Chapter 185: Rumors

Behind the monitor, Luo Yuzhong wore headphones, carefully watching the content on the screen.

The scene was quiet, no one spoke, providing an environment for the two actors to act.

The atmosphere on the scene was quiet and gentle.

After the two actors finished the last line of the script for this scene, Luo Yuzhong didn't call cut.

After several seconds, the gazes of Jiang Yuqian and Lu Yan He toward each other couldn't hold up, bringing a bit of hesitation and confusion, before Luo Yuzhong woke up as if from a dream and called cut.

"The atmosphere between these two is a bit subtle." Liu Zeliang stood beside him and whispered.

"Jiang Yuqian is very powerful. In this scene, she completely brought Lu Yan He in," Luo Yuzhong said. "Originally, I was still worried that Lu Yan He couldn't get into the state. The gap in status and position between the two of them is very large, and they might not be able to overcome such psychological barriers immediately. I didn't expect the first take to be successful."

"That's it?" Although Liu Zeliang was also very satisfied with the two people's acting just now, he didn't expect Luo Yuzhong, who was so strict, to be satisfied too.

Luo Yuzhong said: "We still need to film another take. There were still some places to adjust just now, but it was much better than I imagined. Little Lu, this child, his eyes can talk; he is really a seedling for a good actor."

"After all, you personally selected him from Star Entertainment," Liu Zeliang smiled. "In others' eyes, that's your disciple."

"What are you talking about." Luo Yuzhong called the two actors over and let them watch the playback of the take they just performed.

Lu Yan He and Jiang Yuqian sat beside Luo Yuzhong, wearing headphones, and finished watching the take they just performed.

Lu Yan He was astonished.

He didn't know that he had so many emotions just now, which couldn't be hidden at all and were captured in the lens.

The reactions to Jiang Yuqian were not acted; they were natural expressions.

Lu Yan He was bewildered for a moment, somewhat at a loss.

Is this acting? Is this right?

After watching, Jiang Yuqian took off her headphones, looked up at Luo Yuzhong and said: "The shot is filmed too beautifully, both youthful and gentle."

Luo Yuzhong nodded and said: "Just now when you went down the steps, the cut wasn't quite right. Why did you suddenly want to go down the steps first? It's because you wanted to advance the relationship with the senior, to ask some questions you wouldn't usually ask. You were subconsciously a bit shy, so you needed to open up distance between your bodies, but at this time, your subconscious also wanted to be closer to him. You didn't have this subconscious reaction just now."

Jiang Yuqian was somewhat enlightened.

"Understood."

"Little Lu, you too," Luo Yuzhong said to Lu Yan He. "You have to know that you like Guan Zhu. This liking also carries a bit of professional appreciation. You know she is a very proud girl, which also makes you have some concerns, not saying you like her out loud. So the look in your eyes when you look at her is too straightforward at first; others can tell at a glance that you are interested in this girl, understand? You need to be more neutral. Later, when you notice Guan Zhu's good feelings for you, you slowly expose the fact that you are moved by this girl; there is a change in degree."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"Have you ever liked a girl?" Luo Yuzhong said. "When you like this girl, do you show it the first time? Or do you hide it in your heart before you are sure? Find this feeling. This scene is very important. In the play, it is one of the most beautiful moments in Guan Zhu's life. Her persistence at the key nodes in her life is all because of this chat and mutual confession with the senior. Overall, it needs to present a kind of youthful heartbeat, youthful cleanliness, and hope for the future."

Lu Yan He thought of Chen Siqi, thought of the noon when he ate with Chen Siqi.

A sentence of liking was stuck in his heart, and he couldn't say it out loud no matter what.

In an instant, his mood and Yao Yuan's mood in the play merged together.

He couldn't describe it, but he had a clearer outline of Yao Yuan.

"Let's film another take, prepare." Luo Yuzhong said.

The two nodded.

"Keep the feeling from just now, the feeling just now was very good," Luo Yuzhong said again.

Both actors nodded in unison.

Group B finished work.

Luo Yuzhong wasn't there, and He Xun led Group B to film for a whole day. The scenes weren't important, and most of them were transition scenes.

But for an assistant director, this was also a very important accumulation of experience.

He Xun smiled at Li Qian and Wang Yunfan and said: "Thank you for your hard work today."

Wang Yunfan smiled and said: "Thank you, Director He, for your hard work too."

After He Xun left, a trace of unhappiness appeared on Li Qian's face.

Wang Yunfan whispered a reminder: "There are so many people here, you put this expression on your face, are you hoping that someone will tell He Xun that you are dissatisfied with him?"

Li Qian rolled her eyes at him and said: "When was I dissatisfied with He Xun?"

"Then as soon as he left, your face collapsed. Who wouldn't think so?"

"I'm just a bit annoyed," Li Qian said, crossing her arms, "Why is our scene arranged for He Xun to film? Are we two not worth Luo Yuzhong filming personally?"

Wang Yunfan looked at her helplessly and said: "Look, I knew you were calculating this matter, and you still deny it."

Li Qian: "Don't you mind?"

"Splitting into Group A and B filming is very normal, which crew doesn't do that?" Wang Yunfan said helplessly, "Handing over transition scenes to the assistant director to film is originally a routine operation."

Li Qian: "The next few days are all for He Xun to film. Why don't they let He Xun film the transition scenes on their side?"

"You don't know, the scenes of their university campus are very important. Haven't you read the script?" Wang Yunfan said. "Alright, it's meaningless for you to keep calculating these things. Luo Dao has his own ideas. Do you dare to complain in front of Luo Dao?"

Luo Yuzhong's status in the TV series circle belongs to the TOP level, a person standing at the top of the pyramid, who has been a director for almost thirty years, has filmed more than a dozen works, almost all of which are well-known works, and there are many big hits with very high ratings.

Let alone Li Qian and Wang Yunfan, even actors of Jiang Yuqian's level don't dare to act presumptuously in front of Luo Yuzhong.

Wang Yunfan's words blocked Li Qian's mouth.

Li Qian glared at him, meaning "You know I don't dare to complain in front of Luo Dao, why do you say such things."

At 11:30 at night, Lu Yan He finally returned to the hotel.

When he was filming, he actually didn't feel any fatigue, but as soon as he got on the car, he felt exhausted in his whole body.

He closed his eyes, feeling dizzy and wanting to close his eyes to sleep.

Everyone around was a bit tired, and in the large bus, almost no one spoke.

After returning to the hotel, Lu Yan He originally wanted to lie down for a while before taking a shower, but as soon as he lay down, he didn't wake up again, sleeping in one breath until six o'clock the next morning. When the alarm went off, he felt like a century had passed after this sleep.

He glanced at his phone and saw that Li Zhibai had posted a screenshot in the group at 1:00 AM last night.

Just as he was looking, Yan Liang suddenly popped up.

He said in the group: Is this news true or false? How does it look so fake?

Lu Yan He clicked on the screenshot and found it was a post from someone online, saying that the lead actor of "The Golden Age" is suspected of not being single.

Lu Yan He frowned in confusion.

The lead actors of "The Golden Age" are Huang Kai, Jiang Yuqian, Wang Yunfan, and Li Qian. As far as he knows, they are all single. Who is this online post talking about?

Lu Yan He said: I haven't heard of it, these people are all single.

Yan Liang: Why are you up so early?

Lu Yan He: I have to film.

Yan Liang: You get up earlier than when you were in your third year of high school. Awesome.

It's only 5:40 in the morning.

Lu Yan He: Are you morning running again?

Yan Liang: Yeah, I slept early yesterday.

Lu Yan He: Went back?

Yan Liang: Back, Li Zhibai hasn't yet.

Lu Yan He put down his phone, took a shower, then brushed his teeth, and prepared to go downstairs.

As soon as he got on the car, Lu Yan He heard someone discussing the rumor Li Zhibai posted in the group.

"I don't know if it's true or false. The lead actors of our play seem to be all single, right?"

"But Jiang Yuqian—" The voice stopped abruptly here; the person speaking saw Lu Yan He coming up.

Their expressions changed, and they even avoided Lu Yan He's gaze.

Lu Yan He looked at them in confusion.

"Yan He is here." Someone smiled and greeted him.

"Morning." Lu Yan He smiled at them and found a seat to sit down.

After he sat down, he took out his phone and pretended to look at it.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the person in front secretly turn his head to look at him.

Lu Yan He's heart skipped a beat.

They wouldn't be thinking that Sister Yuqian is dating him, right?

The filming content today was still the scene between Lu Yan He and Jiang Yuqian.

They were filming a scene where the two argued over a disagreement in architectural design, both hoping to persuade the other, but each insisted on their own point of view.

When they arrived at the scene, Luo Yuzhong only gave Lu Yan He one sentence: "In this scene, you are purely discussing the problem, and the argument is not fiery. The feeling I want to reflect in this scene is that you are both finding a more suitable design idea in a serious and rational way."

Lu Yan He nodded.

Luo Yuzhong's instructions to Jiang Yuqian were even simpler.

"You are confident in your profession, there is no doubt about this, but at the same time, you also trust the senior, so at first, you are putting forward your point of view with a bit of uncertainty, and only later in the process of arguing, you become more and more convinced that your idea is better, and your confidence slowly comes out."

Jiang Yuqian nodded.

After explaining to the two, Luo Yuzhong went to discuss photography with Liu Zeliang.

Liu Zeliang smiled and teased: "These two actors are quite worry-free to film. It's the first time I've seen you not painstakingly breaking down the play to explain to the actors."

"Breaking it down for these two will have the opposite effect," Luo Yuzhong said unquestionably. "You can see from their performance yesterday that explaining too finely will restrict their performance. They are not the kind of actors who have acted for a long time and are exceptionally confident in themselves, or actors who don't understand acting at all. If you don't break it down, it's like they don't understand what you are talking about."

Liu Zeliang: "You've only filmed Lu Yan He for one day, and you know he is an actor who can perform on his own?"

"An actor, you can see his comprehension in a few scenes. Acting is just like this," Luo Yuzhong said. "It really depends on talent. Those who know how to act will know how to act no matter what, and they will naturally attract the audience."

Liu Zeliang nodded.

"Then do you think Jiang Yuqian has any hope of winning a Best Actress award for this play?" he asked curiously.

Why do actors desperately want to be in big directors' plays? Being easier to win awards is also a very key factor.

Luo Yuzhong was silent for a while and said: "I really don't know about this. Her performance is indeed good, but the thickness of the character itself is not enough, not complex and rich enough. In comparison, Li Qian's character is much fuller."

"There's no way around this. The current orientation is like this. The protagonist basically can't have principled shortcomings, all are great, bright, and upright character images. For actors, it really reduces a lot of performance space. I see she is acting much better than when she cooperated with you before," Liu Zeliang said. "In the scene last night, Lu Yan He was completely led by her. Among popular young actresses, it's really rare to see someone who can lead other actors to act together."

Luo Yuzhong: "Among the current batch of young actresses with high popularity, large traffic, and many fans, she is the only one who is seriously studying acting; the others have not made much progress."

"Then you are too strict."

"I'm serious. As far as it goes, among the most popular young actresses now, Jiang Yuqian is the only one who really has hope of going far on the road of acting," Luo Yuzhong said. "You say she can lead Lu Yan He to act, which shows she understands the rhythm of acting. Only then can she lead correctly, and she doesn't fight for scenes or grab scenes, knowing that she needs to give the other party scenes. How many actors can have this realm?"

Liu Zeliang nodded and agreed with Luo Yuzhong's point of view.

This argument scene, Luo Yuzhong held them and filmed for a full four hours.

The main dissatisfaction was Lu Yan He.

Not natural enough.

"The feeling of putting on airs is too heavy," Luo Yuzhong said. "You always involuntarily bring up a bit of tone, like giving a speech. You need to speak normally, with the serious tone you usually have, not that kind of deliberately serious feeling."

Lu Yan He also knew where his problem was. Mainly, the content of the lines was mostly about some concepts and logic of design. Lu Yan He wasn't familiar with it, so as soon as he started talking, he couldn't help but bring a bit of the feeling of reciting a script, and in order to get rid of the feeling of reciting a script, he deliberately acted serious, so the state was wrong no matter what.

But every time he acted, no matter what he acted like, Luo Yuzhong wouldn't call stop in the middle, always letting him finish the take, and then telling him how to adjust.

This made Lu Yan He feel increasingly uneasy, but at least he could keep his cool.

Jiang Yuqian also maintained patience throughout, accompanying Lu Yan He to act over and over again.

Finally, after I don't know how many takes, Lu Yan He himself was a bit blank in his brain, his speech had no passion, and he finished the scene by rushing through the words. Lu Yan He thought he would have to redo it, but Luo Yuzhong suddenly said: "Little Lu, the feeling of this take you just did is right."

Lu Yan He looked blank; what did he act that felt right?

For an actor, not knowing how to act correctly is a very terrible thing, but acting correctly without knowing why it is correct is also a very terrible thing.

This shows that he didn't have a proper judgment standard, just a blind cat hitting a dead mouse.

Luo Yuzhong pulled Lu Yan He to watch the playback of the take just now, and then showed him the playback of the previous take.

"Did you find the difference?" Luo Yuzhong asked.

Lu Yan He's cheeks were embarrassed, and he nodded.

Comparing this, Lu Yan He finally understood where the wrong place was before.

When he acted in the last take just now, because he had filmed too many times, he was a bit tired and didn't use any energy. He didn't expect that objectively, it presented a determined indifference.

With this state, the nouns that ordinary people rarely say, when spoken from his mouth, had a sense of being inexplicable but awesome.

Grinding a scene for more than a dozen times is almost impossible in the filming of a TV series.

But this is Luo Yuzhong's confidence as a big director—he dares to film like this.

He has strong confidence that all scenes will be filmed within the specified time, and he doesn't care about the time spent grinding on one or two scenes.

In fact, after Lu Yan He finished acting this morning, he also vaguely felt what it means to use "four ounces to move a thousand pounds."

It's not that the harder you use, the better the effect presented.

Everyone knows this truth, but only after you have really used "four ounces to move a thousand pounds" once will you personally experience the silky feeling of being able to buckle it on as soon as you gently buckle the buckle.

At noon, Lu Yan He still ate in the cafeteria with everyone.

Lu Yan He felt that he was very hungry, and even after eating a bowl of rice, he was still only half full, wanting to add another bowl.

Looking at the boiled broccoli and blanched shrimp in Jiang Yuqian's bowl, he restrained himself.

He at least ate a bowl of staple food, while Jiang Yuqian didn't eat any carbohydrates at all.

Filming on camera, gaining a pound of meat can have the effect of three pounds on the camera.

Lu Yan He resisted, put down his chopsticks, and stopped stuffing things into his mouth.

Jiang Yuqian saw his eyes still staring at the dishes on the table and couldn't help but laugh.

"You're not full?"

Lu Yan He shook his head: "Not at all."

"Then eat two sweet potatoes," Jiang Yuqian said. "You are such a big person, and you have all your scenes in the afternoon. If you don't eat enough, you won't have the strength to act. Just don't eat things with high sugar content."

Lu Yan He's eyes lit up.

"Does the cafeteria have sweet potatoes?"

Jiang Yuqian: "Should have, right?"

Their table didn't have any.

Jiang Yuqian said to Luo Xiaoyu: "Xiaoyu, go ask the cafeteria people if they have sweet potatoes, and if they can boil two sweet potatoes and bring them over."

Luo Xiaoyu went immediately.

"Xiaoyu, what are you going for?" Cao Yong came out of the restroom, saw Luo Xiaoyu walking toward the cafeteria kitchen, and was surprised, teasing, "You're not full, are you?"

Luo Xiaoyu's love for eating had gradually spread throughout the crew.

Luo Xiaoyu said: "No, I'm going to see if there are sweet potatoes."

"What are you looking for sweet potatoes for?" Cao Yong didn't understand; he didn't even like that stuff.

"To eat." After Luo Xiaoyu finished speaking, she waved her hand and entered the kitchen.

Cao Yong: "... Still denying that you're not full, isn't it just that you're not full."

He withdrew his gaze, walked out of the cafeteria, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Lu Yan He and Jiang Yuqian talking and laughing at a table, and immediately thought of the rumor he heard this morning. ===== CHAPTER 186 =====