"They'll be here to pick people in ten minutes. You can go then."
Mo Yan checked the time and said, "The production team comes to find people at certain times, usually once in the morning, once around 10:00, once at 1:30, and once in the afternoon."
Because everyone knows that time will pass, and there are several other places like this. The different times allow them to stagger their visits. After finishing here, they move on to the next place.
If no one is selected, I'm sorry, you won't get any money for the day and you'll even have to pay ten yuan for transportation.
"What ten minutes?" Xin Siyi was a little confused.
"Just wait patiently."
Mo Yan remained silent; sometimes, one's own experiences are far more direct than what others tell them.
Ten minutes later, several people arrived. Don't mistake them for the director; some were stagehands, and some were the on-site director.
He went straight to the point, saying, "I need a few dead people here. Come over if you don't mind."
Then many people stood up.
"I."
"I."
Xin Siyi was a little confused by the way people were scrambling to act out the scene. How could they be so happy playing dead people? Didn't they feel it was unlucky?
Soon the person selected a few people, and the others sat back down, and silence returned to the room.
Next, some people want elderly people. Others want children.
Many were chosen, but an hour later, Xin Siyi and Luo Jiashi still hadn't been chosen, so those people left.
Where are Auntie and the others going?
"Let's go to the next casting location. There are several film studios around here. Let's go, we should follow them, otherwise we'll have come all this way for nothing."
Mo Yan told the two of them to get up and prepare to go to the next place.
"Mom, were you also picked and chosen like this? Like being picked out as cabbage, being disliked in every way?"
Xin Siyi felt a lump in her throat. She thought that being an extra was like in TV dramas, where everyone auditions and is immediately chosen by the director, becoming an overnight sensation.
But the reality was that I had to squeeze onto a bus for so long early in the morning. And then, once I got there, I was picked over like a cabbage.
You might also be told that this place is unsuitable because you're ugly.
She really didn't expect being an extra would be like this.
"Yeah, what else do you think you can pick and choose the production crew?"
Mo Yan looked at Xin Siyi with surprise, "You don't really think that, do you?"
How can there be such a naive person?
"I thought it meant I could just go to whichever film crew I liked." She wanted to choose the ones with lots of handsome men and celebrities.
But it seems that's not the case at all now.
"Don't dream about it before it gets dark. Hurry up and leave, or you won't even get a place to queue at the next place."
When they arrived at the second place, someone finally wanted to choose a little girl.
"Does anyone want to play a maid? 80."
Xin Siyi was a little stunned when she heard "80". Before she could react, many people had already started recommending themselves.
"I can direct, I can do it."
"Director, do you think I'm suitable?"
"Come over here and make a few expressions."
Xin Siyi was also taken over and told to make a few expressions, but because Xin Siyi kept a straight face, they said, "Are you expressionless? Go away, get out of here right now."
Xin Siyi never imagined that she would yell at someone like that one day. Her eyes suddenly stung and she felt like crying. She felt uncomfortable and embarrassed.
"Why are you crying? Get out of here!"
Xin Siyi, holding back her tears, returned to Mo Yan's side. "Mom..."
"It's normal. You might want to cry now, but you'll get numb in a couple of days."
It's normal to cry from being scolded; there are even scenes where people get beaten up. In those scenes, the beatings are real.
And why do so many people eagerly want to be hit, so why are they allowed on camera?
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