Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 136 The Elegant Young Man
In a lounge on the third floor, Wu Chao met the entire cast of "Strange Women of Liao Zhai" and the main creators behind the scenes.

If we look back from the perspective of future generations, the cast of the play "Strange Women of Liao Zhai" was just like that.

But if we look at it from today's perspective, the cast of "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" is still very impressive, and can even be called an all-star cast.

First up is "Liancheng". The male lead of this drama is Wu Qilong. Wu Qilong has not been out of fashion in recent years. "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" made him successfully popular again in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, and he is a first-line male actor in domestic TV dramas.

Then, the female lead is Fann Wong, a Singaporean actress who is quite popular in mainland China. Several movies she starred in in the past few years have caused quite a stir.

Next is the male lead of "A Touch of Zen", Daniel Chan. He has a strong reputation. He is one of the new four kings of Hong Kong, along with Nicholas Tse and Edison Chen.

And Pan Yueming.

In recent years, Pan Yueming has not only gained a good reputation, but also had a lot of resources. Around 2006, "Mom in Peking", "Red Dress Workshop" and "Legend of White Snake" were broadcast on CCTV one after another. As the leading male role in these three major dramas, Pan Yueming gradually became known to the public and the media.

There is also Sun Li, the number one female star of Tangren at that time, who is also Huang Lei's wife. Although she has married Huang Lei and had children at this time, she has not faded out of the audience's sight.

Add in Wu Chao, one of the new Four Heavenly Kings of Taiwan, and the cast alone makes this drama very impressive.

"Hello everyone! I'm Wu Zhuo!"

After entering the meeting room, Wu Zhuo didn't act pretentiously and began to greet everyone politely.

Others were polite and responded enthusiastically.

"Wu Zhuo is really popular!"

"Your album 'My Personal Style' is so good, I listen to it almost every day."

"Hello Wu Zhuo, I am..."

After greeting people from several other unit dramas, Wu Zhuo walked over to "Xin Shisi Niang".

"Hello, it's a pleasure to work with you on this show."

There are quite a few actors in "Xin Shisi Niang", all of them play main roles.

Liu Shishi, who plays the heroine Xin Shisiniang,

He Jianze who plays Master Chu.

Li Qian who plays Lu Er.

Among these people, except Liu Shishi, Wu Zhuo had a better impression of Li Qian.

The other party appeared in many TV series during the early 21st century.

She has starred in classic dramas such as "Wulin Waishi", "The World's Granary", and "Li Wei as an Official".

However, she usually appears as a supporting role or a maid.

Of course, the reason why Wu Zhuo remembered her was not because she was beautiful.

The main reason was that for a period of time in his previous life, he always thought she was Zhou Xun.

"We are also honored to work with you. You are so popular now. There will be no shortage of attention if we work with you."

Liu Shishi was very shy. After saying hello, she just stood there quietly without saying anything.

Perhaps due to his personality, He Jianze nodded in response to Wu Chao's greeting and sat down to read the script.

Li Qian, on the other hand, was cheerful and didn't feel awkward at all because it was their first meeting. She enthusiastically pulled Wu Zhuo to sit next to her and Liu Shishi.

"Shishi and I both really like your songs. You must get us some autographs when you have time."

"Of course that's no problem." It was just a signature, which was too easy for Wu Zhuo, so he responded with a smile.

clap clap clap!
Cai Yinong clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention.

"Everyone, our crew is established today.

Everyone will get to know each other, review the script, and take the final photos in the afternoon."

……

The script workshop was not meaningless.

Script workshops can allow unfamiliar actors to get familiar with each other in advance, ensuring that the two can cooperate better during filming.

Then, on this day, after the screenwriter and director have a preliminary understanding of the actors' styles, they will appropriately modify some of the plots. For example, in the play "Strange Women of Liao Zhai", because Wu Zhuo is very popular now, the director and Cai Yinong thought of changing the script and increasing Wu Zhuo's role.

Cai Yinong also personally acted as a lobbyist and approached Wu Chao, hoping to increase the episodes of this unit from ten to twenty.

Cai Yinong even had the idea of ​​directly separating "Xin Shisi Niang" from the play "Strange Women of Liao Zhai" and re-filming it into a play.

However, her suggestion was directly rejected by Wu Zhuo.

It’s not a matter of money. Cai Yinong privately revealed that if this unit is changed into a large-scale TV series, Tangren is willing to increase the pay to 35 per episode.

By this calculation, if 30 episodes are shot, Wu Zhuoguang can earn tens of millions of RMB for this drama.

Such a huge amount of money is a very considerable sum for Wu Chao now.

But he still refused.

First of all, his schedule does not allow it.

Secondly, Wu Zhuo felt that if the plot of "Xin Shisi Niang" was expanded, it might become more protracted...

But even so, Wu Zhuo's role in "Xin Shisi Niang" was increased.

Chief director Li Guoli simply increased Wu Chao's role by one third within the scope of the plot and Wu Chao's contract time.

As for why they do this, it’s all for ratings and to make money.

Wu Zhuo's reputation is very good now.

After the news of his starring in the drama spread, several TV stations immediately came to him, wanting to buy the first broadcast of the drama.

The TV station came here specifically for Wu Zhuo. Could Tangren do this?
Of course, we will do our best to let Wu Chao take on more roles within the scope of the contract to attract the audience.

Just like Wang Jing's filming of "Chasing the Dragon" in later generations.

When Andy Lau was invited, it was clearly stated that he would only play a supporting role.

As a result, during the filming, Andy Lau was forced to become the protagonist.

The same is true of the current "Xin Shisi Niang".

There is a time limit in the contract signed between Wu Zhuo and Tangren.

That is, Wu Chao will only be on the set for 15 days.

This is both a limitation and an opportunity for the Tang people.

The restriction is that if Wu Zhuo's scenes cannot be filmed within 15 days, he can just leave, regardless of whether you have any scenes to shoot.

The chance is that if Tangren uses it properly, fifteen days will be enough for them to shoot a lot of things.

After all, Wu Chao originally didn't have many scenes, and if he squeezed in the filming, he could have finished it within ten days.

Then the remaining five days are the time earned by Tangren. They can use this time to add plots to Wu Zhuo and increase his originally small role to the maximum.

Wu Zhuo could not refute this.

Because it was already within the scope of the contract...

The script workshop lasted until 12 o'clock in the afternoon.

After that, Wu Zhuo and others started taking makeup photos.

The main purpose of the makeup photos is to help actors choose the most suitable clothing style.

The crew will prepare several different costumes for each actor. The actors will take photos after putting them on, and the director will ultimately decide which one to use.

It may be that Wu Zhuo is the person that Tangren considers to be the best actor in the drama, so they put a lot of effort into his costume.

Several sets of Confucian clothes and casual clothes were prepared for him, with different colors and styles.

It’s no wonder that Tangren has achieved remarkable results in ancient costume dramas, and they are qualified in terms of costumes.

Wu Zhuo's favorite is the white Confucian robe.

After he put it on, he felt like a gentleman as gentle as jade.

(End of this chapter)