Chapter 1017

Zhu Qiang was the first actor Li Qian personally made popular.

I think that when he was still studying, he became famous in one fell swoop because he successfully played the frail scholar Xu Xian in "Legend of the New White Snake".

In terms of appearance, he can be classified as "so handsome that women can't close their legs", especially his facial features are extremely delicate and soft, and he looks a bit indistinguishable. For most women, , His handsomeness and beauty are definitely at the level of heart-piercing and heart-scratching, and it is a level that kills all age groups.

In terms of acting skills, he successfully played the role of Xu Xian in his early twenties, and his background was frighteningly high, which is absolutely top-notch among actors in their twenties.

But after "Legend of the New White Snake" became a hit, even though he signed into Minghu Culture, he was always considered to be the number one actor in the film and television department of Minghu Culture, but in recent years, he has indeed never What a brilliant performance.

He is a TV drama guy. After "Legend of the New White Snake" became popular, although he took over a few movie roles, his appearance is too delicate for a man, so delicate that it is almost coquettish, and he started from TV dramas, so , although he also participated in Liu Chengzhang's "Sword Immortal" back then, but only as a supporting role with limited roles. He also appeared in Qin Wei's "The Gate of Life and Death", with even fewer roles.

His main business in recent years has been TV dramas. But his image is too unique, and he has a very high status when he comes up. If he is not the leading actor, it is hard to find him at all. Therefore, although there are still film appointments every year, "Legend of the New White Snake" has never been released again. Such a hit.

He has been trying to transform, has been trying various roles, trying to get rid of the imprint brought by the role of Xu Xian, and get rid of the default setting of "Xu Xian" in the hearts of the audience.

But unfortunately, it has not been very successful.

Not everyone can be like Bai Yujing. When she needs to transform to get rid of the shackles of a strong character image, she happens to have an extremely negative character for her to shape.

Zhu Qiang has never found such a role, and such a suitable play.

He, too, had been worried.

As an actor, I hate myself for not being popular when I hit the street! If I become popular, I am afraid that I will rush in my next play!

As an actor, even if you were once popular, once there is no new representative work for a long time, the audience will gradually forget you.

Forgetting means losing attention.

The audience doesn't pay attention to you, and to a large extent, the producers and directors don't pay attention to you—this is a vicious circle that no one can escape.

I remember that year at the Minghu Cultural Annual Meeting, Zhu Qiang, Bai Yujing, and Li Qian once talked about this issue. Lao Bai’s advice to him was: don’t worry, if you don’t have a good book, try acting in a drama !

And Li Qian told him: Continue to hone your acting skills, and within ten years, I will definitely ask you to make a good work that will make your name go down in film history! But the premise is that your acting skills have to be honed!

From then on, Zhu Qiang's heart seemed to settle down instantly.

Minghu Culture has a very good relationship with Shuntian Drama Theater. Whether it is Li Qian himself or other directors in the company, when filming, he needs some old-fashioned characters. The favorite is to find people from Shuntian Drama Theater , followed by going back to the film school to find my own teachers.

In addition, Zhu Qiang's own qualifications and talents are not bad, so he signed a two-year short contract as a temporary worker very smoothly, and he went in. The two-year contract expired at the beginning of this year, and the other side took the initiative to renew the contract. for two years.

So far, among the male actors of Minghu Culture, Zhou Baoshan, Zhou Zhiyu, Huang Ge, and Zhu Qiang should be the most outstanding actors. The others, regardless of their fame or works, feel a little behind. , except for Zhou Baoshan, the other three are currently in the Shuntian Drama Theater, with the status of first-level drama actors.

Just in September, Zhu Qiang won the leading role in a new play at the Drama Theatre. At the first stop of the national tour, Li Qian took Wang Jinglu to see it. Even Wang Jinglu said, Compared with the "Xu Xian" back then, the current Zhu Qiang has changed a lot and made great progress.

Li Qian felt the same way.

Seeing his performance at that time, Li Qian thought, if the timing wasn't right, "Farewell My Concubine" could be filmed now - because Li Qian believed that the current Zhu Qiang could play Cheng Dieyi well.

In contrast, although the scholar Ning Caichen in "A Chinese Ghost Story" is also a classic screen role, the difficulty of playing such a role well is much inferior to that of Cheng Dieyi.

Zhu Qiang definitely has no problem.

Even after Li Qian and Jin Han both mentioned Zhu Qiang's name, Jin Han sighed and said: "Before I read your script, I was thinking of making ghost fox love movies like this, What kind of actor should I find to play the role? At that time, the first thing I thought of was Zhu Qiang. To play an ancient scholar, especially the feeling of a pure scholar, no one can compare to him! Wait to see you I can basically confirm the outline of the adapted story in this version, you are the character setting of Ning Caichen in the movie written by Zhu Qiang!"

Of course, Li Qian couldn't tell him that he had seen another wonderful Ning Caichen on the big screen, and his own script was based on that version of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

So, he just smiled and said, "It's even better if you think he's suitable too!"

After a pause, he continued: "Zhu Qiang has been honing his acting skills very hard these past few years, and I feel that he is almost ready! If he wasn't so handsome, in fact, in "Dragon Inn" , I want to recommend him to you, the big stall in the East Factory, he is actually quite suitable."

Hearing this, Jin Han frowned and thought for a while, as if he was seriously considering Li Qian's proposal, but in the end, he shook his head and said, "No! He's so handsome! Even makeup can't cover it up!"

But soon he said again: "However, if I ask you to put it this way, I just remembered... In addition to being handsome, he seems to have a feeling of being both good and evil! When there is a suitable role in the future, really You can let him try to play that kind of villain role!"

Li Qian smiled, "It's better to be a little nervous!"

Jin Han laughed loudly, "I'll tell Qiangzi about your evaluation later!"

When filming "Legend of the White Snake", Jin Han was the director of photography, and his relationship with Zhu Qiang has always been very good.

So, Zhu Qiang's matter was finalized just like that.

According to the story and script of this version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" adapted from "Nie Xiaoqian", Jin Han has no objection, which means that he can start the preparation of this movie at any time.

It's just that Zhu Qiang still has a tour with the repertory theater. He has a contract and the audience's expectations after becoming famous. It's not easy to skip tickets, so he has to wait for his national tour to end. However, during this period of time, Jin Han could be left to do the preliminary preparations for the crew.

It is not uncommon for a film to start shooting within three to four months, or as long as one or two years, from the approval of the project to the start of filming. "Dragon Inn" was prepared for more than half a year before filming began.

However, after the role of Ning Caichen was finalized, Jin Han quickly looked at Li Qian with a smile, winked, and asked, "Where is the heroine? Who do you think is suitable?"

Li Qian smiled wryly upon hearing this.

This is a big head.

He Yingyu's image, especially her appearance, is actually a bit modern and refined, so she can play an innocent girl or a sexy girl, but in fact, acting in a costume drama is somewhat against the norm.

Makeup can solve part of it, acting can solve part of it, and camera angle can solve part of it. Therefore, under Jin Han's command and training, she beautifully completed the role of the proprietress Jin Xiangyu and successfully expanded her acting path— — But this can't change the fact that her image style is still hard.

Of course, this is not important.

The establishment of a character in a movie is a comprehensive matter. The actor's personal image, acting skills, costumes provided by the crew, makeup tendencies, photography, and even lighting are all important. Of course, the most important thing is the story. And the character design given by the script, so, in fact, even Li Qian dare not say that He Yingyu can't play Nie Xiaoqian in "A Chinese Ghost Story".

Maybe He Yingyu, who is now after the phoenix is ​​on fire, can play an exceptionally brilliant Nie Xiaoqian!

Qin Jingjing's reasoning is exactly the same.

She debuted as a beauty in ancient costume, and her first role was Diao Chan in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so there is no problem for her to play ancient costume. And with the crew's efforts, and the wonderful plot and character setting, if you say that a Berlin actress-level actor can't play a not-too-complicated role like Nie Xiaoqian well, you'd be underestimating the "film actor" after".

Moreover, considering that Zhu Qiang was supposed to be waiting, the filming of this movie will at least start after the next year, so the schedules for both of them should be just right.

In addition, as far as the actresses of Minghu Culture itself are concerned, Lao Bai is too old and inappropriate, and Zhao Yingying's appearance is somewhat uninteresting and inappropriate.

Then, even Lu Lingxi, who thinks she's good at acting, can't absolutely say that she can't play Nie Xiaoqian.

And Jiang Yiyi, Cheng Suping, Zhao Qing...

But the original version left a deep impression on Li Qian.

So deep that Li Qian didn't know how to choose this version of Nie Xiaoqian for a moment.

So, he tried to ask Jin Han, "What do you think? Who do you think is more suitable?"

Jin Han thought about it seriously for a moment and asked, "Can you tell the truth?"

Li Qian laughed, "Nonsense! Of course you have to tell the truth!"

Jin Han crossed his legs and said, "Actually... Let me tell you how I feel! Whether it's reading the original "Nie Xiaoqian" or reading your version of the story outline and script, my feeling... is currently the only one in China. For this group of actresses, I don’t think they are actually suitable.”

Li Qian's eyes lit up when he heard the words, he leaned over slightly, and asked, "What do you say?"

Jin Han said: "The character of Nie Xiaoqian is very unique. When I read your script, I was even more sure of this! This character, when I shoot it, must be of a particularly beautiful type. It is ethereal, but it cannot be a fairy. It tastes like something that doesn’t eat human fireworks, no way! You have to bring a little... How should I put it? I’m not sure how to describe it, but you can understand it as a bit of a ghostly feeling!”

"If you think about it from this angle, you can understand what I mean. We can't use actors who already have a clear image in the hearts of the audience!"

"Xiaoyu has a sassy girlfriend, she has a sexy dress like "The Matrix", and she also has a proprietress. Her image is said to be complex and changeable. The play has opened up, but it is already complicated. When you appear... Wow! Your eyes light up! You must understand that feeling, right?"

Seeing Li Qian nodding his head slowly, he said again: "Actually, I have thought about Fu Hongxue and Qin Jingjing. They can be regarded as the two actors of their generation with the best acting skills. But Fu Hongxue played Su Daji, and she acted very well. So successful! You think, the thousand-year demon king, that kind of enchanting energy, no! I want this Nie Xiaoqian, she must be pure! Qin Jingjing is not suitable either! Don’t despise me when you say this, the reason is that her acting skills are too good Yes! In my opinion, the role of Nie Xiaoqian is a character that chooses people, not acting skills! I am not afraid of poor acting skills, as long as she looks in line with the image in my heart, it will be fine! Qin Jingjing's acting skills are too fierce, which does not meet my ideal of shaping this character I need it! I’m really afraid that if she gives me this female ghost to perform complex emotions and desires, then this ghost will not be beautiful!”

While he was talking, Li Qian frowned and thought hard, and when he finished speaking, Li Qian nodded.

Not to mention, it makes sense.

Seriously speaking, in the original version of "A Chinese Ghost Story", Wang Zuxian also excels in his image. In fact, he really has to care about his acting skills, haha...

So Li Qian asked: "Then what do you want to do?"

Jin Han's answer was decisive, "Audition! You can even consider holding an audition!"

Li Qian thought for a while, nodded slowly, and said, "That's fine!"

But he still didn't forget to add a sentence, "An audition is an audition, and the actors in the company must also be given a chance. Let them all participate in the audition!"

Jin Han nodded briskly, "No problem! Then... it's settled?"

Li Qian knew that Jin Han had always been an ambitious director.

And an ambitious director will not be reconciled to being stuck with characters and actors in every play. When filming "Dragon Inn", he couldn't do anything, the key was that he didn't have the confidence, so the casting configuration of He Yingyu, Zhou Zhiyu and Cheng Suping was of course his best choice.

But now, he has succeeded, and he has confidence.

Therefore, although the truth he said exists, it is not unreasonable, but in the final analysis, in Li Qian's mind, it is very likely that this reason has a greater effect, or it can help him make He Yingyu, Qin Jingjing and other Minghu culture famous people. Actresses are blocked.

He wants to build his own team!