At Salt Lake City International Airport, the airport hall was full of people, and Wang Yang walked outside with a black luggage backpack on his shoulder. This time, he came not to visit the class, and speaking of which, he is a member of the crew of "Youth and Dancing 2". The main purpose of his visit was to discuss some script issues with Sarah Schugman, the director of "Youth Musical" 2.

Sarah Schulgman, a 34-year-old British female director, was also offered the directing opportunity this year, just after being nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film this year. Previously, she had asked Wang Yang to come to Salt Lake City several times, because when the actual filming was carried out, the script would inevitably have some problems, and the director would need to communicate with the screenwriter to find the problem and solve it.

But Wang Yang has been busy in New York before, and can only discuss with her on the phone, and now with the acquisition of Blue Sky Studios over, and the crew of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has not yet been formed, he is finally idle, so he has to come to Salt Lake City before returning to Los Angeles. But the fact that he came here, except that Sarah Schugman knew, he didn't tell anyone else, he wanted to surprise Jessica.

Coming to Eastern High School, Wang Yang stepped out of the taxi, looking at the familiar campus in front of him, he couldn't help but spread his hands and take a deep breath. He grabbed his duffel backpack and walked to the baseball field at Eastern High School, where he knew the crew would be filming today.

Walking down the steps of the baseball stadium, through the barbed wire, Wang Yang saw a large group of people in the distance, the crew, extras, etc., he was in good spirits, and he had to walk over quickly.

"Hey, boy, you have to stop here, you can't go any further!" At this time, a white middle-aged man stopped in front, and he said a little impatiently: "It's just filming, there's nothing to see, go back." "As the chorre responsible for blocking the venue, he has to intercept these idle people every day.

Wang Yang smiled and took off the Golden State Warriors cap on his head, suddenly felt the dazzling sunlight, and smiled: "Hey, Gais, don't you recognize me? I'm Wang Yang, a member of the crew." He remembered that this man's name was Gais, and he was also a crew chorre during "Youth Musical".

"Wang Yang?" Gace frowned and glanced at Wang Yang a few times, then immediately laughed "oh oh", let go of his body, patted his head, and said with a smile: "Of course I recognize you, Director Yang! ”

"Well, then I'm leaving. Wang Yang put back on his cap and walked over quickly, and when he approached the crew, his footsteps became quiet again.

Some scenes in this scene require a large number of extras, so there are many young people standing or sitting at the baseball stadium over there, waiting for the shooting arrangement; further away there are camera rails on the ground, and the photographer controls the camera, not Valey Pfister, Sarah Schugman has her own familiar photographer, and Valey Pfister is currently not working, he is waiting for "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", Wang Yang has already negotiated with him, and the two will continue to work together.

In addition to the camera crew, there were also gaffers, sound engineers and others in a large circle, Sarah Schugman looked at the viewfinder with a serious face, and in the field, Jessica, Tom Welling, Marcus Mans and others were performing. Suddenly, Sarah Sugarman shouted "cut" in dissatisfaction, and she walked into the arena and instructed Jessica on something, and Jessica listened attentively and nodded from time to time.

"My sweetheart is going to be the king of NG again?" Wang Yang stood far away, holding his chest with his hands, the smile on his face was a little helpless, he was not afraid of wasting film, but he was afraid that Jessica would be unhappy. Just thinking about it, he suddenly felt someone next to him looking at him, turned his head to look, and saw a blonde girl standing a few meters away, wearing a gorgeous rich daughter's outfit, it was Rachel.

She was holding a water glass, her eyes were a little glazed, and she seemed to be stunned. Wang Yang raised his hand to her and said with a smile: "Hi, Rachel!"

"Hey ......" Rachel suddenly came to her senses, she also smiled slightly, lowered her head, and then slowly walked over and said, "You came from New York?" Wang raised his eyebrows and smiled, nodded and said, "Yes, New York." Rachel realized that she seemed to have asked a silly question, and lowered her head and took a sip of water.

Wang Yang glanced at Jessica, she was still listening to Sarah Sugarman's guidance, he looked at Rachel, who was silent next to him, thought for a while, and asked, "Are you okay?" Well, I mean, I heard Jessica say that you have a cold, and she infected you......" He stopped and said, "So, how's that?"

"It's okay, I'm fine. Rachel smiled, shook the water glass in her hand, and said, "Take the medicine, drink more hot water, and soon you will be fine." She said in a nasal voice, and laughed, "Actually, I want to get a little sicker, so I can rest for a few days." Seeing her say so much, Wang Yang couldn't help but smile and said, "Please, how long has the movie been filming? Rachel wrinkled her eyes uncomfortably and whispered, "Sarah's temper is too big!"

Wang Yang quietly glanced at Sarah Sugarman over there and asked, "How big, bigger than me?" Rachel shrugged his shoulders, Wang Yang frowned and said, "It seems that you deliberately let yourself catch a cold, Rachel, this is a conspiracy." Rachel nodded, "Yes." Wang Yang sighed: "This is really bad, some people want to be absent from work." ”

Both of them couldn't help laughing, but after a few laughs, they both fell silent and didn't speak again. At this time, Zachary's surprised voice suddenly came from the side: "Oh, Jan, you're here!" He ran over with a smile on his face, Wang Yang smiled and hugged him, and smashed his back with his other hand, and said with a smile: "Man, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Seeing Wang Yang and Zachary chatting, Rachel next to him showed a faint smile and walked away silently with a water glass.

After the two chatted for a while, the shooting over there also passed, and as Sarah Schugman shouted, "Okay! Prepare for the next shot!" The camera crew quickly moved into action, adjusting the position of the rails, light panels and other equipment. Jessica, who was idle, vaguely heard Wang Yang's laughter, she looked around with some confusion, and suddenly found Wang Yang talking to Zachary in the distance, her eyes lit up, her heartbeat accelerated suddenly, she ran over and shouted and laughed: "Yang!"

"Hey!" Wang Yang stretched out his hands and hugged her, then let go, and smiled in surprise with the surprise on her face. Zachary winked at the two of them and left consciously. Jessica punched Wang Yang with a smile, and said in a reproachful tone: "Why didn't you tell me?" Wang Yang spread his hands and said with a smile: "I came to see how you wear a mask to film." If I told you, what would you do if you took off your mask, but why can't I see it now?" Jessica rolled her eyes and smiled, "You must be disappointed!"

"Amazing Jan!" shouted Sarah Sugarman in the distance, waving her hands and shouting, "You're finally here, come here! Don't fall in love on my set, or I'll kick you back to New York, come here!"

Everyone laughed, and Wang Yang responded to her loudly: "Wait a minute, it will be fine right away!" He looked at Jessica, who was a little embarrassed, took off the Warriors' cap, put it on her head, and said, "The sun is very fierce, don't get sunburned, you are still cold." He handed her the duffel backpack again, patted the backpack and said with a smile: "There is a contract worth 100 million in it, help me keep it." With that, he walked briskly over to Sarah Schugman and discussed the script with her.

Jessica held her backpack in one hand and held the ball cap on her head with the other, revealing a sweet smile. Rachel over there retracted her gaze, the dazzling sunlight made her head hurt a little, she took a deep breath, held the water glass in both hands, and kept drinking the hot water in the cup one by one, at night, although the crew had been disbanded and everyone was free to move, Wang Yang did not go on a date with Jessica, he didn't come to Salt Lake City for a date, he discussed the filming issues of the script with Sarah Schugman all night, solved many of her questions, and didn't sleep until the early hours of the morning. The next day, he continued to follow the crew for filming.

In the physics laboratory of Eastern High School, this scene is probably the content of "Gabriella" showing her talent in front of her classmates, the camera crew has put the equipment in place, Jessica and several classmates who play the genius club are also in place, and everything seems to be ready.

"What!?" Sarah Sugarman glared and roared, looking at the middle-aged white man and yelling, "No actors!?, where did he go?" The scene reporter said helplessly: "That guy just called, he was admitted to the hospital with food poisoning in the morning." Sarah Schugman was stunned and said, "How can this be!"

Everyone in the research room was a little puzzled, Wang Yang, who was sitting on the side, stood up, walked up and asked, "What's going on?" Sarah Sugarman was very angry, she looked left and right, her eyes suddenly fixed on Wang Yang, and shouted: "Amazing Yang, you come!" Wang Yang was stunned and said, "Why am I coming?" Sarah Sugarman said quickly: "Didn't you notice? There's only one Asian face here!" And this scene has a mass role of a Chinese physics genius, so you come!"

"I!?I don't know how to act!" Wang Yang was stunned, but he remembered that he only wrote "genius classmates" in the script, and did not say that he had to be Chinese, he asked: "Can't you just find someone?" Sarah Schulgman frowned and said: "I'm the director, I need this effect! And you know that the character only has a few lines, what's so difficult!" She impatiently stuffed the script of this scene into Wang Yang's hand, and said, "Don't be wordy, hurry up! You are the screenwriter, you don't need me to explain it, right?"

Wang Yang took the script and looked at everyone, Jessica looked interested, clenched her fist and made a "come on" gesture to him, Zachary , Tom Welling, Rachel and others gathered outside also talked and laughed, Zachary shouted expectantly: "Hey, Yang, it's time to show off your acting skills!" Wang Yang smiled, it didn't hurt to give it a try, so he nodded and said, "Well, okay......"

Before the words fell, everyone laughed and applauded, and some whistled, and Sarah Schugman shouted, "Wonder Young, give you a minute to read the script." Wang Yang smiled and nodded, looked at the familiar words on the script, and after a while, he put down the script and said, "Okay." Sarah Schugman immediately clapped her hands and shouted, "Ready, everyone! ”

"Okay!" Wang Yang walked to the front of the camera, Jessica next to him smiled at him, and said softly: "Yang, we are acting together again, it's so funny!" Wang Yang also felt funny, but more often felt very weird, this performance was different from the last one, because this time the camera would also be aimed at him, he would appear in the film frame, he had always stood behind the camera, and now he stood in front of the camera.

It's also different from the trailer of "Ghost Record" that was simply shot with a single camera, and now it's a movie. Look at the cameraman with the camera in front of him, the gaffer with the light board, the sound engineer with the microphone, and the director Sarah Schugman...... There are also those scene notes, makeup artists, Rachel and other actors in the back, Wang Yang couldn't help muttering "wow", he seemed to really realize the world in front of the camera.

"Go!" shouted Sarah Schugman, and the slate took the slate and finished the scene number, shouting, "First time, start!" As soon as he tapped the slate board, the camera was set in motion.

Wang Yang looked into Jessica's eyes, smiled and read his lines, "Do you know what Einstein's greatest theory is?" Jessica acted like a thoughtful face, and was about to answer, when Sarah Schugman over there shouted: "Cut!" She spread her hands dissatisfiedly and said: "Amazing Young, you give people the feeling of 'I'm reading lines'! Also, your voice is too gentle, she is not your girlfriend Jessica, she is your classmate Gabriella! Your voice should be cooler, you know, cool!"

"Oh, I see. Wang Yang nodded, the camera started again, he looked at Jessica, pretending to be cool, "Do you know what Einstein's greatest theory is?" Jessica said suspiciously: "e=mc2?" Wang Yang shook his head and said, "No ......" Before he could finish speaking, Sarah Schugman shouted: "Cut!

"I tried. Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders helplessly, he said that he would not perform anymore.

Tom Welling and Zachary in the back both gloated and laughed, Rachel smiled slightly, and Jessica couldn't help but laugh. When they were filming "Youth Musical" 1, Wang Yang was snorting and drinking every day, of course he had a good temper, but now seeing the old director being reprimanded by the new director, they all felt very funny and wanted to say "You tasted it!".

Wang Yang knows what Sarah Schuckman means, but knowing that whether he can do it or not is two different things. The problem is not in the acting skills, but in the input, including the tone of the voice and facial emotions, but he can't be invested, he always says that he is invested in his feelings, he is invested in feelings, but he always feels that everyone is looking at him, countless pairs of eyes are focused on him, and he has no way to "enter the play". He understands now that it is no wonder that Greta Garbo asked that no idle people appear within his line of sight when filming.

He's just playing a trick now, a few lines, and the main character of the movie has countless shots, countless lines...... It is too difficult for them to ignore these people on the set and enter the world of the script, whether it is expressive or experiential. But he vaguely had some thoughts in his heart, isn't it the duty of a good director to let the actors into that world and let them play their best?

"Alright, Wonder Jan, do it again!" Sarah Schugman shouted, interrupting his thoughts, but soon, she was very angry, "Almost, almost! Again!", "Cut, isn't it just a few lines, please!", "Oh, it seems that you really have no acting talent......"

Wang Yang wanted to try from the beginning, to being dazed and then irritated, and finally he took a few deep breaths, calmed himself down, and tried to get rid of the unnatural feeling in his mind, and when the number of ng rose to double digits, it was finally over!

"good!" Sarah Schugman shouted excitedly, grabbed her hair again, and said, "Oh my God, Wonder Young, fortunately you are not the actor of the movie, otherwise I would be angry with you!" Wang Yang breathed a sigh of relief, and high-fived Jessica with a smile, as if a big stone had been dropped in his heart, and Tom Welling, Zachary and others over there applauded and cheered: "Young, you can get the best supporting actor!" Everyone laughed, and the jubilant scene was like the movie was about to finish.

"I don't want to be an actor anymore...... Wang Yang also laughed, he looked at Jessica, it turned out that he was the king of NG, he suddenly sighed: "Jesse, you acted awesomely." Jessica was a little puzzled and said, "Why do you say that?" Wang Yang shrugged and smiled: "There is no reason, you are just great." ”

"Wonder Young, don't worry, I'll keep your footage well, I'll definitely see it in the movie!" Sarah Schugman laughed and clapped her hands: "Prepare for the next shot!"

Wang Yang spent a total of three days in Salt Lake City, solving all of Sarah Schugman's script problems, during which time he was too busy to go to dinner alone with Jessica. After a reluctant goodbye, Wang Yang stepped on the plane to Los Angeles, but he wanted to return to Los Angeles without any free time, because he was going to devote himself to the preparation of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door".

Chris Gardner's selection was settled, but his son ...... Wang Yang, who was sitting on the plane, glanced at the figure of the blonde stewardess passing by a few times, and muttered: "Will's eldest son, it seems to be called Terley?"

(To be continued)