All-rounder Artist

Three days later.

Starlight Entertainment.

The rather tall Liu Zhengwen and his agent were riding the elevator.

Liu Zhengwen appeared a bit nervous, adjusting his breathing several times.

The agent next to him reminded, “Don’t be too nervous, you’re very strong, you just lack an opportunity.”

“Don’t comfort me.”

Liu Zhengwen slightly lowered his voice and said, “Everyone lacks opportunity, there are not a few with strong capabilities, and I don’t have a huge advantage. I can only try to perform well during the audition.”

“That being said…”

The agent went on, “I’m just a bit surprised, why are you so nervous? Although we aren’t getting many movie offers at the moment, should we be desperate enough to take on a movie with a mere ten million investment?”

The agent was indeed puzzled.

After receiving the script for “The Tuner”, Liu Zhengwen seemed as if possessed, locking himself in the room for two days, doing nothing but researching the character –

It had been many years since the agent had seen Liu Zhengwen take a role so seriously.

“You’re wrong, it’s a must for me to be in this movie!”

Liu Zhengwen became somewhat stern, “There are indeed plenty of ten million level invested films, but few of them have such a quality script!”

Quality script?

The agent opened his mouth to speak, but the elevator had already arrived.

The two walked into the audition room of the film department.

Quite a few people had already gathered in the room at this moment, men and women alike, obviously all here to audition.

Among them, a few of the actors were familiar faces.

Apparently, the success of “Flirting Scholar” attracted many people to Xian Yu’s new film, including some well-known actors.

But that was it, they were just well-known.

The most popular actor in this audition room is only a second-tier star in the industry considering the movie’s investment.

No one was talking.

Entering the audition room, everyone became potential competitors.

Shortly after.

The audition started.

The first to audition was the most important male lead.

Liu Zhengwen was the third to enter the audition room.

The audition was different from the last one.

This time, only three people were in the audition room: Lin Yuan, Yi Chenggong, and Shen Qing.

Liu Zhengwen bowed slightly and said, “Good day, teachers, my name is Liu Zhengwen, and I can play the piano…”

He was very humble.

Shen Qing glanced at Liu Zhengwen, mainly at his face.

It was said that Liu Zhengwen had slight facial disfigurement from an accident years ago, but it seems that he had recovered very well, with virtually no scars. Handsome, with a mature man’s charm, such an actor portraying a pianist wouldn’t feel out of place.

And Liu Zhengwen himself said, he can play the piano.

The protagonist of this film is, after all, a pianist, so this is an advantage.

He also once was a popular actor, Yi Chenggong politely smiled and said, “Let’s have Teacher Liu perform the second part of the script.”

“Sure.”

Liu Zhengwen began his performance.

Auditioning is pretty procedural. The actors who came in basically introduced themselves briefly, allowed the auditioning teachers to examine their image, then read a line of dialogue and perform a certain scene from the script according to the interviewer’s request.

There were no problems with the performance.

Liu Zhengwen’s professional ability fully met the standards.

After the performance, Lin Yuan asked, “Why do you think Ye Shen pretends to be blind?”

This was the most critical step in the audition process, equally as important as the performance. The auditioner was expected to discuss their understanding and views on the character.

Ye Shen is the name of the male lead, named by the System, it couldn’t very well use an Indian name.

Shen Qing and Yi Chenggong also focused on Liu Zhengwen.

The previous auditioners, like Liu Zhengwen, had no problem with their performance, it was their understanding of the character that was unsatisfactory.

What will Liu Zhengwen say?

Liu Zhengwen began, “Pretending to be blind is for a noble ideal, just as the script says, losing vision can make him more focused on his piano…”

Shen Qing and Yi Chenggong frowned.

Their response was very similar to the previous auditioners.

However, just then, Liu Zhengwen changed his tone, “But that was only the original purpose, when Ye Shen discovered the benefits of pretending to be blind, his purpose was no longer pure, because he found that people had no guard against the blind, people seemed to easily believe that a blind pianist was truly skilled… Selling his disability can win people’s sympathy. If a blind man can play such a beautifully composed piece, everyone seems to see how much effort Ye Shen has put into piano, see how strongly he lives for art. Thus, he received double the tips, his efforts might be real, but he’s not truly blind.”

Lin Yuan asked further, “Anything else?”

Liu Zhengwen uttered three words, “Voyeuristic desire.”

Shen Qing and Yi Chenggong looked at each other, their expressions subtly changing.

Liu Zhengwen continued, “In the script, there is a scene where a girl can change her clothes in front of Ye Shen with ease. This is very frightening, one can imagine that Ye Shen might not have encountered this situation for the first time. Who would guard against a blind man? So he could see the side of people that they wouldn’t want to reveal in front of normal people, but he still didn’t reveal this, this is his voyeuristic desire, it should excite him…”

No further discussion.

Discussing up to this point was enough.

There were still people waiting for the audition.

It was not until four in the afternoon that the long audition came to an end.

Yi Chenggong was the first to speak, “There should be no doubt about the male lead’s choice, right?”

Seems like Shen Qing knew who Yi Chenggong was referring to, “He was the only auditioner who mentioned voyeurism.”

“Let’s go with him.”

Lin Yuan made the final decision.

Many of the people auditioning today mentioned that Ye Shen used his guise of blindness to win the sympathy of ordinary people, thus making ordinary people more appreciative of his piano skills, but Liu Zhengwen was indeed the only one who mentioned “voyeurism”.

This has already touched the realm of human nature.

Maybe other actors also thought of this, but no one brought it up, it seemed that everyone consciously avoided it.

In other words, everyone subconsciously did not want to admit that the male lead was a so-called villain.

After all, from the whole script, the male lead should represent justice.

However, in fact, Lin Yuan’s positioning of the script is very clear.

Four words: All villains.

“And the female lead…” Ying Steadman said.

Shen Qing said, “I think Zhou Xue is not bad. There are few women actresses around forty who can maintain such good looks.”

“Agreed.”

Lin Yuan nodded.

Zhou Xue is a female actress from the company, very beautiful, she was wildly popular in her youth. However, now she’s older, so it’s hard for her to find a suitable script.

Male actors, at the age of thirty or forty can still be very popular.

Rarely do film offers extend towards female actors after the age of thirty or forty.

This is the general condition of female actors.

The heroine of this film has the positioning of a venomous beauty.

Can’t be too young, can’t be too unattractive, yet must have good acting skills.

The space for choice is actually not large.

As for the other supporting roles in this film, Lin Yuan didn’t interfere much, leaving it mostly to Shen Qing and Yi Chenggong to decide.

Next, it was onto the formal shooting….