Chapter 146: Li Xiaoran's Strategy

Li Xiaoran had put in hard work analyzing the role of Pei Rong; she wanted to suppress that vixen during filming, preferably blowing her to pieces.

Cao Yang's coaching was one aspect, but Li Xiaoran's own understanding was another.

In Li Xiaoran's view, the character of Pei Rong was not a saint-like figure; she would get angry, jealous, lose her temper, and also wanted to define Xiao Wei to get rid of her.

However, Xiao Wei was a demon, and even with the help of Pang Yong, the demon hunter Xia Bing, and Xia Houxiang, they still had no way to deal with Xiao Wei.

Pei Rong had resisted, but failed.

Pei Rong was a scheming person; she clearly suspected Xiao Wei was a demon, but she still persuaded Pang Yong to stay and accompany her to find evidence, preparing to expose Xiao Wei's true face.

She used Pang Yong; didn't she know this would put Pang Yong in danger?

She knew, but she didn't hesitate.

Li Xiaoran felt that to play Pei Rong well, she needed to grasp the degree, so as to make the character's personality distinct.

She couldn't be played as a saint-like virtuous wife and mother, nor as a villain who would stop at nothing to achieve her goals.

At critical moments, Pei Rong could sacrifice herself to protect everyone in the city; this was a shining point.

As long as it was within this guideline, she could be jealous, eat vinegar, and could also temporarily accept Xiao Wei and allow Wang Sheng to take her as a concubine when she discovered Wang Sheng had special feelings for Xiao Wei.

Li Xiaoran was acting according to this standard.

She played a standard little woman vividly, with both kindness and jealousy.

When Xiao Wei was just rescued by Wang Sheng, the Pei Rong she played had compassion, caring for this poor woman and treating her gently.

When she discovered Xiao Wei had "improper" thoughts about Wang Sheng, the Pei Rong played by Li Xiaoran became jealous, slightly targeting Xiao Wei, with many sarcastic and squeezing words.

When acting out the scenes where Pei Rong suspected Xiao Wei was a demon, she became the same as before, no longer targeting Xiao Wei, and her words became gentle again.

As filming progressed, Cao Yang was surprisingly shocked to find that among these actors, Li Xiaoran's acting had the strongest sense of layering.

Although her acting wasn't as natural as it was in *Night by the Seaside* after adding the immersion experience, her acting in this movie could hold its own against anyone she played against, and sometimes could even suppress Duan Yihong and Chen Kun!

Only Gao Yuanyuan could compare to Li Xiaoran when acting out jealousy, but at other times, she was also not up to it.

Because Li Xiaoran and Gao Yuanyuan had many scenes together, Cao Yang could see that Gao Yuanyuan was being suppressed by Li Xiaoran.

Xiao Wei's changes were also divided into several stages.

Wang Sheng could be used as the point for these changes.

Initially, Xiao Wei was only slightly interested in Wang Sheng, who "saved" her; this didn't involve feelings.

At this time, Xiao Wei should be curious and indifferent to worldly affairs; she could order the lizard demon to kill and take hearts at will.

Gao Yuanyuan could play this stage of Xiao Wei very well, and her pure and innocent face played no small part in this.

When filming scenes related to this stage, Gao Yuanyuan could play against Li Xiaoran without being suppressed; her face was too suitable for this stage of Xiao Wei, which could invisibly add a lot of points.

The second stage was the stage where Xiao Wei was truly interested in Wang Sheng. At this time, she hadn't thought about replacing Pei Rong as Mrs. Wang, but she didn't mind being Wang Sheng's concubine.

This stage required emotional changes from the first stage, but Gao Yuanyuan didn't show it, or rather, it wasn't obvious.

That is, when filming scenes for this stage, Gao Yuanyuan would be suppressed by Li Xiaoran.

The third stage: Xiao Wei fell in love with Wang Sheng and wanted to replace Pei Rong as Mrs. Wang.

This stage belonged to the "jealousy" stage. Gao Yuanyuan's explosive power was amazing; compared to Li Xiaoran, she wouldn't fall behind at all, and their scenes together were very exciting. So much so that the melon-eating crowd, Fan Bingbing, watched with great interest.

The final stage: Xiao Wei completely fell in love with Wang Sheng. After Wang Sheng committed suicide, after Wang Sheng said the three words "I love you," Xiao Wei truly had "humanity," and she chose to sacrifice herself to save everyone.

This required a very strong emotional outburst. Cao Yang chose to film that scene last; he didn't know if Gao Yuanyuan could do it.

Because the movie wasn't filmed in order, others might not have noticed Gao Yuanyuan being suppressed by Li Xiaoran, thinking it was normal.

But as the person who understood this movie the best, how could Cao Yang not have noticed?

To be honest, Gao Yuanyuan's acting was quite good now; even without adding the immersion experience, it was better than Fan Bingbing's.

This was definitely due to the changes brought about by the three immersion experiences during the filming of *Secret Sunshine* earlier; she could subconsciously mobilize emotional changes to deal with different scenes.

Of course, there was a prerequisite for this, which was that she first had to understand what the movie was about and how her character should be played; otherwise, it was very likely to be a mess.

In the end, she hadn't learned how to mobilize emotions freely, only to respond passively after understanding how to play it.

A bit like Duan Yu when he first practiced the Six Meridian Divine Sword.

Li Xiaoran was much better than her; maybe it was time? Or maybe it was comprehension.

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"Cut!"

Whenever it came to filming Xiao Wei's changes in the second stage, Cao Yang had a headache. As a commercial film, Gao Yuanyuan was definitely qualified in this stage and wouldn't make people feel out of character, but he was afraid of comparison.

If people saw that the Cannes Best Actress was suppressed by the Berlin Best Actress, it would be a huge blow not only to the movie but also to Gao Yuanyuan.

A large part of the movie's appeal was on Xiao Wei; if Gao Yuanyuan was suppressed, the movie would also be criticized.

Coaching was already useless; he didn't know how many times he had coached her.

Did he really have to add an immersion experience for her?

"Sorry, sorry everyone, excuse me, I'll treat everyone to a late-night snack later."

Gao Yuanyuan bowed slightly to the surrounding staff, nodding and apologizing repeatedly.

Even though she had become a Cannes Best Actress, Gao Yuanyuan was still the same as before, very polite when filming. As long as it was because of her that they had to NG, she would apologize to the staff.

It's just that before, she would only say sorry repeatedly, but now she could naturally say she would treat everyone to a late-night snack.

This was the change brought about by different incomes; her current endorsement fee was higher than International Zhang's, belonging to the highest tier among domestic actresses. After all, a Cannes Best Actress was unique.

"What a vixen, pretending to be innocent and pitiful, only knowing how to buy people's hearts, I spit!"

Li Xiaoran cursed Gao Yuanyuan in her heart and felt some hidden excitement.

"Little thing, still a Cannes Best Actress, aren't you still being crushed by my acting? Later, I must perform extraordinarily well, perform even better, and make this vixen lose all face."

"Sorry Cao Dao, I know, changes are needed, it's my fault."

Gao Yuanyuan hurriedly apologized to Cao Yang again, but only Cao Yang could hear the change in her tone; she intentionally emphasized the words "Cao Dao."

Isn't this acting quite good? Why couldn't she perform the emotional changes in the second stage?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 147 =====