Chapter 87 Auditions
The crew of "Latent" is currently auditioning for the actor Yu Zecheng.
Mufan Pictures, as the largest investor, director Jiang Wei recommended its artist Zhang Jiayi.
And Sun Meili, the actor of the original Yu Zecheng, directly found director Jiang Wei in the hope of getting this role.
Both men have their own strengths and weaknesses in the campaign. Sun Meili's current fame surpasses that of Zhang Jiayi, and Zhang Jiayi is still in the embarrassing situation of not being popular in the circle.
And Zhang Jiayi's acting skills are slightly better than Sun Meimei, but the gap is not very big.
But Zhang Jiayi now has a comparative advantage that he is an artist under Mufan Pictures, and he belongs to the investor in the crew of "Latent".
At present, there is still about a week before the official audition for the role of "Latent", but the two have now obtained some basic information about Yu Zecheng through their respective relationships.
Both of them already know that "Latent" is an adaptation of a short story by writer Ryuichi, so they have been reading and studying the novel for the past few days. Hopefully get an edge when it comes time to audition.
At the same time, both of them probably knew about the other actors who auditioned Yu Zecheng, and after getting the list, they both thought that others did not pose much threat to them, only the other party was their competitor.
Zhang Jiayi and Sun Meili have actually known each other for a long time, and their private relationship is also good.
When Zhang Jiayi had not signed a contract with Mufan Pictures, the two worked together to shoot a TV series "Halfway Couple".
Sun Meili also successfully won a lot of awards with this TV series.
Coincidentally, the two played the role of their ex-husband in the TV series, and the relationship between them and the current one can be regarded as competitors.
However, the private relationship between the two outside of filming is very good. But now because of the audition for "Latent", the two will also become real competitors.
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The audition location for the crew of "Latent" was placed in the office conference room of Mufan Pictures.
Yang Ruohan, Jiang Wei and another vice president of Dongyang Qingyu Company jointly interviewed actors.
Zhang Fan sat on the side and was ready to play for the actors, after all, he is now the only confirmed actor in the entire "Latent" crew.
Jiang Wei arranged the role of Liao Sanmin in "Latent" for Zhang Fan, although his appearance was only four episodes, but it left a very deep impression.
As a CCP agent, Liao lurked in the garrison headquarters, and finally chose to die with the enemy in order to protect Yu Zecheng from being exposed.
Moreover, Jiang Wei arranged for Zhang Fan to play the role of Liao Sanmin, which is also handsome, from the appearance to the end. It can be said that it is very distinctive.
The roles scheduled for auditions today are all the more important roles in "Latent". As the soul of the whole play, Yu Zecheng naturally needs to be the first to start auditioning.
The audition venue was in the conference room of Mufan Pictures, and Zhang Jiayi, as an artist under Mufan Pictures, naturally had a home field advantage and was the first to start the audition.
The role of studying the novel "Latent" this week is still very obvious, and Zhang Jiayi is obviously prepared.
Director Jiang Wei did not hand over the character biography and audition clips to the actors who came to audition in advance before the interview.
Only without much preparation can an actor's improvisation ability be tested, and if various things are revealed in advance, the actor's creative ability will be greatly reduced.
In this case, even Sun Meili and Zhang Jiayi didn't get a specific audition clip before the audition, but just read the original novel.
But knowing these news is enough for an excellent actor, Zhang Jiayi played very well in the audition scene given by Director Jiang Wei.
And Zhang Jiayi is also worthy of being the winner of the best actor in the future, he really rose step by step by acting skills, and Zhang Fan's whole aura was suppressed when he played with him.
It can be said that Zhang Fan was completely taken away by Zhang Jiayi in the whole audition.
Director Jiang Wei was very satisfied with Zhang Jiayi's performance, and looked at Yang Ruohan and Dongyang Qingyu, who were sitting next to him, and the vice president of Dongyang Qingyu did not make a decision immediately, after all, Zhang Jiayi was only the first, and there were several auditioning actors behind.
The second audition is Sun Meili, in fact, according to the coffee position, the first audition should be Sun Meili, after all, among all the actors who came to audition for Yu Zecheng, Sun Meimei's coffee position is the highest.
But as mentioned earlier, Zhang Jiayi is an artist under Mufan Pictures, and he still has a slight home field advantage during the audition.
Sun Meili is a native of the Northeast, and her appearance is very good-looking, and her acting skills are also very good. When he played Brother Hua Qiang, it was really popular all over the country.
Sun Meili and Zhang Jiayi got the same audition clips, and they both needed Zhang Fan to play with them.
But Zhang Fan obviously had the first experience, and although he was still a little suppressed to play with Sun Meili this time, it was obviously a little better.
Sun Meimei's audition ended, but Director Jiang Wei also did not announce the results on the spot, and the specific people who the two of them need to be carefully studied.
After Sun Meili went out, there were sporadic middle-aged male actors auditioning for Yu Zecheng, but it was obvious that he was studying with the prince, after all, Zhang Jiayi and Sun Meili can be said to be the top group of middle-generation male artists in the circle.
Yu Zecheng's audition has ended, and the next thing is the audition for the two heroines, Cui Ping and Zuo Lan.
The actress's audition, director Jiang Wei, did not let Zhang Fan continue to play with her.
Instead, some characters were given small transmissions, and then the actresses were improvised.
There are many actresses who came to audition, among which the more famous ones are Yao Dazui and Yan Bingyan.
Yao Dazui is popular all over the mainland through "Wulin Gaiden", and Yan Bingyan and Zhang Jiayi's current situation is the same as that of an embarrassing position that is not popular in dramas.
For all the actors' interviews, Director Jiang Wei did not immediately announce the results, but filmed the improvisation of the actors through the cameras set up in the conference room.
After the end, carefully study and then determine the role of the actor.
This TV series is also a work that Jiang Wei values very much, otherwise it would not have taken ten months to adapt the script.
After all the audition actors left, Jiang Wei, Yang Ruohan and the vice president of Dongyang Qingyu discussed the role selection together.
Zhang Fan can't talk about this kind of thing, but because he has a scene with the two Yu Zecheng audition actors today, Director Jiang Wei also asked him to stay and talk about his feelings about the two actors.
In Zhang Fan's opinion, Zhang Jiayi and Sun Meili are very suitable for playing Yu Zecheng. Both of them have excellent acting skills. It will definitely not bury Yu Zecheng's light.
After Director Jiang Wei asked him, Zhang Fan thought for a while before slowly speaking: "I have also read the original novel during this time, and I think Yu Zecheng is a tough guy, he is not only a tough guy on the surface, but also a hero who is very strong in his heart.
We all know that Mr. Zhang Jiayi suffers from ankylosing spondylitis, but he has been fighting against the disease, and I believe that Mr. Zhang's heart must be particularly strong.
It's not that Sun Meimei's acting skills are not good, but just that Zhang Jiayi is more suitable for Yu Zecheng in terms of personality. ”