, "You just kept staring at Xiao Wen..." And he didn't give Chi Yan this document, what he gave him was the young actor's audition script.
Chi Yan's expression remained unchanged, he took the script from Wen Xingze's hand, quickly scanned it from top to bottom, and returned the script to Wen Xingze.
He repeated: "Yeah." After reading it.
Everyone: "..."
Gan.
"Cough," Li Mingzhou cleared his throat, "There is no other problem, then let's get started."
Everyone in the room stopped all movements and held their breath.
A lot of eyes fell on the two of them, as if they were observing microorganisms with a microscope, and it was unclear whether it was more inspection or curiosity.
Chi Yan stood up from his seat, and lightly pressed Wen Xingze's forehead with his index finger.
When Chi Yan taught Wen Xingze to act, and played with him, this movement was the signal to start.
Chi Yan was a very strict teacher, and Wen Xingze entered the state almost reflexively, and he didn't even have the time to feel nervous.
Then, Chi Yan sat down on the chair, his eyelashes drooping slightly.
Wen Xingze brewed his emotions, took two steps back, rolled up his shirt cuffs, yawned and lazily walked forward. When passing by Chi Yan, Wen Xingze paused, and turned his head after a few seconds.
His complexion was already fair, and his figure was thin and straight between a teenager and a young man. Coupled with his tired and sullen look, he suddenly had a kind of sickly paleness: "Hello."
There was just a bit of hoarseness in the voice.
The director and screenwriter sat up straight at once.
Xia Huai, who retired from the top overnight due to disability and fell to the bottom of society, is no longer the proud son of heaven, but a violent, irritable, and unpredictable garbage recycling peddler.
Wen Xingze's prosperous beauty, coupled with his character, always looks cute and amiable. Even the blackened Hengzhi in "Yulong Ye" is also a sharp-edged character. All in all, Wen Xingze He is a person who is completely incompatible with 'mediocre' and 'disgusting'.
But his performance at this time was unexpectedly good.
"… Hey."
When it came to the second sound, Chi Yan raised his eyes to Wen Xingze.
Although I can't tell you the specifics, but in the blink of an eye, Chi Yan's impression is quite different. Even the emotions in the eyes completely disappeared, and the sight was no longer focused on a certain place, and the breathing and micro-movements became regular and mechanical.
This is a clumsy bionic man that is about to be discarded. He smiled and said with a serious look: "Hello, please give me an order."
Everyone couldn't help but be speechless. Chi Yan is Chi Yan, the film king for almost ten years, this skill is nothing to say, they even seem to be able to hear the sound of the clockwork, the sound of the rattling clockwork, buried deep in the bones and flesh of the bionic human, the increasingly dull and rotten wires Components…
At the same time, everyone began to sweat for Wen Xingze, the pressure of playing with such a top actor was not so great, and Chi Yan didn't have any scruples about restraining himself.
"I've seen you before," Wen Xingze looked impatient, but his eyes were fixed on Chi Yan, "During the emergency evacuation on the third battlefield..."
Chi Yan seemed to only repeat one sentence: "Hi, please give me an order."
Wen Xingze gradually became irritable, and his light-colored eyes looked cold, full of probing and preoccupation: "There is no dump in the alliance? Why did you throw you here, or are you an undercover agent?"
"Hello, please give me an order."
"Your remaining parts and core core chips can be sold for a lot of money after dismantling them, enough for me and number b18 to live for a few more months." Number b18 is the little robot that lives with Xia Huai, but because of a program failure, No. b18 fell into a dormancy with an unknown time limit, "I have already contacted the vendor at the recycling station, if you have any last words, please say it now."
"Hello, please give me an order."
The android was still smiling.
"..." Wen Xingze couldn't bear it anymore.
He reached out and grabbed the android by the collar, making him stand up, his voice was full of anger: "Get up, don't play dumb for me! You—"
Here in the script, Xia Huai's sudden rage would startle everyone. He is an uncertain young man.
Wen Xingze's explosive power is obviously sufficient, even surprising, the director couldn't help but lean back a little. There is still a gap between Wen Xingze and Chi Yan's acting skills, but Wen Xingze is not at a disadvantage when the two play against each other, and they are evenly matched.
However…
The bionic man who was nearly 1.9 meters tall followed Wen Xingze's movements and stood up, lowered his eyes, and looked at Wen Xingze docilely and confusedly: "Sorry, please repeat, I didn't understand your instructions."
Wen Xingze, who was barely 1.8 meters tall, had to look up at him: "..."
Wen Xingze counseled in seconds: "...forget it, you sit down."
The momentum was gone in an instant.
This time the bionic man understood and sat down obediently.
The two were relatively silent.
The scene was once very embarrassing.
"... Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!" Everyone present couldn't help laughing, there was no such segment in the script, Wen Xingze improvised a segment according to the actual situation
—It would be a bit out of place to raise your head and make harsh threats, but this improvisation is very interesting, not only funny, but also makes Xia Huai a little more lovable.
The goal of "Dust Planet" is to be popular and popular, not a pure literary film with high tunes, such interspersed jokes are indispensable.
"..."
This entire scene is about the confrontation between Xia Huai and the bionic man, and Xia Huai, who originally planned to sell the bionic man's parts and chips immediately, also changed his mind during this scene and decided to keep the bionic man at his home to observe a Monthly situation, and let the bionics work for themselves.
Wen Xingze and Chi Yan's audition confrontation is wonderful. The attention of everyone in the room was firmly attracted, and in just a few minutes, they even forgot that this was an audition, and watched it with relish as if they were watching a movie.
And just when Li Mingzhou was already satisfied, at the end, there was even a finishing touch.
At the end of this scene, Xia Huai and the bionic man, who have their own ulterior motives, decided to live together for the time being, and Xia Huai immediately began to boss around the bionic man arrogantly:
"I will wash my clothes later, and I will eat tomato omelet rice for dinner. When I come back, there must be no dust on the floor of the house... By the way—"
Speaking of Wen Xingze, he made a gesture of pushing the door and going out, and the bionic man followed him awkwardly and walked to the door.
Wen Xingze showed an impatient expression again, so the bionic man stopped following and went back to do housework. Wen Xingze closed the doorknob with one hand, he habitually reached out to turn off the light, and soon realized that there was no need to turn off the light.
Xia Huai's left hand is a prosthesis, Wen Xingze curled up his index finger in a strange way, and retracted his hand.
Wen Xingze glanced back, the indifference and hostility in the amber eyes gradually faded in the short few seconds.
The sky was dim, and a few rays of light shone into his pupils, making one finally remember that he was only in his twenties this year, if he hadn't joined the army and had no war, he was just a child.
In the full three hundred days before today, except for the AI vendors who can be contacted by the garbage collection station through the star network, there is no chatting, communication, or even quarreling... nothing. For three hundred days, no one had spoken a single word to him.
And today is Xia Huai's birthday.
Wen Xingze kept his face expressionless, but when he stepped out, his eyes suddenly turned red.
"..."
Li Mingzhou was almost overwhelmed!
There are no lines or monologues in this last paragraph, but Wen Xingze's control of body language and micro-expressions is excellent, and the most important thing is the fluctuation and change of his eyes. It's not too exaggerated, even a little restrained, but it's just right for people to catch that little bit of subtle emotion.
It doesn't even need any narration or explanation of the plot, just this mime-like picture can make people's hearts hurt! Li Mingzhou can already imagine how this segment will be edited, it only needs simple rendering and bgm, it can kill people randomly...
Because of the role setting, the protagonist Xia Huai can be said to be very unpleasant when the early plot has not yet unfolded. He doesn't look that good, he's a little narrow-minded, and has a bad temper, so it's even more a test of the actor's skills and expressiveness.
This is also one of the reasons why Li Mingzhou has not decided on a candidate for a long time.
"... Good!" Li Mingzhou gave this evaluation, but due to his status, he couldn't exaggerate a few more words.
After watching this performance, everyone here basically has a choice and judgment in their hearts. Li Mingzhou turned his head and chatted with the assistant director and screenwriter for a few seconds, then waved to Wen Xingze and said:
"Xiaowen, this audition was quite sudden. Thank you for your hard work. Your expressive ability is indeed very strong. We want to try another part, is that okay?"
Wen Xingze is slowly coming out of the show. He was in an unbelievably good state just now. He has almost returned to the peak state when filming "Yulong Ye". Not to mention the bystanders, even he himself has not been able to return to it for a long time. Come on.
As soon as he woke up, he heard Li Mingzhou's words, and Wen Xingze was stunned on the spot. He really came here with the mentality of giving it a try, so he just took it as a practice, because he really didn't expect that the famous Li Mingzhou and Director Li would really like him and even directly give him the position of the protagonist.
But looking at it like this... it seems like there is a drama...
The Muse Empire, in the middle of an asteroid belt.
This is a huge building, inside it is divided into four hundred and fifty small laboratories like a hive. Unlike the Sky City, which exists naturally and is inhabited by the Yu Clan, this structure is completely man-made. It is suspended in the center of the universe without any starships, platforms, or space stations. It is one of the greatest miracles of space architecture science.
It belonged to the great scientist of the dwarves.
At this moment, the same sentence appeared on the entire four hundred and fifty floating translucent screens:
"The task of posting the baby has not been completed yet, and the reward is almost there, parents, please work harder~"
Unlike the main and branch missions that they have completed before, this hidden mission 'Baby Showing Mission' does not have a very clear mission indicator. Just now, during the entire process from Zai Zai eating a lollipop to the audition, the progress bar representing the degree of task completion has been moving forward, but in the end it got stuck at 99% and stopped moving forward.
According to their understanding, Xia and the producer's introduction of Zai Zai is obviously "posting the baby", but other than that, the other criteria are not clear, because they are not clear, so they don't know how to complete the task.
This made the parents feel puzzled and a little anxious.
The little robots shuttled between the laboratories dejectedly, beeping again and again:
"undone… "
"Mission not done, mission not done..."
At the very center of all laboratories is a bedroom. This bedroom is full of quilts, not only this bedroom, but every laboratory in the entire building has placed expensive and rare soft fabrics as quilts. These seemingly incompatible things in the laboratory with a strong sense of technology are obviously not prepared for the dwarfs who have low sleep needs.
Many years ago, when His Majesty came here to inspect and visit, he fell asleep directly leaning against the cold experimental equipment because of sleepiness, and there were two red marks on his cheeks pressed by the equipment, pitiful and cute.
... It was also at that time that the great dwarf scientist who lived here finally realized how boring the things he was studying were for Zai Zai.
Since then, bedding and quilts have been prepared in every laboratory.
And at this moment, a little boy emerged from the quilt in the middle of the bedroom. All the little robots swarmed over immediately, and anxious notifications chirped one after another:
"Task not done" "Not done" "Task..."
"Shut up."
The boy finally muttered the first words.
The little robots immediately fell silent.
The boy was wearing a mask, revealing only a pair of displeased eyes, and his black curly hair was tied back in a small knot. Like all dwarves, his skin is a kind of pale skin that has not seen the sun all year round, which makes his emerald eyes almost thrilling.
"... trash."
The boy muttered a second sentence.
Of course, this sentence is not about the robot, but about the elf priest who loves to show off. It's too good, it's too good, and I can't even complete the task of posting a baby, the boy thought, he might as well let himself do it.
Of course he never meant to be jealous.
The only good thing is that Zai Zai seems to be able to get the role of "Dust Planet", which means that the extra rewards for their hidden missions can definitely get...
"Hey," the boy directly dialed the communication to the elf that the dwarf hates, "listen to me..."
Xia directly hung up the communication.
boy:"… "
"Impolite."
The boy continued to mutter sleepily.
That being the case, he can only use his own method.
A light screen spread out in front of the boy, his fingers were very immature and white, even fleshy, but he wrote codes faster than the most skilled programmers.
On the other screens, the screen of "Zai Zai Development Plan" was displayed. During the audition process of "Dust Planet", Zai Zai's additional test had already begun.
Wen Xingze's performance in the audition made the screenwriter and director very satisfied. The additional test is the last hurdle to determine whether he can finally get the role. In other words, to further test his compatibility with Xia's character, as well as Wen Xingze's other abilities, such as adapting to changing circumstances and his line skills.
"..."
In the crew office.
Model worker Chi Yan was called out again to watch the young actor's audition.
"Do you have any suggestions for the content of the additional test?" Li Mingzhou asked the screenwriter and producer, "It must not be a talent show."
The screenwriter suddenly had an idea and asked Wen Xingze: "If you were Xia Huai and had an AI that depended on you, how would you wake him up?"
Xia Huai's AI in "Planet of Dust" is the young actor who was found in this audition, but it is a very important part of the plot and theme.
Wen Xingze really didn't think about this question.
He thought hard for a few seconds, and in the eyes of everyone expecting, he said bravely: "...'Hey, Siri?'"
Everyone: "???"
However, in the second after Wen Xingze's voice had just passed.
Everyone's cell phone screens lit up throughout the office.
A childish voice sounded from all directions, the voice was childish, but the tone was like a parent pampering a child:
"Is there anything I can do to help you, pup?"
"..."
"Cub Cub Development Plan".
All the parents suddenly found that the progress bar of the baby-showing task, which was stuck at 99%, finally moved forward slowly at this moment.
... Mission, successful