Chapter 151: Acting Class

Lu Yanhe thought about it seriously.

Before he crossed over, he also read some news on the Internet, especially that national teacher Lao Mouzi, who was famous for his strict requirements on actors' faces.

Natural.

"Is it because a natural face can express all expressions? It seems that many expressions of plastic surgery faces can't be made."

"This is one of the reasons. Another reason is that plastic surgery faces are easy to give the audience a distorted, spiritless visual effect," Zhang Ming said. "Ninety percent of human emotions are expressed on the five features, especially the emotions on the screen. Not to mention the lines, what a face looks like is natural. Some faces are naturally amazing, while others are simple and have no characteristics, but we all admit that any face can present its beauty under specific angles. This relies on later packaging, while plastic surgery faces are faces that have already been packaged. If a face that has not been adjusted is a blank sheet of paper, then a face that has been adjusted is a sheet of paper that has already been smeared. For directors, of course, they will be willing to use a blank sheet of paper."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"And for the audience, it is the same," Zhang Ming said. "Most of the audience will not analyze your acting level, analyze whether you are likable or not. They are just a play, if they like it, they like it, if they don't like it, they don't like it. There can be no reason, and you have no chance to explain. For a young actor, most of them can't talk about acting skills, only their own conditions and some kind of spirit born with them. Whether they can move the audience and attract the audience depends on these things later."

Lu Yanhe understood a little.

Zhang Ming: "At this time, the importance of true colors comes out. Meet a good director, grasp your most attractive true colors, and present them on the screen. If you don't meet a good director, no matter how good your conditions are, you will be filmed like a pig's head. The lens is this kind of thing. It does not restore true colors 100%, but magnifies or ignores them."

Chen Ziyan returned to her office and contacted Mo Zhi, the assistant of Luo Yuzhong.

Chen Ziyan: "Xiao Mo, is Luo Dao very busy in the past few days?"

Mo Zhi said: "Sister Ziyan, Luo Dao has been busy with the preparation of 'Golden Age' these days, and it will start filming next week. It is quite busy."

"Okay, I was thinking that if Luo Dao has time, I will take Xiao Lu to visit him again to see if Xiao Lu has anything to prepare in advance," Chen Ziyan said. "Xiao Lu is acting for the first time, and I am not at ease in my heart. I want to hear Luo Dao's opinion and strive to prepare early, so that he can perform better on the set."

Mo Zhi smiled and said: "Sister Ziyan, you are too worried. Lu Yanhe's play is not much, and he will enter the group next month. Memorize the lines early. When acting later, Luo Dao will teach him well. You don't know that Luo Dao has always been very patient in teaching actors."

"That's good. If you start filming next week, then when Xiao Lu has time, I will let him enter the group first and learn on the set," Chen Ziyan said. "Will this cause a burden to you? Mainly because this child has never been to the set and doesn't know how the set operates. I let him go over to see it in advance, and he can also familiarize himself with it in advance."

"This..." Mo Zhi hesitated, "I don't know this, I have to ask Brother Hong. There are many people in our play, and there are hundreds of staff members alone. I don't know if Brother Hong is willing to arrange another person on the set."

Brother Hong refers to producer Liu Hong.

Chen Ziyan: "Okay, then I will say hello to Liu Hong and see what he says. I want to ask you, if Xiao Lu goes over, will Luo Dao mind?"

It is not to say that every person actively enters the group in advance, and the director will be happy to see it.

Just like Mo Zhi's reaction just now, individual positivity may still be a trouble and burden for the whole team.

Mo Zhi: "Luo Dao doesn't mind, he likes hard-working and enterprising actors."

"I'm relieved to have your words," Chen Ziyan smiled and exchanged pleasantries with him, and hung up the phone.

Although Mo Zhi is only a director's assistant, he knows Luo Yuzhong very well.

Chen Ziyan wants everything to be safe and not inexplicably make Luo Yuzhong unhappy, so she has to build a good relationship with such people and ask about many things in advance.

She called Liu Hong again.

Liu Hong would of course sell her face and readily agreed to Lu Yanhe's early observation.

"Golden Age," because it is Luo Dao Yuzhong's new play, and has Jiang Yuqian as the heroine, has long been stared at by major platforms, waiting for bidding.

It's just that Luo Dao is more cautious and unwilling to sell the play so early, so he didn't loosen his mouth.

Liu Hong has been busy with this matter recently. Although Luo Yuzhong refused to sell it now, Liu Hong still has to entertain many platform parties and cannot neglect them.

Liu Hong answered Chen Ziyan's call, remembered the matter mentioned by someone before, and asked with a smile: "By the way, ask about something, Ziyan, why did you suddenly have the idea of signing Lu Yanhe?"

Chen Ziyan: "I think it has cultivation value. I have also rested for a period of time. It is time to cultivate a few newcomers."

"He is really lucky. If you didn't fancy him, he would have been swept out of the house by Star Entertainment," Liu Hong said with a smile.

"Yo, you know this too?"

"Yes, I am quite curious, does this child have any problems, so he was targeted by Zhou Ping'an."

"Zhou Ping'an is sick in the brain, it has nothing to do with the child."

"Haha." Liu Hong laughed twice, "Zhou Ping'an is indeed targeting Lu Yanhe, and even told me to let Chenghai act and replace Lu Yanhe. Although Chenghai is also good, Luo Dao fancied Lu Yanhe, and he was still relentless. He really thought this role became his family's, and he was picking and choosing there."

Chen Ziyan: "Zhou Ping'an has an incorrect mind, but the artists he brought are quite good, looking like good children."

"There are more and more people in the circle who are eager for quick success and instant benefits," Liu Hong sighed. "I really miss the time before."

"The time before has the goodness of the time before, and now has the goodness of now. 'Golden Age' is a big project. You are under great pressure. If you need my help, tell me. We are old friends, and I will try my best to help if I can."

"Yo, you said that, I won't be polite."

"What's polite."

"Now I really have something I want to ask you for help," Liu Hong said with a smile.

"It just happened to catch up."

"Yes, what a coincidence," Liu Hong said. "A friend of mine wants to find Shang Yongzhou to act. Can you help me connect and introduce him to have a meal?"

"Forget about eating. Haven't you heard of Shang Yongzhou's personality? A social phobia," Chen Ziyan said. "Give me the script, I will forward it to him and let him see whether to take it or not."

Liu Hong: "The script has already been entrusted to him. It's not that he didn't like it, so he wants to chat in person."

"It's useless to chat with him in person. If the script can't move him, saying more is useless," Chen Ziyan said. "Forward the script to me and let me take a look. I'll see if there is room for modification. If there is a possibility of moving him after modification, I will tell you. If there is no such room, hurry up and find someone else."

Liu Hong: "Tsk, who doesn't know that he trusts you? I'm relieved to have your words. The script will be sent to you immediately."

"Heh, it seems that you were aiming for me to help you look at the script from the beginning, right?"

"No way, true friend, I can only trouble you for this favor. For ordinary friends, I am too lazy to open this mouth."

"Got it."

After hanging up the phone, within five minutes, the mailbox prompted that a new email was received.

Chen Ziyan downloaded the script, printed it, and prepared to take it on the road to read.

She had to go on a business trip again at night, take a plane to Jiangguang, and have a cooperation to talk about.

After a morning passed, Lu Yanhe felt that his brain was stuffed with a lot of things.

Zhang Ming said he came to teach him acting theory, but in fact, he talked about a kind of understanding.

Lu Yanhe had no theoretical understanding of acting at all. After listening to Zhang Ming, he had a hazy impression.

At noon, Chen Ziyan took them to eat.

Lu Yanhe was also taken along.

During the meal, Chen Ziyan said to Zhang Ming: "You have basically not come out to act in the past two years. In the future, you don't plan to enter the group and just stay in school to teach?"

Lu Yanhe was a bit surprised when he heard it, and didn't dare to make expressions, so he silently lowered his head to eat.

Zhang Ming said: "I can't get any good roles, why bother to toss."

"Slowly accumulate, acting is just like this. Only after accumulation can you soar into the sky when the opportunity comes. Look at Zhang Zhiwen, who suddenly exploded with a play 'Hongzhou' two months ago, and became popular at the age of forty. Isn't he still showing up?" Chen Ziyan said to Zhang Ming, "Don't be disheartened, you are only thirty years old."

"It can't be said that it is disheartened, it's just that there are no roles to play. Those who come to me to act are all ordinary small roles, and I don't have that interest," Zhang Ming said directly. "After acting, I feel that it is falling in price."

"Don't act, isn't it just setting yourself high? In the future, no one will find you to act in small roles, knowing that you don't look down on it, and no one will find you to act in big roles, feeling that you don't act anymore," Chen Ziyan said. "You act well, just lack opportunity, just wait slowly."

Lu Yanhe was a bit puzzled when listening to the conversation between the two.

Since Chen Ziyan thinks Zhang Ming is a good actor, why not be his agent?

The industry says that Chen Ziyan fancies whoever she can make popular.

Chen Ziyan has such extensive connections, can't she help Zhang Ming introduce a few good roles?

These questions arose from the bottom of Lu Yanhe's heart, and he didn't say it, listening silently.

Zhang Ming: "Forget it, forget it, it's better to be a teacher honestly, go act as a small supporting role, losing face."

"You are just too high-spirited," Chen Ziyan sighed helplessly.

After lunch, Zhang Ming went back by himself.

Chen Ziyan took Lu Yanhe back to the company.

Sure enough, Chen Ziyan took the initiative to speak and talked about Zhang Ming's matter, "Are you a bit puzzled? Why is Zhang Ming a teacher at the Beijing Art Acting Department, but it seems there is no opportunity to act?"

Lu Yanhe nodded and said hmm.

"He, he is just too high-spirited, harming himself," Chen Ziyan said. "He stayed in school to teach immediately after graduation. The opportunity was good, and he acted as the male lead in a big director's new play, but he didn't become popular. Later, he kept acting as the male lead and the second male lead, but the opportunity was not good. The play he acted in was never popular. After two years, no one looked for him to act as the male lead and the second male lead. He, because he had been acting as an important role after graduation, his spirit was at the top, and he was unwilling to settle for it. He didn't act in small roles. Later, he was slowly forgotten by many people, and no one looked for him to act."

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized that it was like this.

"Actually, I have told him many times, don't worry about always being the male lead and the second male lead in the past. If you have acting skills, just act well. There will always be a day when you are seen again. Just like the Zhang Zhiwen I just mentioned, he is not a professional college graduate, and he has been acting as a dragon set for many years seriously, slowly getting roles with lines, and later, big villains also acted, the third male lead, the fourth male lead also acted, this time finally starring in a 'Hongzhou', caught up with the play explosion, and he also exploded. In the entertainment industry, who is popular and who explodes is uncertain, it is metaphysics. If you are not popular or explode, just act honestly, and don't let go of opportunities. High spirit can only harm you."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"I am also saying this to you. You are young now. You act in Luo Dao Yuzhong's play as soon as you come up, but there are not many directors in this industry who can reach Luo Dao Yuzhong's level. Don't be high-spirited because you acted in 'Golden Age' and look down on other opportunities," Chen Ziyan said. "Otherwise, Zhang Ming is an example. How good he acts can be seen from the fact that he can stay in school to teach as soon as he graduates, but if he can't adjust his mentality, no matter how high his ability is, it is useless, understand?"

"Hmm." Lu Yanhe didn't expect that this was still pointing at him.

He smiled and said: "No matter how high my spirit is, it is impossible to be high-spirited in acting. I don't understand anything, and I don't understand how to act at all."

"Then don't be so self-deprecating. An audition can move Luo Dao Yuzhong. This is your ability," Chen Ziyan said again.

"Oh." Lu Yanhe felt that Chen Ziyan was also quite good, afraid that he would be proud, and afraid that he would be self-deprecating. She really had the heart of an old mother, and her heart was very attached.

Of course, he didn't dare to say this.

If Chen Ziyan heard the word "old mother," she would probably roll her eyes at him a hundred times.

"Oh, Sister Ziyan, there is one more thing I forgot to tell you," Lu Yanhe said. "Last night Li Zhibai said that Chen Biqiu invited him tonight, there is a dinner with Chen Biqiu, let me go together."

"Chen Biqiu, the producer of 'Let's Camp Together', right?" Chen Ziyan nodded. "Okay, let him see you. If you can record one or two episodes of this program, it's also good. This program is quite popular."

"Hmm." Lu Yanhe nodded.

Chen Ziyan: "I am going on a business trip to Jiangguang tonight, and I won't be back for the next two days. You and the two teachers have classes well."

"Okay."

In the afternoon, Lu Yanhe met his other teacher.

He Shuyi.

She is also a teacher with very rich acting teaching experience. Lu Yanhe doesn't know her and hasn't seen her much, but as soon as she came up, she directly took him to start rehearsing the play in "Golden Age."

Lu Yanhe hadn't recovered, and He Shuyi took him to act again and again.

"Wrong."

"Come again."

"Nervous."

"Too fake."

Lu Yanhe had a big head later and said: "Teacher He, I am not ready, can you let me think about it myself first?"

He Shuyi smiled and put down the script, saying: "Is it because you think I am too fast, and don't give you time to prepare at all, and let you come directly?"

Lu Yanhe nodded hesitantly.

It was indeed too fast.

He Shuyi said: "I did it on purpose."

"Ah?"

"I just want to see what your most instinctive way of acting is," He Shuyi said. "I don't want your well-thought-out acting, those are fake things. I want real things. The so-called true listening, true watching, and true feeling is a person's most direct reaction. The role you want to play has no complexity, it is all emotional presentation, so just give the most real emotional presentation."

Lu Yanhe nodded blankly.

"Come again now," He Shuyi said. "Throw away all your thoughts, just follow my rhythm and give the most direct reaction."

Lu Yanhe nodded and put down the script.

If Zhang Ming is a romantic theory school, He Shuyi is a practical action school.

Her infectious power is very strong, interrupting Lu Yanhe's acting again and again, and grabbing Lu Yanhe to reconnect, breaking his various concerns, embarrassment, shyness, and inability to let go bit by bit.

After an afternoon passed, Lu Yanhe felt as if he had been drained.

At 5:30 in the afternoon, He Shuyi's first lesson ended.

Lu Yanhe's eyes were empty, sitting on the floor, his face was a bit pale.

Acting is actually a physical job.

He spent the whole afternoon following He Shuyi to constantly say lines and walk positions, accompanied by occasional roaring and shouting... This emotional venting that was not in the script was requested by He Shuyi again and again for Lu Yanhe, making Lu Yanhe switch between large opening and closing emotions, it can only be said that this rhythm is too sour and refreshing.

He Shuyi went to chat with Chen Ziyan.

"A child who can really toss," He Shuyi praised with a smile. "I didn't expect to be able to persist until now. I thought he couldn't persist an hour ago."

Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Yanhe sitting on the floor and emptying himself through the glass wall of the rehearsal room, and smiled. "You also take it easy."

"The first lesson, try his limit," He Shuyi explained. "Although he has no acting experience, he does have talent, emotional switching is very crisp, and he has great resilience."

"After all, it is a newcomer fancied by Luo Dao."

"The vision is poisonous, worthy of being a newcomer fancied by you," He Shuyi said.

"Do you think he can succeed in the future?"

"The quality itself is very good, whether it can succeed depends on luck."

Chen Ziyan nodded.

"He is different from Wen Minglan you asked me to teach before," He Shuyi said. "Wen Minglan still has a heavy burden, always a bit unable to let go, he... trusted me in one afternoon, and completely opened himself up to the end. This quality, as long as he meets a good director, he will burst out with incredible brilliance." ===== CHAPTER 152 =====