Chapter 353 Nothing More Than That
The staff announced through a loud speaker, "Everyone, take your positions! Take your positions!" Everyone stopped talking and prepared to work with serious expressions.
The ceremony of enthroning the princess officially begins.
The first scene is the heroine's play. Wang Zhaojun and her maid wait at the side door of the front hall, waiting to be called.
According to the plot, the emperor had summoned Wang Zhaojun once before, and after discussing with his trusted ministers, he decided to use this girl as a marriage partner. In order to deal with the unreasonable Huhanye Chanyu, he officially canonized her as a princess today and gave her a legitimate identity.
Fu Feiqian was already standing at the designated location, with eight extras playing the roles of palace maids behind her. She looked haggard and shabby, wearing a plain grey Hanfu dress, with her hair simply tied up. She had no eye-catching accessories on her body, and the palace maids were more exquisite than hers. This was exactly the effect that Lin Zhi and Tian Yafu wanted.
Fu Feiqian had a blank expression on her face, and the female extras behind her also had no expression on their faces. Behind Fu Feiqian, they didn't dare to laugh and they all looked very solemn.
Everyone got into the mood only when the director said “start”.
A eunuch walked up to Wang Zhaojun and said, "Please wait here for His Majesty to summon you."
Wang Zhaojun nodded, "Thank you for your help."
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"Kuh..." Lin Zhi called a halt and said to Fu Feiqian, "Your look in the eunuch's eyes is not right, and his tone is not right either. You are an abandoned woman who has just been released from the cold palace. You should be terrified of the people and things around you, fearing that you will be sent back to the cold palace if you do something wrong. Your performance is a bit exaggerated. Try again."
In fact, this scene had been filmed before, with the same dialogue and scenes, and the only thing that changed was Wang Zhaojun's appearance. Fu Feiqian played it this way the last time, and there was no problem that time, because in the previous plot, when Wang Zhaojun met the emperor, the emperor was shocked by her beauty and regretted sending her to the cold palace, and rewarded her with silk, satin, gold, silver and jewelry on the spot.
But after the script was revised, these plots were gone. The emperor only met Wang Zhaojun once, and was disgusted by her ugly appearance. He said nothing and left in a hurry. She was not sure what the emperor was thinking, nor did she know why the emperor summoned her to the front hall.
Fu Feiqian admitted that it was her problem. Her memory was still stuck on the original script and she was unable to adjust her emotions immediately.
These days she was busy with other work and was angry with Lin Zhi and others, so she didn't read the new script seriously at all. She just flipped through it before coming to the crew yesterday and found that the lines and scenes had not been modified. She felt that it was just a piece of cake and repetitive work.
Fu Feiqian is overconfident in her acting skills, to the point of blind arrogance. She has not yet realized that a change in character image, the same scene, and the same lines can create completely opposite feelings.
After filming for the second, third, and fourth times, Lin Zhi was still not satisfied. He said to Fu Feiqian, "Your expression and tone are in place this time, but it lacks a sense of misery."
Fu Feiqian felt that Lin Zhi was deliberately teasing him, "How can you show misery in such a simple scene? Do you want me to be so humble as to talk to a eunuch? Otherwise, why not just let me play the role of a resentful woman."
Lin Zhi was choked by her, and wondered if his requirements were too high. "Let's shoot it again and see."
Other actors were also watching the scene. After so many times of being stuck, Fu Feiqian was a little panicked, feeling that everyone was laughing at her. This was the consequence of not preparing before the "exam" and cramming at the last minute. No matter how good her acting skills were, she was not familiar with the new script and could not calm down to appreciate the character's emotions. She was helpless. She couldn't just look at the script again now.
Fu Feiqian tried her best to recall the new script she had read last night, trying to build up her emotions, and at this moment, she began to read it for the fifth time:
The eunuch walked up to Wang Zhaojun and said, "Please wait here for His Majesty to summon you."
Wang Zhaojun bowed, looked at the eunuch and said politely, "Excuse me."
Looking at the eunuch's receding back, and then looking at the towering palace in front of her, her eyes showed a trace of confusion and uneasiness about the unknown future. She asked the palace maids around her, "Why did His Majesty summon me?"
The maids on both sides bowed their heads and replied, "I don't know."
After a while, the eunuch returned and said to Wang Zhaojun, "Please follow me."
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