Chapter 218: Couldn't Bear the Pressure and Ran Away

Jin Li got half an hour of filming time.

She didn't waste it and decided to watch the old drama bone's performance.

She had watched it before, but couldn't see anything, only feeling that their acting was natural, and couldn't imitate it at all.

But as she deeply experienced the role of Vera, standing in the character's position to feel the seniors' acting, Jin Li instead had a new realization.

It's not that she can't imitate, but if she imitates the old drama bone's performance, she will only imitate a four-unlike.

Because the performance of these people is no longer based on technique, but on emotion. Every performance of the old drama bone is formulated based on the character.

That is, every smile, the demeanor of speaking, tone... are limited to that character.

So even if she forces an imitation, it will only make people feel strange.

Because the old drama bone's performance doesn't belong to technique, but belongs to the understanding of the character, specifically made for the performance of that character.

"Jin Li!"

Ren Zhangtao leaned over and asked curiously: "Do you have any discoveries?"

Jin Li nodded: "I feel I can understand a little bit why the old drama bone would perform like this."

Ren Zhangtao sighed: "You really have a talent for acting. I have watched their performance for so long, but I just can't think of why they would perform like this. I simulated it in my mind, and I could never do it as smoothly as them... This makes me feel a bit of awe, sometimes I don't dare to chat with them."

Jin Li smiled: "It's not that difficult. I stand on the character to understand them. You can also try to substitute yourself as a playboy, stand in the character's vision in the script to look at them, maybe you will have different discoveries."

Ren Zhangtao couldn't help but say: "Jin Li, although I play a playboy who is arrogant and domineering, my real personality is not like this, so you let me substitute, I feel it is a bit difficult."

Jin Li couldn't help but look at him more.

She said calmly: "Then I am a bit helpless."

"Sister Jin Li!" Chen Qin ran over vigorously, forcefully intervening between Jin Li and Ren Zhangtao.

"Come, draw a lot, see what we eat tonight."

Chen Qin took out the lottery bucket, looked at Ren Zhangtao, and silently took out the scriptures, preparing to chant.

Ren Zhangtao's expression paused, and he moved away from Chen Qin for a few steps.

He really didn't want to listen to her chanting anymore!

After Ren Zhangtao left, Chen Qin stopped chanting, but Jin Li was looking at her with great interest, saying: "Are you interested in Taoist scriptures?"

Chen Qin danced with joy: "How to say, I also sold flowers in front of Long Hu Temple before. Influenced by it, I also understand Taoism. I feel that I can look at the scriptures when I am confused, and I feel that it can guide my direction."

Jin Li nodded: "Makes sense, continue chanting."

Chen Qin was stunned: "What?"

Jin Li smiled brightly at her, and drew a lot from the lottery bucket, which read "Steamed Pork with Rice Flour".

She handed it to Chen Qin, "I like to listen, you are right, you can chant to me when you have nothing to do. Maybe if you are pious, the gods will bless you with smooth sailing."

Chen Qin:...

She actually just wanted to drive Ren Zhangtao away, and had no other ideas.

But since Jin Li likes to listen...

A firmness flashed in Chen Qin's eyes. She would chant to her every day when she had nothing to do!

An all-around assistant can satisfy all the customer's needs!

Jin Li's filming was smooth, but Gu Cheng's filming was difficult.

At this time, a week had passed since the first day of filming.

But the heroine playing the high school period—Li Xiue, still couldn't enter the state.

Either she was too scared, making a terrified expression before reaching the horror scene.

Or she was too panicked, as if she was about to cry in the next second.

In order to let her pass that psychological barrier smoothly, Yan Jianqiao could only grind with her again and again.

And very unluckily, although Li Xiue and Gu Cheng didn't have one-on-one scenes in the early stage, Gu Cheng would act as a passerby.

Every shot of her would capture Gu Cheng's back or side face, or an arm, etc.

That meant that when Li Xiue was grinding, Gu Cheng could only accompany her to grind again and again.

Gu Cheng didn't say anything on this side, accompanying calmly.

Instead, his assistant Xiao Tong was a bit dissatisfied, because Gu Cheng had to work overtime to film every time, and his rest time was severely compressed.

Other actors could return to the hotel to rest after filming.

But after Gu Cheng finished filming, he had to rush to the next collective announcement of Sanyuetian.

If the heroine's acting could be a little less dragging, Gu Cheng could get more rest time.

Xiao Tong looked at the increasingly heavy blue-black under his eyes and felt a bit unfair for him.

He complained publicly in the crew many times: "The high school heroine chosen by the director is too unreliable!

It's been a week, and she hasn't finished a big scene in the script. How long has she been stuck in the clown game? At her progress, I'm afraid she won't be able to finish the clown game in a month!"

Xiao Tong is an assistant. Most of the people around him are stars' assistants, or staff who are idle and watch the play.

Because he didn't hide it, it didn't take long for all the staff in the crew to know about Gu Cheng's assistant's dissatisfaction.

They have been in the crew for a long time, and everyone is a human spirit. How could they not hear the wind behind the assistant?

They would never naively think that the assistant's personal behavior had nothing to do with the star.

And in fact, Gu Cheng could still hold on and had the patience to wait.

The one who lost patience was Guangge.

After learning about the very slow progress of the crew from Xiao Tong, Guangge couldn't sit still.

How much money does his own artist make for an announcement?

How much money is that new actor Li Xiue?

Gu Cheng's time is earned by the second. Rest time is a luxury for stars like him who are in the rising period.

He finally managed to save some rest time for Gu Cheng in the crew, but it had to become a whetstone for other actors.

Just ask: Is she worthy?

So Xiao Tong's complaints outside were actually instructed by Guangge.

As for Gu Cheng, his personal opinion seemed less important. Besides being the male lead of this play, he was more a member of the prosperous boy group Sanyuetian.

His personal thoughts were not as important as the team.

According to Tianding Entertainment's concept of cultivating boy groups, every member must make concessions for the team. The entire team is prosperous, so that every member can benefit.

Gu Cheng is like this, Yan Xingdong, Luo Yi, and Chen Lin are also like this.

Originally, this was nothing. Xiao Tong's complaints at most let the crew staff see the wind, and they didn't know how Li Xiue heard the gossip of other crew members, and her psychological pressure increased suddenly.

This was shown in the performance, she looked more nervous!

This scene is Li Xiue playing Li Feifei, curiously following classmates to the venue of the clown game, which is an empty rooftop.

Because she didn't get an admission ticket to watch the clown game, the students guarding the door wouldn't let her in.

Li Xiue had a bright idea and ran to another higher teaching building, using the high rooftop to look at the low rooftop.

When she saw what the so-called clown game was like, she felt a burst of horror from the bottom of her heart to her body, and was shocked by the too stimulating game content to scream!

At this time, Li Xiue had come to the higher rooftop.

On the other side, the actors were also in place on other rooftops, and the crew divided into A and B scenes for filming.

Yan Jianqiao sat in A scene, which is the scene of filming Li Xiue's expression.

Just after filming started, Li Xiue poked her head out, saw the scene below, and couldn't help but scream: "Ah!!"

"Cut!!"

Yan Jianqiao frowned, saying: "You have to wait for them to put the iron crown on their heads before you scream. I don't ask you to time it just right, but you can't be so early. They are only at the stage of slapping."

Li Xiue trembled, and said in a small voice: "I'm sorry, director, I... I'm very sorry."

Yan Jianqiao sighed lightly, "Rest for five minutes, and continue filming later."

Group A rested, but Group B had no problem and could continue filming.

The two scenes didn't need to be filmed at the same time. Post-editing could put them together, but he wanted to film a large frame background.

Putting the two scenes together in the same lens requires a unity.

According to common sense, this kind of filming is actually very simple. The actors only need to make a look, but looking at Li Xiue's appearance now, Yan Jianqiao is a bit suspicious.

Can she really make a look?

A morning of repeated filming, this scene was finally filmed stumbling, and Yan Jianqiao looked at the content in the lens with a very serious expression.

He didn't have any obsession with long and short lenses, and didn't pursue unique and extreme performance effects.

But as a director, he has requirements for the picture. This is his first play, and he participated in the investment.

If Li Xiue performs like this, he feels that the early stage of this play will not be wonderful.

Just when Yan Jianqiao wanted to talk to Li Xiue, Li Xiue walked over with pear blossoms and rain first, lowering her head and sobbing:

"Director, why don't you fire me!"

Yan Jianqiao had a solemn expression: "Do you know what you are talking about? As an actor, you voluntarily give up acting? This is an insult to your career!"

Li Xiue covered her face and cried: "But I really can't film anymore. I, I... Gu Cheng doesn't like my performance either, everyone thinks my acting is bad, delaying the crew's progress, I have a lot of pressure, I can't sleep well every day, I don't want to be like this either!"

Yan Jianqiao: "Gu Cheng?"

What does this have to do with Gu Cheng again?

Listening to Li Xiue finishing half sobbing and half choking, Yan Jianqiao knew that these messages were circulating in the crew.

To be honest, that Xiao Tong was not wrong.

Li Xiue couldn't enter the state, delaying not only Gu Cheng's time, but also the time of all crew members.

But she is a newcomer actor, Yan Jianqiao felt that she was on camera, and there were many places that could be expressed.

He also wanted to dig out unique actors like those famous directors.

So even if the acting was dragging, he taught her tirelessly.

Yan Jianqiao waited for her to stop crying before asking: "So you heard other people's complaints, felt very unwilling, and wanted to leave the crew?"

Li Xiue lowered her head and didn't speak.

Yan Jianqiao said calmly: "I can't understand your thinking. The crew spent a week on you, and everyone's work was delayed. If it was because your acting was not good, everyone wouldn't say anything. You just study hard.

But you are not. You have always been unable to pass the psychological quality. The crew is not a place for playing house. Since you took this play, you have to film it well.

Whether it is filmed well or badly, you take it yourself. I am also under great pressure. I can't go to ask Gu Cheng because of your complaints, and I can't block other people's mouths.

Because in my eyes, this is indeed not slander, but the fact. If you are not convinced, then act well, hold your breath and act, everyone will see your growth."

Li Xiue still lowered her head and didn't speak.

Seeing her like this, Yan Jianqiao couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He thought for the first time, was it wrong to dig out a newcomer, or could a newcomer director not bring a newcomer?

Li Xiue was the heroine of the high school period he personally selected, perfectly matching his imagination of the characters in the script.

Even if the acting was green, because it matched the character, Yan Jianqiao felt that he could try it.

But now, just such a little pressure made her cry, and other staff hadn't started squeezing her yet!

In the end, he still couldn't understand. Could it be that she wanted Gu Cheng to apologize to her?

Yan Jianqiao said indifferently: "You think about it, I will give you a holiday today, don't film first, come back to film tomorrow."

Li Xiue left silently.

Yan Jianqiao sincerely hoped that she could tidy up her state and not be defeated by pressure.

However, the next day—

Li Xiue left the crew!

This news spread, and the crew staff were a bit surprised.

She just ran away like this?

As a newcomer actor, just an art student, she could act with a well-known first-tier star like Gu Cheng. Strictly speaking, Gu Cheng was even her supporting actor, but she gave up just like that!

Yan Jianqiao was so angry that he wanted to call and scold!

But the crew couldn't stop filming because one person was not there. Every day, money had to be burned, so he first let the assistant director urgently film the less important outdoor scenes.

Fortunately, the heroine's scenes in the high school period were not very heavy, and the scenes of other characters also had a lot, which could cope with it.

Xiao Tong learned that Li Xiue had run away, and was speechless. His expression all morning was a bit awkward.

After Gu Cheng finished filming the morning scenes, he rested at noon. Xiao Tong walked to his side quietly and asked carefully: "Gu Ge, did I do something wrong?"

Gu Cheng looked at him, "What did you do wrong."

Xiao Tong didn't notice the change in his tone and said in a low voice: "I shouldn't have spoken ill of Li Xiue behind her back. I didn't expect her psychological endurance to be so poor. She was just complained about a few times, and she couldn't stand it and ran away."

Gu Cheng said calmly: "Running away is not necessarily a bad thing."

Xiao Tong was stunned. ===== CHAPTER 219 =====

Gu Cheng said calmly, "Running away is not necessarily a bad thing."

Xiao Tong could not help but be stunned.