Chapter 388 Don’t Listen to Your Teacher Gao’s Nonsense

Zhou Yan came back with two bottles of Arctic Ocean and gave one to each of the two girls. He himself sat across from them holding a tea cup.

Seeing him holding the tea cup, Chen Derong joked, "Brother-in-law, you are so young, but you are already living the life of an elderly person."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Your definition of young people is to drink from the Arctic Ocean."

"almost."

"Bei Bingyang really needs you to represent them." Zhou Yan took a sip of tea and asked, "Do you have any other dramas recently?"

Chen Derong shook his head, "No, I finished filming "The Young Man" and "Lily in the Wind" consecutively, and I won't start filming "Tomorrow With You" until next year."

Zhou Yan was not very familiar with the two TV series she was talking about, and he had only heard of the names of them.

Zhou Yan has watched very few TV series of this kind. Most of them have only been watched a little bit, and they were all the kind that he glanced at a few times while others were watching them.

The reason why Zhou Yan asked Chen Derong this was to make sure that she had no problem with her schedule, and not to wait until the role was confirmed before scheduling conflicts arise. For the role of the male protagonist's sister, Zhou Yan only asked Chen Derong to audition for the time being.

If nothing else happens, this role should eventually go to Chen Derong. He had communicated with Chen Derong before, telling her that this role was not the protagonist and the image was not very beautiful, and asked her if she would mind.

Chen Derong doesn't mind at all. It can be seen that she is really obsessed with acting in movies, so she is not willing to let go of this opportunity.

Especially after knowing that the heroine is Wang Zuxian and the hero is Zhou Yan, she has no worries.

No matter how popular her TV series is, she has never achieved very good results on the big screen. Although there is a role like Xiao Shuang'er, it obviously does not help her film career development much.

"After the audition tomorrow, if there is no problem, you will start preparing to finalize the makeup. The shooting time this time is relatively tight, so everything will be faster."

Chen Derong smiled and said, "It's okay. I'm used to it. When filming TV series, time is tighter."

Generally speaking, filming a TV series takes longer than filming a movie, but when it comes to workload, a TV series is definitely bigger. After all, TV series have more scenes, and two or three episodes of a TV series can be worth as much as one movie.

When making a movie, we often have to shoot a scene for several days, but this cannot be done in a TV series. On average, there are more than a dozen scenes in a TV series every day. If only one scene is polished, the producer will probably go crazy.

This is also why many film directors look down on TV dramas. After all, it is impossible to guarantee that the quality is comparable to movies when shooting more than a dozen scenes a day. Even if TV drama directors want to focus on the details, they cannot do it.

If you choose to make a TV series, you must lower your own requirements.

Sometimes directors know how to shoot better, but they can't do it because time and money don't allow it.

"Springtime of the Cowherd" only has a hundred scenes. If it were shot at the speed of making TV series, it could be completed in a week, and the resulting film would not be watchable at all.

Zhou Yan saw that Chen Derong was quite confident, but just smiled and said nothing. It seemed that although she had acted in movies, she had not been abused by the director. If you were really abused by the director, it wouldn't be so easy.

Seeing that Zhou Yan was silent, Wang Zuxian gave Chen Derong a vaccination, "Although you are not the protagonist this time, you cannot take it lightly. The pressure on the shooting scene is very high, so you must be mentally prepared."

"Well, I know, don't worry." Chen Derong nodded.

But looking at her expression, you can tell that she definitely didn't take Wang Zuxian's words too seriously.

In her opinion, after all, she has acted in many movies and collaborated with many big names, and she is also quite familiar with the filming situation. And looking at Zhou Yan's gentle appearance, he must have had a better time on set than those directors from Xiangjiang.

Wang Zuxian also knew that Chen Derong could not understand it just by talking about it. She had to wait until she actually arrived at the set to understand how much pressure the actors were on during the filming of Zhou Yan's movie.

Although Chen Derong has made several movies, many of which are relatively famous works such as "The Deer and the Cauldron" series and "Casino Tycoon", and the directors he has collaborated with include great directors like Wang Jing.

Many people say that Wong Jing has strict requirements on the set, but to be honest, in Wang Zuxian's opinion, compared with Zhou Yan, Wong Jing's requirements cannot be considered strict at all.

Wang Zuxian still remembers that when filming "The Sixth Sense", the young actor Hu Ke did not perform well on set. Zhou Yan would rather spend a lot of time and lead the entire crew to accompany Hu Ke over and over again, rather than lower his requirements.

At that time, Zhou Yan even thought about changing actors temporarily.

In that case, Hu Ke faced great pressure, but Hu Ke's father couldn't bear to stay at the scene and watch his son being abused.

Fortunately, that kid Hu Ke's mental endurance is pretty good. If he had been replaced by a child with a weaker mental endurance, his mentality would probably have collapsed in those few days.

Zhou Yan doesn't curse on set, but he will grind for one detail over and over again, so that when filming Zhou Yan's movies, many actors will have self-doubt because they can't meet Zhou Yan's requirements.

The two girls didn't stay in Zhou Yan's office for long. After finishing a bottle of Arctic Ocean, they got up to leave.

After getting up, Chen Derong smiled strangely and pushed Wang Zuxian towards Zhou Yan, "Sister Xiaoxian, just stay. Don't be embarrassed."

If she didn't do this, Wang Zuxian might really stay, but the more she teased him, the more embarrassed Wang Zuxian became.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Let's go back to the hotel."

"Are you really going back to the hotel with me? Don't regret it tonight." Chen Derong said to Zhou Yan with a smile, "Brother-in-law, I didn't ask her to go with me. Don't blame me."

Before Zhou Yan responded, Wang Zuxian took Chen Derong away.

Watching the two of them leave, Zhou Yan smiled and shook his head, and continued to look at the audition list.

...

The next morning, many people gathered in the studio.

The scope of today's audition is very wide, not only the main roles, but also many supporting roles.

There are three venues in total, one for the main role audition, and the other two for the supporting role audition.

A lot of actors came today, most of them were recommended by various units, and some were self-recommended and took the initiative to sign up.

In addition, there are actors invited by Zhou Yan and his team.

The audition officially started at nine o'clock, and Zhou Yan arrived at the studio at eight o'clock. He sat in the office until eight fifty, then got up and walked towards the film studio.

The three audition rooms were arranged on the first, second and third floors respectively. The audition for the main roles was on the third floor. Zhou Yan saw three people standing in the corridor as soon as he arrived on the third floor.

The studio arranged a special room for the actors who came to audition to rest and wait, so most of them were waiting in the lounge for their names to be called.

"Fourth brother!"

Zhou Yan laughed when he heard this shout.

The one who called him was none other than Li Jingfei, who played Zhang Fei.

Li Jingfei was probably the only one in the world who could call Zhou Yan the fourth brother.

Because Zhou Yan had been getting along well with the three brothers before, Li Jingfei sometimes joked and called Zhou Yan the fourth brother in private.

However, this title was not made public, and Lu Shuming and others would not call him that either, because they had a fourth brother, Zhao Yun. If they publicly called Zhou Yan the fourth brother, it would not be very good, and if they called him the fifth brother, it would seem a bit strange.

There were two people standing next to Li Jingfei, one was Jiao Huang and the other was the young actor Li Naiwen.

Li Naiwen has not graduated yet, and is the only student who auditioned for the main role. He was recommended by Gao Jinwen, Zhou Yan's enlightenment teacher in acting.

Li Naiwen is now a senior student in the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama, and Gao Jinwen is also his teacher.

When recommending Li Naiwen, Gao Jinwen did not give any special instructions, but told Zhou Yan not to give Li Naiwen special care for his face, and if he felt that he was not suitable, he should never use him.

However, Zhou Yan knew that Gao Jinwen must be very optimistic about Li Naiwen, otherwise he would not have called to recommend Li Naiwen. They have known each other for so many years, and this is the first time that Gao Jinwen has taken the initiative to call to recommend someone.

Zhou Yan was also very happy to see Li Jingfei, and went up to hug him, and said hello to Jiao Huang and Li Naiwen.

Then he took out a pack of Zhonghua from his pocket and offered them cigarettes one by one. Li Naiwen did not smoke, but Jiao Huang and Li Jingfei both took them.

Li Jingfei lit up a cigarette with a smile, "After a few years, your habit hasn't changed. You still put a pack of cigarettes in your pocket even if you don't smoke."

In fact, Zhou Yan basically doesn't put cigarettes in his pocket now. He is not like before, he would give a cigarette to anyone he meets. It's just that today he knew Li Jingfei and the others were coming, so he took a pack of cigarettes with him.

Jiao Huang was not familiar with Zhou Yan, but he also smiled and said, "Director Zhou has a good habit and it's worth encouraging. If everyone can be like Director Zhou, we old smokers won't have to bring cigarettes when we go out in the future."

Li Jingfei took two puffs of the cigarette and said with a smile, "I still remember that year, my eldest brother was caught picking corn. Fortunately, my fourth brother had a pack of Hongtashan in his pocket, so he rescued my eldest brother."

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes. They were not ashamed of stealing corn, but proud of it. They took the initiative to talk about it, so many people knew about it.

Moreover, the story became more and more outrageous. Zhou Yan heard a version that said he took his three brothers to steal corn. He was obviously an innocent victim, but he suddenly became the mastermind.

"Remember you and your second brother run very fast." Zhou Yan teased, and then looked at his watch, "The audition will start soon, let's talk after we are done."

"It's okay, you go."

Zhou Yan nodded to the other two and was about to leave, but was stopped by Li Jingfei, "Leave two more for us, we were in a hurry to go out today and forgot to bring cigarettes."

"Take it." Zhou Yan handed over a pack directly.

"How can I be so embarrassed..."

Li Jingfei said this, but he was not polite at all, and took the cigarette directly.

After giving the cigarette to Li Jingfei, Zhou Yan walked into the room.

Li Jingfei happily put the cigarette in his pocket, "Even if the audition today didn't go well, it was not in vain."

Jiao Huang asked with a smile: "It seems that you have a good relationship with Director Zhou."

"Of course, we have a revolutionary friendship. When we were filming "Three Kingdoms", he lived in the same room with a few of us. Don't look at his young age, he can get along well with us. Speaking of it, it's only been a few years, and he has changed a lot now."

Li Naiwen was curious about Zhou Yan and couldn't help asking, "What was Director Zhou like before?"

"As for his appearance, there is actually no change, only his identity has changed. When we first met, we didn't know who he was. We only knew that he was a music director and was not from the same system as us. We originally thought that he would only stay for two days and would not have much contact with us. Who would have thought that we would have such a good relationship later."

"When we were filming "Three Kingdoms", Director Zhou was already quite famous."

"How can it be compared with now?"

"That's true." Li Naiwen nodded, "I heard from our teacher Gao that Director Zhou is a very hard-working person. Sometimes in class, he would bring up Director Zhou and say that if we work as hard as Director Zhou, we won't have to worry about not being good at our majors."

"Don't listen to your teacher Gao's nonsense." Li Jingfei laughed, "Even if you work twice as hard as him, you can't achieve his achievements. Anyway, my biggest impression of him is that he is a genius, an unparalleled genius. His brain is simply incomparable to that of ordinary people. He can burst out superhuman inspiration anytime and anywhere."

Li Naiwen pursed his lips. The Zhou Yan mentioned by Li Jingfei is completely different from the Zhou Yan mentioned by his teacher Gao Jinwen.

According to Gao Jinwen, Zhou Yan's efforts are beyond ordinary people.

Teacher Gao often likes to talk about Zhou Yan's acting skills in the "Raise the Red Lantern" crew. He believes that Zhou Yan's acting talent is not different from ordinary people, but Zhou Yan is extremely serious in learning, and pays special attention to methods.

At this time, Jiao Huang said beside him, "I think that Director Zhou's current success is inseparable from his efforts and talents. He must have both talents and efforts. But in order to make you study harder, Teacher Gao emphasized Director Zhou's efforts."

Li Naiwen nodded, "It should be like this. Anyway, I came here just to learn. I am very satisfied to meet all the seniors and teachers."

Li Jingfei laughed, "You don't have to be modest. Now it's the world of young people. Let's perform well in this audition and strive to cooperate in the movie."

"Well, I will definitely work hard."

Li Jingfei and Li Naiwen also knew each other before. Li Naiwen's mother is an actor of Tianjin People's Art Theater, and Li Jingfei is an actor of Hebei Theater. The two theaters have communicated a lot before.

In fact, Li Naiwen should call Li Jingfei "uncle".

It is for this reason that Li Naiwen, a college student who has not yet graduated, can now stand in the corridor and chat with Jiao Huang and Li Jingfei. (End of this chapter)