Ten minutes later.
"Teacher Tan? Teacher Tan... Teacher Tan!!!"
The crew member's heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout the set. Tan Yuanzhi's assistant ran up panting and shouting "Brother Zhi!"
Ji Ruochu, who was suddenly pushed to the side: ...
The Ji couple standing next to her: ...
"My daughter, tell your dad the truth. You've had it out for him for a long time, right?" Pulling his daughter to the corner, Ji Mochen gently asked.
Ji Ruochu: ?!
I'm not! I don't! This is slander!!
"I said that I'm strong, if I really kicked hard, he might have flown out."
So I specifically reached out to the other party and said that I would take it easy later, so Tan Yuanzhi should play along. But the result—
"Uncle Tan insisted that he had practiced martial arts since he was a child and had a steady foundation, so I shouldn't worry and should kick full force. I wondered how it could look so realistic, and it turned out he really flew!"
I thought he was more skilled than the martial arts brothers and sisters at the studio. I didn't expect that with one kick, Uncle Tan flew even farther than my fellow disciples, and even directly smashed through the prop wall behind.
Tsk, it made me feel a little guilty. I wonder if I hurt him. I should bring some medicinal products to visit him later.
Just then, the familiar exclamation came from behind again.
"Brother Zhi! Brother Zhi, wake up! Don't pass out!"
"Teacher Tan!"
"Quick! Call an ambulance!"
In just a few seconds, the entire crew fell into chaos again.
The family of three who were whispering in the corner but happened to be overheard: ......
And so, due to the injury of one of the main characters today, the crew got a day off.
Ji Ruochu took this opportunity to stroll around the classics near the film and television city with her parents.
To be honest, even though my memories of shooting in my previous life were so long ago, and even though I couldn't remember what had happened here when I saw these attractions, there was still an overwhelming sense of familiarity.
It was like even though I hadn't acted in a long time and had even forgotten many techniques, as soon as the camera was set up and I faced the lens, I instinctively knew what to do.
That's why rumors spread in the crew that I was a natural who knew how to act from birth, after just a few days.
"Ruoruo, stand here! Let Dad take a picture of you." My father, whose poor acting skills rarely allowed him to "play" in the crew, looked excited.
Ji Ruochu: ......
"Mom will take it." She didn't want to see the creepy asymmetrical face selfies again.
"That's right, just let your daughter be!" Ling Chujin couldn't help but glare at him.
That day, she was just "forced" to routinely check her husband's phone to show her care for her husband. As a result, she discovered weird people and chat records, but also weird photos.
Such as only one Cardi B big eye visible in the frame with their daughter, or a mother and daughter photo where she was clearly very tall among peers but was shot to look like a dwarf, and then...
Nevermind, can't think about it, it makes my head hurt.
Ji Mochen's photo album = black history of her and her daughter.
The deeply disgusted father: ......
Tsk, oh well, nobody's perfect. At least his wife and daughter were beautiful and charming, that was already quite rare. How could he expect them to have the same aesthetic taste as him?
And so, the family of three spent half a day completing Ji Ruochu's photoshoot around the film and television city, then toured the nearby snacks again at night.
They happened to run into Director Qiu, who was out drinking and chatting with friends. The two parties nodded at each other, then went about their own business.
"Is this the heroine you've been waiting three years for?" The old man drinking with Qiu Xuetong looked at her curiously. "She looks quite well-behaved. Is she really that good at fist and footwork?"
"You think I'm joking?" Qiu Xuetong instinctively puffed out his chest. "Don't you know me? If she wasn't a perfect match in every way, and a great actress, how could I have really waited three years?"
Heaven knows, that "three years" was a nightmare for such a long time!
Outsiders only know that "Smooth Sailing" sold very well in the end, but only he knew the agony and confusion in those three years in between.
Thinking about it made Qiu Xuetong drink another glass in frustration. But when he looked up, he found his old friend looking at him meaningfully.
"Old Qin, what's with that look?" Qiu was confused. Who in the entertainment industry didn't know that Director Qin Xinhui was known as "the old guy who knew how to shoot young people falling in love best"?
"I was thinking..." Qin Xinhui said slowly. "Don't kids in your circle all know how to play the piano a little?"
"You mean..." Qiu was shocked. "Old Shang's film that had to be shelved for nearly twenty years because they couldn't find a heroine?"
Having said that, he immediately waved his hand: "That movie definitely can't be made."
"Who says? I heard the author recently eased up and agreed to let the director loosen the requirements a bit."
"Willing to loosen them now? Why not earlier? It would have been great twenty years ago when the novel was so popular. Let's not mention anything else. Wasn't Tan Ruo perfect at the time? Her acting wasn't bad, martial artists were also willing to learn immediately, just the piano was a bit lacking. She grew up in an orphanage, so understandably she was a little lacking in music theory, but that could have been cultivated!"
"But in the end it still came to nothing. It's been dragged on until now, and nobody loves watching those kinds of stories anymore. There's no market for it now." Qiu complained bitterly, obviously not optimistic about the project at all.
The two men were discussing a novel that was hugely popular twenty years ago. At that time, the novel was so hot that even the paper characters in it would be torn apart on hot search by fans of different ships about who the heroine should end up with.
As a result, investors soon noticed the adaptation market potential of the novel, and the rights were quickly bought. But... it was ultimately stuck at casting.
Because the author of the novel had only one requirement - the heroine in the novel had to be perfectly matched in all aspects and a great actress before filming could start, otherwise he would not authorize it.
To be honest, such a requirement seemed like a fantasy to insiders. If they had to fully match the character settings, what was the point of actors? Weren't actors supposed to act however they needed to in order to portray a role?
Later, they learned that it was because the novel's readers had opposed the adaptation so vehemently that even the author's new works were boycotted and rated low.
Left with no choice, the author who still relied on writing to make a living could only make the promise that "the heroine must match the character design in all aspects."
He even wrote it into the authorization letter.
The acquiring side thought, with so many people in the entertainment industry, how could they not find someone suitable? So they hurriedly signed it.
Soon after, the project was approved. Investors, directors, producers...
Within just a few days, a team was formed with the famous middle-aged director Shang Chuan as the lead, and the up-and-coming action director Qiu Xuetong as the co-director, along with superstar actors as the male leads.
But in the end... all the big names were completely stood up.
