Chapter 28
Chapter 28
Will I be targeted if I refuse an invitation from a gaming enthusiast?
Perhaps it will, perhaps it won't, but if Sang Zhuo doesn't become a big hit in the future, then for Jiang Mingyue, it means that she doesn't have to worry about Sang Zhuo becoming a stumbling block on her path to development.
It's okay to offend them!
—Sang Tuo is backed by GIGABYTE Entertainment, but no matter what means Fu Xiachuan uses to send the audition notice to her through GIGABYTE Entertainment, from the outside perspective, she is also an actress that GIGABYTE intends to recruit.
Moreover, with the Fu family offering such excellent opportunities, Fu Xiachuan certainly wouldn't let her fend for herself on the film set.
Ah, I never thought that one day, Jiang Mingyue would think to herself, "I have a powerful backer."
It was actually pretty cool.
As for the ten days or so of filming, Sang Zhuo really had no shame and came to cause trouble...
Haha, with Sang Zhuo's acting skills, who could he possibly cause trouble for? Does he really think he can sabotage other actors by doing 100 takes and dragging them down with him? That would be a self-destructive method that hurts everyone.
Jiang Mingyue found it amusing, but pretended not to understand what he meant. She patted the untouched lunchbox beside her and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but I'm on a diet tonight and I need to study. I won't have time to eat."
Jiang Mingyue could play her cards like a good kid countless times.
Jiang Mingyue's expression was so natural that Sang Zhuo, with his acting skills, couldn't tell whether she was faking it or genuinely feeling it.
Sang Zhuo has no shortage of women to keep him occupied, and he's never been one to pester others, but this time... thinking about how his brother, which had been hard all afternoon, wouldn't get to taste Jiang Mingyue, Sang Zhuo felt he wouldn't be able to get a proper rest tonight.
He's no longer some nobody, so why should he still be thinking about a woman and doing handicrafts at night?
Sang Tuo simply stopped pretending and grabbed Jiang Mingyue's shoulder, saying, "I mean, I want to have some intimate conversations with you tonight."
Sang Tuo came over to talk to Jiang Mingyue without deliberately lowering his voice.
The acting profession demands a high standard of appearance; everyone must maintain a strict diet in addition to years of exercise. Because their faces are well-known, even if they earn a lot of money, they will still be stuck in traffic when they go out, unable to move freely, and have nowhere to spend their money freely.
Human happiness is largely lost under these two restrictions.
As a result, a tacit understanding formed within the industry, with the emotional release being concentrated on the last pleasure, and many actors having sex addictions in private.
Once on the closed film set, the stars, surrounded by their "sensible" colleagues, would let loose and indulge in sexual pleasure, naturally becoming "on-set couples" and roaming between rooms at night.
Sang Zhuo isn't the only one doing this; the female lead, Yin Manman, is the same kind of person. To put it bluntly, even the second male and female leads aren't exactly morally upright, so Sang Zhuo doesn't need to hide anything.
But whether they are in a mess or not has nothing to do with Jiang Mingyue.
Even without moral judgment, as long as Jiang Mingyue has no feelings for Sang Zhuo, she has no intention of having any further contact with him.
Jiang Mingyue's face immediately darkened. She grabbed Sang Zhuo's wrist and flung him away without saying a word. She turned and left angrily.
The set was immediately filled with mocking laughter.
Sang Zhuo was losing face and shouted, "Hey, you..."
"Sang Zhuo," Director Liu said, interrupting Sang Zhuo and nodding at him with his eyes, "You have a scene to film tomorrow, don't mess around and waste your rest."
Sang Tuo is a bigger star than Jiang Mingyue, but he's nothing in front of Director Liu.
He could only straighten his attitude and reply politely, "Director Liu, I'll go back and review the script."
Director Liu nodded: "Yes, don't eat too much salt for dinner, and don't drink too much soup or liquid, so your face won't be swollen tomorrow and affect filming."
"Director Liu, don't worry, we guarantee that Brother Sang won't eat any more than he should." Sang Zhuo's assistant nodded and bowed as he made the promise, and quickly pulled him away.
After everyone left, Director Liu returned to the camera and checked the footage one last time.
Zhang Xin, who had also finished a full day of filming, came over to meet with Director Liu. Director Liu immediately pulled her in front of the camera and pointed at Jiang Mingyue's performance: "Look."
The original footage recorded on location has not yet been noise-reduced, so the noise from the equipment, the actors' unclear lines, and even the noise of the carpet being stepped on can all be reproduced.
Despite the rough quality of the content, Jiang Mingyue in the picture exudes her unique charm, making her stunningly beautiful.
Such a stunning woman exudes charm without any affectation or vulgarity.
Zhang Xin exclaimed, "My sister came back this afternoon and told me that Jiang Mingyue danced very professionally and had a very solid foundation. If it weren't for her height, she could have had a good career in dance. I didn't expect it to be true. And, Brother Liu, look at the expression on her face. She's so proud of herself, just like my cat when she tricked me out of a cat treat."
Sexiness and allure all stem from innocence; "natural perfection" is the highest level of performance.
Director Liu touched his head and sighed, "Yes, and look at Sang Zhuo—it's completely real that Sang Zhuo was seduced to the point of desire and restraint. This scene is meant to show that the male lead is indeed being controlled by the fox spirit in terms of his body, but he knows mentally that this wavering is wrong. The emotions he is stirred up are particularly suitable for this scene."
Don't be fooled by Sang Tuo's flirtatious behavior on set, always chasing after admirers; he actually has a very well-behaved image on screen.
Given this kind of screen image, in order to maintain his image in front of the camera, Sang Zhuo chose to play only positive roles such as grassroots heroes.
It's not that this kind of role is bad, but the type of roles he can play well have been fixed in the past, and there's been no way to explore his potential.
Of course, most importantly, Sang Zhuo himself has very little acting talent; if you ask him to explore and create characters, he can't come up with anything.
If the same situation were applied to Jiang Mingyue, would Hu Lili, a third female lead with few scenes and no highlights, have a core story to explore in the script?
Of course, there isn't one.
But Jiang Mingyue is able to discover the characteristics of the characters she plays on her own!
In her performance, the fox is portrayed as gluttonous, lazy, and cowardly.
Because big cities have demon hunters and it would be very dangerous, Hu Lili, who was afraid of death, did not dare to go to crowded places to improve her cultivation by eating people. Instead, she hid in a small tribe.
Because Hu Lili was a glutton, she discovered that the small tribe was very skilled at barbecuing. So she used her singing and dancing to seduce the men in the tribe and stayed under the guise of "repaying a debt of gratitude," where she lived a life of luxury.
Because of her laziness, even if Hu Lili discovers that there are evil spirits nearby, she will ignore everything as long as those evil spirits do not affect her life.
Even her later attempts to please the male lead, Jiang Li, were solely for the purpose of maintaining her current lifestyle.
Despite appearing in only a few short scenes, and aside from dancing, the character portrayal in the film is limited to no more than twenty shots, Jiang Mingyue has already vividly portrayed the three main personality traits of Hu Lili and the fact that Hu Lili is a "demon" and therefore doesn't care about human lives.
"That's why they say everything depends on talent. Some people, you can feed them food right to their mouths and they still won't taste it; but someone like Jiang Mingyue, a nobody with no special characteristics, is a complete performer the moment she appears. If she acts according to her current understanding, this role is more than just a pretty face." Director Liu finished speaking and looked at Zhang Xin.
During their eye contact, Zhang Xin finally understood why Director Liu had specifically called her to watch the footage that had just been filmed.
"Do you think we should add a few more scenes for Jiang Mingyue and fill in the parts of the script that have been omitted too much?"
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