Entertaining Children

"Surprise?" McCann asked curiously, "What are you talking about?"

"Sorry," Xiao Yao smiled apologetically, and said in English, "I just asked Mu why he didn't tell me that Jin also participated in the audition."

"So, you and Ms. Zhou know each other?" McCann immediately understood, and said happily, "That's great! At the first audition, both Mu and I felt that Ms. Zhou was the most suitable actor for this role, but Mr. Mu insisted on having a second audition after you came before he would confirm it."

"Don't blame me, we agreed before that the actors for some roles must wait for me to meet before finalizing." Xiao Yao explained with a smile, "I am also the director and producer!"

"I know!" McCann nodded, and continued, "Since you and Ms. Zhou know each other, you should know about her situation. She is already a relatively well-known actress in the United States. She has appeared in three movies, two episodes. She was one of the main characters in one of the episodes and she's been on for three seasons. She's got a lot of experience in acting!"

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "We have known each other for a long time, and we are very good friends. I know her situation well."

"Since you are friends and know her situation very well, can this role be determined?" McCann asked.

One of the purposes of the trade union is to avoid the black-box operations and insider trading that exist in the casting of the crew as much as possible. It does not mean that directors cannot choose their friends as actors. Not all the actors competing for this role are actors from the Screen Actors Guild of America, and Zhou Jingyi has been in the American showbiz for several years, and has long joined the Screen Actors Guild of America. McCann believes that the most suitable candidate list is Zhou Jingyi, and Zhou Jingyi is a member of the Screen Actors Union. McCann really hopes that this role can fall on Zhou Jingyi's head.

"What do you think?" Xiao Yao looked at Muying and said.

"Since I informed her to audition, of course I think she is qualified for this role." Muying shrugged.

"What about you?" Xiao Yao asked Zhao Rui who was beside him.

"Don't ask me," Zhao Rui said with a smile, waving his hands, "I'm not a director, regardless of casting, I'm just here to watch today!"

"Then follow the procedure!" Xiao Yao thought for a while, turned his head to look at Zhou Jingyi, waved his hand formally to signal an empty chair beside the table and said, "Please sit down!"

"Thank you!" Zhou Jingyi smiled and sat down.

"In this movie, there are only three actors who don't need to audition. The others, even Tiffany (Chen Xiaoting) have to go through an audition," Xiao Yao said, "You should know why, right?"

"Yes, of course I know!" Zhou Jingyi smiled and nodded.

"Then you should also know the reason why the three of us don't need to audition." Xiao Yao continued, "I have watched all the movies and episodes you starred in, and I..."

"Really?" Zhou Jingyi interrupted with a smile.

"Uh~" Xiao Yao choked for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes!"

"Thank you!" Zhou Jingyi smiled, "I'm honored!"

"What's the relationship between them?" McCann leaned over to Muying and asked in a low voice.

"Friend!" Muying smiled and spread her hands.

"Okay," Xiao Yao waved his hand, "What I want to say is that I quite approve of your acting skills.

So I don't need you to perform a scene from the script live to test your acting skills. However, you also know that our movie is an action movie, and it is a relatively special action movie. The character you're auditioning for is part of the protagonist's team, a parkour pro, so..."

"You want to see me show off the parkour moves?" Zhou Jingyi asked with a smile, "Are you here?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded.

The open-air cafe where they are located is located in a community square, with stone steps, railings, stones, slopes, and an entrance leading to an underground passage, which is a very suitable terrain environment for parkour. They chose to audition here for the purpose of allowing the audition actors to demonstrate parkour skills on the spot.

"Okay!" Zhou Jingyi nodded and stood up, took off her thin coat, put it on her seat and chair together with her shoulder bag, and walked towards the steps beside her.

Zhou Jingyi wore a sports bra inside her thin coat. After taking off the jacket, everyone could not only see the curve of Zhou Jingyi's chest, but also the beautiful muscle lines of Zhou Jingyi's arms and abdomen.

"What a good figure!" Zhao Rui couldn't help praising in a low voice.

Zhao Rui had met Zhou Jingyi twice, once after Xiao Yao's kidnapping at New York Fashion Week, and once in Los Angeles a few months ago. It was winter in New York Fashion Week, and they were dressed thickly. It was Valentine’s Day in Los Angeles, and the temperature was only in the 10s. The party held by Dean’s family was not a pool party. Everyone wore long-sleeved trousers. So this was the first time Zhao Rui saw Zhou Jingyi's good figure.

"Miss Zhou was a hip-hop dancer before becoming an actress, and she was good at action scenes!" McCann introduced to Zhao Rui, "She and her team once won the fourth place in the National Street Dance Competition, and she also won the fourth place in the street dance competition. She performed well in the competition, and was spotted by the choreographer of a film before turning to an actor. Her first film role was to play a hip-hop dancer."

Although Zhao Rui is not the director with the decision-making power, he is one of the action directors of this movie, and it is obvious that Xiao Yao also values ​​his opinion, so McCann also began to introduce Zhou Jingyi's situation to Zhao Rui.

"Yes, I've heard of it." Zhao Rui nodded and looked at Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao didn't react to the conversation between Zhao Rui and McCann, but just looked at Zhou Jingyi who was walking aside.

In the conversation just now, Xiao Yao found that Zhou Jingyi was quite confident. Based on his and Zhou Jingyi's understanding of each other, he believes that Zhou Jingyi should know that he would not give this role to her just because of his friendship with Zhou Jingyi, otherwise he would not ask her to show parkour skills on the spot. Then the reason why she is so confident is probably because she has already prepared.

At the party at Dean's residence one day after Valentine's Day this year, Xiao Yao and Mu Ying introduced the parkour movie to everyone, and Zhou Jingyi was also present at that time. If Zhou Jingyi had wanted to participate in the role audition at that time, Xiao Yao guessed that she should have started practicing parkour since then.

"After a few months of practice, will you be able to play this role?" Xiao Yao said in his heart.

A few months is enough for Zhou Jingyi to learn the poses and movements of parkour in a decent way, but if it's just a decent appearance, Xiao Yao will not easily hand over this role. As a member of the starring team, Xiao Yao needs the actor for this role to be a real parkour master.

Zhou Jingyi found a random place as the starting point, warmed up a bit, moved her joints, and started running.

When Zhou Jingyi started to run, Xiao Yao's eyes were full of prudence and pickiness. But when Zhou Jingyi ran down in a circle, both Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui couldn't help but widen their eyes.

After running around, Zhou Jingyi sat down and took a sip from the water glass on the table, then asked Xiao Yao with a smile, "Director, what do you think?"

Xiao Yao didn't answer, stared at her for a few seconds, and suddenly said: "You definitely have not only studied for a few months!"

"Uh~" Zhou Jingyi was stunned, and then smiled, "I didn't say that I only studied for a few months! I have known Nathan and the others a long, long time ago, in the year when we participated in the National Street Dance Competition !"

"You?" McCann asked curiously, "Mr. Xiao also participated in the American street dance competition? I remember that only Americans were allowed to participate in that competition."

"It was not allowed the year we participated, but it was allowed later because of him!" Zhou Jingyi smiled and pointed at Xiao Yao.

"My God, Mr. Xiao participated in a hip-hop competition in the United States?" McCann asked in surprise, "Still with Miss Zhou?"

"That's not important!" Xiao Yao waved his hand, looked at Zhou Jingyi and said, "But that time you only learned a few moves from Nathan and the others, and you didn't even run. After the competition, you all went to shoot MVs and movies , let alone learn from them. Before returning to China, I went to play with Nathan and the others a few times, but I never heard them say that you go to them to learn parkour."

"Then guess how I got it? Who did I learn from?" Zhou Jingyi laughed.

"It's still Nathan and the others, but not when I was in the United States!" Xiao Yao thought for a while, then turned to ask Mu Ying, "Mu, did you tell her in advance that we were going to make a parkour movie? Did you even Did you show her all the unfinished scripts?"

Planning for this film began two years ago. If Zhou Jingyi started learning two years ago, it would make sense to reach the level she just showed.

"It can't be my fault!" Mu Ying smiled and raised her hands, "You introduced me to Jin and asked me to teach her to act. Once when she came to see me, we happened to be chatting about the script through video chat. Later she asked me, I can't lie to her that there is no such thing, can I?"

"But why have you been hiding it from me?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Jin's idea!" Mu Ying laughed, "She said this is your YRF movie, you will definitely not agree to let her invest, and she is like everyone else, she always has to audition in the end, so there is no need to let you know gone."

Xiao Yao looked at Zhou Jingyi with complicated eyes.

"I agree!" Mu Ying continued to laugh, "Seeing your expression today, I think this decision is very correct. Ha!"

"Mr. Xiao, what do you think?" Kate McCann couldn't help but interjected and asked Xiao Yao.

"Ms. McCann, is this situation considered black box operation or insider trading?" Xiao Yao didn't answer, but asked Kate McCann deliberately, "Will it be unfair to other auditioners?"

"Uh~ It doesn't count!" Kate McCann shook her head and said, "It's normal for her to know the news and prepare in advance for a film directed by my teacher. This is a manifestation of Miss Zhou's own ability and connections."

Although Kate McCann didn't understand the detailed ins and outs, she understood the general meaning of the situation. It's nothing more than an example of "the first thing you get when you get close to the water", and there is no money or other immoral transactions in it. Of course, she has no objection to it.

"Since our director Mu has helped her so much, what else can I say!" Xiao Yao spread his hands, "Miss Zhou's performance is very good, unexpectedly good."

"So the role is confirmed?" McCann asked with confirmation.

"Let me emphasize one point," Xiao Yao said, looking at Zhou Jingyi, "the action scenes of our movie don't have doubles."

"But we'll make sure they get the full coverage for you!" McCann added.

"If you want a stand-in, do you still use the on-site test of parkour skills?" Zhou Jingyi said indifferently, "I already knew this, no problem!"

"Then this role is definitely yours!" Xiao Yao turned to Muying and said, "You can inform the other actors of this role not to audition."

"I didn't inform the other actors of this role at all." Mu Ying laughed.

"You~" Xiao Yao stared at Mu Ying.

"Thank you director!" Zhou Jingyi stood up, bent down and extended her hand to Xiao Yao.

"Follow me!" Xiao Yao rolled her eyes, leaned back in the chair, folded his arms on purpose, and turned a blind eye to her outstretched hand.

Zhou Jingyi didn't care about Xiao Yao's attitude, instead she took a step forward, bent down and stretched out her arms to hug Xiao Yao, before sitting back in her seat.

"I won't make a small report with Duo'er!" Zhao Rui leaned over and whispered in Chinese with a smile.

"Go!" Xiao Yao gave Zhao Rui a white look, "Duo'er will come to visit the class after the recital is over, I can't hide this from her~ No, there is nothing to hide from her!"

"We didn't bring a contract today," Xiao Yao ignored Zhao Rui, turned to Zhou Jingyi and said, "Tomorrow we will sign a contract with other confirmed actors."

"No problem!" Zhou Jingyi said indifferently.

"You have already been confirmed as one of the leading actors. If you have nothing to do this afternoon, you can stay and watch the auditions for other actors." Xiao Yao said again, "Give us some advice!"

"Okay!" Zhou Jingyi nodded, "It's fine in the afternoon, it's also good to check out the actors who might work with you in advance."

"Wipe your sweat and put on your coat!" Xiao Yao took out a few tissues from the tissue box on the table and handed them over, "There is sea breeze here, be careful of catching a cold!"

"Thank you!" Zhou Jingyi smiled sweetly, took Xiao Yao's tissue and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and put on his coat.

Actors audition one by one. There was an interval of 20 minutes between the time Mu Ying notified each actor to come to the audition. Zhou Jingyi sat for a while, and then a second actor came to audition.

The audition actors who came today have all passed the initial audition by McCann and Muying, so they all know these two people. After the second audition actor and Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, and Zhou Jingyi introduced themselves, Xiao Yao asked Muying to turn on the camera he brought before starting the formal audition.

It is rare for an actor to make a decision on the spot to determine the ownership of the role during the audition. Under normal circumstances, the performance of the auditionees is recorded with a video camera, and then they are watched and compared slowly when they go back. Zhou Jingyi's audition just now was obviously a special case.

Due to short-term notice, there are only six actors who can audition in the afternoon. The audition started at 2:30 in the afternoon and ended around 4:30 in the afternoon.

The six actors who came in the afternoon auditioned for several different roles separately, and not all the people on the shortlist for each role came, so after all the auditions in the afternoon were over, Xiao Yao did not confirm any actor for any role, and was ready to wait. The final decision will be made after everyone has auditioned tomorrow morning.

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