The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1402 Walking on Thin Ice
"are you sure?"

Charles lowered his voice slightly and tried his best to conceal it, but the worry and fatigue between his brows still flowed out uncontrollably, tinging his expression with a layer of gloom.

Lucas shook his head slightly, "No, I'm not sure."

Charles held his breath in his chest, "So, we really don't need to find a psychiatrist? In a situation like this, professionals should intervene."

The truth is clear: professional issues should be solved by professionals.

However, Charles and the others still don't know the specific situation, how serious Anson's condition is, whether he needs to see a psychologist, and if they rashly seek the intervention of a psychologist now, will Anson reject or resist, or even develop a rebellious mentality?

After communicating with the hospital, they also thought that we needed to observe for a while and not jump to conclusions.

Everything is suspended in mid-air——

Nothing is certain, and no future is clear.

This feeling is disturbing.

Lucas still shook his head, "I don't know."

Charles looked depressed, "Then you just said that to Anson, so you will allow him to return to the crew?"

Lucas didn't respond.

Charles' breath was stuck in his chest. He raised his hand to loosen his tie, and finally let out a long breath. Finally, he waved his hand, as if ready to drive away his worries and confusion. "Sorry, Anson has a temper. If he makes up his mind, we can't stop him. Instead of letting him try it rashly, it's better for us to watch from the side."

Charles just felt a dull pain in his temple, which continued to throb, like a tide.

Lucas shook his head, "That's not the reason."

"I'm wondering if there's a possibility that the performance is what aroused Anson's wound stress response."

"If I remember correctly, the first time Anson saw Jack was because of 'Cat and Mouse Game'; this time is even more so. The role of Johnny Cash requires Anson to enter the dark world and explore the dark side of his soul, which touches certain memories and awakens Anson's memory."

"Over the years, Anson has no memory of what happened as a child. However, Jack shows up, and what happens to Jack seems to be a projection of Anson."

"According to common sense, we should completely isolate the source of stimulation to avoid awakening more bad memories of Anson and get back on track. However, Dad, it has been so many years, and we have been pretending that nothing happened. But what is the truth? Those wounds have always been there."

"If we continue to ignore it..."

Lucas' heart suddenly contracted and he stopped talking. His pupils trembled violently, as if he saw a scene of some disaster coming.

Charles suddenly understood——

Same with Jack.

He was calling for help, he was running away, he was trying to survive; however, everyone avoided his sight and pretended not to see or hear him, including them.

All along, they have tried their best to maintain "normality and peace" and pretend that those things had never happened; but now it seems that perhaps this normality is a kind of repression and harm, completely ignoring the pain in Anson's soul, allowing those wounds and darkness to slowly erode until Jack was born.

God, what on earth had they done?
Charles hastily put his hands in his pockets and clenched them into fists, trying to control himself, but his hands were still shaking slightly and he could hardly breathe.

Finally, Lucas calmed down, regained his breathing rhythm, and looked at Charles again.

“Maybe Johnny Cash is the answer.”

"As Anson said, he projects his own memories and experiences onto the character, looking for himself in the performance, and seeking reconciliation between fiction and reality. The performance process is the process of Anson facing himself and completing the treatment."

"The answer is hidden in the movie."

This is why Lucas did not stop Anson from returning to the crew tomorrow. Charles met Lucas's gaze, the worry in his eyes lingering, "What if our guess is wrong? What if we fail?"

Lucas didn't answer Charles' question directly, "I won't give up Anson."

Charles opened his mouth to say something.

But Lucas interrupted Charles again, "I'm not giving up on Anson."

After saying this, without waiting for Charles's reaction, Lucas turned and left.

Charles looked at Lucas' back, with his head held high and his chest puffed out, his mouth full of bitterness.

He wanted to tell Lucas that what happened back then was not Lucas' fault, that Lucas should not bear Anson's nightmare, and that Lucas should have his own life; but the words were on the tip of his tongue, but he never said them out loud. Such light words had no weight at all.

Reluctantly, Charles closed his eyes.

……

Anson, returned to the crew of "Sing Along With You", just 24 hours later, after missing a day of filming, the male lead of the crew returned to the filming scene.

The crew is very harmonious.

However, there was always an undercurrent surging in the air, and a strange atmosphere was quietly spreading among the glances and whispers.

This is the second time in such a short period of time.

Not long ago, Anson showed up on the set looking hungover. Gossips were rife inside and outside the crew, and all kinds of speculation could not be stopped.

Now, a similar situation has occurred again.

Moreover, this time the news is getting more and more bizarre.

Rumor has it that Anson was so possessed the night before that he could no longer tell whether he was Anson or Johnny Cash, and he rushed out of the hotel in the middle of the night, trying to follow June Carter.

Rumor has it that Anson was so immersed in the role that he could not distinguish between drama and reality, and completely regarded himself as Johnny Cash, going crazy in the hotel.

Rumor has it that Anson's method acting skills are so bad that it's hard to tell whether they're real or fake, and he's suffering from schizophrenia. He spent the entire day in a mental hospital yesterday.

The last time a similar situation occurred, the crew members scoffed at it and didn’t believe in this kind of public relations method at all. They were no longer children. But this time it happened again. Everyone in the crew could feel the oppression and uneasiness of impending storm, so they had to believe it.

After all, filmmaking jobs don’t lie.

From the filming during this period, it can be seen that Anson's performance is indeed getting better and better. Not only is it difficult to distinguish between real and fake, but he also inspires his co-stars including Reese and has brought inspiration to Mangold more than once. Everyone can see the situation on the work site.

Everything went smoothly.

I don't want to believe it, but I have to.

At this point, looking back at what happened during the preparation stage of "Walk the Line", it is rumored that Anson had gone to the bar to sing with his guitar several months ago, and he entered the state of Johnny Cash in every aspect, which led to his stunning performance at the Grammy Awards. The same was true for the studio preparations before the filming of the movie started. Long before the filming started, Anson had transformed into Johnny Cash.

Those accidents, those ups and downs, those twists and turns, now awakening the memory and reflecting the reality again, everything makes sense -

Ah, so that’s it!

Seeing Anson on the set again was like seeing Johnny Cash alive. The gazes of people inside and outside the crew could not calm down. All kinds of noise surged, surrounding Anson.

Silence is better than sound.

(End of this chapter)