A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 373 Deng Xiaoqi's Road to Signing

Nowadays, thinness is considered beautiful in most TV dramas and movies, and this is not only true for actresses, but also for men.

The de-masculinized artist training model and commercial endorsement requirements have forced the current male actors, both in school and in the industry, to choose dieting to lose weight rather than gaining muscle.

In fact, even with Chen Jinnian's current appearance, the requirements of the role are slightly insufficient. He is not strong enough and cannot achieve the kind of oppressive feeling he wants.

But fortunately, he has strengthened his physical fitness and gained muscle while filming, so he can move the fighting scenes to the later stage, so there is still time.

After chatting with Deng Xiaoqi, Chen Jinnian began to explain the play to her seriously.

There were no lines in the scenes filmed today, and all the emotions could only be conveyed through Deng Xiaoqi's facial expressions. For her, a student with little acting experience, it was indeed a huge challenge.

However, Deng Xiaoqi was not completely unprepared. After signing the contract and getting the script, she had been trying to figure out the role and had been rehearsing in the school's rehearsal room.

Although the process was a bit bumpy, after a day of hard work, I finally managed to pull off the scene perfectly.

After Deng Xiaoqi changed her clothes and came out, she happened to meet Chen Jinnian who had just finished filming the audience scenes.

Chen Jinnian's character makeup is very simple. He adopts the character design of a thug in a suit. The overall reference is the image of the prison warden in SPL, and the slightly greasy long hair style is replaced with a slicked back hair.

Because he thinks he is playing a sexual pervert, he does not think of himself as a bad person, nor does he put the word "sexual pervert" on his forehead. Only by packaging himself enough to be trustworthy can he continue to hunt for beauties.

After all, no girl would suspect that a handsome, elegant and successful man would have bad intentions towards her.

"Call it a day, we'll go to the studio to shoot tomorrow." After checking his own footage, Chen Jinnian issued the notice to move to another location.

Then he saw Deng Xiaoqi next to him, "You haven't left yet? That's perfect. I'll have Brother Ming take you back to school. Take some time to rest when you get back. We have a full day of filming tomorrow."

"No, my classmate is here to pick me up." Deng Xiaoqi waved her hands repeatedly to refuse. After hesitating for a moment, she asked what she had been holding back in her heart, "Director Chen, I heard that the company has started signing artists. Can I sign with your company?"

It is no secret that Zhao Jinmai is in charge of Chen Jinnian's company. The signing tweets can be found on Weibo, so Deng Xiaoqi also wants to sign it.

It’s not that she can’t sign with an agency. After all, as long as students of the Central Academy of Drama reach their junior year, they will not be left behind by the agencies. All of them will be signed one by one.

But having an agency doesn’t mean you’ll have a role to play.

The resources of each company are structured in an inverted pyramid. The higher the level of the artist, the more resources they get. Only when the top artists look down on them or there are schedule conflicts will the resources be distributed downwards.

For a student like Deng Xiaoqi who has no background, no matter which agency he joins, he will either be frozen or worse than being frozen.

Chen Jinnian fell silent after hearing this. He really didn't want to manage artist contracts. The bigger the business, the more weaknesses it would leave. If he hadn't signed Zhao Jinmai, how could Huang Lei, the old fox, easily control him to film a movie.

"My company is a one-man show, and the projects we can produce each year are extremely limited. It's not that I don't want to sign you, but I don't have the resources to give you after signing you. The only other businesses we are currently planning are advertising shooting and online filming plans, which I use to support the team. The actresses used in them are all marginal and vase roles. Can you accept that?"

After Chen Jinnian finished speaking, he glanced at Deng Xiaoqi who was struggling. The other party had not yet accepted the harshness of real society. He stayed in the ivory tower every day, and his mind was full of artistic pursuits and the big screen. He probably looked down on these things.

As he expected, Deng Xiaoqi did not agree.

"I haven't thought about this. Can you let me think about it for a moment?"

"Okay, I'm not in a hurry."

After Chen Jinnian finished answering, he went to find Zhou Jiahang to discuss tomorrow's matters. He didn't have a shortage of actors for the projects he had just mentioned. If Deng Xiaoqi wanted to take it, he would give it to her. If she didn't want to take it, he would give it to someone else. He didn't care.

Deng Xiaoqi walked out of the theater with her bag on her back. Li Xizhou, who was waiting outside, immediately walked over and asked with concern, "Did the filming go smoothly today?"

At the same time, hand over the milk tea in your hand.

Deng Xiaoqi put in a straw and took a sip, frowning slightly. She didn't like cold drinks, but this milk tea was only slightly warm, which immediately made her lose her appetite.

"The filming went smoothly, but there were some minor issues when I asked if I could be signed with the company."

"Don't you think Director Chen wants to sign you?"

Li Xizhou asked speculatively. In his opinion, since the other party had come to Deng Xiaoqi twice, it at least recognized Deng Xiaoqi's performance, or at least recognized Deng Xiaoqi's appearance, so he should not refuse to sign the contract.

"Not really. Director Chen told me that he has no resources for me. If I sign a contract with the company, I can only shoot commercials and online movies and play the role of a vase selling sex, so I didn't agree." Deng Xiaoqi said dejectedly.

"What? You gave up such a good opportunity."

Li Xizhou looked at Deng Xiaoqi in disbelief. He didn't quite understand what his girlfriend was thinking. She would refuse such a great opportunity.

Deng Xiaoqi angrily stuffed the milk tea into his hand and said, "My ideal is to be an excellent actor, not to waste time on these things. If you think this is a good opportunity, then go ahead and sign it yourself."

After saying that, he hurried out.

Li Xizhou, who was standing there in a daze, muttered to himself, "I want to sign, and Director Chen has to want me too." Then, he looked at Deng Xiaoqi who was walking away quickly and hurriedly caught up with her.

"It's really a good opportunity. It's great to be able to film a movie. Nowadays, all online movies are shoddy. There are still a few high-quality ones. Besides, Director Chen filmed online movies in his time. Why can't you accept it?"

"But my first film was a movie. Now asking me to go back and make a web series is like lowering my status."

Deng Xiaoqi is a rich second-generation and her family is not short of money. She looks down on the remuneration given by Chen Jinnian. The only thing that attracts her is the opportunity to appear on the big screen.

But Li Xizhou, a small town test-taker, totally disagrees. He thinks this is the best opportunity at the moment. As long as he works hard on filming, he will naturally receive better resources as his abilities and fame improve.

"We're actors by profession. We're here to do our jobs. What does that have to do with lowering our status? Once you've played those roles well, Director Chen will definitely give you better ones. The road is built step by step. Let's..."

"That's enough. Stop talking. Go back to school by yourself. I need to do some maintenance. I still have to continue filming tomorrow." Deng Xiaoqi didn't want to listen to the other party's lectures. After forcing Li Xizhou away with her eyes, she got on a taxi waiting at the theater entrance.

"Xiao Qi, that's not what I meant."

Li Xizhou wanted to explain a few more words, but Deng Xiaoqi had already closed the car door and didn't want to listen to his nonsense.

Looking at the departing taxi, Li Xizhou stopped and watched helplessly. His girlfriend was good in every way except that she was pampered too well and had no idea of ​​the sufferings of the world.