Chapter 14 Immersive Auditions: On the Self-Cultivation of Actors
Director Chen nodded and looked down at the script again, but instead of asking the same question as before, he asked directly: "Why do you want to be an actor?"
"I want to experience the different lives of different characters." Su Ziwei thought for a while and added, "Of course, I want to be discovered, seen, and appreciated. I want to be successful in my role and myself at the same time."
The director asked again: "What kind of person do you think Yaoyue is?"
Su Ziwei said: "Yao Yue looks like a brave person who dares to love and hate, but in fact he only dares to love but not to hate. In his bones, he longs for love and is also eager to be loved. He is a crazy and emotional person.
people."
After saying this, he paused, but saw the screenwriter raised his head in surprise and nodded to him. But Director Chen asked again: "Then why do you want to participate in the life of Immortal Yaoyue?"
?Is it something about him that is similar to you? Or is it something that attracts you?"
"Both of them, but not just these two reasons." Su Ziwei said, "I admire his optimism and calmness, but I also understand that he is depressed."
"You admire him, but can you accept the ending he encountered?"
"Yes," Su Ziwei nodded, "For him, this is the best ending."
The director seemed to be unable to stop asking questions. Others only had two or three questions, but when it came to Su Ziwei, it became much more unusual. She asked again: "In your opinion, why would he sacrifice himself for the Jade Tower?
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"The first time I read it, I thought it was because of love," Su Ziwei said honestly, "but then I thought that if it was just because of love, it would be too shallow. He watched his senior sister descend to the earth seven times, and every time he could not hold back, and he couldn't stop loving him.
, so despair.”
"Last question," the director smiled and said in a more relaxed tone, "your voice does not match your appearance. Are you worried that this will affect your acting career, or have you ever thought about voice separation?
Choosing to find the right voice actor?”
"No," Su Ziwei said with little thought, "Maybe it seems a bit arrogant to say this, but I feel that timbre cannot determine the upper and lower limits of an actor. I believe it will not affect my performance."
After he answered, he didn't look at the director. Director Chen just nodded and didn't say much. He just lowered his head and was writing something. When a staff member saw this, he was about to hand over the drawn card, but Director Chen stopped him.
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"Okay," the director turned over the script in front of him, seemingly casually turning it to the last page. Just when Su Ziwei began to recall the more important scenes he had sketched, the director said, "
In the end, Yaoyue had to say goodbye to Yulou. Even the person she loves the most will have to say goodbye one day. I will give you one minute to prepare, and your performance will start on time in one minute."
When Director Chen raised his head, he looked at Su Ziwei with an unknown smile.
Farewell to Yulou, this paragraph was not included in the script they gave. Su Ziwei stopped saying the lines. He didn’t even know the specific direction of the plot! But he probably knew that it was written in the original work that this paragraph was about Immortal Yaoyue turning himself
Finally, he gave all his cultivation to the dying male protagonist Xu Changshu, and then turned into a wisp of white smoke in front of his senior sister and disappeared into ashes.
Su Ziwei closed his eyes and tried hard to get into the role.
"Are you ready?" Director Chen asked.
"Well," Su Zi said before opening her eyes, "we can start."
The light fell on Su Ziwei. At that moment, Su Ziwei felt that his head was empty. This was not the scene shown in the script. Regarding the state, dialogue, and body language of the two people in this scene, he could only rely on himself to deal with it.
Yaoyue's cognition and imagination show that compared to the previous competitors, the difficulty of this is countless times higher than theirs.
A minute passed, and he heard the person in charge calling action from the side, like a switch. He stood under the light, like a puppet controlled by himself, as if everything was under control, and as if every action was
Ignorant and unconscious.
In an instant, he seemed to see a tear shed by Immortal Yaoyue.
One tear, two tears, slowly slipped from Yaoyue's face. He looked sadly at Yulou holding the dying Xu Changshu and shouting crazily, while he stood aside with his hands trembling. What should he do?
, if Xu Changshu is not saved, senior sister will suffer for the rest of her life.
"Senior sister...Senior sister." Yaoyue knelt next to Yulou and hugged her into her arms, "What will it take for you to be happy? There will always be someone in the world who takes you so seriously, as long as
If you are willing to laugh, he will be satisfied."
Yulou raised his head and looked at Yaoyue.
"Did you know that in these ten thousand years, it feels like I have only lived once when I met you?"
Yaoyue let go of her senior sister and stood up. It was probably the first time that Yulou saw Yaoyue, who had always been happy, actually shed tears at this moment, but even though he was crying, he still had a smile on his face.
"Wrong love is like the moon, and dissatisfaction with profits and losses." Yaoyue said slowly, "Senior sister, if you are happy, everything will be worth it."
Even the person you love most will have to say goodbye one day.
In the freezing winter when I was eight years old, I was filled with joy when I came out of the supermarket, the familiar zebra crossing, the sound of car horns, the harsh friction sound of sudden braking, and the hospital filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant water as people came and went.
, pale walls, critical illness notices one after another.
The reality and the past, the story and reality, were intertwined like this, like thin and dense threads, wound into ropes and webs, trapping him inside.
If you love someone, you are willing to live and die for him, even if the outcome is to be wiped out in ashes.
In fact, we are all the same.
"It turns out that our ending is to never see each other again."
It felt like a pair of hands were opening the wounds of his memory and asking him if it would hurt.
Of course it would hurt. His eyes and nose were filled with soreness uncontrollably, his hands were shaking slightly, and his voice was unknowingly tainted with a crying sound.
He really wanted to grab his mother's hand and ask her if you could not leave.
He closed his eyes and shed his last tear, leaving behind the smile that never changed when the two met.
It wasn't until the director called to stop for three minutes that Su Ziwei, who was immersed in Yaoyue's emotional world, came to his senses. He cried so sadly that he squatted on the ground and covered his face. Finally, the staff handed him a tissue.
"Yes, I like actors with strong empathy." The screenwriter nodded to Director Chen. Seeing that Director Chen didn't speak, he came over and said, "This paragraph is not in the script. It seems to be a line in the original work?"
"Yes," Su Ziwei rubbed his nose, "I read the original work again after reading the script."
The screenwriter smiled and said: "I remember these lines after reading it once, which is good. Okay, you go back first, and we will inform you if there is any news."
Su Ziwei bowed: "Okay, thank you teachers, thank you for your hard work."
Tan Yuqing was not there when she walked out of the room, but Sister Ada came over and asked: "How do you feel? I'm really looking forward to cooperating with you!"
After thanking ada, Su Ziwei exchanged WeChat messages with her.
After walking out of the hotel where the audition took place, Su Ziwei finally felt calmer.
Regardless of whether he had experienced it this time or not, it brought him a new experience in his acting career. Seeing actors and actresses coming to pick him up from agents and assistants everywhere on the street, Su Ziwei could freely buy a double-decker apartment.
After eating the ice cream, I happily went home and petted the cat.
Planning to take a leisurely stroll for a while and then take the bus home, Su Zi did not put on his headphones and walked along the road south of the hotel, planning to walk a few more stops to exercise. However, he was not familiar with this area.
He also had no idea that there was no bus stop in the direction he was walking because there was a development zone in front of him and it was all construction sites.
The dust falling from the construction site was like a sudden sandstorm to Su Ziwei's senses, and it was sucked into his throat unexpectedly.
At that moment, Su Ziwei felt out of breath as if he had climbed ten floors without taking a break. When he realized that he was about to turn around and leave the construction site, it seemed that it was already too late. He had an asthma attack.
It always came so suddenly. While breathing hard, he turned around and walked in the opposite direction. He couldn't lower his head to look at the bag, so he just rummaged around in the bag for his beclomethasone.
However, there were a bunch of small cakes given out by the audition crew just now in the bag, as well as scripts, rosters, etc. Su Ziwei didn't even take out his medicine for a while.