Chapter 519 A Thankless Task?

"You're back to the company too?"

"You're back too?"

"Who wouldn't come back if they had this opportunity?"

In the Light and Shadow Times building, the top artists of the company, who are rarely seen in normal times, all came back today.

Zhu Yawen, Yang Mi, Wang Ou, Jinsha, Wang Likun, Tang Yan and other artists signed by the company gathered together.

"Hey, is that the little prince of art films?"

Yang Mi, who was with Tang Yan, reached out and poked Tang Yan's arm, and nodded to indicate that she should look at the company's front desk.

A male actor with a melancholy temperament was walking towards the artist management department under the guidance of the company's front desk.

"Yes, he is Qin Hao. He just signed with the company not long ago, and he encountered this opportunity. He is so lucky." Tang Yan pouted and said with some envy.

This time, the company released the news that only two actors, one man and one woman, could enter the 20th Century Fox blockbuster "Alien Prequel" project.

Qin Hao is a male actor, and there is no competition or conflict with them, so Tang Yan has the heart to tease them.

"He has no chance." Yang Mi shook her head and said disdainfully: "He has joined the company for too short a time, so such a good opportunity is impossible for him."

"Zhu Yawen, Yuan Hong, Luo Jin and other senior people have the best chances."

Tang Yan nodded thoughtfully: "Then Jinsha has the best chance for the female role?"

As soon as this was said, Yang Mi's face immediately darkened, "Not necessarily, Jinsha has no experience in acting in movies, and sending her to Hollywood is not a good thing."

"But we don't have much experience in acting in movies either." Tang Yan scratched his head, a little naive.

Yang Mi was completely jaded, glanced at Tang Yan, and then went upstairs.

"No matter what, try your best. I won't give up until the dust settles."

Hengdian, the recording site of "Actors Please Take Your Place".

After three days of group performance life experience, all fifty contestants have undergone a transformation.

Especially those contestants from performing arts schools.

If they were just delicate flowers in a greenhouse before, then after these three days of real crowd performance life experience, they have more or less grown up a little and know how difficult it is to be a real crowd performer at the bottom.

Of course, three days is just a taste for them at most.

They are touched, but not very deeply.

When the staff of the program announced the end of today's crowd performance experience, they were more grateful.

Including those actors who came from the wild.

After all, they are now actors who can play important supporting roles steadily, and they are really not interested in being a crowd performer.

"Finally finished recording this part."

"The extras are really tired. The day before yesterday, I stood for a day, walked on the street for a day, and pretended to be dead for a day today."

"The worst thing is that I didn't have a single line from beginning to end, and there might not even be a shot of my face showing from the front."

"Haha, I have, I still have three lines!"

"Oh, why did the director choose you as the foreground actor? Obviously, I am no worse than you!"

The contestants walked to the bus with laughter, planning to go back to the dormitory to have a good rest.

Experiencing the life of extras is only a warm-up activity for them. The real editing into the main film is only the content of one episode.

The next thing is what really tests them.

50 to 28 group elimination match!

The four mentors and Liu Yifei, the convener, are standing next to the bus, watching the contestants get on the bus one by one.

In the past three days, not only these contestants are experiencing the life of extras, but the four mentors are also silently observing these 50 contestants behind the scenes.

They did not show up, but hid in the studio. Through the on-site camera, they followed the whole process to understand what the fifty contestants felt and how they treated this job during the group performance.

Those who do well and can endure hardships will naturally be appreciated by the mentors.

Those who are spoiled, have many small problems, and cannot endure hardships will naturally be disliked by the mentors.

And these evaluations will also affect the group elimination competition that will begin next!

Among the 50 contestants, only 28 will successfully join the team of the four mentors, and each team has only seven places.

Many contestants thought that the elimination competition would officially start tomorrow.

But in fact, the elimination competition has already started from the first day they started recording and acting as a group.

Some smart contestants tried their best to do their group performance work well, without complaining about the hardship and tiredness. Do they really like the job of group performance?

Of course not.

It's just that they are smart and guessed their every move, which must have been seen by the four mentors who have not yet shown up.

But there are not many such smart people, only five or six.

"I think that Li Xian is pretty good. Although he laughs a little, he never complains about hardship and fatigue. Instead, he will take the initiative to help the crew do small things."

"That Zhao Liying is also good. She is an actor who really came from the bottom and knows how to survive in the crew."

"The contestant named Qiao Xin is not good. She is spoiled and cries all the time. She is tall and strong, but why is she so shy?"

"The Bai Yu from the Central Academy of Drama is good, but his image and temperament are a bit too honest. He may not be suitable for playing the leading actor."

"Not necessarily. He has a refined and gentle air about him. He can play the kind of educated youth from the 1970s and 1980s."

The four mentors talked with great interest, and from time to time they would bring the topic to Liu Yifei, asking her to express her opinions and not to ignore her.

Until the bus carrying the contestants left the venue and the cameras following the mentors finished recording, Gong Li shook her shoulders, gently bumped Liu Yifei, and asked: "Xixi, I heard that Director Wu has opened up a channel for domestic actors to enter Hollywood?"

"Your Light and Shadow Times are going to select two actors to participate in 20th Century Fox's "Alien Prequel"? "

Gong Li's eyes were filled with envy.

Although she has now extinguished her heart to venture into Hollywood, she was also ambitious back then and wanted to represent the Chinese to enter Hollywood.

It's just that Hollywood is a world ruled by white capital, and it is impossible for her, a Chinese actress, to have any good opportunities.

In comparison, Wu Yuan, who can control the capital power in Hollywood, is much more powerful. Now he can directly send Chinese actors from his company to Hollywood blockbusters. This is awesome.

"That's right." Liu Yifei smiled with her hands covering her mouth. Under the inquiring eyes of the four mentors, she explained seriously: "This movie is co-invested by my senior brother's company in the United States and 20th Century Fox, so my senior brother has the right to cast."

"But only two Chinese supporting roles can be stuffed into the main cast. The male and female protagonists and two important supporting roles must be Hollywood actors."

Zhang Yimou snorted coldly. He, who always spoke softly, rarely said in a high-pitched voice: "That's how Hollywood is!"

"There is no need for our Chinese actors and movies to pursue the favor of Hollywood and flatter them!"

"They will not give us Chinese people a fair chance!"

"I think Director Wu's efforts are thankless!" (End of this chapter)