Chapter 59: The Superstar Arrives
The only people who participated in Xiao Qiao's audition were Liu Yifei and Jiang Qingqing.
The reason why Lin Yuquan chose the two is not because of how superb their acting skills are, but because Xiao Qiao's most important role in the movie is to use her tenderness to set off the fierce Cao Jun and Zhou Yu's determination to defeat Cao Jun to the death.
In Lin Yuquan's view, she is elegant, simple, pure, does not eat the fireworks of the world, and is a symbol of beauty that is worth protecting.
This role does not need too superb acting skills, but the appearance and temperament occupy the most important position, and Liu Yifei and Jiang Qingqing were found, precisely because of the very strong classical aesthetic temperament of the two, and there is a feeling of being separated by mountains and not eating fireworks in the world.
Needless to say, in the past two years, she can be called the actress who has left the deepest impression on people in costume film and television dramas, whether it is Bai Xiuzhu, the daughter who dares to love and hate in "The Family of Gold Powder", or the glamorous fairy sister Wang Yuyan in "Dragon Babu", or the descendant of Nuwa who makes people pity and love in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", each character has a heart-pounding aesthetic temperament.
And debuted for many years, Jiang Qingqing, who was evaluated by Qiong Yao as "soft as water, and the aura is compelling", the same is true of the Qiong Yao girl, at the earliest, Jiang Qingqing, who was still a sophomore, starred in "Xi Shi", at that time her acting skills were not as skilled as Liu Yifei now, but her Xi Shi Chu Chu was moving, very amazing, and came one after another, Xiao Yufeng in "The Sky Has Tears", Lian Nishang in "The White-Haired Witch", the second dream in "Fengyun", Mu Nianci and Jiang Qingqing in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" fully demonstrated their classical beauty temperament.
According to the previous audition procedures of Jiang Yan, Fan Binbin, and Gao Yuanyuan, Lin Yuquan asked the two to talk about their understanding of the roles first, and then performed the most important scene of Xiao Qiao in the movie.
"Who do you think is the best fit?" After sending the two away, Lin Yuquan asked the other three.
"Although from the perspective of acting skills, Jiang Qingqing is obviously better than others, but for the role of Xiao Qiao, I think Yifei is still the most suitable, not only in terms of temperament and appearance, but in terms of age, Fan Binbin, who plays Da Qiao, is only 24 years old this year, but Jiang Qingqing is almost 30 years old, and it is really not good to let her play Xiao Qiao." Xiao Yang shook his head and said.
"I feel the same way, although it is speculated according to historical records that Xiao Qiao should be 32 years old at the time of the Chibi War, but we can't really find a 32-year-old actor to play Xiao Qiao. He Liwen also agreed.
Lin Yuquan nodded, just like he conceived, Xiao Qiao doesn't need too superb acting skills, classical, elegant, simple, and beautiful only need to conform to these temperaments, in this regard, Jiang Qingqing needs to use her own acting skills to interpret that kind of Xiao Qiao, and from the perspective of being a friend who has been with Liu Yifei for a long time, Liu Yifei's true colors are good, and she herself is the image of Xiao Qiao in Lin Yuquan's heart.
"Then Yifei will play Xiao Qiao." Lin Yuquan said briskly.
He is indeed very happy in his heart, in fact, sometimes he is really painful, he knows the desire of Wang Luodan, Jiang Yan and others to appear in their own movies.
But as a director, because he is responsible for the film he shoots, he must not be transferred by personal will when casting, so even if he really wants Jiang Yan, Wang Luodan and others to star in his movies, he really can't do that, and he can only decide according to the requirements of casting.
This caused him to feel a sense of guilt that came even more violently whenever his friends didn't mind supporting him.
"Looks like we're going to have a good celebration in the evening." Xiao Yang excitedly said that for Lin Yuquan, for their group of friends, and for Shuguang Film Company, starring Liu Yifei is the best result.
"Well, let's contact Jiang Yan to order food later, and then let's take a look at Dandan, Yawen, and Jinshao, I hope there will be such a surprise." Lin Yuquan said with a smile.
Next, while auditioning, Lin Yuquan actively discussed with Ning Hao and others to determine the role candidates.
"There should be no controversy about the role of Sun Shangxiang, although Dandan is a friend, I have to say that Zhou Xun's acting skills are completely killing her and Zhao Wei in seconds."
"I thought that Zhang Fengyi was the most suitable to play Cao Cao, but I didn't expect Chen Jianbing to play better than him, speaking of which, in terms of actor training, our Kyoto Film Academy is indeed far inferior to Kyoto Theater Academy, and the actors who are born in drama have a solid foundation."
"Yes, but Chen Jianbing is not an ordinary actor from drama, others have won the Golden Lion Award for Drama before, and he is recognized as an unobtainable pillar of the drama stage, have you watched the "Ten Years of Marriage" he performed last year, which is super good-looking, and won the Feitian Award for actor."
"Chen Daoming is really acting like something, Zhuge Liang is just right under his interpretation, of course, if Mr. Tang Guoqiang is younger, it would be better to find him to act, Zhuge Liang he played in the 90 version of the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is simply a classic."
After the morning audition, Lin Yuquan, Ning Hao, Xiao Yang, He Liwen, and Liu Yan just had lunch at noon and returned to the audition office, but they did not start the afternoon audition immediately, and there was a very important job before the audition, saying that the work may be a little inappropriate, because he himself is very much looking forward to this matter.
"Boss, I'm Ding, we'll go downstairs to the company right away." Ding Wei's voice deliberately lowered his voice came from the phone.
"Okay." Lin Yuquan hung up the phone and immediately beckoned Ning Hao and the others to come to the elevator to wait.
It didn't take long for the sound of the elevator door opening automatically, accompanied by Ding Value, three figures walked out, looking at the three very familiar faces of the Chinese people in front of him, Lin Yuquan's little heart couldn't help but jump up, and his voice trembled slightly and said: "Hello, Andy, Wei Zai, Brother Zidan!" ”
The three people in front of him are none other than Liu Dehua, Liang Chaowei, and Donnie Yen who came all the way from Hong Kong.
Although he has become a director, he has also seen Zhang Yimou, Xu Jinglei, Chen Daoming, Fan Binbin, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei and other big-name artists, Lin Yuquan at this time is extremely excited, this is something he has not seen Zhang Yimou, Chen Daoming and others before.
Like most young people in China, Lin Yuquan prefers Hong Kong films at his peak to old-fashioned and boring domestic film and television dramas.
As a representative of the peak Hong Kong film period, Chow Xingchi, Chow Yun-fat, Leung Chaowei, Li Lianjie, Cheng Long, Lau Dehua and others are his idols, almost accompanying his childhood growth, and have an indelible mark in his heart.
Seeing them at the moment naturally has an unusually strong feeling, which has nothing to do with whether he is a director or not.
Putting aside the idol factor, speaking of which, this is the first time he has seen a real superstar, yes, for the first time, although Chen Daoming, Xu Jinglei, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei and others are already first-line stars in the domestic entertainment industry, they have not risen to the level of superstars.