After the filming was completed, I awakened my superpowers.

Chapter 68 The Thieves audition, Shao Jingqiu comes to the crew to do something shady
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Sheng Yixia rested for a whole night.

The next day, I woke up feeling full of energy.

seven in the morning.

He wore a refreshing T-shirt, met Zhang Qing at the gate of the community, and got into an Alphard. Lying in the comfortable first-class seat, he couldn't help but exclaimed in amazement: "Sister Zhang Qing, where did this car come from?"

"I borrowed it from a friend. We have to have some appearance when we go to the audition." Zhang Qing said with a smile, "Don't worry about it. How are you preparing for the role of Zhao Xingyao?"

"Brother Gu has given me special training." Sheng Yixia nodded and said, "I feel that I am also suitable for this role. I like Zhao Xingyao's cool and chivalrous style."

Upon hearing this.

Zhang Qing relaxed a little. She also knew that although Sheng Yixia had practiced acting skills intensively, it was just a last-minute practice. In theory, he should not be as good as Yu Zihao, who had been honing his skills in actual practice for the past two or three years.

But if you feel like you fit in particularly well with the role, that’s a different story.

In the entertainment industry, there are many actors with mediocre acting skills who receive roles that are particularly suitable for themselves, and they immediately perform the essence of the characters and then receive rave reviews!

along the way.

Zhang Qing also chatted with Sheng Yixia about "King of Chefs 2": "I talked to the producer and asked them for a one-time buyout fee of 2 million for publicity and promotion."

"Two million?"

Sheng Yixia was also slightly surprised.

"The money I'm asking for is not too much. Without our help, the film wouldn't make much money even if it didn't fail." Zhang Qing said as a matter of course, "But I don't plan to take the two million back. I plan to use it directly as an investment for the next one. I believe that with your participation, this film will definitely make money."

"Also, I have negotiated a salary of one million for your participation in the film. We won't take more than that. It is more in line with your current popularity. If I let you do the publicity in the future, I will take a commission based on the dividends."

"Thank you for your hard work, Sister Zhang Qing."

"My contribution is nothing. I also make money." Zhang Qing smiled radiantly. She left with Sheng Yixia because she saw his potential and thought he would become famous. But she didn't expect him to become famous so quickly. This time, she, Zhang Qing, took advantage.

After half an hour.

The car arrived at a five-star hotel. Sheng Yixia got off the car and found that Gu Yonghan, Yu Zi, Chi Yu and others were also there.

Seeing that Sheng Yixia was a little confused, Zhang Qing smiled and explained, "There are many roles in the Republic of China's Thieves Group. Since it's all auditions, why not let everyone try? If they fail, it's just practice. If they succeed, everyone will be happy."

Therefore, the four-man team under Zhang Qing assembled again.

As the crowd was walking towards the hotel, they found another low-key business car parked at the hotel entrance. Shao Jingqiu, who was wrapped up tightly and wearing big sunglasses, got out of the car and walked quickly into the hotel surrounded by assistants, bodyguards, and agents.

When she passed by Sheng Yixia, she glanced at him secretly as if inadvertently, but pretended not to know him and continued to walk away quickly.

Wait until the people are gone.

Yu Zi was very excited: "Shao Jingqiu, it's actually Shao Jingqiu, I've never met her in the company before! Could it be that she's also here to star in The Thieves?"

"How is that possible? Who is she? How could she be starring in an online movie?"

Zhang Qing glared at her, her expression also somewhat puzzled and solemn: "It's a bit strange. Magic City Entertainment has only invested a mere three million. Is it worth it for her to be a representative and make a personal trip?"

Hearing what Sister Zhang Qing said, Sheng Yixia couldn't help but feel surprised.

Could it be that Sister Jingqiu heard that I was going to compete for Zhao Xingyao's role and came here specifically to help him and do the shady things?

If you think about it carefully, it is not impossible.

Otherwise, why did she pretend not to know me just now?

Ok.

Sheng Yixia's mood was a little complicated. It seemed that his poor acting skills had become a recognized fact.

In fact, he has made significant progress recently.

"Let's ignore her for now." Zhang Qing's expression became more serious. "We just need to give our best. Even if we lose, it's not because we are incompetent! It's because there is something fishy going on."

In Zhang Qing's opinion, Shao Jingqiu was most likely sent by the boss of Modu Entertainment, with the purpose of exerting influence on the creative team of "The Thieves" and making them more inclined to choose Yu Zihao from Modu Entertainment.

Thereby suppressing Sheng Yixia.

Uh……

Sheng Yixia felt that Sister Zhang Qing probably had misunderstood what he meant, but he had no substantial evidence, so he had to keep silent.

Due to Shao Jingqiu's appearance, the morale of Zhang Qing's team inevitably dropped a little, and they felt that they would most likely just be runners-up in today's audition.

Even Gu Yonghan patted Sheng Yixia on the shoulder and consoled her, "Yixia, don't take it too seriously. You are on a rapid rise now. If the Thieves don't choose you for other reasons, it will definitely be their loss."

"That's right." Yu Zi also said angrily, "They want to play dirty tricks, and they will regret it soon! Wait until our bionic girlfriend goes online and becomes a huge hit, and slap them in the face."

"Support Brother Sheng!" The little puppy Chi Yu also waved his fist in indignation, "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west. Sooner or later, we will get back today's humiliation with interest!"

"Let's go."

"I will never be a fan of Shao Jingqiu again."

At Zhang Qing's urging, everyone entered the five-star hotel together.

Just the expression and the pace, there is a heroic feeling of whistling wind and cold Yishui River, and the hero will never return once he leaves!
Sheng Yixia was speechless. If Sister Jingqiu really wanted to do something shady, it was hard to say whose shady deal she was going to do!

Forget it.

Let’s leave it at that for now. It’s not good to publicize this kind of thing casually.

Led by Zhang Qing, everyone went to the large conference room on the second floor and found empty seats in the back row.

The online movie "Rogue One" has attracted much attention in the industry because of the well-known production team and the large amount of investment. Various investors and related parties have tried their best to get people into the movie.

In order to balance the pressure from all aspects, the production team announced that, except for the leading male and female roles, the remaining roles will be cast through invitation-based open auditions.

However, even in so-called open auditions, some candidates are generally already chosen.

For example, Sister Zhang Qing secretly revealed that there are five actors invited to audition for the role of Zhao Xingyao, but the production team will most likely only choose one between Sheng Yixia or Yu Zihao.

The other three are basically just running along.

Of course, if there is a dark horse runner-up who performs extremely well and surpasses the two prospective candidates, it is not ruled out that the production team will, for the sake of the quality of the work, withstand the pressure from investors and personal relationships and choose the dark horse to participate.

Although the probability of this situation is low, Sheng Yixia will accept it if it really happens.

At this moment.

Yu Zi hesitated for a moment and whispered, "Yixia, Ge Minhong and Yu Zihao are here."

Including Sheng Yixia, everyone turned around to look.

Ge Minhong, wearing a women's business suit, was seen walking into the conference room side by side with a middle-aged fat man. The two were talking and laughing as they walked, looking very familiar with each other.

Yu Zihao followed closely behind them with a very respectful attitude.

"That's Director Chen." Zhang Qing's voice sounded low, "He has directed several online movies that received good responses, some of which were even big hits that grossed nearly 40 million yuan. He is very famous in the online movie circle."

This is how the online movie industry works. When a movie becomes a big hit, the entire production team will be highly praised and sought after by investors. But if too many movies fail, no one will pay attention to you even if you beg for mercy. Now Director Chen is naturally widely praised.

This kind of director often has a lot of say on the set.

At this time, Ge Minhong also saw Zhang Qing and Sheng Yixia, and greeted them with a smile, "Zhang Qing, and Yixia, you came quite early."

Then, she turned to Director Chen and introduced him, "Director Chen, there's no need for me to introduce Zhang Qing. You two are old acquaintances. That handsome young man is Sheng Yixia, who has been doing well recently. Yixia, why don't you say hello to Director Chen?"

She exuded enthusiasm from beginning to end, as if Sheng Yixia was hers.

This was an eye-opener for Sheng Yixia right from the start. If he went up to greet Director Chen respectfully, it would seem as if he was listening to Ge Minhong's words. If he didn't greet him, or had a cold attitude, wouldn't he immediately offend Director Chen?
However, in this case, Sheng Yixia doesn't need to consider this issue at all.

Zhang Qing had already stepped in front of Sheng Yixia and said to Director Chen with a smile, "Director Chen, you were so mean the day before yesterday. Lao Yu and I just toasted you a few glasses of wine, and you ran away to pee. Why don't I ask Lao Yu to set up another party for you, and we won't leave until we're drunk."

Suddenly seeing Zhang Qing standing in front of him, Director Chen was so scared that he took a half step back. He waved his hand and said, "Forget it, forget it. You and Lao Yu are both big drinkers who can drink a thousand cups. How dare I drink with you? Let's drink tea. Let's drink tea together next time when we are free~"

Just kidding, Zhang Qing’s notoriety as a dominatrix is ​​known to everyone in the circle.

Even someone as famous as Director Chen is keeping his distance from Zhang Qing right now. It is better for everyone to keep a distance and be polite to each other.

After Zhang Qing took the lead, she turned around and said to Sheng Yixia with a smile: "Yixia, come over and meet Director Chen. You have to study hard under Director Chen in the future."

Sheng Yixia then hurriedly stepped forward and said to Director Chen humbly, "Hello, Director Chen, I'm Sheng Yixia, you can just call me Xiaoxia, it's my honor to have the opportunity to study with you."

Facing this situation, Director Chen naturally couldn't make trouble. He smiled and took Sheng Yixia's hand and said, "You are Yixia. You are really handsome. I heard that you recently participated in the King of Traffic and the King of Cooking, and the results were very good. The young are formidable, the young are formidable."

Director Chen did not agree with the quality of the two films, but he naturally recognized the success of the films.

"No, no, I'm just lucky." Sheng Yixia said with a smile, "Now I just need an opportunity to work with a great director like Director Chen to hone my acting skills."

"Okay, okay, there will be a chance." Director Chen responded with a warm smile, "I also like to communicate more about the tastes of young people nowadays with you outstanding young people."

"What kind of communication?" A cheerful voice sounded, and a man in his fifties or sixties walked into the conference room with Shao Jingqiu, looking at them with a smile, "Old Chen, you are not going to decide on the actors in advance without telling us, are you?

When Director Chen saw the producers Yu Haiyang and Shao Jingqiu coming, he first glared at Yu Haiyang unhappily, then hurried over to greet Shao Jingqiu and said, "Teacher Shao is here, welcome."

That posture was exactly the same as the respectful attitude Sheng Yixia had shown towards him just now.

Shao Jingqiu also smiled and shook hands with him. After exchanging a few pleasantries, he glanced at Sheng Yixia and said jokingly, as if he had just noticed him, "Hey, this young man is quite handsome. Was he selected by Director Chen? Why don't you introduce him to us?"

At this point, even though Director Chen was not familiar with Sheng Yixia, he could only help introduce her, saying, "Teacher Shao, this is Sheng Yixia, a rising star among young actors. She recently starred in The King of Traffic and The King of Cooks, and both achieved remarkable results."

Seeing this, Sheng Yixia was already full of complaints. Sister Jingqiu is indeed a movie queen, her acting skills are top-notch, and she directly led Director Chen by the nose.

Ge Minhong and Yu Zihao were completely left aside, and all the momentum they had just displayed was suppressed.

but.

At this point, Sheng Yixia had no choice but to cooperate, pretending that she didn't know Shao Jingqiu, and walked up to him humbly and respectfully and said, "Hello, Mr. Shao, hello, your performance as Qingyi in troubled times is really beautiful, I am your fan."

This line was used by Wang Jianfeng last time and was plagiarized by Sheng Yixia.

"Thank you." Shao Jingqiu took the initiative to reach out and shake hands with Sheng Yixia, praising her calmly, "Young people nowadays are very outstanding. It's really like the younger generation pushing the older generation forward."

But privately.

But she gently scratched Sheng Yixia's palm with her fingers.

Ah this...

Sheng Yixia felt numb all over.

Damn it!

Shao Jingqiu, how dare you take advantage of me in public?

And this is the second time!

The last time it was in front of Wang Jianfeng, this time it was in front of everyone, especially Sister Zhang Qing was standing behind, aren’t you afraid of being socially killed on the spot?
Are you looking for excitement?
Sheng Yixia suddenly felt that Shao Jingqiu might have some unknown serious illness under her national goddess face.

What was even more outrageous was that Sheng Yixia could only pretend that nothing had happened, and still showed her a respectful, humble, and flattered expression. However, his acting skills were not very good, and his expression seemed a little stiff: "No, no, I have to learn more from Teacher Shao when I have the chance."

Fortunately, Shao Jingqiu still had some sense of propriety, and soon let go of Sheng Yixia, saying with a smile: "I hope we can have a chance to work together."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, she, Yu Haiyang and Director Chen walked towards the audition judging seat while talking. After some pushing and rubbing of each other, everyone took their seats.

The offensive launched by Ge Minhong was directly broken up by Zhang Qing, and then "suppressed" by Shao Jingqiu intentionally or unintentionally, so that she and Yu Zihao could not get involved in the conversation at all and could only stand aside awkwardly.

After everyone left, he glanced coldly at Sheng Yixia and Zhang Qing, then took Yu Zihao to sit in the back row.

Not long after, another middle-aged fat man left the meeting room. His surname was Zhou, and he was the lead investor of the Thieves Group.

After exchanging pleasantries with Yu Haiyang, Director Chen, and Shao Jingqiu, he also sat on the referee's chair.

But at the same time, he was extremely polite to Shao Jingqiu and his attitude was humble.

After all, although he is an investor, investors are different from each other. He doesn't even have the qualifications to invest in a movie starring Shao Jingqiu.

Indeed, a big screen actress like Shao Jingqiu coming to the online movie audition to show her support was undoubtedly a dimensionality reduction attack.

Under normal circumstances, she would have absolutely nothing to do with online movies.

So don't talk to her about status and status, because no one at the scene has a higher status and status than her.

"This is Mr. Zhou, an investor with a wide network of contacts and good relationships with major video websites. He is also the main investor of the Thieves Group." Zhang Qing took the opportunity to introduce the fat man in a low voice, saying, "For a bureau of this level, sometimes investing requires more than just money. You also have to be able to bring other benefits to the crew."

Sheng Yixia nodded as she listened, indicating that she was studying seriously.

That’s true. Each game on the Internet is different.

In a situation like the "bionic girlfriend", as long as you are willing to invest, people can treat you as a dad.

But in a group like The Thieves, if you want to invest, you have to fight for a share.

The judges who will be conducting the auditions are all here.

Naturally, I started auditioning, first trying out some supporting roles that had a bit of screen time.

The pace of this part was very fast and Shao Jingqiu did not express any opinions, so the roles were quickly decided.

It is worth mentioning that Yu Zi successfully got a supporting actress role, but Chi Yu was eliminated.

Gu Yonghan used his acting skills as a veteran actor, and Shao Jingqiu made a joking comment: "Teacher Gu's acting skills are as stable as ever. I will definitely work with you if there is a chance."

Obviously, Shao Jingqiu and Gu Yonghan also knew each other and chose to go with the flow.

Then Gu Yonghan got the role of the second villain - the commander of the guards around a warlord, a big bad guy who took the warlord's salary while secretly having an affair with his concubines.

Time passed little by little, and at around ten o'clock in the morning, it was finally the turn of casting for the second male lead, Zhao Xingyao.

There are five candidates.

Yu Zihao, who was also a candidate, looked directly at Sheng Yixia with a strong hint of provocation in his eyes.

(Two in one, 6,000 words)

(End of this chapter)