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Chapter 100 Jingwei Reclamation
Before joining the group, there is still a week-long martial arts training.

Li Boda had no objection to this. After all, most costume dramas would have this training before filming. However, the duration of martial arts training varied from crew to crew, with the shortest being three days and the longest even being one or two months.

In this martial arts training, in addition to stretching the body and doing some basic exercises, Li Boda also practiced one more thing, which was archery!

Of course, the martial arts training was just for the filming, so when Li Boda was training archery, he was more focused on how to make the bow and arrow posture look better and more handsome. As for the accuracy of archery, or other things like that, it was not important at all.

Li Boda didn't care about this. After all, there was no time to practice archery seriously during martial arts training. But as long as the drama was well made, he would be able to possess extraordinary archery skills that would allow him to shoot down the sun after the show was broadcast.

In addition to practicing archery in martial arts training, Li Boda also met with the actors in the crew.

However, Li Boda discovered that there were no big-name actors in the play "Jingwei Filling the Sea"!
As the male lead of this play, Li Boda has the biggest cards - well, at least in the martial arts training camp, he has the biggest cards.

The heroine is Shu Chang, but to be honest, Shu Chang is still a little less famous. Although she started as a child star, she has also filmed many dramas over the years.

However, she had never played the leading female role before, at least not a leading female role that was popular among the audience!

Even the one who maintains the highest popularity at the moment is the Tianshan Tonglao from "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

Compared with Li Boda, he is not even a little bit inferior.

There is another actress who is also very pretty, her name is Yan Danchen, but she is not even as famous as Shu Chang.

On the male actor side, there is also Xu Shaoqiang from Hong Kong, but his fame has long faded, and he can only play supporting roles or villains in some film and television dramas.

So, in the final analysis, the play "Jingwei Filling the Sea" was actually supported by Li Boda.

Li Boda was a little speechless. If he had not chosen this script in the first place, and the male lead had been replaced by someone less famous than him, the ratings of "Jingwei Filling the Sea" would probably not be optimistic.

Li Boda now kind of understood why his executive agent, Sister Wang, was able to get him such good treatment. It turned out that it was because he was the only big star in the play, and the crew wanted to rely on him to support the show!
After the martial arts training ended, [The Legend of the Condor Heroes] held a press conference for the start of filming.

Then Li Boda met a person he had never seen before in martial arts training - Wu Qilong!

It turns out that Wu Qilong made a guest appearance as Li Boda’s father in this drama - Li Boda played Hou Yi’s father, the god of war Xingtian!

However, the role of the God of War Xingtian is very small, and Wu Qilong can almost be said to be just a cameo appearance in this play. No wonder Wu Qilong was not present during the previous martial arts training.

At the press conference for the start of filming, Wu Qilong was able to perform, which was a great honor for the crew. Of course, it could also be that the crew paid Wu Qilong more money, so he was happy to attend the press conference for the start of filming of "Jingwei Filling the Sea".

At the press conference for the launch of "The Legend of Wei", Li Boda, as the male lead, was quite popular in the crew. Countless reporters focused their attention on Li Boda, and he received almost as much attention as Wu Qilong.

Compared with Li Boda, the other members of the crew obviously received much less attention.

"Wu Qilong, what role do you play in this play?"

"As for me, the role I play this time is very powerful, the God of War Xingtian, the God of War in this play, the most powerful god!" Wu Qilong said with a laugh.

"Li Boda, why did you choose to act in the play Jingwei Filling the Sea?"

"Of course it's because this drama is great. I've always been very interested in classical mythological dramas, especially those with powerful characters. I find them very attractive..."

"Li Boda..."

"Wu Qilong..."

"Shu Chang..."

The press conference for the filming of "Jingwei Filling the Sea" was quite successful. There were no unexpected incidents during the press conference. No reporters deliberately asked any difficult questions.

Of course, this also means that there will be no explosive points in the subsequent reports of [Jingwei Filling the Sea], and the publicity effect may not be very good.

After the opening ceremony, the first scene the crew filmed was Li Boda's. The role was quite simple and was finished in one take.

But when filming next time, it was not Li Boda’s part, but Wu Qilong’s part!

According to the director's explanation, Wu Qilong was specially invited by the crew to make a guest appearance, and his schedule would be relatively tight. Wu Qilong came to attend the press conference to support our crew, so we should finish filming his scenes earlier, so that he can finish work earlier and not delay his time.

Li Boda actually didn't care about the crew's explanation. After all, as the male lead, Li Boda basically stayed in the crew of "Jingwei Filling the Sea" from beginning to end.

Wu Qilong's scenes were shot early, and Li Boda stayed on the crew. Wu Qilong's scenes were shot in the middle, and Li Boda still stayed on the crew. Even when Wu Qilong came to the crew to shoot when the filming was about to be completed, Li Boda still stayed on the crew.

Whether Wu Qilong was filming in the morning or evening, Li Boda had to wait on the crew, so if the crew and Wu Qilong wanted to finish filming as soon as possible, it would not affect Li Boda at all.

However, after watching Wu Qilong put on his makeup and costume and start filming the fight scenes, Li Boda felt a little sad in his heart.

The last time Li Boda and Wu Qilong "cooperated" was in the crew of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". At that time, Wu Qilong played the male lead Xiao Shiyilang, while Li Boda was just a supporting actor, the nameless Lu Renjia.

A few years have passed, and although Wu Qilong has not changed much, his Li Boda has risen to prominence. Now Wu Qilong is making a guest appearance, while Li Boda has become the male lead of the show. It's really unpredictable!
Of course, in fact, if Wu Qilong wanted to play the male lead in "Jingwei Filling the Sea", with his identity as a Taiwanese artist, Li Boda might not be able to compete with him. After all, the identity of a Taiwanese artist at this time in the mainland has a huge innate advantage.

But no matter what, Li Boda has become famous now, and his status is no less than Wu Qilong.

It's only been two or three years, but the changes are so great that Li Boda can't help but feel deeply moved.

Wu Qilong, who was hanging on a wire, was wearing clothes with a barbaric style and kept waving the axe and shield in his hands.

To be honest, this fight scene is a bit unbearable to watch.

According to the crew's idea, this drama is a mythological drama, so a lot of special effects will be added, and there will not be a need for too many close combat scenes.

When filming the fight scenes, Xing Tian and Xihe faced each other, you swung your axe and I waved my staff.

Li Boda was speechless watching this fighting scene.

This kind of fighting scene reminded Li Boda of the film "Snow Goddess Dragon" he had filmed.

However, even though the fighting scenes in "Snow Goddess Dragon" were so bad, it still became popular. So if the fighting scenes in "Jingwei Filling the Sea" are not exciting, it shouldn't lose much points, right?

However, Li Boda had already made up his mind. He didn't care about other people's fighting scenes, but when filming his own fighting scenes, he tried his best to make them more exciting. Even when fighting with the enemy, his posture had to be handsome and good-looking.

It's just like in "A Chinese Ghost Story", when Yan Hongye and the leader of the Jin Guang Sect used the Xuanxin Aomi Jue, the action felt awkward yet inexplicably exciting.

Wu Qilong stayed on the crew for less than a week, finished filming his scenes, and then left happily.

As for whether this movie is good or bad, Wu Qilong doesn't care.

After all, he is not the protagonist of this play, he just comes to play the role of the protagonist's father. Anyway, the money is in hand, and nothing else matters.

In fact, many actors from Taiwan and Hong Kong mostly have this idea.

So over the years, in many obviously bad dramas, there are always one or two roles played by first-line stars from Hong Kong or Taiwan.

While Wu Qilong was on the crew, he did not recognize Li Boda, who had played a supporting role in a TV series in which he played the leading role.

Wu Qilong probably wouldn't believe that the extras who used to play supporting roles in the TV series where he was the leading actor could suddenly turn around and become popular top-tier stars in just a few years. After all, not everyone is Stephen Chow.

You have to know that even Stephen Chow was a supporting actor for eight years before he started to come to the fore.

Wu Qilong's departure after filming had no impact on the crew.

But after Wu Qilong left, Li Boda began to appear. When the crew was filming next, everything started to revolve around the male lead Li Boda.

He changed into relatively simple clothes with a hint of barbaric style, and the makeup artist deliberately painted black the exposed arms, face, neck and other parts of Li Boda's body.

Li Boda's fair skin was made into a bronze color with makeup, and combined with his own strong muscles, he looked like a very powerful young man.

However, Li Boda's skin is a little too white and tender after all. He needs to put on makeup an hour or two in advance every time he shoots a scene, which is a bit torturous.

So much so that the director sometimes teased Li Boda, telling him not to stay indoors and cover himself with sweat when he had nothing to do, but to go out and bask in the sun more often.

(End of this chapter)