They all pushed me!

Once again immersed in the lecture, Kitagawa Ryo did not notice the change in Kurokawa Akane's expression in time, but continued to patiently explain the realism of the performance to his two juniors.

"If you want to be authentic, you need belief."

Having said that, Kitagawa Ryoya pointed to his heart.

“Truth on the stage is what we sincerely believe in ourselves and in the hearts of our opponents.”

“So, everything that happens on the stage should first convince the actor himself, and then convince the opponent, so that people can believe in the truth of the emotions that the actor himself experiences when creating on the stage and the truth of the actions that he has taken and will take.”

"Just like in the entertainment industry, people often say that they feel very comfortable filming with someone, and their acting skills seem to have improved. This is the driving role that an excellent actor who has mastered the sense of reality can play."

Arima Kanae heard this and raised his hand and asked:

"What if I can't carry him? Should I cooperate with him?"

In response to Arima Kana's question, Beichuan Ryo thought for a moment before giving his answer:

"If Kana also feels that there is no other way, then it means that Kana has fallen to the point where she has to act with non-professional actors. It's quite disastrous when you think about it."

Facing Kana Arima who was hesitant to speak and Akane Kurokawa who laughed for no apparent reason, Ryo Kitagawa spread his hands helplessly:

"The producers and directors in the industry are not fools. They have their own assessment of each actor's performance. Just like this time with Shoplifters, Kana didn't encounter this situation, because Director Koreeda must have chosen the best of the best when selecting the cast."

"……Yes."

Arima Kana nodded sincerely. She also knew that among the six main actors in "Shoplifters", her acting skills were almost tied for last with another child actor, Shiro Kairi. This was not to say that their performances were so bad, but the performances of the other main actors were too shocking and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"Okay, let's get back to the topic of reality."

Beichuan Liang nodded, thought for a while, and suddenly put his hands together in front of his chest. With a light "snap" sound, like a kindergarten teacher in a nursery, he smiled and suggested:

"Just like before, let's do an exercise."

"There's a two-person practice of making phone calls, which is very suitable for training actors' sense of reality, and Kana happened to be here too."

"You all brought your cell phones, right? Let's exchange phone numbers first?"

At Kitagawa Ryo's suggestion, Arimakana and Kurokawa Akane also told each other their phone numbers and added each other to their contact lists.

"Just as this phone call exercise literally means, Kana and Akane need to have an impromptu phone call."

"Let me think...then let Akane call Kana and invite her to watch a play at the LALALAI Theater Company."

After finishing the preliminary background preparation, Kitagawa Ryo also put his hands together on his knees and looked at the two people in front of him with interest, seeming to be looking forward to this impromptu practice.

What Arima Kana didn't expect was that the moment Kitagawa Ryo finished speaking, Kurokawa Akane directly called her. Because it was a sudden attack, Arima Kana answered the call after the phone rang a few times and put the phone to her ear.

"Hello, I'm Arimakane."

"I'm Akane Kurokawa - why are you taking so long to answer?"

After the usual greetings between the two parties, Kurokawa Akane spoke first. A slightly hasty and impatient question directly allowed her to take the initiative in this round of conversation.

"I was a little distracted just now, sorry, what's going on?"

Arima Kanae's momentum was taken away at the first moment, and it seemed that he took the initiative to lower his position and match the opponent's pace.

Is it intended to create a calm contrasting character to go with the slightly impatient character played by Akane Kurokawa in the first sentence?

But if you lose the initiative in such an impromptu conversation, it is easy to get into trouble, because the person who speaks first will always speak more easily than the one who speaks later.

"Indeed, there is something, but I want to ask Kana first, have you heard of the Sphinx's riddle?"

Akane Kurokawa controlled the rhythm of the conversation in an orderly manner.

"The riddle of the Sphinx? Is it the riddle in the story where the creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?"

Arima Kana continued to passively take on the topic one after another, as if she wanted to turn the situation around. She asked herself and answered the question first:

"I know the answer to this puzzle. It's 'human'."

But Akane Kurokawa just chuckled, not seeming to mean that Magana knew the answer to this question, and then put forward her own opinion:

"Yes, in the ancient Greek story, the Sphinx is a monster with a lion's body and a woman's face. The former represents fear, while the latter represents temptation. When King Oedipus guessed that the answer to the riddle was 'man', it fell off a cliff and died."

"Does this mean that as long as people understand themselves, they can overcome temptation and fear?"

Arima Kana, who had little knowledge of drama and mythology, was not sure what Akane Kurokawa meant by this. She tried hard to search her mind for some relevant knowledge:

"Perhaps, highlighting the importance of human beings... that is, the so-called humanism?"

Kurokawa Akane nodded, and raised the corners of her mouth happily, as if because Kana Arima on the other end of the phone had stepped into her trap:

"I have two tickets for this weekend's LALALAI Theater Company's Oedipus Rex. Would you like to come with me, Kana? You might not think so after you see it."

"Because King Oedipus, who had solved the Sphinx's riddle, was still the same as in the oracle. Nothing had changed. It was as if from birth, no matter how hard he struggled, he would kill his father and marry his mother, just like in the oracle, and fall into the final dilemma."

Akane Kurokawa looked at Arima Kana's right wrist. She shook her head slightly and spoke with a slightly regretful tone:

"It's no use knowing myself."

As soon as Kurokawa Akane said this, Arima Kana's eyes suddenly became sharp. She subconsciously bent her fingers to touch the pendant on her right wrist, and then she noticed that the other person also had a similar sphinx hanging around his neck.

Arima Kanai finally understood the intention of the other party's sarcastic words and shook his head helplessly, admitting that he had been outmaneuvered in the practice just now.

After all, she had never been exposed to drama before, and she didn't expect that this peer named Kurokawa Akane would be so aggressive from the start. Having lost the initiative, she could only barely maintain the logic of the conversation between the two and completely lost control of the rhythm.

Kitagawa Ryo did not comment immediately after the conversation ended, but directly let the two enter the second stage of practice.

“Try to have a conversation with an imaginary person who does not exist, with the same purpose.”

Hearing that there would be a second stage, Kana Arima, who had lost in the first stage, regained her spirits and raised her hand to indicate that she wanted to be the first to appear.

When Kitagawa Ryo finished explaining the rules of the second stage, Arima Kana realized that this was actually a type of non-physical performance, that is, facing non-existent things and trying to make the audience feel that it exists as much as possible, that is, to create the so-called sense of reality.

"Then - let's get started."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded, signaling Arimaka to take the first step. The reason why the phone practice was divided into two stages was because actors generally face two situations when performing: acting with real people and acting with props, air, and green screens.

As special effects have become increasingly popular in recent years, how to perform to the air and create a sense of realism as if having a conversation with a real person has gradually become an important skill that actors must learn.

Personally, Kitagawa Ryo is still looking forward to Magana's performance in this round. After all, the other party had demonstrated an excellent non-proprietary performance in front of him at the audition scene of "Spider".

Under the gaze of Akane Kurokawa and Ryo Kitagawa, Kana Arima has already started her performance.

She hesitated for a moment while holding the phone, then put it down, hesitated for a little while, and picked it up again, as if waiting for someone's call.

The screen of the phone kept lighting up, dimming, lighting up again, and dimming again as she moved.

Arima Kana kept pressing the raised button on the phone. The phone with a bright screen was held in her palm, her pupils fixed on it, and she pursed her lips tightly.

Then, the phone suddenly rang.

What made Kurokawa Akane and Kitagawa Ryo realize this fact was Arimakana's suddenly excited expression and the cell phone that seemed to have suddenly become hot and had to be held with both hands before being moved to their ears.

"Yeah, I'm Kana."

This is a different self-proclaimed title from when he acted opposite Akane Kurokawa before.

Because Kitagawa Ryo only made the setting that the person who made the call invited the person who answered the call to watch a play, the personality settings of the two characters depend entirely on the actors themselves, but they need to let the audience recognize this through their performances.

Arima Kana raised her head in surprise. She tightened her grip on the phone and stammered as if she was surprised.

"Come with me? To watch the play by the LALALAI Theater?"

Words and sentences were shattered together.

"It's not that I'm not interested...it's just that I've never been involved in this before - well, this is the first time."

“Only by being exposed to different things can we truly understand and find what we like and are interested in?”

Arima Kana nodded thoughtfully, and she smiled and thanked the non-existent person on the other end of the phone:

"I understand. I will definitely be on time for the appointment."

"senior."

This was the end of Arima Kanae's second phase of phone practice.

"It's much better than the first stage. The movements and expressions are very well controlled. However, the words give people a heavy sense of repetition, which detracts a bit."

Because of the last word, Kitagawa Ryo knew that Arima Kana had set him as the caller, so after commenting, he patted her head again and took out a ticket from his backpack behind him:

"If Kana really wants to watch the performance of Oedipus Rex in a few days, I still have tickets here."

"Thank you, Senior Liang."

Taking advantage of the performance, she also fulfilled a small wish of her own. Arima Kana happily accepted a ticket for the day from Kitagawa Ryo, which was for the front rows of the audience.

As an official member of the LALALAI troupe, Kurokawa Akane naturally had an internal ticket in her hand, and her seat was even closer to the front than the one in Magana's hand. Therefore, she did not show any emotion, but quietly prepared for her performance.

She was very clear that with her current acting skills, she could not produce out of thin air the series of anxious and uneasy details that Arikana showed before the phone rang.

After a brief thought and preparation, Akane Kurokawa, who started the performance after Kana Arima, did not make any forward-looking movements, but simply put the phone to her ear, as if she had already dialed another person's number.

"I'm Akane Kurokawa."

"I heard that the LALALAI Theater Company came to our city for a tour recently."

"Yes, it's that famous troupe. The play they're performing this time seems to be..."

As if interrupted by the other party's question, Kurokawa Akane replied in a panic:

"Me recently? I've been the same as before, staying at home reading books and occasionally reading some drama scripts."

"Speaking of drama, the famous LALALAI troupe seems to be coming to our city soon..."

As if she was interrupted again, Kurokawa Akane pursed her lips in frustration and spoke again:

"Well, I'm just very unlucky. I accidentally booked an extra ticket for the LALALAI Theater online, and now the refund period has passed."

"When did you start going to the theater? It's only been these past few days. I actually think the atmosphere in the theater is better than that in the cinema. Senior, do you want to go and experience it with me?"

At this time, Arimaka Kanae and Kitagawa Ryocai, who were in the audience, began to taste something.

What follows are two more such self-contained dialogues.

Then, Akane Kurokawa put down the phone and had no intention of clicking the center of the screen to hang up the call, because the call had never been dialed from the beginning to the end.

She whispered to herself, then smiled:

"I have already thought of a response for every reaction from my seniors."

"Now it's foolproof."

At this point, Kurokawa Akane's performance ended. All of the above conversations were just the result of the girls' thorough rehearsals before the invitation was even sent out.

In the face of Kurokawa Akane's performance, Kitagawa Ryo was also generous with his applause and praise.

At the end of this morning class, he looked carefully at the two children in front of him and expressed his own judgment:

"Kana and Akane will definitely become one of the best actresses in the country in the future."

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Kitagawa Rumi, who was still lying in bed, opened her eyes with some difficulty and subconsciously rolled slightly to the right. The quilt that was originally covering her immediately wrapped her up like a dumpling.

The quilt that Kitagawa Ryo specially made for her according to her sister's preferences is embroidered with various bright flowers, and Kitagawa Rumi is now wrapped in this sea of ​​flowers.

Then, a slender hand reached out from between the flowers, touched the mobile phone on the bedside table, and glanced at the time on it.

"Hmm...it's so late."

Yawning lazily, Kitagawa Rumi rubbed her sleepy eyes and slowly changed from lying down to half-lying down. After her upper body leaned against the head of the bed, she stopped moving as if she had completed some stage task.

"Good morning."

Then, Kitagawa Rumi said hello to the orange bear doll in her arms.

"Okay, I'll get up right away."

As she said this, Kitagawa Rumi lifted the quilt, took the neatly folded clean clothes that Kitagawa Ryo had prepared for her early in the morning from the bedside table next to her, and changed into them one by one.

"Then - I'll go wash up."

"cold."

After changing clothes, Kitagawa Rumi hugged the doll again, placed it obediently on the bedside, and then walked out of the room humming a song.

The whole process was so smooth and natural, as if it had been repeated hundreds of times.

Chapter 69: The next job is Kamen Rider

"Okay, I've already explained to you the seven basic powers and four senses of an actor. After you've mastered the basic acting skills, it's time to choose a performance genre."

After a few days of teaching, Kitagawa Ryo's private performance lessons for Kurokawa Akane and Arima Kana entered the second stage.

As always, when he introduced the two schools of thought, "Expressionism" and "Experience", to the two people in a simple and easy-to-understand way, Kitagawa Ryo himself felt as if he was in another world.