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Chapter 188: Choosing the actors by tricking

Everyone thought that the battle for Feng Jie would end with a "shocking battle", with the loser playing Ping Er. Unexpectedly, Le Yun suddenly left, and Deng Jie won without a fight!
Xiatian felt relieved, as it seemed that his butterfly wings were not flapping randomly.

He said goodbye to the excited Deng Jie: "Okay, Jiejie, I'm leaving now~"

Deng Jie smiled and joked: "Stay and have a meal!"

"If I stay, you won't have enough to eat."

Everyone laughed and watched Xiatian ride away on his bicycle at lightning speed.

Deng Jie got Feng Jie as she wished, but this disrupted the crew's plans!

Because although someone had played the role of Feng Ji, suddenly no one was playing the role of Ping Er!

Still need to make adjustments!
For several days afterwards, Director Wang talked to this person and that person...

……

On June 6, Xia Tian took Chen Li from the crew to record "In vain I grieve".

Chen Li might be nervous as she hadn't slept for half the night. Lunch was even more interesting. She asked for a bowl of noodles, and the waiter brought her a bowl of spicy dandan noodles!

Chen Li was about to record the video, but when he saw the bowl of red noodles, his face turned pale.
Xia Tian asked for something light again.

Recording a song is a process that requires you to polish it over and over again, piece it together bit by bit.

This time with Xia Tian around, things were much better. After recording six times, Wang Liping was finally satisfied.

Xia Tian asked, "Teacher Wang, how is the composition going? Director Wang is getting anxious!"

He released two pieces of music in one year - "Overture" and "In vain I Gaze".

Wang Liping took out a handkerchief and touched his forehead, "Almost there!"

Hahahaha!

Xia Tian discovered that urging for manuscripts is so interesting~
……

As time came to late June, many roles began to become clear.

On this day, the actor who plays Daiyu needs to be confirmed.

Xiao Xu got up early, not wanting to go to the crew to hear the result, so he came to the garden and walked along a quiet path to the end.

Sitting down in a green forest, I thought about many things...

Xiaoxu's father suffered a lot during those years.

After the exercise, he discovered that his daughter Chen Xiaoxu was extremely introverted and very timid. She always hid in a corner alone and did not like to communicate with others.

Xiaoxu studied ballet very hard when she was young, and at the age of 12 she could already do the difficult move of a backward kick to the purple gold crown.

But in middle school, after passing all the ballet assessments, she had to give up in the end because ZS failed.

I don’t know how long it was, but suddenly a classmate from the training class came and said, “…You are the only one left to continue trying out Daiyu, while they try out other roles.”

Xiao Xu was suddenly confused for a second, and when she came to her senses, she said softly: "I understand."

Then he put his hands in his pockets and walked back slowly, not knowing what mood he was in.

The other two people in Daiyu's group, Zhang Jinglin, were arranged by Director Wang to audition for the role of Qingwen...

Zhang Jinglin entered the Central Academy of Chinese Opera at the age of 10, so the current undergraduate students of the Central Academy of Chinese Opera are called "non-professionals".

Zhang Jinglin said at the time: "Only those like us who grew up in the Central Academy of Drama can be considered as professional actors."

Xia Tian: "Yes, yes, you are awesome."

Zhang Jinglin was anxious: "I didn't say anything about you!"

Xia Tian: Look, I’m so anxious!

Zhang Jinglin was born into a scholarly family in Tianjin. The Zhang family is a large family with intellectuals for generations.

She entered the Chinese Academy of Drama at the age of ten, and after admission she studied under Peking Opera master Mr. Zhang Junqiu.

Among all the students of Mr. Zhang Junqiu, only Zhang Jinglin could cook braised pork with him.

When she was a teenager, her mother had saved 3 yuan for her.

How much was the first payment for the summer? More than 4 yuan~
When she was on the set of Dream of Red Mansions, she couldn't get used to the crew's food, so she often paid for her own meals.

Zhang Jinglin failed in her competition for Lin Daiyu, and Director Wang asked her to play Qingwen. She was very disappointed.

The last time Xia Tian said that Chen Xiaoxu was more suitable than her, she had the idea of ​​quitting the crew.

Now I don’t want to act anymore!
But the crew and Director Wang definitely can’t let such a good talent go just like that!
Her family also advised her to stay.

Finally, she negotiated a condition with the crew: she could play Qingwen, but she would not be with the crew and would only go to Qingwen's important scenes.

During the previous training, they had to get up every day to practice basic skills. It was okay at the beginning, and she even led everyone in practicing.

But because Zhang Jinglin was a professional, those things were too common for her, so she often slept in and didn't go to training. The assistant director often pulled her out of bed to train.
Director Wang was indeed very optimistic about her and finally agreed to all these conditions!
She was only notified in advance when there was a play starring Qingwen. When there was no play, she would go out and do what she liked.

This is also the case in later plays, where in many group scenes where Qingwen should have appeared, only Xiren, Sheyue and others were seen.

Xia Tian seriously suspected that Zhang Jinglin proposed the conditions according to his own conditions - Zhang Jinglin and Xia Tian were the only two people in the crew who did not follow the crew and could overlap with other crew members.

But no matter what, she was appeased and Qingwen had found a place to stay.

Many years later, Director Wang commented on An Wen (the name Zhang Jinglin later changed; many actors changed their names and lives because of this drama) and Chen Xiaoxu, saying: Chen Xiaoxu's acting skills are not as good as An Wen, nor is she as pretty as An Wen, but An Wen's overall image seems too healthy, while Lin Daiyu has a melancholy and weak temperament.

Director Wang said, "I would rather have this temperament."

When saying this, Director Wang remembered what Xia Tian had said at the beginning: "I still support Chen Xiaoxu! Director Wang, I think we should not look at looks and acting skills, but temperament! It's useless to look as beautiful as the Seven Fairies of Queen Mother of the West, because that's not Lin Daiyu..."

Zhang Lei, another candidate for Daiyu, was selected as the first candidate for the role, but the director team thought that she was too old, her skin was not like that of a girl, and she looked more mature in all aspects. She seemed too amorous to play Daiyu...

Finally, it was decided to let her play the ill-fated beauty Qin Keqing.

Xia Tian remembered that Zhang Lei went to study in the United States before the filming of "Dream of Red Mansions" was completed.

For this purpose, the crew specially found a stand-in actress, Xia Lirong, to perform a few scenes with her back. Fortunately, Keqing's role was not too many and there were no mistakes.

Now only Zhang Li and Cheng Mei are left in Baochai's group.

The crew had decided early on that Zhang Yuping (a classmate in Xia Tian's amateur acting class) would play Xiangyun, and she had always wanted to play the role of Jia Baoyu.

But just a few days ago, she was admitted to the Railway Cultural Corps and left!
Originally, Guo Xiaozhen listened to Xia Tian and wanted to join the Xiangyun group, but was stopped by the assistant director because she had been chosen!
Just plan to let her play Xiren!

As a result, Zhang Yuping left, and Shi Xiangyun fell into Guo Xiaozhen's hands.

Now Guo Xiaozhen plays Xiangyun, and there is no one to play Xiren anymore!

So Yuan Mei, who was originally in Baochai's group, was asked to play Xiren instead.

She changed from Baochai to Yuanyang (Grandmother Jia's maid), and finally to Xiren.

In fact, Yuan Mei looks a lot like Baochai, with a round face.

In order to play Xiren, she specially used hairstyle and thin lips to lengthen her face, because in the original novel, Xiren had a "long face".

Anyway, the roles have been changing these days.

Now only Zhang Li and Cheng Mei are left in Baochai's group. Xia Tian encourages Zhang Li: "Keep going, don't be afraid! I think you look like Baochai, and you have the temperament of a lady from a noble family. The most rare thing is that your personalities are very similar."

The most important thing is that Cheng Mei is not young anymore - she is the actress who later played Yuanchun.

This is Zhang Li’s biggest advantage!

After a while, Xiao Xu ran in while no one was in the room, pretended to take a look, and asked, "Why don't you see your lady from a wealthy family?"

Xia Tian: So it was you who was eavesdropping outside just now!
At this time, Zhang Li suddenly came out from the door: "Okay! Are you teasing me here? Watch this~" and started to tickle her.

When Xia Tian first suggested that Zhang Li play Baochai, no one in the crew expected it because Zhang Li had never been asked to prepare for the role of Baochai before.

When deciding on the actors, Director Wang was a little hesitant: "Zhang Li looks a little young, doesn't she? Baochai is Bao's sister!"

Xia Tian smiled, "You're right. Zhang Li looks young, which is just right for making Sister Bao younger. Using Sister Bao's age as a benchmark, the ages of other characters can be lowered accordingly, isn't that great?" Photographer Li Yaozong immediately agreed, "That's right. The protagonists in the original novel are all 12 or 13 years old, so we must lower the actors' ages!"

Director Wang has always attached great importance to Xia Tian and Li Yaozong's opinions when it comes to selecting actors.

He thought about it and immediately made a decision, deciding that Zhang Li would play the role of Baochai.

Director Wang had previously made careful observations of the actors.

He found that Zhang Li liked to be lively and could endure loneliness. She was the kind of person who was sociable but didn't like to hang out with people.

When the crew took group photos, others liked to squeeze into the middle, but she stood quietly on the side, not trying to compete with others.

Besides, Xia Tian’s words really carry weight in the crew!

First of all, he is now a celebrity in Yanjing City, from children's literature to children's songs, from labor clothing exhibitions to the Spring Festival Gala, to the preparations for the Journey to the West crew.

That is, he is not old enough, otherwise he would be an old artist~
The most important thing is that he can find money from Hong Kong, rent cameras cheaply, give advice, solve problems, and get along well with experts. He is highly praised.

Well, I can also help Director Wang. I mean, help Director Wang share the pressure and give him psychological massage - someone said something sarcastic in the newspaper, and Xia Tian is really against it!

The most important thing was that, for some unknown reason, Xia Tian got the chief engineer to speak up, which immediately relieved the pressure on the Red Mansions crew.

Where can I find such a person? !
Director Wang wished he could be an assistant director so he could share more of the burden!

The main character has basically been decided, and the remaining roles have also been placed one by one.

……

Just as the actors were about to be decided, something happened that night.

Xia Tian was of course not there, he heard it from Xiao Xu and Deng Jie.

It is said that the girls cried and begged the screenwriter Zhou Ling to help Ma Guangru.

This young man studied Huangmei Opera and had sung some plays with Jia Baoyu in them. He always compared himself to Jia Baoyu.

But Director Wang and others did not plan to let him play Jia Baoyu, which is indeed quite different.

He is tall, not very good looking, and too mature.

Seeing that there would be no role left and they had to go back, everyone was very sad after spending so much time together.

Zhou Ling was also moved by the friendship of everyone and asked Ma Guangru: "Would you like to try Jia Rui's play?"

Ma Guangru said excitedly: "Teacher, as long as you let me stay, I can play anyone."

Then Zhou Ling began to audition him and asked Deng Jie to act with him. The role was a scene where Jia Rui runs into Wang Xifeng in Huifang Garden - the scene where Xia Tian made Deng Jie blush with just one look.

Deng Jie now has experience.

The two of them went over it several times very seriously and it looked pretty good.

Then Zhou Ling told them, this is what happened...

After breakfast they went to the rehearsal room and rehearsed over and over again regardless of whether anyone was watching or not.

After breakfast, Zhou Ling took Director Wang to the rehearsal room for a stroll, and "happened" to see Jia Rui and Wang Xifeng performing!

Wang Dao's eyes lit up and he asked me in a low voice: "Jia Rui?"

Zhou Ling said: "It was a good performance~"

In this way, Ma Guangru stayed and played the role of Jia Rui.

……

Now many of the roles have been decided.

Hu Zehong became Xichun because she and Director Wang got along so well.

Jin Lili, who came from Lin'an, was 18 years old when she joined the team. She was an operator in a suburban people's commune.

It is said that she walked past Wang Fulin's window at that time and attracted attention because her thin figure was very consistent with Yingchun's "golden boudoir beauty".

She was chosen to play Yingchun.

Sun Mengquan was confirmed to play Li Wan. She is 32 years old and looks much older than the other girls. She is married and has a two-year-old son. This role is very suitable for playing the hard-working Li Wan.

Also, she later played the role of Nun Miejue in the movie "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" starring Li Lianjie.

Unexpected, right? No wonder Jia Zhu died young. Nun Miejue, his body couldn't take it.
Oh, by the way, the one who plays the Golden Lion King Xie Xun is Sha Seng from Journey to the West~
Chen Jianyue is an actress at the Xiying Studio. She wanted to play Xiren at first, and during the training period she also tried Qin Keqing and Yingchun, but she was finally chosen to play the unfortunate Xiangling.

She originally went to audition for the role of a village girl in Journey to the West, but was eventually roped in by the assistant director to come to Dream of Red Mansions.

Xia Tian: Don’t let Director Yang know about this, otherwise the blame will be put on me!

Shen Lu has been confirmed to play Jia Lian’s concubine Qiu Tong in the play.

The girl was only 16 years old and was a candidate for the role of Daiyu at the beginning. However, she started dancing disco at the party and was rejected by Director Wang.

Later, she even became a candidate for Wang Xifeng...

So now you let her play the concubine Qiu Tong? !

From the main wife to the mistress? !

This injustice cannot be tolerated!

Shen Lu cried out of grievance at that time, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She just packed up her things - I quit!

Everyone ran away! The crew quickly chased after them~
It’s funny to say that Jia Lian has already decided on Gao Hongliang - there are few male actors in the crew, so he was decided early.

When he was acting opposite Wang Xifeng, Deng Jie asked Shen Lu to help with Qiu Tong's acting.

Because she was so immersed in the role, Shen Lu played Qiu Tong to perfection, just like the part where "she leaned against the door frame, crossed her legs, picked her teeth, and her eyes were full of love"!
As a result, Director Wang saw him and he became the best candidate for Qiu Tong.
Director Wang: Xia Tian, ​​doesn’t she admire you very much? Please write her a letter to persuade her!

Xia Tian: Director Wang, you actually want to use the beauty trap? Shen Lu is only 16 years old, do you feel guilty?
Director Wang wrote letters and made phone calls, saying: There is no one more suitable than you! It has to be you!
After a lot of trickery, I finally coaxed the little girl back~
Speaking of which, Director Wang has the greatest advantage of being a director - the ability to fool people!

At that time, Zhang Jinglin didn't want to play Qingwen and wanted to leave.

He said: The first sign that Baoyu turned over in the fantasy world was Qingwen's. This character was created for you, you are Qingwen, and Qingwen is you!

Hu Zehong was reluctant to play Xichun as she felt she had too few parts.

Director Wang: More, more! Are five shows enough?!

Hu Zehong: That’s enough, thank you director!
Yuan Mei was replaced by Xiren.

Director Wang said: You have a very generous older sister demeanor, very similar to Xiren. And Xiren has many scenes and it is not easy to play. I believe in you!
Yang Xiaoling played Xia Jingui for someone else, and she was so lifelike that she missed out on the role of Xue Baoqin and became the actress of the shrew Xia Jingui.

Wang Dao added: Only you can wear bright yellow clothes.

Jin Lili doesn't want to play Yingchun.

Wang Dao said: Only the Twelve Beauties can be on the calendar~
Director Wang’s technique of coaxing people is perfect!

Xia Tian called him a negotiation expert who could fool anyone.

It is said that film and television is the art of deception, which shows that Director Wang is a good director.

The male actors have already been decided.

Hou Changrong played Prince Beijing and Jiang Yuhan.

Gao Hongliang played Jia Lian. He came for the role of Baoyu, but was persuaded by Director Wang to play Jia Lian.

Xia Tian helped to persuade him: "I see that you have peach blossom eyes, you can definitely play Jia Lian!"

Gao Hongliang: How dare you say that to me?!

After that it was easy, just take the final photos and announce the cast list!

The actors of Red Mansions have been confirmed!

Originally this one was two-in-one, and it lasted for one day’s update!
I didn’t expect that there would be one less picture when I updated this!
There is no way, I have to bear the pain!
There are less than ten pieces left in my inventory, and my heart is bleeding!
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(End of this chapter)