Chapter 25: Script Selection
In the studio, under the glaring lights, three rating cards were displayed at the same time.
Chengcheng, B level.
Shi Qing, Level B.
Du Linlin, Grade B.
The moment the results were announced, the air seemed to freeze.
When Du Linlin saw Shi Qing's rating, she covered her mouth in surprise, her eyes filled with disbelief.
How could Sister Qingqing be B-level!
"What kind of review is this?" A young actor at the table couldn't help but mutter in a low voice, but he quickly realized that this was a live broadcast and immediately shut up.
In the subtle silence, a leisurely and somewhat contemptuous voice came from the center of the S-level area.
"B grade is understandable." Yue Jingchen said slowly, "After all, Teacher Shi Qing hasn't produced many works in the past two years, so it's normal for her market value to decline."
Upon hearing this, several senior actors sitting in the S seat glanced at him with an indescribable look, then tacitly looked away without saying anything.
The comments in the live broadcast room are much more straightforward than those of the actors on the scene.
[Holy crap!!! Are the production crew crazy? Even Yue Jingchen, a resourceful actor with such expressionless acting skills, can get an S rating, but why is my Qingqing only a B?! This is hilarious!]
Are the judges blind? Shi Qing hasn't had a new drama in the past two years, but which of her previous dramas hasn't been a hit? She single-handedly made a bad script like "The Fairy in the Clouds" a success. Doesn't that mean she has a market?!
[This is hilarious! Someone actually dared to question Shi Qing's popularity. She's just a Buddhist, not a nobody! Any of her updates can be trending!]
"That producer Ren Feng who gave it a B rating, I recognized you right away! Back then, your massively invested S-rated project, "Legend of Jiangshan," ran head-on into Shi Qing's "As Young as Youth," and was crushed to the ground, losing all your money! You were so furious you created a fake account on Douban to give the show a one-star rating. So you're just here to settle a personal score!"
[The sister above has a sharp eye! How can such a petty person be a producer? No wonder his dramas are getting worse and worse! ]
Faced with this expected result, Shi Qing was the calmest among the three.
She calmly accepted the rating card, nodded slightly to the camera, and even had a polite smile on her face.
Xia Zhu had warned her long ago that she had to be mentally prepared to appear on this kind of variety show, as the production team would come up with any dramatic plot to generate buzz and topics.
What's more, He Dan had already revealed the rating results to her last night.
When He Dan heard that Danhao Entertainment was preparing to file for bankruptcy liquidation, she decided to take the money she had earned from investing in stocks abroad in recent years and return to China, wanting to at least take back the copyrights of the high-quality TV series that her father had put so much effort into producing from Chen Hao.
Danhao Entertainment's predecessor was Hebi Entertainment, founded by He Dan's father. It once produced countless classic dramas, but unfortunately, due to changing times and He Dan's father's ill health, the company gradually declined.
After He's father passed away, He Dan mistakenly believed Chen Hao's sweet words and reorganized the company, changing its name to Danhao Entertainment, which was the beginning of her being wiped out.
Now, He Dan is ready to make a strong comeback.
She used her previous connections to get a spot on the producer observation team of "Actors in Progress".
When watching the video before, Shi Qing felt sincerely happy for He Dan, whose eyes were bright and full of fighting spirit, as she was the capable and heroic Sister Dan in her memory.
It's just that the schedule was too tight, so the two agreed to have a good get-together after the program recording was finished.
Shi Qing took the B-level card and walked to the corresponding area and sat down.
She looked across the crowd and glanced at Yue Jingchen in the S-level area.
She heard Yue Jingchen's voice just now, but she didn't look over there to avoid being led astray.
I heard that after Yue Jingchen left Danhao, he didn't sign with any company, but directly opened his own studio. I don't know what new backer he had that was able to send him to the S level of this program.
It shouldn’t be Gao Panpan.
The evidence in the case of the terrorist express delivery is conclusive. Gao Panpan uses the same trick again, taking out the diagnosis of mental problems and imagining that she did the same thing after bullying her classmates in high school, but this time, she hits a wall, making it not so easy to get away with it.
In the end, Gao Panpan was sent to a mental hospital for compulsory treatment.
The actors entered the stage one after another, and soon all fifty actors were seated.
Hong Li, the program initiator and host, walked to the center of the stage.
"Dear actors, welcome to 'Actors in Progress.'" Hong Li's steady voice carried through the microphone, "The market evaluation has ended, but this is just the beginning. Next, you will use your acting skills to establish your reputation."
The big screen behind him lit up, showing the names and descriptions of twenty scripts.
"This time, we've prepared twenty clips from classic film and television dramas, featuring a total of fifty characters. We'll now proceed with the selection of scripts and characters in the order of S, A, and B ratings."
The S-level actors stood up first and walked calmly towards the casting corridor.
Shi Qing watched as the scripts were selected one by one on the big screen, thinking rapidly in her mind.
Now that she is here, she definitely wants the audience to see a different Shi Qing.
However, with the selection of S-level and A-level actors, there are very few scripts left for B-level actors, most of which are marginal roles or extremely difficult themes.
Finally it's the turn of the B-level actors.
Shi Qing walked in the script selection corridor, looking at the few remaining character cards, and her eyes finally fell on a script.
"Baby" is an award-winning anti-trafficking film. There is a lot of room for adaptation of the clips, and it requires extremely high explosive power and empathy from the actors. If the performance is good, it can make a big splash, but if it is bad, it will become a laughing stock.
More importantly, in this script, the role of the young father who lost his child has already been chosen by Yue Jingchen.
Shi Qing raised the corner of her lips into a meaningful smile.
Doesn’t this look good?
Although Qiankun Entertainment has helped her clarify the truth about the failure of "The Fairy in the Clouds" that year, she has not forgotten how Yue Jingchen put all the blame on her and how the company favored him, leaving her with no choice but to suffer.
She walked to the script display board of "Baby", picked up her selection card, waved it in front of the camera, and then, in the astonished eyes of the crowd, smiled and put the card into the selection box.
The live broadcast room was instantly flooded with barrages of comments.
[Ahhhh, so handsome! I love this smile! ]
[Wonderful! So wonderful! The former best couple, now enemies, are now playing husband and wife! What kind of Shura plot is this!]
[Wow wow wow my Qingchen CP… what kind of blood sugar is this, trying to find sugar in glass shards! I'll take a bite first as a token of my respect!]
[Shi Qing is doing this on purpose, right? They just had a falling out online last week, and now they're actively collaborating. She's really trying too hard to get attention. Isn't she afraid of embarrassment?]
[What's so embarrassing? It would be great if the real boss got slapped in the face! Sit tight and wait for our Sister Qing to crush this rubbish guy into scum with her acting skills!]
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