Chapter 121: Filming "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", Audition

Light and Shadow Era, audition room.

Wu Yuan sat alone in the room, flipping through his resume with some boredom.

“Knock, knock, knock.” The door was knocked, and the staff led Cai Yinong and the actors she brought into the audition room.

“Boss Cai.”

“Director Wu.”

After the two bosses smiled and nodded in greeting, Wu Yuan turned his eyes to the actors brought by Cai Yinong.

Hu Ge, Yuan Hong, Sun Li.

Since he had signed a cooperation agreement with Tangren, Wu Yuan was not the kind of person who would breach the contract. If it was appropriate, he would not mind using Tangren’s actors in “Your Name”.

Hu Ge and Yuan Hong have just finished their sophomores, less than 21 years old.

It would not be too inconsistent to let them, who are still very young, play the role of a senior high school student.

As for Sun Li, they had worked together before. Although she did not have many scenes in “Departures” and was only a small supporting role, Wu Yuan was quite satisfied with her acting skills.

I can only say that Huang Lei is really good at teaching. His teaching level is better than his acting, and he has brought out many excellent actors.

His eyes stayed on Hu Ge and Yuan Hong's faces for a while longer, and Wu Yuan sighed in his heart.

The two of them are really young now!

Hu Ge is completely a cream boy.

He has seen Hu Ge's debut work, an urban drama called "Dandelion". In the drama, Hu Ge also wore a pair of glasses and had half-long hair. He didn't look like a male god in ancient costumes at all, but looked like an artistic youth.

And now he is similar to the style in "Dandelion", with half-long hair, but without glasses.

"This hair, if you join the group, you must cut it shorter. The current hairstyle is too long." Wu Yuan stretched out his hand and pointed at Hu Ge's head.

The first thing Hu Ge heard upon entering the room was the accusation, which frightened him. He nodded nervously, "Okay, Director! I'll cut my hair right away when I get back!"

"Hey, don't worry." Wu Yuan showed a playful smile and deliberately said, "It's not certain whether you can join the group. If you can't audition for the role, then there's no need to cut your hair."

Hu Ge became even more nervous, and even Yuan Hong next to him was nervous and tense. Director Wu's words were too straightforward, and the pressure was enough.

Only Sun Li covered her mouth and laughed secretly, she knew that Director Wu was deliberately teasing the two newcomers.

"Oh, Director Wu, they are both honest children, they can't be scared." Cai Yinong complained with a smile on his face.

"Okay, no more jokes." Wu Yuan also laughed and shook his head. The immature Hu Ge was really interesting to tease, and he was completely different from the calm and steady Hu Ge later.

"Here are two scripts. You two can take a look and try out the role."

"Hu Ge is trying out the male lead, but about half of your role is the female lead after exchanging bodies, which means you have to play a girl."

"Take the script and try it out."

After handing a prepared script to Hu Ge, Wu Yuan looked at Yuan Hong again and handed him another script: "This is your script. You have to play with Hu Ge and play his classmate."

"You two can take the script and read it first, and then try out the role to see the effect."

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan decided to give Hu Ge a chance to audition for the male lead. It was not just because of the cooperation agreement with Tangren, he really thought Hu Ge was quite suitable for the male lead.

After rehearsing the drama with Luo Jin and Zhu Yawen for several months, Wu Yuan could be said to know these two actors very well.

The more he knew them, the more he felt that they were not suitable for the male lead of "Your Name".

Luo Jin was not handsome enough, and his appearance was not sunny enough, especially when he was not smiling, he looked too gloomy.

Zhu Yawen is quite sunny, but his sunshine is more like that of a strong man.

The audience often teases Zhu Yawen in the future that he is suitable for playing eunuchs and looks very feminine, but Zhu Yawen now is really not like that

You should know that he was chosen by the director of "Crossing Guandong" to play the masculine Zhu Chuanwu because of his appearance.

Later, he was also chosen by "Red Sorghum" for his appearance and played Yu Zhan'ao, who is even more hormonal.

Don't worry about whether he plays well or not, but the fact that several directors can choose him to play such a masculine role shows that his image is indeed very advantageous in this regard.

The male protagonist of "Your Name" is just a sunny urban high school student, not yet "masculine".

On the contrary, the classmate of the heroine in "Your Name" is the tall and mighty boy with a buzz cut, which is very suitable for Zhu Yawen to play.

This boy has a crush on the heroine.

Of course, Wu Yuan did not give Zhu Yawen a chance. He would give Zhu Yawen a chance to audition for the male lead. If he performs better than Hu Ge, he can also use him.

"As for Sun Li, you can try the role of Sun Meimei later." Wu Yuan said to Sun Li again: "Sun Meimei is the foreman of the western restaurant where the hero works."

"She is a very charming and beautiful female college student."

Calling Sun Li to audition is really just to make up the numbers. Wu Yuan mainly considered that he had worked with Sun Li before, and now he wanted to use Tangren's actors. It seemed a bit inappropriate to call two newcomers but not her to audition, so he called her by the way.

But Wu Yuan did not think Sun Li was more suitable for this role than Chen Hao.

No, Chen Hao's image of a popular person is really too deeply rooted in Wu Yuan's heart.

Chen Hao's acting skills are not bad, and she later returned to the Central Academy of Drama to teach. There is no reason not to choose her.

So, after distributing the audition scripts to the three people, I started chatting with Cai Yinong.

The three actors also walked to the corner of the audition room, holding the scripts to ponder, and Hu Ge and Yuan Hong, the two actors who acted opposite each other, were still muttering about the play.

"Director Wu, we have already planned the next TV series here at Tangren."

On this side, Cai Yinong also pulled Wu Yuan to chat.

She told Wu Yuan in detail about her preparations for "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

When she said that, there was some worry on her face, fearing that Wu Yuan would not approve of this project of adapting a game into a TV series.

Before "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", no TV series was adapted from a game.

However, after listening to Cai Yinong's project plan, Wu Yuan smiled.

"It sounds good. I know "The Legend of Sword and Fairy". It is a very popular game. Many people play it in the mainland. Just go to any Internet cafe and you will see people playing this game."

Cai Yinong was stunned. Director Wu also went to an Internet cafe?

Cai Yinong was a little dazed as his eyes stayed on Wu Yuan's young and handsome face.

Wu Yuan's achievements were so great that Cai Yinong didn't even treat him as a young man when chatting with him.

But the fact is that he is a young man. Wu Yuan knows everything that young people play and know, even better than Cai Yinong.

With some complicated emotions on his face, Cai Yinong nodded: "Yes, among young people, "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" is very popular."

"I believe that if it is adapted into a TV series, it will definitely attract many young people to watch it."

"If we select a group of handsome men and beautiful women as actors, maybe we can open up a path of ancient costume idol dramas, or fairy idol dramas, in addition to urban idol dramas."

It has to be admitted that Cai Yinong is indeed very insightful in TV drama production.

Wu Yuan agreed very much and said, "Mr. Cai's idea is very good. I know that you Tangren focuses on high-quality film and television dramas. If you want to make this fairy-tale TV series well, it will cost a lot of money, right?"

"I understand what you mean. Since the cooperation agreement has been signed, we will definitely fulfill it."

"We invested in this "Legend of Sword and Fairy", but our company will also send people to follow up on the specific shooting budget."

"Of course." Cai Yinong agreed as a matter of course.

Since Light and Shadow Times wants to invest, it must follow up on the budget formulation and production in an all-round way, otherwise how can we know how much money will be spent and where the money is spent.

Seeing Wu Yuan agreed to invest in this drama, Cai Yinong was relieved and his tone became relaxed: "I also have an idea about the leading actor of this TV series."

"Most of the company's senior executives think that we should continue to invite first-line actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan to act, but I still want to use the company's own actors."

Facing Wu Yuan, Cai Yinong said frankly: "Since Tangren wants to do actor agency business, the TV series produced by itself should give priority to the actors under the company."

"Whether it is Hong Kong, Taiwan or mainland film and television production companies, they are doing this now."

"Zhou Yi is also cultivating its own contracted actors, not to mention Huayi and other large film companies."

"So I plan to let Hu Ge play the male protagonist Li Xiaoyao, Yuan Hong play Tang Yu Xiaobao, and Sun Li play the Queen of Nanzhao."

This is a good strength to support people. Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows and was a little surprised.

In the dream of "Legend of Sword and Fairy", Tang Yu Xiaobao was not played by Yuan Hong, but by Peng Yuyan, who later became the synonym of handsome men.

Perhaps because of his own involvement, Cai Yinong was more confident to challenge the company's senior management and forcefully use his own artists for the main actors?

Could it be that in the original trajectory, when Tangren was filming "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", it introduced Taiwanese capital?

Tangren alone should not be able to come up with tens of millions to film this TV series, right?

It must be necessary to introduce other investors to co-produce and share risks, and "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" is a game produced in Taiwan. There must be Taiwanese capital that is optimistic about this adapted TV series and is willing to invest in production.

Now that Taiwanese capital has become the era of light and shadow, everything has changed. Wu Yuan is not a Taiwanese investor and will not require Cai Yinong to use Taiwanese actors.

Then she must give priority to her own actors!

After thinking it through, Wu Yuan smiled and said, "In principle, I have no objection. Anyway, we at Light and Shadow Times do not sign actors. It doesn't matter which actors are used in The Legend of Sword and Fairy."

"As long as these actors are competent for the roles and can play this TV series well, anyone can be used."

Although Wu Yuan's words were light, Cai Yinong felt the severity in his words. She nodded with a serious expression and said, "Don't worry, Director Wu. If they are really not suitable, I will definitely change the actors."

"A TV series with an investment of tens of millions must be cautious. I will not force them to drag down the TV series just to promote my actors."

"I have given the opportunity. If it is really not possible, I will give up decisively."

In order to express his attitude, Cai Yinong couldn't help but speak louder, so that Hu Ge and Yuan Hong, who were sitting in the corner of the audition room, also heard these words.

The two finally relaxed a little, but were dragged up again.

What does Sister KK mean by this?

What about giving up if it is not suitable?

We haven't even started the audition yet, and we're going to be abandoned?

Wu Yuan glanced at the two of them with a bit of amusement, motioning them to continue studying the script, and then said to Cai Yinong: "Okay, I'm relieved that you can understand this."

"But your company doesn't have an actress suitable for the heroine, right? Who are you going to find to play the heroine?"

Wu Yuan was thinking about whether to introduce Liu Yifei to Cai Yinong. After all, she was originally the heroine of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy". The role of Zhao Linger is still very important to her, and can even be called the white moonlight of a generation.

If the role of Liu Yifei is lost due to the intervention of the light and shadow era, it will not be good.

Unexpectedly, Cai Yinong said first: "I just saw a little girl in the reception room, and I feel that her image is very suitable for Zhao Linger."

"And I asked her, she also played in Zhang Jizhong's version of "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", playing Wang Yuyan in it."

"Since she can play the fairy sister, I feel that she will also be very suitable for the fairy sister."

Good vision!

Wu Yuan chuckled: "You are talking about Liu Yifei, right? She is indeed suitable for the role of Zhao Linger."

"To tell you the truth, she is also the candidate heroine of my movie."

Wu Yuan personally trained Liu Yifei for several months. Although he dare not say that he can train her to be an acting star in an instant, it should be no problem for her to play a youth movie.

Even if the heroine needs to play a cross-dressing role, playing a contrasting character who looks like a girl on the outside but is actually a boy in the soul, Wu Yuan believes that Liu Yifei can also grasp it.

As he got to know her more and more, Wu Yuan had already seen that this girl usually looked very quiet, but in fact, she was a carefree tomboy in her heart.

Otherwise, she would not have always said that she was a loser and a crazy girl in her life.

Letting him play a cross-dressing role is purely liberating his nature, and it may produce unexpected results!

"She is the candidate heroine?" Cai Yinong's eyes lit up!

If Wu Yuan finally chooses Hu Ge and Liu Yifei to play the male and female protagonists in his new movie, with the blessing of this movie, and they work together again in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", then this TV series will still have to worry about sales?

Cai Yinong looked at Hu Ge who was looking at the script and thinking hard, you kid should fight for your reputation!

Wu Yuan's eyes also moved to Hu Ge and Yuan Hong, and asked: "Are you two ready?"

Hu Ge wanted to say that he was not ready, but facing Wu Yuan's eyes, he could only bite the bullet and nodded: "Ready!"

Seeing that his partner said so, Yuan Hong had to nod: "I'm ready too."

"Okay, then you two should try the play first to see the effect."

Cai Yinong stepped back a few steps and gave them space.

Hu Ge and Yuan Hong looked at each other, and sat down on the ground without thinking that the ground was dirty.

However, their sitting postures were completely different.

Yuan Hong just sat cross-legged like a normal girl, but Hu Ge was like a girl, with his legs together and sideways, only half of his buttocks touching the floor, and his hands covering his legs.

Although he was wearing a pair of jeans, he gave people the same posture as a girl sitting down in a short skirt.

Just this one action made Wu Yuan nod secretly.

This kid's comprehension is still good.

In the script for Hu Ge, Wu Yuan did not write a specific sitting posture, only that the male protagonist Lin Wenjie and the female protagonist Luo Sanye exchanged souls at this moment.

Hu Ge was able to design such a feminine action detail by himself, which shows that he is indeed somewhat spiritual.

After both of them sat down, they looked at each other again, and the play began.

"I say, how can you get lost when you come to school?" Yuan Hong smiled and patted Hu Ge's shoulder, and her expression and tone were full of teasing.

A trace of panic flashed across Hu Ge's face. He subconsciously shook his shoulders and shook off Yuan Hong's hand. One hand touched the long hair on his temples, and the other hand rubbed the corner of his shirt. He murmured in a panic: "That person"

"That person?" Yuan Hong interrupted him in surprise.

"No, me!" Hu Ge quickly changed his words and said: "I'm too happy. The capital is as lively as a festival. The road is full of cars and pedestrians. I'm dazzled."

Yuan Hong didn't listen to what Hu Ge said seriously, but looked him up and down.

When Hu Ge's voice became smaller and smaller, he interrupted: "Where is the new album of Jay Chou that I asked you to bring?"

"Ah?" Hu Ge's expression became flustered again. He subconsciously searched his pockets, but nothing came out. He had to smile awkwardly and apologized with his hands clasped together: "Sorry, I forgot."

And this is exactly the effect Wu Yuan wanted. He raised the corners of his mouth with satisfaction.

Generally, boys, especially high school students, will not panic or feel embarrassed when encountering such a situation. They will just laugh and say "I didn't bring it!" and let it go.

If you didn't bring it, you didn't bring it. What's there to apologize for such a small matter?

Only girls will feel embarrassed and full of apologies for not fulfilling such a request.

Girls pay more attention to such details, unlike the thick-skinned boys.

As expected, Yuan Hong saw Hu Ge apologize so seriously, showing a very unaccustomed expression, shaking a little bit with guilt, "If you forgot, forget it, what's there to apologize for."

"Remember to bring it tomorrow!"

"Listen to mine first, I brought Stefanie Sun's new album! It's so good!"

"By the way, do you want to go to the coffee shop after school, the new one in Houhai."

"What? Cafe?!" Hu Ge very well gave a girl's expression when she hears something she is interested in.

He leaned to the right and leaned towards Yuan Hong. His eyes were shining and he nodded his head up and down excitedly: "Go!"

Wu Yuan was very happy to see this, this guy Hu Ge can do it!

No wonder she acted so well when she played Zixuan in "Sword and Sword III".

This guy wouldn't just think about how to play a woman when he has nothing to do in private, right?

Or does the theater have a special class to teach students how to play reverse roles?

No matter what the reason is, the performance effect presented by Hu Ge is very good.

Wu Yuan smiled at Cai Yinong.

"Performing well, just the two of them!"

Five thousand words.