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Domestic, night, studio.

When the last word in the document on the screen is typed, the last phone call at hand is hung up.

Chen Liang sat at his office and stretched vigorously.

The people in the studio—when Jiang Xing decided to leave the stars and come out on his own, and recruited one after another in the past few months, such as executives, publicity, administrative finance, etc.—had already gone home to rest at this time, and Only Chen Liang, who never takes overtime work seriously and regards the company as his second home, is still working hard in the company at such a late hour.

Although the work is never finished, people still need to rest.

After languishing in his swivel chair for a while, Chen Liang scanned the penguins on the computer and found that Jiang Xing had actually logged in, so he directly reported the latest situation to the other party: "Everything about publicity has been typed out, You won the award, and I will use this time to stir up domestic topics as much as possible, and draw attention as much as possible."

"By the way, do you really need an assistant over there?"

"No need." Jiang Xing's message came back quickly.

Seeing such a succinct answer, Chen Liang thought about it for a long time, how could the other party handle everything well with his assistant, so he didn't get entangled: "Okay, what are you doing now?"

"Wait for the audition."

After the same simple and neat reply, Jiang Xing's profile picture went dark!

At the same time, abroad, an ordinary passage outside the dance practice room.

This is a long and narrow passage on the third floor. There is a row of seats against the wall, and the seats are facing the window. People sitting here look out of the window and can just see a bird in the shadow of the whirling tree. A white cross.The cross standing on the top of the church not far away is not small. It is faintly visible among the green leaves and spring flowers. It seems that there are a few gray or white pigeons coming and going. fly.

The time is quiet and peaceful.

But in the corridor separated by a wall, not many people noticed this small detail.

They sat or stood, some whispered to people they knew, and some looked down at the script in their hands.

Sitting on the chair, Jiang Xing's eyes fell outside the window. He saw this small scenery, but he didn't pay much attention. He was the same as most people here, even more attentive than most people. Land—he recalled in his mind the script that Stephen brought to him, and the fragmented and sketchy character introductions and plot trends in the script.

This is a suspenseful science fiction drama tentatively titled "Alien Crisis".

This sci-fi drama is roughly like the title, it is a story of a heterosexual invasion of the earth.

In the film, aliens fall to Earth through extraterrestrial meteorites.At first, it was only a small group of vanguard troops. After they came to the earth, these vanguard troops collected the earth's armed information through the network and electronic signals and fed them back to their own planet, laying the foundation for the next large-scale invasion.

The collection of data alarmed the military. The military activated top-secret files and discovered that this was not the first alien invasion.

They enforce the highest level of defense and delegate tasks to covert operations forces.

But the secret operations force got off to a bad start, and almost all of them were lost in the first clearing operation.

At this time, the final news was sent to the watch mailbox of Eli, the former captain of the secret operations force, by one of the members of the secret operations force.

Bill's "Alien Crisis" is also a movie in which a male lead has already been confirmed. Even if it is not confirmed, it has little to do with Jiang Xing at this stage.

Jiang Xing didn't particularly care about the breakdown of male lead actors.

He pays more attention to the supporting role settings that are explained in a little bit of detail.

This is what Stephen specifically mentioned to him when he brought the script.

"There are four important male supporting roles in the script this time. Two of them are aliens. Aliens have a special shape, and the audience will not find the actors underneath through makeup; this way, even after the movie is released Hong, it’s not good enough for you, let’s rule out these two first.”

"As for the remaining two, one is the male lead, and the other is the protagonist's friend."

"The protagonist's friend is an electronic genius and playboy. He discovered the abnormality of the electronic data flow from the clues on the Internet. At the same time, he got specific information from Eli and was involved in the incident. His role No less, and a significant boost to the film's story."

“I think it’s best for you to focus on your best friend these days — and this best friend is also originally set to have black hair and black eyes, and looks like an Asian.”

These are all opinions after Stephen gave him the script.

No matter emotionally or rationally, Jiang Xing attached great importance to the opinions of the other party.

But after he finished reading all the scripts brought by Stephen, his eyes were not limited to this "good friend" in the play.

He pays more attention to another person.

That is, the remaining male second that Stephen didn't mention.

After reading the script from the beginning, Jiang Xing could understand why Stephen didn't mention this character. This character can be called the second most important character in "Alien Crisis".

He is the friend and companion of the male protagonist Eli since he was a child. The reason why Eli retired from the secret army was because he died in the first invasion of an alien planet—of course he didn’t actually, because at this time, Kun As a new artificial weapon of alien invaders, it appeared on the battlefield to confront Eli.

This is just the beginning.

At the last moment, Kun, who was transformed by the alien star, was not completely controlled. Instead, he and Eli once again foiled the alien conspiracy.

The closed door of the dance practice room suddenly opened, and another actor came out accompanied by the assistant inside.

The beauty with blond hair and red lips sent off the previous auditioned actor with a professional smile, and said with the same smile, "Next, Mr. Jiang."

This is not the Mr. Jiang called by foreigners, but the Chinese with correct pronunciation.

Jiang Xing, who was sitting on the chair, looked over in surprise, just in time to see the friendly smile of that beauty.

They walked into the audition place, and when the beauty led Jiang Xing forward, the assistant whispered: "Good luck, please perform as soon as possible within 5 minutes, I like your hunter very much."

"Thank you." Jiang Xing replied in the same low voice, and he was already standing in the audition room.

There were not too many people in the room, a total of six or seven people sat on the sofa behind the table facing Jiang Xing.

Leaving aside the director Big Bill, who often appears on TV newspapers, and Jiang Xing, who also officially introduced him to Stephen—Steph was winking at him——Jiang Xing didn't know much about the others.But among this group of mostly middle-aged and elderly people, there is a very young young man who looks like he just graduated——I don’t know who the other party is?

Jiang Xing didn't study for too long, he glanced at the people clearly, he quickly greeted these people, and sat down on the sofa beside him.

When Jiang Xing came in to observe these people, director Bill was also observing this actor specially recommended by his friend.

My height is about 186, my facial features are relatively three-dimensional, my height and appearance are not bad, and my acting skills have also been affirmed at the Palm Film Festival. It is still possible to film some mini-series abroad.

he thinks.

But the movie—

The second male lead of the movie——?

Bill flipped through the actor information in his hand expressionlessly.

Not to mention that he himself is not optimistic about the other party, but that he already has a default candidate for this role, which is enough for him to reject the oriental actor in front of him.

And speaking of the actor he is optimistic about...

Bill waved to his assistant when Ed, the screenwriter sitting at the end of the sofa group, asked Jiang Xing's opinion on the role: "Aina."

Aina, the beauty who brought Jiang Xing in just now, came to Bill. She covered her face with the document in her hand, and said to Bill in a low voice: "Director, Mr. Peeps is still on his way. The other side's assistant just now Call and he'll be here in about five minutes."

Bill frowned, forming a crease.

Helping the other party deal with work all the year round, Aina certainly understands that this is a concrete manifestation of Bill's dissatisfaction with the actor's own behavior.

The world-renowned director rarely speaks harshly to his cast or crew, either on set or in private.

He is like an old gentleman from the past, most of the time, although he is not friendly, he is personable.

Likewise, when he speaks harsh words uncharacteristically, it means that his decision cannot be changed.

Bill waved for Aina to go down.

He quickly cleared up some dissatisfaction with Peeps' unpunctuality, and turned to concentrate on the audition in front of him.

In any case, although he is not optimistic about this oriental man, he has always been responsible for his films - including being serious about every object he auditioned.

The questions answered at the beginning were not complicated, and could even be said to be quite common and simple. Most of them were the content of the script and the understanding of the characters.

Jiang Xing sat on the small sofa brought by his assistant just now and answered one by one.

He thought maybe this was just a way to relax the actors who came in?

After he finished answering the basic information, there was a pause of about a few seconds, and Bill, who was sitting in the middle, suddenly said, "Try to act out the expression on Kun's face when Eli and Kun first meet in the script."

This is the official start of the audition.

Jiang Xing was in a calm mood.

He adjusted his sitting posture, because it was just a facial expression, he didn't work on his body, but slightly raised his brows and flattened the corners of his lower lips - just these two subtle movements, he had a gentle temperament just now At this moment it is gone.

His face was cruel because of the flat corners of his lips; his eyebrows were sharp because of the raised eyebrows.

The present on his face seemed to have become as hard as a knife and an ax at this moment.

He just looked at people sitting on the sofa, and it was unnatural for the people watching him to feel that he was locked by something dangerous!

Bill, who didn't pay much attention to it, was secretly surprised.

His straight back straightened up even more, and the eyes that fell on Jiang Xing also seemed thoughtful... He put aside the indifference hidden in his heart just now, and observed Jiang Xing seriously, and soon found that The reason why I felt unnatural was because Jiang Xing, who was facing him at the moment, was watching him, but the other party's eyes were not focused, even a little distracted.

But it was precisely because of this laxity that the people sitting there seemed more indifferent and mechanically emotionless.

—Being different from the usual, of course, can make people feel unnatural.

This small detail is very——Bill was thinking about it, and suddenly met the narrow and proud eyes of Stephen on his left hand. ...It's just a little more flattering.

Stephen sat second to Bill's left.

He didn't know if he had discovered his thoughts, so he softly "hummed" through his nasal cavity.

Bill pretended not to hear, he waved his hand, and said lightly: "Try to act out Kun's pain when he got rid of the control of aliens."

This request is undoubtedly much more difficult than the first request.

Jiang Xing thought for a few seconds and asked the director, "Can you add body movements?"

"Okay," Bill said.

Jiang Xing stood up from the sofa.

He adjusted his state with a few breaths.

The muscles in his body began to twitch regularly and intermittently.These twitches were not obvious at first under the cover of the clothes, but within a few seconds, those sitting behind Jiang Xing noticed Jiang Xing's slightly twitching palms hanging by his side.

Ed, the screenwriter of the script, sat at the end of the sofa group, which was the position closest to Jiang Xing.

He stared at Jiang Xing's wrist for a while, and then made a "very natural" gesture to the person beside him, which got him affirmative nod.

Jiang Xing, who turned his back to everyone, suddenly turned around!

His face was exposed to everyone's sight.

Sweat actually slid down his temples. The veins on his forehead were bulging and throbbing slightly uncontrollably. His upper and lower teeth were clenched together with the same force. This force made his face the same as the veins on his forehead. It is trembling slightly.

But also at the same time, his eyes burst out with an extremely bright and focused brilliance: this brilliance combined with the somewhat slack eyesight when performing Kun as a weapon at the beginning, suddenly gave people a completely different three-dimensional effect. feel!In addition, these two comparisons appeared successively in a very short period of time, even Bill, who was used to watching many movies as the director, was stunned for a moment.

Before he could react, the sound of "Papa Papa" applause had already sounded in the dance hall.

This is trouble!

Even if the actor you recommend is really good, you can't ruin the audition like this!

Bill woke up, turned to look at Stephen angrily, but was stunned for a moment: Stephen was drinking coffee with his own hands holding a coffee cup, no matter how he looked at it, he seemed to have no spare time and hands Come clap for ruining the audition.

And the sound of applause is still arrogant and unstoppable, and it seems to be coming from the right side of him - behind him now?

Stephen looked at Bill innocently for a while.

Then they and others turned to the place where the sound came from, and looked at the only young man with blond hair and blue eyes sitting among a group of uncles in the dance hall.

The applauding young man was baptized by the eyes of the rest of the hall, and he stopped his hands in embarrassment. He made a gesture and pointed at Jiang Xing, and then said, "Well... I think it's good? It feels good? It's great. ? That's right - that's the Kun I imagined I'd see!"

He was a little embarrassed at first, but then he became excited as he talked, and even leaned over to Bill and said, "Yeah, this is exactly what I imagined, I think the audition can-"

"The audition is still going on." Bill couldn't bear to interrupt the other party.

But Stephen interjected at this time: "But the boss is right, isn't it?" While speaking, he gave Jiang Xing, who was standing in the middle of the dance hall but had already put away his expression, an appreciative wink of "You are completely OK", Then he added, "Bill, the director should also respect the boss who paid the money. Besides, don't you have any dissatisfaction with this kind of performance? Isn't it amazing from the beginning to the end and firmly grabs people?"

"The auditions aren't over yet!" Bill insisted. "We should—"

The door of the dance hall was suddenly and violently knocked open.

Aina's exclamation came from guarding the door at the same time: "Wait, Mr. Peeps, you can't just go in like this—"

All eyes were on the person who rushed in.

He is tall, with strong facial features, and is a well-known movie star in the UK.

Of course, he has a little flaw.

For example, sometimes it is not polite and punctual, such as now.

There was silence for a few seconds.

Bill's stifled angry, deep voice rang out: "—we ought to give Mr. Peeps a chance."