Chapter 895: We're here to audition

After the casting studio issued a supplementary explanation, not every actor on the audition list chose to continue to participate in the audition like Yu Shaoting, so the list of audition personnel has changed.

The list of auditioners has changed, and the timing of the audition will naturally need to be rescheduled. Due to the different times for the actor's agency or agent to reply, and the producer hopes (mainly at the request of director Chen Jun) to arrange the audition of actors for the same role as much as possible in order to make a comparative judgment, so it will take a certain amount of time to rearrange the audition time. However, this does not mean that the start of the audition must be postponed.

In this TV series, some of the supporting roles are older characters, and the actors considered for these roles are some middle-aged actors in their forties and fifties in the circle. Most of the middle-aged actors who are used to playing supporting roles at this age are some powerful actors in the circle who are experienced but do not have high traffic, and they are basically not very affected by the supplementary explanation. There are no changes to the cast in this part of the audition.

These actors don't have many other work activities other than filming, and their schedules are relatively free. When adjusting the cast and rescheduling the auditions, the casting studio brought forward the auditions for these older, middle-aged actors, and let the producers audition for these actors first.

For the audition of this part of the actors, Xiao Yao and director Chen Jun's attitude is definitely very polite and respectful. The focus of these actors' auditions is not on their auditions, but on the communication between the two and these senior actors. The two chatted with these senior actors about the script and their understanding of the roles they were going to play in the play. For these actors, there are generally not many problems with acting skills, and it depends more on their understanding of the role and whether the two are compatible.

Of course, even if it is a senior actor with excellent acting skills, an old drama bone, this part of the audition is not completely omitted. It's just that the two of them mainly look at whether the audition actor has the ability to play the role well, but whether their image, state, and feeling when they play the role are consistent with what they think.

It is relatively rare to directly decide the actor at the time of audition. Normally, producers and directors make decisions after all the actors who are competing for the same role have auditioned. In the selection of actors for this drama, Xiao Yao said that the final decision is in the hands of director Chen Jun. Since Chen Jun did not have any actors for any role in the first two days of auditions, no actor was set on the spot.

Auditions are basically scheduled during the day, starting at 90 o'clock in the morning and going until 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon. In the evening, it was Xiao Yao and Chen Jun who watched the audition video recorded during the day and discussed and decided the ownership of the role. Once the actors are identified, the results are communicated to the casting studio and the crew's administration, and the relevant personnel of the company negotiate the contract with the actors and their agencies, and at the same time inform the actors or their agencies that have not been employed.

The TV series is expected to have only about thirty episodes. Compared with those big productions with forty or fifty episodes or even sixty or seventy episodes, the volume of this TV series is not large, so the number of characters in the play is relatively not particularly large.

Almost three days later, Xiao Yao and Chen Jun auditioned for all the older actors in the play, and determined the actors for those roles.

Three days later, the casting studio also rescheduled the auditions for the young actors. So after all the auditions for middle-aged actors were over, Xiao Yao and Chen Jun didn't have time to rest, and then started auditions for young actors.

For today's actors, it is not new to audition for two or more roles in a film and television work at the same time, and there are even actors who originally auditioned for a certain role, but were considered by the producer to be more suitable for another role, and it is also possible to win another role. But in this program, there aren't many cases where you can apply for two or more roles at the same time.

If an actor takes the initiative to apply for two or more roles during the audition, the proportion of roles in the roles applied for is generally about the same.

Among the younger characters in this drama, there are three relatively heavy roles, two women and one man. One is Anna, a colleague of the female first summer, the other is the sister of the male Lin Dongyang, the classmate and best friend of the female one is Lin Dongyue, and the other is the younger brother of the female one Shengxia, and is also the classmate and friend of the male Lin Dongyang.

Needless to say, men and women are different, this is not a costume drama, and there is no possibility of reversal. Although the two female characters are relatively young characters, one is about the same age as the female one, the other is about the same age as the male one, one is in his thirties, and the other is in his twenties, there is still a certain gap.

Although it is now normal for an actress in her thirties to play a role in her twenties, there is a clear difference in the image and overall temperament of these two characters.

Although Lin Dongyue is a store manager, because she and her younger brother depend on each other all the year round, some parents feel that their image is simple and their temperament is more homely, while Anna is a young white-collar worker, her image is more fashionable and exquisite, and her temperament is more elite in the workplace. Due to the relatively large image and gap between the characters, there is no overlap between the actors who audition for these two roles.

However, even if there is no overlap between actors in applying for audition roles, there are still quite a few actors competing for these roles.

The supplementary note sent by the casting studio has achieved some results. After that additional note was issued, it was true that some actors and their agencies decided to withdraw from auditions for the project. It's just that the number of actors who decided to quit the audition on their own was not as large as Xiao Yao thought.

The reason for this is, on the one hand, because there are some actors and companies who have the same idea as Yu Shaoting. On the other hand, it's because the timing of those companies to reply to casting studios is not consistent.

After the casting studio issued a supplementary explanation, Xiao Yao and Chen Jun directly began the actor audition for the middle-aged role. To put it bluntly, an audition is also an interview, just like corporate recruitment, in fact, it is also a process of mutual selection. It's not just the crew that picks the actors, the actors are actually picking the crew.

Before the audition, the casting studio only said that it would not choose a man and a woman, and did not announce who the actors were who the men and women were. During the communication process of the actor's audition, many people will naturally ask about this. If an actor wants to join the group for filming, he will naturally want to know who the opponent actor will be in the future. At this point, Xiao Yao did not hide it anymore.

Therefore, after the audition began, the news that the actors of this TV series were Xiao Yao and Yin were also circulated in the industry. Guessing that the first male is Xiao Yao and determining that the first male is Xiao Yao is still different for many companies. After this news came out, not only some agencies and actors who originally planned to withdraw from this audition changed their minds, but even some agencies and actors who did not plan to participate in this project also started to think.

The primary selection stage for the role has passed, and those companies and actors who are new to the audition role can rightfully decline, but the companies and actors who were originally on the audition cast list cannot refuse. When the casting studio issued a supplementary note, it did not explicitly refuse any of the actors on the list to participate in the audition, but only hoped that they would consider those conditions and withdraw on their own, and Xiao Yao and the casting studio could not know which people decided to continue to audition because they knew that Xiao Yao was the male lead.

Due to the large number of actors participating in the audition, the timing of this audition is relatively intensive, so in the casting studio, many actors who participated in the audition on the same day met while waiting for the audition.

Although the casting studio tried to schedule the auditions of the same role together as much as possible, it was not possible to fully do so due to the actors' schedules. Comparatively speaking, young star actors now have more jobs than middle-aged actors, and it is also more difficult to do this.

The audition for young roles begins on the fourth day of the audition, and the auditions scheduled on this day are not all actors who are vying for the same role.

Because Yu Shaoting was very resolute, the company did not discuss it for long before agreeing to Yu Shaoting to continue to audition. Relatively speaking, Yu Shaoting's company replied relatively early, and the audition time was also arranged earlier. Not only on the first day of auditioning for young roles, but also in the morning.

Auditions begin at 9 a.m. Yu Shaoting was not the first actor to audition, and the casting studio informed him that the audition time was around ten o'clock. However, because Yu Shaoting attaches great importance to this role and attaches great importance to this audition, the company did not arrange any work schedule for him that morning, and he arrived at the casting studio before 9 o'clock in the morning.

The audition time did not arrive, and after Yu Shaoting arrived, he was naturally arranged by the staff of the casting studio to go somewhere else to rest and wait.

The casting studio is not a performance organization, and it is impossible to prepare a lot of separate lounges for star actors, so the place where Yu Shaoting is waiting is a common lounge. This lounge is not the kind of lounge for a performance institution, with only sofas, no powder rooms, changing rooms, and a lot of space.

Originally, Yu Shaoting and his fellow agent Zhang Wenqing thought that they had come early, but when they entered the lounge, they found that there were already other people inside.

"Mr. Zhao, Mr. Lin, hello!" After seeing the two people sitting and resting on the sofa, Zhang Wenqing immediately pulled Yu Shaoting forward and smiled at the two and stretched out his hand to greet them.

The two people sitting on the sofa were Zhao Rui and Lin Qisan. Although these two people are younger than Yu Shaoting, in terms of coffee positions, these two are not comparable to Yu Shaoting, who only became popular last year and has not yet gotten rid of the title of traffic star.

"Hello!" Zhao Rui and Lin Qisan, who were sitting on the sofa, both stood up and shook hands with Zhang Wenqing with a smile.

"I'm Zhang Wenqing from Yier Media, and I'm an agent. Zhang Wenqing pointed to Yu Shaoting beside him and introduced, "This is our company's artist Yu Shaoting, we are here to audition today!"

"Hello, I'm Yu Shaoting!" Yu Shaoting also stretched out his hand to the two.

"Hello! I have admired the name for a long time!" Zhao Rui and Lin Qisan have never cooperated with Yu Shaoting, this is the first time they have met, and they both shook hands with Yu Shaoting with a polite smile.

"Where," Zhang Wenqing said with a smile, "We have long admired you for a long time! Shaoting is about the same age as you, and may be a little older than you, but you debuted early, you can be regarded as Shaoting's predecessors, and in terms of acting, he still has to learn from you!"

"It's good if you say this to the stone," Lin Qisan said with a smile, "He has been acting since he was a child, and he has indeed debuted for many years." I'm different, don't say I debuted late, and I don't have many masterpieces, so I'm not as good as Mr. Yu!"

"You're laughing. Zhang Wenqing said with a smile, "You graduated from the Shenju Performance Department, you are classmates with Xiao Yao, and your father is an actor, even if you don't perform many film and television works, this acting skill is much better than Shaoting." ”

"Thank you for the compliment!" Lin Qisan said with a smile.

Although Lin Qisan's current film and television works are basically playing supporting roles, and he has not played heavy roles such as a male and a male second, which is not a masterpiece, but that is just his Lin Qisan's picky vision, he doesn't want to take on the drama casually, and he doesn't want to rely on his family and brother's relationship to compete for roles with others or with his own brothers. If you want to talk about acting skills, even if you can't compare to Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, Lin Qisan thinks that he is not bad, at least not worse than the traffic star who transformed into an actor after his debut from the singing talent show.

"By the way, I remembered that the main investors and producers of the project we auditioned for today were young film and television companies. The young man is a company founded by you and Xiao Yao, and the two of you are also the bosses. Zhang Wenqing asked, "Are you two bosses here today also going to audition?"

"Yes, we're here to audition!" Zhao Rui nodded.

"Then why are you here?" Zhang Wenqing said a little strangely, "Our Shaoting's audition time is at ten o'clock, but I heard that the audition starts at nine o'clock, and now the audition is about to start, shouldn't you two examiners wait for the first actor today to audition in the audition room?"

"You misunderstood," Zhao Rui said with a smile, "Although we are both shareholders of young people, we are not the producers or producers of this TV series project." The two of us came to the audition today, not as producers to audition actors and participate in the selection of role actors, but as audition actors, to fight for roles and be selected by the producer and director!"

"Huh?" Zhang Wenqing said in surprise, "You two are here to audition and fight for the role?"