Chapter 11: Twists and Turns

Chen Er sighed after listening: "Senior Huang Lei is really good! I heard that the academy never lends cameras to us students."

Wu Shixian patted Chen Er on the shoulder: "First you have to conquer Huang Lei with your talent; otherwise, I don't think even he would necessarily be willing to make an exception."

Hearing this, Chen Er also nodded silently; it seemed he couldn't just study foolishly after entering school; he had to accumulate inspiration and creation from now on. With a classmate and roommate like Wu Yuchen beside him, Chen Er was naturally encouraged and spurred on.

At this time, Wu Shixian asked Wu Yuchen again: "Three important roles have been settled, but what about the female driver? Do you have any clues?"

For this female lead, Wu Yuchen's requirements were: have appearance, temperament cannot be weak, have acting skills.

Since she would be violated by robbers, it was naturally because she was beautiful.

At the same time, she could finally take everyone on the bus to be buried with her, showing that she had a fierce temperament inside, so she couldn't be weak in temperament.

Acting skills didn't need to be mentioned; the female driver was a core figure, and the higher the acting skills, the better.

If Huang Lei was willing to join the crew, Wu Yuchen could also agree to let Sun Li be the female lead.

Anyway, with Huang Lei in the crew, there was no need to worry about the usage time of these devices; letting him personally coach Sun Li, Wu Yuchen could accept it.

But now that Huang Lei hadn't come in, Wu Yuchen didn't consider the freshmen.

Thinking of this, Wu Yuchen glanced at Wu Shixian: "Have some clues; there is a girl in the sophomore acting class of the Central Academy of Drama who is not bad."

The actress who played the female driver in the original version was Duan Long's classmate, Gong Beibi, who was in the sophomore acting class of the Central Academy of Drama at this time. At the same time, she was also this Fatty Wu's wife, who tied the knot because of shooting *Bus 44*.

Since then, Gong Beibi had simply become Wu Shixian's designated female lead, and the female lead of *Waiting Alone* was also her, and her acting skills were quite in place.

Now Wu Yuchen could treat her as a standard of measurement.

Among their class, only Little Tao Hong was better than her, but Little Tao Hong, sigh...

Considering the juniors of the Central Academy of Drama, Zhu Yuanyuan and Liu Mintao—eliminate Liu Mintao first; her face was the bitter face of being weak and bullied, and she later always played the role of a bullied person in bitter dramas.

Zhu Yuanyuan, well, not as suitable as Gong Beibi.

The girls in the senior class of the Central Academy of Drama were also not suitable; one of them was Hu Jun's wife, who acted in plays.

Wu Yuchen didn't consider the Tao Jingying Academy side; it wasn't that he didn't save face for his alma mater, but he subconsciously felt that they were a notch lower in acting skills.

Therefore, the candidate he temporarily placed in the first place was still this Gong Beibi; as for her marriage with Fatty Wu, maybe because of himself, it could be advanced a few years?

The next day after class, Wu Yuchen was called over by Huang Lei.

"I helped you borrow the camera in my own name; when do you plan to use it?"

Wu Yuchen calculated the preparation work and said: "How about this Friday?"

"Okay, come get it then; make sure to protect it well!" Huang Lei exhorted.

"Senior, don't worry; I guarantee it will be returned in perfect condition!" Wu Yuchen patted his chest.

Huang Lei nodded, surprised in his heart that this kid moved so fast, and then continued:

"As for the post-production, come find me after you shoot the film.

Listening to you say it can start shooting this Friday, are the people basically found? Who are they?"

Wu Yuchen told the truth:

"The male lead is Duan Long from the sophomore acting class of the Central Academy of Drama, and the robber is Sun Honglei, a freshman at the Central Academy of Drama. I plan to find Gong Beibi, a sophomore at the Central Academy of Drama, for the female driver."

Huang Lei's eyebrows twisted directly upon hearing this, and he waved his hand to interrupt:

"Wait!

You, you found all of them from the Central Academy of Drama?

You didn't find a single one from the Tao Jingying Academy?!"

Wu Yuchen saw Huang Lei's expression and felt it was a bit bad, hurriedly explaining:

"Senior, I went to find Senior Fu Dalong from our sophomore class first, but he went out to take a job and isn't here!

So I only..."

"Then you can't leave not a single role for our Tao Jingying Academy people!

You call me senior, and I helped you borrow the camera and equipment, and you're doing this!

What, do you look down on your seniors and senior sisters?"

Huang Lei himself was from the 90th class acting department of the Tao Jingying Academy; after graduating last year, he was admitted to the master's degree of the Tao Jingying Academy and served as a teaching assistant for acting teaching, so whether it was as a student or a teacher, he had a very strong sense of belonging to the Tao Jingying Academy.

Wu Yuchen muttered: "Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige don't they also love using people from the Central Academy of Drama..."

"Hey! Don't learn the bad habits if you don't learn the good ones!" Huang Lei stared and scolded, his tone still carrying a bit of anger.

However, Huang Lei also knew that the basic skills of the Central Academy of Drama actors were indeed good, and it was understandable for directors to choose the most suitable actors for their works.

But he was a teacher at the Tao Jingying Academy now, so he naturally had to consider and fight for training opportunities for his own students; if the directors of their own school always didn't give their own people opportunities and always used those from the Central Academy of Drama, wouldn't the gap get bigger and bigger?

"Those two, what Long, what Sun, I won't care about the ones you've already talked to, but you must pick one of our own for this female lead!"

Wu Yuchen couldn't help but show a bitter smile upon hearing this; this was really a twist, disrupting his plan.

But Wu Yuchen understood that standing in Huang Lei's position, it was understandable for him to fight for opportunities for his students, and it was indeed a bit unreasonable for him to use the Tao Jingying Academy's equipment to shoot a film but not pick a Tao Jingying Academy actor.

He quickly went through it in his mind.

Yuan Li, a senior, had acting skills, and her image seemed okay, but this woman was a bit crazy, and Wu Yuchen didn't want to have too much contact.

Xu Jinglei, a junior—uh, this talented person's acting skills definitely weren't enough, and her image and temperament weren't suitable...

Liu Lin, the one who played the sister-in-law Dehua in *All Quiet in Peking*, actually had good acting skills, but her image was poor. She also participated in last year's film *The Phantom Lover*, playing a student; she was the kind with a big face, and she was still a bit chubby at this time—simply put, not beautiful enough.

Then Wu Yuchen asked Huang Lei: "Senior, how about I go find Senior sister Liu Zi from the junior class?"

Liu Zi's acting skills were okay, her appearance was also okay, and her temperament was considered suitable; Wu Yuchen felt it should be enough.

Huang Lei was silent for a moment upon hearing this, slightly embarrassed: "She went out to shoot a film."

This was also a difference between the Tao Jingying Academy and the Central Academy of Drama; in this day and age, the teachers at the Central Academy of Drama checked very strictly. If the crew and script weren't good, some wouldn't give you leave even if you were a junior.

But the Tao Jingying Academy had basically relaxed since the sophomore year; if students had opportunities, they would let them go, and some could even go out as freshmen. However, this also caused many of the films shot by Tao Jingying Academy students during school to be rotten dramas that didn't even have a chance to be broadcast.

Both models had pros and cons; the students of the Central Academy of Drama had more solid basic skills in school, but some didn't shoot films for four years of university and were basically delayed; the Tao Jingying Academy students had more opportunities, but they encountered more rotten dramas and were prone to bad habits, so it depended on whether you could train yourself, and facts proved that most didn't train themselves out.

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