Chinese Entertainment 2017: Starting from the Top Writers

Chapter 776 Lin Li's Comments, Backers
"Acting Class" waiting room.

After Lin Li chatted with Wu Zhenyu and others for about half an hour, the staff knocked on the door to inform them that the recording was about to begin and asked them to go to the scene.

Several people happily stood up, and after some pushing and shoving, they continued to surround Lin Li and come to the recording site.

Unlike other variety shows, there were no audiences at the recording site of "Acting Class".

This program claims to be a survival reality show for young actors on the set. It mainly focuses on improving the actors' acting skills and professional cultivation. During the recording process, it emphasizes the actors' real performance and actual exercises on the set, so there is no live audience.

Under the guidance of the staff, Lin Li, Wu Zhenyu and the other two sat down in front of the seats specially prepared by the program team.

Yu Zheng, with his casting team, sat on the other side.

Seeing that they were all seated, director Hu Ming announced through the intercom that the recording had officially begun.

The first actor to perform was Wang Yuwen from Beijing Dance Academy.

Wang Yuwen walked nervously to the casting team where Yu Zheng was, stood in front of him, and then began to introduce himself.

Lin Li watched this scene with great interest, and couldn't help but take a few more glances at this actress who later became a well-known figure in the domestic entertainment industry.

It's not that I have any other thoughts about her, I just simply find her interesting.

He recalled that this was a very capable girl.

She dated director Hu Bo and starred in his work An Elephant Sitting Still.

Later, Hu Bo committed suicide. There were many reasons revealed, and there were many reasons. It was not just one straw that broke the camel's back.

Hu Bo’s friends also confronted her directly, saying that she was one of the accomplices.

She has scammed many male celebrities, including Liu Haoran, Xiao Zhan, Xu Zhengxi, etc.

Send a message to Xu Zhengxi saying "Lin Gengxin was turned into ashes by you in a second" and "Huang Xiaoming is so unsophisticated".

When Yang Li and Mao Xiaotong were hyping up their relationship, it was suddenly revealed that they went shopping in a supermarket together, indicating that she was the real girlfriend.

It can be said that he has done a lot of cool things and is very motivated.

Wang Yuwen also became extremely nervous because of Lin Li's presence. He stuttered and looked very flustered when answering questions from Yu Zheng and his team.

Naturally, the performance was not very good in this state. After she finished her segment, Zhang Songwen asked Lin Li with a smile what he thought. He just said "I don't want to comment" under the other party's expectant eyes and put down the microphone.

After the words were spoken, the entire recording site fell silent for several seconds.

Fortunately, Zhang Jingchu stepped in to save the situation in time, making the scene less awkward.

After Wang Yuwen was embarrassed, Zhang Jingchu glanced at Lin Li who was standing beside her with a calm expression, thinking that this man was indeed interested in little white girls like Lu Yuxiao, and he didn't even look at herself and Wang Yuwen who had good figures.

So sick!

After Wang Yuwen, several other students came out to perform one after another. Lin Li looked uninterested and could not muster any interest.

He remembered that Ruth and Egret were originally on the show, but because of Butterfly, they no longer needed to increase their exposure through this show.

By the way, Bai Lu and Xiao Tian are both filming in Hengdian. After the recording is over, he can go visit them. He hasn't seen them for a while.

As he was thinking, Lin Li became distracted.

"Next one, Lu Yuxiao."

At this moment, Yu Zheng's voice pulled him back from his trance.

When he looked up, he saw Lu Yuxiao walking towards Yu Zheng and others with his head slightly lowered and a reserved look.

"Hello, teachers. I am the new actor Lu Yuxiao."

After standing still, Lu Yuxiao bowed and greeted everyone with a shy smile.

Lin Li couldn't help but smile when he saw her folded hands and drooping eyebrows.

Just looking at her current appearance, who would have thought that she would later be able to play the charming and tea-flavored role of Shangguan Qian?

"Xiao Lu, right? I saw your information and you studied fashion design before?"

Yu Zheng glanced at Lin Li, who had rarely sat up straight, and spoke to her in a gentle tone.

"Yes, I studied fashion design in the UK."

“I have only been learning acting for a month.”

Lu Yuxiao faced many gazes and said with a slightly red face.

She felt her face burning and could only try her best to focus her attention on Yu Zheng, not daring to glance around.

Especially when she thought that Lin Li was looking at her, she became even more nervous.

"Oh my~ It's only been a month, and this is really new."

"Can you tell me why you want to be an actor?"

Yu Zheng was quite satisfied with Lu Yuxiao's appearance, which was his favorite type. He even thought that if Lu Yuxiao had not signed a contract with the company, he could consider signing her.

"This one……"

Lu Yuxiao paused and glanced at Lin Li who was smiling at her not far away.

The reason is actually very simple.

She thought that if she became an actor, she would have more opportunities to meet Lin Li.

Maybe one day, I will have the opportunity to work with him again.

Whether it's acting in a play directed by him or acting with him.

But she didn't expect that she would meet the person who gave her motivation when she took her first step into the entertainment industry.

"My aunt and grandmother had the opportunity to pursue acting careers, but they didn't make it, so I wanted to try to see if I could do it."

Facing everyone's gaze, Lu Yuxiao gave another reason.

Although it was because of Lin Li that she had the idea of ​​becoming an actor, what she just said was also true.

Therefore, when she expressed her desire to be an actor, although her father strongly opposed it, she received unanimous support from the female elders in the family.

"I see. I look forward to your performance then."

Yu Zheng nodded to show that he understood, then gestured to her with his hand.

"Ok."

Lu Yuxiao bowed to him again, straightened up and took a deep breath.

She glanced at Lin Li and found that he was looking at her with a gentle smile on his face.

She hurriedly withdrew her gaze and calmed herself down, then Lu Yuxiao slowly walked to the center of the set, and the actor who was acting with her also followed her in front of the camera.

Only then did Lin Li realize that what she was going to perform was a classic scene from “Better Days”, the scene where Chen Nian was interrogated.

He straightened his back instantly and looked intently at the girl in the center of the set.

The surrounding lights gradually dimmed, and only the lights on the set remained unchanged.

With the director's shout of "action!", the performance began.

The air at the recording site suddenly became sticky.

Lu Yuxiao sat on an iron chair that looked like it was in an interrogation room, with incandescent light bulbs crackling above her head.

She subconsciously curled up her knees, and her canvas shoes drew a half arc on the ground.

This unplanned action made Yu Zheng raise an eyebrow behind the monitor, and in Lin Li's eyes, she was like a deer that had strayed into a wolf pack, completely lacking Chen Nian's panicked yet pretending to be calm.

"Comrade police officer, I really don't know anything."

Her voice was trembling and her right hand unconsciously stroked the edge of her skirt.

When she said "They poured red ink on me", she suddenly choked and a sickly flush appeared on her neck.

Zhang Jingchu noticed that her left hand was pinching her thigh tightly, and her nails left obvious wrinkles on her skirt.

The most subtle moment came when the lines were repeated for the third time. When the actor opposite her slammed the table and stood up, Lu Yuxiao suddenly raised her face, her eyelashes trembling in the strong light like a dying butterfly.

There was a tear hanging on her lower eyelid, about to fall, but she held it back when she heard, "Do you think silence can protect him?"

This improvisation made Zhang Songwen lean forward fifteen degrees, and the tip of his pen paused slightly on the score sheet.

"Card!"

When the clapperboard fell, Lu Yuxiao's back was completely soaked with cold sweat.

The moment she looked towards the instructor's seat, Lin Li was spinning a pen, and the cold light reflected from the metal pen shaft flashed across her moist eyes.

"Teachers, I'm done with my performance."

She stood obediently in front of Yu Zheng with her hands behind her back, bowed to him and Lin Li and the others, and after standing up, she also leaned forward slightly, waiting for the trial moment to come.

"Crying scenes are like squeezing toothpaste, and lines are like reciting a text."

Yu Zheng slammed the file book to the ground, and even though Lin Li was standing beside him, he couldn't suppress the disgust in his heart.

As a director and screenwriter who has seen too many actors, his expertise allowed him to temporarily forget the oppressive feeling that Lin Li brought to him.

"Especially when he said I had no way out, his eyes looked so wandering that I could fly a kite."

Wu Zhenyu tugged at the collar of his leather jacket and muttered "not enough" in Cantonese.

Then he turned and looked at Zhang Jingchu.

"Do you think her emotional level is sufficient?"

Zhang Jingchu saw Lin Li adjusting his sitting position for the third time, and suddenly smiled softly.

"It's like an undercooked soft-boiled egg. It looks crystal clear, but tastes fishy when you bite it."

She deliberately dragged out the ending of the word, and looked at Lu Yuxiao with satisfaction as she clenched her fists, tears welling up in her eyes.

When the microphone was passed to Lin Li, the crew quietly moved the camera half a meter closer so that every subtle change in his expression could be clearly presented in the camera.

"It's indeed immature."

The moment he opened his mouth, Lu Yuxiao's nails dug into his palms and his face was dejected.

Sure enough, I still can’t do it well.

And it happened in front of him, how embarrassing.

"But didn't you notice?"

Lin Li's pen tip suddenly pointed at the monitor playback, and he instantly returned to the state when he was directing on the set, with an expression of extreme concentration.

"Every time she told a lie, her right little finger would twitch. This was the most realistic physiological reaction during the interrogation scene."

"In this regard, even Zi Feng's performance was not as good as hers when I was filming this scene."

There were sudden gasps at the scene.

The picture froze at the moment when Lu Yuxiao blinked for the third time. The picture, magnified ten times, showed her curled fingertips trembling in the folds of her school uniform, like a ginkgo leaf struggling in the wind.

This detail, which even the person himself could not notice, has now become a butterfly specimen on the dissecting table.

“Remember this instinctive reaction.”

When Lin Li put down his pen, the metal made a clear sound when it collided with the wooden table.

"This is more valuable than taking any acting class."

Lu Yuxiao suddenly raised her head and looked at Lin Li's smiling face with bright eyes.

She suddenly recalled the afternoon during the rainy season in London when she hid in the fashion design classroom and watched Weibo Night.

The tremor that penetrated her chest at this moment was a hundred times stronger than when she saw Reba win the Weibo queen title!
Amidst the silence, ripples of unrest gradually emerged at the scene.

"Haha, Teacher Nanxun has a really sharp eye."

Yu Zheng suddenly burst into laughter, his face full of approval.

“This is a detail that even Stanislavsky would applaud.”

While speaking, he gave Lin Li a thumbs up.

Wu Zhenyu turned sideways to look at Lin Li and bowed to him.

"Teacher Nanxun, please give me a chance next time you shoot a new play. Even if it's a supporting role, I want to experience the feeling of being guided by you."

"Amazing!"

"Seeing is believing. I am convinced. It's so detailed!"

He shook his head with an emotional look on his face.

Zhang Jingchu dug her nails into the score sheet, pursed her lips, and didn't say anything.

Lin Li had spoken, so how could she dare to refute him?

"Thank you, Teacher Nanxun! I will definitely do it!"

When Lu Yuxiao bowed, her earring brushed across her collarbone, and when she raised her eyes, she just brushed across Lin Li's rolling Adam's apple, making her swallow subconsciously.

"Ah."

Lin Li smiled at her and nodded slightly.

Lu Yuxiao straightened up and also narrowed her eyes, grinning with a naive smile on her face.

After she left the stage, several students took turns to go on stage. Lin Li returned to his previous state again, yawning in his seat with a lack of interest.

He only showed some interest when Wu Jinyan appeared, but he felt that was nothing special.

the other side.

The central air conditioner in the standby room spews out 23℃ cold air, and the buzzing sound of the outdoor unit when it is working makes people feel annoyed.

Lu Yuxiao sat in front of the makeup mirror, burying her head deeper as she felt the gazes from all around her glance at her from time to time.

"People really can't be compared. If we don't perform well, we will be criticized. But they have a great backer, so even if their performance is bad, they will be praised like a flower, haha..."

A strange voice suddenly sounded in the waiting room. The speaker was Wang Yuwen, who was adjusting her false eyelashes in front of the dressing mirror.

As soon as she opened her mouth, all the students and staff in the waiting room showed expressions of watching a good show.

Many of them heard the conversation between Lin Li and Lu Yuxiao before the recording, and guessed that they must have met before, but they were not particularly familiar with each other.

Lu Yuxiao is a newcomer who has just entered the entertainment industry. She has no agent or assistant around her, so no one cares about her feelings.

Besides, seeing that she was just praised by Lin Li, who wouldn't feel jealous?

Don’t you have Teacher Nanxun to help you speak?
If you have time, ask him to save you!
The mineral water bottle made a creaking sound in Lu Yuxiao's palm as it could not bear the weight. Water droplets slid down the bottle and formed dark spots on the light grey floor tiles.

"If you ask me, why would some people come to compete with us when they have powerful backers?"

"this is not……"

Wang Yuwen was talking excitedly and was about to stand up when the door of the waiting room was suddenly pushed open, hitting the bolt with a dull "bang" sound, and a tall figure came into everyone's sight.

Lu Yuxiao was also frightened, and then looked up at the entrance of the waiting room as if she sensed something.

After seeing who was coming, her eyes suddenly widened.

Lin Li leaned against the door frame, and the light spot reflected from the surface of his watch happened to fall on Wang Yuwen's eyebrows.

His shadow stretched out on the ground, like a drawn sword splitting the dust in the room.

In the silence, a playful voice suddenly resounded throughout the space.

"Why, you have nothing to say when you see me as your backer?"

(End of this chapter)