"The role of Severus Snape is yours, Cao. I hope we can have a happy cooperation." Director Chris Columbus stretched out his hand and shook Cao Yu's hand.

Cao Yu, who was wearing a black magician's robe and makeup that made him look very old, naturally reached out his hand to shake it enthusiastically, and excitedly kept repeating a word to the director and others.

"Thanks."

After politely saying goodbye to all the casting people, Cao Yu came out of the audition room with a calm look on his face.

The moment he closed the door, Cao Yu couldn't help but clenched his fists, showing that his heart was not as calm as he appeared.

This is not the first time he has come here to audition. From the initial submission of his resume, to the non-stop auditions in the next few months, to the final rounds of auditions, it was not until today that he got a promise from the director.

Not easy!

In the past few years since he came to the UK, Cao Yu has been preparing for this role. The reason why Cao Yu was able to get this role this time was because he had several more years of preparation time than other competitors.

You may not understand why Cao Yu put so much effort into this role, but if Cao Yu tells you the name of this movie, you may understand.

The name of this movie is [Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone].

Yes, it is the Harry Potter series that will become the world's most popular series in the future, and the reason why Cao Yu auditioned for this role of Severus Snape was not for other roles.

Mainly due to conditional restrictions.

Harry Potter, a movie that started shooting in 2001, requires all three protagonists to be children. Cao Yu, who was born in 1984, was already seventeen years old in 2001. Even if he pretends to be young, there is nothing he can do.

Pretending to be an eleven or twelve year old child.

Besides, Cao Yu is not good at pretending to be young. What he is good at is pretending to be mature, because his soul does not match his body.

The seventeen-year-old body of Cao Yu contains a thirty-six-year-old soul.

Cao Yu is a reborn person who has returned from 2020 to when he was a baby in 1984.

Cao Yu's family was in a good situation when he was a child. His father relied on his courage and carefulness to seize the dividends of the golden age of the 1980s. In one fell swoop, his family escaped from a well-off society in the 1980s, and his assets exceeded one million. When he was a child, Cao Yu lived a wonderful life.

It is the life of the rich second generation.

But the good times did not last long. The bold and careful old horse lost its front hoof, and the business lost money. Fortunately, it was a loss, but it did not owe foreign debts.

But when Cao Yu grew up, his life was not as comfortable as when he was a child.

Until 2020, Cao Yu's family's pockets have not bulged again, but Cao Yu's belly has slowly bulged with age.

Cao Yu, who was already middle-aged, had no other plans for life and was prepared to live in such a muddle-headed manner for the rest of his life.

Who knew that God seemed to have played a joke on him, and when he woke up he was reborn.

After being reborn, Cao Yu was preparing to punch Ali and kick Tencent like the protagonists in many novels he read, preparing to use money and career to change the world.

It's a pity that he was not only reborn, but also brought a golden finger.

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【Superstar System】

Character: Cao Yu

Level: Not yet in the industry, you will be rewarded with one box office point for signing in every day.

Temperament transformation (you need box office points to use): student temperament, teacher temperament, kidnapper temperament, male god temperament, goddess temperament...

Box office points (you get as much as you earn based on the box office of the movie you star in, supporting roles do not count, non-protagonists get a corresponding proportion of box office points based on their level): 516215

——

The name is very cliché, and the function of this golden finger is also very general.

It can neither improve Cao Yu's acting skills nor make Cao Yu have a photographic memory. It can only enhance or change Cao Yu's temperament, and this function is extremely limited!

This made Cao Yu, a reborn person, unable to bear such anger. He originally wanted to leave it alone, but the system immediately told him to be a human being.

"It is detected that the host does not want to be an actor. The system will automatically log out. However, the host's brain will also be logged out at the same time. Will the host be logged out?"

Faced with this choice, Cao Yu had no choice but to accept the sanctions of this system and could only develop in the direction of an actor.

Fortunately, Cao Yu is not too resistant to being an actor, and he even likes it.

Cao Yu has been doing some acting imitations since he was a child, but Cao Yu did not dare to tell his parents that he wanted to be an actor, because Cao Yu's parents, like most ordinary parents in China, still believe that the right way for their children to go to school is to take the college entrance examination. This is what I have been with my parents in my previous life.

Cao Yu, who has lived for decades, knows this very well.

So Cao Yu chose to take a circuitous route and stated that his wish was to study abroad.

As mentioned before, when Cao Yu was a child, his father was very successful in making money. The family had the basis for Cao Yu to propose this condition.

When Cao's father heard that his son was so ambitious, he didn't agree because Cao Yu was too young and was afraid that Cao Yu would be popular for three minutes.

Every year after Cao Yu made this request, as time went by, Cao's father saw that Cao Yu was not popular for three minutes, so he sent Cao Yu to a foreign country.

As for where to send it, it was Cao Yu's own choice - England.

The reason why Cao Yu chose the UK was to pave the way for his future acting career.

Cao Yu knew that his system obviously required him to earn box office points by starring in movies with good box office, and then use temperament simulation through the box office points to make his role more attractive and make the movie box office higher, thus forming a virtuous cycle

.

So Cao Yu urgently needs to star in movies with high box office.

And Cao Yu has the memory of the future, so he understands that the box office potential of Chinese movies before 2010 cannot be compared with that of foreign countries.

That is to say, after 2010, the box office of Chinese movies gradually increased every year.

Cao Yu was reborn in 1984, and the time when Cao Yu could participate in movie shooting was probably around two thousand years ago. This time is still ten years away from the box office explosion of Chinese movies after 2010!

Coupled with the Chinese film industry, it is called chaos. This is not to say that the foreign film industry is not chaotic, and foreign countries are also chaotic, but the foreign film industry has gone through a long process and has a certain order. No matter how chaotic it is, there is still a charter.

, there is a place suitable for newcomers to develop.

The Chinese film industry is in its infancy and has just started, making it very unsuitable for newcomers to develop.

Therefore, from the day he planned to become an actor, Cao Yu set his goal of debuting abroad, and based on his reborn memory, he set his sights on the UK.

Because he knew that when he was able to act, there happened to be a well-known film series in the UK that started auditioning actors.

If he can catch this train, he will become famous immediately, and even land in Hollywood with the experience gained from this role. If he plans well, Cao Yu feels that he can even gain a foothold in Hollywood.

This is how to gain a foothold in Hollywood! How many Chinese stars can’t even land in Hollywood!

In Cao Yu's memory, there are only three Chinese stars who can gain a foothold in Hollywood: Bruce Lee, Big Brother Cheng, and Kung Fu Emperor Li.

Cao Yu felt that relying on his foresight, there was a high probability that he would be able to land in Hollywood through the UK.

Once you have a plan, just follow it step by step. After Cao Yu finished elementary school, he went to England to study at the age of twelve. However, he was too young, so Cao Yu went with him.

After attending school for two years, Cao's father lost money in business just like in his previous life, and Cao Yu performed very well abroad. After understanding the British study abroad system, Cao's mother, like many Chinese parents studying in the United Kingdom, gave Cao Yu to

After being fostered in a British home, Cao's mother returned to China to accompany Cao's father through the difficulties.

After Cao's mother returned, Cao Yu immediately stopped being patient and started to get involved in the acting industry.

Cao Yu first applied for a film and television school in the UK that has a status similar to the three major domestic film and television schools - King's College London.

And Cao Yu was admitted to the exam with his excellent grades. On the one hand, it was good to be able to pass the exam because he was an adult soul, and on the other hand, it was the cultural remnants of the British side.

In the UK, drama is the most prestigious industry. Although the film market has matured, there are not many people working in the film industry, and some of the top people have gone to Hollywood.

The reason why Cao Yu applied for this school is, on the one hand, because this school has a relatively strong influence in film and teaching.

On the other hand, the name of this school makes it easier to fool Cao Yuyuan's parents in China, making them think that their son is attending a regular university in their eyes.

Even if the paper fails to stop him from being popular in the future, Cao Yu can still evade his parents and say that he was deceived by his name, killing three birds with one stone.

After several years of study, Cao Yu's acting skills gradually improved under formal guidance. In his spare time, Cao Yu also registered with the British Actors Guild. He works on some film crews on weekdays. With his age advantage, he has also appeared in some movies.

For some small roles, Cao Yu earned over 500,000 box office points through this method.

Acting in minor supporting roles has earned him more than 500,000 box office points, which made Cao Yu deeply understand the gap between the domestic and foreign film markets at this time.

To use an analogy, today's foreign film market is the same as the domestic market in the past 20 years or so. As long as a movie is released, the box office will be calculated in at least tens of millions.

In 2001, when Cao Yu was seventeen years old, the [Harry Potter] crew came to the UK to conduct casting based on Cao Yu's memory.

Because of his age, Cao Yu could not play the three minor protagonists, so he turned his attention to other main characters in the Harry Potter series, and the role of Severus Snape was his main target.

Although the character is not likable in the early stage, he will turn around in the later stage and is a very popular character.

It's just that this character is older, and Cao Yu's age is not suitable.

But Cao Yu had a way. In this era, makeup can solve everything, so there was the scene at the beginning, where Cao Yu looked very old.
Chapter completed!