Chapter 499 This Is Truly a Gathering of the Best!

Modu, the filming site of "Love Letter".

Liu Yifei, dressed in a lady's dress of the Republic of China, is strolling on the Republic of China Street in Modu.

The surrounding extras all showed curiosity to her, but they didn't dare to come up and say hello.

Liu Yifei has long been accustomed to this. After smiling and greeting these extras, she started to stroll around on her own.

Although her first TV series was set in the Republic of China, the Republic of China style in Beijing is completely different from that in Modu.

Liu Yifei, who came to the Republic of China Street in Modu for the first time, was very curious about everything here.

The legendary ten-mile foreign land can already be seen on this Republic of China Street.

Prosperous, bright lights, flashing neon lights, trams and rickshaws are constantly coming and going.

All this is exactly the same as the Republic of China she saw in "Love in the Rain".

"Of course they are the same. Love in the Rain was filmed here." Wu Yuan, holding a stack of information, rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "The bridge where Yiping jumped off is right next to the Zhejiang Road Bridge."

"Although it looks very similar to the Waibaidu Bridge next to the Bund, one was built by the Chedun Film and Television Base, and the other is a steel structure bridge built in the Republic of China period."

"Chedun Film and Television Base has made a big investment here, and truly restored a small Republic of China. The classic attractions of the Magic City in the Republic of China period can be found here."

While talking, Wu Yuan was still looking at Liu Yifei seriously.

Wearing a British-style white gauze dress from the 1920s and 1930s, lace gloves on both hands, and a white gauze hat on her head, she looked like she had walked out of a pictorial from the Republic of China period.

And it's not the kind of cheongsam pictorial, but the style of a young lady who returned from studying abroad.

"You look really good in this outfit, much better than Bai Xiuzhu's look back then."

"I still don't understand why Bai Xiuzhu had such an ugly braided hairstyle."

Now it was Liu Yifei's turn to roll her eyes, "I was too young at that time, and the makeup artist gave me such a mature hairstyle to match the character's age."

From a certain perspective, Bai Xiuzhu in "The Story of a Noble Family" should be regarded as Liu Yifei's ugliest screen image in her film career.

It's not that she's ugly. No matter how ugly a 15 or 16-year-old girl makes herself, she can't be ugly even with tender collagen.

It's just that compared to the series of classic images she had when she grew up, Bai Xiuzhu was really much worse.

"What are you looking at?" After explaining a few words, Liu Yifei's attention was quickly attracted by the stack of information in Wu Yuan's hand.

"The list of players who have passed the audition of "Actors Please Take Your Place" has been initially selected."

Wu Yuan raised the A4 paper in his hand and said with some pride: "All the heroes in the world are within my grasp!"

"Tsk~" Liu Yifei curled her lips. A group of newcomers are "heroes in the world"?

Really.

Wu Yuan was really excited.

It was really that the publicity of "Actors Please Take Your Place" this time produced a very good effect.

Li Xian, Wu Jinyan, Li Chun, Zhang Yunlong, Cai Wenjing, and Liu Ruilin from Beijing Film Academy.

Bai Yu, Lan Yingying, Ma Ke, Qin Junjie, Liu Xueyi, Qiao Xin from the Central Academy of Drama, and Fu Shiqi (Cheng Yi) and others from the Central Academy of Drama's junior college class.

There are fewer from Shanghai Theatre Academy, but there are also Wang Yanlin, Zhang Yujian, Jiang Jinfu, Zhong Chuxi, and Dilireba from Xinjiang Province.

These are just the actors that Wu Yuan remembers, and later became famous in the circle.

There are other people that Wu Yuan has no impression of, but it does not mean that their acting skills are not good. They are students from the three major colleges and Zhejiang University of Communication and Chinese Opera Academy.

These newcomers from professional schools alone occupy two-thirds of the list of contestants who entered the top 50 in the audition.

The remaining one-third are all registered contestants who came from various unconventional backgrounds and have the dream of becoming an actor.

The most eye-catching one among them is naturally Zhao Liying.

In addition to her, there are also Wu Qian, Ren Guochao, Wang Xiao, Yin Zheng and other actors who are not from professional schools, but Wu Yuan also knows them and later squeezed into the entertainment industry.

To put it bluntly, this time, the 50 contestants who passed the audition and entered the main competition of "Actors Please Take Your Place" and nearly half of them are the mainstays of the mainland actor circle later.

Although their acting skills cannot be said to be top-notch, they are all movie emperors and movie queens.

But their popularity and fame are at least familiar to the public. The top few are the protagonists of hit TV series and have been the top for a period of time.

Wu Yuan has to admit that gold really shines.

He did not interfere with the auditions of "Actors Please Take Your Place" at all, and let the program team select them by themselves.

These production teams, which were poached from the behind-the-scenes teams of excellent talent shows in China and South Korea, lived up to their reputation as elite.

There were at least thousands of resumes and videotapes submitted from all over the country. They picked out most of the actors who could really make a name for themselves in the acting circle from these thousands of resumes and videotapes.

Those with good acting skills, good looks, and those who looked like they could become famous.

The 50 contestants selected according to these three criteria completely exceeded Wu Yuan's psychological expectations.

He didn't dare to imagine how exciting this show would be to have 50 people competing!

Furthermore, five years later, ten years later, when these actors who first entered the public eye through "Actors Please Take Your Place" have become the backbone of the mainland entertainment industry, how will the program "Actors Please Take Your Place" be regarded as a myth?

The most powerful "Super Girl" and "Fast Boy" can only have three or five contestants, at most seven or eight contestants who finally survived the big waves of the circle and gained a firm foothold in the circle.

"Actors Please Take Your Place" has introduced 20 to 30 backbone actor talents to the circle in one go. How exaggerated is this?

Wu Yuan couldn't help but smile.

"I'm looking forward to the recording of this program as soon as possible."

"Hey, Xixi, do you want to be a star convener on this program?"

"What convener?" Liu Yifei's expression was a little silly.

"Actually, it's just the host, but it's also a bit like a college counselor, serving as a bridge of communication between the four mentors and the contestants."

"On the one hand, I'm responsible for hosting, and on the other hand, I have to take care of these contestants, help them communicate and negotiate with the program team and mentors, and deal with personal problems and difficulties they encounter."

"It sounds complicated." Liu Yifei frowned: "I can't do it, right? I can't host a show at all."

"Then I'll give you another host, and you can just be the counselor." Wu Yuan said again.

"It's unnecessary." Liu Yifei was a little resistant. In addition to acting, she was not very interested in any other work, and she rarely appeared in variety shows.

"Xixi, don't underestimate these fifty contestants. Confucius said that if three people walk together, there must be a teacher."

"If you can experience the competition and audition of "Actors Please Take Your Place" throughout the whole process, I believe it will be very helpful for your own acting skills to grow."

"Even if you just watch their learning process and competition, it will be a valuable experience for you."

"Really?" Liu Yifei's brows were still tightly knitted, but she didn't say no again.

"Then I'll give it a try!" (End of this chapter)