Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Of course, Yun He also said that the cheapness factor was probably a factor as the investment in this drama was small, and for a college student like Yang Wenwen who had not yet signed a contract with a company, her salary was much lower than that of other actors. This was why low-budget movies liked to use newcomers.
Ling Qing had always been kind to newcomers, so he encouraged her, “It’s okay, you graduated from a professional school, so your basic skills should be pretty good. Let’s rehearse the lines first and get a feel for it.”
Yang Wenwen nodded, “Okay.”
In the scene they were shooting, Mo Tang spoke first, so Ling Qing spoke first.
After listening to the end, Yang Wenwen calmly read her lines.
Ling Qing advised her, “You read too calmly, without emotion. You should read it as you would when filming a movie.”
Yang Wenwen nodded, “Oh oh oh, okay.”
“Do it again.” Ling Qing said and started to speak his lines again.
Yang Wenwen spoke in a very low voice, but her voice was full of emotion.
Ling Qing said, “What do you want to say?”
Yang Wenwen lowered her head, “Tang Tang, people should move forward, I don’t want you to live in the past forever.”
She looked at her script and her voice was very nice as she said, “You go back to school, we can continue to take classes and continue to submit internship resumes, wouldn’t that be good?”
She said it very sincerely, Ling Qing didn’t hear a problem, so he continued to say his lines.
As the two were talking, Ling Qing heard her nasal sound. He turned his head slightly and saw that Yang Wenwen’s tears fell on the script. She was actually crying!
Ling Qing:!!!
Ling Qing asked Xiao Liu for a tissue and handed it to her, “Um, why are you crying?”
Yang Wenwen then raised her head, her eyes still red, and she said, “Can’t I cry?”
“The script doesn’t allow crying in this scene.”
“But Liu Xi must be very uncomfortable.” Yang Wenwen wiped her tears and whispered her thoughts, “She thinks her boyfriend is doing something meaningless, and she wants her boyfriend to get his life back on track, but her boyfriend doesn’t agree, and she can’t persuade him. Shouldn’t she be very sad?”
“But Liu Xi is a very cool girl, she won’t cry easily.”
“Cool girls can also be sad, and not crying easily doesn’t mean they won’t cry.” Yang Wenwen argued weakly.
Ling Qing: …It seems to make sense.
He looked at Yang Wenwen. Yang Wenwen still looked timid, like a little white rabbit.
But beneath her white rabbit-like appearance, she had a strong ability to empathize, and Ling Qing felt that she was indeed quite spiritual.
“Will a cool girl cry like you do, right in front of her boyfriend?”
He had just asked when he heard a gentle male voice behind him, “Boyfriend?”
Ling Qing turned his head in surprise, and sure enough, Yu Chen appeared in front of him.
Ling Qing: …
Yu Chen smiled, “Boyfriend?”
Ling Qing raised the script in his hand and said helplessly: “Script! Script!”
Yang Wenwen didn’t understand the situation, but nodded obediently, “I’m rehearsing lines with Brother Ling. He is my boyfriend in the play.”
“Yes!” Ling Qing said quickly.
Yu Chen was just teasing him, but seeing him like this, he laughed and sat down next to him, “It’s okay, boyfriend.”
Ling Qing heard the implication of his words and thought he was really childish. He couldn’t help but deliberately reply, “Yeah, boyfriend.”
Poor Yang Wenwen didn’t understand at all. Hadn’t this been explained clearly? Why were they still talking about the boyfriend?
She looked at Ling Qing with a confused face, and Ling Qing felt embarrassed to continue arguing with Yu Chen, so he continued to say to her, “It’s okay for you to cry, but crying like this is not in line with Liu Xi’s personality.”
“Then what should I do?”
Ling Qing asked Xiao Liu to help him call the screenwriter.
Xiao Liu quickly invited the screenwriter over, a woman who was older than all of them, with a rather shabby face, very long hair that almost reached her waist, and she wore a pair of round-framed glasses. She looked like she wasn’t very talkative.
Xiao Liu gave up his chair, and screenwriter Wu sat down and asked, “You came to me?”
Ling Qing nodded, and he asked, “In this scene between Liu Xi and Mo Tang, can we add a crying scene for Liu Xi?”
Screenwriter Wu asked him, “Why?”
Ling Qing looked at Yang Wenwen, “Your role, you tell her.”
Yang Wenwen opened her eyes wide in shock, with an expression of “I dare not”.
Ling Qing encouraged her, “Be bolder. You are an actor and Screenwriter Wu is the screenwriter. You are playing the character she created. One of you created the character, and the other is portraying the character, so you cannot be afraid to communicate with the screenwriter. Every actor must be brave enough to communicate with the screenwriter.”
Screenwriter Wu obviously agreed with his point of view, “Yes, if you have any ideas, you can tell me. You are the one who plays her. If you have ideas, it means that you have read my script carefully and figured out my character. This is a good thing, and I will not blame you.”
Yang Wenwen dared to speak then, “I think Liu Xi should be very sad right now.”
She flipped through her script, which was marked with different colors with markers. She had obviously read the script very carefully and thought about it very seriously, so she pointed to her script for Screenwriter Wu to look at.
“This is the first time, she has felt that Mo Tang is too deeply involved in the matter of his parents, and she had no emotion of blame before. But this time she has.”
“This is the second time, she feels that Mo Tang should return to normal life, and that he is now delaying his future.”
“This is the third time. She doesn’t think she understands Mo Tang now. So she is walking away.”
“This is the fourth time that Mo Tang has agreed with her because of his parents’ affairs. Mo Tang wants her to understand. She understands, but she also feels that she has a thorn in her heart.”
“By now, this is the fifth time, her mood has changed, she doesn’t want to understand or support, but she also knows that Mo Tang will not change because of her lack of understanding and support, she is also very sleepy, she is also very uncomfortable, so when I and Brother Ling said this line, I always felt like crying. I think Liu Xi has been suppressing this relationship for a long time now.”
The screenwriter Wu listened carefully and said to her, “She does have an emotional outbreak here, so she will quarrel with Mo Tang and break up. If you say it, plus crying, it is not impossible, but the outbreak of her crying drama should be the one where she turned back and quarreled with Mo Tang again, and it cannot be crying vigorously, but that the tears started flowing involuntarily, so she cannot care.”
“Because Liu Xi herself is not a girl who likes to cry, of course she can cry at this time, but her personality can’t collapse.”
Yang Wenwen nodded, “I know, thank you.”
“You’re welcome.” Screenwriter Wu smiled a little and asked, “Are there any other questions?”
Yang Wenwen shook her head.
“Then I’ll get busy first.”
“Okay.”
“Thank you for your hard work.” Ling Qing said.
Screenwriter Wu smiled and said, “You’ve worked hard.”
She looked at Ling Qing and felt a little surprised. When Ling Qing was auditioning, she could not show up for some reason. Later, Zhou Xiaochuan chose Ling Qing, but she still didn’t like him very much.
Ling Qing was too popular and didn’t look innocent, so she didn’t think Ling Qing could play the male lead Mo Tang well.
But Zhou Xiaochuan liked him very much, so much so that he saw several auditions for the role but still couldn’t forget him.
Everyone advised him that Ling Qing’s pay must be high, and using traffic stars would invisibly make others think that his film was a bad movie or a fan service movie, and this would reflect poorly on the film.
It seemed like Zhou Xiaochuan had listened to them, but after three days of silence, he called the other person’s agent himself and asked if he could reduce his pay for the role.
Screenwriter Wu was speechless at the time, thinking how could it be possible? Ling Qing is so popular now, with magazine covers and endorsements one after another.
But soon, she was slapped in the face. Ling Qing’s reply was: “Sure.”
Zhou Xiaochuan was overjoyed and excitedly prepared for the start-up.
Screenwriter Wu was looking at the script and was worried that if the pay was reduced, Ling Qing might not treat his role well.
But on the first day of filming, she found out she had been wrong.
It really made sense for Zhou Xiaochuan to choose him.
He changed into Mo Tang’s clothes and put on light makeup and suddenly looked like a college student who had not yet graduated.
He and Luo Chenghao sat together eating and with his eyebrows slightly raised, he was full of the clarity of youth.
When screenwriter Wu saw the stubbornness in his eyes, it was as if she was seeing Mo Tang searching for the truth alone.
He obviously didn’t look like Mo Tang in her mind, but in the play, he was Mo Tang.
At that moment, screenwriter Wu felt that Zhou Xiaochuan was worthy of being a director nominated for the Golden Osmanthus Award and that he had a really good vision.
And today, before she was called by Xiao Liu, she was listening to her screenwriter friend complaining about the popular actors in their crew, “Change, change, change, they just ask me to change the script every day. This one has too few parts, add. How can the second female lead love the second male lead instead of the male lead in that part? How can this change? Why doesn’t he create a clone and play all the roles himself if he is so capable?”
Screenwriter Wu was comforting her when she saw Ling Qing’s assistant walk up to her and ask her to come over for something.
Screenwriter Wu was suddenly startled and thought that would their male protagonist be like this too.
She was worried for a long time, but what she was worried about did not happen. Ling Qing was just being friendly in helping a new actor to convey their ideas about the script and letting the other party discuss it with her.
At his age and having just become famous, it should have been his proudest of times, but he was rarely not cocky. Instead, he took his role and his co-stars very seriously, even though they were not very popular.
Screenwriter Wu rarely saw such people at his age, so she appreciated him even more.
She was really lucky to have such an actor in her script.
She walked back to Zhou Xiaochuan and watched the playback of the newly shot footage with him.
“Where did you go just now?” Zhou Xiaochuan asked.
“Yang Wenwen had some feelings about the script, but she didn’t dare to tell me, so Ling Qing asked his assistant to invite me over and let Yang Wenwen express her ideas. The girl was quite serious, and what she said made some sense, so I made some adjustments and added a crying scene to the first scene between Ling Qing and Yang Wenwen.”
“Okay.”
“Ling Qing is a nice person.” Screenwriter Wu couldn’t help but sigh, “You have a good eye.”
Zhou Xiaochuan smiled, “Of course, I always have a good eye.”
Screenwriter Wu was about to speak when her cell phone rang. She opened it and saw that it was her screenwriter friend complaining about the male lead of their crew again.
“He asked me to change the script again, saying that it was the heroine who discovered the clue, not him. This is too un-Su! It doesn’t highlight his image! It turns out that he is the only one who wants an image, but the heroine doesn’t? Is the heroine just a tool?!”
The author has something to say:
Screenwriter Wu: The male lead of our crew is still the best!
Screenwriter Wu: Let me introduce you to an actor who is handsome, has a good temper and is very skilled in his profession!
Friend:???? Are you tying iron? Old heart?
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