Chapter 53 Chapter 53 Joining the Group
Jiang Yuxia hurriedly shook his head, trying to get rid of these things from his mind.
Zhou Boye: "Would you like to come back to the company with me or should I take you home?"
Jiang Yuxia: "Go back to the company with you."
"Okay, let's go have a meal first."
During the afternoon workday, Zhou Boye's office was always full of people coming in and out. He was afraid of disturbing Jiang Yuxia, so he asked, "Youyou, do you want a separate office for you?"
Although no one who came to the office dared to look at Jiang Yuxia.
Jiang Yuxia looked up from the script. She was so engrossed in it that she was stunned for a moment before she realized what Zhou Boye had said. "No, you can't disturb me."
He came to the company just to be with Zhou Boye. What's the point if he leaves?
After hearing what he said, Zhou Boye didn't insist anymore. He also wanted to stay with Jiang Yuxia for a while longer.
For a while, the office was full of people busy with their own things, and they would eat together at noon, which was a very harmonious atmosphere. In the evening, if Zhou Boye had to work overtime late, he would ask the driver to take Jiang Yuxia home first.
This kind of life continued until the eve of Jiang and Xia joining the group.
That day he stepped off the scale with a frustrated look on his face. Although he had hired a dietitian to help him lose weight, he hadn't lost much weight. In all this time, he had only lost less than five kilograms.
A big reason for this was that Zhou Boye had dinner with him, and he once again realized that he could not refuse Zhou Boye at all.
The crew notified the protagonist to join the crew early tomorrow. I thought he had to pack up and go out of town, but it turned out that his destination was in this city.
Sun Quan said that the crew would send a special car to pick him up, but the destination was not clearly announced and all the itineraries were kept confidential. I heard that they were afraid that someone would leak the itinerary, and then a bunch of fans would show up with cameras, and it would be impossible for him to continue experiencing life.
He had never imagined that the director's choice of location would be this. Jiang Yuxia stood at the orphanage's entrance, gazing at the large, age-old iron gate with a daze. It felt so familiar.
Of course he was familiar with it, as he had spent his entire childhood in an orphanage.
Sun Quan saw Jiang Yuxia standing there, so he reached out and pushed him. "What's wrong?"
Jiang Yuxia came back to his senses and shook his head reluctantly, "It's okay."
Sun Quan knew some of Jiang Yuxia's past, but not the details. He would never have thought that it would be such a coincidence that the filming location would be Jiang Yuxia's orphanage.
"Teacher Jiang." A crew member came over. "This is the place the crew has rented, the Sunshine Welfare Home. We've agreed with the director that each teacher will be assigned a dormitory. The teachers will live here as volunteers for half a month."
"Okay." Jiang Yuxia replied while looking inside. A few more naughty children had already run to the gate, clinging to the iron railings and staring at them curiously.
The clothes of younger children will be dirtier, while those of older children will be slightly cleaner. However, it is almost impossible to find clothes as dirty as those of Qin Zhixing back then.
He looked further away. It had been several years since he went abroad and had not been back. The orphanage had been renovated and several new buildings had been built. The exterior walls were specially painted in warm yellow. The original old building was sandwiched between these new buildings and looked so out of place, like a huge dying old man.
Returning to his hometown, Jiang Yuxia looked at this place he was once most familiar with curiously like a stranger.
Seeing his interest, Sun Quan assumed he was getting acquainted with the environment. Looking at the small but well-equipped "Children's Playground," he sighed, "It's really well built. I thought they only cared about food and clothing, but I didn't expect there were so many recreational facilities."
Jiang Yuxia reached out and touched the slide next to him, his expression a little out of control. The slide was the mouth of a small crocodile, and the entertainment facilities were all made of various small animals.
Colorful and dazzling.
"What are you laughing at?" Sun Quan looked at Jiang Yuxia in confusion.
"Nothing, I just feel good."
It seems like two different worlds compared to seventeen or eighteen years ago.
Sun Quan misunderstood, thinking he was talking about the game facilities. "Want to play? Didn't you play enough as a kid?"
Jiang Yuxia laughed. They didn't have these things when they were young. Funds were scarce at that time, and the director's grandmother was thinking every day about how to raise funds to support them.
Sun Qunhua looked at the amusement facilities and muttered, "I don't know if it will collapse if we sit on it."
He tested it carefully, with half of his butt already on it, but he was afraid of crushing it, so his movements seemed a bit artificial.
Seeing his eagerness to try, and then looking at the curious eyes of the children gathered around him, Jiang Yuxia coughed a little embarrassedly, "The crew is calling, let's go."
"Ah?" Sun Quan moved the half of his butt down again, quite reluctantly.
The director of the orphanage and the aunts who take care of the children have all been replaced, so no one can recognize Jiang Yuxia anymore.
"It's like this. Since our story is set in the 1990s, the dormitory we arranged for everyone is the original old building, which is also one of the scenes we filmed." The crew member pointed to the old building.
The new building here is too new, and the facilities and bathrooms inside are completely inconsistent with the background of the story. They searched many places, and the previous orphanages were either abandoned or demolished and rebuilt. It took a lot of effort to find such a building here.
In fact, this building has been abandoned for a long time. It is now used to store miscellaneous items and may be demolished in the near future.
It took the crew half a month to fix the water and electricity. In order to avoid distortion, most of the interior decoration remained unchanged and the walls were not repainted.
After so many years, the walls have peeled off and become moldy in many places, and a stale smell hits your nose as soon as you open the door.
"Wow," the fellow actors exclaimed, "You guys must have worked hard to find a house like this."
The crew was a little embarrassed. "I'm so sorry. In order to restore the realism, please overcome it."
Jiang Yuxia followed him in, speaking very little along the way. The doors of these dormitories were like valves of memory.
He may have been the last person to use this building, so you can even find some traces of his life here, such as the graffiti scribbled on the corners, which also have his touch.
"We've continued to use the bunk beds we had before. They're new, but we've used sandpaper to make them look old. Teachers, don't worry, they're absolutely sturdy."
Although it was a dormitory, everyone was an adult, so the crew arranged a single room for each person and did not let everyone squeeze together.
It was not difficult to integrate into the life here in half a month. Everyone volunteered at the orphanage during the day and gathered together to study the script at night. The screenwriter of the crew also basically stayed with them to facilitate rewriting the script.
On the third day that Jiang Yuxia came here, director Li Li also came.
"Xiao Xia, what do you think of the script?"
Jiang Yuxia: "It hasn't changed much from the original, it's very faithful to the original."
Director Li Li: "That's it?"
Jiang Yuxia seemed to think about it for a moment, and just when the director thought he would analyze the role, he just said "hmm".
Director Li Li teased, "I heard them say you're a quiet person, but I didn't believe it. I actually said you were quite talkative during the audition."
Jiang Yuxia smiled a little embarrassedly.
Li Li: "Have you ever thought about why you were asked to play the role of Lu Xiang?"
Jiang Yuxia: "I heard that you think he and I have similar temperaments."
The director nodded. "The first time I saw you, I felt that you and Lu Xiang were both like people in plastic bags. How can I describe it..."
She paused for a moment and summed it up in one word: "A sense of alienation."
"We actually had a fight about choosing you to play Lu Xiang because you're so good-looking. It's difficult to play an ordinary, ordinary person. Also, temperament is something ethereal, and how much can you express on camera? These are all issues that need to be considered. In the end, you were chosen because of the scene you auditioned for."
Jiang Yuxia was puzzled. "Excerpt?"
Director Li Li: "Actually, your selection wasn't very good. Without background music and camera work, that kind of performance would be a bit awkward in real life. It's too subtle, and no one wants to try to figure out what you're trying to say."
Jiang Yuxia seemed to be thinking about something, and he later felt that the excerpt was not good and there was basically no room for performance.
"But your selection is very bold, even arrogant."
Jiang Yuxia: “…” Her toes were about to dig out of the castle.
"And Lu Xiang needs this arrogance. I auditioned many people, but most of them gave me a subtle portrayal of his pity, strength, and relief, while ignoring his arrogance." Director Li Li looked at him with a smile. "I sent your audition clip to Teacher Li Wen, and he said I chose a good actor."
Teacher Li Wen is the original author of Summer Fantasy.
Jiang Yuxia was stunned for a moment. He was a little uncomfortable with the high praise. He paused before saying, "Thank you teachers for your recognition. I will play him well."
Director Li Li said "hmm", then said with a smile: "No one in my group dares not to perform well."
Jiang Yuxia: "..."
Director Li Li looked him up and down. "But he needs to be thinner and have a darker complexion."
She pressed the sides of her cheeks and said, "This area needs to be so thin that it's concave. When I take off my clothes, my back bones will stick out."
Jiang Yuxia plays Lu Xiang in his youth and in his thirties. Lu Xiang in this period is always morbidly thin, especially in his adolescence, because of long-term malnutrition, he could collapse at any time.
Jiang Yuxia nodded, "Okay, I'll try to lose weight to the required weight before filming."
After that, Jiang Yuxia began his hard life of losing weight. He joined the team three days ago, and the nutritionist came two days ago and took over his three meals as soon as he arrived.
Jiang Yuxia didn't have high requirements for food, or so he thought, until he had been eating a low-fat, low-salt diet for a week. Now, when he saw the food of his actor friend next to him, his eyes would widen.
Especially when there are friends who need to gain weight, Jiang Yuxia can't bear to take his eyes off them when they put all the heavy sauce in front of him.
The people watching were amused and said to the friend who needed to gain weight, "You insisted on recruiting him. Look, his eyes are about to fall out."
The man laughed when he heard it and said, "I forgot about it. How about taking one chopstick? One chopstick should be fine."
Jiang Yuxia shook his head and walked out holding his fat-reducing meal. Eating such food and exercising at night was just a waste of time.
But the hard work paid off. He lost six kilograms in just one week.
When Zhou Boye found time to visit his child on the set, he couldn't understand how it took him so long to gain a few pounds, but he lost all that weight in just a week.
Zhou Boye rubbed his hair and asked him, "Is it bitter?"
Jiang Yuxia was calm and composed in front of others, but he would still feel wronged in front of Zhou Boye and nodded heavily.
After ordering, I felt hypocritical again and coughed, "It's okay, but the food is a bit bland."
It was more than bland. Jiang Yuxia felt that the chef must have been lazy and simply rinsed the food.
Zhou Boye looked at Jiang Yuxia, whose cat eyes drooped with grievance, and felt both amused and distressed.
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