Become a Tokyo Showgirl

This firm is not an old-fashioned big firm. It was founded in 2015, and its late entry time led to its weak foundation. It has a clear disadvantage in competition with many old-fashioned big firms.

But apart from the few top firms in Japan, the resources and channels of Campbell & Associates are quite good.

In the past two years, they have also reached an agreement with "Tohichi", the parent company of "Masked Hero" and "Super Linker", and can regularly send several newcomers to the studios of these two Japanese national special films every year. go.

Coupled with the looser contracts and more transparent agreements compared with established firms, this has greatly increased their attractiveness to young people. In recent years, there have been many good seedlings and their development speed is also very fast.

Takahashi Yuko also rejected the top firm in the industry for the above reasons and chose this firm instead.

The firm also had very high expectations for her. In the second year of her official debut, they managed to send her to the position of the heroine of the new work "Masked Hero".

Ah... Excluding this year's "Masked Brave Spirit Fox", which is not very good in terms of commercial performance or word-of-mouth, in fact, this character is really quite good.

At least it's hot enough.

Now every time "Masked Brave Spirit Fox" is broadcast, some viewers will feel sorry for her once on Twitter.

'Yuko-chan worked so hard to act, but the script is like this, it's really pitiful. '

Cooperating with various variety shows and talk shows, her popularity has risen really fast in the past year.

As her popularity rose, her status in the firm also rose, and at the same time, she was able to make more demands on the agent.

for example.....

"Gaoqiao, our office is not a society of human relationships. It doesn't mean that if you recommend all your messy acquaintances, you can all become artists together."

"No, Miss Jiutiao, you misunderstood me. I am not an acquaintance with her! Now it is considered half acquaintance, but I only met her when I was filming two days ago!"

"Then you don't know why you recommend her? I've never seen you recommend anyone. In my opinion, you are not the kind of person who would do such a thing."

"I told you, I'm serious about recommending a talented person to you! Why don't you believe me?"

Yuko Takahashi is trying to convince her manager, Ms. Kujo, to let her interview Chika Inuzuka in person.

However, this matter is more difficult than expected.

Ms. Kujo is a very serious person with a sense of justice. She is very disgusted with things like black box operations and acquaintance society.

She believes that "personal relationships are personal relationships, and work is work". In her opinion, only by handling work without personal emotions at all can the work be most efficient.

In the end, after a lot of effort, Takahashi finally persuaded her.

"Then... you can call her over now and let me see how it goes."

"Now? No... that... don't you need to make an appointment in advance? I think it would be better to inform her now and ask her to come tomorrow? And it's getting late now."

"I'm not busy, she will be busy? Just ask her to come over. If she really wants to act, she will naturally seize every opportunity."

"Ah, that, uh, okay."

Takahashi Yuko feels very helpless towards the weird manager lady.

The current time is 10:40 p.m., and she went back to the office after filming. She planned to use this time to chat with Ms. Kujo about this matter, and wanted her to interview Chika Inuzuka sometime tomorrow.

In the end, I never expected Miss Jiutiao to ask her to call someone over at this time...

"Have you already rested? After all, it's almost 11 o'clock..." Takahashi raised the phone with some worry, and dialed Inuzuka Chika's number.

Ten seconds after the ring, Qianhua's confused voice came from the other end of the phone: "Um...that...who is it?"

Listening to the sound, she fell asleep as expected.

So why do you have to call people over at this time...

With a helpless sigh in her heart, she said to Chika Inuzuka:

"I'm Takahashi Yuko. Well, I'm very sorry, although I don't want to disturb you now, but the manager asked you to come over now."

"I'll be right over." Hearing this, Inuzuka Chika on the other end of the phone immediately became energetic, "What's the address?"

PS: I can't speak again, alas.

Every time I open a new book, I get banned, which is really helpless.

By the way, please count the votes QAQ

12. Pass the interview

He was still in a hazy state of half asleep and half awake a second ago, but he woke up instantly when he heard the word "broker".

Takahashi Yuko was really surprised by the booting speed like a kitten smelling cat strips.

Surprised, she also answered Qian Hua's question.

"You can take a taxi, just say Campbell's Office."

"Okay, I understand, come here now."

After saying this, Qianhua quickly hung up the phone.

Looking at the screen of the mobile phone after being hung up, Takahashi Yuko said to herself: "It's really passionate..."

"Maybe Miss Kujo is right..."

"If you want to act, will you naturally seize every opportunity? Hmm..."

She stood on the spot thoughtfully, staring at the ceiling, and for a moment, she seemed to understand something.

.........

Half an hour later, Inuzuka Chika hurried to the scene.

Takahashi picked her up at the gate of the office. The two exchanged casual greetings first, and then Takahashi told her some precautions.

"Miss Kutiao is a weird person. She may ask you some embarrassing questions at that time. You must be mentally prepared..."

"Hard me? Like...?"

"You'll find out later."

Feeling a little apprehensive, she followed Takahashi into the office.

It was very late now, there were basically no people in the office, and the corridors and halls were empty, giving people an indescribable sense of terror.

Gao Qiao led her around the office for a while, and finally came to the door of an office.

Open the door and enter, there is only one chair sitting in the huge office.

And Takahashi said directly to the person sitting on the chair: "Miss Kutiao, I brought you here. Do you need me to do anything?"

"You go out and close the door first, and just leave her behind."

"okay."

Then, Takahashi left the room directly, leaving only Chika Inuzuka in the room.

The person in front of her, called Miss Kujo, was a woman in her 30s wearing overalls, wearing glasses, curly hair dyed yellow, and she looked like a mature social person.

"Um... hello, I'm... I'm Chika Inuzuka." When she saw her, Chika couldn't help but stand upright like a schoolboy, saying a word I dare not say too much.

In addition, Takahashi is not here now, which makes her even more nervous.

And Miss Jiutiao was sitting on the office chair with her legs crossed, she didn't respond to her, but kept looking at her with scrutiny.

After a while, she said: "You were not trained by our firm's youth training institution, nor did you come through the normal interview process, but a popular artist in our firm recommended you here."

"Do you know what an internal recommendation is? As the saying goes, it means going through the back door. But I hate going through the back door, so my review of you will only be stricter."

Hearing these words, Inuzuka Chika immediately became nervous.

She now understands why Takahashi Yuko told herself to be mentally prepared just now.

Originally, she thought that since Takahashi Yuko helped her run, maybe things wouldn't be too troublesome.

"It's easy to do things if you have a relationship", she has been in the entertainment industry for so long in her previous life, this is already a kind of inertial thinking of her.

However, unexpectedly, this is not the case at all.

When things went beyond her understanding, she became nervous.

Miss Kujo continued to talk about these things.

"I won't ask you if you have any acting experience, nor will you ask about your resume, education, etc. You look good, I have to admit this, but being an artist is not that simple."

"The artists in general offices are cultivated from a relatively young age, and then after screening, those with outstanding abilities will make their debut as official artists. However, because our office was established relatively late and the talent training system is immature, we started from the society. It is not uncommon to find someone online, and Takahashi came to our office after graduating from high school."

"However, this does not mean that I do not require your ability...."

"An artist needs ability, whether it is singing ability, dancing ability, or acting ability. In short, it needs to make fans happy, and appearance is only part of it."

"Based on your looks, I actually think you are more suitable to be a singing and dancing idol, and it is obviously easier to stand out."

"But since you met Takahashi on the set, you should be looking forward to a career as an artist mainly focusing on acting, and this is also the main business of our firm. Therefore, I need you to have the ability to perform."

"From now on, I will only give you a proposition. If you can prove that you really have the ability to perform...you will be considered qualified."

Hearing what Miss Kujo said, Inuzuka Chika couldn't help becoming nervous.

She pricked up her ears with full concentration, waiting for Miss Jiutiao to give her proposition.

........

After Takahashi left the office, he walked up and down the corridor very restlessly.

She was very afraid that Qianhua would not pass the Jiujo test.

She knew that Jiutiao was a very tricky person before, but she didn't expect her to have such a strong aversion to the "internal recommendation".

Under this previously unknown premise, Qianhua's chances of passing the nine-article assessment will become very low.

Originally, she had already prepared everything. If Jiutiao disagreed, she would recommend Qianhua to another agent in the same firm another day.

After all, it was something she had promised, and she would still feel guilty if she couldn't realize it in the end.

In this way, she waited anxiously in the corridor for Chika Inuzuka's interview to end.

Half an hour later, the door of the office was opened.

Qian Hua came out from inside, her eyes were red, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes.

Seeing this, Takahashi's heart sank.

"Didn't pass?" She asked Qian Hua.

It wasn't Qianhua who answered her yes, but Jiujo's manager.

"Passed." Kujo came out of the office with a bag in his hand, and closed the door behind him.

Takahashi was a little puzzled: "Passed? Then...why is she crying?"

Jiutiao explained with a blank face: "The proposition I gave her, as long as she can cry with real emotion in front of me, I will consider her qualified, and she has done it. And

Totally exceeded expectations. "

"It's indeed a good performance seedling, this time it's your meritorious service, Takahashi."

PS: There will be two more chapters today.

Daily ticket QAQ tickets are so few

13. "The Masked Brave White Moon"

After saying this, she left without looking back.

Only the stunned Takahashi and the red-eyed Qianhua were left in place.

Takahashi was very surprised now.

On the one hand, she was surprised that she could have imagined that Jiutiao might make things difficult for Qianhua, but she never expected to make things so difficult.

To actually require a newcomer to be able to squeeze tears on the spot to be considered qualified?

Even for a person like her who has been acting for a year or two, sometimes it is not so easy to squeeze tears of true emotion on the spot.

This depends on the script. Some scripts are so well written that the performers can't help themselves. It's not surprising that they can cry naturally during the performance.

But if the script is not so substitutable, it will be really difficult to cry.

At least for Takahashi's usual crying scenes, he puts on makeup, puts some water on his eyes, and then makes a very sad expression.