Chapter 195
Five years until 30
It is not entirely true to say that the system shutdown has no impact on Ling Suisui. Without the study room and classroom in the system space, she would have less available night time.
However, this impact can be said to be minimal. Ling Sui has long passed the stage where she needs to spend a lot of time practicing. Her diligence and hard work in the past few years have accumulated enough quantitative changes. If she wants to reach a new level through qualitative change, what she lacks is an opportunity for inspiration.
As for the time difference in input caused by the existence of a system...she can solve it by slowing down the pace of filming and reducing the speed of output. As long as it is a good work, it is worth it even if it takes several years to produce one, not to mention one a year. She believes that fans and audiences will understand.
Therefore, when the system went on strike for three consecutive days in an attempt to force Ling Suisui to compromise, it had basically no effect.
Ling Sui's response was no response - she was filming on the set as usual, doing what she was supposed to do every day, and didn't care about Er Hongwen at all. At most, she would like the post when she saw the other party showing off their affection in a subtle way on WeChat Moments.
On the fourth day, the system gave in. When Ling Sui woke up in the morning, the system sent her a good morning message and reminded her not to forget to sign in.
Hmm, is the system naturally thick-skinned, or did it learn it from human society? This posture of pretending nothing happened is really very standard.
Ling Suisui snorted, pretending not to hear, and continued brushing his teeth, washing up and doing morning exercises.
The system wanted her to go down the stairs, but why should she actively cooperate? Facts have proven that between her and the system, the system cannot do without her.
In this situation, if Ling Sui couldn't even think of taking advantage of the opportunity to get more benefits, then all these years of his time in the entertainment industry would have been in vain.
She looked at the date on her phone's lock screen. Today was December 19th, her birthday.
According to the practice of domestic entertainment, the crew will definitely prepare a surprise for her, and there may be a cake after the filming is completed today.
Although this is a process that all more famous artists will go through, in order to give everyone enough emotional value, Ling Sui still has to pretend that she knows nothing and act very surprised.
If she could also act out the state of "feeling a little disappointed because there was no surprise", it would make her colleagues in the crew even happier.
Ling Suisui decided to cooperate with everyone. She had already thought about how she was going to act. Unexpectedly, when she just opened the door, a bouquet of flowers was handed to her.
Qi Xiaoqing: "Happy birthday, Sister Sui!"
Ling Suisui looked at the group of people in front of her - in addition to the assistant who gave her flowers, there were also several other leading actors in the crew. Some of them were holding inflatable fireworks, some were taking photos and videos with their mobile phones, and Song Lingshan was holding a sandwich with a candle on it.
...No, although she thinks birthdays don't need to be too lavish, isn't it a bit too much for the birthday "cake" to be this simple?
Song Lingshan explained with a smile: "The official birthday cake will be in the afternoon, but you definitely knew it would happen, so that was just a formality and a behind-the-scenes recording. Now this is the real surprise that we carefully prepared."
Well, she had a point.
Ling Sui made a wish that the filming of "Under the Wave" would go smoothly, and then blew out the candles. Huang Rui and Li Yuanqing next to them applauded actively, and Ling Suisui even took a photo with them holding flowers.
"Did you take the photo directly with the front camera? Did you use beauty filter?" Ling Suisui joked, "I didn't wear any makeup. It's my real natural face."
She just said it casually, and Li Yuanqing, who was in charge of taking pictures, actually opened the photo editing software.
He tried several methods, and one time he accidentally turned on the filter too strong, and the faces of Ling Suisui and Song Lingshan were deformed.
"Your faces are so small!" Li Yuanqing had such an intuitive understanding for the first time.
He compared several templates and found that the original image was the best looking. After all, anyone who can become a star in a country with a population of 1.4 billion must have perfect facial features, and turning on the beauty filter will actually smooth out their edges.
Objectively speaking, it is easier for male stars to make a living by relying on their looks, as they automatically have age exemption when they reach middle age. The audience will be more demanding on female stars, as they definitely do not have this treatment.
Ling Suisui and Song Lingshan said: "This is my twenty-fifth birthday, and I still have five years to go until I turn thirty."
Song Lingshan: "Ah? Why do you suddenly bring this up? With the current level of beauty care, you can still look 20 years old when you are 30."
Ling Sui shook his head. The passing of time would eventually leave traces on the body, and many details could not be deceived.
She paused and said, "I don't mean that actresses at the age of 30 are old. This age is still the golden period for career development. It's just that I want to set a goal for myself to play roles of my age. I hope that after I turn 30, I don't have to play any girls anymore, but can play female roles of this age."
Ling Sui-sui: "My goal is to try not to have an age difference of more than ten years between the characters I play and my own age in the future... Let's put it this way, ten years up and six or seven years down as much as possible."
"I'm 25 this year. I will never play the kind of girl who just came of age in ancient idol dramas again. This is the last time for a high school student to have a perfect life. I'll leave this track to younger actresses, who need these resources more."
Therefore, she mentioned to Director Pei that they hoped to set Wuyou's age to over 20 years old. Now that we have come out of the "Peach Blossom Spring", there is no need to follow the ancient custom of women getting married in their teens, right?
More importantly, if Wuyou is still an adolescent girl, her body has not yet fully developed, and the so-called "world's best swordsman" setting becomes very vague. It is better to give her a few more years to practice swordsmanship.
Song Lingshan seemed to be lost in thought. She had always known that Ling Suisui was very ambitious in her career, but she had never expected that her goals were so long-term.
There are still many female protagonists in their twenties, but it is difficult to find female protagonists in their thirties and forties, as these roles are almost always supporting roles. And judging from Ling Sui's attitude, it doesn't seem like he's planning to retire at the age of 30.
To achieve her goal, she either has to build her own business or the investor can tailor a project for her. Either way, she is required to maintain her current momentum and remain popular for at least another 20 years. You may no longer be the top streamer, but you must become the mainstream.
Song Lingshan teased: "If you say this outside, it will sound a bit offensive."
After all, many actresses who are older than Ling Sui are still trying hard to play young girls.
Not many newcomers can accept her good intention of giving opportunities - usually, these idol drama resources rejected by Ling Sui's team have to pass on to the first echelon of 90s and 95s first. Only if there are really no people to code, will it be given to 00s flowers, and the role will be changed from the first female to the first male.
If the script is particularly good, or the producer is very ambitious, she and the 85 flowers will receive the script one after the other.
Ling Suisui sighed: "There are many reasons for this. Actresses have very little room for choice, and subjective will can't play a big role."
These actresses remain in the idol drama track, of course, because their acting skills are not up to the requirements for transformation, but the more important thing is that there are too few suitable good resources, and there are too many people and too little resources to grab.
If it’s not a good project, what’s the point of filming it?
As they are all in the same industry, Song Lingshan also understands the logic behind it. Inspired by Ling Sui, she is also thinking about her future career.
She worked hard to make a name for herself in the entertainment industry, not to become a supporting actress for middle-aged men in the future, or simply to play a supporting role. Song Lingshan is not opposed to playing the role of a mother, but some mothers are the mothers of the protagonists, while some mothers are the protagonists themselves. There is a huge difference between the two.
Song Lingshan's thoughts drifted a little far away, and it was not until she got off the elevator that she realized - something was not right, why was she thinking about something in the future for so long?
Ling Sui said she still had five years to go until she was thirty, but she just turned twenty-five today. Although there was nothing wrong with her, she still felt something was wrong...
She was convinced that when it came to foresight, Ling Suisui was the one.
Twenty-five-year-old Ling Sui is playing the role of twenty-five-year-old Li Xiang today. She has to quarrel with Chen Hai about getting married and having children. This scene requires very strong explosive power.
Huang Rui came to her with the script. In the memo on his phone was an analysis he had written specifically for this scene after reading the notice yesterday.
This habit was learned from Ling Suisui. When they first discussed it on the set, Huang Rui was attracted by her behavior and added it to his daily to-do list.
His own understanding is: If three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher. But in the eyes of his assistant, Ling Sui has just gained another little fan, and Li Mingxu's position as the number one little brother may be shaken.
As a worker who has often been in small groups watching spectators, Assistant Huang Rui feels that he has seen through everything. He once accidentally revealed this to Huang Rui, who was devastated, but he still looked for Ling Suisui to discuss it actively the next day.
He is not a fanboy, he is actually older than Ling Sui. He didn't admire Ling Suisui, he just felt that her analysis of characters was insightful, and discussing with her always broadened his horizons and helped him learn things.
In short, he really didn't have any admiration for Ling Suisui. He felt that she deserved the Best Actress award, and it wouldn't be a big deal that she would win the Golden Eagle, Flying Sky, and Magnolia Grand Slam sooner or later, right?
Yes, that's right!
Ling Suisui has ignored the system since she woke up in the morning. Now her only response to the system is to press the mute button.
Don't make any noise, she's going to start working. As for when to deal with it... let's wait until she remembers it. If she doesn't remember, it's okay to leave it alone for three to five days. She's not the one who's anxious and angry.
Ling Suisui opened the script and pointed directly to the core conflict of the quarrel. Li Xiang's career was in a period of rapid growth and she had no energy to take care of her family and children.
As for Chen Hai, he had just experienced the death of an elder, and he was busy with business and didn't get to see him for the last time. From then on, his mindset changed from putting his career first to thinking that he would never make enough money and that he should cherish the present. He is older than Li Xiang. He is already 30 years old this year. Children of his peers can run and jump, and he also wants to start his own family.
"Li Xiang cares more about his career, while Chen Hai needs a family at the moment. This is the root of their disagreement, and this contradiction is irreconcilable."
Ling Suisui: "They quarreled and quarreled because they both thought the other was selfish. They accused each other of being unrealistic based on this point and then explained how difficult it was for them."
Huang Rui nodded. In fact, he had summarized many factors at the beginning. For example, Yan Xuejun appeared next to Li Xiang again, which made him a little jealous. However, these were issues that exacerbated the differences. The core reason was still the contradiction over whether to get married or not.
Don't underestimate this point. Only by understanding the root cause of the quarrel can the two actors know which link should be from weak to strong, when the tone of the characters they play can be weaker, and when to be strong and not retreat.
Even in explosive scenes, there needs to be a good balance between tension and relaxation, and give and take. If the audience remains in the same state throughout the whole performance, it will be difficult for the actors to move them emotionally.
The two compared the information they had summarized and found basically no errors, omissions or disagreements. Now that the filming of The Wave is more than halfway through, the tacit understanding between the main actors is getting stronger and stronger.
Ling Suisui also pointed out one point: "Although it is not written in the script, I extended it a little bit. I think Li Xiang's reluctance to get married and have children so early may involve the issue of career discourse power."
"Although her career and Chen Hai's career are not completely tied together, there are a lot of overlaps. At that time, the two people's companies - well, there were no private companies at that time, anyway, this is what I mean. You just happened to buy new shops and develop regional agents."
"At this time, if she is pregnant and then breastfeeding, it will be difficult for her to participate in these key business nodes, which will inevitably lead to a decrease in her prestige within the team and the risk of being sidelined."
Huang Rui's eyes widened; this was an angle he had never thought of.
He didn't quite agree: "You're overthinking it. Husbands and wives don't care about so many things... at least in the roles of movies and TV shows..."
"You think the heroine shouldn't be on guard against the hero?" Ling Suisui finished his words for him, and then said, "Brother Rui, that's your perspective. You know the heroine and the hero won't backstab each other, but the characters don't have a third eye. Since Li Xiang's character is set as a business elite, it's normal for her to be a little more cautious."
The character's personality will run through the entire drama, and it won't only come into play in a specific plot!
Huang Rui felt a little embarrassed. It was indeed his negligence and he made the mistake of not getting into the role enough.
But looking at his expression, he still didn't think Li Xiang would do that. If you are suspicious of outsiders, how can you be suspicious of your own people?
"No, I think considering Li Xiang's personal experience, you may not be one of her 'ones'."
Ling Suisui pointed this out: "She is a married woman. Yan Xuejun treated her very well when they were in the countryside, but when it came to the choice of who would take the college entrance examination and who would change their fate, she still chose him by default. Li Xiang will definitely take this as a warning and keep a lookout for you. This doesn't prove that she doesn't love you, just like Chen Hai's love is not so selfless."
Although he later understood Li Xiang's hard work and postponed his plan to have children for several years, his idea in this scene was still that he hoped Li Xiang would give for him, even though he firmly believed that he would not treat her unfairly in the future.
Ling Suisui: "For Li Xiang, this is history repeating itself. Yan Xuejun also promised this before the college entrance examination. Such a familiar routine. I feel like this is the screenwriter's satire on the character."
Even though he is the male protagonist, all crows are black, and he has all the flaws that men should have. He is very realistic.
Huang Rui: …
Obviously, they were talking about roles here, but the look in Ling Sui's eyes was really... He could imagine how guilty Chen Hai would feel when he saw Li Xiang's look.
No, a role is a role, what does it have to do with Huang Rui.jpg
Thinking of this, Huang Rui finally had the courage to raise his head and continue discussing the plot with Ling Suisui.
He digested it for a while, then said to Ling Suisui: "I know where the incongruity just now came from. It shouldn't be a matter of caution between husband and wife. Your reason convinced me, but I still feel it's a bit weird."
"I thought about it carefully and realized that the Li Xiang you analyzed was more selfish. The protagonists I'm used to seeing over the years all benefit others first and then give back to themselves in various ways. Li Xiang will be a very different character. He is more like a businessman who can make money in the early days of reform and opening up."
It is said that gold was everywhere in that era, so why couldn't everyone pick it up?
Ling Suisui smiled and said, "Yes, Li Xiang doesn't need to give anything to gain the love of others. She clarifies her own status as the protagonist through the different treatment of supporting roles. She is a protagonist with personal charm who actively shines."
Huang Rui agreed with this and once again felt fortunate to be able to participate in "Under the Wave".
He wanted to know if every male actor who had worked with Ling Suisui would want to work with her again, but were afraid that she would rise too fast and his status would no longer be able to catch up with her?
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