Chapter 479 Starring Cast of "Better Days"

Maybe the three words "couple" embarrassed Liu Yifei.

In the following trip, she didn't talk much with Wu Yuan. She lowered her head and either slept or read the novel she brought with her.

But after they landed in Beijing, Liu Yifei became energetic again.

"Brother, when will the filming of Love Letter start?"

"Why, can't you wait?"

While carrying the specialties brought back from Jiangcheng, Wu Yuan teased: "You should work hard on Young You first."

"This movie has a better chance of helping you win awards."

"My film is just a commercial romance film, which can't reach the height of Under the Hawthorn Tree directed by Zhang Yimou."

"What do you mean." Liu Yifei snorted: "Am I worse than the little girl who played Jingqiu?"

"I am worse than Director Yimou." Wu Yuan shook his head: "The depth of the script of Love Letter is definitely not as high as that of Under the Hawthorn Tree."

"Director Yimou is definitely the best among our Chinese directors in terms of love story films."

"I have a hunch that this time Zhou Dongyu, the newcomer, is probably going to win the award. Soft."

"I heard that when Director Yimou was preparing to shoot "The Love of Hawthorn Tree", he also thought of inviting you to play the leading role?"

"Yeah." Liu Yifei waved her hand and said regretfully: "Director Yimou did contact me at the beginning, saying that there is a very pure role in his new movie, maybe I can give it a try."

"But I waited and waited, but I didn't get Director Yimou's audition invitation, but I got the news that "The Love of Hawthorn Tree" was open for casting and auditioning amateurs."

"Later, Director Yimou called me to apologize, saying that after repeated consideration, he still wanted to find a newcomer who was acting for the first time to interpret the role of Jingqiu."

"I was so flattered that the great Chinese director called me to apologize personally."

"Don't you see whose face you are." Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows and said proudly.

Liu Yifei rolled her eyes at him, "Yes, yes, it's all because of your face, senior brother."

"But it's a pity that I haven't even seen the script. If I had seen the script, I would definitely go to Director Yimou to ask for the role, and if that doesn't work, I would drag you along to beg him."

"I think I can play Jingqiu."

"Eh." Wu Yuan stretched out an index finger and shook it, "You really can't."

"Director Yimou's Jingqiu doesn't need any acting skills. What's needed is the innocence of a 17 or 18-year-old girl's first love."

"Maybe you could do it when you were filming "Your Name", but you definitely can't do it now."

"No, you probably couldn't do it back then. You're too beautiful. You don't have Zhou Dongyu's ordinary and common feeling."

"No matter where you stand, even if you're bare-faced and wearing only a white shirt, you don't look like a rural girl at all."

"The audience can't get into the play at all."

In the film and television industry, there is really no other actor like Zhou Dongyu, who has a lot of facial defects, but can be pure and full of flavor under certain circumstances.

"Hmph." Liu Yifei pursed her lips and snorted, "How can you say that about a girl? I think Jingqiu is pretty."

"You don't even call her by her full name Zhou Dongyu." This time it was Wu Yuan's turn to roll his eyes.

"Okay, let's not talk about them anymore."

Pick up the luggage, Wu Yuan took Liu Yifei and left the airport, "Go back and rest for a few days, then I'll send you to the crew."

"I have more free time this time when we are filming "Better Days", and I will visit the crew often."

"Anyway, this movie is also filmed in Beijing."

The preparations for the movie "Better Days" began in October after Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei returned to China.

The director is Li Yang, who is very happy to direct this excellent work after reading the script.

Or in other words, as long as it is a script written by Wu Yuan, no director in China will refuse it.

As for the male lead, after taking over the preparations for the crew, Li Yang can be said to have searched all the Chinese male actors and carefully selected them for several months before finally finding one that he thought was suitable.

And this actor's name is Zhang Yishan.

Yes, it's Liu Xing from "Home with Kids", who is five years younger than Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei has always been the youngest in the crew, but this time she can be the eldest sister.

The reason why Li Yang chose Zhang Yishan is also very simple.

Looking through the entire Chinese entertainment industry, among the male actors under 20 years old, only Zhang Yishan has that kind of innate ruffian spirit.

The setting of Liu Beishan, the male protagonist of "Better Days", is a gangster who has been hanging around the streets since childhood, living in the mud at the bottom of society, fighting all day long.

When other people of the same age were still in high school, he was already an old gangster hanging around the streets.

When Li Yang was casting, he held several large-scale auditions. Hearing that the screenwriter of this movie was Wu Yuan, almost all the mainland male actors came to audition.

After he tried hundreds of actors, he saw the shadow of Liu Beishan in Zhang Yishan.

Regardless of whether they are in the circle or not, the media and netizens have always said that Zhang Yishan and Xia Yu look very similar, as if they were carved from the same mold.

But in terms of temperament, there is indeed a big difference between the two.

Coincidentally, Zhang Yishan had just been admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 2010 and became an alumnus of Wu Yuan, Liu Yifei, and Li Yang.

He is no longer the cute and naughty Liu Xing in 2004. He has grown into a big boy with a pointed face and monkey cheeks. His age is just right for playing Liu Beishan.

So this role was decided.

As for other roles.

The role of policeman Zheng Yi was digested internally and given to the company artist Yuan Hong.

The role of Zheng Yi's master was invited to Sun Honglei. He has played the roles of gangsters and gangsters in recent years. It's time to try what it feels like to be a policeman.

The mother of the heroine Chen Nian was invited to play Chen Hong.

Chen Hong had already completely transformed behind the scenes and concentrated on being a producer for Chen Kaige, but for Wu Yuan's sake, she still agreed to take on this role.

As for the role of the vicious female classmate who pushed Chen Nian downstairs, Zhou Ye is still a child now, so there is definitely no chance.

Zhang Zifeng, who can also play this kind of contrasting vicious feeling well, is even younger. She just became a child star not long ago through "The Great Earthquake".

In the end, the role was played by Yang Ni'ao, who also just entered the Beijing Film Academy last year and has changed her name to Yang Zi.

Girls change a lot when they grow up.

She could only play Liu Yifei's younger sister back then, but now she can play her classmate.

This resulted in Liu Yifei being the oldest among the "high school students" in the crew of "Better Days", five years older than Zhang Yishan and Yang Ni'ao.

This is not so bad, Zhou Dongyu is 8 years older than Yi Yang Qianxi.

The cast that Li Yang put together is really not much worse than the original!

Wu Yuan is full of expectations for Liu Yifei's version of "Better Days"!