Chapter 102: No need to try, it's not your turn
to ask questions. I met my ex-boyfriend during an interview, and he is also my interviewer. What should I do?
Urgent, waiting online!
Looking at Meng Bai sitting opposite her, Song Zhi really wants to post a message online to ask for help.
In fact, since the breakup, she has not received any news from Meng Bai. On the contrary, because they are still in the same industry, she occasionally hears friends or colleagues mention him.
After the broadcast of "Soul Ferry", there are more opportunities to hear his name. School promotional materials, websites where dramas are often watched, push notifications on Weibo, and chats between friends.
I don't know if it's because she always intentionally accepts these messages, but she feels that she hears the name "Meng Bai" as often as when she was in school.
Adapting scripts, popular works, making huge profits, creating companies... Song Zhi watched the other party's progress. These were the futures that Meng Bai had described to her when they were lying in bed.
Now, he is realizing his original dream step by step.
It's just that these have nothing to do with him.
When seeing the huge success of "Soul Ferry", Song Zhi once thought about sending a congratulatory text message. She wrote and deleted the message in her memo, and finally gave up.
In what capacity should she congratulate him? As an ex-girlfriend?
She had expected that since both of them were in the film and television circle, they would meet again sooner or later.
She even imagined how she would feel at that time, and she should be able to calmly say "long time no see" to the other party.
She didn't expect that this day would come so soon. Moreover, it was in such a scene.
Song Zhi pinched her fingers lightly and pursed her lips tightly, with her thoughts turning around and around in a mess.
Meng Bai didn't know what Song Zhi was thinking, but she knew that her emotions must be very confused now.
Because every time she was nervous in the past, she would subconsciously pinch her fingers and rub them.
Compared with Song Zhi's complicated mood, Meng Bai's heart is quite calm now.
When they just broke up, he also fantasized that one day he would be successful and famous, and he must come to the other party, look at her painful and regretful expression, and slap her face hard.
Well, now think about it, it's really too naive.
Moreover, as time passes, looking back at the breakup of the two people at that time, we will find that it was not the fault of one person.
Throwing away the melancholy in his heart, Meng Bai broke the silence first and asked, "How are you recently?"
"Still the same." Song Zhi's expression was not bright, and he tried to remain calm and said, "It's a public unit, and we are ranked according to seniority. We rehearse two or three plays a month, and then we run around the crew."
When the two were in school, it can be said that it was a love between top students. Meng Bai was the first in the drama major, and Song Zhi was also ranked among the top students in the performance department.
After graduation, Meng Bai was young and energetic and became an independent screenwriter. Song Zhi took the exam for the People's Art Theater on the recommendation of his teacher, and he passed it successfully in just one try.
The People's Art Theater is the Beijing North People's Art Theater, a national-level drama theater, the highest hall in the domestic drama industry, and it is also a formal institution with a formal establishment.
It can be said that in addition to earning less and being less famous, the actors of the People's Art Theater are almost the best in terms of professionalism, acting ability, official development and even the "actor contempt chain".
Meng Bai was actually recommended by Professor Zou to take the entrance exam for the People's Art Theatre, and the status of a screenwriter is one level higher than that of an actor. If he really passed the exam, his name would be written together with those of Guo Moruo, Lao She, Cao Yu, and Ju Yin.
Unfortunately, at that time, he was young and full of vigor and made a decision that "went against his ancestors" - not to take the entrance exam.
"Are you also running a crew now?" Meng Bai asked in confusion.
"Of course, you are not... With the little money we make a month, if we don't take on external plays, we would have starved to death in Beijing North." Perhaps in front of Meng Bai, an "acquaintance", Song Zhi complained subconsciously.
The profession of drama actor seems to be at the "top of the contempt chain", but in fact, you know your own suffering.
The People's Art Theatre is a deficit institution, and a large part of its income is self-supporting. But drama, as a thing, is originally a niche, not to mention the status of the People's Art Theatre. It is impossible to stage some overly entertaining plays like the drama groups such as "Happy Twist" that have been popular in the past two years.
So even though the performances of the People's Art Theater are exciting enough and the actors' acting skills are quite superb, it is really not very profitable in general.
The theater makes little money, so the actors naturally get less money. Newcomers like Song Zhi only make three to five hundred yuan for a play. Moreover, there are many actors in the People's Art Theater, and they can only perform a few shows throughout the year, so the money they make is naturally very little.
Anyway, Meng Bai remembered that when the two were still together, Song Zhi seemed to make only three to four thousand yuan a month.
Three to four thousand a month is barely enough in a small county town, but it is really not enough in Beijing North. In addition, there is a lot of free time, so many actors of the People's Art Theater will take on plays outside to supplement their family expenses. As long as there is no trouble or there is any important task, the theater generally doesn't care.
However, auditioning for the crew is not simply determined by your acting skills. You say you are a professional actor of the People's Art Theater, but in the eyes of the producers, you may not be more competitive than someone who says he has 50,000 fans.
Song Zhi, like Li Qin, also debuted in "Dream of Red Mansions" and played Xiangling in it at the time. In the following years, she received several roles, but none of them were very popular.
This year is even more miserable. I don’t know if it’s because of bad luck or what, but from the beginning of the year to now, she hasn’t received any roles.
If she doesn’t get any roles, she won’t get paid. There was a time when she even had to shamelessly ask her family for living expenses.
Song’s mother had advised her before that if it really didn’t work out, she might as well change her career or go back to her hometown and get married.
She herself actually thought about whether she was not suitable to be an actor, and whether she should change her career as soon as possible like her colleagues around her.
The audition opportunity for "The Pretender" was arranged by her acting teacher Liu Tianchi.
"Before I came here, I was thinking that if I failed this time, I would listen to my mother and go home and get married." Song Zhi smiled self-deprecatingly.
Meng Bai nodded and agreed: "In fact, it's not bad to get married, find a husband, and have a child. In another ten years, you will come home from work, sweating. Then your husband who is lying on the sofa playing with his mobile phone asks you to cook quickly, and your child who has just entered junior high school asks you whether boiling water at 100 degrees is a right angle or an obtuse angle
. Your elderly and unhealthy parents said that they spent 6888 to buy ten boxes of new health products today..." "You are so annoying!" Song Zhi frowned and yelled at Meng Bai. This kind of life is really hellish just thinking about it.
Meng Bai smiled indifferently and said, "It's a reasonable assumption."
"Reasonable, you big-headed ghost!"
After yelling at Meng Bai, Song Zhi was suddenly stunned. This conversation felt so familiar.
It used to be like this. I said a word, and then he always took the opportunity to make a joke. When he made me angry and started yelling at him, he would come over and hug me to please and comfort me.
However, Song Zhi looked at Meng Bai who was sitting opposite and smiling. He should not come to comfort me now.
"By the way, which role did you come to audition for?" Meng Bai asked.
Song Zhi then remembered that she would have to face this "ex-boyfriend interviewer" later. She just didn't know whether he would help her out of their past friendship or take this opportunity to give her no hope.
If it was two years ago, based on her understanding, Meng Bai would choose the former.
But now, she didn't know.
Taking a deep breath, Song Zhi slowly said: "I am auditioning for the role of 'Agent No. 76 Wang Manchun'."
"Wang Manchun?"
Meng Bai repeated in surprise, looked her up and down, and shook his head directly: "No need to try, this role is not suitable for you."
Song Zhi bit her lip tightly when she heard this, and tears welled up instantly.
(End of this chapter)
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