Chapter 541: You pull yourself together and film! (7,000-word update!)

"Sister Ziyan, this is not right."

Lu Yan He ultimately did not say to Li Yuefeng what he had originally planned to say.

"Li Yuefeng is participating in the audition normally. Neither of us has seen his audition, nor have we seen anyone else's audition. Just because of our understanding of him, we arbitrarily say he is not suitable for this role. This is not fair."

Lu Yan He shook his head. "No, this is not just unfair; it is that we are too arrogant. Sister Ziyan, if we really think he is not suitable, we should participate in the audition, really sit there, discuss his performance seriously with the production side, discuss the performances of other auditioners, and then discuss the matter on its own merits."

"We shouldn't just deny him based on our own feelings."

Chen Ziyan was silent for a long time on the phone and said: "You are right."

Hearing Chen Ziyan say this, Lu Yan He breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, before he called Chen Ziyan, he was really a bit worried that Chen Ziyan wouldn't agree with his idea.

Chen Ziyan said: "Then... are you deciding to participate in the later auditions for the TV version of *Rouge*?"

"I don't know if I have time later. After all, the filming and promotion of *Friends*, the release and promotion of *The Mist*, and the performance at the Spring Festival Gala—oh, by the way, the Spring Festival Gala side, which song did the director group choose? Why is there no news yet?"

Lu Yan He paused and then said: "After all, I am very busy in the coming time. I don't know if I can participate in the audition casting of *Rouge*. Of course, Icefield Video might not want me to participate either. In short, if we want to express our opinion on Li Yuefeng acting as Twelve Young Master, we must participate. Sister Ziyan, you help me communicate with them and see if I have this opportunity to participate. If not, I will treat it as God's will, and I will not comment on this matter."

Chen Ziyan laughed.

"Then can I understand it as, if your time happens to be unable to participate in their audition casting, you will not express your opinion on this matter?"

"Am I a bit selfish like this?"

"From a commercial perspective, not necessarily selfish. I also said that in the situation where it is obvious that Li Yuefeng is not suitable for Twelve Young Master, if Icefield Video still chooses him, it shows that he must be the optimal solution in the market."

Chen Ziyan said: "And, you also said that Li Yuefeng cares very much about this role and is determined to win it. To be honest, after hearing you tell me this, my attitude has also loosened. To put it bluntly, our industry is an industry that can never predict the future. Unexpected things happen every day. Projects that everyone doesn't look favorably upon become hits overnight, and big projects with big stars and big bets flop into human tragedies. These all exist. Just as you said, we are all judging whether he is suitable for Twelve Young Master based on the prejudices we have formed about Li Yuefeng in the past. Maybe he will exceed all our expectations and bring us a huge surprise."

Lu Yan He: "... We don't have to start deceiving ourselves from this moment. I just feel ashamed, because I thought I was ensuring that the most suitable actor was found for this role, so I didn't hope Li Yuefeng would act. However, I don't know how much effort Li Yuefeng has already put into this show, and how much homework he has done to get this role. I didn't even see his audition, but I concluded that he couldn't do it. I think I am very arrogant, and the attitude he showed toward this show should not be so arrogantly rejected by me."

"OK, I understand, Yan He. What you said actually makes a lot of sense," Chen Ziyan said. "We all have to avoid falling into the trap of empiricism."

"I didn't expect that you could still find time to have dinner with me."

On Wednesday night, Lu Yan He and Huang Kairen had dinner together.

This dinner was arranged by Lu Yan He and Huang Kairen.

After finishing *A Needle in the Blood*, Huang Kairen was filming the later parts in the *My Own Swordsman* crew. Because of a work that had been scheduled long ago, Huang Kairen had to ask for leave for these two days, so Lu Yan He had the opportunity to sit here and eat with Huang Kairen tonight.

Lu Yan He said with a smile: "Actually, Monday to Thursday are my easiest days. Filming time, there won't be any need for interpersonal communication."

Huang Kairen: "After *Friends* finishes airing, when this wave of heat passes, the situation can be relatively better."

The heat in the entertainment industry is actually like this.

Whenever a show like *Friends* appears—a hit that can be called a phenomenal show—not only does the circle chase it, but capital outside the circle also chases it.

The appearance of a show like *Friends* is a carnival for the entire film and television circle—because the number of people holding checks to find them for investment will definitely increase.

Lu Yan He said: "I must say, I have never encountered so many people holding checks. As long as I am willing, no matter what I film, they are willing to invest."

Huang Kairen said with a smile: "If you said this to people in other film and television companies, it would cause public anger. Every time I see those people in film and television companies, they are always complaining about how hard it is to find people to invest in this day and age, and it's never as good as those coal bosses twenty years ago."

"Haha," Lu Yan He looked at Huang Kairen. "Brother Huang, I have a matter recently that is bothering me, and I need to hear your thoughts."

"Hmm?" Huang Kairen put down his chopsticks in surprise. "Rare, you still have things that need to hear my thoughts?"

"I'm not that arrogant, feeling that I can believe in my own judgment and go my own way," Lu Yan He smiled and told Huang Kairen about the matter with Li Yuefeng.

"Brother Huang, you have acted as Twelve Young Master. You are one of the people who understand this role best. I want to ask for your opinion."

Huang Kairen obviously didn't expect that Lu Yan He came to him for this matter.

"Oh, Li Yuefeng?"

Huang Kairen took a deep breath.

"This will require me to think about it carefully."

"You don't have anything else tonight, right?" Lu Yan He asked with a smile. "I was also planning to invite you to watch a movie that is currently showing after dinner."

"OK, I don't have any other arrangements tonight," Huang Kairen nodded. "I can understand your first reaction. Just now, after you finished telling me about this, my first reaction was exactly the same as yours."

Huang Kairen took a deep breath and said: "But I think you definitely aren't regretting the decision not to interfere with who Icefield Video chooses to act as Twelve Young Master."

"Right, I don't regret it. Actually, I think my decision not to interfere is correct," Lu Yan He waved his hands. "I haven't questioned this matter."

Huang Kairen: "Let me guess, you are... not knowing to what extent you should trust your intuitive judgment?"

Lu Yan He looked at Huang Kairen in shock.

"Brother Huang, I must say, this sentence you just said made me feel for a moment that you were possessed by Sister Zixing. Only she would see through the problems I didn't even realize myself."

Huang Kairen laughed.

"Do you know why I said that?"

Huang Kairen's eyes made Lu Yan He show an look of disbelief.

"It wouldn't be... Brother Huang, don't tell me Sister Zixing discussed this problem with you," Lu Yan He asked. "Is this what Sister Zixing said?"

"She said you would face this problem sooner or later. She also said that this is a problem that all talented creators will inevitably face," Huang Kairen shrugged. "Of course, fortunately, she thinks I will never face such a problem."

Lu Yan He: "This is too divine. How could you guys happen to talk about this?"

"Because we were discussing how to judge the quality of a project from its early stages," Huang Kairen said. "We discussed it many times, and every time we would argue. In fact, we even tried to summarize some rules like those big data experts, to find some paths that can be copied and repeated. This is very bullshit. You don't need to point out my problem; I know it's very bullshit myself."

"Then, we talked about you. After all, you are the only legend who has never missed a shot, and you are not a person with low output. Every film and television project you participate in is equivalent to two or three years of mine," Huang Kairen said. "Why can you find the projects that will succeed so accurately every time? The ones you created yourself, the ones you led yourself—that's fine. However, you have also cooperated with many different people on many different projects."

Lu Yan He didn't know what to say either.

Just as Huang Kairen said, maybe this is the most incredible thing about him.

If it is said that the works he brought are works that have already been verified in another space-time, and they still achieved success in this world, it is completely understandable. Besides them, every work he participated in in this world also achieved success, which is indeed incredible.

Are there rules to look for?

He cooperated with big directors like Luo Yuzhong and Chen Lingling, and also cooperated with new directors like Liu Bige. He also cooperated with Fu Kai, who has filmed many commercial films and filmed art films for the first time.

No rules.

He dare not say how unique his vision is, and all the projects he favored succeeded.

It's really luck.

"I can only say it's luck."

"Yes, and luck... in a sense, for people in our entertainment industry, it is intuition. After watching many works and acting in many works, based on our aesthetics and values, the intuition cultivated," Huang Kairen shrugged. "And I am obviously not good at this, so *Rouge* was rejected by me so many times."

He made a joke about himself.

"But you insisted that I could," Huang Kairen shrugged. "In fact, many projects and many actors were determined by your intuition. You thought Wang Dashan was suitable for *Lost in Journey*, and you believed that Liu Bige's *Late Spring*, even if it was all new people except you, was worth filming."

"But I must say, actually I also took advantage of many people. My first show was taking advantage of you guys, because you made *The Golden Age* successful, so I could be recognized in my first show," Lu Yan He said sincerely. "Actually, many of my projects are not as legendary as others say. They are all according to what the market follows, with big stars like you starring, big directors sitting in town, just because they were all superimposed on me, so it seems I became the one who succeeded 100%."

Lu Yan He is not hypocritical. The directors he cooperated with, except Liu Bige and Bai Jingnian, who are not big directors who have already achieved fame? And the actors he cooperated with, not to mention, except *Friends* and *Late Spring*, every show has big names topping him, including *Three Mountains*, which is also topped by Director Wang Zhong.

Lu Yan He knows that he actually took a lot of advantage in a sense.

"I don't deny this, but no matter what, the market's positioning of you now is an incredible miracle," Huang Kairen said. "Now in everyone's eyes, any project you do will succeed, regardless of subject matter, regardless of form, and regardless of actors. But the more this is the case, the easier it is for you to fall into confusion, right?"

Lu Yan He was silent.

"When the whole world opposes you, you can think clearly about what you want and what you insist on. But when the whole world holds checks and believes in your judgment, you hesitate, and even dare not, retreating."

Huang Kairen's eyes were exceptionally serious. In his eyes, there was also tolerance for this junior who always called him Brother Huang.

"Is your idea necessarily correct?"

"Is your judgment necessarily accurate?"

"Is your attitude necessarily the most worthy of recognition?"

Huang Kairen said with a smile, "Zixing has always been very concerned about you. She said she has known you since you just started, watching you walk to today step by step, especially in the current situation, cooking oil with fire, the fire is too strong, but you happen to be a person who was very good at reflection and self-examination at eighteen. The fire is too strong, for you, it is a burden."

Lu Yan He sighed: "Sometimes I also think, if I had Li Zhibai's personality, it would be good."

"Believe me, if you were Li Zhibai's personality, you couldn't achieve today's achievements. An actor, a creator, if he is not sensitive, not emotional, not back and forth, hesitant, how can he understand the complexity of another person, and how can he capture those most subtle, subtle parts in life?" Huang Kairen said, "You said you envy Li Zhibai's personality, I also want to say, I envy your personality very much. I am not, so, I may only be a second-rate actor forever."

Lu Yan He quickly waved his hands.

"How could it be."

"After I finished acting in *Rouge*, I accepted this point," Huang Kairen said. "Actually, this is also a good thing. After knowing the gap between myself and the top actors in acting talent, I won't have too high requirements and expectations for myself."

He smiled slightly.

"Once I met Jiang Yuqian backstage at an event, we chatted. My state was unexpectedly very similar to hers. But after recognizing our limitations as actors in acting talent, actually, it wasn't as lost as imagined. On the contrary, I feel that to some extent, I am more diligent, because I know more clearly in which direction I should work, and I also know more clearly where I need to work."

Lu Yan He didn't expect to have such a conversation with Huang Kairen tonight.

"So, back to the topic, you said Li Yuefeng is determined to win the role of Twelve Young Master. No matter whether he gets this role in the end, I believe this process may be more precious to him than whether he acts in this role. Our batch of actors hasn't experienced the growth process of those actors ten or twenty years ago. We were created by the star-making method. Audition? I can say something unpleasant. Our batch of actors, maybe from debut to now, the number of auditions does not exceed ten times, because the environment we are in doesn't have such a concept, and it can't survive."

"Li Yuefeng can encounter such a role that makes him fight like a chicken blood to prepare for the audition, to fight for it, like a real actor, instead of like before, by the brokerage company and the agent to public relations, to negotiate, directly holding the contract and script back, and sending him to the set on the day of filming." Huang Kairen said, "Speaking of which, it's quite pathetic. At least in my opinion, this is the most precious thing he has gained as an actor."

Lu Yan He took a deep breath.

"OK, I really learned a lesson," he said.

Huang Kairen waved his hands.

This topic ended here.

Huang Kairen asked: "Which movie are you going to take me to watch later?"

"Do you have any you want to watch? Actually, I haven't watched any of the movies showing recently."

"Me too," Huang Kairen said. "Then let's talk after we finish eating."

"Fine," Lu Yan He nodded.

In the film and television industry, there has actually been a saying that actors' emotions must be protected.

Because expressing emotions is the actor's job.

And once the actor's own emotional state is wrong, it is almost impossible to deceive the camera.

On the filming set on Thursday, almost everyone could see that Yin Xincheng's state was wrong.

The filming of the previous few weeks had been very smooth.

But today's filming all morning, Yin Xincheng frequently had problems, stuck, forgot lines, unable to enter the state, etc.

Of course, actors are also people, and it is impossible to keep their state in a very good position all the time.

But it is not common to be as bad as Yin Xincheng.

The most critical thing is that this mode of filming while airing doesn't give Yin Xincheng time to adjust.

"Hey, Xincheng, pull yourself together," Bai Jingnian walked to Yin Xincheng after another NG and patted his face gently.

Yin Xincheng also knew that his state was very wrong. He lowered his head in self-blame and disappointment and apologized to everyone.

Other actors looked at each other.

But the actor's state is wrong, and no one can force him to change it immediately.

Bai Jingnian could only let the crew rest for ten minutes before continuing to film.

Lu Yan He and Yan Liang returned to their lounge.

"Yin Xincheng is a bit strange today."

"When I met him this morning, he was absent-minded, and I don't know what happened," Yan Liang said.

Yan Liang guessed again: "Could it be the influence of the relationship exposure recently?"

"Shouldn't be, right?" Lu Yan He said. "This matter didn't cause much negative impact. Could it be that once the relationship was exposed, really many of his fans unfollowed him?"

"Haven't heard," Yan Liang shook his head. "Do we want to find him? Ask him?"

Lu Yan He nodded.

So, the two of them, who originally planned to return to the lounge to rest, turned to Yin Xincheng's lounge.

Once there, Zhan Yun and Bo Jin were also there.

"Why are you guys here too?" Yan Liang looked at them in surprise.

"Same idea as you guys," Zhan Yun said.

"Then... where is Yin Xincheng?"

"Just went out to answer the phone," Zhan Yun asked. "Didn't you guys meet him outside?"

Lu Yan He and Yan Liang shook their heads.

They waited in the room for ten minutes, and suddenly someone knocked on the door.

It was to remind them that the scene was ready, and please ask the actors to go back and prepare to continue filming.

"Isn't Yin Xincheng with you guys?"

They shook their heads.

Lu Yan He and the others returned to the scene full of doubts, but Yin Xincheng was missing.

"Where did he go? Doesn't anyone know?" Bai Jingnian was a bit irritable, and his tone was much higher.

The filming all morning was not smooth, and now the actor is missing. The pressure is on top of his head, and it is very hard to endure.

However, the worst part of a sitcom is right here. Many shots have many actors in the same frame, and if one is missing, it cannot be filmed.

Lu Yan He and the others could only wait on the scene.

He tried to call Yin Xincheng, but no one answered.

"Did something happen to him?" After another ten minutes, after no one in the crew found Yin Xincheng, Bo Jin asked with some worry, "I went to his room with Zhan Yun to find him. He was answering the phone, and his expression wasn't very relaxed."

"He is indeed a bit strange today."

At this time, someone came over and said that the security guard at the door saw Yin Xincheng drive away more than ten minutes ago.

When Bai Jingnian heard this, he threw the script in his hand.

Lu Yan He was also a bit confused.

What happened?

Yan Liang whispered: "Why do I feel like something happened? But I just searched online, and there is no news about him."

Lu Yan He: "Something must have happened, otherwise he wouldn't have left without saying a word. The problem now is, can we film today?"

Everyone could only wait on the spot.

Lu Yan He waited in the lounge for about half an hour, and Hu Siwei and Bai Jingnian came to knock on the door together.

Lu Yan He opened the door for them.

"Did you contact him?"

Hu Siwei shook his head, "His agent went to find him."

Lu Yan He sighed.

"What should we do now?"

"Wait until he is found, or adjust the script," Hu Siwei said. "Change his scenes to others."

Lu Yan He reacted, "Oh, so you came over to ask if I can change the script?"

Bai Jingnian nodded and said: "In this mode of filming while airing, we can't keep waiting."

"Yes," Lu Yan He took a deep breath, thought for a while, and said: "I'll try to change it. It's best to find him as soon as possible."

Bai Jingnian sneered: "Even if he is found, with his state this morning, I don't know if he can film."

Changing the script temporarily is not an easy job.

Lu Yan He opened his laptop, took out the script for the two episodes to be filmed this week, read it from beginning to end, and thought for a long time.

Lunch was also brought to the room by Wang Biao.

At 1:30 PM, Lu Yan He changed a draft and sent it to Bai Jingnian and Hu Siwei.

At 2:00 PM, Yin Xincheng was brought back to the set by his agent.

His eyes were red, and he was lost and devastated.

Lu Yan He looked at Yin Xincheng in surprise, wanting to know what happened to him.

Zhan Yun came behind him, sighed, and whispered: "His girlfriend broke up with him."

"Ah?" Lu Yan He was stunned, very shocked.

Just exposed the relationship, and broke up?

"Why?"

Zhan Yun: "Don't know. It is said that the breakup was proposed last night. Yin Xincheng disappeared suddenly this morning just to find his girlfriend."

Lu Yan He was silent.

"Can you film?" Bai Jingnian asked Yin Xincheng in a deep voice, suppressing his temper.

Yin Xincheng shook his head, his eyes empty, "Director, sorry, I can't film now."

"Fine," Bai Jingnian nodded. "Then you can go."

He turned to Hu Siwei and said: "Print out the newly changed script, let all the actors familiarize themselves with it, and we will start filming in an hour."

Yin Xincheng's agent's face turned green.

"Director, Director, Xincheng's emotions are very unstable now. I will do his work. Please give me a little more time. One hour, I guarantee he can return to the filming scene!"

"We have waited for him all morning, we don't have time to wait!" Bai Jingnian roared.

This sentence was actually roared for Yin Xincheng to hear.

However, Yin Xincheng was indifferent, as if a walking corpse.

Lu Yan He looked at Yin Xincheng in disbelief. This scene made him feel unbelievable.

Not long ago, Yin Xincheng was drunk and excited and out of control because they could reunite and film together.

Why does he suddenly not care about all this now?

He could understand Yin Xincheng's bad state because of the breakup, but he couldn't understand why he left the whole crew behind and disappeared suddenly just because of this?

Why?

Just at this moment, Bo Jin suddenly walked to Yin Xincheng and said excitedly: "Hey, Yin Xincheng, it's just a breakup, it's not like the end of the world, right?"

Yin Xincheng's eyes were red, and he shook his head, "Sorry."

"What's the use of saying sorry? You hurry up and pull yourself together and film!" ===== CHAPTER 542 =====