Chapter 529: First Glimmer of Talent

For the Youth Day Gala, the invited guests will primarily be young stars.

This may also be one of the reasons why Ning Dan, this "Variety Show Godmother," could break the rules to become the General Director.

Luo Mo can tell that Ning Dan attaches great importance to this gala.

The level of importance should be no less than her previous focus on "China in the Classics."

This highly capable woman has an extremely strong sense of career ambition, and it is not limited to just making money.

She is a person with ideals and aspirations, and is extremely ambitious.

Everything has a first time; as long as the Youth Day Gala is done well, then perhaps there will be more opportunities and greater possibilities in the future.

And Luo Mo was once her person, an employee under her, who broke through the siege in her talent show while drawing double the salary. Today, one of the honors he holds is—【Holder of the viewership records for multiple large-scale holiday galas】.

He is Ning Dan's greatest source of confidence.

"Run Jie is responsive to my every request; although I can't do the same for her, bringing some new songs and some new stages is definitely no problem," a certain dog of a man thought to himself.

Yes, he did not intend to prepare only one new song.

It is not that he alone can have two stages at the Youth Day Gala, but mainly because Li Junyi and Tong Shu also received invitations.

Under Luo Mo's strong support, these two are the best among the younger generation of Singers.

Whether it is popularity or the heat of their songs, they both belong to the top of the top.

Since it is the Youth Day Gala, Ning Dan will certainly invite them too.

The final result is that Li Junyi has work and cannot adjust his schedule, regrettably failing to go on an expedition with Brother Mo.

Tong Shu, however, has no arrangements and can participate.

This made Li Junyi feel quite uncomfortable; it has been a long time since he went out to stir up trouble with Brother Mo, and he misses it quite a bit.

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………

Time moved forward a few more days; Luo Mo looked in the mirror, and then called the film crew's makeup artist to try out makeup for him.

Looking at his sickly, weak, and thin self in the mirror after makeup, he felt that he could start playing the role of 【Lv Shouyi】.

For the past few days, the film crew has been shooting scenes unrelated to Lv Shouyi, and Luo Mo has only been doing the work of a director, not performing in person.

Therefore, the entire film crew is quite motivated today, and also quite curious.

Everyone wants to see, since Director Luo has put so much into this role, what kind of effect can he achieve when performing?

At the same time, Lv Shouyi is also one of the key figures in the entire movie.

Or rather, the several transformations experienced by the male lead in his life are all because of him.

He played a role in driving the Drama.

It is quite interesting for this role to be played by Luo Mo, the screenwriter.

Moreover, when the film crew was deciding the 【billing】, Luo Mo was ranked second, belonging to the male lead number two in this movie.

In the entire movie crew, most of the main actors have never acted with Luo Mo before.

Only Tang Shiyu, who plays 【Si Hui】, has collaborated with Luo Mo in "Nirvana in Fire."

In that show, she played the femme fatale Qin Bore.

On Earth, when the crew of "Dying to Survive" was looking for an actress, they were rejected by a certain popular actress who stated, "I will not take on movies under one billion."

Later, they found the highly skilled Tan Zhuo to save the day.

According to the character setting in the movie, the age of the character Si Hui is not large; after all, her daughter is very young, and working in this line in a bar, she certainly wouldn't look old.

As one of the Four Little Dan in the Blue Star Entertainment, looking at the title, it would make people feel that she is still very young.

In reality, to have the status of one of the Four Little Dan, her age is certainly not just around twenty.

She is 29 this year; it is just that her appearance looks younger than her actual age, and she has a youthful face.

Luo Mo also approached Tang Shiyu with the mentality of giving it a try at first; after all, in this movie, the content she is to perform has a slightly larger scale.

This woman had always followed the route of a pure jade maiden, but this route could not last long; after all, people get older, and she only successfully transformed in "Nirvana in Fire," adding a touch of enchantment.

The main reason for asking her to perform is that Luo Mo knew she had a foundation in dance, her acting skills were the best among the Four Little Dan, and... her figure is actually extremely good.

A pure jade maiden with a good figure, that is what is attractive, isn't it?

What is needed is a sexy figure and an innocent temperament.

As a result, as soon as she received Luo Mo's invitation to audition, she immediately pushed aside a project she was considering and agreed to it in one breath.

That project was looking for her to be the female lead, it was a big female-lead drama, and the price offered was very high.

Wang Rong had mentioned it to Luo Mo in private, saying: "I feel that the way Tang Shiyu looks at you is not right; it is a bit too worshipful."

Luo Mo noted it in his heart, but said with his mouth: "I have many fans in the industry too!"

"You, you!" Wang Rong patted his shoulder, too lazy to continue listening to him brag.

In the morning, they filmed the scenes in the police station between the male lead Cheng Yong and his ex-wife's younger brother—Officer Cao Bin.

In the afternoon, Luo Mo has to go on stage himself.

Except for Tang Shiyu and Wang Rong, the other actors in the crew have never seen Luo Mo act on set.

Especially the few actors who had been severely criticized by Luo Mo several times in the past few days, all have a bit of a "wait and see" attitude.

They don't have resentment in their hearts; after all, the director is the king on the set.

It is just that after being criticized so much, their hands will eventually itch, and they will eventually want to see what he looks like when he acts himself.

Acting live on set is a mirror that reveals the true form of an actor's skills.

Some people perform well in the final film; that is polished over and over again, and adjusted by the director over and over again.

Many actors in the industry, when collaborating with directors of different levels, have a world of difference in the acting skills they display!

This is also one of the reasons why the movie duration is so short, but the shooting cycle is no shorter than a TV series.

At this moment, Luo Mo is sitting on a chair, and two makeup artists are helping him touch up his makeup.

He has always had an upright sitting posture and good carriage, so even with his makeup finished and his hairstyle styled with a bit of hair oil and looking unkempt, his temperament was still different from that of an ordinary person.

But the moment he stood up, adjusted his posture, and tweaked his facial micro-expressions, his entire person changed in an instant!

This made many Actors who didn't have scenes to shoot today and had specifically come to watch the excitement click their tongues in wonder.

"Isn't it just that he's not standing as straight, his body is a bit hunched, and his neck is tilted forward slightly? How is the effect so good?" someone couldn't help but sigh in a low voice, feeling a bit puzzled.

Upon hearing this, Tang Shiyu immediately said, "The body is one aspect; look at his eyebrows and his gaze. No, it's more than that, look at Director Luo's mouth corners."

"Huh, it seems there is a subtle difference."

"It's not just that, he has also utilized the 【Prop】 to the maximum extent," Tang Shiyu continued.

"Look, he wears his Glasses, but not perfectly; the frames slide up and down on the bridge of his nose a little. Then, he is thin by nature, and because he is tall, the clothes he wears look very baggy, with the shoulder area completely empty, which further highlights his frailty."

"At the same time, it is perfectly consistent with the character setting. This is a patient; his old clothes must no longer fit, but he has to save money and cannot afford new ones. Clothes are things that can still be worn if they are too big; after all, it's not like they are too small, right?"

That Actor nodded repeatedly and then said, "Sigh, you say Director Luo is such a handsome Idol superstar, yet he makes himself look like this in the movie. If some fans go to the cinema, won't they feel uncomfortable?"

"This is what an Actor should look like," Tang Shiyu said. "I don't think he looks ugly like this; on the contrary, I think he's even more attractive. Anyway, if I were his fan and I went to the cinema, I would feel a Surprise."

"Uh." This Actor stopped talking.

He felt that this popular female star, one of the Four Little Dan, had already been molded into Luo Mo's shape.

After all preparations were ready, Luo Mo was set to go on set and start filming.

This was the first meeting between Lv Shouyi and Cheng Yong; he had come to ask Cheng Yong for help to buy Medicine in India, holding the attitude of treating a dead horse as if it were a living one.

In this segment of the Drama, Lv Shouyi is wearing a Mask at the beginning.

After Cheng Yong, played by Wang Rong, sent the introducer away, he looked inside through the glass door and locked eyes with Lv Shouyi, who was sitting inside.

Only then did Luo Mo start to take off his Mask, and he took them off layer by layer; he was wearing three in total.

He sat there with his back hunched, his hands placed awkwardly on his knees, his expression appearing a bit dull, revealing a stiff and slightly ingratiating smile.

"Have an Orange." Lv Shouyi took out an Orange and handed it to Cheng Yong.

For a mature Actor, it is not just about relying on physical performance, but also lines.

Many Actors, when playing characters from different social classes, will add different accents and some habitual modal particles to flesh out the character.

Luo Mo's command of lines is excellent; as soon as he spoke, although it made many people feel a bit unaccustomed for the moment, they instantly felt that Lv Shouyi and Luo Mo were two different people, completely separated.

In this scene where Lv Shouyi tries to persuade Cheng Yong to go to India to buy Medicine, he smiled at Cheng Yong several times, all of which were that kind of ingratiating, slightly humble smile.

When Luo Mo smiled, he not only exposed his gums but also controlled his eyebrows, making them slightly form an inverted 'eight' shape to enhance the effect.

Lv Shouyi said a great deal to Cheng Yong, but Cheng Yong did not want to take the risk, nor did he believe that such a thing could exist in the world—that the efficacy of the Medicine would be exactly the same while the price differed by dozens of times.

"Then let's leave a phone number, shall we?" Lv Shouyi said with a slight accent; even though the other party was impervious to reason, the smile on his face still stretched wide, revealing his gums, refusing to give up.

Cheng Yong sat on the chair smoking, waving his hand as if shooing away a fly.

Lv Shouyi didn't care; he thickened his skin and took out one of Cheng Yong's business cards, leaving his own contact information on it.

"If you change your mind, give me a call, okay?"

Luo Mo lowered the pitch of his voice even further here.

He lowered his head, his greasy and messy hair hanging down slightly: "I am..."

Luo Mo paused for a moment.

Then, he raised his head, his tone still very low, and said softly: "Waiting for the Medicine to save my life."

It was as if he also knew that the matter he was proposing carried great risk, and he also knew it was very slim, making the other party very troubled, and he felt a bit embarrassed as well.

After speaking, he smiled ingratiatingly again, then tucked his chin in, and immediately after, put those three layers of Mask back on.

The character of Lv Shouyi is very protective of his own life in the early stages; he does not want to die, not at all.

Every instance of humility in these scenes, every craving for life, will infinitely amplify the effect produced by this character's final outcome!

An excellent, mature Actor actually performs not just the content within the script, but also what is outside the script—the 【Situation】.

The 【Situation】 here means making the audience feel that Lv Shouyi is treating a dead horse as a living one; he is actually holding an attitude of just trying it out, and he hasn't just sought out Cheng Yong alone—he is grabbing at every straw to save his life.

Therefore, every one of his ingratiating smiles is so standard, so uniform, and even mechanical, as if carved from the same mold.

Because he is not facing just you alone, smiling like this for the first time.

Luo Mo's performance has no signs of overacting; it is very concise, very clean, and very natural.

—With ease and mastery.

Tang Shiyu watched from the side, looking at this man with long, greasy hair, a thin face, and a slightly sickly appearance, her eyes shining.

"How could those people possibly out-act him," Tang Shiyu thought to herself.

Luo Mo's first performance in the film crew made the atmosphere of the entire crew change.

Being able to both direct and act puts a lot of pressure on people; everyone understands he has extremely high Requirements, yet you have no choice but to be convinced.

Even Wang Rong thought: "If a few more years pass, what kind of height will he reach?"

Indeed, he is clearly playing a sick Cat.

Yet in the film crew, he has revealed the ferocity of a fierce tiger.

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