"Dear teachers, my performance is over."
The moment Shang Yechu uttered those words, the stagnant air in the audition room finally broke apart like a block of tofu being sliced. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief in unison.
Shang Yechu placed the pen back on the table, still smiling, "Sorry, teacher, I just borrowed it."
This sentence finally pulled everyone back to reality from that urgent and anxious world.
Shang Yechu observed the expressions of the four interviewers. Zhang Chen was expressionless, revealing neither joy nor anger. Director Liu looked grim, his breathing slightly rapid—the fat man needed to lose weight. Zheng Bohan's face was even more somber, lost in thought. Xu Hanwen seemed somewhat distracted…
You couldn't glean anything from the faces of these old men. Shang Yechu quickly gave up trying to observe them.
Shang Yechu's heart was pounding. She glanced at the clock on the wall—12:01. Exactly, eight minutes.
Getting into character extremely quickly and getting out of character extremely quickly are both exhausting for actors. At least for Shang Yechu herself, just a moment ago she was tense and resolute in facing death; in the blink of an eye, she had to smile sweetly and speak gently to the interviewers, her heart pounding, her emotions fluctuating wildly, from deep sorrow to calm, almost to the point of mental breakdown.
After two days of rest, Shang Yechu's current physique has reached its limit. If she loses any more weight, she'll truly become skin and bones—which would be even more drastically different from Li Yiming's appearance. She can't even manage to lose two pounds to exchange for cooldown time.
The performance was over. Shang Yechu believed she had poured all her energy and effort into portraying Li Yiming according to her own understanding. Now, all she could do was try her best and leave the rest to fate.
To be honest, Shang Yechu felt very tired right now and really wanted to die for a few minutes and sink into boundless tranquility.
"Which work did you just imitate?"
Zhang Chen's question made Shang Yechu much more alert. Shang Yechu smiled and said, "It's something I came up with myself. It was made up on the spot, so it might be a bit rough. Please forgive me, teachers."
Zhang Chen took a soft breath.
It was actually my own idea!
Zhang Chen was actually not very satisfied when Liu Zihang asked Shang Yechu to act out a scene where her identity was exposed.
Without any background or script, how are such young actors supposed to act? This is just asking for trouble...
Liu Zihang was, after all, one of their own comrades, so although Zhang Chen was dissatisfied, he didn't say anything. He had planned to offer some encouragement after the young actor's performance faltered, so that everyone could save face. Who would have thought that the other party would actually perform such a complete and dramatic "Death of Li Yiming"!
Both the pacing and the gripping plot are on par with professional scripts.
What's even more terrifying is that this actress was acting alone from beginning to end. She had no co-stars!
Whether it was the bodyguard, the "Director," "Captain Qian," or the "contact person," they all only appeared in Ye Chu's words. But that's the most terrifying part—
Even without knowing what the virtual "guard" was saying, everyone present could infer from Ye Chu's actions, expressions, and words what lines the non-existent "guard" had just said and what actions he had made!
Facing thin air, Ye Chu smoothly performed actions such as being pointed at with a gun, embracing a corpse, and dragging it away. The entire performance used no props. Only in the segment involving the pen-gun did Ye Chu steal the pen and paper from in front of Zheng Bohan. That pen and paper were the only two props Ye Chu used in the entire performance.
Zhang Chen can say without exaggeration that Ye Chu's performance without props has reached perfection. Throughout the entire performance, even when talking to thin air or embracing thin air, this young actress did not appear ridiculous in the slightest. Every glance, every smile, every gesture captivated the attention and hearts of those present.
Such mature acting skills are already surprising enough, but what surprised Zhang Chen even more was that he thought Ye Chu had drawn inspiration from some classic spy movie or novel for this performance—but it turned out to be an impromptu performance!
The dialogue design, the well-paced character interactions, the meticulously detailed micro-expressions and micro-movements, and the superb acting...
This young man is a monster.
Zhang Chen suppressed his astonishment and was about to ask a few more questions when Director Liu, sitting next to him, opened his sieve-like mouth:
"Xiao Ye, isn't your plot design a bit too cumbersome and complicated?"
Zhang Chen paused.
Shang Yechu raised her eyes and looked at the person who had asked the question.
Liu Zihang looked displeased, wiped his sweat, and said, "I asked you to perform 'revealing your identity' and 'heroically sacrificing yourself,' and what did you do?"
"You completely skipped over the 'identity exposure' part; we didn't even see how you were exposed. As for the 'heroic sacrifice,' well, just one shot, and it was over. The whole process took less than a minute."
"What are all those messy designs in the middle? Are they even related to what I asked for?"
Zhang Chen frowned, Zheng Bohan looked gloomy, and Xu Hanwen watched from the sidelines.
Shang Yechu stared calmly at the incessantly chattering Liu Zihang. When the latter met her cool gaze, he felt a pang of guilt, but his anger only intensified.
"Off-topic, seriously off-topic!" Liu Zihang became more and more agitated as he spoke, spitting as he spoke. "It's completely irrelevant!"
"You young people love to do all this fancy stuff. But what's the point? If your basic skills aren't solid, what's the use of all that fancy acting?"
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