Zhu Qiang is the first actor to become popular by Li Qian himself.

I think that when he was still studying, he became popular because he successfully played the weak scholar Xu Xian in "The Legend of the New White Lady".

In terms of appearance, he can be classified as "so handsome that women can't close their legs", especially his facial features are extremely delicate and soft, and he looks very indistinguishable from each other.

In terms of acting skills, he successfully played Xu Xian in his early twenties, and his starting foundation is terrifying, which is definitely top among actors in their twenties.

But after "The Legend of the New White Lady" became an instant hit, although he signed into Minghu Culture, he has always been considered the first sequence of the actors in the Minghu Culture Film and Television Department, but in recent years, he has indeed not had any too bright performances.

He is a TV drama coffee, after "The Legend of the New White Lady" became popular, although he took over several movie roles, his appearance is too delicate for a man, so delicate that it is almost bewitching, and he started from a TV series, so although he also participated in Liu Chengzhang's "Sword Fairy" back then, it was only as a supporting role with limited roles, and Qin Wei's "The Door of Life and Death" He also played it, and there were fewer scenes.

His main business in recent years is still TV dramas. But his image is too unique, and he has a very high coffee position as soon as he comes up, if he is not the actor, it is not easy to find him at all, so although there are still film appointments every year, there has never been a hit like "The Legend of the New White Lady".

He has been trying to transform, has been trying all kinds of roles, trying to get rid of the imprint brought to him by the role of Xu Xian, and get rid of the default setting of "Xu Xian" in the audience's heart.

Unfortunately, it was not always very successful.

Not everyone can be like Bai Yujing, when she needs to transform to get rid of the shackles of a strong character image, there happens to be an extremely negative role for her to shape.

Zhu Qiang has never found such a role and such a suitable play.

He had been worried, too.

Actors, when they hit the street, they hate themselves for not being popular! If they are popular, they are afraid that they will fight in the next play!

An actor, even if you have been popular for half the sky, once there are no new representative works for a long time, the audience will slowly forget about you.

Forgetting, it means losing attention.

The audience doesn't pay attention to you, and to a large extent, the producers and directors don't pay attention to you - this is a vicious circle that no one can escape.

I remember that year's Minghu Cultural Annual Conference, Zhu Qiang, Bai Yujing, and Li Qian once talked about this issue, and Lao Bai's advice to him was: Don't worry, if you don't have a good book, try to act in a drama!

And Li Qian told him: Continue to hone your acting skills, and within ten years, I will definitely find you to make a good work that will make you famous in film history! But the premise is that your acting skills must be honed!

Since then, Zhu Qiang's heart seems to have settled down all at once.

Minghu Culture has a very good relationship with the Shuntian Drama Theater, whether it is Li Qian himself or other directors in the company, when filming, he needs some old drama roles, and his favorite is to find people from the Shuntian Drama Theater, and then he goes back to the film academy to find his teachers.

In addition, Zhu Qiang's own conditions and talents are not bad, so he successfully signed a two-year short-term contract as a temporary worker, and went in, and the two-year contract expired at the beginning of this year, and he took the initiative to renew it for another two years.

So far, among the actors of Minghu Culture, the most outstanding should belong to Zhou Baoshan, Zhou Zhiyu, Huang Ge and Zhu Qiang, and the others have to be slightly behind half a step in terms of fame and works, and among these four people, in addition to Zhou Baoshan, the remaining three are currently in the Shuntian Drama Theater, with the identity of a layer of drama actors.

In September, when the theater rehearsed a new play, Zhu Qiang won the leading role of a modern drama, and the first stop of the national tour, Li Qian took Wang Jinglu to see it, and even Wang Jinglu said that compared with the "Xu Xian" of the year, Zhu Qiang has changed a lot and made great progress.

Li Qian also thinks so.

Seeing his performance at that time, Li Qian thought that if it wasn't for the inappropriate timing, "Farewell My Concubine" would have been filmed now - because Li Qian believed that the current Zhu Qiang could already play Cheng Dieyi.

In contrast, although Ning Caichen, the scholar in "A Chinese Ghost Story", is also a classic screen role, but to play such a role well, his difficulty is still much inferior to Cheng Dieyi.

Zhu Qiang definitely has no problem.

Even, when Li Qian and Jin Han both said Zhu Qiang's name, Jin Han sighed and said: "Before I read your script, I was thinking about such a ghost fox and a love film, what kind of actor should I find to play it, at that time, the first thing I thought of was Zhu Qiang." Playing an ancient scholar, especially this feeling of being a pure scholar, no one can compare to him! When I see the story outline of your adaptation, I can basically be sure that you are the character setting of Ning Caichen in the movie written by Zhu Qiang!"

Of course, Li Qian couldn't tell him that he had seen another wonderful Ning Caichen on the big screen, and his script was slightly changed from that version of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

So, he just smiled and said, "It would be better if you thought he was suitable!"

After a pause, he said: "Zhu Qiang has been honing his acting skills very hard in the past few years, and I feel that he is almost finished! If it weren't for him being too handsome, in fact, in "Dragon Gate Inn", I would like to recommend him to you, the big stall head of the East Factory, in fact, he is quite suitable. ”

Jin Han frowned and thought about it when he heard this, as if he was seriously considering Li Qian's proposal, but in the end, he shook his head and said, "No! It's too handsome! I can't cover it up with makeup!"

But soon he added, "But I remember to tell you so...... In addition to being handsome, he really seems to have a little bit of a sense of both good and evil! If he has a suitable role again, he can really try to play that kind of negative role!"

Li Qian smiled, "It's better to be a little neurotic!"

Jin Han laughed, "I'll tell Qiangzi about your evaluation when I go back!"

When filming "The Legend of the New White Lady", Jin Han was the director of photography, and his relationship with Zhu Qiang has always been very good.

So, Zhu Qiang's matter was finalized.

According to the story and script of this version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" adapted from "Nie Xiaoqian", Jin Han has no opinion, which means that he can start the preparation of this movie at any time.

It's just that Zhu Qiang still has a tour of the theater at present, there is a contract, and there is also the audience's expectation after becoming famous, this is not easy to skip tickets, so he must wait for the end of his national tour. However, during this time, it can be left to Jin Han to make the preliminary preparations for the crew.

It is not uncommon for a film to start filming from the establishment of the project to the start of filming, as short as three or four months, or as long as one or two years - "Dragon Gate Inn" was prepared for more than half a year before filming.

However, after Ning Caichen's role was finalized, Jin Han quickly looked at Li Qian with a smile, squeezed his eyebrows, and asked, "What about the heroine?" Who do you think is suitable?"

Li Qian smiled bitterly when he heard this.

This one is a big head.

He Yingyu's image, especially her appearance, is actually a bit modern and exquisite, so she can play a pure girl or a sexy girl, but in fact, acting in a costume drama is somewhat inconsistent.

Makeup can solve part of it, acting skills can solve part of it, and camera angles can solve part of it, so, under Jin Han's command and training, she beautifully completed the role of the boss lady Jin Jiaoyu and successfully expanded her own acting path - but this can't change the fact that her image style is still hard.

Of course, this one is not important.

The establishment of a character in the movie is a comprehensive matter, the actor's personal image, acting skills, the costumes provided by the crew, the tendency of makeup, photography, and even lighting are all very important, of course, the most important thing is definitely the character given by the story and script, so in fact, even Li Qian dare not say that He Yingyu can't play Nie Xiaoqian in "A Chinese Ghost Story".

Maybe He Yingyu, who is now after the phoenix bathing in the fire, can perform an unusually brilliant Nie Xiaoqian!

Qin Jingjing's reasoning is exactly the same.

She made her debut as a beauty in ancient costumes, and her first role in her debut was Diao Chan in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so there is no problem at all for her to play ancient costumes. And under the backdrop of the crew's hard work, and the wonderful plot and character design, if you want to say that an actor at the level of a Berlin actress can't play a role like Nie Xiaoqian, which is not too complicated, it will be too underestimating the "actress".

Moreover, considering that they were going to wait for Zhu Qiang, this drama will have to start filming at least after the year, so the schedules of both of them should be just right at that time.

In addition, as far as Minghu Culture's own actresses are concerned, Lao Bai is too old and inappropriate, and Zhao Yingying's appearance is somewhat unsatisfactory.

Then, even Lu Lingxi, who thinks she is very good at acting, can't absolutely say that she can't play Nie Xiaoqian.

There are also Jiang Yiyi, Cheng Subottle, Zhao Qing......

But the original version left a deep impression on Li Qian.

It was so deep that Li Qian didn't know how to choose this version of Nie Xiaoqian for a while.

So, he tried to ask Kimhan, "What do you think? Who do you think is more suitable?"

Jin Han thought seriously for a moment and asked, "Can you tell the truth?"

Li Qian smiled, "Nonsense! Of course you have to tell the truth!"

Jin Han crossed Erlang's legs and said, "Actually...... Whether it's when I read the original book "Nie Xiaoqian", or when I read your version of the story outline and script, my feelings ...... As far as the current batch of domestic actresses is concerned, I think they are actually not very suitable. ”

Li Qian's eyes lit up when he heard this, leaned over slightly, and asked, "What do you say?"

Jin Han said: "The role of Nie Xiaoqian is very unique. When I read your script, I was even more sure of this! This character, when I shoot it, must be of a particularly beautiful type. It's dusty, but it can't be fairy-like, it's not the kind of fireworks that can't eat the world, ......no! I'm not very good at describing it, but you can understand it as a little bit of a ghost!"

"If you think about it from this perspective, you can understand what I mean. We can't use actors who already have a very distinct image positioning in the hearts of the audience!"

"Xiaoyu has a savage girlfriend, a sexy outfit like "The Matrix", and a boss lady, her image is good, it is called complex and changeable, and the drama road is open, but it is already miscellaneous, and it is not easy to appear as soon as that kind of character appears...... Wow! Look! You know that, right?"

Seeing Li Qian nodding slowly, he said again: "Actually, I have thought about Fu Hongxue and Qin Jingjing. They can be regarded as the two actors of their generation with the best acting skills. But Fu Hongxue has played Su Daji, and she has played it so successfully! You think, the thousand-year-old demon king, that kind of enchanting energy, no! I want this Nie Xiaoqian, it must be pure! Qin Jingjing is not suitable! Don't despise me when you say this, the reason is that her acting skills are so good! In my opinion, the role of Nie Xiaoqian is a character who picks people, and she doesn't pick acting skills! I am not afraid of acting skills, as long as she looks like the image in my heart, it will be fine! Qin Jingjing's acting skills are too fierce, and they do not meet my needs to shape this character! I'm really afraid that she will give me this female ghost to perform complex emotions and six desires, then this ghost will not be beautiful!"

As he spoke, Li Qian frowned and pondered, and when he finished speaking, Li Qian nodded.

Not to mention, it makes sense.

Seriously speaking, in the original version of "A Chinese Ghost Story", Wang Zuxian is also better than the image, in fact, he really cares about acting skills, hehe......

So Li Qian asked, "Then what do you want to do?"

Jin Han's answer was categorical, "Audition! You can even consider holding an audition!"

Li Qian thought about it, nodded slowly, and said, "It's okay!"

But he still didn't forget to add, "Auditions are auditions, and the actors in the company also have to give them a chance, so let them all participate in the audition!"

Jin Han nodded briskly, "No problem......! So decided?"

Li Qian knows that Jin Han has always been an ambitious director.

And an ambitious director will not be willing to be stuck with characters and actors in every play. When filming "Dragon Gate Inn", he had no choice, the key was that he had no confidence, so the cast configuration of He Yingyu, Zhou Zhiyu and Cheng Suhua was of course his best choice.

But now, he has succeeded, and he has confidence.

Therefore, the truth he said certainly exists, and it is not unreasonable, but in the final analysis, in Li Qian's mind, it is likely that this truth will have a greater effect, and it can still help him block He Yingyu, Qin Jingjing and other famous actresses within Minghu culture.

He wants to build his own team!