Episode 543: Kim Sae-ron like Yoona
Although Zheng Xiyi is talented in acting, he has never had any life experience in the past two lives, such as a soldier or a policeman, let alone as an agent. He discussed this issue with Li Zhenfan when he took over this play, Li Zhenfan originally planned to let Zheng Xiyi go to the police academy for two months to train to experience the role, but Zheng Xiyi went to the police academy for half a day and decided to change places. The duties of the South Korean police are actually more like the police in Huaxia, and the real criminal cases are handled by the prosecutor system, so the South Korean police academy does not have a particularly strict militarized training course, and Zheng Xiyi estimates that his two months in the police academy are not as much experienced as the month of military training when he was in college in Huaxia.
Li Zhenfan is also a director who pays attention to details, since Zheng Xiyi is so strict with himself, he is naturally very happy, so he went to learn about it again, and found that the recruit training camp of the ordinary South Korean army could not achieve the effect they wanted, although two months of training will definitely make Zheng Xiyi a little military temperament, but he has to play a special role, at least at the level of special forces or marines. Li Zhenfan went to contact the propaganda department of the National Defense Department again, wanting to send Zheng Xiyi to South Korea's special forces to experience life, and the propaganda department was quite happy at first, and it could be regarded as indirectly publicizing the glory of being a soldier, but as soon as he heard Zheng Xiyi's name, his face changed, and other actors could say that Zheng Xiyi, an American, went to South Korea's special forces for two months to stay in the special forces, wasn't it a joke? Although there are no high-level military secrets, he must be a South Korean anyway!
Zheng Xiyi has been in the American entertainment industry for so many years, and he knows more or less about the cooperation model between some American film and television production companies and the military, the US military has a department dedicated to cooperating with these companies, and related movies and TV series can seek support from this department as long as they ultimately promote the image of the US military, machine guns, tanks, fighters, and even aircraft carriers can be borrowed for filming, and it is even easier to discuss if the actors go to the barracks to experience life or something. Since the South Korean military has no way to settle down, Zheng Xiyi simply finds his own relationship to see if he can find a special forces training camp at the US military base in South Korea, who knows that the US military does not have a special forces training camp in South Korea, and the only naval base is only used to provide supplies and maintenance for naval ships, and of course there is no Marine Corps training camp, so in the end he had to go to the US Marine Corps base in Okinawa to experience life.
The training camp doesn't matter what kind of star Zheng Xiyi is, when he comes, he will be a serious soldier, and the first thing is to shave Zheng Xiyi's hair into a pot lid, he smacked his mouth and didn't dare to squeak, and honestly followed the soldiers to start training together.
There are no recruits in the Marine Corps training camp, and each of them is an elite soldier of each unit, but only about forty percent of these elite soldiers can successfully pass the training and become real marines, and the difficulty of training can be imagined. Zheng Xiyi's only preferential treatment here is that he will not be eliminated, but the amount of training will not be less than a little, even if Zheng Xiyi insists on exercising all year round, and has more than ten years of national art foundation, but in the first month at the beginning, he fainted four times due to physical exhaustion, and it was not until the second month that he was finally able to struggle to complete a full day of training, and at the end of two months, he lost ten kilograms in one breath, and the image and temperament of the whole person also changed greatly, from the warm man who used to smile to the sword-like iron-blooded soldier.
When Li Zhenfan saw Zheng Xiyi's new image, he was really shocked, and then he completely let go of his heart hanging in mid-air.
He hesitated in the choice of the leading actor, because Yuan Bin and Zheng Xiyi met his requirements very well. Yuan Bin acted in "Tai Chi Flag Flying" , and has served in the military seriously, and is not a literary soldier, voluntarily joined the front-line troops to guard the 38th line, only half a year later because of a knee ligament injury and retired early, received a year-long physical therapy to recover, so Yuan Bin plays this role and no longer needs to go to the army to experience life, his biggest disadvantage is that he doesn't know martial arts, he has not acted in action movies, and knee ligaments are also a big problem; Zheng Xiyi is the opposite, knows Chinese martial arts, there is no problem with acting in action movies, but he has no experience in the army at all, although his acting skills are superb, he can play a cream boy and evolve into a murderer, but his temperament and image are far from being an agent。
The two actors have their own advantages and disadvantages, and Li Zhenfan couldn't choose for a while, so he simply called Yuan Bin and Zheng Xiyi out for a drink, and directly asked the two of them what they thought. Although Yuan Bin likes this role very much, he is a little nervous considering that he has to undergo months-long combat training, his knee ligaments are still a fragile part, action movies have a lot of running, jumping and fighting, all of which are shots of great physical strength and exercise, even if his knee ligaments have to carry through the training for another one to two months of filming, needless to say, the danger is needless to say, and if he is injured again, it may affect walking, so Yuan Bin decided to withdraw from casting after thinking about it for a long time, and Zheng Xiyi became the only choice.
After the start-up ceremony, the entire crew began to shoot the first set of shots, Cha Tae-sik called Jung So-mi who was hiding in the dark in the basement at the staircase to come out. The first shot is tilted from top to bottom at an angle of 45 degrees to shoot Cha Tae-sik pushing the door into the corridor, wearing a hat on his head, and it is backlit so he can't see his face at all, and the second shot is shooting from bottom to up, Cha Tae-sik only shows the lower half of his face, and says two lines with facial paralysis, adding six words together, and this set of shots is over.
Whether it is a movie or a TV series, the first set of shots will generally choose a relatively simple one that does not require acting skills, one is to let the reporters take pictures, and the other is not to put too much pressure on the actors, so this set of shots took only fifteen minutes to shoot, the real shooting only took five minutes, and the remaining ten minutes were for the reporters to take countless photos of Zheng Xiyi from two angles. After Li Zhenfan called CUT, he stood up and clapped his hands, saluted and thanked the reporters who took the photos, and then sent the reporters away with the assistant director and main actors.
The next shot is Kim So-mi walking up the stairs from the darkness, and Jung Hee-yi standing next to the camera as a puppet, this shot actually doesn't need him to stand here, but in order to keep Kim Sae-ron from performing air-to-air, Jung Hee-yi didn't walk away. The heroine Zheng Sumi is played by Kim Sae-ron, who is still half a year away from turning eleven, the little girl doesn't recognize life at all, and when she first saw Zheng Xiyi, she took the initiative to hold him by the hand and called Azexi. At that time, Zheng Xiyi had not yet gone to closed training, and it was no problem to say that he was a twenty-one or two-year-old college student, and a little fan as big as Kim Sae-lun called him OPPA, but he was called an uncle by Kim Sae-lun, and his mood was really a little delicate. After two months of hard training, Zheng Xiyi is now dark and thin, and he deliberately left a little beard residue unshaven, and finally looks like a man in his thirties, so Kim Sae-ron called Azexi more justifiable.
Kim Sae-ron only made her debut in her first movie last year, and "Lone Agent" is her second work, but her acting skills are no worse than Kim Yu-jeong, who played Eun-ji in "Chaser". This girl is only one year younger than Kim Yuzhen, her two eyes are flashing with aura, and she is also a very smart little girl, and there is always a hint of playfulness in her smile, which always reminds Zheng Xiyi of the first time she met Lin Yuna at S.M.
Thinking of Yoona and then of Seo Hyun, Jung Hee-yi couldn't help but flash her red lips and clear eyes in front of her eyes, but the footsteps of Kim Sae Ryun coming down the stairs immediately summoned him back to the shooting site. Although the little girl's acting skills are good, this scene is still a little difficult for her, she has already shot three times and has not done it yet, Zheng Xiyi silently waved her fist at Kim Sae-run in the dark, meaning to let her cheer, but I don't know if the little girl sees it, it's too dark below.
After this scene was filmed, a shot of Jung So-mi following Cha Tae-sik upstairs was taken, and the stairwell scene was filmed, and when the staff moved the equipment, Kim Sae-ron pouted and pulled the corner of Lee Jeong-fan's clothes, pointed at Zheng Xiyi and said: "Director Azexi, just now Hee-yi Azexi shook his fist at me, which means that if I don't want to, he will beat me, but fortunately I will pass the next one, otherwise I will be beaten, right?"
"MO?" Li Zhenfan was startled and looked up at Zheng Xiyi.
Zheng Xiyi was also startled, and looked down just to see the trace of cunning in the little girl's eyes, and couldn't help but think of Yun'er again, and waved his fist at her with a smile and jokingly said: "Ah, I have learned to sue at a young age, do you think you can sue without being beaten? I am a senior, I am Azexi, it is natural to beat you, who let you not pass once! If you want to perform seriously without being beaten, I can't beat you if you pass every time." ”
Of course, the little girl was also joking, clapping her hands and laughing and saying, "Inside, A-I-Smecta, Xiyi Azexi." DIRECTOR AZEXI, I WAS JOKING JUST NOW, HOW COULD XIYI AZEXI BE WILLING TO BEAT A BEAUTIFUL GIRL LIKE ME, HE WAS MAKING ME FIGHT!"
"Ah, did you two collude to scare me?" Li Zhenfan looked at these two living treasures with tears and laughter.
Kim Sae-ron is young, and it is when he has a lively personality, but he looks cute when he is cute, but Zheng Xiyi also plays with her, which makes Li Zhenfan a little helpless, but from another point of view, it is also a good thing for filming that the male and female protagonists have established a certain tacit understanding. In a scene like this where adult actors and child actors are paired, directors will be worried, after all, the state of children is uncertain, and because of their age, they are not easy to blame, so they generally expect the actors who play with the most child stars to coax these children.
But it is not difficult for adult actors and child actors to form a tacit understanding, but it is not easy to say, after all, children's cognition of friends is not mature, and many times they only decide their likes and dislikes based on the impressions they see with their eyes, so Li Zhenfan was really worried at first that the little girl didn't like Zheng Xiyi's current appearance with a cold face and paralysis, but seeing the current appearance, Zheng Xiyi still made a lot of effort to get close to Jin Sae-lun, Li Zhenfan was smiling, and did not continue to talk to these two big and small naughty boys, and turned around to check whether the preparations of each group were completed。
Zheng Xiyi and Jin Sulun high-fived each other in celebration, just as she was laughing, Zheng Xiyi took out the script and handed it to Kim Sailun, "Ah, you have a lot of lines to say in this scene in a while, hurry up and watch it again, this shot can't pass the same as the sum of all the films you just got four NG takes, if you want a few more NG pieces, it's not that I beat you, director NIM should beat you." ”
Kim Sae-ron pouted, and she took the script and finally verified a large part of her lines.