Huayu: When the director changed his major

Chapter 107 Shuangzi Audition: Are you here for an internship?

Auditions for the lead role are officially scheduled to take place in two days.

During this period, Zuibai Studio coordinated the schedules of all parties and preliminarily finalized several main supporting actors.

Among them, Yu Feihong explicitly rejected the invitation from the crew of "The Beginning".

Liu Yijun, Liu Dan and Zhang Songwen all agreed.

Liu Yijun has always been acting in historical dramas and anti-Japanese war dramas, and rarely acts in TV dramas with a little science fiction elements.

At first, their agent thought that it did not fit Liu Yijun's usual role positioning, and that there was an overlap in their schedules, so they rejected it.

So Cheng Xi increased his salary by 20% before he was able to get Liu Yijun to sign the contract.

Fortunately, everyone’s pay is not high now, and Liu Yijun is not very famous now. Even if he adds 20% of his pay, it is only about 15.

When Auntie Guo Liu Dan saw her junior brother Cheng Xi go directly to the National Theatre to watch her play and specially invite her, she was also moved by his sincerity.

Although she was curious about how Cheng Xi knew her, Cheng Xi said that he had seen your dramas and TV series and thought that your acting skills were excellent. Liu Dan became humble and no longer had any doubts.

She is currently busy with dramas and guest-starring in TV dramas. She has not tried many villain roles like this one, which starts out introverted and then becomes a little crazy.

For Liu Dan, who loves acting, this act itself piqued her interest, and they hit it off.

As for the remuneration, this senior sister said that it would be fine to pay according to the market price, and finally asked for 15 yuan for 5 episodes.

This made Cheng Xi sigh that now is such a good time. Compared with later generations, the pay of unknown actors is no different from free money.

As for his senior brother Zhang Songwen, although he now basically only accepts movie scripts, there are indeed not many roles that want him.

So he had some free time anyway, and Cao Jinnan had also informed him in advance, so he readily agreed after reading the script the next day.

He now earns less than 5 yuan for a supporting role in a movie.

Cheng Xi offered him a salary of 1 yuan per episode. "The Beginning" is currently scheduled to have 5000 episodes, so his total salary is 15 yuan, which is the money he earned from shooting one and a half movies.

It's not unfair to him.

The three important supporting roles with good acting skills have been secured. Cheng Xi is quite satisfied with the result. It can be said that he spent a small amount of money to achieve a big result.

After all, both the male and female protagonists are relatively young, so there will definitely be some flaws in their acting skills.

The characters in the play must lead and complement each other, so that the overall presentation will be better.

Although they all had some concerns about Cheng Xi, the new director, they could not resist Cheng Xi's sincere attitude and gave him a certain increase in remuneration.

For those who are not famous yet, what else do they need? Just having movies to shoot and money to earn is enough.

As for Li Xiaoran, the famous actor chosen by the show, no clear answer has been given so far.

But there was no refusal.

I can only wait patiently, hoping that Teacher Jin Miaomiao can convince her as soon as possible.

Otherwise you'll have to find someone else.

On Saturday, the casting session for the male and female protagonists of the "Beginning" crew was held at Sohu headquarters.

Cheng Xi’s Zuibai Studio is still too small and looks a bit poor.

So for convenience and to show the strength of the crew, we contacted Mr. Zeng and arranged for it to be held at Sohu headquarters.

After all, Sohu is now the main investor.

The audition for the female lead was scheduled in the morning, and the audition for the male lead was scheduled in the afternoon.

Cheng Xi had already informed Yang Mi that she must come on Saturday morning.

Cheng Xi had also arranged for several reporters to wait downstairs at Sohu headquarters.

He did not intend to issue a formal official announcement, but wanted the portal media to cooperate in releasing the news.

After all, this is hype.

It is always inconvenient for me to come to the official end.

So Cheng Xi, Reba, and several people from the studio arrived at Sohu headquarters early on Saturday morning.

As usual, Secretary Hu came out to greet them, and Dapeng also came with Secretary Hu this time.

Originally, Cheng Xi was considering whether to let Dapeng play the live broadcast man on the bus in the drama. After all, Dapeng is also very popular now because of the hit drama "Diaosi Men".

There are also scenes involving buses in the film, and you can even link them up with other characters to capitalize on the popularity.

However, considering that Dapeng's current "loser" characteristics are too obvious, it will definitely be easy for him to mix up roles when he joins the crew of "The Beginning".

In this way, the audience will be carried away by the sense of suspense, and will probably burst into laughter when they suddenly see Dapeng.

This would result in more loss than gain.

So I didn't consider him and let him concentrate on the second season of "Diaosi Men".

After Cheng Xi and his companions arrived at the Sohu building, they first met with Mr. Zeng. After a few greetings, they went to the audition floor.

In addition to Cheng Xi, today's audition interviewers include Executive Assistant Director Zhang Mingzhong, Sohu's Assistant Casting Director Cai Yueting, and Secretary Hu.

Zhang Mingzhong is a senior executive director in the industry who was invited by Cheng Xi through his connections in the college. He has directed several modern dramas and military-themed TV series.

He is also Cheng Xi's senior brother, so he and Cheng Xi form an older-younger pairing.

After all, Cheng Xi is still a new director and needs an experienced director to lead the team.

Especially the explosion scene in "The Beginning", I can discuss it with Senior Brother Zhang Mingzhong at that time.

Cheng Xi looked at the time and saw that the audition would start in about ten minutes.

So I got up and went to the bathroom to use the toilet.

When I came back, I passed by the waiting room for the auditioning actors. After thinking about it, I decided to go in to see if Yang Mi had arrived.

By the way, give some encouragement to the little cutie Reba.

Cheng Xi had called Yang Mi in the morning, but she hadn't told him yet. Unexpectedly, as soon as Cheng Xi showed up in the waiting room for the audition actors, the staff inside were about to greet Cheng Xi when they were interrupted by a familiar female voice:

"Hey, Junior Brother Cheng! Why are you here? Are you interning at Sohu?"

Cheng Xi looked closely and saw that it was Senior Sister Shuangzi.

At this time, the staff saw Zheng Shuang calling Zuibai Teacher Xiao Cheng and were surprised.

But Cheng Xi just waved his hand at her, meaning it's okay, I'll handle it.

Then he said to Zheng Shuang:

"Hello, Senior Sister Xiaoshuang, have you seen Sister Mi?"

"Ah Sister Mi, which Sister Mi?"

"Senior Sister Yang Mi."

"What? Senior Sister Yang Mi is also interested in this play? I didn't see her coming."

This time, Zheng Shuang was even more surprised than when she saw Cheng Xi.

Originally, she was very reluctant to come to audition for the female lead in the drama "Beginning" when her agency, Tianyu Media, asked her to do so.

If her agent had not analyzed the pros and cons for her and given her some basic information about the crew of "The Beginning", saying that it was adapted from the currently popular novel "The Beginning" by Mr. Zui Bai, and that the characters were very well-matched.

In Tianyu's view, this drama has the potential to become a hit, otherwise Zheng Shuang would not even be willing to audition.

But she didn't expect that Senior Sister Yang Mi was so popular that she was also vying for this role. She suddenly felt that what her agent said might be really right.

This drama might really become a hit, so I suddenly wanted to get this role again.

So she looked at Cheng Xi and whispered:

"Junior brother, I won't bother with you about what happened last time. You're a staff member here, so you should have met Zuibai before, right? How was it? Is he easy to talk to?"

Good guy, he calls me junior brother when he asks me questions.

If you don’t need me, just call Xiao Cheng.

"I think I've met him before. He's very easy to talk to me, but I'm not sure about you."

Zheng Shuang heard the gunpowder smell in Cheng Xi's mouth, so she said:

"I heard he's also from our college, and he's still quite young, you know. So you shouldn't join that student union anymore. Learn more professional knowledge and be on par with Zuibai."

When Cheng Xi heard this, he felt that Shuangzi had a lot of opinions about the student union.

Both times she mistakenly thought she was a member of the student union and even suggested that she quit. Should I think she was being kind?
"I know Zuibai, I'm his classmate."

When Zheng Shuang heard this, she wondered why Xiao Cheng could come to this crew for internship as a freshman and even get to know Sister Mi.

It turns out that he is Zuibai’s classmate, so that makes sense.

"You're his classmate, so Zuibai is also a freshman? Oh my god, did he go to the last symposium for outstanding students? If I had known, I would have tried to get close to him."

When Cheng Xi heard this, he almost laughed out loud.

Don't even talk about trying to get close to each other. You two were sitting pretty close to each other, but you were also bickering pretty fiercely.

"You've got it."

Cheng Xi's sudden words made Shuangzi a little confused.

But she continued:

"Xiao Cheng, what's going on with your crew? They didn't even provide us with water. Hurry up and bring me a few bottles of water. I'm dying of thirst."

Cheng Xi had no choice but to nod and wave to the staff next to him:
"Go get some water and snacks for the actors."

When the staff nearby heard this, they immediately went out to get some water.

This is indeed due to poor service, so it’s not Shuangzi’s fault.

Zheng Shuang took a look and thought, wow, her junior brother is so powerful in the crew just because he is Zui Bai's classmate.

But it’s not like you’re Zuibai, you’re just a classmate. If they don’t take you with them, you’re nothing.

What are you bragging about?

At this moment, Zheng Shuang couldn't help but recall the bickering between the two when they first met, and rolled her eyes at Cheng Xi.

Cheng Xi looked at Shuangzi like this, and then saw that Reba was not in it either, and he was not familiar with Mao Xiaotong and Tan Songyun who were in it.

I said hello to Senior Sister Shuangzi, left the waiting room, and walked towards the audition office.

In the corridor, Li Chengxi saw the cute little Reba, who was nervously memorizing her lines.

Today, two scenes were given to the actresses who auditioned, of course, these were just formalities.

Reba also knew it, but seeing that she was still preparing seriously, Cheng Xi couldn't help but applaud Reba's efforts.

She suffered a lot during this period. Except for eating and sleeping, she was basically undergoing the teacher's devilish training.

Then he touched her head and said:
"Come on, it's just a small audition, try to win it!"

When Reba heard her brother's encouragement, she raised her head, smiled at him, and waved her little fist.

When Cheng Xi returned to the audition office, he sent a text message to Yang Mi, asking when she would arrive.

Yang Mi replied that there was a traffic jam and she would be there soon.

Okay, the transportation in Yanjing has become a universal excuse.

Cheng Xi shook his head and said to the staff:

"Let the auditions begin. Let actor number 1 come in."

(End of this chapter)