I'm just an actor

Chapter 81

"Here, take it."

In the hotel room where the crew stayed, Xu Xing stared blankly at the red envelope that Xu Rong handed over, and said in surprise, "Brother, what are you?"

Xu Rong smiled and said: "The filming has started, there is always room to spend money, and there is not much, 2000 yuan, you take it first."

Assistant is not an easy job, especially his assistant, Xu Xing's salary is not high, he asked Jin Fangfang, only 3000 yuan a month.

Compared to the hard work, this amount of money is really not high, but the assistant itself is a springboard industry, and no young man rushes to become an assistant to do this job.

Either they have the dream of being a star and regard the assistant job as a tool to accumulate contacts, or they hope to switch careers and become an executive agent, just like Jin Fangfang before, and there is another type of people, fans.

However, whether it is an artist or a brokerage company, fans are generally not allowed to be assistants, because the uncontrollability is too strong.

But this kind of young people are often the leeks harvested by assistant training institutions in the market. They train for half a year and charge a lot of money, so that fans think they have mastered the knowledge and skills necessary for assistants, but they have no channels to contact idols at all.

"Brother, I really don't need it." Xu Xing waved his hands hurriedly. She had heard Jin Fangfang say that some artists would give red envelopes to their assistants, but that was only a minority. no.

Xu Rong grabbed her hand, stuffed the red envelope into her hand, and said: "If you have always planned to be an assistant, of course you don't need it, but if you don't, just take it, buy some fruit every now and then, and tell me There is no harm in establishing a good relationship between the director and the producer, even if it leaves a little impression, they will not help you for no reason."

After he finished speaking, he remembered another important thing, and said, "Remember, it's okay to spend money, don't go astray."

Seeing his serious face, Xu Xing nodded slightly.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk."

The door was open, Xu Rong looked up when he heard the knock on the door, and saw two tall middle-aged men standing at the door, one with a long thin face and long hair, and the other with a round face and short hair.

But the two of them didn't come in, they just smiled at the door and said, "Teacher Xu is here!"

Xu Rong also walked to the door with a smile, and said, "Producer Zhu and Director Jiang just arrived and are about to report to you guys. Come in and sit down."

The next play he will shoot is called "Forgiveness", which tells a story of family ethics, affection, love, selfishness and hatred.

This is a drama that challenges the audience's bottom line. The Dongming he wants to play has a serious virginity plot. After discovering some unbearable past events of his wife Xia Yu, he launched a crazy revenge on those who hurt his wife back then, and sent him He was forced to commit suicide by jumping off a building, but because the means in the process were too intense, his wife Xia Yu's feelings were neglected, causing her to go insane.

What's worse is that his younger brother Dongfeng had liked his sister-in-law Xia Yu once, and after seeing her sister-in-law hurt, in order to protect her sister-in-law, he gradually turned against him.

At the same time, Li Xueli, the girl pursued by his younger brother Dongfeng, also took revenge because of jealousy.

All in all, there are many selling points, but logically there are many places that are difficult to be self-consistent, such as the entanglement between Li Xueli and his role as Dongming, and the introduction of Xia Yu to him by his younger brother Dongfeng.

Dog blood can no longer be dog blood.

A little curious for the sake of curiosity.

The reason why he took it was because he realized that the role of Dongming was very similar to another extremely classic character, An Jiahe in "Don't Talk to Strangers".

It has always been his wish to challenge such a role.

Standing outside the door was the tall, thin, long-haired producer Zhu Hong, who was also an investor, and the middle-aged, short-haired, fat man was Jiang Wei, a director and part-time screenwriter. He had met the two of them before.

When Xu Rong went to the door to greet the two, Xu Xing pulled the suitcase into the inner room of the suite with great winking.

Zhu Hong shook hands with Xu Rong, and asked, "How is the journey going?"

"Smooth and smooth, when did the producer and director arrive?"

"It's been two days."

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, the two of them left without sitting down, and at the same time told him to clean him up at night.

"Xu Xing, later you can ask the assistant director for arrangements, I'll go see a friend." Xu Rong said something to Xu Xing who was packing his clothes, and went out.

He just heard from director Jiang Wei that Zhou Yiwei had arrived in the morning.

Zhou Yiwei's luck was much better than his. He was easily admitted to a higher vocational college in Nortel, and later signed a contract with the famous Haiyan Studio, becoming one of the serious "Prince Rocks".

Last year, he became famous with "Deep Prison".

But so far, it seems that Zhou Yiwei's good luck has been completely exhausted.

Because there are three "Prince Yan" in the Haiyan studio, the three of them have almost completely torn their skins because of the competition for resources. Once the farce came out one after another, they almost rolled up their sleeves and fought in public.

Coupled with the fact that Haiyan's works have lost the glory of previous years, this teacher Zhou's career has also begun to decline.

Asked about Zhou Yiwei's room, Xu Rong walked to the door and knocked on the door.

After about six or seven seconds, the door opened, but when Zhou Yiwei with a long and thin face saw the person coming, his eyes widened suddenly, and at the same time, he subconsciously uttered a swear word, "Fuck".

Then, before the smile on Xu Rong's face bloomed, in the blink of an eye, with lightning speed, the door was closed tightly with a "bang".

"Teacher Zhou, am I so scary?" Xu Rong's smile twisted and he shouted outside the door.

Zhou Yiwei plays his younger brother Dongfeng in the play.

The reason why he is afraid of him like a snake is because Zhou Yiwei has another identity outside the play, the line teacher of Nortel.

After waiting for a while, the door opened again. Zhou Yiwei was holding the doorknob, and half of his head was exposed through the crack of the door. He stared at him vigilantly and very seriously and said, "Xu Rong, let's make it clear first, I'm here to film a movie." Yes, I'm just an ordinary actor now, not a teacher, if you agree, I'll open the door, if you don't agree, go back where you came from."

Xu Rong raised her hands and spread them out, saying: "Teacher Zhou, look, I didn't bring my book this time, why are you panicking?"

Zhou Yiwei didn't relax at all, and said, "You just say you agree or not?"

"Hi." Xu Rong laughed twice, and suddenly said, "Mr. Zhou, haven't you eaten yet? Come on, I invite you to go down and have a meal. You can order whatever you want."

"Don't interrupt me, I can't afford your food." Zhou Yiwei seemed to recall some extremely unpleasant past events, his face was slightly distorted, "Xu Rong, really, I'm not joking, please forgive me Can I do it?"

Seeing this, Xu Rong couldn't force it anymore, and said with great reluctance: "That will work."

Seeing Xu Rong nodded, Zhou Yiwei laughed "Hey", opened the door, and waited for Xu Rong to come in, and then said, "That's right, let me tell you about acting, when it reaches your level, it is no longer someone else's." You can improve by teaching. It depends on enlightenment and self-study. If you don’t believe me, look, which good actor is learned by learning theories? Besides, I’m not a few years older than you. I just call the teacher at school. When you get out of the school, you call me brother, and we don't ask anyone for advice, we should be friends of the same generation."

Xu Rong listened to Zhou Yiwei's mouth full of nonsense, and looked at him for a while, until he saw that he was uncomfortable, and then sat down on the sofa.

As soon as his butt touched the surface of the sofa, his face suddenly pulled down.

"Ugh."

He first sighed, but seeing that Zhou Yiwei didn't answer the question at all, he was embarrassed for a while, so he continued: "Mr. Zhou, you don't know, I'm under a lot of pressure right now."

"Stop, stop, stop." Zhou Yiwei picked up the cigarette case from the table, and was going to ask him if he smoked, but when he heard the voice, he hurriedly stopped him, and he had no intention of letting him smoke.

Then, without waiting for Xu Rong to speak, he held a cigarette, squinted his eyes, followed Xu Rong's low tone before, and said with a look of lovelessness: "I'm really afraid that I can't act well. I, Xu Rong, am just a student." That's all, the main task is to study, it doesn't matter if I'm popular or not, but I'm afraid that I'll lose face for the school and you, teacher, if that's the case, wouldn't I be a sinner for our school?"

Seeing Xu Rong's stunned expression, Zhou Yiwei sat across from him, raised his legs, lit up his cigarette, waved his hands, and said, "I will recite this set of rhetoric, don't worry, you can throw away your arms and do whatever you want." Acting, I don't feel ashamed."

Xu Rong forcibly twisted some smile lines on the side of his nose: "Mr. Zhou, you're... a bit too late, aren't you?"

Zhou Yiwei laughed "hehe" twice, and said, "I did? Let me tell you, I'm pretty good. Director Wang Jun is preparing to shoot "Four Generations Under One Roof", do you know?"

Xu Rong shook his head, he really didn't notice this.

Zhou Yiwei smiled and said: "Teacher Huang is the male lead, I heard that Director Wang wanted to invite you to participate in the performance, but after knowing about it, Teacher Huang uttered a cruel sentence. If there is you, there will be no him, and if there is him, there will be no you."

"Huang Jiajia?"

"if not?!"

Xu Rongren was a little numb, how did this good teacher-student relationship come to the point where they never get in touch with each other now?

But he still added a sentence: "Can't it? Maybe it's because I'm worried that I won't be able to make the schedule."

Zhou Yiwei just smiled, but didn't speak, and waited a while before saying: "Okay, don't just sit here with me all the time, when I see you, my heart will shudder."

"How about having a meal together? So that I can thank Shien?"

"Don't, don't, can't stand it."

Xu Rong was pushed out of the room by Zhou Yiwei repeatedly, but he didn't realize that his reputation in school had fallen to this point, so he could only sigh helplessly.

Zhou Yiwei didn't want to deal with him, so he could only go back to his room to read the script. Aunt Xu heard that she would come over later.

In the evening, when Aunt Xu arrived, Zhu Hong called the film crew and had dinner downstairs while cleaning up the dust.

"Sister, what's the matter with you?" Xu Rong stood at the door of Aunt Xu's room, looking at her haggard look, and couldn't help being a little puzzled.

Aunt Xu plays his wife Xia Yu in the play.

He mainly came to say hello, and by the way called Aunt Xu to go down for dinner together.

"It's okay, I'm not in a good mood recently." Aunt Xu forced a smile, shook her head and said, "By the way, I won't go over for dinner, you can tell the producer Zhu Hong and the director Jiang Wei for me, just Said I wasn't feeling well."

Xu Rong walked into the door and asked, "What's up, sister, is there anything I can do to help?"

"I'm just in a bad mood, you go first, I want to be quiet."

Xu Rong didn't leave at this time, nor did he stay. It took a long time before he said bluntly: "Then sister, do you have anything to eat? I'll have someone prepare it for you later and bring it up."

Aunt Xu just shook her head slightly.

Xu Rong hesitated for a while, and had no choice but to gently close the door, feeling rather complicated in his heart, Aunt Xu had helped him many times, but Aunt Xu's current state basically ruined half of the scene.

In the elevator, he took out his mobile phone and searched the Internet. After a while, he understood the reason for Aunt Xu's current state.

Her grandma passed away.

He occasionally heard her mention it a few times before, because her parents were busy with work, she grew up with her grandma since she was a child, so she has a deep relationship.

He didn't know how to comfort Aunt Xu.

This is a contradiction in thinking, and the pain of losing a close relative who accompanied me since I was a child cannot be explained in a few words, and it can only be smoothed over time.

Because Aunt Xu was not present, the atmosphere at the dinner table was relatively less lively. Although Zhu Hong tried his best to be active, it was still unavoidably dull.

After all, the female one was not present, and Xu Rong had already told them why, and they all expressed their understanding.

But after a while, when the dinner table turned into a wine table, the atmosphere became lively within ten minutes.

Yesterday's drinking was just over at noon, Xu Rong didn't intend to drink, but with the joint efforts of Zhu Hong, Jiang Wei and Zhou Yiwei, he had to drink a few more glasses.

Zhu Hong and Jiang Wei, he can shirk, but Zhou Yiwei, the teacher, raised his glass, and he really couldn't stop drinking.

He saw it, revenge, this guy was obviously taking revenge.

But he didn't drink too much, he knew his own situation, and he had to start the machine tomorrow, so he couldn't delay things because of his own reasons.

While drinking and chatting, the topic finally turned to the play, because before the time was tight, Xu Rong and Jiang Wei didn't communicate much, but now they have to race against time.

In fact, the first time we collaborated, we didn't know each other very well, and because there were lesbians around, chatting was the best way to communicate.

Jiang Wei knows the script quite well, because he wrote the book, and the two chatted for nearly an hour, going into every detail of the plot.

Chatting and chatting, suddenly found that the atmosphere was not right, I saw Zhu Hong looking at the two with a smile on the side, occasionally slamming the wine glass with Zhou Yiwei.

Seeing that the two of them stopped talking, Zhu Hong smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, your nickname of being a lunatic is really well-deserved. We've waited for you for more than half a year."

"Wait for me. Half a year?"

After Zhu Hong's explanation, Xu Rong understood the reason. The show was originally planned to start at the beginning of the year, but it was only set now to wait for his and Aunt Xu's schedule.

Only Zhou Yiwei looked at Jiang Wei who was spitting all over the place with pitiful eyes, be excited, jump for joy, sometimes you will complain.

After eating and leaving, and making an appointment with Jiang Wei, Xu Rong asked the hotel to make a piece of porridge and stir-fried vegetables, and delivered them to Aunt Xu's room. Seeing that she didn't want to talk, she put down the meal and persuaded her After two sentences, he left the door.

That's all he can do.

He had to hurry to talk to Jiang Wei again.

Mostly, he poured a lot of emotion into the writing, and Jiang Wei is happy to tell people about this play, including the original intention of each plot setting, what modifications have been made, and the meaning he wants to convey.

The two chatted from eight o'clock to ten o'clock, until Jiang Wei's voice became slightly hoarse. At this moment, the door suddenly rang.

Xu Rong was sitting on the side near the door. When he heard the knock on the door, he met Jiang Wei's eyes for a moment. He got up and said, "I'll open it."

When I opened the door, I saw Xu Lu, another actress from the crew, standing outside the door in cool clothes.

She is the second female and the villain in the play, Li Xueli.

I just sat at the table with them, a very quiet girl who hardly talked when eating.

Xu Lu looked at Xu Rong who opened the door, was stunned for a moment, looked at the room number, then laughed, and asked, "Is Teacher Xu there too?"

Xu Rong took a look at Xu Lu's clothes, and uncontrollably formed some evil conjectures in his heart. Xu Lu had a small round face and was extremely handsome. He once played the role of Ke Yun in "Deep Love in the Rain".

But people should not be judged by their appearance.

It's the middle of the night knocking on the director's door.

"Ah."

Xu Rong nodded calmly. He understood that Xu Lu's knock on the door at this hour was probably not accidental. He turned his head, looked at the director Jiang Wei, and said with a smile: "Director, you should do your work first. I'll go back and prepare for tomorrow's event." play."

Jiang Wei looked at his strange expression and his figure about to leave after picking up his coat, and understood the reason with a thought, and explained with a smile: "Mr. Xu, don't think about it, Xu Lu is my lover."

Xu Rong paused, looked at Xu Lu, then at Jiang Wei, and opened his mouth, the two looked like a husband and wife, Jiang Wei looked like a middle-aged man with big ears, but Xu Lu still looked like a A girl of seventeen or eighteen years old.

What's more, no one said anything at the dinner table just now, and I didn't expect such a relationship, so I smiled and said hurriedly: "Sorry, sorry, I almost misunderstood."

"Hahaha."

Jiang Wei laughed a few times, then remembered something again, and said, "By the way, Mr. Xu, I heard from Zhu Hong that you are familiar with Mr. Xu. Please explain it to me when you are free. Alas, there is no one. Thinking of such a thing being put on the table."

"Row."

Xu Rong agreed, not to bother the husband and wife any more, and at the same time changed his words: "I'll go back and get ready, director and sister-in-law, you should go to bed early."

Xu Xing expected that being an assistant would be very tiring, but when Xu Rong came back at ten o'clock in the evening and dragged her to rehearse the play, she was almost stupid. If Jin Fangfang hadn't told Xu Rong to sleep before she had better not sleep, She was ready to shower and go to bed.

For the time being, Xu Rong doesn't have too high demands on Xu Xing, he just needs to help out with the words.

Of course, if she is willing to work hard, he will not refuse.

Guidance is still waived, let her ask Zhou Yiwei later, one is a student of Nortel, and the other is a teacher of Nortel, that is not a matter of course.

It's just that at present, Xu Xing seems to only be aware of his identity as an assistant, and has not yet accepted the label of Nortel student.

Tomorrow he didn't have many roles, in fact, it was just a cutscene, mainly for running-in, so after only half an hour of rehearsal, Xu Rong asked Xu Xing to go back to rest.

The next morning, just like filming in the past, I got up at five o'clock in the morning and spent half a noon trying on makeup and changing clothes. Xu Rong looked in the mirror and looked at many middle-aged men in suits and ties. There was a smile on his face.

This is the result of his recent observation, the stability of a middle-aged man with a successful career.

Just a little too handsome.

In the afternoon, the production crew officially started filming for a symbolic four hours, and then director Jiang Wei announced the dinner.

Seafood, red wine.

Very cheerful atmosphere.

Seeing that Aunt Xu had finished filming, she sat on the chair silently, looking extremely out of place, took the meal brought by her assistant, walked up to her, and said, "Sister, let's have some food first."

Aunt Xu didn't smile again this time, she just shook her head lightly and said, "Thank you, I'm not hungry."

"It's not a matter of whether you're hungry or not. You can't hold on like this. Look at how much you've lost weight." Xu Rong felt that his tone was getting heavy, and he was like an old lady when he was busy. He gently persuaded, "Maybe I don't hurt my back when I stand and talk, but I don't think she wants to see you like this."

Seeing that Aunt Xu was still silent, he had no choice but to pass the meal to her assistant, the little girl, and said, "Take Miss Xu back to have a rest, and order some meat porridge tonight."

"it is good."

Aunt Xu should rest for a while in her current mood, otherwise, under the high-intensity filming, if she doesn't take in enough nutrition, her body will collapse within a few days.

In the evening, the whole group went back to the hotel. Xu Rong originally planned to see how Aunt Xu was doing, but he knocked on the door a few times, but he didn't open it. He just sent a message: You should go first.

Xu Rong could only tell her assistant to take good care of her.

He was very grateful to Aunt Xu, she helped him during his most difficult time.

Some time ago, he had been busy filming and hadn't contacted her, so he didn't know that this happened.

But even if he knew, he neither knew what he could do, nor could he do anything.

After explaining to her assistant, he and a group of young people in the group gathered in Jiang Wei's room.

Watch the replay.

"This one is good."

"I feel that I can relax a little more when I close my voice."

"Mr. Zhou, look behind you, this one is worn out, haha."

Everyone went through the scenes that were filmed during the day, talking about the good and the bad. Many of them didn't know Xu Rong very well. They seemed to be newcomers, but probably because they were all younger, the atmosphere was relatively relaxed. .

"Ms. Xu's play seems to be fine."

After discussing for a long time, someone interrupted abruptly, and the room suddenly fell silent. Everyone thought about the replay just now, and their hearts couldn't help shaking.

Because the atmosphere during the discussion was relatively lively, I didn't pay attention to it, and I didn't hesitate to praise the high-gloss shots, but after watching it, looking back, it seems that Xu Rong's performance has been affirmed by most people.

Xu Rong was also smiling, but he sighed inwardly.

He understood that the reason why no one refuted it was not because it was true. It was just that everyone gave him face. Dongming's role is partly defined, and there is only one scene that can't be seen, but he can see that he is still a little lacking in stability.

But this is a defect in experience, which cannot be compensated by skills.

In fact, in his opinion, the current jubilant atmosphere of the crew is not suitable. This drama is a relatively depressing drama as a whole. Every actor and staff should devote themselves to creating this kind of depression, so that the actors can quickly The unloading force enters the state.

In his intuition, it would be safer to guide the current atmosphere in the middle of the shooting, because at that point, the fatigue accumulated in the shooting itself, coupled with the consistent low mood, will reach the bottom, but if through the current Cheerful promotion can keep the crew in a stable state.

The reason why he felt this way was that even in this environment, he was inevitably affected.

In the corridor back to the room, Xu Rong began to consider whether to take time to have a good chat with Jiang Wei, and talk about the logic of the script by the way.

The whole group, perhaps the only one who entered the state, was only allowed to be auntie.

But it’s too late, her state has entered too deep, on the next day, in a scene where she was going to shoot a crying scene after her extreme emotional changes, she just barely smiled, before the smile faded, the tears disappeared in an instant trickled down.

Then, with a "wow", he squatted on the ground and buried his face in his knees, crying loudly.

(End of this chapter)