Chapter 70: Casting
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The casting of "Wulin Gaiden" cannot be as simple as when "Never Expected" was filmed, and it is relatively troublesome.
There are nine leading actors alone, and the age span is relatively large, so it is impossible to find them all in one place, and you have to find them in another place.
Haidu Film and Television University is naturally Lin Nan's first stop for selecting actors, but here he only plans to find the four roles of Zhu Wushuang, Bai Zhantang, Lu Xiucai and Guo Furong, the image age of these four characters is not much different from that of students of Haidu Film and Television University, so they can directly take local materials, as for the remaining five roles, they have to find a way elsewhere.
On the day of casting, Lin Nan also specially found Shang Yi who was running around, after all, Shang Yi is also a director no matter what he says, and he must be present during casting.
After Shang Yi came back, he also expressed his thoughts on the matter of choosing a role.
According to Shang Yi, in fact, since Lin Nan has planned to really stand in the audience's field of vision when filming a new drama, there is nothing to advance it.
Instead of bothering to run around looking for actors, it is better to make an announcement directly, just say that Nanshan Yi's new drama is openly looking for actors, I believe that with the fame of Nanshan Yi and "Never Expected", there will definitely be no shortage of actors who will participate in the casting.
What Shang Yi said is actually very reasonable, but Lin Nan still didn't adopt it after thinking about it, although it can attract a lot of actors, it will also attract a lot of film and television companies who want to co-produce, and how to refuse when the time comes, so Lin Nan didn't think about openly recruiting actors.
Moreover, although there will be many actors auditioning in this way, their professional quality is definitely uneven, which increases the difficulty of casting.
You must know that "Wulin Gaiden" is not "Never Expected", and its professional requirements for actors are still relatively high.
So in the end, Lin Nan still insisted on his decision and first selected the four roles at Haidu Film and Television University.
The current market for filming TV series is that newcomers starring in a single episode are 2,000 to 5,000, depending on the number of scenes.
And the price given by Lin Nan is 3,000 to 6,000 for a single episode, and 1,000 yuan is directly added to the original basis, which is also to attract more people to audition.
Facts have proved that the effect of Lin Nan's tireless initiative is really not ordinarily good, and after a day or two of publicity, there are really a lot of people who come at the beginning of the audition.
Lin Nan didn't play the name of Nanshan Yi at this time, and only asked Shang Yi to take Chen Yang and the two of them to pretend to be an ordinary crew to recruit people, anyway, now Chen Yang has a deep understanding of the role of the script, and with him on the side to assist Shang Yi, there will be no problems in casting.
And Lin Nan went to class with a book on his back, after all, he was about to be unable to attend classes at school for a long time, so he didn't let go of any time, and wanted to listen to more things to enrich himself.
This is a course specializing in the study of ancient Chinese drama, and the substitute is an old professor with gray hair and who is over the age of old.
Today, Lin Nan also came to the classroom early and made it to the front row, but when it was time for class, the old professor still did not appear, but a young man who looked to be about twenty-three or four-year-old stood on the podium.
This young man has a delicate and handsome face, dressed in a collegiate style and looks very elegant, standing on the podium at this moment and clearing his throat, with a nice female in his voice, he said with a smile: "My name is Yu Entai, I am a graduate student specializing in classical drama, Professor Yang has something to do temporarily, so I am asked to give you a lesson......
This young teacher has a very solid foundation, and when he lectures, he also quotes scriptures, which is quite like an ancient master, but there are some inexplicable laughs on the plane today, which makes several students under the podium laugh from time to time.
Unlike other classmates, Lin Nan looked at Yu Entai with bright eyes at this time, isn't this a ready-made Lu Xiucai!
After class, Lin Nan caught up with Yu Entai, and then said that he wanted Yu Entai to play the role of Lu Xiucai.
Yu Entai has been studying film and television dramas for many years, and in his free time, he naturally fantasized that he could one day become the leading actor in a TV series, but at this moment he did not reply to Lin Nan, because he only thought that Lin Nan, a student, was teasing him.
And after careful questioning finally confirmed that Lin Nan was not teasing him, Yu Entai's heart was naturally full of excitement, but he still asked Lin Nan to see the character first.
Finally found a "showman", how could Lin Nan let it go, so he didn't refuse, and directly took out the script of the first episode of "Wulin Gaiden" from his bag and handed it to Yu Entai.
Yu Entai just stood outside the teaching building and began to look at it with relish, after reading it, Yu Entai's eyes lit up, obviously he had already made a decision in his heart: "I played this role!" ”
After finding Lu Xiucai's actor, Lin Nan also called Shang Yi to explain, and asked Shang Yi about the situation by the way.
The progress of Shang Yi's side is also very good, Bai Zhantang and Guo Furong's actors already have a few more suitable candidates, and they are waiting for Lin Nan to go back and make a decision, but Zhu Wushuang's actors have not had a suitable candidate for a long time.
Lin Nan was also relieved to hear this, Bai Zhantang and Guo Furong's actors can have prepared candidates, as for Zhu Wushuang, it will come out after dozens of episodes anyway, and there is no problem in finding it slowly.
The next day, after meeting several actors screened by Shang Yi and Chen Yang, Lin Nan quickly made a final decision: Sha Yi would play Bai Zhantang, and Yuan Chen would play Guo Furong.
After deciding on these three roles, Lin Nan went to the next stop, Haidu Film and Television Base, hoping to discover a few more people from the extras.
But the result was very disappointing to Lin Nan, he stayed in Haidu Film and Television Base for two days, and those who came to audition either did not match the image and temperament, or the acting skills were not enough, anyway, he still did not find a suitable actor, which can be said to be nothing, which made Lin Nan and Shangyi at a loss.
After encountering the problem, Lin Nan found Cai Mao again.
Cai Mao can be said to attach great importance to Lin Nan after the great success of "Never Expected", especially after learning that Lin Nan is actually the leading Nanshan Yi in today's best-selling literary world.
Cai Mao was also very enthusiastic about the difficulties encountered by Lin Nan, and after thinking about it for a while according to Lin Nan's requirements, he recommended two places to Lin Nan, one is the drama troupe, and the other is the art troupe of the army.
However, Cai Mao, the art troupe of the army, had no acquaintances, so in the end, Cai Mao could only introduce Lin Nan to a well-known local drama club in Haidu.
Most of the actors in this huge drama club have a lot of experience in drama performances, and their acting skills are naturally needless to say, and almost all of them are of any age, Lin Nan was also very happy after learning this.
After meeting the president, Lin Nan put forward his requirements for actors.
The president quickly found dozens of actors who met the requirements for Lin Nan to choose.
I have to say that the level of the actors in the drama troupe is much better than that of the extras, and these dozens of people are specially screened by the president according to Lin Nan's requirements, so Lin Nan is very satisfied.
Soon, the actors of Shopkeeper Tong, Xing Zhutou, Mo Xiaobei and Yan Xiaoliu have all been confirmed.
So far, after a week, all the leading actors in "Wulin Gaiden" except Zhu Wushuang and Li Dazui have been confirmed!
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