Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 19 Another audition

The next day, Chen Nuo got up early, put on the suit he bought yesterday, and tiptoed out.

He and Li Er made an appointment to meet at the gate of his community at 8:8 a.m. Sure enough, at 25: a.m., a red Beetle stopped by the roadside, the passenger window rolled down, and Li Er waved at him from the driver's seat.

After Chen Nuo got in the car, Li Er stepped on the accelerator and continued on his way.

"The clothes are well chosen. You didn't pick them, did you?" Li Er held the steering wheel with both hands, his eyes fixed on the road ahead, and he didn't even turn his head while speaking.

"Uh, well, a friend went with me."

Li Er didn't ask any more questions, and changed the subject, saying, "Today, not only the director but also the producer will be there. Don't be nervous when the time comes. I have already sent your photos and the movie clips you shot before. If they are not satisfied, they will not ask you to go there today."

"…What movie clip?"

"It was the drama you filmed with Zhang Yiyi. Zhang Yiyi edited some of your clips for me and agreed to let me show them to their people."

"what?"

"Didn't Zhang Yiyi tell you?"

"……No."

"Go back and ask him."

Li Er drove very slowly for more than half an hour before parking in the underground garage of an office building near the Second Ring Road.

Chen Kexin's film studio is on the 23rd floor. There is a sign with traditional Chinese characters on it, and the font design is very artistic. There is a reception desk at the door, and a long-haired girl in her 20s is sitting inside the reception desk, concentrating on writing something.

Li Er's high heels made a clattering sound on the ground. The receptionist raised her head and stood up suddenly.

Li Er walked over and nodded politely, then asked, "Xiao Lin, has the director arrived? We agreed to meet at 10 o'clock."

"Professor Li, the director is here. I'll take you there right away."

Chen Nuo followed Li Er, and the three of them walked to an office near the back. The girl knocked on the frosted glass door, then pushed it open and said, "Director, Professor Li is here."

"Professor Li, thank you so much for bothering us. You have introduced us to some excellent actors." A slightly plump middle-aged man speaking in poor Hong Kong Mandarin stood up from behind his desk and came up to us with a smile.

He had long hair parted in the middle. Unlike Zhang Yiyi's own ponytail, his hair was obviously carefully groomed, with every strand meticulously tucked behind his ear. He wore black-framed glasses, and his eyes were not big, but very bright.

Two people stood up with him, a man and a woman, who were sitting on the sofa. The man was about 50 years old, a little fat, with a round belly and a gold watch on his wrist.

The other woman was pretty and not very tall. Chen Nuo knew her. Her last name was Zhou.

"Hello, Director, Hello, Mr. Liu, Hello, Zhou Xun!" Li Er shook hands with the two men and gave the pretty girl a hug. "Long time no see. I didn't expect that you would play the leading role in Director Chen's play. You did a great job keeping it a secret."

"Teacher Li, long time no see. The director did a good job of keeping secrets and required all of us to keep our mouths shut at all times." Zhou Xun smiled with curved eyebrows and eyes, very much like the one Chen Nuo saw on TV in his previous life, but much younger than he remembered. She had beautiful eyebrows and eyes and was pretty and charming.

"Let me introduce you to the actor I recommend to you this time. Chen Nuo, 18 years old, currently attending my training class."

"Hello, director, hello, Mr. Liu, hello, Miss Zhou." Chen Nuo stood obediently behind Li Er and greeted everyone one by one.

On the way, Li Er introduced to Chen Nuo the people he might meet today, and asked him to watch director Chen Kexin's classic works "Comrades: Almost a Love Story" and "Stormy Days" several times in the past few days.

The only thing Li Er didn't expect was Zhou Xun's sudden appearance here. But it should be a good thing.

Li Er glanced at Chen Nuo and sat down with a few others.

We chatted for a while, complained about the weather in BJ, and reminisced about the golden age of Hong Kong films in the 90s. Finally, we reached a consensus that the future of Hong Kong films lies in the mainland, and that sincere cooperation between filmmakers from both places is the general trend.

Then, Chen Kexin's gaze finally fell on Chen Nuo.

"Xiao Chen, you are only 18 years old this year, right?"

"Yes."

“What works have you filmed before?”

“I only made one movie.”

"Is this the one Professor Li sent us?"

"Correct."

"Well, can you sing?"

"know a little."

"Come on, sing us one of your best songs."

"it is good."

Chen Nuo stood up and sang without hesitation. He was very confident in the song he had been practicing for the past two days, because in the karaoke scoring system, he was more than 10 points higher than Yang Mi, who claimed to be the god of singing.

After singing "Fatal Fury", Li Er's face became gloomy, Zhou Xun had a smile on his face, and General Manager Liu and Chen Kexin looked at each other.

Li Er felt a little regretful. There were vocal lessons in their training class, so why didn't she think of asking the vocal teacher what level Chen Nuo was at?

It turns out that the "a little bit" he mentioned really only meant a little bit, because he didn't know the other ninety-nine points!
"Very bad, you could say I'm tone-deaf." The chubby Mr. Liu spoke up. "Teacher Li, I'll be frank. We're going to make the first Chinese-language musical film, and we want to erect a monument here so that 20 or 30 years from now, whenever people mention Chinese-language musicals, they'll still think of us. So we pay a lot of attention to detail, and we try not to dub if we can use the original sound, and this student Chen's voice is a bit far from what we want."

Li Er was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled, with two dimples on his chubby face. "Boss Liu, you are right. Director, what do you think? How about we stop here today?"

Chen Kexin hesitated for a moment, looked at Li Er, laughed, and said, "How is that possible? Although we are shooting a musical, it is still a movie after all, not a pure musical, so acting skills are still the first priority. Now that you are here, why not try acting again. Then, Miss Zhou Xun, can you please give this classmate Chen Nuo a ride? Please."

"No problem, then what should we perform?" Zhou Xun nodded readily.

"Just improvise a part. Zhou Xun, you still play a big star, and Chen Nuo, you play a reporter. You want to interview Zhou Xun, but Zhou Xun is very busy and doesn't want to talk to you. For the rest, you can play freely. OK?

Zhou Xun and Chen Nuo both nodded.

"Then let's get started! I'll hit the board for you, 321, action!"

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(End of this chapter)