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Chapter 140: Gaining a foothold in the middle-tier actor pay ranks

In fact, what director Byeon Sung-hyun called the Bromance of the two male protagonists is still more metaphorical. What he wants Kim Ki-hyeon and Sol Kyung-gu to show is the kind of brotherly affection that is vague but sometimes more firm than love.

It was not the pure homosexual love story played by Jo In-sung and Lim Ju-hwan that came to Kim Ki-hyun's mind.
Therefore, after Jin Qixuan repeatedly confirmed that he understood what Bian Chengxian meant, he nodded in agreement:

"Yes, no problem, director. I'm willing to act in it."

"Okay, let's try a scene."

As he spoke, Bian Chengxian handed the lines he had prepared in advance to Jin Qixuan.

This scene tells the story of Hyun-soo, who has been undercover for nearly five years. His female boss realizes that he is gradually losing control, so she shows him a video tape that shows the truth about his mother's death.

However, he completely collapsed when he found out that the murderer who knew the real cause of his mother's death was actually his elder brother whom he had trusted for five years.

The text above was not as generic as the scripts he had received, but was so rich that the visuals of the extended scenes instantly emerged in Jin Qixuan's mind.

Afterwards, after Jin Qixuan read the text three times and a clear picture formed in his mind, he closed his eyes and began to brew his emotions.

Five minutes later, Jin Qixuan opened his eyes to indicate that he was ready.

Then, director Bian Chengxian took the script to Jin Qixuan and read:

"See for yourself."

As he spoke, he turned the laptop around.

There was no picture on the computer, so Jin Qixuan had to imagine the video of Hyun-soo's mother getting in a car accident.

In Jin Qixuan's imagination, a video of his mother walking on the road appeared on the computer at this moment.

When he "saw" that familiar figure, Jin Qixuan's eyes instantly turned red, tears silently rolled down his cheeks, and he stretched out his trembling hand and gently stroked the computer screen, as if he could touch his mother again.

As a truck appeared on the "screen", Jin Qixuan's eyes widened with anger, veins popped out on his forehead and throat, and he shouted at the top of his lungs: "No!!!"

As the scene in my mind continued, the truck ran straight into the mother, and as if afraid that she might not be killed, it reversed and ran over her once. Afterwards, the driver got out of the car to confirm her death.

Seeing this, Jin Qixuan closed his eyes in pain, tears rolled down the corners of his eyes, and even his breathing trembled with heartache.

"Does this figure look familiar?"

Hearing this, Jin Qixuan suddenly opened his eyes, and after "seeing" that the murderer was the third-in-command of the gang, he instantly understood everything.

It turns out that his most trusted eldest brother killed her in order to replace his mother as Hyun-soo's emotional support, which also caused Hyun-soo and the police to become estranged.

Therefore, this complex and tangled emotion made Jin Qixuan cover his face and cry silently.

At this time, the director put his hand on Jin Qixuan's shoulder and patted him twice to comfort him.

"Why are you telling me now? Why didn't you tell me then?"

Even though Jin Qixuan was in tears, he was as calm as water when he said this, so calm that it was a little scary.

But anyone can see that this is the calm before the storm.

"Because I'm afraid you'll screw up, even though... you've already screwed up."

"Oh!"

Jin Qixuan slammed the table and stood up, pinching the director's neck and screaming, "Why! Why do you do this to me!!!"

"Will you let go of your mother's murderer?"

After hearing these words, Jin Qixuan seemed to have lost all his strength in an instant. A confused look appeared in his eyes and he slowly slumped in his chair.

Then, Jin Qixuan's body couldn't stop shaking, from silent crying to whimpering, to a roar of collapse, and then to throwing a tantrum like a child.

"Pa pa pa..." After seeing Jin Qixuan's performance, the director applauded him with satisfaction.

Jin Qixuan's dialogue in this performance is very strong, with ups and downs, emphasis and urgency, and through the expression of emotions bit by bit, there is a process of gradual collapse, which breaks down people's defenses bit by bit, and the audience is infected and sheds tears.

Of course, Jin Qixuan learned all these acting skills in school.

If Jin Qixuan had auditioned for this performance a year earlier, he would have been able to cry, but his tears would not have been as layered as they were just now.

At that time, he would let out his emotions like a floodgate, and cry his heart out.

To put it nicely, it has explosive power but lacks stamina.

To put it bluntly, the crying makes people a little irritated, and they want the listeners to yell at them, "Stop crying! Why are you crying?"

So Jin Qixuan’s year of study was not in vain.

"Jin Qixuanxi's acting skills seem to be much better than when he was filming "Reply 1988"."

In fact, compared to TV series, movies can better demonstrate the actors' personal acting skills.

But TV series are about making money and popularity, while movies are about gaining status and influence.

TV dramas are mostly driven by the storyline, leaving relatively little room for actors to perform; whereas movies rely on the actors’ acting skills to present the tension and details of the story.

Although the room for development of the role of Sun Woo in 1988 is limited, what the director said is true. Compared with Kim Ki-hyun at that time, his acting skills have indeed improved a lot now.

Jin Qixuan was not overly modest, but he was not proud either. He just wiped his tears and said thank you calmly.

"In that case, shall we sign the contract now?"

Hearing this, Jin Qixuan forgot to wipe away his tears of surprise:
"So soon? Don't you need to go back and wait for notification?"

Bian Chengxian shook his head, pushed the contract over, and said with a smile:

"No need, you are my favorite Hyun-soo."

"Thank you for your trust, Director. I will not let you down."

Jin Qixuan stood up and bowed. Then he called Sheng Bingxu and asked him to come in and check the contract.

The salary offered to Kim Ki-hyun was the same as for "Brave Citizen", which was 300 million won.

The 300 million salary paid to Jin Qixuan for "Brave Citizens" was purely a friendship price, but after all, the movie has not been released yet, and Jin Qixuan's value has not increased so quickly.

You should know that Kim Soo-hyun's salary for his first movie on the big screen was only 8000 million won, and Yoo Jun-yeol's salary for the movie "The King" he is currently filming with Jo In-sung was only 1 million won.

This movie directly paid Jin Qixuan 300 million yuan in salary, which directly made him rank among the middle-level actors in terms of salary.

If we compare actors, Kim Soo-hyun's movie pay before filming "My Love from the Star" was probably higher than Ma Dong-seok's current movie pay.

"Director Nim, this pay......?"

"This is the salary the investment company gave you."

Investment company?

Is this another reminder for me to promote hot sauce and lactic acid bacteria?

Jin Qixuan looked up at the portrait of Lee Byung-chul hanging on the wall and tentatively asked how much the production of this drama cost.

"More than 10 billion."

Jin Qixuan understood, it was indeed a movie produced by CJ Investment...

(End of this chapter)