I'm just an actor

Chapter 4 Characters
Xu Rong moved to the hotel that night. In order to save money, he stayed in the hotel after he arrived in the capital. People came and went, which was neither hygienic nor safe.

Leaning on the head of the bed, he flipped through the script given by Chen Dong, which also confirmed his previous guess.

His role in the play is Fulin, the Emperor Shunzhi.

Theoretically, as the emperor, "The Wind and Cloud of the Great Qing Dynasty" should have a considerable amount of his role, but in essence, in this romantic drama covered with historical drama, Fulin, as the son of the heroine Empress Xiaozhuang, does not play a role. Not particularly important.

"However, I am an amateur actor at the level of extras, shouldn't I be lucky to get such a role?"

He sat up, took out his pen, and began to ponder over the script bit by bit. He failed to get a more important role, and he attributed the reason to his own professional level.

Now, he has peeked into a corner of this circle and understood a little bit of the dark side, but he still believes that the dark side will never become the mainstream, as long as his professional level improves, he will not worry about not being able to receive dramas and earn money.

It took two days to reread the boring script five times.

He began to practice in front of the mirror, but no one commented, and he didn't know if he was acting right.

After practicing for half a day, he stopped.

Looking at the light curtain in his line of sight, he fell into deep thought. It turned out that in the crew of "Survival Migrant Workers", the experience value increased by two or three points every day, but today he practiced all morning, and he didn't have any experience value at all.

He has two guesses, one is that he has a wrong understanding of the role, and the other is that the practice system itself does not count experience points.

He himself is more inclined to the first point, without professional and systematic theoretical study, no one to guide, no one to imitate, even if the acting is wrong, he will feel that he is right.

"It would have been nice to start it sooner."

Xu Rong's expectation was realized very quickly. Four days later, that is, in late August, the crew notified the official launch.

The day before the start-up, Chen Dong taught Xu Rong a lesson again.

"Hello, are you Xu Rong?"

Xu Rong looked at the thin, long-faced, short-haired young man standing in front of the door and pulling the suitcase, nodded in doubt, and said, "I'm Xu Rong, may I ask who you are?"

"I'm Li Haojie, and I also live in this room." The young man said, raising the room card in his hand.

"Oh, Mr. Li, please come in." Xu Rong hastily moved away and apologized, "I didn't get the notice in advance, so I just"

Li Mingjie smiled, but when he saw the gray nylon bag next to the window of the room, he asked in surprise, "This is it?"

"Oh, my luggage."

Hearing this, Li Haojie's face couldn't help but become weird, and after a while, he tentatively asked, "Is this a lot of pretense?"

"No." Xu Rong shook his head and said with a wry smile, "To save money, I originally wanted to buy a suitcase, but it felt a bit expensive, so I didn't buy it."

Although many things were missing in his growing up, his grandfather also taught him a lot.

He will not feel inferior or shy because of the trivial matter of using a nylon bag. Since it is used for luggage, what should be used to pack it or not?

While the two of them were talking, he checked Li Mingjie's evaluation, and it was C, which was two grades higher than his own.

Li Haojie himself came from a poor family, and vaguely guessed Xu Rong's difficulties, so he didn't mention it anymore, and while packing his things, he asked, "I don't think you have graduated yet, which school did you go to?"

"Graduated." Xu Rong sat down on a chair on the side and explained, "I haven't gone to college yet, and I'm going to take the exam next year. By the way, Mr. Li, which school did you graduate from?"

"Don't call me teacher, you can just call me brother." Li Haojie seemed a little unaccustomed to this address, turned around, smiled, and said casually with a nonchalant tone, "It's just an ordinary school. , Chinese opera."

The smile on Xu Rong's face froze, he was not ignorant of this.

The two chatted for a while, until it was said that they were all from the same hometown, and they got a lot closer at once.

And when it comes to Xu Rong's grandfather who used to work in Pingmei Coal Mine, and coincidentally, he was in the same mine as Li Weijie's parents, and found a lot of common topics.

When it was time for dinner, Xu Rong took Li Weijie to the cafeteria on the first floor because he came early and was familiar with the situation.

While eating, Xu Rong saw from a distance a rather elegant woman walking in the door. She was thin, with an oval face, a burgundy shawl with curly hair, and wearing round-frame sunglasses. She couldn't help pointing with her chopsticks. Pointing, asked: "Brother Li, is that person from our team? Do you know him?"

Li Haojie turned her head and looked carefully for a while, then revealed a look of surprise, and said, "That's Teacher Xu Qing, playing your mother, why, did you like it?"

Xu Rong shook his head and denied it. Before he could speak, Li Mingjie added: "You are only seventeen this year, right? She debuted relatively early. I guess when she was your age, you were still wearing crotch pants."

Xu Rong was almost choked by Li Mingjie's words, but after carefully tasting it, he always felt that although Li Mingjie's analogy was not very appropriate, he couldn't say exactly why it was so inappropriate.

Seeing Xu Rong's constipated expression, Li Mingjie took a sip of the soup and asked with a smile, "How are you doing? Are you still interested? Haha."

"I still think it's better to be younger." Xu Rong sneered, and said after pondering, "However, he doesn't look like such an old person, and I feel that he is about two or three years older than me."

Li Haojie grinned and said: "In our line of work, the face is the most precious, and they usually take care of it. They look young, but in fact they are all made of money. Let me tell you, at her age, she still has a face. To maintain the current state, at least this number."

As Li Mingjie said, she stretched out five fingers.

Xu Rong guessed as big as possible, and whispered: "50?"

"You missed a zero." Li Wei gave him a white look and said, "I don't know that you didn't go to college. Students in art schools have been taking care of themselves since their freshman year. There are a lot of water, milk, and cream anyway, and they are bought specials. Expensive ones, not to mention them, we male actors too, although we don’t spend that much, but we must have what we should have, otherwise it will be difficult for our career.”

Seeing what Xu Rong was listening to, Li Huangjie didn't explain much, and asked, "By the way, how did you get into this industry? Given your conditions, it's not easy, right?"

Xu Rong roughly talked about his experience.

Although he was ambiguous when talking about taking over the current scene, Li Qingjie vaguely guessed something, and asked in a low voice: "How much did you give him?"

Xu Rong stretched out two fingers, took a breath and said, "Two thousand, my heart hurts to death. If this is on the construction site, I will have to work continuously for two and a half months."

Li Haojie gave a thumbs up quietly with the hand holding the chopsticks: "Although you are six or seven years younger than me, you have such courage, awesome."

Xu Rong smiled, Chen Dong had already explained to him when he was assigned a room earlier, the matter of sharing the salary, unless the two of them don't want to mix in this business anymore, they can't talk about it even if they are killed.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Li Haojie said, "If you plan to take the actor's path, I suggest that you'd better go to the three major colleges. After the filming of this movie is over, you don't want to take the movie. It's best to prepare for the exam with peace of mind." Then enroll in a training class in the capital to fill in the basics."

Xu Rong kept it in mind one by one, but he was not sure if he could do it.

Li Haojie said it lightly, but it costs money to register for the class, and if he stays in the capital, he still needs to rent a house.

It's true that the money for filming is fast, but it's not enough to spend. In addition, he has to consider the tuition fee. Even if the film salary is added, he reckons it will be worse.

But he wasn't too disappointed, he had already figured it out, as long as he grasped Chen Dong's rope and took on two or three plays later, he should have no problem going to school. Pay something, this truth, he has already figured it out.

His short-term plan is to apply for the art school next year. As for the longer-term and more detailed plan, he hasn't made up his mind yet.

After he realized the function of the system, he felt that as long as he kept acting and worked through a dozen or so films, through his own hard work, he would definitely be able to raise the overall evaluation to D+ or above. Much better.

After eating and washing, Li Mingjie persuaded him to go to bed early, Xu Rong didn't understand at first, but when he was called up at four o'clock the next day, he finally understood Li Mingjie's intention.

When Xu Rong came to the set in a daze and waited for makeup, he realized that he seemed to have been involved in a big production unknowingly.

"Brother Li, that teacher looks familiar." Xu Rong pointed to the middle-aged man who was given a B+ evaluation by the system.

The man was about the same size as him, 1.7 meters six, with a thin face, and his eyes narrowed when he smiled. He had seen him on TV a few times before, but because he had never paid attention to them before, he didn't know the name of the other party.

Li Mingjie looked at him strangely, and asked, "Don't you read the news? That's Teacher Zhang Fengyi, but there is a bigger name in our group."

"Who?"

"Teacher Jiang Wen."

Seeing that there was no trace of surprise on Xu Rong's face, Li Hejie asked in surprise, "You know?"

"I don't know." Xu Rong looked at him equally strangely, and asked doubtfully, "Is he famous?"

Li Qingjie opened her mouth, knowing that she was talking for nothing, but when she thought about Xu Rong's situation, she realized that with Jiang Wen's big wrist, she usually doesn't accept TV dramas at all.

After a while, Xu Rong finally saw who the so-called "Teacher Jiang Wen" was. He had a round face, beard, and slightly dark skin, but his voice was not too bright and a little hoarse.

But when he saw the A- rating given by the system, he was still a little surprised. This was the highest rating he had seen since he figured out that the system could check other people's ratings.

However, he is not overly superstitious in his evaluation of the system, because every time he gives an evaluation, the system will note that it will fluctuate due to differences in status, dedication, role, etc., and based on his experience as a marginal person in the industry, this The range of float is quite wide.

When putting on makeup, looking at the shaved bald head in the mirror, Xu Rong felt a little regretful, knowing that he would not have a hairstyle a few days ago.

After the opening ceremony, the crew officially started filming. At this time, Xu Rong had already put on her makeup, moved a small bench, and waited for the experience.

After the introduction at the ceremony, Xu Rong made a general outline of the teachers in the group, especially those who were introduced first, and kept them in mind.

And the woman who auditioned him a few days ago, as he guessed, is the director of the crew, named Zhang Wanting.

The name sounds nice, but after half noon, Xu Rong didn't see her smile, so he guessed that the director might not be easy to get along with.

It was almost as he expected, but the crew encountered problems when the filming started.

The first one is Jiang Wen and Zhang Fengyi's rivalry scene, it's not that there was a mistake in the cooperation between the two, it can be seen that the two have known each other for a long time, they have a good personal relationship, and they chatted for a while when they first met.

The problem lies between the famous Jiang Wen and the director Maggie Cheung.

Seeing that director Zhang Wanting and Jiang Wen even started to argue after two reshoots and repeated communication to no avail, Xu Rong was quite surprised. During the crew of "Survival of Migrant Workers", Guan Hu always said the same thing, but now it's good , an actor and the director had a disagreement because of the expression of the role, and they were still arguing.

Xu Rong vaguely heard some content of the dispute between the two, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Li, can the actor not act according to the director's idea?"

Li Haojie pointed at him, then at herself, and said, "We definitely can't do this, but he is a master, this is a privilege, and Mr. Jiang Wen is also a great director. According to gossip, he is famous. It's not easy to serve."

"Oh."

Xu Rong had a scene today. He originally came here with his experience, but after a whole morning, he didn't have any experience, and he just listened to the nonsense for a long time.

He figured it out. Although Zhang Wanting is a female director, she has a much stronger desire to control than Guan Hu. On the set, Guan Hu allows actors to play independently without the framework. As long as he communicates with him in advance, sometimes even if he does not communicate in advance, if If he performed well on the spot, he would even give a few words of praise.

But this director Zhang is obviously the opposite. She seems to regard the entire film crew as a machine, and she can't tolerate the slightest deviation.

Even with such a big wrist as Jiang Wen, Zhang Wanting did not give him any privileges that a wrist should have.

However, this big guy Jiang has a stubborn temper, so he wanted to turn Zhang Wanting's thoughts around.

Several heads of the film crew were persuading at first, but conflicts happened too frequently, and in the afternoon, the film crew stopped immediately.

(End of this chapter)