Chapter 169: Read around
Jiang Lingxi and Wei Minmin walked into the meeting hall together.
They arrived neither too early nor too late, and nearly half of the people were already sitting on the large rectangular conference table in the hall.
The subject is naturally Wei Xiao.
Hearing his eldest niece's voice, he looked up and waved, "Here you go, sit here." He patted the seat beside him.
The other actors in the hall, who were either looking at their phones or flipping through scripts, all raised their heads when they heard the sound, wanting to see who could make the director above him say hello.
When you see the person, you will immediately understand.
However, when they saw Jiang Lingxi sitting directly on the left side of Director Wei, several people couldn't help but pursed their lips.
Before this, they had never thought that such an important female number one would fall to Jiang Lingxi, who had barely made it to the second tier in the industry.
Even competed with Xu Qingmei.
But even if they couldn't believe it, seeing Jiang Lingxi take the heroine's makeup photo with their own eyes, and now sitting next to Director Wei, they still had to convince themselves to believe it.
Before everyone had arrived, Wei Xiao saw the script that Jiang Lingxi had put on the table. He could tell at a glance that it had been carefully read over the past few days. He was immediately pleased and asked: "How do you read the script?"
“Read it roughly through.”
Wei Minmin happened to hear this when she put down her phone, and couldn't help but twitch her lips.
If this is just a rough read, then her script can only be considered a complete read.
"Then you should have seen that you have the most roles and lines, more than twice as many as the male lead. Try to memorize them before filming starts. It's probably best if you can memorize them."
Just as Jiang Lingxi nodded, her arm close to Wei Minmin was touched. She turned around and saw Wei Minmin typing for her in the memo on her mobile phone, "Uncle likes to take the whole shot."
One shot to the end, as the name suggests, means taking one shot without any lag, forgetting words, or missing emotional movements.
Forgetting your lines is the most common one. The only way is to memorize your own lines in advance. It is best to also know the lines of the person opposite you.
Wei Minmin thought of the terrifying amount of lines the heroine had in the script, and silently sympathized with Jiang Lingxi in her heart.
Other directors may have more relaxed requirements, but this would never happen to her brother-in-law.
Not long after, all the main actors arrived.
The actor and actress sat across the table from each other.
Although the tables and chairs did not indicate whose seats were specific, everyone tacitly chose to sit according to their order in the play.
Only, the chair opposite Jiang Lingxi was empty.
Wei Xiao glanced at the empty seat, then at Jiang Lingxi, who was there. He raised his hand and told the assistant beside him, "Go and close the door of the conference hall."
As soon as this order came out, more than 90% of the people present were stunned.
After looking at each other for a moment, Sheman asked on behalf of everyone the doubts in their hearts: "This script is being read around, and the male lead is not here either?"
“You will be able to see me when the filming officially starts, and we will videotape the whole process during the script reading. We will show it to him then, and he will communicate with me if he has any opinions.”
Sheman was about to speak but stopped.
Why does it sound to her that this person has a bigger wrist than Xu Qingmei?
But looking at the famous actors in the industry, there are some who have a higher status than Xu Qingmei, but they are basically in their forties, and there is no one who fits the role of Shen Moqing. "Okay, now that everyone is here, let's get started. First, tell us your opinions on your roles."
Everyone had no choice but to suppress their curiosity for the time being, sit upright for a few minutes, clear their throats, and prepare to speak when it was their turn.
This link not only allows the director to see how well he understands the character, but also allows other actors present to know which character they each play.
Almost an hour passed after one lap.
Jiang Lingxi silently raised her hand.
Wei Xiao was about to talk about the next link, but he was stunned when he saw her movements, "Teacher Jiang, is there anything else you want to add?"
Now everyone's eyes fell on her again.
Jiang Lingxi did have a doubt, "Isn't there Qing Yuan in the starring team?"
“She is in the character actor group,” Wei Xiao replied without thinking. After saying this, Jiang Lingxi frowned, “Do you think the role of Qing Yuan can be placed in the starring group?”
"Although she is a palace maid," Jiang Lingxi looked at Wei Xiao with a serious expression, "but in Emperor Yuan Zhao's heart, she is different from other palace maids."
A chuckle suddenly came from the meeting hall.
Jiang Lingxi looked at Lin Xuefei, who was sitting in the fourth seat, "Why are you laughing?"
"It's nothing, I just didn't expect Teacher Jiang to enter the play so quickly and replace himself as Emperor Yuan Zhao. The division of main actors and role actors must have been decided after careful consideration by Director Wei. Could it be that the actor who plays Qing Yuan has an old relationship with Teacher Jiang? ?”
“I don’t know who the actor who plays Qing Yuan is.”
“Then you...” Why are you questioning this for no reason?
However, Wei Xiao did not let Lin Xuefei finish her words, and interrupted with a slight cough, "Okay, Ling Xi's opinion will be reserved for now, and the next step is to sort out the script from beginning to end." After that, he glanced at Zheng Yiyan. Jiang Lingxi opened the script and said, "Qing Yuan does have a lot of roles. We will discuss it in detail when we sort out the script."
Actually, what he didn’t say was that he had hesitated about whether to assign the role of Qing Yuan to the starring group.
But after thinking about it, Qingyuan is just a palace maid in the final analysis. Even if she is the palace maid of Emperor Yuan Zhao, she has no hidden special identity and skills. In the end, she was classified as a role actor.
Jiang Lingxi was the first to ask him this question. At the same time, he also pointed out a very crucial point that he ignored. The biggest difference between this palace maid and other palace maids was her status in Emperor Yuan Zhao's heart.
At this moment, he couldn't help but hesitate a little.
But soon, he no longer cared about this hesitation.
Because along with sorting out the script word for word, the other actors were all echoing "um um ah ah ah". When Jiang Lingxi came, it was, "Director Wei, my opinion is..."
When he first heard this 'mantra', Wei Xiao was very happy, not to mention that Jiang Lingxi's opinions also gave him a lot of inspiration, and he was also very happy to change it.
But as time passed, Wei Xiao heard from the side: "Director Wei, I have an opinion on this paragraph..."
He couldn't help but raise his head and silently wiped his face. It was numb. It was really numb.
He himself has deleted, deleted, and revised this script several times, so how could he still receive so many opinions?
The key is these opinions...it will really be better than before after following Jiang Lingxi's changes.
Others were equally silent.
In the final analysis, the process of sorting out the script, in their opinion, is that the director takes the leading actors to go through the plot twists roughly, and when the filming officially starts, they will break it down into more details.
This is the first time that an actor has written a script with the director.