They all pushed me!

Before he knew it, it had been nine years since he last taught Hoshino Ai these two concepts alone, and after these nine years, the other party returned to the LALALAI Troupe.

Suppressing the inexplicable emotion in his mind for the time being, after explaining in detail the differences between the two schools and their respective advantages and disadvantages, Kitagawa Ryo also asked Arima Kana and Kurokawa Akane:

"Kana, Akane, which performance style do you think you like better?"

Continuing the confrontation that had lasted for several days, the two of them looked at each other quickly, then raised their hands and said:

“Expressionism.”

“Experience-oriented.”

Arimaka chose the expressionist school, while Akane Kurokawa preferred the experiential school.

Kitagawa Ryo didn't even need to say anything. The two of them had already started confronting each other after they discovered that their answers were inconsistent.

"The performance master Goglan once told a story: There was a clown who could imitate the squeal of a pig, and people applauded him. The farmer said it was nothing special, so he brought a real pig from home and pulled its ears, and the pig also squealed, but people said it was boring. The squeal of the pig must be more real than that of an actor, but it is not art. This is the problem of the experiential school, forcing people to imitate the squeal of a real pig under the guise of authenticity."

Arima Kana was the first to raise questions.

"If you can't understand the character's inner emotions, then both the actor and the character will lose their soul and the ability to move the audience. The extent to which the actor can move the audience depends on the extent to which he is moved by the character."

Akane Kurokawa refused to give in:

"An actor who can transform his own emotions and understanding of the role into a performance and present it to the audience is definitely better than an actor who remains indifferent and only observes other people's emotions."

Arima Kanae sneered and responded mercilessly:

"The so-called experientialists are just people who are swayed by emotions and cannot be called actors at all. If the script requires your character to love someone, you have to love that character wholeheartedly. If the script requires you to kill someone, do you have to experience the process of killing in your heart?"

“It is often said that the expressionists are a group of machines wound with precision springs, while the experienceists who are controlled by the characters are the real puppets.”

Akane Kurokawa, who had been reading psychology books since her last failed audition, also responded unyieldingly:

"Experientialism is not a harmful emotional indulgence like the example you cited, but after a deep understanding of the character's inner activities and spiritual life, using conscious acting skills to perform subconsciously."

"........."

"stop--"

Feeling that the two of them would argue with each other all day long if they continued like this, Kitagawa Ryo quickly placed his right palm on the outstretched index finger of his left hand, making a pause gesture.

“There is no hierarchy in performance genres. What’s most important is to satisfy yourself and the audience.”

Beichuan Liang began to carry the water quite skillfully.

In fact, he had anticipated this kind of scene from the very beginning. After all, they had been together for so long, and Beichuan Liang certainly knew which direction of performance the two children in front of him were inclined towards.

Arima Kana has always been a genius in expressionism. From her earliest comments that she can "cry in ten seconds", we can see that she has excellent control over her body shape. She can easily turn her body into a skillful prop according to the expressionist master Goglan.

In fact, Akane Kurokawa did not show any obvious inclinations at the beginning, but after failing the last audition and buying a lot of psychology books, she plunged into the deep pit of exploring, testing, writing, and imitating the character's psychology. She can be considered a fairly typical experientialist.

However, there is competition only when there is opposition, and healthy competition will drive the common progress of both parties.

Therefore, Kitagawa Ryo can be said to have deliberately directed this ideological dispute between the two people. Not to mention the two little kids, the dispute between the expressionists and the experientialists has lasted for more than a century, and many performing arts masters have not been able to come up with a solution to the issue.

"so--"

Beichuan Liang nodded and said words of encouragement to the two of them:

"Come... ahem, let's work hard together."

He originally wanted to make a passionate speech to decide the outcome with the result, but when he thought about it, once he opened his mouth, Arima Kana would probably hit him in the face, so he held it back.

After all, Kana Arima, who has played at least the second female lead in "Spider" and "Shoplifters", could have just asked, "What is your representative work?"

I feel like this is really a bit of a blow to Qian.

There are advantages to debuting early.

"Then today's morning class is over. I'm going to the bathroom first."

As Beichuan Ryo spoke, he stretched lazily with a sense of relief. He stood up and walked out of the practice room, heading towards the bathroom on the other side of the corridor.

What he didn't know was that he did underestimate Magana's aggressiveness at times.

The moment Kitagawa Ryo walked out of the room, Arima Kana stood up and spoke to Kurokawa Akane in a calm, declarative tone:

"I am also a junior brought into the agency by Senior Liang himself. I have starred in the Berlin International Film Festival award-winning film Spider. In a few months, Shoplifters, directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, will also be released."

"My agent once told me that many people in the agency privately think that I will be the second Ryo, Senpai."

Akane Kurokawa knew very well that the other party was saying that she, who had not produced any works so far and had never even stepped onto the stage, was not qualified to be a junior signed by Kitagawa Ryo himself (in fact, she did not know that the person who was supposed to sign her that day, Toshiro Kindaichi, was away due to some reasons).

But she had no way to refute it now.

"besides--"

Arima Kana took a step forward with a tense face and raised her hand high. Just looking at this action, it even seemed that she was going to hit Kurokawa Akane in the face.

But the hand gently stopped on Kurokawa Akane's head.

Then, Arima Kana untied her hair tie, and the swallowtail that Kurokawa Akane had been wearing for the past two days, which was tied on the side, began to spread out again and then blended into her beautiful long hair.

“You can experience imitation however you want on stage.”

"In reality..."

Arima Kana recalled what she had observed on the set of Shoplifters, a scene between Kitagawa Ryo and another actress named Hoshino Ai:

"He won't fall in love with something just because of this."

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"Hello, Ms. Hoshino. I am a reporter from Weekly Drama. LALALAI's third version of Oedipus Rex was still a great success. We understand that this is also your return to the theater stage after several years of absence from the Youth Taboo Game. What do you think about this?"

"It has been a long time now. In my opinion, the success of this version of Oedipus Rex is inseparable from the hard work of every actor and staff in the troupe. I just performed the role that I should have performed."

"Hello, Ms. Hoshino. I am a reporter from "Entertainment First Line". As a former super popular professional idol who graduated a year ago, there are still many fans who are looking forward to your return. What do you think about this?"

"I have received support and encouragement from fans, which is my biggest motivation to keep moving forward. Although I have graduated from being an idol, actress Hoshino Ai will still be active in everyone's sight. I will appear in the movie "Shoplifters" which will be released soon. I hope everyone can go to the cinema to support me."

"Ms. Hoshino, Ms. Hoshino, I'm a reporter for Weekly Star Live. What do you think of the view on the Internet that you are called 'the most beautiful Jocasta in history'?"

"I am personally very honored to receive such praise from the audience. I will definitely make more progress in the future and present more wonderful performances for every audience."

"........."

"Ryoya is too much. He actually left me alone to face those reporters - apologize!"

"I'm so tired... let me lean on you first."

After finally getting rid of the reporters, Hoshino Ai fled back to the special bus that the troupe had booked. After finding Beichuan Ryo sitting in the front row, she naturally lay down on the seat next to him. The smile she had been holding up collapsed in an instant, and the whole person suddenly turned into a soft-bodied creature and slid onto Beichuan Ryo's shoulders and chest.

"If I go out for an interview, I'm afraid this bus won't be able to leave until the evening, so I'm sorry."

Beichuan Ryo apologized rather perfunctorily, his eyes still fixed on his phone while he spoke, with no intention of stopping his hands.

Seeing Kitagawa Ryo's serious expression, Hoshino Ai put away her playful thoughts, straightened up on her own initiative, fastened her seat belt properly, and then waited silently for Kitagawa Ryo to finish the work at hand.

"call……"

About three minutes later, when Hoshino Ai had almost finished counting how many hairs there were on Kitagawa Ryo's temples, Kitagawa Ryo let out a long sigh and put down his phone.

"Who?"

Only then did Hoshino Ai ask curiously.

"Mr. Izaki was just discussing my next job with me."

"Next job? Didn't Ryo just finish filming Shoplifters a few days ago?"

"That's true, but if a role comes up that they really like, no actor would be willing to turn it down. There are many people who would take a pay cut just to get the role they want."

"I see."

"So what's Ryo's next job?"

Hoshino Ai nodded thoughtfully. She leaned slightly to the right where Kitagawa Ryo was. The seat belt on her body was tightened because of this movement, and it was stuck right between her chest, showing a strong sense of impact that was about to burst out in Kitagawa Ryo's vision.

"……Um."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded, crossed his legs, and showed the cell phone that was placed aside to Hoshino Ai.

"It's the Kamen Rider series."

When Hoshino Ai moved closer, the first thing that caught her eye was a pile of various leather cases in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and a rainbow of colors.

"Has Ryo ever played Kamen Rider before?"

As one of the three major special effects in Japan, Hoshino Ai had naturally heard of the Kamen Rider series, and then she immediately remembered that Kitagawa Ryo seemed to have starred in one of them before.

"Well, a few years ago, I played the young, or teenage version of the main rider of that season of Kamen Rider? There weren't many scenes, but the traffic was really high, so I can be considered to have reaped the benefits of the highly popular Kamen Rider series."

Kitagawa Ryo personally has a very high liking for the Kamen Rider series. Although he generally watched the Ultraman and Sentai series in his previous life, the ones he left a more memorable impression on were Tiga, Ultraman Jack, Hyakjuu Sentai, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, and other works.

But after all, he had personally participated in a performance of Kamen Rider in this life, which eventually made it successfully overtake others in Kitagawa Ryo's heart and ranked first among the three major special effects.

Beichuan Liang paused for a moment and said a little embarrassedly:

"The personality and setting of the main rider's human form revealed this time really suit me, and to be honest, I can't resist the romance of using a belt to transform and fight monsters."

Hoshino Ai burst out laughing:

"No wonder Ryo was willing to act in a 2.5-dimensional stage play before. Did he really have some second-year fantasy in his heart?"

"Tsk... Men are boys until they die."

Beichuan Liang turned his head away and snorted coldly, then crossed his other leg, looked out the window, and said casually:

"You can also try love."

"If Ryo goes to the audition, then I will definitely go with him."

Hoshino Ai replied with a smile.

"Then let's hope that we can succeed in the audition together."

Kitagawa Ryo operated his mobile phone and packaged the personality settings of the female characters in this play into a folder and sent it to Hoshino Ai.

Just as Hoshino Ai was quietly flipping through the materials prepared in advance, Kitagawa Ryoya once again clicked on the relevant information about the main rider's human body sent to him by Mr. Izaki.

“Is this the character?”

He raised his head again and saw his reflection clearly on the bus window.

The corners of Beichuan Liang's mouth curled up into a smile, an elusive smile like that of a deceiving fox.

Hoshino Ai watched Kitagawa Ryo's seemingly narcissistic action from the side, tilted her head with interest, and reflected her own image next to him.

It’s like having some reference object.

Beichuan Liang's dark eyes, as deep and terrifying as the abyss, gradually came to life, as if a ray of starlight came from outer space, running towards him across countless light years, and only now finally found its destination and converged into him.

"A star among stars among stars."

Then he whispered the title of the work:

"Kamen Rider Polar Fox."

Chapter 4: Everyone will become your prisoner (5k)

"Takahashi-san, what do you think about the recent rumor that Kitagawa Ryo is going to audition for the lead role in this Kamen Rider movie?"

In the conference room, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties or fifties pushed the document in his hand to another middle-aged man sitting opposite him, raised his chin and asked.

"This is not just a rumor. Nakazawa-san should be well aware of this."

Yuya Takahashi took the information with a smile. As a new screenwriter who took over the main writing work of the Kamen Rider series in the past two years, he has been active in the industry as an animation screenwriter before, and has participated in the production of super IPs such as Doraemon and Lupin the Third many times.

However, despite these impressive resumes, few people know that he is also the general manager of the UNIBIRD Theater Company, responsible for the writing, directing and even performance of all the theater's plays.

For example, Kitagawa Ryo was interested in starring in a new Kamen Rider movie. He had heard about it from his friend, Toshiro Kindaichi, the general manager of the LALALAI troupe, a long time ago.

"Although I did hear a friend ask me about it, I thought at first that they were just talking. After all, the Kamen Rider series has very strict requirements on the actors' schedules. An actor of his level is willing to spend at least the entire winter schedule to invest in this..."

At this point, Shojiro Nakazawa also shook his head. As a veteran special effects drama director of Toei, he has participated in the production of many sentai series since the beginning of the 21st century. His shadow can be seen in many well-known sentai works, such as "Hyakujuu Sentai Fangranger", "Samurai Sentai Shinkenger" and "Kaizel Sentai Gokaiger".

After working as a daughter-in-law for many years, Shojiro Nakazawa was finally able to direct special effects dramas as the main director in recent years. He lived up to expectations and produced excellent works such as "Kamen Rider EX-AID" and "Kamen Rider Build".

"But the other party does seem to be very sincere and doesn't even plan to ask for more money."

Takahashi Yuya leaned back in the soft chair, flipping through the information in his hand with interest, and mentioned this casually.

After all, generally speaking, actors of Kitagawa Ryo's level will not go for special auditions. As long as they are willing, many screenwriters and even directors are willing to tailor a role for them.

Shojiro Nakazawa had heard a rumor that in Hirokazu Ededa's soon-to-be-released new movie "Shoplifters", during the initial script writing process, the character "Yusuke" played by Kitagawa Ryo was actually a female character.

As for why he ended up becoming a male gigolo, it can only be said that Hirokazu Edada was also envious of Kitagawa Ryo's box office appeal. After all, he was planning to achieve both word-of-mouth and commercial results.