Chapter 85 Social Terrorist
Pretty and can dance?
Li Yitong blinked and looked at Meng Bai expectantly.
"Why, don't you know anyone?" Meng Bai asked, "It's okay, forget it if there's none."
"Can't you really see that there's someone who meets the requirements right in front of you?"
Meng Bai looked around and asked in confusion, "Where is it?"
"..."
Li Yitong took a deep breath, then rolled up her sleeves, clenched her slender fingers tightly, and then punched Meng Bai, "I told you I've been tolerating you for a long time!"
A flurry of small pink punches hit her body, and the speed of the punches was no less than that of Ip Man.
"I'm just teasing you, just kidding..." Meng Bai hurriedly grabbed Li Yitong's hand, "I want to find someone who can be funny and fairy-like. You are pretty, but too sweet."
Seeing that both of her hands were firmly grasped by Meng Bai and she couldn't break free, and the other party took the initiative to admit her mistake, Li Yitong stopped the "attack".
She pulled her palm and found sadly that she had no strength left. She stared at Meng Bai and said coldly, "Why don't you let go?"
"Your little hands are so soft, but you're quite strong when you hit people." Meng Bai complained and let go of her hand.
Li Yitong's palms are very beautiful, white and translucent, delicate and soft, with slender fingers and distinct joints, but it's a bit out of place on a sweet girl.
Meng Bai coughed lightly and explained, "I need an actress who can play two roles in my new drama. One of the two roles is more lively and funny, and the other is serious and fairy-like. You are beautiful, but your temperament doesn't match."
After saying that, he bumped Li Yitong's shoulder again: "Or you said that with our friendship, I would definitely think of you first."
"Huh, that's more like it."
The girl's anger came and went quickly. Seeing that Meng Bai admitted that she was beautiful, she stopped pursuing it and happily began to ponder whether there was anyone suitable among the people she knew.
"She's pretty, can dance, can act, and is lively and fairy-like..." Li Yitong thought for a moment and said, "I actually know a senior from our Beijing Dance Academy who's very suitable, and you should know her too."
"I know?" Meng Bai recalled the name of a classmate that Li Yitong had mentioned before: "What's her name?"
"Liu Shishi."
"..."
Looking at Li Yitong who was trying to hold back her laughter, Meng Bai took a deep breath and nodded, "Very good, you go back to the crew to get 200 yuan as advance payment, and be responsible for inviting her."
"I'm just kidding, you're not so serious." Li Yitong smiled sweetly with her eyes curved, "There's a girl in my class named Jin Chen, she won the 'Taoli Cup' award for dance, and has also acted in a movie, I think she's quite suitable for what you're talking about."
Well, this one obviously sounds much more reliable. Meng Bai said, "Please contact her and see if she's interested. If possible, come to the Blue Island crew to find me."
"It's no problem to contact her, but I remember she seems to have signed a brokerage company, I don't know if she can come." Li Yitong explained.
"Which company?" Meng Bai asked casually.
Li Yitong recalled: "It seems to be Tangren."
Meng Bai was stunned. He really had a connection with Tangren recently. This was the third time he had heard this name in this period of time.
"Let's ask her." Meng Bai said: "What's her personality like?"
Li Yitong thought for a moment: "She... has a little social anxiety."
"You are an actor and you still have social phobia?" Meng Bai asked in confusion.
But it's nothing to think about it. There are indeed many actors who are completely different in front of and behind the camera.
"No, when I say she is 'socially phobic', I don't mean 'social phobia'..." Li Yitong said with a strange expression on her face: "I mean, she is a 'social terrorist'."
"Huh?"
...
After the wrap-up party, Li Yitong quickly contacted Jin Chen.
Jin Chen was a little surprised when she first received the call. Although she and Li Yitong are fellow villagers and classmates, they are not in the same class, so their relationship can only be said to be pretty good, and they don't have much contact in normal times. It was not
until she heard the invitation to audition for the role that she knew that this classmate had started filming like herself.
"Did you say it was Arc Light Film and Television?" Jin Chen's deep voice came over the phone, and he asked excitedly: "Is it the Arc Light who filmed "Soul Ferry"? "
Li Yitong didn't expect that her classmate was actually a fan of "Pendulum". When she heard that she wanted to invite her to participate in the second part, she immediately agreed.
"Uh, didn't you say you signed a contract with an agency? Do you need to ask your agent for his opinion?" Li Yitong reminded in a low voice.
"It's okay, I'll talk to the company." Jin Chen said nonchalantly, "Besides, it's been almost a year since I signed the contract, and I've only filmed one drama in total. Don't you allow me to find resources myself?"
Jin Chen was spotted by Tangren when she was filming "The Imperial Doctress" last year, and was asked if she had any intention of signing a contract.
At that time, she was still a newcomer. When she heard about the invitation from a well-established big company like Tangren, she was very excited and agreed without much hesitation.
However, after the actual signing, it was discovered that Tangren is no longer the "king of ancient puppet dramas" before. With the changes of the times and the departure of talents, it has become weak inside.
The specific manifestation of this decline is in the resources of its own artists.
In the past, Tangren had sufficient self-production strength, so its actors had sufficient resources just by relying on domestic dramas.
But now, Tangren has fewer and fewer projects every year, with only one or two dramas a year. Because of the tradition of "family members shoot their own dramas", these dramas have to give priority to the actors with high popularity above, and those who can fall into the hands of these newcomers below basically have no good resources.
Just like Jin Chen, the company has only given her one drama since she signed the contract, and it is an anti-Japanese war drama with little popularity and average quality. As for the "The Legend of Ming Fei" she filmed when she signed the contract, for some reasons, it is unknown when it will be broadcast, so she has basically no work this year.
Therefore, when she heard that there was an audition invitation at this time, and it was a sequel project that had a hit in the first part, she naturally could not refuse it.
And not to mention her personal preference, the performance and reputation of the first part of "Soul Ferry" are there, and the second part has a basic plate. As long as the quality is not unexpected, the popularity will definitely not be bad.
Although she was only given a main supporting role, as long as the plot is outstanding, the popularity brought by it may not be worse than those ordinary dramas with little splash.
So Jin Chen did it first and then asked for permission. While agreeing to Meng Bai's invitation, she went to talk to her agent about it.
Knowing that his artist accepted the audition invitation privately, the agent was naturally very annoyed, but after listening to the other party's complaints, he felt that there was nothing wrong.
Finally, under Jin Chen's tough attitude, the agent reluctantly agreed to her request. He took the initiative to contact Arclight Films to turn this private invitation into a formal resource contact.
Meng Bai was naturally unaware of these internal disputes and just regarded it as a normal cooperation. He set a time with the other party and planned to meet this girl who made Boss Li look strange when he mentioned her.
And the other party obviously did not disappoint him. After the normal greetings, he did not rush to introduce his filming experience, but first pulled Meng Bai to gossip about his relationship and feelings with Li Yitong.
The familiar posture made Meng Bai stunned. It was not until this moment that he finally understood why Li Yitong used the word "social terrorist" to describe her friend.
(End of this chapter)
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