This star’s style is wrong - Chapter 683

c683 Casting for “The Wandering Earth”

In the original version of “The Wandering Earth”, the character “Liu Qi” was impulsive, brainless, rebellious, and always seeking death. He was responsible for the actions, and the relatives around him were responsible for the deaths.

This character is the most criticized by the audience.

However, the scary thing is that the age of this character is 25 years old.

The 25-year-old rebellious giant baby seems to have no brains in what he does, but his lines say that he is a genius, and in the end he came up with the idea of ​​igniting Jupiter to save the earth.

And this character always shirks responsibility and puts all the blame on others.

My mother died and I blamed my father.

My grandfather passed away, and the captain of the 171-11 rescue team was to blame.

In short, if this character is analyzed carefully, it will make the audience very annoying and his personality is very fragmented.

In the first half, he was a rebellious baby, losing his temper and shirking responsibility. In the end, he suddenly woke up, put his brain back together, and began to say that he was a genius.

This kind of split-personality character is actually very unpleasant.

What’s more, it’s not easy for a 25-year-old child who grew up in a shelter to be so rebellious.

In contrast, the younger sister “Han Duoduo” appears to be much more sensible, because the age of “Han Duoduo” in the movie is 15 years old.

It is reasonable to be rebellious at the age of 15, but if you are still rebellious at the age of 25, then there is really something wrong with the person.

therefore.

When Fang Xing was writing the script, he made major changes to the character of “Liu Qi”, trying to make the character less like a giant baby.

The character arc of “Liu Qi” is more reflected in protecting his sister “Han Duoduo”.

In the end, the grandfather “Han Ziang” died to save his granddaughter “Han Duoduo”, and solemnly entrusted “Han Duoduo” to “Liu Qi”.

“Liu Qi” grew up and became strong because of this entrustment.

After writing the first draft of the script, Fang Xing handed the script to the company’s screenwriting team for further polishing.

Good scripts are made by hard work. Even if it is the same script, the movies produced by different directors and actors will be very different.

…

The third day after the first draft of the script was completed.

Casting auditions have also officially begun.

The first people to audition are the actors of “Liu Qi” and “Han Duoduo”.

Because these two characters have a lot of roles, but young actors are required. The young actors’ acting skills have not received enough experience and they are likely to collapse.

Therefore, we must first decide on the actors for these two roles, and then seize the time for training.

The day of the audition.

Fang Xing, Wang Yutao, the casting director, and two assistant directors sat behind the table and began the audition.

Invite the first actor to audition to walk in.

At first glance, I thought he was quite tall and energetic, but he wore heavy makeup and dyed his hair yellow.

Wearing makeup to audition is a taboo for the strict crew.

Therefore, Fang Xing’s first impression was not very good.

The actor came in and introduced himself: “Hello director, my name is Chen Zihao.”

Wang Yutao pulled out his resume, handed it to Fang Xing, and said at the same time: “You need to remove your makeup before the audition.”

He said and pointed to the bathroom in the audition room.

While taking off his makeup, the casting director leaned into Fang Xing’s ear and introduced Chen Zihao:

“It was recommended by Yibo Entertainment. There was a drama previously produced by Yibo Entertainment. The script was pretty good. Our company invested in it and two of the company’s actors also participated in it.

“So it was recommended by the partner company. It was difficult to recommend, so I invited him to audition.”

Fang Xing had never seen this Chen Zihao before, so he asked casually: “Looking at the makeup, it looks like a Korean idol style. Are you sure he is an actor?”

The casting director replied: “Well, fans in the fandom now like this tone. Artists who are not famous basically follow this route.”

An assistant director came up and said, “This guy has a lot of fans. Last month, a sweet pet online drama was released. Director Fang should have seen it.”

“Have I seen it?” Fang Xing was a little confused.

“Yes, the male protagonist in “The Prince of Magpie Bridge”.” The casting director added helpfully.

Fang Xing raised his eyebrows. “The Prince of Magpie Bridge” was really popular last month, and the fans seemed to be crazy about it.

However, Fang Xing has never watched this show, but he often sees posters of this show.

It’s just that the actor on the poster and the person who came in just now…

“Is he playing the male lead? Why am I a little face-blind?” Fang Xing blinked, already beginning to doubt his own eyes.

Wang Yutao laughed and said: “With modern technology, I heard that he fine-tuned it many times and even moved the mandible. Basically, every time he shoots a drama, it’s like changing his head.”

The assistant director joked: “There were a lot of his fans at the door just now. I guess that’s why I brought makeup here. Idols basically don’t dare to take off their makeup in front of fans, otherwise their image will be ruined.”

While they were chatting, Chen Zihao washed his face and came out.

It is said to remove makeup, but in fact it is not very clean.

However, since the request to remove makeup has been made and the actor has done it, there is no need to force it to a certain extent.

“Director, I’m ready.” Chen Zihao returned to the audition position with a very respectful attitude.

As the saying goes, people should not be judged by their appearance. If the acting skills are good, other shortcomings can be ignored.

After all, no one in the world is 100% perfect, and the same goes for actors.

Fang Xing took out a page of script, handed it over and said, “Try this. You play a brother. Your grandfather just died to save your sister. Your sister is very sad. As a brother, you must learn to be strong and be strong.” Comfort my sister.”

When Wang Yutao saw Fang Xing take out this page of script, he couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows.

This scene is the most difficult one for the character “Liu Qi”.

Because the emotions in this scene are so complex.

First of all, his grandfather “Han Zi’ang” who raised him passed away. “Liu Qi” was very sad, but he couldn’t shed tears because he still had a younger sister “Han Duoduo” who needed to be taken care of.

After his grandfather passed away, he had to shoulder the responsibility of protecting and taking care of his sister.

Chen Zihao took the script, turned it over and started reading.

After watching it for a few minutes, he turned around and asked, “Is there anyone I can play with?”

It is normal to find someone to act as a co-star. Even if an actor has to learn to perform without physical objects, it is not too much to ask for a co-star.

Especially when this scene is very difficult.

Fang Xing motioned to the assistant director next to him.

The assistant director stood up, walked to Chen Zihao, squatted down, and started crying: “Grandpa…”

It’s just that calling out “Grandpa” makes people a little uncomfortable.

Because “Han Duoduo” in the script is a 15-year-old girl, the image of a younger sister.

The assistant director was a thick, rough guy with a bit of a belly. The word “Grandpa” made Chen Zihao pissed off.

“puff……”

Chen Zihao burst into laughter and couldn’t hold it back any longer.

However, after he laughed, he found that the four directors sitting in front of him were all looking at him expressionlessly.

He felt a little bad, so he quickly put away his smile and started to act: “Duoduo, get up quickly, we have to keep up with the team. Do you still remember what grandpa said? You must live, get up.”

Watch him finish.

Fang Xing really didn’t know how to evaluate it, and even wondered if he hadn’t started acting yet.

Because he just read the lines once, and there was no change in expression on his face at all.

In this scene, “Liu Qi” had very complicated emotions. First of all, he was sad, but because he had shouldered the responsibility, he couldn’t be sad and had to comfort his sister.

It is very difficult to express such multiple emotions.

However, Fang Xing saw no multiple emotions on his face at all, not even the emotion of sadness.

As for being strong and growing, it is even more impossible.

Fang Xing didn’t want to talk anymore, he just lowered his head to turn over the script and make some notes.

The casting director has worked with Fang Xing on so many films and has a very vicious eye.

Fang Xing didn’t even need to speak, he knew that this person really couldn’t perform, and how he became so popular was bizarre.

The casting director said formulaically: “Okay, thank you for the audition, you can go back. After the audition results come out, we will contact you through information, thank you.”

Chen Zihao bowed and exited the audition room.

As soon as he left the audition room, he immediately called the makeup artist to the bathroom to reapply his makeup.

There are fans outside the door, and you need to maintain the perfect image of a high-quality idol at all times.

…

After everyone left, several directors couldn’t help laughing.

“There is really no trace of acting.” An assistant director commented unceremoniously.

Originally, the phrase “no trace of performance” is often used to praise people.

However, “there is really no trace of performance at all” may also mean that there is no performance at all.

“Indeed, I was stunned after reading it.” Wang Yutao added casually.

The casting director reminded: “It may be that there have been too many fine-tunings, which has caused the facial muscles to be a bit stiff, and it does look expressionless.”

“My eyes are not good either. To put it bluntly, I just can’t act.” An assistant director joked.

“It was recommended by Yibo Entertainment. It’s hard to recommend. His acting skills will be much better later.” The casting director felt that it would be a bit embarrassing to find such an actor for the audition.

After all, as a casting director, your main job is to select actors. It is a complete waste of time to come up with such a strange thing to audition.

…

During the whole morning of auditions, there were one or two male actors who performed well.

However, who to choose has not been determined yet.

The person auditioning in the afternoon was the actor of “Han Duoduo”.

In the movie, “Han Duoduo” appears at the age of 15.

However, when looking for actors, it is impossible to really find 15-year-olds. They are still high school students at this age, so it is difficult to find them.

Therefore, most of the people invited to audition are students from major drama academies.

However, most students in school have a problem, that is, lack of performance experience.

Most drama school students usually film TV series first to gain experience before slowly moving on to the big screen.

Being on the big screen right from the start requires too much talent.

Talent is really important when it comes to acting.

Some actors are born actors, standing in front of the camera, there is drama in their eyes.

However, there are too few actors with such talent.

After five auditions in a row, Fang Xing felt they were unsatisfactory.

However, the character “Han Duoduo” will have several important crying scenes in the second half of the movie.

And you can’t fake crying, you have to cry naturally.

Therefore, when Fang Xing came to audition, he found the most difficult scenes.

It’s not required to perform to the extreme, but at least it shouldn’t be too awkward.

However, the first five are not very good.

After seeing off five, the crew went out to call numbers.

The sixth actor came in. At first glance, she felt a bit petite, and her appearance was considered to be a cute type. Judging from the image, she did fit the role of a younger sister.

“Hello director, my name is Zhao Zifeng, and this is my resume.”

She stepped forward and handed each director their resume.

Fang Xing actually recognized her because she had acted in many movies and TV series.

“I’ve filmed a lot of scenes.”

“It’s okay. I’ve filmed more than a dozen movies, including movies and TV shows.” Zhao Zifeng replied with a smile.

“That’s an old actor.” Wang Yutao joked.

“I don’t dare, I’m still young.” Zhao Zifeng grinned, showing a tiger tooth.

“This drama of ours is quite hard, and we have to wear equipment weighing fifty or sixty pounds,” Fang Xing reminded.

“It doesn’t matter. If others can do it, I can do it too.” Zhao Zifeng has no stage fright at all.

Fang Xing actually had some understanding of her performance when he saw her.

Because watching some of the movies and TV series she acted in, there were also crying scenes in them.

Fang Xing took out the most difficult scene, handed it over and said, “Try this. You are a child adopted by your grandfather, and he gave you his daughter’s name. In an accident, your grandfather died trying to save you. ”

Zhao Zifeng took the script and lowered his head to read it.

There are very few lines in this scene.

Because it is all an emotional performance, the lines only have a few words.

This kind of performance is the most difficult because all the scenes are on the face.

The assistant director asked: “Do you want to act together?”

Zhao Zifeng waved his hand, indicating that he didn’t need it, then lowered his head and began to brew his emotions.

After she was ready, she started performing without saying anything, with the expression on her back showing. Then she immediately squatted down, covered her mouth with her hands, and kept sobbing.

Fang Xing sat up straight and looked over.

I found that when she was crying, her body was shaking back and forth, and she looked like she was about to fall down.

Zhao Zifeng cried for two minutes before crying out two words: “Grandpa…”

Fang Xing’s eyes lit up, he was quite surprised by this performance.

Fang Xing’s usual approach to actors who performed well was to increase the difficulty, so he found another page of the script and handed it over: “Try this scene.”

Zhao Zifeng stood up, wiped away his tears with the back of his hand, and adjusted his emotions for a while before starting to perform the second scene.

Audition down.

Fang Xing was indeed most satisfied with her performance.

It’s not without reason that I can act in so many plays. It’s completely different from those actors who can only read lines.

After the audition, Fang Xing commented: “It’s not bad. Let’s go back and wait for the news.”

“Thank you, director.” Zhao Zifeng was very happy when he heard the comment.

When she walked out of the audition room, she took a long breath and patted her chest with her hands.

Because before coming here, she had always heard that Fang Xing had the title of “Audition Yama”.

Moreover, Fang Xing is also the winner of the Golden Bottle Award for Best Actor, which means that she needs to audition in front of a director with actor-level acting skills, which is a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, when I finally heard Fang Xing’s evaluation, he seemed quite satisfied.

However, the evaluation during the audition does not mean that you have been able to get the role. In the end, it still depends on the performance of other auditioning actors.

In fact.

The crew auditions actors, selects a few available actors, and then negotiates film dates.

Due to factors such as remuneration and schedule, it is not possible to use whichever actor you want. If the remuneration is not suitable and the schedule cannot be coordinated, you will have to replace the alternative actor.

certainly.

Big-name directors definitely have privileges when it comes to casting.

No actor would refuse a director who can lead actors to win awards. Even if he turns down other plays, he must make time for the director.

Three days after the audition, Fang Xing looked back at the actors who had auditioned.

In the end, “Han Duoduo” still felt that Zhao Zifeng was more suitable, so she arranged for the management team to negotiate the salary.

Zhao Zifeng’s salary is not low, but it is not outrageous either, and it is still within the budget’s affordability.

So the contract was quickly finalized and officially announced.