Chapter 8

Cao Yang really had no choice. Li Xiaoran hugged him and wouldn't let go. No matter what he said, it was useless; she just cried.

He vaguely felt, did something go wrong with the Acting Experience?

After much persuasion, he finally got Ding Jiali to pull her away. Cao Yang asked her to send Li Xiaoran back to her room first, and then hinted for her to find out what the situation was.

It's impossible to film today.

What are you all looking at? Work's over!

In Cao Yang's suite, he and Tian Zhuangzhuang were smoking gloomily, waiting for Ding Jiali's news.

After about an hour, there was a knock on the door.

Cao Yang ran to open the door in one stride.

Ding Jiali came in, first glanced at Tian Zhuangzhuang, then looked at Cao Yang, her expression somewhat intriguing.

"Sister Jiali, what's going on? Did you find out clearly?"

Cao Yang asked impatiently.

Tian Zhuangzhuang also looked over curiously.

Ding Jiali first coughed softly, then glanced at Cao Yang again, fiercely spitting in her heart—she had never seen such a ruthless director. Was that experiencing life?

How could he treat an actor like that? He wasn't even afraid of something happening to her. He really wasn't human.

"Cao Dao, it might be that you let her experience life... too much. She's deep in the role and can't get out."

Ding Jiali was vague. She originally wanted to denounce him directly, but after all, he is the director, so she gave him some face.

"Eh, she's in the role?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang was somewhat enlightened; no wonder she was so abnormal.

Cao Yang was different. Hearing the words "in the role," his heart skipped a beat, and he thought of the Acting Experience.

When the Acting Experience wasn't stacked, Li Xiaoran's state was already about to collapse, very sensitive and fragile. But in this state, he didn't know if it could be filmed well, so to be safe, he added the Acting Experience.

Is this a case of a patient who is too weak taking medicine that is too strong, going a bit too far?

"What did she say?"

"From what I hear, she might have brought herself into the female lead. She feels that she is waiting for you abroad, and now that she has finally waited for you, she is a bit out of control."

Cao Yang thought for a moment, frowned, and asked: "That's not right. If she's too deep in the role and brought herself into the female lead, she should also like Old Tian. Old Tian is the one playing the philandering director."

Ding Jiali opened her mouth, held it for a long time, and came up with: "She might feel that you are the director of this play, so you have more sense of substitution, substituting you."

If Tian Zhuangzhuang weren't a big director, there was a sentence she almost blurted out: if she were in the role, comparing Tian Zhuangzhuang and Cao Yang, she would also substitute the younger and more handsome Cao Yang.

"Sister Jiali, please take her around Qingdao these two days, contact more people, go to lively places, and play some amusement facilities. Also, tell her this is acting, don't get trapped too deep, and don't let her watch movies or listen to songs anymore."

"Okay, Cao Dao."

Ding Jiali glanced at Cao Yang, feeling a bit strange in her heart. She had seen people in the role before, but it was really rare to see someone so deep that they shouted "I love you" in public.

Did the two of them have something going on before?

When only Cao Yang and Tian Zhuangzhuang were left in the room, both were a bit depressed.

"How many days do you plan to stop?" Old Tian asked.

Cao Yang thought for a moment: "Let's set it for three days first. There are a few empty shots of scenery; you take people and find time to shoot them. I'll see how she is doing."

Old Tian nodded, hesitated for a moment, and said: "As a director, it's a good thing for an actor to be in the role; it's more natural and smooth when acting. But some things are too much, so you must grasp the degree. It's troublesome if something happens."

"I know, Brother, I will pay attention."

This damn useless system, who knew it would be so strong, knocking someone silly all of a sudden. Cao Yang actually understood in his heart that this wasn't caused by a single thing. If he had only let Li Xiaoran experience it for a month before, without adding those days later, she wouldn't have been so deep in the role.

Sigh, a mistake, I'll definitely change it next time.

Two days later, Cao Yang went to see Li Xiaoran. The latter was obviously much better. At least when she saw Cao Yang, she didn't pounce on him, and she could communicate normally, only occasionally her eyes still carried some unspeakable meaning.

Before Cao Yang left, he pondered and specifically mentioned: "Xiaoran, I'm already married. Forget me."

He saw Li Xiaoran tremble, her eyes began to turn red, and Cao Yang quickly got the hell out. It seems she is still in the role.

With Li Xiaoran's current state in the role, don't think about getting out in a short time. If she can recover within half a year, it's considered her willpower is strong.

Now, either change the female lead or find a way to continue filming.

Cao Yang's method is: don't give Li Xiaoran room for fantasy. Although it's a bit ruthless, although it's a bit cruel, it's better than doing nothing.

Another day passed, and the film resumed shooting.

On the set, everyone gathered together, still unable to stop muttering in their hearts.

!

These past few days, they also roughly understood the cause of the matter. They had seen people in the role more or less, but it was really rare to see someone so deep.

Everyone was still worried about whether the female lead would make a scene again. Who knew that after a few shots, everyone's eyes changed.

Li Xiaoran's female lead was hesitant, helpless, sad, and expectant. The progression, transition, control, and restraint of so many emotions didn't look like acting at all; it was like filming a documentary of the female lead.

In the following days, especially the scene where Li Xiaoran and Ding Jiali were on the balcony, the transition of emotions was simply textbook-level.

After a few days of getting along, whether it was the crew staff or the Beijing Film Academy students who came to the crew for practice, their attitude towards Li Xiaoran changed 180 degrees.

People with strength will be respected wherever they go.

Li Xiaoran is now that person with strength, and extraordinary strength at that.

Except for a few shots that were re-shot due to various accidents, most of Li Xiaoran's shots were one-take passes.

Now the people on the crew secretly call Li Xiaoran "Li One-Take."

Even Old Tian privately muttered to Cao Yang: "Cao Yang, I've had an eye-opening feeling these past few days. You don't know, I really don't understand, but I'm still greatly shocked! Logically speaking, being too deep in the role is not a good thing because she can't distinguish, the sense of camera is very poor, and emotions are difficult to control."

Maybe feeling that his words didn't express his meaning, Old Tian reorganized his language and continued: "Strictly speaking, being deep in the role is a wrong expression. She will only be unable to distinguish her own role because the movie is still being filmed. What she is in the role of is just the character, not the plot.

This is fundamentally different from the plot the director wants to film. Being too deep in the role, in most cases, leads to overacting, which is completely different from Li Xiaoran."

Unable to help but slap his own thigh, Old Tian sighed: "Tsk tsk, this Li Xiaoran is really damn weird. It feels like she walked out of the movie and completely overlaps with the female lead we want to film!"

Then, he had an expression of "I didn't understand, but I was greatly shocked."

You didn't understand, and I didn't understand either!

At this time, Cao Yang seriously suspected that Li Xiaoran's so-called Acting Experience was just letting her experience a life scene similar to the movie plot.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be so fitting.

When Li Xiaoran's spirit was at its most fragile, letting her experience an experience similar to the movie plot—it is estimated that whoever it was would remember it in their heart, unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.

This kind of thing is too dangerous. Cao Yang reminded himself again: next time he films a movie, if he wants to add Acting Experience to a character, he must never make people mentally fragile and almost collapse again.

The combination of the two is simply too terrifying. Is there any acting better than the female lead acting as herself?

(End of chapter)