After a long talk, Li Mengnan picked up the wine glass with a proud look on his face and took a sip.
He Xin nodded numbly, feeling very disappointed. Originally, he wanted to learn from Li Mengnan about the secret of this line, but it turned out that it was not the same thing at all.
As the saying goes, when a tall building rises from the ground, everything needs to lay a foundation, and opportunism will not work.
At the same time, he was also very puzzled. If Li Bing played Xiao Jian because of his skill in cycling, which was determined by the character's particularity, then what did Wang Xiaoshuai choose to do in himself when he was chosen to play Xiao Gui?
Li Mengnan picked up some peanuts from Kung Pao Chicken and looked up to see He Xin looking depressed. He picked up the wine glass with a smile and said, "Are you upset? Come on, have a drink."
He Xin had a drink with him and said dullly: "I don't even know how to fix it now."
He was a southerner in his previous life. After being reborn and occupying the original owner's body, He Xin's words now sound like a big mess if he doesn't pay attention.
"Don't be anxious, take your time, performance is not something that can be accomplished in one go."
As he said that, Li Mengnan looked at He Xin and muttered: "Since you like acting, you should take the exam! It's not just about studying acting, there are many theories and methods. If you master these, you will improve a lot.
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"Take the exam?"
He Xin didn't even dare to think about such a thing.
"Yes, China National Theater, Nortel, and Shanghai Theater in the south all have acting departments. You see, you have acted in movies now, and the male lead is in a film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai. School admissions attach great importance to this."
"But those are all universities, so you still have to take the college entrance examination, right?" He Xin asked tentatively.
"Of course, but the scores in cultural courses are not high, as long as they reach the minimum admission score." Li Mengnan said disapprovingly.
If it was just an interview, and He Xin still had the courage to give it a try, he would have known it was over as soon as he heard that he was going to take the college entrance examination.
Seeing that he was silent, Li Mengnan thought he was unwilling, and advised him with a tone of experience: "Director Xiaoshuai is a pioneer director. He may prefer original things and not pay much attention to whether you are a professional. But in the future, if you want
If you take this path, you must study systematically. Your lines now...well, I can't say them at all."
"Let me tell you this, when some directors select actors, they will give you a line to say, and they will not even watch you perform. They will know whether you can act or not by listening to how well you say the line. This is because
Lines and performance can't be two different things. It's impossible to say that your lines are good but your performance is terrible, or that your brother's acting is awesome and his lines are terrible. It's impossible. They are absolutely integrated."
The implication is that He Xin doesn't know how to act at all.
He Xin's face became hot when he heard this, and he was very embarrassed and said: "I just graduated from junior high school, and my grades are very poor. And it has been almost four years since I left school. I have probably returned all the things I learned before to the teacher. The college entrance examination..."
Needless to say, there isn't even a door.
This situation was unexpected by Li Mengnan. After being silent for a long time, he said: "If that's the case, then you can go to a further training class. There are no requirements, just pay. China National Theater has such a training class every year."
"How much is the tuition?" He Xin asked.
"There are four, five, seven, or eight thousand. The person in charge of that stall at China Theater is my classmate. I'll ask you later." Li Mengnan said.
"Hey, thank you, brother!" He Xin quickly thanked him.
The original intention of inviting Li Mengnan out for a drink was to learn some lessons, but in the end, the conversation ended with the topic of going to school. Even He Xin found it a bit unbelievable. He was not sure whether he liked acting or not.
Li Mengnan received the news very quickly. He was told the next day that the one-year short-term advanced training courses of Chinese Opera start in March and September every year. March has already passed, and he can only take the courses that start in September.
The tuition fee is a little over 8,000.
Although there are no requirements for this kind of advanced training class and you can basically pay for it, Li Mengnan said that the teaching quality is not bad and he should not be fooled.
Anyway, first of all, tuition is a big expense.
He Xinyi said, it’s still early anyway, let’s wait until the filming of the movie is finished.
The start-up ceremony was not as grand as He Xin imagined, with animals burning incense and worshiping. It was just covering the camera with a red cloth, and then the director shouted: "Good luck with the start!"
This is considered to be the official launch.
At the start-up ceremony, He Xin saw Gao Yuanyuan who had changed into her school uniform. Speaking of which, this girl was one year older than him, but she looked young. Standing with a few other girls in the same school uniform, she stood out from the crowd, but she didn't have the slightest bit of talent.
sense of dissonance.
He Xin had no scenes with her. Apart from being a little excited about seeing a celebrity when they first met, they were just acquaintances. He didn't deliberately try to build a relationship, let alone want anything to happen.
Furthermore, she has her manager following her wherever she goes. Not only to take care of her schedule, the director also specially moved her scenes forward.
Regarding the topic of acting, He Xin and Li Bing, two rookies who live in the same room, communicate frequently and occasionally rehearse according to the script, but they are just noobs pecking each other.
During the script reading before, Li Bing's performance was pretty good, and his speech was basically clear. But when he actually arrived at the scene, he found that he couldn't let go at all. Either he moved wrongly or forgot the words, which gave Wang Xiaoshuai a headache.
"No way! I'm afraid I'm really not the material?"
After a whole day of "stuck!", "stop!", "wrong!", and "come again", Li Bing almost doubted his life. In the evening, he took He Xin to a small restaurant to drown his sorrows with wine and talk to him.
The annoyance in my heart.
"This is just the beginning, don't worry, the director didn't say anything to you either."
He Xin also squatted at the scene all day long to observe. It should be said that Wang Xiaoshuai was relatively patient, at least he did not curse on the spot.
"The director didn't say anything, but I felt sorry for the director. And that sister, you saw her expressionless face today, she almost looked like a donkey. Her agent kept talking when she was finishing work.
If you mutter in front of the director, there must be nothing good to say."
"How dare you say that to me? I've spent the whole day with you today. If it were me, I wouldn't be happy either."
He Xin vomited something bad, and then said a little puzzled: "No, you weren't like this during the rehearsal before?"
"I don't know what happened, but as soon as the camera was placed there, I felt uncomfortable all over and my mind went blank. I couldn't even remember how I wanted to act." Li Bing said depressedly.
He Xin couldn't understand Li Bing's pain. During the audition, he was more relaxed in front of the camera. Compared with Li Bing, he was at two extremes.
He thought for a while and came up with an idea: "Then don't worry about the camera. Forget about the camera, just act like you usually do in rehearsals."
Li Bing said with a grimace: "The director told me the same thing. I also wanted to pretend that the camera didn't exist, but as soon as I glanced at it, I felt my heart beat faster and I became confused."
What's this?
Lens phobia?
"I guess you just need to get used to this problem. I'm telling you, it's true. If it were me and I fell in love with such a beautiful girl, I don't care where the camera is! Hey, there are you and me in the script.
What about her kissing scene!" He Xin could only smile and comfort him.
"The fart kissing scene is just a kiss on the face. That sister...forget it, let's not talk about it, come on, come on, drink!" Li Bing shook his head, looking depressed.
The two had a disagreement on the first day, and they had to act as a young couple in the play. He Xin was so tired for Wang Xiaoshuai just thinking about it.
He is a newcomer, and Wang Xiaoshuai asked him to stay on set with the crew to familiarize himself with the situation, so as to avoid being in the same state as Li Bing when filming Xiao Gui's scenes in the future.
Perhaps because he felt that He Xin's child could be taught, Li Mengnan specially brought him a few books about performances. The pages were already ruffled, and it was obvious from a glance that the owner flipped through them frequently.
The famous "Actor's Self-cultivation" is a large tome, very thick, divided into two volumes. He Xin flipped through more than ten pages. He knew all the words on it, but when they were connected together, he didn't know what was going on.
Can't read.
He has recently been studying a very thin book, "Six Lectures on Acting", which is only about a hundred pages long, and feels that he has gained something.
For example, the book talks about emotional substitution, which means that if an actor wants to perform emotions, he must often use his own similar emotions.
The book gives an example: You want to play a woman whose husband dies, but you have never had a husband die. What should you do?
Maybe if a dog dies, you can graft the sadness of the dead dog onto the body of your dead husband.
In this way, the performance will be natural and vivid, without any artificiality.
Dead Dog had no feelings for He Xin. He tried to recall the feeling he had when his grandfather passed away in his previous life. When the sadness accumulated in his heart to a certain extent, tears naturally fell down. He really cried bitterly.