9. Chapter 9
On the road, Youran was pulled by the side and said a lot of words, and by the time she got out of the car, she was already familiar with Gongjian's mother and son.
At the audition that day, many child actors were present. When the group entered, they were taken to the waiting lounge, and the mothers, who had been discussing enthusiastically, were much quieter after entering the lounge.
Each person took the number of queues for the interview. But as soon as Youran got the number, he turned around and disappeared from Gongjian's mother and son. He didn't find the probe for a long time, so he simply found a place to rest by himself.
"What time are you?" asked someone next to him as soon as he sat down.
There were a lot of children talking in the lounge seats, and he wasn't sure if the other party was asking him, so he glanced to the side to confirm.
It was the child sitting next to him who spoke, and he was taller than him just by sitting, and he had to tilt his head slightly to look directly at the other person. It was a child's hearty smiling face, smiling and tilting his head to look at him.
"Are you an audition child?" felt that the other party seemed to be too large, which was different from the casting of the crew, and asked childishly.
"That's right. The boy shook the number card in his hand, "I'm number 18, what about you?"
The other party was interested in talking, but he was a little tired from sitting in the car all morning, and he was already a little sleepy leaning on the back of the chair. Hearing the other party ask about his number for the second time, Yu Ran replied flatly, "No. 20 ......"
"My name is Lin Jiehong, what's your name?"
"Tang Youran. You Ran glanced at him, envious of the good spirit of this real child.
Lin Jiehong's feelings are quite high. After reporting his name, he got a young answer, and in the following conversations, he directly called him 'Xiao Ran', even if the person who was nicknamed proposed to call his name directly, he was also vetoed.
"How old are you? Won't you be seven years old?" Lin Jiehong chatted with Youran.
While the two were talking, the last of the children arrived in the break room. Lin Jiehong secretly looked at the group of children in the room, and found that there were few taller than him, and the smile on his face weakened slightly, "This time it seems that everyone is very small......
You Ran didn't say anything, and casually coped with a few words.
It didn't take long for the audition to be Lin Jiehong's turn. Seeing that he was gone, the surroundings were much quieter, so he leaned back in a chair and closed his eyes.
This time the wait was a little longer. About ten minutes later, Yu Ran heard the voice shouting: "You can go in on the 19th!"
He opened his eyes and glanced at the audition door. Lin Jiehong walked out of it with a smug face.
Noticing Youran's gaze, Lin Jiehong leaned over with a look of trepidation, "You're next?"
Seeing that he sat down beside him again, she glanced at him and asked, "You're not going back?"
Lin Jiehong shook his head and said, "You are alone, and I will sit with you." ”
You Ran looked at him in surprise, "But we won't be together, right?"
"Aren't you also from the Red Gate, and we can go back together." Lin Jiehong asked rhetorically, "I'll tell my aunt later, you're going to be fast anyway." ”
The young eyes looked around him, but did not find the 'aunt' in his mouth. Just when they were a little confused, Trumpet 19 came out just as they were talking.
"20th!" the staff at the door glanced over to them.
Youran hurriedly raised his hand and jumped to the ground. said goodbye to Lin Jiehong casually, and entered the audition room alone.
You Ran walked in generously.
Surprisingly, the venue inside is huge. After Yu Ran entered, he saw four middle-aged men and women sitting in the audience, all of them were fresh, and he didn't know everyone's position. In front of the four judges, there is a small high platform for young performances. In addition to these two places, the space next to it is also very wide, which is enough to make children with insufficient experience have stage fright......
You Ran silently walked to the center of the stage and accepted the scrutinizing eyes of the four judges below.
It has been a few years since the last time Youran was tested for concentration. In other ordinary children, most of them will lose their temper in such an atmosphere - the young man can only sigh, but fortunately, his psychological age is not young, so he will not be frightened by such an overly strict scene. Besides, there may be many children who appear to be much smarter than him......
"Hello ......" Youran patrolled the faces of several people, but still did not recognize them. The director of this drama and the so-called famous screenwriter were not present, and most of them should be people who have not shown up much. He reluctantly said hello, "I'm Tang Youran from the twentieth." ”
It wasn't until he finished greeting that a tall and thin woman at the head raised her hand and signaled, "Everyone has a time limit of five minutes, and we can start." ”
Hearing this, Youran nodded. As early as the day before the audition, the content of the interview was in Youran's hands, and he practiced a lot for this scene.
The scene of this audition is a piece of content for Cheng Yuan to recuperate in the hospital. There was also a low bed on the stage, no more than ten meters away from the four judges. You Ran climbed up directly without difficulty, covered the quilt, and quickly entered the state.
The assistant director in charge of the audition lifted the frame and looked coldly at the upcoming performance.
The assistant director is the woman who spoke out just now. She has short male hair, dresses casually, wears antique square glasses, her facial features are more angular, and her face looks a little mean.
One dry finger pressed against the paper in front of him, one hand supporting his chin. Although the female assistant director was looking at the front of the stage on the surface, her eyes had already been empty when she looked closely, and her thinking was obviously no longer here.
She is solely responsible for the selection of child actors. But for this kind of young actor who is not dispensable, the circle is accustomed to choosing among the candidates recommended by several companies, especially child stars with higher qualifications.
Just before this kid came in, several judges already had a candidate in mind. That is the eighteenth of the first two - Lin Jiehong is 12 years old this year, and he is also tall in the same age, maybe playing a ten-year-old child is a bit inconsistent. But this young child star has eight years of acting experience, although his appearance on the screen is tepid, but he is well-known in the circle. Although he has the disadvantage of age and height, his acting skills are much more natural and infectious than other children who participate in auditions.
And the child in front of him, who is just in line with the age of the character, seems to be basically a trick ...... the film and television works he has participated in?
The female assistant tour guide was stunned for a moment. When she retracted her divergent thoughts, the silence of the judges next to her did not attract her attention, but while picking up the clean water next to her, she glanced at the young actors who were performing.
The information says 10 years old, but the child appears to be thinner than his peers.
He was covered with a snow-white quilt and rolled up in a ball, and his bloated posture was like a cicada chrysalis. The petite body curled up in the hospital bed, and the dissatisfaction on his face could be seen from her perspective.
After the childish act of rolling up the quilt, the child on the hospital bed puffed out his face and seemed to be a little angry.
The female assistant director thought that the definition of Cheng Yuan's role was obviously a well-behaved and obedient image, and the children's cousins on the stage had obviously substituted their own natural expressions like the previous people......
She wanted to shout "stop", but looking at the young actor on the bed staring at a pair of round eyes, it seemed that she was going through an angry mental activity, and swallowed the words to stop by mistake.
"I don't want to. The child who spoke looked angry, but his voice was soft and soft, like a coquette.
It was as if he was talking to someone, and that person was 'standing' behind him. And he chose to turn his back to the other party, using the quilt to hide his already teary-eyed expression.
In these few seconds, this child actually went straight into the crying scene?
The female assistant director furrowed her brows and watched his performance in surprise. But the state is one thing, and the character comprehension is another, and the latter is obviously unqualified. But......
Following this line of thought, she developed a lingering sense of disobedience. She finally put her mind on the child in front of her and silently looked at his face. Immediately, she found out that there didn't seem to be any problem with the child star's play, but in the understanding of this scene, this child's 'Cheng Yuan' and her understanding of 'Cheng Yuan' may be a little different.
The character of "Cheng Yuan" belongs to the image of a well-behaved baby and has no rebellious psychology. Even in this scene of refusing to be separated from his mother, his lines are soft, seemingly just simple coquettishness, and as always, he hides all his sadness.
The reason why Youran's performance made the female assistant director feel wrong was that the expression on his face was crying - which was contrary to Cheng Yuan's role positioning in the play.
But his depressing performance made the female assistant director feel that this part was handled reasonably and more interesting than her original idea...... Cheng Yuan turned out to be not a simple submissive character, although he was young, but in his short life, some of his feelings were more mature than adults. For example, the desire for life, for the happiness of ordinary families.
His mother is his only support. Correspondingly, he was afraid of losing the other party, and for Cheng Yuan, being forced to leave his mother was probably what he hated the most. And Cheng Xue worked in order to add to Cheng Yuan's physical condition, and the two had to face a short separation - after learning that his condition had deteriorated, Cheng Yuan's uneasiness was magnified.
Something that the judges present paid attention to - although there are many children who auditioned today, and there are also many outstanding children who are outstanding, but so far, lying on the hospital bed, the only one who naturally shows the weakness of the role is this child who was not favored by them at the beginning.
The female assistant director looked a lot more serious, leaned forward slightly, and did not let go of the subtle expression of the child. This scene reminded her of the psychological activities of the characters behind this story: Cheng Yuan's uneasiness and anger prompted him to resist for a short time, but his resistance was so short that it was only a few sentences, and the reality was helpless. The young son who can't express the "willful" thoughts in his heart and forbearance is distressing.
The image of the obedient Cheng Yuan has not changed. It's just that the psychology of the characters revealed here made the judges present realize that compared with Cheng Yuan, who blindly obeyed, this child who was at a loss for reality was more lovable......
The female assistant director looked at the end of the performance and the young man in the state of putting away, and she couldn't hide her shocked feelings at this moment.
The first time she saw a more mature "acting acting" in a child actor so intuitively was five years ago. The child star has now embarked on a completely different path from his peers, and his acting skills are widely recognized, and he won the Best Leading Actor Award at the Film Conference at the age of 14, setting a record for the youngest actress and making a sensation...... But now the child in front of her is only ten years old!
She slowly put away the love on her face, but in her heart she was still subconsciously comparing the two.
When five minutes passed, the performance ended. Maybe five minutes, maybe longer, maybe shorter, but no one cared about it......