Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 30 Zhao Li is still Zhao Li

"Leave us your or your agent's contact information and we will give you a reply before tomorrow night." Meng Bai said to Zhang Ruoyun.

In the second round of audition performances, Zhang Ruoyun obviously understood Meng Bai's hints, suppressed his own aura, and successfully won the approval of the creative team.

The reason why I didn't give an answer on the spot was, firstly, as Wu Bai said, to give the next auditioner a chance; secondly, I also wanted to tell He Leshi, especially Gan Wei, as a favor.

But generally speaking, if nothing unexpected happens, he should be the final male lead.

"Thank you, director, and thank you, teachers." Zhang Ruoyun also vaguely felt the change in the attitude of the creative team. While feeling excited, he also solemnly thanked everyone one by one.

"By the way, I have a question that I'm curious about. You don't have to answer it if you don't feel comfortable." Seeing that Zhang Ruoyun was about to leave, Meng Bai suddenly asked, "Why don't you continue to work with your father, Director Zhang? You know, the opportunity to be on a satellite TV show is very rare."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ruoyun looked at Meng Bai, only to see that the other party's face was indeed full of pure curiosity, without any other hidden expressions.

After thinking for a while, he did not rush to answer, but asked first: "Teacher, what is your name?"

"My name is Meng Bai, and I'm the producer and chief screenwriter of this drama."

"Meng Bai..." Zhang Ruoyun muttered to himself. After thinking for a while, he seemed to remember something and looked at Meng Bai and said, "So you... you are Meng Bai."

Now it was Meng Bai's turn to be surprised: "You know me?"

"I don't know you, but I have heard of your past...story."

Wu Bai, who was standing by, looked at Meng Bai. He didn't expect that this young producer of his own crew seemed to have some reputation in the circle. He didn't know about it before and didn't pay attention to it. It seems that he has to ask someone about it later.

Li Qin on the other side was also a little shocked at first, but she soon realized that Zhang Ruoyun’s so-called "story" should be the "soft ban" incident that Li Shaohong had mentioned to her before.

Meng Bai also didn't expect that his story would be so widely spread, but then he thought about the other party's family background, it was normal.

"Rather than calling it a 'story', it's better to call it an 'accident'." Meng Bai said with a self-deprecating smile.

Zhang Ruoyun didn't care about Meng Bai's joke, and said seriously: "When I heard about your story, I admired your courage and actions. At the same time, I asked myself, if I faced the same situation, what would I choose?"

"so?"

"So you asked me why I didn't do my father's show anymore, and my answer is that I wanted to make the same choice as you."

"Ah..." Meng Bai nodded, sighed, and then asked, "Tell me honestly, how much of your reason just now was because I was the producer?"

"...A little bit, probably." Zhang Ruoyun was embarrassed.

Meng Bai smiled and said, "Thank you for your honesty."

"..."

After seeing Zhang Ruoyun off, Meng Bai looked at today's audition list - there were three people left, one was auditioning for the male lead "Xia Dongqing", and the other two were auditioning for "Ferryman Zhao Li".

While discussing the crew's affairs with Wu Bai, Meng Bai's phone suddenly rang. He took a look, stood up and said to everyone, "You guys chat first, I'll go out and pick someone up."

Having said that, he picked up his phone and walked out of the audition room.

Li Qin was curious. The person who came at this time should be one of the remaining auditioners. But she didn't know who it was. Meng Bai actually went out to meet him in person. She wanted to follow behind and take a sneak peek, but there were too many people in the room. She was worried about ruining her image, so she could only guess silently in her heart.

Meng Bai walked out of the house, looked around, and soon found the person he was looking for in front of the door of the "convenience store" next door.

"Brother Yi!" Meng Bai greeted him and walked over quickly.

The man turned around when he heard the voice and saw Meng Bai approaching. He smiled and said jokingly, "I'm here for an audition, and you, the producer, came to pick me up in person."

Meng Bai had already walked over and laughed when he heard this: "Brother Yi, since you are willing to help me, I, as the person in charge, must be polite."

The man in front of me is called Yu Yi, and he is also a middle-aged actor who has been filming for many years. Although most of his roles are supporting roles, there are also many memorable roles.

For example, Gu Chaohua in the medical drama "Mind Game" was laid off and became a lawyer because of the "doctor-patient relationship", and there is "Er Yatou" in the anti-Japanese war drama "Dog-beating Stick".

The main reason he knew Meng Bai was because they were both from the same hometown in Landao.

Meng Bai asked him to come mainly because of the last important character among the three main characters of "Pendulum" - "Soul Ferryman" Zhao Li.

"Didn't you tell me at the time that you wanted me to play the male lead?" Yu Yi said jokingly to Meng Bai, "But when I read the script you gave me, I felt that the male lead should be 'Xia Dongqing'?"

"Hey, the double male lead is also the male lead." Meng Bai waved his hand: "We are only in the first season of the story now, so it will be more suitable for the audience to understand from the perspective of 'Xia Dongqing'. But the character of 'Zhao Li' is definitely the most important 'core figure' in this whole story."

At this point, Meng Bai began to make big promises: "I can say in advance that starting from the second season, the background and setting of the character 'Zhao Li' will be richer. I even plan to add a special episode, and all these stories will be developed from the perspective of 'Zhao Li'."

"Yeah, that's quite exciting." Yu Yi nodded, looked at Meng Bai and said, "But are you sure there will be a second season?"

"Hey, that depends on your performance, Brother Yi." Meng Bai said, "If you perform well, the show will be good; if the show is good, the results will be good; if the results are good, I can naturally talk to the investors about the second season."

"...Didn't you feel a little embarrassed when you said that?"

"No."

"OK, you win, let's go to the audition."

Meng Bai smiled. Actually, he was not really thinking about Meng Yuyi. From the name of "Soul Ferry", it can be seen that the character of "Zhao Li", as the "soul ferryman", must be the most critical existence in the whole story.

But at the same time, this role is indeed not easy to play, because he is full of a sense of contrast between "good and evil".

Most of the time, "Zhao Li" is very frivolous. He hooks up with female ghosts to drink with him, queues up on time to buy the new mobile phone designed by Steve Jobs in the underworld, and argues with Dongqing Xiaoya for no reason.

But at critical moments, he is always reliable, always able to stabilize the situation, and gives people a sense of security whenever he appears.

At the same time, he also possesses a sense of vicissitudes of life of "seeing the world" and a sense of mystery of possessing a shocking secret.

If I have to say, he's a bit like a "chatty version" of Kakashi.

The difficulty of performing this role is far greater than that of the male lead "Xia Dongqing" and the female lead "Wang Xiaoya", so the actor naturally has to be someone with rich experience and superb acting skills.

Meng Bai thought of Yu Yi as early as when he just started to prepare the crew.

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