Chapter Eighty-Six: Seeking Opportunities
Although Cui Xinqin has great expectations for Zhu Yilong, and recommended him to come over when he is only a sophomore at the beginning of school, Chen Li and Zhou Cheng are also full of expectations, but Zhu Yilong is obviously not the kind of acting genius who is self-taught, and his performance during the entire audition process is still relatively jerky. Even Zhou Cheng and Chu Ran, two laymen, can see that his performance is very awkward.
"Classmate Yi Long, we also saw your performance just now, and your line skills are good." Hearing Chen Li's words, Zhu Yilong was a little complacent, but he didn't expect the other party to immediately take a turn: "Yilong, your performance just now was a little too rigid, from your movements to your expressions, it was a little stiff. You're not a good fit for the role. ”
"Senior Brother Chu, I understand." Hearing Chen Li's words, although Zhu Yilong was a little depressed, he didn't have much loss, after all, he was still young and had not yet reached the point where he was working hard to get a role.
"Yilong, you don't have to be discouraged, even if you don't succeed this time, as long as you work hard in the future, with your own conditions, you will have a good performance in the future." Seeing that Zhu Yilong was leaving, Chu Ran expressed his relief to this junior brother from the same school.
"Thank you, senior brothers, I'll go first." Zhu Yilong waved his hand to a few people, left in a dashing manner, and shrugged his girlfriend waiting outside the corridor, pretending to be lost and deceiving his girlfriend into a hug for comfort.
Among the few people, only Zhou Cheng was slightly lost, feeling that Zhu Yilong's performance had broken an inherent image in Zhou Cheng's heart. But after thinking about it, there is some relief, maybe this is the chic and youthful that the nineteen-year-old Zhu Yilong should have. This also made Zhou Cheng full of curiosity about the next actor who would audition, and wondered if he could also break the image in his heart and have an unexpected performance.
Nineteen-year-old Zhu Yilong can behave freely, after all, he is still young, but for Wang Kai, who is already twenty-five years old, there is a sense of urgency.
Among these students who came to audition, Wang Kai was undoubtedly the most special. When he entered the door at the 03rd level of Chinese opera, several Chinese opera students invariably called him senior brother. It's just that it doesn't just contain respect, it's more about dissatisfaction and banter.
Wang Kai also understands the deep meaning of this, this is an opportunity for students in Chinese opera, and one of his own students who has graduated participates in it, which in itself is an injustice to these students. Wang Kai felt a trace of bitterness in his heart, but he did not flinch.
"Mr. Wang, this is your script, you auditioned for the role of Zhou Tienan, I don't know if you already know this role?" Wang Kai is also an audition actor that Zhou Xintong needs to pay attention to on behalf of Gu Xintong, but the first feeling he gave Gu Xintong did not match the role of Zhou Tienan.
"Thanks, I've learned a little." Wang Kai took the script from Gu Xintong's hands, and did not care about other people's opinions, but found a corner to carefully familiarize himself with the plot.
Wang Kai signed with Huayi Brothers with great expectations in his junior year, but as a newcomer to the company, he did not get too many opportunities to perform. Since signing the contract, he has only filmed one TV series "Cold Autumn", in which he is also a marginal role in the teens.
Since joining Huayi Brothers, Wang Kai has felt that he was a little too hasty at the beginning, because for Huayi Brothers, they are not short of male stars. Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, Yin Xiaotian and Lu Yi have been fighting openly and secretly to become Huayi's first brother, which Wang Kai can't turn a blind eye. Several of them have been famous for a long time, not only are their works popular, but they are also at a popular age, and Wang Kai and their acting paths are relatively overlapping.
What's even more terrifying is that their age is only three or four years older than Wang Kai, and this age is not an obvious gap for a male star. This means that Wang Kai will only live in their shadow for the next five or even ten years. Most of the characters that Wang Kai can choose are those who have been selected or disliked by them, and it is too slim to become famous by this opportunity.
And Huayi Brothers didn't go well last year, first investing more than 80 million in the big production "Night Banquet", which can be guaranteed, and then investing more than 150 million in "Ink Attack" only received 67 million at the box office, losing a lot of money.
The continuous losses have sharply reduced the investment of Huayi Brothers this year, and many film and television drama projects have reduced their investment to be put on hold and then discussed. This also made Wang Kai, who joined Huayi Brothers not long ago, even more a marginal figure that no one cared about.
After Wang Kai joined Huayi Brothers, he did not have a full-time agent, but was taken care of by an agent named Xu Jie along with several other artists. Since Wang Kai joined for more than a year now, Xu Jie has only contacted him for two audition opportunities, and they are all roles that do not match his acting path, and there is a gay role.
When auditioning for this play, the casting director has been intentionally or unintentionally testing Wang Kai's views on same-sex love, and always feels that the other party's eyes have been staying on his upright buttocks. At the end of the audition, when the other party saw Wang Kai away, he also slapped Wang Kai's ass with his hand.
Playing a homosexual Wang Kai has no objection, an actor wants to experience a thousand faces of life, but he can't accept it because he has to pay so much to play a homosexual.
For this matter, Wang Kai and Xu Jie had a big quarrel, Xu Jie thought that Wang Kai was making a big fuss, not to mention that the casting director did not ask him in this regard, even if he really put it forward, it would be a big deal to endure it and it would pass, and the right should be for art. This kind of thing is not uncommon in this circle.
In the end, this opportunity was given up by Xu Jie to another artist under him, Chen Sirui. Also because of this incident, Xu Jie has not contacted him for an audition for more than half a year, so Wang Kai had to explore around by himself, constantly hitting a wall during the period, and constantly looking for opportunities to audition.
A few days ago, when I was drinking and complaining with my friend Zhang Xiaolong in Chinese opera, I knew that the play "Donkey Gets Water" was being cast. Wang Kai tried his best to ask Zhang Xiaolong to recommend his name to Chen Li. Maybe the role may not be suitable for him, but he has been hesitating since graduation, and he really doesn't want to give up every opportunity.
Zhang Xiaolong's unfamiliarity with the script still misled Wang Kai, when they saw Wang Kai for the first time, Chen Li and Chu Ran made a cross to Wang Kai in their hearts, and then Wang Kai took Zhou Tienan's script to perform, which made several people feel that something was wrong.
Looking at Wang Kai, who was waiting for the comments of several people at the end of the performance, Chen Li expressed regret to Wang Kai after discussing it quietly with Zhou Cheng and Chu Ran: "Mr. Wang Kai, there are some differences between you and the needs of our role. I'm not saying that your performance is bad, on the contrary, your performance is outstanding. It's just that Zhou Tienan's character needs to be upright and short-tempered, your appearance feels too decent and calm, and the contrast you deliberately showed just now makes me look a little awkward. ”
"I understand." Wang Kai was silent for a moment and said to Chen Li: "I just saw the specific requirements of this role next door, and I understand that the setting of this role is a little different from me. I don't know if you have any other roles, can you let me try again. ”
"Can I find out why?" Zhou Cheng is very interested in Wang Kai's statement, more of a gossip psychology, Wang Kai in the other world also hibernated for many years before becoming famous with "Langya Bang" and "The Pretender", and the outside world does not know much about his early experience.
"I haven't been in a play for two years in a row. If I can't get another play, I guess I'll have to go back to being a librarian. ”
"Haven't you already signed a contract with Huayi Brothers?" Wang Kai was the last one this morning, and everyone was the same age, so Zhou Cheng didn't mind chatting with him for a while.
"There are many monks and little porridge, and the Huayi brothers don't have too many resources. My agent is also in the free-range stage for me. ”
"Actually, there is really a role, and it's quite suitable for you, but there are fewer scenes, I don't know if you're interested."
"I'm interested, I won't pick it." Hearing that there were still peaks and loops, Wang Kai immediately expressed his position.
"Director Chen, what do you think of the role of the commissioner's secretary let Wang Kai play?" This role requires a relatively older age, and the original character was set to be in his thirties, if Wang Kai is given two mustaches, it should be okay.