Chapter 518: Performance Method (10,000-character update!)

Regarding Lu Yan He's character styling, after Lu Yan He and Mukan confirmed it, they sent it directly to Xin Nalin and didn't contact Wendy again.

To be honest, with Wendy's temper and personality, there was no need for them to indulge or coax her.

Whether it was Lu Yan He or Mukan, they weren't tolerating Wendy, just because of Xin Nalin's relationship, it wasn't easy to have a direct conflict with her.

Wendy suddenly appeared uninvited in the conference room where the actors were reading the script, which made Mukan surprised and also somewhat annoyed.

The moment Lu Yan He saw Wendy appear, for a split second, he thought Wendy was here to cause him trouble.

He was ready to face the enemy.

But he overestimated himself; Wendy was aiming at Mukan Zorge.

"Mukan, you actually changed my design without my consent!" Wendy rushed to Mukan Zorge and said angrily, "You don't respect me too much!"

Mukan Zorge said: "I didn't change your design; I didn't adopt your design."

Lu Yan He looked at Mukan Zorge in shock, surprised.

Is it really this direct to speak?

Wendy: "I am the art director of this film!"

Mukan Zorge said: "But I am not satisfied with the design you brought out."

Wendy: "Then you can't change my work without my permission!"

"I didn't change your work. You can completely take your work to another film to use." Mukan Zorge's words could be called killing the heart.

Wendy's face turned livid.

Mukan Zorge suddenly stood up strongly and looked at her. "Wendy, I will emphasize to you one last time: this is my film crew. If you rush to me in front of everyone to question my decision like today again, I will tell Xin Nalin to let her make a choice between me and you, and see if this crew keeps me as the director or you as the art director!"

When Mukan Zorge became strong, his aura became different.

Lu Yan He was startled by Mukan Zorge—before, in front of Lu Yan He, the image Mukan Zorge presented was always a bit quirky but nice, a bit like another Spanish director Lu Yan He knew, Guillermo del Toro.

Lu Yan He wasn't a fan of this director, but after watching several movies like *Pan's Labyrinth*, *Pacific Rim*, and *The Shape of Water*, when searching for relevant film materials online, he had seen some photos of him and the private personality he presented.

Mukan Zorge, like him, was a director with extremely obvious authorship. This authorship wasn't reflected in so-called artistic pursuit, but as soon as you see them, you know they are a bit of a "freak," different from ordinary people, and their movies aren't the conventional kind.

And people with this kind of personality probably had some loneliness during their growth, or were not understood by the people around them, and were immersed in their own world for a long time. If such people didn't move toward the distorted side of personality, they often had a special gentleness and kindness.

This was Lu Yan He's impression of Mukan Zorge.

Unexpectedly, when he got angry, even though he wasn't hysterical or cursing, he had a monarch-like authority, which not only deterred Wendy but also deterred others on the scene.

Wendy retreated two steps back in disbelief, as if she had been frightened.

The scene was very quiet.

No one spoke.

However, undercurrents were surging in the air.

Everyone looked at each other, exchanging glances, asking each other what was going on and what had happened.

At this time, Xin Nalin finally appeared.

She walked to Mukan Zorge, bowed very apologetically, and said: "Mukan, sorry. Wendy, come out with me."

Wendy glared at Xin Nalin fiercely, turned around, and walked past Xin Nalin angrily, bumping her shoulder, as if she had suffered some great grievance, and left.

Xin Nalin took a deep breath, touched her shoulder, and said to Mukan Zorge: "Mukan, such a situation won't happen again. I guarantee it to you."

Mukan Zorge was obviously still relatively respectful to Xin Nalin.

In a fit of rage, he didn't say much and nodded.

Xin Nalin nodded to others again and said: "Sorry, you continue."

She turned and left after speaking.

Not long after, Lu Yan He heard a piece of news: Wendy was fired by the production crew.

"I know that in a movie, except for the producer, no one should challenge the director's authority. Even if the biggest star actor has a conflict with the director, it's impossible to walk away unscathed, let alone you just being an art director."

Wang Biao muttered, finding it hard to understand this matter.

"I heard before that foreign film crews are more professional than our domestic film crews. Now it seems they aren't that reliable either."

Lu Yan He smiled.

"No matter where it is, there are people like Wendy, no matter how professional it is." He smiled at Wang Biao. "However, did you notice one thing today?"

"What thing?" Wang Biao asked curiously.

Lu Yan He said: "Today, everyone sat together to read the script. Every actor, the script they brought, was all marked with dense marks, all prepared."

Wang Biao was stunned.

He really hadn't noticed this point.

"Moreover, the questions each of them raised and the things they talked about, you know as soon as you talk to them that they have really done very deep research." Lu Yan He said. "Just from this point, you can see that, if nothing else, even if it's a horror film that many people look down on, the actors they choose are solid in their performance attitude."

Wang Biao: "Can't our domestic actors... achieve this point?"

"Of course they can. This might be a consensus issue of the entire industry and the entire environment." Lu Yan He said. "In the past few years, although we have started doing script reading domestically and started emphasizing the importance of advance preparation, to some extent, it is still out of self-requirement and restraint. There are still many shows, because the construction period is very short, because actors' schedules can't be matched, etc., let alone script reading. Many times, before actors join the crew, they might not even have read the script properly."

Wang Biao recalled the situation he saw in domestic film crews and knew that what Lu Yan He said was indeed correct.

"They are actually about the same age as me, not much older, but look at each of them when introducing themselves, talking about their ideas, they are all very confident, very sure of their understanding of the script and the character." Lu Yan He said. "I rarely see this kind of professional confidence and certainty in our domestic young actors. Even myself, compared to them, is not confident enough."

Wang Biao asked back: "But, is it good for them to be so confident and flamboyant? I noticed they also argued with Director Mukan several times."

"It's certainly not okay to be confident to the point of crossing the line like Wendy. However, as an actor, having full confidence in professionalism, and even having conflicts with the director, this matter, taken as a whole, is definitely more beneficial than harmful to the actor." Lu Yan He said. "If an actor is not confident, I dare not say 100%, but nine out of ten don't act well enough. On the contrary, confident actors, you will find that they might not act as accurately, but that energy of theirs can make their performance shine."

Wang Biao fell into deep thought.

"The script reading for *Flowing Light* was organized twice but couldn't be organized."

After returning to Ziyuan Bridge, Yan Liang said helplessly to Li Zhibai.

Li Zhibai was somewhat surprised and asked: "Why?"

Yan Liang said: "One is that everyone's schedule is relatively tight, and it's hard to get time together. The other... many people feel that there is no need for script reading for this show because it's a Xianxia drama and doesn't have much acting difficulty."

"What about Zhang Lan? She is the female lead. What is her attitude?" Li Zhibai asked.

"She doesn't have time." Yan Liang said. "Her schedule is basically full, and there are many announcements. She already said she would join the crew after the official start of filming."

Li Zhibai smiled disdainfully. "This is really—"

"At that time, the director also told her that our script reading could accommodate her time, but she just asked back. Guess what she asked back?"

Li Zhibai shook his head. "I can't guess what these people have in mind."

"She asked the director back—are you questioning my ability to act well in this role?" Yan Liang sighed longly. "I suddenly feel again that although I was quite cooperative with Teacher Wan Yun when filming *The Gold Rush*, even though Teacher Wan had a somewhat quirky temper, at least the two of us were quite cooperative in acting."

Li Zhibai said: "Zhang Lan is such a big actor, and she would say such superficial words. It's also beyond my imagination."

No matter how big-name an actor is, when preparing for a show, they will do their homework solidly.

Which Best Actor doesn't study the script in advance after winning an award?

The more an actor has pursuits and ambitions for acting, the more effort they will put into this aspect.

Yan Liang sighed. "I'm very worried now that this show will be filmed into a flop."

"That won't happen, don't worry." Li Zhibai said. "If nothing else, our domestic filming of Xianxia dramas has become an assembly line industry. The team for your show is a first-class team in filming Xianxia dramas, so it won't be filmed into a flop. Just prepare your role well. They don't want to do script reading because they are lazy, but the basic passing line is definitely there, so they won't drag you down."

Li Zhibai smiled. "You are because you filmed several good shows, so it gave you an illusion—as if all our domestic shows are like *Friends*, *The Gold Rush*, and *The Summit*, putting all their effort into filming a show well. In fact, 90% of our shows are assembly line works. If you hope that everyone is like you, able to concentrate all their energy on this show for a period of time, it's almost impossible. *Friends* was because at that time, except for you and Yan He, everyone was a newcomer. With Yan He taking the lead, others followed suit and didn't dare to say they wouldn't come. *The Gold Rush* and *The Summit* were because the actors you encountered were all powerful actors, not shows with many stars like *Flowing Light*. Their acting is a habit cultivated from school. Instead, they are not used to not doing script reading."

Yan Liang: "Sometimes I'm really confused. Look, Yan He didn't go to a professional school, and he is so gifted and has achieved such great success. He knows that no matter the size of the role, no matter what show, he must honestly do performance preparation and require the production crew to do script reading. Why do those actors who are not as popular as him and not as gifted as him feel that these things are a waste of time?"

"Because what Yan He does is a very small minority. As far as the current status of our industry is concerned, most actors are in a state of rushing work. Compared to filming a show well, they care more about filming one more show. No one knows which show can explode, so they start doing the sea of questions tactic. In addition, although the entire industry is calling for the importance of script reading to actors and production crews, because most production crews can't do it, even if they don't do it, everyone feels that I'm not the only one who didn't do it. Being a poor student, everyone is a poor student together, no one rolls anyone, and they feel at ease."

Li Zhibai pouted.

"I'm preparing for *Nineteen Years of Crime Records*, right? I contacted several actors I was familiar with before, and they were all actors I thought were quite good when I worked with them. As a result, after talking, people first asked about the pay, second asked how long to film, third asked if it was tiring, if it was hard. They couldn't talk about the role for ten minutes and didn't care what role I wanted them to play."

Li Zhibai sighed disappointedly. "Actually, Yan Liang, if the two of us weren't rolled up by Lu Yan He, maybe we would be such traffic actors now."

Yan Liang waved his hand with a smile. "No, not necessarily. You might be a traffic actor, but I'm not even traffic."

Li Zhibai scolded with a smile: "Go to hell."

Yan Liang: "I think it's quite good. It's quite hard to act in a show now, but I act with satisfaction, and the more I act, the more I feel that being an actor is a happy thing. I don't want to be the kind of actor who acts casually and only puts the self-requirement of an actor on his lips."

"I think it's actually quite good. At the very least, whenever I meet anyone now, I don't feel insecure in my heart; I have plenty of confidence," Li Zhibai said. "Even when meeting those great seniors, if others ask me what my representative works are, I can righteously say what dramas I've acted in. You know what's particularly funny? Once, someone even secretly asked me, asking if I wasn't afraid that those great seniors hadn't seen the dramas I acted in, since they were all idol dramas. I said, whether they've seen them or not is their business. When I acted in those dramas, I gave it my all, and the dramas were quite popular, so I completed them quite well."

Yan Liang: "Yes, that's right."

Li Zhibai: "There are some people who seem to feel that I should feel ashamed. What do I have to feel ashamed of? The roles I acted in seriously, the shows also became popular, what can't be my representative work? Instead, there are some people who are usually very arrogant. When asked about their representative works, they also know that the shows they acted in are very average, can't be brought out, and are shy and dare not say."

Yan Liang smiled.

"By the way, does *The Gold Rush* have a chance to win an award?" Li Zhibai suddenly remembered something.

"Should be, right? I heard that they are preparing to report for an award for it." Yan Liang said.

"Do you have hope of winning Best Actor?" Li Zhibai asked.

"I don't know, but the production crew discussed with me, wanting me to report for Best Supporting Actor."

"Best Supporting Actor?" Li Zhibai was somewhat surprised. "Why?"

"They feel that if I report for Best Supporting Actor, the hope of winning the award will be greater. The competition for Best Actor is relatively fierce, and I am the second lead myself, so reporting for Best Supporting Actor is also very normal." Yan Liang said. "Teacher Wan Yun reports for Best Actor, and we won't form a competitive conflict."

Li Zhibai frowned and said: "However, your scenes in *The Gold Rush*, even if you report for Best Actor, there shouldn't be any problem, right?"

Yan Liang nodded. "No problem."

Li Zhibai said: "I think with your performance in *The Gold Rush*, it's not that I'm saying it myself, and the evaluation in the commentary circle when it was broadcast was also very high. You can completely go to compete for Best Actor. It's hard to encounter such a popular role, the hope is great, why not rush it?"

Yan Liang listened to Li Zhibai's words, and a look of hesitation appeared on his face.

Li Zhibai said again: "What is Zhou Ping'an's opinion?"

Yan Liang said: "Zhou Ping'an suggested that I follow the production crew's opinion and report for Best Supporting Actor. According to them, if I report for Best Supporting Actor, among the three major awards, the chance of winning the award is at least 80% or more. No matter what, I will win an award. If it's Best Actor, it's hard to say."

"Zhou Ping'an actually also said to let you report for Best Supporting Actor?" Li Zhibai showed an unbelievable look. "Then you should still listen to him. This person, if nothing else, he definitely won't suffer a loss. Also, if you can win a three major award, it's definitely better than a nomination."

"Hmm." Yan Liang smiled. "However, it's a pity for Yan He. *The Silent River* cannot report for the domestic three major awards this year because it's a foreign-funded show."

"Even if he could report, he would have to compete with Zeng Qiao. His performance with Zeng Qiao in *The Silent River*, according to the evaluation on the internet at the time, feels like they are on par. Both are very good. It's different from *The Gold Rush*. Everyone's evaluation of Wan Yun is not as high as your role."

*The Mist* production crew.

On the day of the official start of filming, although Lu Yan He wasn't filming, he still arrived at the production crew.

There were very few Asians on the scene, and Lu Yan He was very eye-catching on the scene.

Everyone knew that he was the male actor playing the Asian ghost in this film.

Everyone also knew that he was a very top-notch representative actor in China, not only famous in Asia but also recognized and highly evaluated by many critics in Europe and America.

This was thanks to Lu Yan He's record in the international four major film festivals in the past two years.

Everyone might not have watched his movies, but generally, when hearing others introduce him or searching for his information online, they would see what awards his works had won, what awards he himself had won, and what achievements his works had achieved.

Although the horror film *The Mist* couldn't be released in China, it could still be released in other Asian countries and regions.

Lu Yan He's fame and appeal weren't limited to China.

The hit of *Friends*, *Seventeen Layers*, and *The Silent River* on streaming media gave Lu Yan He high fame in the Asian region, as well as a large group of fans.

Therefore, although Lu Yan He was prepared that he might be subjected to some "racial discrimination," when he arrived at the scene, such a situation unexpectedly didn't happen.

People with bad brains were ultimately a minority.

The other three leads, American male actors Arne Bogut, Simon Schmidt, and American female actor Lily Williams, were standing together chatting and laughing.

The three of them were the young people who burned down Lu Yan He's family when they were young in the film.

Arne Bogut was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, handsome male actor whose image was very suitable for playing a prince in a fairy tale. Simon Schmidt was a sturdy young man with some black blood and a fit body. The only female actor in the lead cast, Lily Williams, had red hair, a beautiful appearance, and a hearty laugh.

The configuration of the three of them was also a common configuration for American movies.

Added to Lu Yan He, the four of them basically represented the four words "political correctness."

Lu Yan He only met them once during the script reading and didn't have deep communication. But during the script reading, Lu Yan He had already seen that everyone's line delivery skills were very good.

He asked Wan Qingqing to help him check the information of the few of them.

These actors of theirs all participated in drama performance clubs in school when they were very young, started performing on stage when they were twelve or thirteen, and then logically entered this line of work and became actors.

Like Arne Bogut, the male lead of this film, who was also the leader of the arsonist trio, he starred in a thriller film the first time he acted in a movie. Although the box office was only over eight million USD, his acting skills received praise from critics, allowing his film path to continue.

Later, he also participated in two other films, all of which received praise and acclaim from critics. This time, relying on auditions, he won the recognition of Mukan Zorge and won the male lead. A handsome guy with acting skills indeed had an advantage when competing for the male lead.

Simon Schmidt had acted as the third male lead in a blockbuster with a global box office of over one billion USD, which was also a very popular role, and later acted in two more films, with quite high fame.

Lily Williams was the female actor who had appeared in the most films among them, and had even acted in works by several directors who had won Academy Awards.

From such an actor configuration, it already belonged to a high configuration in horror films.

This was also why the filming date of this film was compressed very severely, only thirty-six days.

With such an actor configuration, if the filming time doubled, the pay would almost double, which was too high a cost for *The Mist*.

Although horror films often have examples of winning big with small, the upper limit isn't high.

If the cost isn't controlled well, it's also easy to lose money.

Another main character was the exorcist who would appear later in the film. He hadn't joined the crew yet—he was also the only actor in this film who could be called a big movie star in the United States. He came from the United Kingdom and had acted in many action films and police films, starring in as many as twelve works with a global box office of over 100 million USD. It's just that the types of characters he performed were seriously homogenized, and his reputation in the commentary circle in recent years wasn't very good. He had already been defined by everyone as the designated male lead for popcorn movies (the derogatory kind).

His name was Jamie Wilson, and he was also very famous in China.

He was also the actor with the highest pay in the entire film—even if his scenes in the film were actually not as good as the other few actors.

On the first day of filming, Lu Yan He was watching from the sidelines on the scene.

He discovered that the *The Mist* production crew was indeed a bit different from the production crews he had stayed in domestically.

It wasn't anything else, but that every staff member on the scene actually knew very clearly what they had to do.

This point made Lu Yan He particularly surprised.

The film set was always chaotic—this had almost become Lu Yan He's basic impression of the film set.

However, on the film set of *The Mist*, Lu Yan He discovered that everyone just had to do their own work well, in an orderly manner. No matter which link it was, everyone knew particularly well what they had to do.

Domestically, even in the production crews of Luo Yuzhong and Chen Lingling, Lu Yan He had encountered many times when everyone was waiting for others to give orders.

It wasn't that everyone wasn't working, nor was it that everyone was lazy, but they didn't know what they had to do.

Many times, they arrived at the scene, and the director gave some instructions, and everyone went to execute them temporarily.

On the first day of filming, Mukan Zorge had been sitting behind the monitor, wearing headphones, and if there were any instructions, he would talk to the actors through the walkie-talkie, rarely getting up to give guidance on the scene—of course, it wasn't that there was no such situation.

And the actors also knew very clearly how they had to act. Everyone stood together chatting and laughing, the atmosphere was good, and when it was time to start filming, they prepared separately and started filming directly.

Saying start acting and start acting, the speed of entering the state was fast, and the key was that they all particularly believed in their characters, without any hesitation, including the proficiency in limbs, which made Lu Yan He very surprised.

Lu Yan He had always felt that his acting, the expressions on his face, and the emotions in his heart had reached a very high level—this was his own cognition of himself, but in limb control, in the "voice, stage, shape, performance" stage and shape, he often had a sense of strangeness.

Similar to, he had actually completely entered the state, and suddenly realized that his hands were raised helplessly, not knowing where to put them, inexplicably awkward.

If he had any basic self-doubt in acting now, it was his limb control ability.

However, he watched Arne Bogut and the others acting on the scene and noticed that they didn't have this problem at all. They were particularly confident and at ease in front of the camera, whether it was walking or other limb movements, they were very calm.

While watching, Lu Yan He sent a message to Luo Yuzhong, proposing his doubts and surprised parts.

Luo Yuzhong replied very quickly: Don't belittle yourself. The reason those American actors you mentioned can have such a confident state is because they started performing on stage when they were twelve, performing in front of everyone. Think about it, more than ten years of performance on stage, there is no camera. Once you go on stage, from your hair to your toes, it's all on the stage, all exposed to everyone's sight. For such a long time, the shame of their own body being exposed to others' sight has long been eliminated. Moreover, rich stage experience also made their limb movements part of their performance. The reason you feel problems and discomfort with your limb coordination is because most of the time the camera is shooting your upper body, and you haven't received much limb training.

Luo Yuzhong's words hit Lu Yan He's situation directly.

Lu Yan He also suddenly realized, and then felt relieved.

Knowing where his problem came from, he wasn't so nervous anymore.

Luo Yuzhong said: Actors in Europe and America generally have stage performance experience. This is created by different environments, and they have a very perfect actor training system. This is indeed different from our domestic environment. Despite this, our actors are not worse than them at all. Think about your performance in the movie, the critics in Europe and America gave their praise without any politeness.

Lu Yan He thought for a moment and said: Also, I feel it's because I watched the performance of the few of them on the scene. If only one or two were at this level, I wouldn't be so surprised. It's mainly because they are all like this, which made me very surprised. But in the lens of the movie, it's actually still a movie, not a stage play. The movie still helped me avoid weaknesses and highlight strengths.

Luo Yuzhong: With your diligence, you will definitely improve these basic things slowly. This is actually a very good thing. We also have many actors cultivated on stage and stage plays domestically. They also have a very solid foundation of voice, stage, shape, and performance, but why is it that you won the Best Actor, but they haven't yet? You have to know, because you have things that belong to you and others don't have.

Lu Yan He: Okay, teacher, I understand, thank you.

Luo Yuzhong: Act well. This is the first time you act in a foreign film. I am not worried about your performance. I only worry that you will not be acclimatized. Many of our good actors are incompatible with their film style when filming foreign films, and the performance system cannot be integrated into their films. This is your advantage, Yan He, because you haven't received any professional training, and you don't have any special persistence in performance, which makes your performance like water, which can be put into various containers, which is very good. This is a god-killing and Buddha-killing advantage for actors.

Lu Yan He: Okay, I will keep it.

The advantage of Lu Yan He pointed out by Luo Yuzhong is the advantage that Lu Yan He needs to exert most when acting in the film *The Mist*.

Based on Lu Yan He's usual performance style and habits, he is a relatively introverted, forbearing, and mirror-like performance style.

But in *The Mist*, he is a ghost, and he actually needs to have more extroverted things.

Especially in front of Arne Bogut and the others who are relatively performance-style, if he acts too much on inner drama, once Mukan Zorge doesn't grasp it, his presence and threat as a vengeful ghost will be weakened.

While writing down his insights in his notebook, Lu Yan He combined the performance styles of these few actors to think about how he should act to catch their scenes next.

He is a vengeful ghost, and he is the character who must firmly control the whole scene.

In Lu Yan He's mind, Voldemort in *Harry Potter* appeared, and he thought of the twins in *The Shining*. First of all, he definitely won't give up the field he is best at in performance.

But on this basis, how to give an appearance that firmly grabs all the audience's eyes as soon as he appears?

This appearance is not just his image itself, but also his aura and his temperament.

Just like Gong Li in *The Monkey King 2*, in order to shape a monster different from humans, she used a method in her performance—she didn't breathe in every shot.

This is actually a particularly simple design, but because of this design, combined with her superb acting skills and that kind of aura that looks down on the world and seems to be unshakable by anyone, she presented a character that firmly grabbed the audience's eyes in this movie that actually wasn't very good.

Watching her performance is a kind of enjoyment.

Lu Yan He pondered for a long time and thought of many ways, such as directly imitating, acting as an Asian ghost without breathing.

But he immediately found that this method was not suitable, because his character in *The Mist* is very violent and vengeful and hysterical as soon as he appears. That kind of non-breathing coquettishness is more suitable for a high-above, light-hearted ghost.

Lu Yan He designed three performance methods for himself, performed them on video for Chen Siqi and Chen Ziyan to see, and let them advise him.

They both chose the most extroverted performance method named "Screaming Fierce Ghost" by Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He went to find Mukan Zorge.

"Mukan, I need you to help me take a look." Lu Yan He came to the house where Mukan lived and had dinner with him.

Today's filming finished at five in the afternoon.

The filming went very smoothly.

Hua Ruzhen made Chinese food.

Mukan Zorge knew that Lu Yan He had been pondering how he should act as a ghost for the past two days.

Lu Yan He suddenly proposed to ask him to take a look, and Mukan Zorge was also looking forward to it.

After dinner, Lu Yan He rested for a while and acted a scene directly in Mukan's house in front of Mukan and Hua Ruzhen.

"Screaming Fierce Ghost" used the "startled" speaking rhythm Lu Yan He had in *Sanshan* to achieve the effect of scaring people from time to time, while using a "Voldemort"-style speaking tone, making every sentence of his have the horror and weirdness of "I will slowly suck away your life in the next second."

This was a performance method Lu Yan He had never used before—of course, this was also the first time Lu Yan He didn't act as a human, but as a ghost.

When Lu Yan He finished acting in front of Mukan and Hua Ruzhen, the room was silent.

After a long while, Hua Ruzhen took a deep breath and put down her arms that she had hugged unconsciously.

"Yan He, you scared me."

"My hair stood up."

Mu Ken also seemed to finally wake up, looking at Lu Yan He in a daze.

Subsequently, his eyes looked at Lu Yan He with shock and surprise, as if he had seen a rare treasure.

"Incredible! Lu, your performance is almost exactly the same as the image I conceived in my mind when I wrote this script! But I thought no actor could act it out. I couldn't even describe the picture I wanted to people!"

Lu Yan He was stunned.

Mukan said: "Unbelievable, unbelievable! What I want is this kind of lingering horror that haunts you at any time. The feeling you gave is too accurate."

He stood up excitedly and turned around Lu Yan He twice.

Lu Yan He hadn't put on makeup yet, and hadn't put on styling. His own image was still that of a sunny and handsome big boy. Under these circumstances, the segment he just performed could give such an effect. Mukan had completely imagined Lu Yan He's appearance in the movie in his mind.

For any horror film and thriller film, the most critical and core thing must be that scary existence.

If it is established, this film will be established.

If it is not established, this film will be difficult to establish.

Mukan Zorge had long known about Lu Yan He's acting skills, also because of that performance in *Sanshan*, which made him trust Lu Yan He very much to act well as the ghost in *The Mist*. However, despite having high expectations for Lu Yan He, the segment Lu Yan He tried to act today still exceeded his expectations.

Hua Ruzhen said to Lu Yan He: "Yan He, I'll tell you now, after the movie *The Mist* is released, you will become famous in the United States."

Lu Yan He revealed a shy smile of being flattered.

When *My Own Swordsman* was broadcast to the tenth episode, the number of people chasing the update in twenty-four hours broke 30 million, making Polar Light Video release a new statistical data for the first time—the number of people chasing the update.

The previous statistical data were all playback volume or viewing person-times.

The popularity of *My Own Swordsman* could be said to have occupied everyone's life circle in just ten days.

The meaning of this sentence is that you might not be watching *My Own Swordsman*, but there must be someone in your life circle watching it.

After Huang Kai won Best Actor by virtue of *Rouge*, he relied on this show to conquer the city and land in national popularity, steadily occupying the first place in the male actor popularity list.

Xiao Yun exploded overnight—relying on the role of Guo Furong, she was praised by the media as a true-to-life performance, attracting a large group of fans.

Of course, the most fan-attracting role was still Tong Xiangyu. The actress Liu Zi became popular overnight, not only liked and discussed by the audience but also triggered heated discussions in the industry. Bluntly speaking, as a sitcom, *My Own Swordsman* rarely appeared a character that made everyone discuss its character complexity and performance level.

A group of magazine media such as *Jump Up* also published many commentary articles to write about the character Tong Xiangyu.

Everyone in the industry was saying that perhaps the character Tong Xiangyu would create a history of sitcoms, allowing a sitcom actress to win the Best Actress award in mainstream awards.

However, the most critical thing is, can Lu Yan He win the first Best Screenwriter award for a TV series by virtue of this *My Own Swordsman*?

However, some people also asked, why did Lu Yan He not appear when *My Own Swordsman* was so popular?

Waiting until *My Own Swordsman* was broadcast to the 14th episode, only 4 episodes away from the end of the first season, all the crew members of *My Own Swordsman* attended a party together—screenwriter Lu Yan He was still absent. Many media who didn't know the situation directly asked with big headlines: Where did Lu Yan He go?

As this topic climbed to the hot search, Chen Ziyan made a response: Lu Yan He is filming abroad.

Many of his fans knew that Lu Yan He took a foreign movie.

However, the information about this movie was still kept secret.

Whether it was the director or the theme, it hadn't been officially exposed.

Therefore, the attention this movie received before wasn't very big.

Until now, under the heat of the show *My Own Swordsman*, the news of Lu Yan He going abroad to film had spread widely.

When Yan Liang participated in a brand activity, he was also asked by reporters.

"Yan Liang, regarding Lu Yan He taking a foreign movie, do you know what kind of movie it is?"

Yan Liang was stunned for a moment before saying with a smile: "I know, but I need to keep it secret for him and can't tell you."

It was also very honest.

After the activity ended, Yan Liang sent a message to Lu Yan He: Now many media in China are paying attention to what kind of foreign movie you took?

Lu Yan He: Many media had actually posted it before, but everyone really didn't know what the situation of the movie was.

Yan Liang: When are you planning to announce more news?

Lu Yan He: This depends on the arrangement of the production crew, because this movie is basically impossible to be released in China, so there will definitely be no relevant promotional arrangements in China.

Yan Liang: Ah, also, it's a pity that it can't be released in China.

Lu Yan He: It's okay. Those who are interested in this movie can still see it by relying on our powerful ability to find resources that we have been trained in since childhood.

Yan Liang: Haha, that's also true. ===== CHAPTER 519 =====