Except for Mr. Li Xuejian, the other actors rushed to Spring City before the afternoon.

Du Wei was accompanied by her sister Du Fei on leave, Liu Ye was accompanied by Xie Yan, Huang Bo and Tang Wei arrived by plane alone, and Chen Zhiming and Chen Baoguo each brought an assistant.

Liu Ye came relatively early, although he and Xie Yan will both be front-line in the entertainment industry in the future, but this little couple at this time is full of humility and caution everywhere.

Li Mu is not a fan of Liu Ye, let alone a fan of Xie Yan, if he can, he would prefer Liu Ye's role to be played by a powerful actor with enough acting skills and experience, but unfortunately, this role must be younger, just like Leonardo in the Titanic, he must be very young, and among the young actors in the mainland, it is probably very difficult to find a more suitable one than Liu Ye in terms of comprehensive situation.

Liu Ye and Xie Na had absolute respect when facing Li Mu, Spielberg, and other old-timers, and this humble attitude made Li Mu relatively satisfied.

Su Yingxue's cousin Wang Xinran was accompanied by her mother Su Yuehua from Yanjing, Su Yuehua was not very relieved to let Wang Xinran fly from Yanjing to Spring City alone, so she deliberately asked for leave and wanted to stay with her in Spring City until the end of the press conference.

Coincidentally, the flight chosen by Wang Xinran and her mother Su Yuehua was the same as that of Du Wei and Du Fei sisters, although they were in different cabins, but when they landed, the four of them rushed to the hotel from the airport in the staff's car.

Wang Xinran was extremely excited along the way, although the school will open tomorrow, but she deliberately asked the teacher for leave, this time Li Mu invited her to participate in "Flying Tigers", which was a great joy for her, originally because she successfully played the second female lead in "Those Years", she has gathered some popularity and fame in the film and television industry, and is the envy of all acting students in the film academy.

This time, Wang Xinran did not disclose the news that she was going to participate in "Flying Tigers" to anyone other than her parents and relatives, but she was also somewhat vanity in her heart, she knew that she came to the press conference this time to wait for the crew to announce the news of her participation and other actors' participation in the public, so she didn't have to wait for herself to return to Yanjing, the students of the film academy must have known everything.

Think about it carefully, the acting students in the film academy are really not lucky, they played the second female lead in a record-breaking movie at the box office before entering the school, and now they have the opportunity to participate in such a high-profile blockbuster of the century, everyone must envy their luck, but they would never have dreamed that their idol Li Mu, who was so obsessed with life all day long, was actually their sister's boyfriend.

Unlike the excited Wang Xinran, Du Wei does not have too much excitement and excitement to play this movie, although countless actresses are eager to go crazy for their role, but for her, what she thinks of is basically Li Mu's trust and preference for herself, in short, Li Mu lets herself play, and she will act well, just don't let him down.

When the four of them arrived, several other actors had already arrived, Li Mu arranged everyone in the multimedia hall of the hotel, Spielberg wanted to get to know everyone one by one here, and explain to everyone some of the filming plans and core points of the film, and at the same time, together with his assistant, to give each actor a simple audition.

All the Chinese actors are selected by Li Mulai, although Spielberg rarely divides the power of actor casting, but after all, he is cooperating with Li Mu, he has made a very big principle concession, Li Mu's role selection, he will not think about replacing it, but as a director, he must also have an understanding of the state of each actor's acting, so although this audition is not about everyone's stay, but about everyone's image in Spielberg's mind.

Seeing Li Mu, Wang Xinran was extremely happy, she hadn't seen Li Mu for a long time, knowing that Li Mu was a busy person, and running around all day long, it was not easy for her sister to see him, let alone herself.

Li Mu also greeted Wang Xinran very warmly, and did not forget Su Yuehua next to her, and said politely: "Aunt Su, you are also here." ”

"yes. Su Yuehua said with a smile: "I don't feel at ease when I go out alone, and I deliberately asked for leave, if I had known that Du Fei and Du Wei happened to be on the same flight, I wouldn't have come." ”

Li Mu looked at Du Fei and Du Wei, who came in together, and asked curiously, "Are you here on the same flight?"

Du Fei nodded and said with a smile: "I was chatting with Xiaowei after boarding the plane, and Xinran and Auntie came in." ”

Du Wei and Wang Xinran have collaborated on a play, they have long been familiar with each other, and they are also friends, but this time Li Mu has always kept the matter of the cast secret, so both of them coincidentally kept the secret, and no one asked each other, but when the two met on the plane, they were not surprised, and they both felt that it was natural for Li Mu to invite each other to join this movie.

Li Mu smiled and said to Du Wei and Wang Xinran: "I'm afraid you two will have to take a lot of leave this semester, and after our press conference is over, you have to communicate with the school in advance. ”

Su Yuehua said: "This movie is of such great significance, it must be a lifelong harvest for the children, it doesn't matter if you delay class, just let the two children read more books and study on their own while filming." ”

Wang Xinran said: "Mom, you are going to exhaust your daughter to death, and you have to read books and teach yourself in addition to filming......

Su Yuehua smiled: "That's what I said, but I didn't expect you to really see it." ”

Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "Come, let me introduce to you first, Hollywood's director Spielberg, this cooperation with director Spielberg is just the beginning of the cooperation between Makino Imaging and Hollywood, and the company will have in-depth cooperation with director Spielberg and the Hollywood production team in the future, so you two must work hard to leave a good impression on Director Spielberg, maybe he will invite you to Hollywood to film in the future." ”

Du Wei nodded obediently, and her expression didn't show much surprise, but Wang Xinran was shocked by Li Mu's words, and nodded excitedly.

Spielberg, that is a master admired by the entire film school from students to professors, it is an incomparable honor to work with him, if he really has the opportunity to be invited to Hollywood to make a movie, even if it is a fifth-line supporting role, it is enough to wake up in his sleep with a smile.

Subsequently, Spielberg used the courseware he made to tell everyone in detail about the plot, style, vision and character positioning of the movie "Flying Tigers", and after telling many details in the movie clearly, he began to hand over the screened script fragments to the corresponding actors and let them prepare for auditions.

Spielberg's assistant set up a camera to record the whole process of each person's audition, and Spielberg, as a director, needs to constantly study the characteristics of these actors, as well as their strengths and weaknesses, and consider a complete set of shooting plans for each person.

The first to start the audition was Mr. Chen Zhiming, who did not have many roles, and the scene of this audition was a fragment of President Jiang's impassioned instructions to his subordinates when he decided to develop the National Army Air Force.

There is no partner at the audition, everyone is performing the clips in their hands in front of the air and the camera, which is more difficult than the real filming, but the old drama bones are the old drama bones, he repeatedly figured out the script several times, stood in front of the camera and immersed himself in the performance, once later, Spielberg gave a thumbs up and praised in English: "Very good, if it is a real shooting, this should be done all over again." ”

followed by Mr. Chen Baoguo and Mr. Li Xuejian, all of whom passed it all over the time without exception, especially Mr. Li Xuejian's performance, which made Spielberg's expression involuntarily amazed for a moment.

Compared with these old actors, the performances of other young actors are relatively weaker, among which the best performance is Huang Bo, Spielberg only corrected it once, and his performance has passed Spielberg's assessment.

Du Wei, Tang Wei, and Wang Xinran, the three girls, always lacked some of the atmosphere of the war years when performing, but fortunately, Spielberg patiently communicated with everyone through the translator for a long time, telling them how to grasp the characteristics of the war years in their hearts, and the three of them are also actors with certain acting talents, so they can basically satisfy Spielberg.

In Spielberg's words, today is only a brief contact, although some people's acting skills are still a little lacking, but I believe that in the next few months of cooperation, he will definitely help everyone find that feeling, which is what he is good at, and it is also his duty as a director.

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Spielberg was satisfied with the actors as a whole, and even exceeded his original expectations, which also made Li Mu breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, it is a big production that carries the image of the country and the nation, if Spielberg really feels that which of the actors he chooses is not good, he can only grit his teeth and replace it, whether it is Du Wei, who he has always preferred, or Liu Ye, who he thinks is very suitable for this image.

At half past seven in the evening, the dinner began.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the old Flying Tigers and their relatives had already returned to the hotel, and the staff arranged for them to rest for two hours before inviting them to the banquet hall.

The highlight of this dinner is to allow the actors to meet the old heroes, pay tribute to them, and get to know them, their stories, their memories of history, and their inner world during the Anti-Japanese War.

After the old heroes took their seats, Li Mu took the microphone of the hotel and introduced to everyone: "Seniors, today the main Chinese actors of our "Flying Tigers" have arrived in Spring City, and they all have reverence for you old-timers without exception, so they also hope to be able to officially express their respect to all the old-timers, so before the dinner starts, all our cast and crew and all the staff will pay tribute to all the old-timers!"

As soon as the words fell, the actors who had been waiting outside the banquet hall for a long time entered the venue in the order of their age, and when the eldest teacher Li Xuejian led the way to the stage, many people among the old Flying Tigers of Chinese nationality exclaimed: "It's Jiao Yulu!"