C59 Famous Old Actor

The next day, Qiao Lin received a call to the company for an audition. The audition was held at the company, and only after he was asked to change into a few sets of costumes did he know that there were a lot of roles in this series. There were quite a number of heavy supporting roles in the series that had yet to be selected. Other than him and Han Dong, who were appointed by the company, there were also quite a number of artists under the company, as well as those from other management companies, who were auditioning on the spot.

The screen test depended on the actor's understanding of the role, as well as the appearance, so each of the characters was given a piece of the script to perform, and the result was determined by the director.

Recently, Qiao Lin had been working as an intern at the Golden Year. Every few days, Zeng Yiwen would give them some messy, melodramatic scripts for them to shoot short dramas. In comparison, the scripts that the company used to test them were child's play. At least, this was normal.

Although they had to improvise now, which was even shorter than the time Zeng Yiwen had given them to rehearse, the more they acted, the less difficult it seemed.

In the end, Qiao Lin ended up with a villain. Although he was not the ultimate boss, he was definitely a tragic character. The father of the male lead had a grudge against him for killing his father. Since he was young, he had been blinded by hatred and was used by others. First, he became friends with the male lead and tried to get close to the father of the male lead. Many failed assassinations were released by the enemy and then killed by the person who used him.

Qiao Lin had auditioned for many roles but felt that it was too ordinary. Only this character was more vivid and lively. He did not expect that it would really fall into his hands in the end.

Furthermore, this character had quite a lot of scenes. Although he did not live to the end, he had always been active in the first two thirds of the scenes in the entire drama.

Qiao Lin had also heard that the actor who played the role of his father's murderer was a popular actor who had already reached the stage of playing the role of a father. He must be an experienced actor, and this was also a good opportunity for him to learn.

A week after the audition, Qiao Lin joined the crew. Most of the filming locations for The Young Martial Arts World were in the cinema city where he had done extras before. He was familiar with this place. In the years that he had been an extras, he had almost run to every corner of the cinema city.

On the day of the filming, due to the fact that The Young Martial World was a new series produced by the Golden Year, the publicity was still on point. There were quite a number of reporters at the scene, but Qiao Lin was still worried about the future of the show. Even though the starring actors were already present, they were all unfamiliar faces who were slightly younger than him. In the past, even if Qiao Lin used new actors to star in the production of minor roles, there would always be some familiar faces in the supporting roles.

The Golden Year seemed to be full of newcomers from starring to supporting roles, and the famous actor who was supposed to play the father of the male lead didn't show up on the opening day.

However, no matter what the future of this drama was, this was the first time in Qiao Lin's life that he was officially participating in a television series, so he had to take it seriously.

However, after three days of filming, there was no progress at all. The director of The Young Martial World was a man in his forties, whose surname was Zhang, and he was known for being strict in the industry. The few scenes that were shot back and forth never met his expectations. The first few scenes were all scenes of the main characters, and Qiao Lin never had the chance to appear on stage because he could never achieve the effect that the director wanted.

A bunch of greenhorns, faced with a stern director.

Qiao Lin was a little worried that it would be the same when he went on stage. Qiao Lin had seen how fierce those directors were and he was worried that he would make too many mistakes. Therefore, after watching the show on set for the whole day, he stayed in the hotel alone to read the script. The crew would notify him when it was his turn to go on stage.

However, unlike in the rehearsal room or Qin Lang's house, there was no one to play with him in the hotel. Initially, Qiao Lin was assigned to the same room as Han Dong as Han Dong was playing the role of the male lead's attendant. As long as the male lead was present in the previous scenes, he would have to be present. Even if he did not have any lines, he would have to act as a human background. However, since the first day they were assigned to the same room, Han Dong had not returned to his room.

Actors who had scenes with Qiao Lin were either busy with the production or had not joined the crew yet. He could only familiarize himself with the script first and understand the role according to what Qin Lang and Zeng Yiwen had taught him. Then, he would understand the lines according to the background and situation of the character, so that it would not be easy for him to get out of the play.

It was almost noon when Qiao Lin, who had been holed up in his room all morning, felt hungry. He washed his face and prepared to go out for lunch.

Just as he walked out of the hotel, he received a call from Qin Lang.

Looking at the caller ID, Qiao Lin was a little puzzled as to why Qin Lang was calling at this time of the day.

"Dad." The moment the call connected, Qin Xiaoyu's young and clear voice came from the other end.

"What's wrong, Yu? Have you eaten?"

"Not yet. Dad and I are now... Dad, give me back my phone." Before Qin Xiaoyu could finish his words, his phone was snatched away by Qin Lang. Qin Lang put his index finger to his lips and signaled him not to say anything.

Then, she took out her phone and said to Qiao Lin, "Qiao Lin, is dinner ready? How's your filming going these few days?"

"I'm not on set now. I just came out of the hotel and was about to go out for dinner," Qiao Lin was searching for a place to eat while talking on the phone.

"Why aren't you on set?" Previously, Qin Lang had heard from Xu Zhou that the role that Qiao Lin played this time was quite important. It had only been three days since the shooting of the new movie started, yet he had already lost his chance to shoot today?

"I've been working on the lead part for the past few days, and before it's my turn, I've been on the set for a day, getting used to it, and then I went back to the hotel to read the script myself." Speaking of the script, Qiao Lin was a little excited, "This time, I have quite a lot of scenes. What a thick script. These two days, I have analyzed the background, mood, and situation of the character and marked them so that I won't have to worry about not knowing how to interpret the character when filming starts."

"That's good. But have you found out who has scenes with you in the crew? You can get familiar with them." Qin Lang felt that Qiao Lin had put in a lot of effort. In the past, he could even summarize a lot of experience from acting as a background actor, but now, most of these actors were acting according to the script and rarely cared about their roles.

"Most of my rivals are the lead actor and his father, but the lead actor has been too busy shooting these last few days to have any scenes with me, and his father is said to be a very famous veteran, but he's not in the cast yet."

A very famous old actor? Qin Lang frowned as if he had already guessed something, "Qiao Lin, what role are you playing?"

"He's a villain who has a grudge against the male lead's father. On one hand, he calls the male lead his brother, and on the other hand, he uses the male lead to get close to his father and find an opportunity to take revenge."

As soon as Qiao Lin finished speaking, the other end of the phone fell silent.

Qin Lang had long known that he would be playing the same role as Qiao Lin, but he did not know what role Qiao Lin would be playing. All he knew was that Qiao Lin had a lot of scenes and had auditioned for a few roles. He did not expect Qiao Lin to take on the role that had the most scenes with him.

But how did he become what Qiao Lin called an old actor? How was he old?