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After filming "Zhou Yu's Train", Lin Zhimo returned to Yenching and began to arrange the filming details of the film, such as the preparation of the crew, the rental of filming locations, and the recruitment of actors.

Whether it is a domestic director or a foreign director, a TV series director or a film director, a famous director or an unknown director, each director has his own reserve actor pool, in which there are not only big-name stars who have been famous for a long time, but also cost-effective actors with extraordinary strength but no fame, and popular niches who have just come out.

Whenever a director starts preparing for a new play, he will first look for suitable actors from that cast, and if there is no one there, he will start conducting mass interviews. And some actors such as dragon sets are the work of full-time assistant directors, because in the chief director's mind, those dragon sets are no different from the props prepared by a prop master.

In fact, you can also see that except in the novels at the starting point, in reality, there is no big-name actor in the mainland who is born in a dragon suit. Because the chief director needs to care about too many things, he won't pay attention to whether a "humanoid prop" that just flashes in front of the camera has extraordinary acting skills, even if he wants to see it, he can't see it.

But because many of the popular Asian and even internationally famous Xiangjiang actors are from the dragon suit, it gives everyone an illusion that being a dragon is very promising, and it can become a superstar like Jackie Chan Liang Chaowei.

But that's only in Hong Kong. And it was Xiangjiang twenty or thirty years ago!

This experience is completely inapplicable to the mainland, and even the actors who played the role in Xiangjiang at that time had a background. They are either trainees from wireless acting classes or other large companies, in short, they are all organizations that can provide acting opportunities.

But what about the dragon trap on the mainland? It's all alone, with no connections and no opportunities, and when you act, you're wearing shabby clothes, no makeup on your face, and some directors even ask you not to have expressions. In this case, even if you have Oscar-winning acting skills, but under a film and television work that only gives you a flashing shot, can you be more brilliant than the protagonist?

Maybe you can get the director's attention. But it is more likely to attract a scolding from the director. Because you stole the limelight from the starring role.

The topic is far away, those things have nothing to do with Lin Zhimo now, he is just a fledgling rookie director now, and he hasn't even found his own director team. Not to mention having its own cast pool.

Because of Gong Li's joining. The soul of the film is already there. Now Lin Zhimo only needs to look for some small supporting roles, such as An Jiahe's younger brother An Jiamu, news reporter Ye Dou, etc.

Lin Zhimo's requirements for An Jiamu and Ye Dou are not high. As long as one of them is full of righteousness and the other is ordinary, of course, the acting skills must also meet Lin Zhimo's standards, otherwise Lin Zhimo also needs to deliberately set aside time to teach the two during the filming.

For the first movie he directed, Lin Zhimo didn't want to make a big fuss, so as not to jump out of a large number of people to attack him and pick his nose and eyes, so Lin Zhimo chose the most common and most confidential actor selection method - recommendation.

Lin Zhimo told his good friends that he needed two supporting actors, and asked them to help recommend several candidates, and then select the two best among the people they recommended.

I have to say that Lin Zhimo's way is very hidden, and after just a week, Lin Zhimo received dozens of recommendations, but he did not leak the slightest rumor.

The place of the interview, Lin Zhimo, was chosen in the conference room of his company.

"Whew...... It's the fifth day, right? Lin Zhimo sat on the chair and let out a long breath and asked Huo Xiwen beside him.

"Well, we have interviewed 59 actors in the past four days, and if we haven't found a suitable actor today, then we must expand the scope of open interviews." Huo Xiwen said the data directly without the slightest hesitation, and then said: "Zhimo, are you too strict in your selection, some actors are very good when I look at them, and they are handsome and have good acting skills, why can't you look at them?" ”

"Sister Wen, whether you are handsome or not is not my must-have requirement, my requirement for An Jiamu is that she must have a righteous body, so that people can feel that this person is reliable at a glance, of course, it is better if she is handsome; And the requirement for Ye Dou is ordinary, the more ordinary the better, the best is the kind that can't be found in the pile. Lin Zhimo explained his requirements again for Huo Xiwen in detail.

This time, Lin Zhimo arranged Huo Xiwen as the producer of this film.

Huo Xiwen glanced at Lin Zhimo and said: "The kind of actor you said about An Jiamu is easy to find, but Ye Dou, I think you still have this heart, looking for an ordinary-looking person in the entertainment industry?" ”

Huo Xiwen's words are also reasonable, actors in the entertainment industry can be said to be handsome men and beautiful women. There are also those ordinary-looking actors, but most of those actors are special actors, with acting skills, strength and no fame, and Lin Zhimo chose the actor this time on the recommendation of a friend. Who are Lin Zhimo's friends? Which one is not a first-line star in the entertainment industry now, and how can those first-line stars recommend it to Lin Zhimert-type actors?

That's why Huo Xiwen let Lin Zhimo die of this heart.

"yes, yes, I didn't think it through." Lin Zhimo also felt that his thoughts were a little wrong, "Forget it, let's take a look at today's actors first." ”

signaled to the staff, and the actors began to enter the venue one after another.

"Hello Director Lin, my name is Huang Haibo, I am currently studying in my senior year at China Film Academy, and I have participated in director Kang Honglei's 'Burning Years of Passion'......" Standing in front of Lin Zhimo was a young man who was not tall and had small eyes.

Lin Zhimo's first glance at him lit up, and then he looked at Huo Xiwen.

Huo Xiwen was also surprised, they were not very clear about who could come and who could not come today. After all, they were all recommended by friends.

Huo Xiwen also saw Lin Zhimo's gaze towards him, and the meaning was very clear: Look, have you found Ye Dou's actor?

Lin Zhimo waited for Huang Haibo to introduce himself and said, "Okay, Haibo, you can show me this scene now." You're a photographer who notices domestic violence in the family across the street from your home, and you're angry but helpless. ”

Huang Haibo heard this and said: "Can you give me a few minutes, I need to brew my feelings." ”

"Absolutely." Lin Zhimo made a gesture of please.

Huang Haibo closed his eyes and carefully imagined the scene at that time, his brows furrowed and sometimes expanded, and after about two minutes. He said to Lin Zhimo: "Okay. It's time to go. ”

Lin Zhimo nodded, put his hands and fingers crossed on the table, leaned forward slightly, and looked at Huang Haibo with bright eyes.

Although Lin Zhimo didn't say anything. But his serious posture still gave Huang Haibo a psychological pressure. He took a deep breath and forced himself not to look at Lin Zhimo. I tried my best to immerse myself in the situation described by Lin Zhimo just now.

I saw that he looked lazy and relaxed at first, but suddenly he was startled, and his mouth opened slightly. There was an incredible light in his eyes, and then he quickly took two steps forward, raised his hands in front of his chest to make a gesture to adjust the camera, and then a look of pain flashed on his face, and his two hands kept scratching his pants, his legs wanted to move, and the whole person gave people a very tangled feeling.

Lin Zhimo secretly praised, applauded lightly, and said with a smile: "The performance is very good, leave your contact information, and someone will contact you later." ”

Huang Haibo was overjoyed when he heard this, and kept asking, "Really, director, I passed?" ”

Lin Zhimo joked: "If there is someone named Huang Haibo here besides you, then I am mistaken." ”

Huang Haibo smiled a little embarrassedly, then walked to Lin Zhimo's desk and left his contact information, and finally bowed to Lin Zhimo and said, "Thank you, Director Lin, thank you for giving me this opportunity!" ”

Lin Zhimo stood up and patted Huang Haibo on the shoulder and said, "You don't have to thank me, when the time comes, if you don't perform well in filming, I won't be soft." ”

Huang Haibo said solemnly: "Director, don't worry, I will never give you a chance." ”

Lin Zhimo laughed: "Okay, I'm looking forward to your performance!" Go outside and inform the next actor. ”

Seeing that Huang Haibo was almost stepping on the clouds and walking out, Huo Xiwen teased: "I didn't expect you, Director Lin Zhimo, to have today." ”

What Huo Xiwen said is that Lin Zhimo, at such a young age, can actually make Huang Haibo, an actor of his age or even older than him, so respectful to him.

Lin Zhimo smiled at first, then shook his head and sighed: "This is the real entertainment industry......"

Huo Xiwen was about to speak, and the next actor came in, so he quickly closed his mouth.

After interviewing several candidates in a row, Lin Zhimo still felt dissatisfied, and smiled bitterly at Huo Xiwen when the next actor hadn't come in yet: "It seems that we haven't gained anything today." ”

Huo Xiwen also nodded, and then smiled: "But it's good to find Huang Haibo." ”

Lin Zhimo nodded: "Yes, it's good to be able to find Ye Dou." ”

Just as the two were talking, an actor entered again, he was tall and handsome, and the whole person looked heroic and at the same time, he actually gave people a very stable feeling.

Lin Zhimo didn't find any advantage just by looking at his appearance, saying that he was handsome, there had been many interviews with actors who were more handsome than him, and he was not handsome, and he was much stronger than Huang Haibo.

"Hello Director Lin, Hello Producer Huo, I am Deng Chao, an actor in Chinese opera, and I have participated in the repertory troupe......" Deng Chao told his experience without humility or arrogance, he didn't have much acting experience, but he had starred in a TV series that had not yet been released, and he still had more experience in participating in dramas.

However, drama actors always have a little more contrived posture than TV and movie actors, but although he thought so in his heart, Lin Zhimo still said: "I have a scene here, you can perform it for me......" (to be continued......)