Depressive Screenwriter

Two days later, before the audition for Rurouni Kenshin's female lead, Yukishiro Tomoe, began, Su Yan finally met the drama's director, Shi Peihua, for the first time.

Remember the first website domain 𝕥𝕨𝕜𝕒𝕟.𝕔𝕠𝕞

She was an energetic old lady in her sixties with white hair and a thin frame.

Su Yan talked with her and found her to be a very talkative and outgoing person.

After seeing Su Yan and Shinozaki Ikumi, two people with outstanding looks, her eyes lit up.

She inquired about their information and, after chatting for a while, her true intentions were revealed.

"My son is not even forty years old..."

"My distant niece is only in her thirties."

Shinozaki Ikumi and Su Yan were getting a headache from her talkativeness.

Taking advantage of Shi Peihua's trip to the restroom, Su Yan asked in a low voice.

"Is this reliable? Is she a director or a matchmaker!"

"I don't know! She's a friend of my mother's. She said she's very capable, but she was too straightforward in the TV station and offended many superiors, so her reputation isn't that great," Shinozaki Ikumi said, wiping the cold sweat from her forehead.

"Anyway, Rurouni Kenshin only has four episodes of filming time, it won't be too long, what are you afraid of?"

During the conversation between Su Yan and Shinozaki Ikumi, Shi Peihua returned.

Half an hour later, the actors who came to audition arrived one after another.

On the way to the audition room, a group of actresses nodded to the three of them.

However, when the audition officially started,

the amiable and gossipy old lady Shi Peihua changed her appearance.

Her eyes changed instantly.

The audition mainly tested two scenes.

One scene was Yukishiro Tomoe's appearance in the rainy night, with only one line.

【You can really summon, bloody storms】

After all, it was her debut. If this scene wasn't attractive, it could be said that the appeal of Kenshin's story would be greatly reduced.

At least Su Yan could still remember that when he first watched the Kenshin OVA, the scene of Yukishiro Tomoe's appearance, coupled with the background music, made him think about that amazing scene for several minutes.

The other scene was at the end of the third episode [Yosato Mountain], when Yukishiro Tomoe followed Kenshin, and slipped and fell due to the slippery snow. Kenshin turned around and reached out his hand to her, using a calm voice, but with eyes that seemed to make a vow, he said to her [I will protect you!]. At that moment, Yukishiro Tomoe's expression completely changed from struggle to falling.

She irrevocably fell in love with the enemy who killed her fiancé, succumbing to Kenshin's tenderness, and the sadness revealed in her eyes and expression.

Not to mention Yukishiro Tomoe, even Su Yan, a boy, thought that scene of Kenshin was so cool.

The actors didn't have many lines in this scene, but the requirements for facial expressions and acting skills were too high.

Shi Peihua, who had read the Kenshin script more than ten times, could even memorize the lines of each character in the script.

Su Yan and Shinozaki Ikumi couldn't understand the shortcomings of the audition, but Shi Peihua could see them at a glance.

She showed no mercy and went all out.

"Which school did you graduate from? Can you even graduate with your level?"

"Playing an ice beauty isn't about telling you to keep a stiff zombie face."

"People who have had hyaluronic acid injections have more expressive faces than your acting skills."

"Your acting is like a runaway train, and the worst part is that the brakes are broken."

"Are you imitating a monkey? You have no human intelligence or emotion at all."

"I want to ask you, did you put your audition script in the microwave and eat it? Why can you forget the lines even though there's only one line in this scene?"

"Drama queen is about to fly."

This is how a sixty-year-old grandma can make a modern young person cry in ten seconds.

Shinozaki Ikumi's expression was as usual, she had long heard her mother talk about Shi Peihua's style.

If she thinks someone is not good, she will just scold them directly, without beating around the bush.

It's the same not only in the crew, but also in the TV station workplace.

And after the second auditioning actor was scolded by her until they ran away with tears in their eyes, Su Yan tentatively said.

"Director Shi, aren't we being a bit too harsh? Some of them are still students at school."

"Harsh? They are not here to audition for extras, but for the female lead. If they can't even take this level of criticism in terms of acting, they should go home and sleep early," Shi Peihua said, smiling at Su Yan.

"Also, Su screenwriter, I really like your Rurouni Kenshin from the bottom of my heart. In my many years of directing career, I have never encountered a script that touches my heart so much. But if you want to be the male lead in this drama, you have to be prepared."

Su Yan was stunned when he heard this and understood what she meant.

Her amiability just now was directed at the screenwriter Su Yan.

Because she recognized the script of Rurouni Kenshin.

If filming starts, and she is facing the actor Su Yan, she will change her attitude. If he doesn't act well, he will be scolded as well.

After auditioning eleven people in a row, she didn't find anyone who satisfied Shi Peihua.

But the three of them actually knew that the crew's conditions were like this.

There was no funding and no time to carefully select.

If they couldn't find a particularly satisfying actress among these twenty or thirty auditioning actresses, they could only pick the best of the worst.

Soon, the twelfth auditioning actor, Gu Qingyuan, came in nervously.

She was very beautiful, with fair skin, a melon-shaped face, waist-length hair, and clear and bright pupils.

In terms of overall appearance, she was of a high standard among the group of people participating in the audition today.

"Hello, screenwriter Su, producer Shinozaki, director Shi, I am Gu Qingyuan."

She bowed and smiled at Su Yan and the other two as soon as she came in.

"Okay, you can start."

Su Yan said.

She took a deep breath, and soon, the emotions on her face disappeared, and her eyes became clear, cold and lonely.

A few minutes later, she left with a somewhat uneasy expression.

And Su Yan and Shinozaki Ikumi looked at Shi Peihua.

The fact that she didn't scold anyone this time explained everything.

This girl named Gu Qingyuan, her acting skills were indeed unquestionable. Compared with the Yukishiro Tomoe played by Kasumi Arimura in the Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal movie in his previous life, Su Yan felt that the effect was even better.

Now, the three of them had a bottom line in their hearts.

They didn't find an upper-limit actor, but at least, they found an actor who could maintain the lower-limit standard.

Continue auditioning.

When the twenty-fourth auditioning girl, Tachibana Aika, came in.

Su Yan, Shinozaki Ikumi, and Shi Peihua all had slight changes in their expressions.

She may not be as beautiful as Gu Qingyuan.

But her facial features and temperament were indeed the closest to the character image of Yukishiro Tomoe among today's auditioning personnel.

Then the formal audition began. There was no problem with the first audition scene, after all, there was only one line, and the acting requirements were not high.

But when it came to the second audition scene, Shi Peihua frowned as soon as the performance started.

The acting was a bit subtle.

It couldn't be said to be very bad, at least it could be considered good among the group of people auditioning today.

But compared with Gu Qingyuan's acting skills, there was a difference in level.

Half an hour later.

"Please go back and wait for the notice. No matter what the result is, we will notify you of the audition results via text message within three days," Shinozaki Ikumi said, then sat down on the chair, looking tired.

The audition ended.

"Teacher Su Yan, what do you think? Tachibana Aika and Gu Qingyuan, who do you think is better?" Shi Peihua asked.

"I..."

For Su Yan, an old otaku in his previous life, his sensibility certainly pursued a higher adaptation upper limit.

Acting skills, etc., can be honed and improved during the filming process.

After all, Tachibana Aika's appearance conditions were more in line with Yukishiro Tomoe. If her acting skills improved, the performance would naturally be explosive.

But is that kind of thing so easy to achieve in reality?

Su Yan had never won 100 yuan in the lottery in his previous life, and he didn't even transmigrate to the son of the world's richest man. Now he's expecting to meet a performing genius who will break through on the spot?

He looked at Shinozaki Ikumi next to him, and Su Yan gently took a breath.

"I think Gu Qingyuan is more suitable."

Shinozaki Ikumi gambled all her future to help him film Rurouni Kenshin, and there was no way Su Yan could gamble on Tachibana Aika's breakthrough in acting during the filming process.

What if she didn't break through? He, Su Yan, didn't care, but Shinozaki Ikumi's career would be ruined.

"I agree with Teacher Su Yan's opinion," Shi Peihua pondered for a moment.

"Compared to the degree of fit in external temperament, acting skills are more important. Moreover, Gu Qingyuan is not much worse in terms of character fit. On the contrary, I think she looks more beautiful. And I have seen Tachibana Aika's resume. She graduated from a certain performing arts academy in Tokyo three years ago and has participated in some marginal vase roles in nine crews."

"After such a long period of honing, if that's all the acting skills she has, even if she hones herself in the Kenshin crew for another month, there probably won't be any change."

"Then it's settled, the actress for Yukishiro Tomoe is Gu Qingyuan?" Shinozaki Ikumi asked.

"Yes."

"I have no problem, it's her."

Su Yan and Shi Peihua said one after another.

"In that case, the main filming of Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal has finally been initially determined..."

Shinozaki Ikumi stretched her waist, and the fabric of her chest instantly tightened, but her fair and delicate face was full of fighting spirit.

"Today is June 9th, and the online broadcast time of Rurouni Kenshin has been determined by the station to be July 22nd. There are still forty-four days left."

"Next month on the 22nd?" Shi Peihua asked in confusion.

"Why isn't it the first week of July?"

"I specifically requested it," Shinozaki Ikumi said with a light smile.

"During the summer season, Sakura Net will launch six self-made online dramas from the station, and five small-budget online dramas produced by other film and television companies will also be broadcast on Sakura Net. At the beginning of the month, all these dramas will spend money on traffic and require Sakura Net to give them publicity resources for their works. If Rurouni Kenshin is launched together at that time, it will definitely not be able to compete for any publicity resources."

Shinozaki Ikumi looked at the two of them.

"However, if we stagger this highly competitive time period and wait until the end of July to start broadcasting, then a few aunts I know in the station have clearly given me an answer that they will help me win the publicity resources given by Sakura Net."

"Anyway, Rurouni Kenshin only has four episodes. As long as it starts and ends within the summer season, there is no need to broadcast it from the beginning of the month like those dramas with more than a dozen episodes."

"So..." Shinozaki Ikumi stretched out her hand to the two of them.

"What kind of results Rurouni Kenshin, a short, low-cost drama, can achieve depends on the next forty days."

Shi Peihua quickly placed her hand on the back of Shinozaki Ikumi's hand.

"I don't want this drama, which I came out of retirement to film a few years after my retirement to repay a favor to your mother, to become a joke in my career. No matter what, it has to make some noise in the summer season."

The two looked at Su Yan. At this time, it was like a project oath-taking meeting.

Su Yan took a deep breath and also put his hand on it, saying.

"I think we can produce a drama that will leave everyone in the station who looks down on us and mocks us speechless!"

"Let's set a goal first. Among the online dramas broadcast on Sakura Net in the summer season, the average paid views per episode and the industry score... number one!"