Huayu started by playing Lao Ai

Chapter 196 This is the actor's premiere

At 6:28 p.m. on June 7, Huo Siyan hurried back home.

Seeing grandpa and grandma sitting on the sofa, waiting for her to eat, Huo Siyan said, "I told you to eat first, no need to wait for me."

Grandpa glared at Huo Siyan and scolded her, "We agreed to go home before 7 o'clock, what time is it now?
Don't you understand being punctual? How did I teach you since you were little?

Since becoming an actor, you have become more and more disobedient, showing up in public all day long, and your work style has become a problem.

Look at you, you don't look like a proper girl at all, how are you going to find a partner in the future?"

Today, Huo Siyan, who just played a supporting actress in "What Can I Do to Save You, My Love", was dressed quite fashionably. The thin T-shirt fit her body well, highlighting her strong assets.

Her outfit was not revealing, but her curves were too obvious and her grandfather couldn't accept it.

Huo Siyan was born into an intellectual family. Her parents were very busy with work, and she grew up with her grandparents.

My grandfather has very traditional ideas and has always raised Huo Siyan as a lady from a wealthy family.

It’s a pity that although Huo Siyan was becoming more and more beautiful, her academic performance was poor and she could only attend a very poor technical secondary school.

This made my grandfather very unhappy.

Now that Huo Siyan has become an actress, her grandfather feels even more upset. He always feels that his granddaughter has become an actress and he can't hold his head up in front of his neighbors.

Faced with her grandfather's criticism, Huo Siyan said nothing. She just washed her hands and sat at the dining table in a depressed mood.

Grandma tried to smooth things over.

“Okay, Yanyan has followed your request and goes home to eat and sleep when she is not acting.

She has been very obedient.

I'll bring out the food and we'll eat."

People change. When Yang Mi was studying, she wanted to be a performing artist.

The same is true for Huo Siyan.

Before joining Huayi Brothers, she was quite well-behaved in the entertainment industry. She acted honestly and did not act out of character. The characters she played were mostly pure.

In order to reassure her grandfather, Huo Siyan often returns home to live when she is not filming. She is indeed very well-behaved.

It was only after she joined Huayi that the Wang brothers discovered Huo Siyan's three major advantages: good figure, charm, and good alcohol tolerance, and gradually trained her to become a socialite.

The subsequent scenes also took a sexy style.

Seeing that her grandfather didn't understand her, Huo Siyan could only remain silent. Although she looked spoiled, she was actually very inferior in her heart.

I used to have poor academic performance, and now I am an actor, but I still cannot get the recognition of my grandfather.

As for her parents, they were out of place during Huo Siyan's growth.

Seeing that Huo Siyan didn't say anything, grandpa realized that his words just now were a bit harsh, but he couldn't bring himself to apologize.

The meal was eaten in silence.

In order to ease the atmosphere, grandma turned on the TV and saw that Yangshi Channel 1 was going to rerun The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. She muttered something and chose to change the channel.

After switching to Mango TV, Huo Siyan spoke up: "Just watch Mango TV. There will be a program coming up later. It's produced by my company."

Since getting the role of Li Ji in "Beauty's Rival in Palace", Huo Siyan has signed a contract with Western Film and Television and is now an artist under Chang Jihong.

Grandpa snorted and said, "You have to be careful about Zheng Jing in your company. The newspapers are full of gossip about him.

Sometimes he supports Fan Bingbing and Li Binbin, and sometimes he gets involved with a French female star.

This person has a bad style, you should stay away from him."

Huo Siyan retorted to Grandpa: "You think too much. President Zheng has no shortage of women. People don't like me."

Grandpa was about to scold her, but grandma said, "That's enough. If you keep nagging, Yanyan won't want to go home anymore.

It will backfire and force her to become a bad person.

watch TV!"

Grandpa sighed and looked up at the TV, which was playing a commercial for the "This is the Actor" show.

After the advertisement ended, the image of the gate of Beijing Film Studio appeared on the screen.

A line of subtitles appears.

"June 6, 15 a.m., Yanjing Film Studio."

A voice with a slight accent said, "I haven't found any work today. I must come early to try my luck here and look for opportunities."

As these words were spoken, the camera turned and Wang Baoqiong's immature face appeared.

Next to him, there was a man wearing glasses.

The subtitles introduced the identities of the two people, "Director: Wang Ning, Extras: Wang Baoqi."

The director asked, "How old are you this year? How long have you been here as an extra?"

"17 years old. I came to Yanjing when I was 14 and have been an extra for 3 years. Are you guys just following me to shoot? Will it be too boring? Do you need me to perform some martial arts?"

"No, we'll just record your day as an extra."

In the following ten minutes, the audience followed the camera and saw Wang Baoqi's work as an extra.

He first played a minor role in a film crew, where he had to wait two hours for his role. He was then chosen by the crew of a police and gangster film to be a stand-in, where he received the most severe beating and received the least pay.

In the evening, with the introduction of an acquaintance, he got a minor role in Feng Xiaogang's movie "Big Shot".

In order not to delay the start of work, Wang Baoqi simply found a big tree and slept on the side of the road for a night.

"Do you often do this, sleeping on the side of the road?"

"Occasionally, I do, but I'm afraid it will delay filming. This opportunity is hard to come by, so I have to seize it."

"But you're just a minor character, you don't have any lines, and you won't even have a face-time role."

"It doesn't matter. I will play every role well."

Speaking of this, Wang Baoqi smiled happily, and his honest smile infected many audiences.

The director asked again: "You work so hard to be a good actor, so what do you think an actor is?"

When this question came out, Wang Baoqi scratched his head and said truthfully: "I don't know how to put it, but being a good actor is my dream anyway."

The camera turned and the director began to interview passers-by, "What do you think an actor is?"

"Actors are just actors, they are there to entertain people. We should just watch the show. There is no need to praise the actors too much."

"Actors are stars. Being a star is great. You stand in the center of the stage and gain both fame and fortune."

"I don't know what an actor is, but I think the entertainment industry is too dirty. It's all about vying for fame and fortune. I don't like it."

"An actor is someone who can act. If possible, I would also like to be an actor. The work is easy and the income is high."

……

The scene changes again, Cheng Kaige is sitting in the interview room and says: "Actors are creators who use their bodies, language and emotions as media to construct real humanity in virtual time and space.

They are containers for stories and express our humanity.”

Cui Xinqin said: "Actors are walking two-sided mirrors, reflecting both the character spectrum set by the script and their own life experiences.

Through their superb acting skills, they transform words or fantasies into specific people and images, which arouses emotional resonance among the audience.”

...Zheng Jing concluded: "An actor is someone who performs a play. If he performs well, he is a good actor. If he performs badly, he is a bad actor.

This is a normal job, but it seems a little special because it is under the spotlight.

Wherever the spotlight shines, there will always be glory and shadows.

Some people deify actors because of their glory, while others despise them because of their shadows. This is all professional prejudice. "

After hearing Zheng Jing's words, Huo Siyan looked at her grandfather.

Grandpa remained silent, obviously not agreeing.

Next comes the promotion and introduction of the program.

"What is an actor? This is a question, and everyone has their own answer... In order to select truly good actors, we decided to hold a competition... There are more than 5 applicants from the five major competition areas across the country... After a week of auditions, today is the first round of the Yanjing Division preliminaries..."

Accompanied by the voice-over introduction, the four judges, Zheng Jing, Cheng Kaige, Han Sanpin and Cui Xinqin, appeared one by one.

Seeing the judges, grandma said: "This show is really good. The judges are all influential people."

Huo Siyan said proudly: "Of course, this lineup of judges can only be assembled by our CEO Zheng. The others don't have the face to do so."

Grandpa sensed Huo Siyan's tone and knew that she admired Zheng Jing very much. He suddenly felt angry and had an even worse impression of Zheng Jing.

After the contestants drew lots and were divided into groups, they entered the rehearsal stage.

Huo Siyan found it very novel to watch the contestants rehearsing their scenes on screen.

I didn’t expect that this time, even the “behind-the-scenes” of the competition would be released.

Huo Siyan, who has never been involved in a reality show, thinks that the contestants' rehearsals are just behind-the-scenes footage.

She felt strange, but also thought that these behind-the-scenes footage was very interesting, showing the truest side of each contestant and giving her a sense of pleasure in prying into other people's privacy.

The first group of contestants, under the leadership of Chen Sicheng, assigned their roles smoothly.

Seeing this, grandma said: "This young man named Wang Baoqi is in trouble. He looks too honest and simple. He looks like an honest child. How can he play a villain like An Guojun?

This is simply not possible.

Isn’t this bullying?”

Hearing this, my grandfather asked back, "What role can Wang Baoqi play?"

Grandma was immediately stumped. In a script where Lu Sheng turned evil, no role would be suitable for Wang Baoqi.

This is indeed the case. The first group rehearsed the play twice. Chen Sicheng and Gao Lu performed better. Chen Qiaoran's acting skills were average, but she was also very good at standing out and making the audience remember her.

Only Wang Baoqi's performance was very poor and distracting.

Since Wang Baoqi appeared as an extra at the beginning of the show, the focus was on showing his daily life.

The audience likes him very much, and some people even put themselves in Wang Baoqi's perspective.

Now that they see that Wang Baoqiong didn’t perform well, the audience is disappointed and anxious.

At this moment, Zheng Jing appeared with an apple in his hand and began his on-the-spot teaching.

The theory of "acting in one's true colors" helped Wang Baoqiang sort out his acting ideas, analyze the character of An Guojun, and find the similarities between Wang Baoqiang and An Guojun.

Under Zheng Jing's guidance, An Guojun, played by Wang Baoqi, is stupid and a little neurotic, but he possesses great power and makes people inexplicably frightened.

The audience was afraid that this fool would come up with some unreasonable idea in the next second.

Wang Baoqi's performance before and after was completely different.

Grandma exclaimed: "It turns out that there is so much knowledge in acting. Zheng Jing is not very old, but he is very capable.

The young man Wang Baoqi looked honest and simple, not very smart, but after being taught a few words by Zheng Jing, he understood everything immediately.

An Guojun gave him a good performance, and I thought it was great!
Zheng Jing turned decay into magic. No wonder he played Lao Ai and Lu Bu so vividly. He is really amazing and has the bearing of a master!"

Grandpa admired Zheng Jing in his heart, but he still snorted and did not give in.

However, with the performances of Zheng Jing, Cheng Kaige, Cui Xinqin and others, my grandfather's understanding of actors has obviously changed.

He found that this profession really requires hard work, including the basic skills of voice, stage, appearance and performance, as well as the understanding and shaping of characters, each of which requires real skills.

It's not enough to just look good.

Especially when the program was broadcast to the second group, there was a woman named You Chunxiu who was ostracized by her group members because she was older and not very pretty. As a result, she had no role to play, and she exploded.

"I have been a bit player for seven years. I played a double in ice water in the cold winter and played a corpse in a cotton-padded jacket in the hot summer. I have suffered so much, but my family did not understand me. I was looked down upon!

Now I finally got a chance to show myself, but you voted me out without even asking me. Why? ! !
I request an audition, and the role will be decided based on the performance of the audition!"

You Chunxiu's speech was very moving and reasonable, and her request was agreed to.

But the result was helpless.

When everyone took turns auditioning for roles, her performance was only average, and the result after the voting was the same as before.

She still didn't get the role.

This is the reality of being an actor. Just because you work hard doesn’t mean you will get results.

There are only 6 roles in this group of 5 people, so some people are destined to be substitutes and work behind the scenes.

Seeing this scene, my grandfather’s heart ached.

He sighed and said to Huo Siyan, "Yanyan, is it also very hard for you to be an actor?

Don’t bear the hardship alone, tell your grandparents.

Grandpa wronged you before."

Huo Siyan was stunned for a moment. Although her acting career was not the kind of one where one would reach the peak as soon as she debuted, it was still relatively smooth.

I have never been a supporting actor, and the only roles I played were supporting roles with lines and screen time.

Seeing her grandfather's misunderstanding, Huo Siyan did not explain, but just played her acting skills and pretended to be relieved and said: "It's all over, I have survived the most difficult period.

Now that I have joined Western Film and Television and have a backer, my career is on the right track.”

Grandpa nodded and said, "Since you want to be an actor, I will fully support you from today on.

You also need to work hard to improve your acting skills and keep this job secure!"

"Okay, Grandpa! I'll do my best!"

Huo Siyan was overjoyed. She never thought that a show could change her grandfather's opinion of actors and make her family accept her profession.

Watching Zheng Jing teaching the contestants on the show, Huo Siyan admired him sincerely.

But this "positive energy" did not last.

When it came to the third group rehearsing, the contestants began to intrigue and fight with each other.

This group of 6 contestants only drew scripts for 4 roles, so you can imagine how fierce the competition was.

Huo Siyan found it very interesting to watch the contestants fighting and quarreling. She enjoyed watching it, but she was worried that her grandfather would not accept it.

Unexpectedly, Grandpa said, "Yanyan, what Grandpa said before was just an angry remark, don't take it seriously.

You still have to maintain normal contact with your President Zheng. The competition in the acting industry is very fierce!"

Huo Siyan: “…”

(End of this chapter)