Chapter 37: Group portrait of the crew

"Teacher Zhang, morning!"

"Queen Mother, auspicious!"

"Yo, old lady, it's early enough today, you've worked hard!"

The dressing room on the first floor was overcrowded, some were putting on makeup, some were waiting in line, Li Tang got into the crowd and greeted everyone one by one.

The one who played the emperor Ama Qianlong was named Zhang Tielin, who was in his early forties and had a strong voice. Li Tang's impression of him only stayed in the original memory, Gao Zhihua in "Under the Bridge" and Cao Xiong, the villain in "New Crane Divine Needle".

Although he is an old actor, his acting skills are really average, and he is not even as good as Zhou Jie, who is more than ten years younger than him. If you are happy, you will smirk, and if you are not happy, you will blow your beard and stare at you, it is simply a middle-aged male version of "Little Swallow".

This guy is said to be an Englishman, and from time to time on the set will show a few words of London accent, which is very quiet.

Li Tang's impression of him is very ordinary.

In this regard, Li Tang understands Zhou Jie a little, actors, they just rely on their acting skills to speak, if you can't get a good level, don't think that others will look up to you.

There is also the identity of this British, it is a norm to complain about the British in the United States, such as the British are hypocritical, too arrogant, love to pretend to be B, etc., and often scandalize and ridicule the British in film and television works.

The British, on the other hand, generally believe that Americans are uneducated, unhistorical, and nouveau riche.

This is just like the people of the whole country like to complain about Shanghainese, and the people of the whole country generally think that Shanghainese people are stingy, shrewd, calculating, pretentious, and so on.

I remember that at the finale banquet of "Suzhou Creek" last time, a lighting engineer from Beijing drunkenly patted Li Tang's shoulder and said, "Li Tang, you don't look like a Shanghainese at all." ”

This sentence may be a high evaluation in his opinion, but it makes Li Tang cry and laugh.

After all, Li Tang lived in the United States in his previous life, and was inevitably influenced by American culture, as soon as he heard that this product was British, he would subconsciously pout his mouth and snort: "Cut, British!" ”

Gotcha, the two fake foreign devils got together.

As for the two queen mothers and Rong Mama, don't look at the fierce and vicious in the play, they are all very nice people in private. Especially Mama Rong, the old lady is broken-mouthed, enthusiastic, and has good acting skills. Not to mention anything else, in the "Water Margin" that just finished broadcasting in the first half of the year, she played the princess who was impressive.

"Little Lizi, isn't it time for you to make an appearance today?"

"Yo, Mr. Li, we can't write two Li characters in one stroke, we were one family five hundred years ago. Don't keep a mouthful of a small plum on your lips, I'm panicking! Li Tang pleaded with a bitter face.

Xiao Lizi, although it sounds very smooth, will always remind people of a famous father-in-law in recent history.

"Tsk, my father's surname is Li, and my mother's surname is Tang, which together are good names, but it's not appropriate to call Tangzi and Little Tangzi!" The old lady smacked her mouth.

Li Tang said helplessly: "Old lady, you can call me Li Tang, or you can call me Xiao Li, don't have more than one son in the back." ”

"Li Tang, it's just a little raw......"

"No points, no points at all."

Fan Xiaopang, who was just about to put on makeup, heard the movement here, turned his head and gave Li Tang a smug look.

Those big talking eyes seem to say: Hmph, you also have today!

Of course, if she wants to call Li Tang Xiaoli Zi in person, I guess she doesn't dare.

The relationship is good, and you can't overdo it, especially in the circle, this sense of proportion is very important.

The filming in the past few days is divided into two groups, AB, and Group A is filming the scene of Huibin Building in the studio of Beijing Film Studio, which is the main line, directed by Sun Shupei himself. Group B filmed the scenes of Huang Ama, the Queen, Rong Mama and others in Prince Gong's Mansion, which was regarded as a branch line, and Li Ping was in charge.

After putting on makeup, a group of people came to the set, and the group performance was already in place, practicing the rehearsal under the command of the assistant director.

"Xiao Li, let's shoot two cutscenes first, and then it's Xiao Jian's appearance, is there a problem?" Sun Shupei came over specially to explain to Li Tang.

After getting along for a while, although Li Tang's role has not yet been filmed, he has a very good impression of Li Tang. This young man doesn't have any shelf, he gets along well with the crew, and what is even more rare is that Li Tang has not been lazy these days, he goes in and out with the crew every day, and stands on the sidelines in costumes to watch.

This attitude alone is enough to impress Sun Shupei.

"No problem, Director."

After observing it for so long, he was already eager to try it.

Before filming started, Li Tang walked outside and began to warm up.

His warm-up movements were very meticulous, and he played silently while warming up.

Today's scene is about Xiao Jian coming to the Huibin Building, drinking some wine and starting to chant poems and pretending to be forced, which attracted the attention of Xiaoyanzi, Ziwei, Er Kang and others who were also full and had nothing to do, and then sympathized with each other.

To be honest, Li Tang read the script for the first time, and felt very embarrassed when he saw this paragraph, who would sit alone in a restaurant and chant poetry loudly. But after careful consideration, I found that this is a Hong Kong and Taiwan costume TV series, or a fixed routine in martial arts novels.

The so-called scholar and knight, as soon as he appears, he must be all kinds of pretends, chanting poetry - there is literary talent, restaurant - there are many people, and there must be key characters, and the poems are shocked, so the following story is introduced.

Xu was too focused, and when this scene was finished in Li Tang's mind, he found that there was a person standing next to him.

"Yo, old Mo!"

"Brother Li, your warm-up moves are standard enough." Lao Mo smiled and complimented.

Li Tang was self-aware, and his warm-up movements were still the most basic actions he learned in college in his previous life, and he waved his hand and said, "No, no, I just move casually...... Oh, I almost forgot, you're studying sports, and you just helped me guide you. ”

Lao Mo, Mo Fengbin, played the role of Concubine Xiang's lover Meng Dan in the play.

When they met for the first time, Li Tang saw that he was burly, dark-skinned, mature, and had a particularly eye-catching square face, and thought that he was really a Mongolian compatriot.

As a result, he is an authentic Henan villager, two years younger than himself, and Xiaoyanzi was a classmate of Xie Jin Art School in his early years, and Xiaoyanzi helped recommend him to join the group.

Before he was admitted to Xie Jin Art School, he practiced physical education and was a sprinter.

"Where, where, Brother Li, how dare I guide you." Mo Fengbin hurriedly waved his hand and said modestly.

He is just a small actor, Xie Jin has not had much opportunity to perform seriously after graduating from art school, if it wasn't for Xiaoyanzi's help to recommend him this time, he would have mixed the role of Meng Dan in the crew of "Returning the Pearl II", I'm afraid he would have changed his career. Therefore, he is more low-key than Li Tang in the crew, and at the same time, because of Xiaoyanzi's attitude towards Li Tang, he usually doesn't dare to get too close to Li Tang.

Today, I happened to see Li Tang warming up, so I came over to take a look out of curiosity.

Li Tang didn't mind his prevarication, and he could guess the twists and turns, anyway, his body was almost active, so he took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed him one.

"Thank you, Brother Li!"

The guy stepped forward and quickly took out a lighter to help light it.

After taking two puffs of cigarettes, I saw a group of performers wearing Tang Dynasty costumes queuing up to enter the No. 1 studio not far away. Mo Fengbin hesitated for a moment, pointed at the group of people and said with a wry smile: "Brother Li, I won't tell you, I was one of them a few days ago." ”

He explained it euphemistically.

Li Tang was quite surprised when he heard this, and asked, "Then you have been a group performer for the past few years?" ”

He and Xiaoyanzi graduated from the first phase of Xie Jin Art School, and almost three or four years have passed.

"Sort of, but I still have a job, otherwise I would have starved to death just by being an extra."

Li Tang doesn't know much about the market in Beijing, but in Shanghai Film and Television Park, the extras who usually play pedestrians on the street are only ten yuan a day, unless you can mix a character with one or two lines, the price may be higher.

The key is that this kind of opportunity to be an extras is not available every day, if you really want to make a living by being an extra, then you really respond to Lao Mo's words - starve to death.