In addition to the male and female protagonists in "Time Prisoner", the most important role is the little girl rescued by Cao Lin. There are no requirements for the little girl's actor Zhang Ran, as long as she is cute, it is best to have acting experience. However, Li Zhiming gave Zhang Ran a surprise, and found Yang Zhi, the little girl who will be popular all over the country with "Family with Children" in the future.

The other actors were also quickly finalized, Zuo Xiaoqing, the female tenant of the hotel, Huang Haibo, the waiter of the restaurant, and Cai Yan, forty years later, invited Teacher Cui Xinqin. Of course, Zhang Ran also forgot what he promised Wang Baoqiang at the beginning, and arranged a small role for him to show his face.

The first time I met Zhang Jing, it was on a sunny afternoon at a café on Tucheng Road.

In fact, the place of meeting can be set at Qingying Studio, but that is too formal and will put pressure on the actors. Generally, the director and actor meet in a restaurant or café, which is more relaxed. In addition to Zhang Ran himself, he also brought Li Xinyue with him, and the female assistant was also to let the actor relax, otherwise people would suspect that he was going to engage in unspoken rules when they saw that there was only Zhang Ran.

Zhang Jingchu appeared at the door of the café on time, she was dressed casually, a pair of jeans, a white long-sleeved shirt, long hair shawl, and a plain face. Although she dresses simply, she can't hide her youthful vitality, and she has a high rate of turning heads along the way.

Zhang Jingchu cherishes this opportunity very much, although "Time Prisoner" is only a TV movie and will not be released in theaters, but after all, she is the heroine, and she has not been a heroine! The most important thing is that she likes the story of "Time Prisoner" and the role of Cai Yan.

Standing at the door of the café, Zhang Jingchu took a deep breath, pushed open the door and walked in. The café was empty, and there was a man and a woman sitting by the window, the woman was very beautiful and had a good temperament, and the sunlight outside the window reflected on her face, which was unusually dazzling, and the man next to her was like a bear, lying on the table and falling asleep.

She secretly despised the sleeping man in her heart, what kind of person is this, such beautiful music, such a beautiful girlfriend, such an elegant environment, she can actually fall asleep, it's really unemotional!

In addition to the men and women, there is only a bald middle-aged man in his forties, with a pair of mouse eyes, and the whole person looks a little obscene.

Zhang Jing originally thought that this should be Director Zhang Ran, although the man's appearance was not flattering, but after all, she was a director, she still wore a shallow smile and walked over quickly.

Zhang Jingchu bowed to the bald middle-aged man and said, "Hello, Director Zhang, I'm Zhang Jingchu, we have an appointment!"

"Director Zhang, I'm not Director Zhang!" The middle-aged man saw Zhang Jingchu's appearance clearly, and his eyes lit up, "Although I'm not a director, I'm very familiar with the film and television industry, if you want to film, I can introduce you." Sit down, I'll tell you about Feng Xiaogang, he's my buddy!"

"I'm sorry, I made an appointment with someone else!" Zhang Jingchu was willing to believe it, and quickly flashed to the side.

She looked around the café again, except for this obscene bald man, there was no one else, Director Zhang Ran hadn't arrived yet, right? After all, people are directors, and it's normal to be late!

At this moment, Zhang Jingchu saw the girl by the window smiling and waving to herself, and couldn't help but wonder, could it be them, so she walked over and asked carefully, "Excuse me, is it Director Zhang Ran?"

Li Xinyue chuckled: "He is Zhang Ran, my name is Li Xinyue, I am her teaching assistant, you are Zhang Jingchu, sit down and talk." ”

Zhang Jingchu smiled at Li Xinyue, thinking, teaching assistant, where did the director get the assistant teacher, it should be an assistant, but this assistant has a really good temperament. She sat down opposite Zhang Ran and Li Xinyue, and looked curiously at Zhang Ran who was sleeping on the table, she had to see such a strange director for the first time.

Li Xinyue stretched out her hand and pushed Zhang Ran, not wanting Zhang Ran to move, she spit out in a daze: "Mom, don't make trouble, today is Sunday, don't go to school!"

Li Xinyue was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter, slamming the table while laughing; Zhang Jingchu couldn't help laughing, this director was so interesting, he actually dreamed that his mother called him to school!

Zhang Ran finally woke up now, looked up and saw Zhang Jingchu who couldn't help laughing in front of him, scratched his head, and said embarrassedly: "Zhang Jingchu, you're here! I'm sorry, I've been too busy lately, I haven't rested well, so I make you laugh!"

Zhang Jingchu saw Zhang Ran's appearance clearly, and thought, this director is really young, smiled and waved his hand: "No, no, director, you are suffering!"

"You're welcome, let's talk casually. You seem to have graduated from the Chinese Opera Directing Department?" Zhang Ran remembered that Zhang Jingchu and Tang Wei seemed to be from the directing department.

"Yes!" Zhang Jingchu nodded, and in order to avoid leaving an unprofessional impression on the director, she immediately explained, "But we also take acting classes and learn acting." ”

Zhang Ran knows that the directing department of Chinese opera is different from Nortel's directing department, and Chinese opera is a mixture of acting and directing, mainly learning acting. His eyes stopped on Zhang Jingchu's face and looked at her, the twenty-one-year-old Zhang Jingchu was very beautiful and youthful, nodded and asked, "Why don't you study in the acting department?"

Zhang Jingchu said with a smile: "I never thought about being an actor at all, how can I be an actor if I think I have the conditions." At that time, I thought that the girls of the Academy of Fine Arts had a special temperament with a sketchpad on their backs, and they wanted to be admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, but they had no talent and were not admitted, and it was a complete coincidence that they entered the directing department. ”

Zhang Ran laughed, he was really interested in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and asked, "You should have read the script, right?" ”

Zhang Jingchu had already prepared for this, and muttered: "The theme of the script is redemption, and the chain of actions is salvation, there are two rescues in this story, one is Cao Lin saves the little girl, and the other is Cai Yan saves Cao Lin, and the highest task of the script is ......"

Zhang Jingchu said unhurriedly, and made a series of analyses on the theme of the whole play, contradictions and conflicts, running through actions, the highest task, the background of the times and the significance of the play.

After she finished speaking, Zhang Ran nodded with satisfaction, and then asked her: "Tell us about your understanding of Cai Yan's character, what kind of person do you think she is?"

Zhang Jingchu knows that this issue is the key to getting the role, and she must talk about it deeply and thoroughly. It's just that she only got the script for two days, and she didn't have enough time to do her homework, which gave her a bit of a headache.

After organizing the language, Zhang Jingchu said: "The story happened in August 2001, that is, in August this year. Cai Yan has an mP3, which is a very trendy thing, I checked it, the cheapest ones are more than 600, this price is not affordable by the waiter in a small hotel; through the dialogue between Cai Yan and Cao Lin, we can know that Cai Yan likes detective novels, especially Agatha Christine's "Tragedy on the Nile", proficient in Morse code, these things should not appear on an ordinary waiter, and Cai Yan said that she has only been in the hotel for a month. Therefore, I think Cai Yan is a college student, majoring in mathematics, and her family conditions are good, and she is just working in this hotel for a summer job because she has a quieter personality......"

The actor's analysis of the role is not simply to say whether the character is Zhang San or Li Si, what he does, and what his personality is. If an actor analyzes the role in this way, he will get only two words of evaluation - amateur!

When an actor analyzes a character, he or she should find out the internal and external specific personalities that make up the character, and find out the reasons for the formation and development of the character. Specifically, it is to find out the age, occupation, identity, family environment, social experience, attitude towards the world, spiritual temperament, ideological realm, life pursuit, hobbies, living habits, the era in which the character is located, the season, and even the characteristics of speech and demeanor, voice and smile, etc.

In short, it is to grasp the thoughts, behaviors, and aspects of the character's life as much as possible. On the basis of a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the characters, find out the goals and ideals of the characters' lives, grasp their world view, and understand their souls. Only in this way can we understand his specific attitude towards the things around him, obtain the character's unique language expression, as well as the unique language rhythm, etc., in order to create a real and credible character.

Zhang Jingchu spoke for more than 30 minutes, involving all aspects of the characters. Some are derived from the script, and some are discovered by themselves based on the situation provided by the script.

Zhang Ran smiled and applauded: "That's right, it can be seen that you have worked hard!"

Zhang Jingchu laughed, she knew that this role was a drama herself.

Zhang Ran said with satisfaction: "I like to work with professional and serious actors like you, the day before yesterday I talked about the script with the actor Hu Jun, we talked for an afternoon, and he gave me a lot of inspiration!"

Zhang Jingchu's face was pleasantly surprised: "Is it to play Hu Jun in "East Palace and West Palace" and "Lan Yu"? I like him very much!"

"East Palace and West Palace" and "Lan Yu" are all gay films, but you like this? Zhang Ran looked at Zhang Jingchu and said in surprise: "You're not a rotten girl, right?"

Zhang Jingchu didn't understand: "What is a rotten girl?"

"Uh, this, it's like to consume, isn't consumption called **, women who like to consume and shop are naturally rotten girls!" Zhang Ran praised his ability to open his eyes and talk nonsense, and quickly changed the topic, "Don't talk about this, before the movie starts, the crew may arrange for you to be a waiter in the hotel for half a month to experience life, can you accept it?"

"Yes, I can too!" Zhang Jingchu took out a copy of "Tragedy on the Nile" from her bag, the book is very new, and she should have just bought it.

Zhang Ran knew that there was no need to say more, others were already experiencing the role: "This matter is decided, come to Qingying Studio with your agent tomorrow, let's talk about the contract!"

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