Chapter 1130: Casting

Zhang Zhaohui and the waiting guide arrived at the hotel where Chenxing and his party stayed at 12 o'clock at noon.

Morningstar has only seen Director Hou a few times on TV, and he has the impression that he is a gentle and elegant director, and after meeting him, he greeted him, and after talking for a while, Morningstar was most impressed by the weakness of Director Hou.

He couldn't hide his tiredness, his voice was low, he looked like he was lacking in energy, and he spoke every sentence very slowly, but his expression was accurate and clear, and he quoted scriptures from time to time, showing a very deep classical literary literacy.

Morning Star pondered in his heart, no wonder the movies made by the director always give people a feeling that they are full of Chinese elements, profound metaphors, and unfinished, this is what Dad said that there are goods in the belly, and they are at ease!

As soon as Director Hou saw Morning Star, he found that she had a unique advantage in appearance, she is a rare slap face among round faces, this face shape is not only photogenic, but also resistant to aging and full of girlishness, and she is invisibly more than five years more than other actresses in the peak era.

Movies are first and foremost an aesthetic art, no matter how plastic surgery acting skills are touted inside and outside the circle, for actresses, young and beautiful appearance is always the first element liked by the audience, in addition to youth films, other types of films, the vicissitudes of male actors will not play in the audience, but the heroine is old, and many audiences will be dissuaded.

Director Hou knew that Morning Star was now experiencing family changes, and this movie was a fantasy comedy theme, worried that she was in a bad mood and would affect the play of the plot.

After lunch, Zhang Zhaohui arranged for the director and the assistant to rest for a while, the director did not refuse, they took the flight at half past seven this morning, got up at five o'clock to clean up, and was really tired after being busy until this time.

Zhang Zhaohui came to Wang Mao, beckoned Pei Haoyuan and Xiaohan to come over, and informed them of his communication with the director.

Zhang Zhaohui is also the first time to cooperate with a famous director like Director Hou, and many situations are just understood, Director Hou, as a famous director all over the world, has always enjoyed great autonomy in casting, and he also has a long-term cooperative production company, this production company is determined to invest in his films, and in return, his films are often praised for them.

This time, the film planned by Yuanhui Company, in addition to cooperating with local distribution companies and giving them a small part of the equity, is not ready to accept outside investment, so Zhang Zhaohui signed a contract with the leading actors here, and the director can't say anything.

But after all, he also wants to save face, and he also wants to give an explanation to the production company he cooperates, and he must also want to fight for the roles they can fight for, in the current situation, Morning Star is the heroine, he definitely has no objection, but Pei Haoyuan and Xiaohan's play, he is afraid that he will have to inspect it on the spot.

On the way, Director Hou proposed that there are a lot of fight scenes in this movie, Morning Star's fight scenes are very exciting, Director Hou's assistant has helped him collect a lot of clips of Morning Star's fight with Gao Bin in "Easy Rivers and Lakes", Director Hou is very confident in Morning Star's filming of this kind of scene, but Pei Haoyuan has never filmed a fight scene in the past, he wants to know, what is Pei Haoyuan's martial arts skills, can he shoot a good fight scene?

Xiao Han plays the heroine's dignified and black-bellied senior sister in the play, because the person she loves falls in love with her sister, so she digs pits everywhere for her sister to jump, and after waiting for the director to see Xiao Han's resume, she feels that Xiao Han's qualifications are too shallow, and she is afraid that she will not be able to handle such a complex role.

Pei Haoyuan listened to the director's questioning and felt that this was not a problem, was his title of "backstreet dance king" called for nothing? He asked Zhang Zhaohui to arrange for someone to rent a small conference room in this hotel, and he wanted to imitate a classic dance step of Michael Jackson for the director on the spot, which shocked him a little.

Xiaohan asked Pei Haoyuan to cooperate with him to play a rival scene, and let the director judge her level, if she feels that her acting skills are not enough, she doesn't care, she is mainly to accompany Morning Star, it doesn't matter if she shoots or not.

Zhang Zhaohui asked Xiaohan not to think too much, since he signed a contract for her, he would not easily break the contract, but Director Hou strictly examined the actor's acting skills, and he couldn't say that it was wrong, so he tried his best to cooperate, he believed that Director Hou would also deny a good actor out of public interest and would not deny a good actor because of personal interests.

After the director woke up, Zhang Zhaohui asked him and his assistant to go to the small conference room and asked him to inspect Pei Haoyuan and Xiaohan's acting skills.

Director Hou had this intention, so he took his assistant to the small conference room with Zhang Zhaohui, only a row of tables and chairs was reserved in the conference room, and the other tables and chairs were moved out, and the stereo in the room was playing Michael Jackson's famous "Billie Jean"

When the director came in and heard this song, he guessed that Pei Haoyuan was going to imitate Michael Jackson's classic performance, and immediately became interested and said to him: Wait a minute, I'll change my pants!

Pei Haoyuan looked at Wang Mao, what does this mean? Could it be that he is also a fan of Michael, and he is very researched on this way?

Wang Mao comforted him: "What are you afraid of? The more expert he is, the more he can judge your level!"

The waiter went back and changed into a pair of stretchy sweatpants, and when he came in, he said to Pei Haoyuan, who was dressed as a dancer: "Let's start, let me see your level!"

Wang Mao put the song from the beginning, Pei Haoyuan followed the song and imitated Michael's entire dance as it was, Director Hou watched it for two minutes, and nodded again and again, at this level, you can go to a full-time dancer, and after watching him jump the space step, Director Hou has no doubts: Pei Haoyuan's body coordination is excellent, and the slapping scene is not a problem.

After identifying Pei Haoyuan's level, the Hou Dao couldn't hold it anymore, walked behind Pei Haoyuan and writhed with him, Chenxing was very amazed, he didn't expect Wenwen's weak Hou Dao to dance so dynamic and wild.

Seeing that the guide was jumping, Wang Mao continued to play Michael's "YOUAreNotAlone" and let them dance happily.

The two danced for more than ten minutes, jumped out of a stinky sweat, stopped and went back to the room to take a shower together, and when they came over again, Xiao Han took the initiative to say to Director Hou: "Director Hou, I played a rivalry with Haoyuan, you have seen it, if you think I acted too superficially, even if I change it, I can understand!"

After he met Xiao Han, he found that although Xiao Han was young, he was very steady in his gestures, and her appearance was quiet and delicate, which was also very consistent with the image of the second female in the script, and more importantly, her beauty was a completely different type from Morning Star, which was very in line with the casting principles of the movie.

Remembering Xiaohan's resume that she graduated from the School of Foreign Chinese Languages, she casually asked: "What level of English proficiency has it reached?"

Xiaohan didn't answer Director Hou positively, she knew that Director Hou was an international student at New York University in the United States, so she directly introduced her resume and the good girlfriend relationship between her and Morning Star in English, and told him the reason why she took on this play, so that the director should not have any worries, in fact, it is better for her not to film with Morning Star.

Director Hou was very surprised, Liu Xiaohan's English is so fluent! This girl is one of the few actresses in the mainland circle with excellent English, and her appearance is so standard, if her acting skills are also good, she can consider going to Hollywood to develop in the future!