Actor training manual

Xiao Yanzhi stood leaning against the street lamp, with a suitcase beside him, he took a deep breath of the cigarette, and then let it out slowly, the smoke lingered in front of his eyes, everything around him was familiar yet strange.

The snack bar next to the station is already full of diners, and the aroma is wafting;

A group of motorcycle drivers waiting to pick up passengers gathered together, smoking and chatting. Some motorcycle drivers honked their horns at Xiao Yanzhi to signal him to take the car. Xiao Yanzhi shook his head, and the driver turned back to join in the chat. ignore him

At the bus stop on the side of the road, a woman wearing a tube top skirt and a down jacket from the Tang Dynasty hurriedly boarded the bus. There were a few "terracotta warriors" sitting in the bus who were playing with their mobile phones with their heads down, but the people on the bus ignored them. Outrageously dressed, doing his own thing in a nonchalant manner.

This is Hengdian, and these are just the daily life of Hengdian people.

A gust of cold wind blew, and Xiao Yanzhi couldn't help shivering. He turned up the collar of the light green down jacket, shrunk his neck and looked towards the exit, with a hint of impatience flashing in his eyes.

He is fat, so shrunken, he looks like a tennis ball from a distance, embarrassed and pitiful.

Xiao Yanzhi saw his shadow through the glass door of the supermarket across the road.Laughing at himself, he took a puff of a cigarette, fortunately this appearance was not seen by those who hated him, otherwise he would not have been laughed out of his teeth, Xiao Yanzhi, a majestic "male god" of a generation, turned out to be in this ghostly appearance.

However, he is very satisfied with his current "no one knows".At least, my fattening plan for the past few months has finally succeeded.

A white "softball" was running towards Xiao Yanzhi. He was carrying a big bag on his back, and he smiled silly at Xiao Yanzhi.

"Brother Xiao, let's go." The white "softball" said with a smile, with a hint of flattery.

"Lazy people go out and pee a lot, hurry up, the bus won't be crowded later."

Xiao Yanzhi rolled his eyes angrily, and walked towards the bus stop first, with "Softball" following closely behind him.

Surrounded by people in a hurry, most of them are "horizontal drifters", full of dreams and empty pockets, dreaming of overnight fame in Hengdian day after day.

Xiao Yanzhi took the "softball" and squeezed onto the bus, and the car drove forward unsteadily, but his thoughts followed the rapidly reversing scenery, and an inexplicable feeling lingered in his heart...

He used to spend about two-quarters of his year in Hengdian.He once jokingly called Hengdian his "second hometown".

However, before in Hengdian, he used luxury cars to get in and out, and lived in the most luxurious hotel in the town.

But now, he is squeezed in the dilapidated bus that smells like breakfast, not knowing where to go.

"Brother Xiao, are we almost there?" The white "softball" elbowed Xiao Yanzhi, and he recovered from his thoughts.

He lowered his head and looked out the window. The bus had already arrived in a village in the city. The roads were narrow, and the vendors who occupied the road were crowded on both sides of the road, which was not wide at all, leaving one and a half lanes for passing vehicles.The bus driver yelled loudly at the vendors in the local dialect.

"Here we are, get ready to get off." He looked at a fast food restaurant called "Grand Hyatt" not far away and told "Softball".

When the bus enters the village in the city, it usually stops whenever it is called.Xiao Yanzhi asked the driver to stop the car at the gate of "Grand Hyatt", and got out of the car with "Softball".

There was no one in the shop, the proprietress was sitting behind the cashier desk, watching the drama and eating melon seeds, when she saw the two people walking in, she raised her eyelids, then watched the TV drama again, and said casually: "Two, eat something What?"

With a taste of Northeast China.

"I'm looking for Ji Lan." Xiao Yanzhi said.

"Tsk, they're looking for work again." The proprietress rolled her eyes and pointed behind her, "Exit the back door and go up the stairs outside, the second room on the second floor."

The two walked through the smoky back kitchen and went straight to the second floor.The entire second floor is a rental house. The rooms are divided into small rooms, like a dormitory in middle school. The corridor is the balcony. The clothes of men and women are hung in a row, like colorful flags, fluttering in the cold wind.

Xiao Yanzhi knocked on the door of the second room, and a black and thin man opened the door with his head poked. It was Ji Lan that Xiao Yanzhi was looking for.

"Brother Xiao, you're here!" Ji Lan looked Xiao Yanzhi up and down, carefully identified it for a while, and then shouted in surprise, he hurriedly opened the door and welcomed the two of them in, "You're so lucky, I almost lost my mind." Can't recognize it."

A typical bachelor's room has a musty smell. In the past, Xiao Yanzhi would never have stepped into such a room, but now...

"This is Shen Haohao, the director." Xiao Yanzhi pointed to the white "softball" and introduced to Ji Lan.

"Yo! Director Shen, hello! My name is Ji Lan." Ji Lan hurried forward, took the initiative to shake Shen Haohao's hand, Shen Haohao asked Xiao Yanzhi for help in embarrassment, Xiao Yanzhi shrugged and found a place to sit Come down and ignore him.

"I'm an old man. I used to be a group special in Brother Xiao's crew. It's rare that Brother Xiao still remembers me." Ji Lan said excitedly, "I'm treating you tonight!"

"That's enough, let's get down to business." Xiao Yanzhi interrupted Ji Lan with a wave of his hand, "Have you found the crew yet?"

"Found it! In the past two days, Director Shen Ao and Shen are filming "The King of Han" at the Palace of the King of Qin, and there are two scenes missing. I asked someone to arrange it, and you two can go there tomorrow." Ji Lan said, "Live here I've also arranged the place for you two, it's just above me, I cleaned everything yesterday, and it's clean."

"Okay, give me the key, we both go up to have a rest first, and I'll treat you tonight." Xiao Yanzhi took the key upstairs, patted Ji Lan on the shoulder, "Thank you brother."

The room on the third floor had indeed been cleaned, and the bed was made clean and tidy. Xiao Yanzhi put down his bag, threw himself on the bed, and then sighed comfortably.

Shen Haohao took off his clothes clumsily. Under the heavy down jacket, there was a padded jacket and a thick autumn coat inside. No wonder it looked like a softball from the outside.

In the winter in the south, no matter how you wear it, you will sweat all over, but Shen Haohao's body is dry and dry, and he even looks a little cold.

"Wrap up the quilt quickly, or you'll be freezing, and you won't have to join the group tomorrow." Xiao Yanzhi said, lit a cigarette, and leaned against the bedside to smoke.

The smoke curled upwards, Xiao Yanzhi's heart was in a mess.

A few years ago, he was still a popular traffic niche in the entertainment industry, and he was the focus wherever he went.

At that time, the media made troubles and selected the sexiest male star, and he won the first place without a doubt.

On the day of the accident, he had just won the Best Actor award at the Bainiao Film Festival for his leading role in the literary film "Rumor" by the famous director Shen Ao.

At this moment, Shen Ao posted on Weibo saying that the actor was going to be given to someone else at the beginning, and the irony inside and outside the words was that Xiao Yanzhi was escorted by a financial backer, forcing him to change.

However, things got worse than that. On the same night, the same-sex nurturing scandal between him and Yue Shanlin, chairman of Linhai Group, was also exposed.

The brokerage company Linhai Entertainment not only ignored these scandals and allowed them to ferment for one night, but also issued a statement the next day to stop all his performing arts activities.

He was hidden in the snow.

What made him even more disheartened was that on the day he received the suspension of performing arts activities, he was told by Yue Shanlin's assistant to move out of Yue Shanlin's villa as soon as possible.In other words, he was dumped by Yue Shanlin.

He knew Yue Shanlin from the age of 18 to the age of 30 for a full 12 years, but in the end he didn't even get a formal breakup. He waited unwillingly in the villa for Yue Shanlin to come back, but he waited for even worse news. In the early hours of the morning, The media broke out on Weibo that Yue Shanlin and the young actor Feng Zhang walked together closely after spending the Spring Festival together.His waiting all night turned into a complete joke.

Early the next morning, he returned to his apartment in the urban area in desperation, quickly sold the house, left the bustling Beijing, returned to his hometown of Binhai Town, and left the entertainment circle far away.

Two years ago, he left the entertainment industry and had no plans to come back. He deleted everyone's phone numbers in the past, rented a fishing boat, and went fishing with fishermen all day long. He deliberately forgot all the past, but he was at ease.

On the morning of last winter, he rescued Shen Haohao who committed suicide by jumping into the sea at the beach, and brought him home.

It was only later that he found out that Shen Haohao was a new director who had just graduated from the Film Academy. As for why Shen Haohao committed suicide by jumping into the sea, Shen Haohao didn't say, nor did he ask.

Half a year ago, Shen Haohao handed him a script and told him his plan to make a movie. He wanted to refuse, but after reading the script, he hesitated.

Shen Haohao's script doesn't look like it could be written by an untrained college student, but rather like the work of an old director who has seen the prosperity of the world and finally chose to be calm. This is undoubtedly a good script. If it was before, he would definitely Take this drama without hesitation and add a trophy to yourself.But when he remembered the reason why he left the entertainment industry, he still refused.

In the end, Shen Haohao's words still moved him.

"I know you don't want to go back to that circle, but are you really willing to be kicked out like this?" Shen Haohao looked at Xiao Yanzhi with big eyes, and Xiao Yanzhi couldn't tell what he was looking at. Come on.

Are you willing?

of course not!

He was originally an outstanding graduate of the Film Academy. He said that his dream was a bit clichéd, but he did join this circle with a love for acting at the beginning. However, no matter how high he climbed, he fell hard in the end. He also paid a lot. the price.

In the past two years since he left, he also once recalled all kinds of incidents on the day of the accident. In just two days, he was first exposed to the nurturing scandal, then broke up, and was inexplicably hacked by the whole network. Shen Ao, who was taken good care of by the crew, also dissed him. If there was no black hand behind the scenes, it would be impossible.

He is not afraid of gossip, but he doesn't want to live a lifetime of shame.

He wants to go back!

So he took out all his savings to invest in Shen Haohao's movie, broke the boat and started from scratch.

After Xiao Yanzhi finished smoking a cigarette, he glanced at Shen Haohao who was on the opposite bed. He was wrapped in a quilt, watching an old movie on an iPad, a boring American literary film.

This time I came to Hengdian, on the one hand, to exercise Shen Haohao and let him join the group to experience the filming process;

On the other hand, he was too decisive at the beginning, he almost deleted all the contact information of people in the circle, and the only thing he kept was Ji Lan's phone number. To form a team to shoot a movie, he needed resources from the circle.

Even if these resources require him to bow his knees and be ridiculed by others, he can only get them.

"Go to sleep, you will be in the group tomorrow, go to bed early." Xiao Yanzhi twisted the cigarette butt on the ground, patted the soot on his body, spread out the quilt and fell asleep.

Shen Ao's crew...

Tomorrow, I'm afraid there will be a tough battle.Before falling asleep, Xiao Yanzhi thought in a daze.