Chapter 88 Perseverance
Turn around.
In the main hall in the front yard of the quadrangle, more than twenty main actors gathered together and started reading the script under the chairmanship of Liu Heng.
Two hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon. After each reading, there is a two-hour group discussion. While filling in each other's gaps, we also explore more performance possibilities.
When everyone competes on the same stage, the gap between senior and young actors is vividly reflected.
The bickering between Zheng Tianshou [Sony] and Li Jianyi [Wu Liangfu] is truly a textbook classic.
As for the rivalry between Pan Hong [the Empress Dowager] and He Saifei [the Concubine Dowager], even if you close your eyes and just listen to the voices, the two full-bodied characters can be seen in your mind.
In order to carry off their roles, young actors often have to subconsciously intensify their emotions, and then make repeated adjustments before they can find the right reference point.
Among them, Deng Chao, Hao Lei and Xu Kun performed relatively well.
This doesn't mean that their abilities are much stronger than others, but because the characters they play are all emotional ones.
One is willful, one is unruly, and one is unwilling to accept the consequences. They all have a strong energy, so even if the emotions are intensified, it does not seem abrupt or out of place.
The ones who had the most difficulty were Huo Siyan [Wu Yunzhu] and Li Donghan [Boguer]. Wu Yunzhu's scenes were mostly like Qiu Ye Jingmei, and even in the quarrel scenes, there was not much emotional expression.
As for Li Donghan...
This kid must have grown up in a honey pot. His expressions and movements are all fine, and his lines are not weak either, but his eyes just can't quite convey the feeling of being frustrated.
Even when he found out that his own brother Shunzhi had openly come to his house and flirted with his wife Wu Yunzhu, all he showed was a blank look in his eyes.
However, in the subsequent scene where he wanted to kill Wu Yunzhu but didn't dare to, he acted with gnashing teeth and ferocity.
Liu Heng had no choice but to arrange him together with Wang Hui and let Wang Hui take care of him more often.
Xu Kun was helpless with Li Donghan and could only occasionally find opportunities to talk things over for Huo Siyan and help her experience the feeling of cheating on her husband.
You know what, after a few times, there really is some effect.
Huo Siyan's performance has obviously improved, but her real acting peak was when she followed Xu Kun to meet Lv Liping, and the three of them had their own ulterior motives.
Later, when Lv Liping took Huo Siyan to meet the producers, Xu Kun no longer participated.
Firstly, he was indeed not interested in "Ignite 2", and secondly, he was following Mr. Li Fazeng, trying to adjust the changes in his eyes.
Previously, Xu Kun's eyes had three main changes: two white eyes, which was ordinary; three white eyes, which looked ugly and angry; and four white eyes, which looked fierce and brutal.
After in-depth research, Li Fazeng felt that his skill of changing one's mental outlook by changing his eyebrows and eyes had more potential to be explored.
So they called on old man Zheng Tianyong for help, and the two of them worked face to face, hand in hand, for seven or eight nights in a row, and finally adjusted a fuller emotion based on the three white gears: perseverance.
There is not much change overall. He still has a hint of murderous intent, but it gives people the feeling that there is light in his eyes. His temperament has changed from being ferocious and angry to being awe-inspiring without being angry, and even his facial features seem a lot more pleasing to the eye.
He is definitely not up to the mark to play a pretty boy, but at least he is a little better than Deng Chao now. Specifically speaking of his appearance in the drama, he is even better.
This gave Xu Kun great motivation, and he tried hard to fix this "perseverance" mode, preferably to make it one of his normal states.
However, there is no hope in the short term. For the time being, he can only rely on external help to adjust to the "perseverance" mode. Not to mention making it a normal state, he can't even use it for performance.
Xu Kun himself estimated that it would take at least half a year to see results, and this was based on his more than 20 years of exploration experience. If it were an ordinary person with little talent, practicing for three to five years might not produce any results.
Just as Xu Kun was obsessed with "Perseverance", time slowly moved forward to the beginning of November, and the crew was finally ready to start filming.
This was also the first time Xu Kun knew that the crew would hold a press conference before starting filming - but the press conference was always attended by senior seniors and the leading actors, and had nothing to do with him, Prince Jian.
After the press conference, many actors with later roles left the show, such as Li Yixiang who played Qiao Boyan.
Huo Siyan, Yang Rong, Wang Ling, and Chen Jie were also among them, because they had no scenes in the first ten episodes—the new queen played by Wang Ling would not even appear until around episode 30. Without these four young girls, the crew suddenly became much quieter.
When the filming officially started in the afternoon, the first scene was the one where Shunzhi wanted to cancel the engagement, and the ministers’ persuasion failed, so Jidu confronted the emperor head-on.
Xu Kun and Deng Chao were both very familiar with this scene, so they filmed it naturally with ease. They portrayed the unruly son of a powerful official and the anxious, irritable and weak-minded emperor vividly.
This also gave the crew a good start in filming, and they didn't encounter any major problems for three consecutive days.
It wasn't until the scene where Shunzhi proposed his ideas on governing the country in the imperial study, but was rejected one by one by the Empress Dowager, that we encountered some troubles.
Because the room was too small, all the space was occupied by lighting and photography. It was not so bad when filming the Empress Dowager and Su Malagu, because both of them had rich experience in non-property performance and could perform in front of the light bulbs.
But when it came to Deng Chao, he felt a little awkward. If he didn't make eye contact, his eyes would always wander.
Finally, after trying several times, Pan Hong couldn't find a suitable place, so he simply lay down at Deng Chao's feet and acted with him, with his legs curled up under the tripod.
It's winter now!
This immediately stunned all the young actors.
Teacher Pan Hong is the most famous actor in the crew and an old friend of Director Liu Heng. If she doesn't want to, even Liu Heng can't force her.
But in order to take care of the young actors, she lay down on the cold blue bricks without hesitation.
When the crew finished work and returned to the courtyard, Xu Kun and Deng Chao couldn't help but sigh with emotion when they mentioned this scene.
At this time, Li Yixiang suddenly called.
"What's wrong, Brother Li?"
Xu Kun asked curiously, "Aren't you going to rejoin the group in a few days?"
"It's Director Gao. He just called me and said that Conquer has finally been sold."
"Has Conquest been sold?"
Xu Kun was overjoyed and asked, "Which TV station did you sell it to?!"
He couldn't guarantee anything else, but "Conquer" would definitely be a hit after it was broadcast, and he was counting on this popularity to push the popularity up - after all, he was reborn, he couldn't always play a supporting role, right?
Unexpectedly, Li Yixiang said, "It's not a TV station. It was bought by a female hotel owner. The total investment was 420 million, and she sold it for 450 million."
"The lady boss of the hotel?"
Xu Kun was a little confused. What did this mean?
Could it be that because of my appearance, the hit drama "Conquer" was ruined? !
Fortunately, Li Yixiang immediately revealed that the female boss seemed to have some connections, so she wanted to be a middleman. The TV series will definitely be broadcast, but the exact time of broadcast is still unknown.
Xu Kun's heart finally settled down in his stomach.
"Director Gao said that he would invite everyone to have a gathering tomorrow night, still at Sister Jiang Shan's villa."
"Still going to her house? What if her husband..."
"Already left."
uh~
This is not surprising at all.
(End of this chapter)
