Chapter 6 of 10
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The life of the cast began like this, and after three days, it finally came to the part of Qi Le ‘an and Wei Changfeng.
Qi Le’an was particularly nervous that morning and got up earlier than usual. When assistant He woke up, he found that Qi Le’an had already packed up and sat there reading the script. He was a little surprised, “An? So early?”
Qi Le’an said shyly, “I want to be more prepared.”
Qi Le’an’s performance was very simple. The rabbit essence overheard the dialogue between its master and the mysterious man. After the mysterious man left, the master saw the rabbit essence and waved his sleeve to give it a human form.
Qi Le’an had no lines, only Wei Changfeng said, “Go ahead and follow Hao Ran.”
What Qi Le’an needed to show was a completely ignorant rabbit spirit. Although he had opened his mind, his brain was still not very clear.
Hu Bin had no chance to rest in the hotel this morning, and assistant He did not follow him to the set. Qi Le’an didn’t have an assistant, and he went from the hotel to the set by himself. Although he was an actor, he really couldn’t compare with those experts in photography and lighting, but also because of this, Qi Le’an had a good relationship with everyone on the set.
It was the makeup artist of the cast who applied makeup for Qi Le’an. The woman in her 30s was delighted to see Qi Le’an and said, “Xiao ‘an, finally playing today?”
Qi Le’an nodded with uncontrollable joy on his face. “Yes, I’m going to trouble Sister Li today.”
Sister Li covered her mouth and smiled. “Don’t worry! Sister Li will fix you up well for your scene with Wei Changfeng!”
In the past three days, although Qi Le’an had no scenes, he arrived on time every day. Not only was he learning from other people’s acting skills, but he would also help the crew to hand over something. Qi Le’an did not think this kind of thing was worth losing at all. He couldn’t stand any sharp attack and could only build good relationships.
Sister Li’s makeup technique was indeed good. Within an hour, a young man appeared in front of everyone.
In addition, today’s costume was a white velvet robe with bunny balls decorated on his head and tail, which made the sisters in charge of makeup and costume laugh fiercely and pull Qi Le’an to take a picture.
Qi Le ‘an was quite helpless and looked at himself in the mirror and felt funny. He hadn’t had a teenage mentality for many years, this outfit caused a few ripples in his heart.
Looking at the time approaching, Qi Le’an walked out of the dressing room and said hello to Director Cui first.
Director Cui was delighted when he saw Qi Le’an. When he first tried on the costume, he didn’t have this “rabbit costume”. This was the first time that Director Cui saw this outfit on him. He couldn’t help praising: “Qi Le’an looks quite good in this outfit!”
The deputy director chorused: “Yes, beautiful teenagers are trending now. Maybe Xiao Qi’s outfit can attract many fans!”
Qi Le’an hurriedly said, “It’s the clothing that was well chosen.”
The two directors couldn’t help laughing. The deputy director said, “Get ready. Wei Changfeng should be coming soon.”
As he spoke, Wei Changfeng’s assistant led him into the set. When Wei Changfeng saw Qi Le’an, who was already dressed, he was obviously stunned. Then he laughed, “This dress … is really nice.”
Qi Le’an felt his heart pounding.
Wei Changfeng had his own makeup artist. As early as in the nanny car, the makeup was almost done. He went to the preparation room to change his clothes and came out immediately. After the two actors were all there, the scene started soon . First Wei Changfeng talked with the mysterious person in the water mirror. The scene needed special effects in the later period. So Qi Le’an looked at Wei Changfeng.
That look was a little funny, but looking carefully, Wei Changfeng’s frown was an act.
It was not for no reason, he really was the youngest movie emperor.
Wei Changfeng’s scene ended, and Qi Le’an quickly stood under the greetings of the crew. This scene had been simulated in his brain many times, even the expression on his face had been practiced in the mirror many times.
This scene was shot four or five times due to special effects in the later period. First Wei Changfeng waved his sleeve at the rabbit, and then Qi Le’an appeared in the same position.
After this scene was finished, it was followed up by a close-up shot of the individual. The expression on Qi Le’an’s face was ignorant when he entered the range. However, this ignorance was accompanied by some panic. He did not know why he suddenly became a human being, and he was also afraid of the master in front of him.
The venerable master looked at “bell” with no expression on his face and said, “Go ahead and follow Hao Ran.”
Bell didn’t seem to understand the meaning of the master’s words, a watery pair of round eyes looked at the master.
The master sighed and turned to leave.
Bell stared at the master’s back with a foolish expression.
“Cut! Well done! Xiao Qi’s performance is in place!” Director Cui found that this trainee from Guangyao always brought surprises to him. The script only described the play in one line, but Qi Le’an could express all his feelings. He was really not simple!
Qi Le’an received Director Cui’s praise. His first reaction was to watch Wei Changfeng.
The master Wei Changfeng acted in the drama was a big man who was not happy and couldn’t be happy, but in reality he was as warm as the spring breeze. He smiled as he spoke to Qi Le’an, “It was great.”
Qi Le’an only felt satisfaction!
In fact, he really had no part in the scene, but still got a compliment from Wei Changfeng, and he couldn’t help himself happily.
At the end of a short scene, Qi Le ‘an returned to the dressing room to return his clothes, while Wei Changfeng went to shoot the next scene.
When it was afternoon, he received a phone call from Mr Li by accident.
“An, these two days in the cast? Can you adapt?” Teacher Li said in a tone of concern.
He didn’t know what Mr. Li meant when he called, but Qi Le ‘an said gently, “Well, it’s fine. I can adapt. Thank you for your concern!”
Teacher Li was very satisfied and said, “I heard that you and Hu Bin have a good relationship? Hu Bin has been fine recently, but you should talk more to other people.”
Qi Le’an hummed twice. Mr Li said again, “Today, I talked to Director Cui about you and Wei Changfeng acting together? Xiao’an, the future of Wei Changfeng is limitless. How could you do it without the teacher’s help? “
Qi Le’an listened to these words, and felt uncontrollably disgusted.
Mr. Li said this very bluntly. Qi Le ‘an could only say: “I know.”
Mr. Li changed his tone to a gentler one and said, “An, teacher will visit you in a couple of days.”
Qi Le’an could only, uh, make a promise.
After hanging up the phone, Qi Le’an had an expression of disgust. Assistant He hadn’t come back yet. He was sitting alone in the room, looking at himself in the full-length mirror. He was very disgusted with making false pretences with Mr. Li, but now he had to do it.
He just needed to be patient, he just needed to get through these years.
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No, if he worked harder, if he had a say in his future, he would soon be able to get rid of this falsehood!
He took a deep breath, adjusted his mood and put on a baseball cap to go out for dinner.
Today Hu Bin had a night scene. It was impossible for everyone to have dinner together. He just came to this city and hadn’t explored it. It was better go out and relax.
When the lights came on, the movie city at night showed its vitality. This was originally a small county town, but one day it was taken a fancy to by developers and developed on a large scale. However, after several years of effort, a representative film and television base had been formed here. And the surrounding businesses were also being driven by people coming and going. There were many small hotels and snack shops. Some people who performed in groups during the day also set up stalls at night to make more efforts for their own lives.
There were many stars hanging around, and there were also many young people who had dreams of becoming famous and came here to try their luck. Qi Le’an was just an unknown trainee so he felt no pressure walking on the street.
He walked a long way and then went into a private restaurant that seemed to have a moderate price.
He asked for the corner position, which was covered by green plants, and could see out of the window and in an inconspicuous corner. After ordering the single-person meal recommended by the waiter, he quietly watched the crowd outside.
Art and life were inextricably linked. Performance was a very complicated thing, but its essence was only to deduce an emotion. Therefore, Qi Le’an in his last life loved to observe the life of strangers, thus experiencing the situation of each emotion and the facial body language it brought.
This was not a learning method he realized himself, but Wei Changfeng’s.
In his last life, the only contact between Qi Le’an and Wei Changfeng was a reality show. Ten students who already had a basic training in performing arts but were not very popular studied under the guidance of their tutors. In addition to the regular tutors, different guest teachers would be invited for each episode, of which Wei Changfeng was a guest teacher.
Unfortunately, in that variety show, Qi Le’an was still a green leaf. Wei Changfeng … was too far away from him.
In a trance, the waiter brought Qi Le’an’s set meal. This one-person meal costs as much as 47 yuan. It consisted of four smaller but good quality entrees, plus one serving of rice and one cup of soup and a small portion of fruit salad.
Qi Le’an was very satisfied with the dinner and finished it in a good mood.
However, when he was ready to leave after the meal, trouble arose.
“You! It’s you! Did you just hit this Lord? Stop there, you little punk!”
Qi Le ‘an frowned and looked at the middle-aged man who was not only drunk but also had a paunchy and oily face. He immediately felt nauseous.