The phone rang three times before it was answered.

"Hey, hello, it's Lu Mengying. I'm Chen Minhao, is it convenient for you to speak now?"

A hearty female voice came from the microphone, "Hello, hello, I'm Lu Mengying, the role of Siyuan in "Detective", Mr. Zhang has just told me, thank you for giving me this opportunity, when will I go to audition?"

"Of course, the sooner the better. However, the crew has now started filming in Curry Country, and the director has been in Curry Country at the moment, so you need to come to Curry Country to audition. ”

"Ah, you're going to Curry Country?"

Chen Minhao was worried that because of the location, he would miss out on a potential actor who could play Siyuan, and he hurriedly added: "I have to come to Curry Country, and the follow-up filming is basically in Curry Country."

However, regardless of whether it is successful or not, the crew will bear the costs incurred in the audition, so you can book the ticket yourself, keep the invoice, and find the venue for reimbursement afterwards. ”

After Lu Mengying paused for more than ten seconds, she asked, "If you want to book a plane ticket for me first?"

Chen Minhao explained helplessly: "Don't worry, you buy it yourself first, keep the invoice, and the crew will definitely reimburse the money." If they don't report it, you come to me. ”

After Lu Mengying chuckled, she said, "I'm not worried about reimbursement, I'm worried that I may not have enough money to pay for the ticket." ”

Chen Minhao laughed and said, "Okay."

After Chen Minhao hung up the phone, he lay on the bed, looked at the ceiling, and thought: After he used leverage to buy a house of 30 million, he was really a little floating, and he didn't treat money as money. In my previous life, when I was in college, I didn't have more than 4 figures in my hand. And now tens of thousands of dollars don't feel like money.

Due to the absence of Siyuan's actor, the entire crew of "Detective" entered a state of suspension, so Chen Minhao had time to go to the airport to pick up Lu Mengying in person.

There are a lot of Chinese tourists at the airport in Curry Country, so Chen Minhao covered his face tightly — he brought a pair of sunglasses and a mask.

Hearing that the flight from Kyoto had arrived, Chen Minhao cheered up, and he suddenly saw a girl in a dress and dragging a suitcase looking around. However, the distance between the two is relatively far, so although Chen Minhao has seen Lu Mengying's photo, he is still not sure if the girl in front of him is Lu Mengying.

Unexpectedly, the girl walked straight to him and took the initiative to come forward to say hello:

She smiled naturally and said, "Hello, junior brother, I have admired the name for a long time, I just got off the plane and I saw a person wearing sunglasses and a mask, so I guessed it was you." I didn't expect you to come and pick me up in person. ”

Chen Minhao smiled and said, "I just have time to pick you up, why don't I? If I were in the country, if I went out casually, my agent would kill me. So coming to pick you up can be regarded as giving me a reason to come out and breathe. ”

In fact, Chen Minhao did not say another layer of consideration: Lu Mengying is an actor introduced by Zhang Guoping, the head of the department, after all, even if the audition is unsuccessful, but the face reception still has to be thoughtful.

This is not to give Lu Mengying face, this is to Zhang Guo's face.

Taking advantage of the two greetings, Chen Minhao carefully looked at Lu Mengying a few times.

She combed her bangs to the back, and her smooth forehead was fully exposed. She doesn't have makeup on her whole face, purely from the perspective of no makeup, even in a school like Beiying where beauties gather, her appearance is still a relatively good type.

Her outfit is also relatively simple, wearing a light blue dress with vertical ankles, a pair of yellow Converse sneakers on her feet, and no accessories on her body.

Chen Minhao took her luggage and said, "This is not a place for greetings, let's get in the car and talk." ”

As soon as she got in the car, Lu Mengying stroked the hair between her ears and said, "I'll send my mother a WeChat message now and tell her that I've arrived." It was the first time I had gone out so far on my own, and my mom was a little uneasy. ”

With that, she took out her phone from the canvas bag she was carrying.

Chen Minhao inadvertently glanced out of her eyes and saw that the screen of her phone was shattered.

Lu Mengying seemed to notice Chen Minhao's gaze, so she generously waved the mobile phone in her hand, and said with a smile: "The mobile phone screen was broken last month, but there has been no money to change the mobile phone, so I will definitely work hard to win this audition opportunity, after all, I want to make money to change the mobile phone." ”

Chen Minhao smiled and nodded, he suddenly felt that the girl in front of him was quite different from most of the girls in Beiying.

There is no difference between whether a girl wears makeup or not, but the difference between a girl who doesn't wear makeup and light makeup, Chen Minhao thinks that he can still see that Lu Mengying must have no makeup.

And for things like no money, she says it generously, in this era when the rich are "stingy" and the poor are "generous", she is much better than some people who have swollen faces and are fat. There are many girls in Beiying who are frugal, and they open Huabei and borrow to buy a big-name bag.

In addition, Lu Mengying is quite sensitive, and she can detect her gaze with a casual glance. The profession of an actor needs to be sensitive, and it requires a person to be able to capture a lot of information in life, which sometimes needs to be used in their own performances.

But despite this, Chen Minhao was skeptical that the girl in front of him could play the role of Siyuan.

Teacher Zhang Guoping recommended her when she called, and Chen Minhao didn't ask further what works this senior sister had performed at that time, after all, there are all kinds of coercion to find someone to help, and all kinds of questioning are very unflattering behaviors.

However, after Chen Minhao and Lu Mengying made a phone call, he went to Baidu for the information of this senior sister, but found zero content, that is to say, this senior sister basically did not shoot any decent works. Despite this, Chen Minhao still has some confidence in her.

After all, Director Zhang Guoping mentioned a sentence at the time: he felt that Lu Mengying's character was similar to Siyuan's character.

For a moment of thinking in Chen Minhao's brain, Lu Mengying and Chen Qiang had already begun to chat.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Chen Minhao shook his head slightly imperceptibly: Lu Mengying is cheerful and generous, and her affinity is relatively strong, but Siyuan's heart is dark and hidden. He didn't see any similarities in personality for a while.

Lu Mengying and Chen Qiang had a feeling of seeing each other late, and when Chen Qiang was about to drive the car to the hotel, the two already had a tendency to chat.

Chen Qiang hit the steering wheel and asked curiously, "Sister Mengying, have you acted in any works?"

"It's mainly dramas, and I've never been exposed to movies at all. ”

Chen Qiang subconsciously asked: "What about TV series, what TV series have you acted in?"

Lu Mengying smiled shyly and said: "I took the script of a TV series a few days ago, but it was just two days of filming, and the crew was yellow, and then Mr. Zhang said that there was a shortage of actresses, so he asked me to audition here." ”

Chen Qiang was speechless for a while, not knowing how to answer this.

Lu Mengying also seemed to sense that the atmosphere was a little awkward, and said: "But I used to play a similar role in the drama. So after reading the script a few times, I feel quite sure.

Chen Minhao felt a little empty. Recently, Tian Lin and Hu Defa have also successively found more than a dozen actresses to audition in Curry Country, but in the end, they were all beaten back by Director Hu Defa, can they pass at Lu Mengying's level?

Chen Qiang forcibly changed the topic and asked, "What day did you buy your ticket?" Actually, you can buy it for a few more days in the future, in the curry country

Chen Qiang's implication is that he doesn't think Lu Mengying can pass the audition, and he has been Chen Minhao's assistant for more than a year. also has a simple understanding of the entertainment industry, in his opinion. Recently, there are many well-known female stars with works in the crew who auditioned, but they all failed, so he is not optimistic about this pure newcomer at all.

And Lu Mengying didn't seem to feel offended at all, but asked Chen Qiang excitedly: "Where have you been playing in Curry Country these days?"

Chen Minhao was about to give up the treatment, and his mobile phone suddenly rang, it was Kang Hui.

"Hey, Chen Minhao, do you have eyebrows for the role of Siyuan in your crew?"

Chen Minhao glanced at Lu Mengying, who was discussing with Chen Qiang what inexpensive souvenirs were available in Curry Country next to him, and he didn't know how to pick up this topic for a while.

Fortunately, without waiting for Chen Minhao to speak, Kang Hui continued to speak:

"Hey, that's the disadvantage of making a movie with a famous director. Director Hu has high requirements for the quality of his works, and he definitely doesn't want to find a random actor to do perfunctory," Kang sighed back and continued: "But which good actor will worry about filming, how can there be a reason to audition today and join the group for filming tomorrow."

So you have to be mentally prepared, Tian Lin is about to be unbearable. Although Tian Lin has been "persuading" Hu Defa in various ways, the pressure on the entire film investor is actually on Tian Lin. After all, the purpose of investors is to make money, not to make directors pursue art.

But it was obvious that Tian Lin couldn't hold it anymore. And the investors originally gave Director Hu a lot of freedom, and now Director Hu has to think about it. ”

Kang Hui's words made Chen Minhao have a lot of questions, but because Lu Mengying was in the car, Chen Minhao could only say vaguely: "Sister Kang, I'm in the car now, the signal is not very good, and I can't hear clearly." ”

Kang Hui immediately heard the meaning of Chen Minhao's words and hung up the phone.

As soon as Chen Minhao returned to the hotel, the waiter who helped Chen Minhao stop Wang Xueqing last time immediately greeted him and asked in English, "Hello, how can I help you?"

Chen Minhao asked the waiter to take Lu Mengying to check in, and told her to take a little rest, and after going to the crew for an audition at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, he couldn't wait to go back to his room and dial Kang Hui's phone.

As soon as the phone was connected, Chen Minhao asked directly: "Director Hu plans to change the script?"

Kang sighed back and said, "yes, what else would he do?"

Chen Minhao asked rhetorically: "Is there a possibility that the crew will disband first, and then after finding a suitable actress, the crew will reassemble and continue filming." ”

Kang replied with a light sigh and said: "Impossible, because the time for all the actors in the crew to sign is fixed, and you are still in school, so you have relatively plenty of time, but take Wang Ruozhou as an example, his schedule is very full, and the next year or two will be finished, and he can't be inserted at all." And if you rewrite and start filming, you will face the problem of coordinating the time of everyone in the entire crew, as long as one person can't handle it in time and is absent, then a large number of shots will have to be reshot.

Therefore, once the crew is disbanded, it will be difficult to determine the time to gather again, and the time of the film's release will be uncertain, and the investor will not want to see such a scene even if the quality of the film is reduced, after all, the money invested may be completely wasted. ”

Chen Minhao sighed and said, "Why is it so much that I starred in a movie for the first time? Is it because I didn't go well this time, or is it so difficult to make a movie?"

Kang Hui was silent for a few seconds before saying, "It's always like this. So look at how easy it is for Wang Ruozhou to take his son to play in the curry country in the past two days. You are also like him to learn and have a flat mind. ”

Although Kang Hui persuaded Chen Minhao to calm down, Chen Minhao could hear Kang Hui's anxiety, he smiled and comforted Kang Hui and said, "It's okay, I still have two plans here, maybe they can work." ”

Chen Minhao briefly talked about Lu Mengying's affairs and his plan B: by pulling Zhang Xinyi to the crew of "Detective", and then pulling Su Xiao to the crew.

Kang Hui did not support or oppose, but just said flatly: "Okay." You try. ”

......

Because the crew of "Detective" has already started filming, the audition will not simply be performed in front of the director, but is very direct and cruel: let the audition actors enter the group to shoot, stay if the shooting is good, and go home if the shooting is not good.

Director Hu Defa asked all the actresses to audition for the content in the hospital, which is basically one of the most important turning scenes in the whole movie. The character of Siyuan, a harmless little girl from humans and animals, will take off her simple mask here, and the development of events will also begin to subvert the audience's initial thoughts.

This scene requires extremely high levels of the actor's delicate emotions, in other words, this is also the most difficult part of Siyuan's role. Director Hu has been insisting on coming up with such a clip for the actors to audition at this time.

But Chen Minhao can understand Director Hu Defa's thoughts, if an actor and Siyuan's other roles can be supported, but if this key scene can't be supported, the final result will be in vain.

But from another point of view, if one actress can handle this hospital scene, then her other Siyuan scenes can also be done.

But the imagination is very good, the reality is very cruel, none of the dozen or so actresses currently auditioning have passed, and there are not even pending ones, which is directly inappropriate.

When Chen Minhao took Lu Mengying to the crew, the crew had already done almost all the preparations. In the last two weeks, these two scenes have been auditioned at least a dozen times, and the staff has been expecting and then disappointed again and again. They said hello lukewarmly to Lu Mengying.

Now all the staff of the crew are more or less numb, and all their expectations have been overdrawn after being disappointed again and again.

After Hu De sent it, he looked Lu Mengying up and down, and asked enthusiastically, "Do you still need to return the script?"

After Lu Mengying shook her head firmly, she said, "The crew is all in their heads, let's start directly." ”

Hu Defa nodded and sat directly behind the monitor.