Entertainment: Who still wants to fall in love when there are cheats?

Chapter 204 Looking Forward
After the final round of auditions, the cast for the movie "Love is Not Blind" has been finalized.

The female lead, needless to say, is Zhao Liying, the round-faced actress.

The male lead is Wang Yiyang, and the role was chosen for the emblem; the main character is played by Zhang Jiayi; Lu Ran is played by Guo Jingfei…

Among the selected actors, some already had a certain degree of fame, while others were relatively unknown but had good acting skills. Overall, Li Boda was quite satisfied with the choice of actors.

Like a crest, he has a good appearance and outstanding acting skills. Guo Jingfei's acting is not only good, but his delivery of lines is also remarkably strong…

After the actors were selected, the production team of "Love is Not Blind" started filming a few days later.

Li Boda wasn't worried about the actors being unfamiliar with the script, because the script had been given to the actors during the first round of auditions, and that time was more than enough for them to study it thoroughly, so there was no chance of them being unfamiliar with the script.

On the day the filming started, many media outlets came to the scene. This time, Wang Jie didn't even need to invite them; instead, they took the initiative to participate in the press conference for the start of filming of "Love is Not Blind".

This is the prestige of a director who has entered the 100 million yuan box office club.

"Director Li, how much do you expect the box office to be for your new movie?"

"Of course, the more the better."

"Director Li, this is your third film, and it seems to be another low-budget comedy. Are you planning to stick to this genre? Have you considered making other types of films? Or do you lack confidence and are afraid that other films will fail?"

"You have to take things one step at a time, and eat one bite at a time. I'm still a newcomer in the directing industry. I'll start by making a few low-budget films to master the directing skills before considering other options..."

"Director Li..."

Most of these reporters asked questions to Li Boda, and only occasionally turned their attention to other people, such as Zhao Liying or Wen Zhang.

After all, people like Zhao Liying and Wen Zhang are still quite a bit inferior to Li Boda at present.

Especially the emblem, who was almost unknown before. It was only through the TV series "Struggle" that he came into the view of some viewers. In the film industry, he was practically a complete newcomer, so reporters naturally didn't pay much attention to him.

Wen Zhang, sitting next to Li Boda, maintained a smile. Seeing that the reporters were barely paying attention to him, his smile became a little stiff and awkward. He secretly vowed that if the reporters ignored him today, he would make them unable to reach him tomorrow.

No one knew what Wenzhang was feeling, but even if they did, they probably wouldn't care. After all, who would pay attention to a newcomer like him? Many people simply thought Wenzhang had gotten incredibly lucky to be chosen by Li Boda to play the male lead.

After completing the opening ceremony procedures, filming officially began for "Love is Not Blind".

The first shot, as usual, was the simplest scene to be filmed.

The male lead is Wen Zhang, and the female lead is Zhao Liying; they starred together.

"Makeup artist, makeup artist, come here, do a good job of making Liying look sharp and mean. Her round face is too approachable." Before filming the first scene, Li Boda specifically pulled Zhao Liying aside and instructed the makeup artist.

"Don't worry, director, this is my specialty!" Tony said confidently.

In fact, this Tony teacher does have reason to be confident.

In order to help Zhao Liying better fit the role of Huang Xiaoxian, when Sister Wang was assembling the production team, she specially spent a high price to hire a top-notch makeup artist in the industry, Tony, to do Zhao Liying's makeup.

With the help of Tony the hairstylist's scissors and makeup box, a completely new Zhao Liying quickly appeared before everyone.

Zhao Liying's originally kind and round face now has more sharp lines. Visually, her once approachable round face looks thinner, and with the addition of her eyebrow and eyebrow shaping, she actually looks a bit more aggressive.

Li Boda was quite satisfied with Zhao Liying's appearance after makeup. Sure enough, when an actor's appearance doesn't quite match the role, we have to go find the amazing hairstylist, Tony.

After the makeup was done, the first scene began to be filmed.

Because the scene itself was extremely simple, and the two actors' acting skills were not bad, the first scene was filmed easily.

What followed was a series of three scenes depicting different people facing breakups or divorces.

The first divorce scene was filmed by bald Xu Shanzheng and Tao Hong.

That's right, it's the couple Xu Shanzheng and Tao Hong.

When Li Boda was filming his third movie, Xu Shanzheng immediately came to audition as soon as he heard the news. After all, Xu Shanzheng had played the male lead in Li Boda's previous two movies, and he knew Li Boda's abilities and that Li Boda's directing was reliable. Naturally, he wanted to take on the role in Li Boda's movie.

Unfortunately, Xu Shanzheng's image doesn't quite match the character of Wang Yiyang.

Similarly, since they have already collaborated twice before, if they continue to collaborate, the audience and media might assume that Li Boda, Xu Shanzheng, and Zhao Liying have formed a fixed team. If any of them are missing from Li Boda's films, the audience might feel something is wrong and complain.

Therefore, unless a role is particularly suitable for Xu Shanxiong, Li Boda doesn't plan to collaborate with him too frequently. Only with Zhao Liying—who is his artist, and with such a close relationship—Li Boda's attitude towards her is naturally different from his attitude towards Xu Shanxiong.

Although Xu Shanzheng didn't get the lead role of Wang Yiyang, he still chose to make a cameo appearance in the movie "Love is Not Blind".

The cameo role was played by a couple who were peacefully separating. The separation was very calm and even very polite.

Li Boda still found it a bit funny that Xu Shanzheng and Tao Hong were making cameo appearances in such roles.

In the previous film "Lost in Thailand," Tao Hong made a cameo appearance as Xu Shanzheng's mistress. Now, in "Love is Not Blind," this couple makes another cameo as a couple who peacefully broke up, which is somewhat amusing.

After their cameo appearance, Xu Shanzheng and Tao Hong said goodbye to Li Boda as they left.

"Director, please let us know if there are any suitable roles for us in the future."

"Yes, even if there aren't any suitable roles for us, like today's cameo, if you'd like, just give us a call."

Xu Shanzheng and Tao Hong said to Li Boda with smiles.

Li Boda could only smile and nod in agreement, promising that he would definitely look for them if there were suitable roles in the future, of course, the main point was that they should be 'suitable'.

After filming the three different breakup scenes between men and women, the actual filming of the movie began.

This time, Li Boda no longer needed to choose the simplest roles.

However, this action led to some problems.

“Headband, adjust this. We're filming a movie now, which is different from the TV dramas you've done before. TV dramas are on a small screen, and the screen is only so big, so the acting style is different. Movies are on a big screen, and the big screen can capture all the subtle expressions on your face, so you don't need to force your expressions when you're acting…”

"I understand, Director. Please let me think about it carefully and give me some time to adjust."

"You have half an hour!"

……

"Guo Jingfei! Your acting is very good, but it's too performative. You've always acted in plays, and because the stage is a certain distance from the audience, you need to use exaggerated body language and facial expressions to make sure the audience can see you clearly. But we're making a movie now, and we don't need such exaggerated body language and expressions. The same goes for your lines. Your lines are good, and you speak clearly and fluently, but please adjust your tone and speak more normally."

"I understand, I understand, I understand, I know how to act now."

"Good, then let's try it again."

"Exon!"

Because many of the actors chosen this time had previously acted on the small screen, i.e., television dramas, or stage plays; relatively few had acted in movies.

So when they first started filming, they were never quite able to use cinematic shooting methods.

However, Li Boda understood that this was normal, so when filming, he would always make a point of explaining the differences between filming TV series and movies, and between stage plays and movies.

At the beginning, Wen Zhang, Guo Jingfei and the others made frequent mistakes, after all, the habit had already been formed.

There was nothing else Li Boda could do but make them reshoot the scene again and again.

However, Wen Zhang and Guo Jingfei are indeed very talented, at least in terms of acting, they are both quite gifted actors.

After a few days of adjustment and practice, they quickly became familiar with the film shooting methods and rhythm.

However, during subsequent filming, the problem of inappropriate performance style did not recur.

Subsequently, the filming schedule was gradually accelerated.

Li Boda was quite satisfied with this, believing that both Guo Jingfei and Wen Zhang had great potential to become excellent actors.

Especially with the emblem, Li Boda felt that he was the most talented actor he had ever encountered in his acting career.

As long as Wen Zhang can stabilize his career and focus on acting, becoming a TV King or Movie King won't be too difficult for him.

In short, Li Boda had a very high opinion of heraldry.

(End of this chapter)