I Curse You To Have Endless Homework Forever! (1)
“Luo, is this the little girl from the Jinxin kindergarten?”
Director Fang Rui looked away from the monitor screen, with dissatisfaction in his eyes. He was obviously disappointed with the performance of the little girl currently filming the scene.
Assistant Director Luo Bingqi on the side, felt guilty after being asked this question.
His eyes became erratic. He faltered for two seconds to respond: “Yes, yes.”
Fang Rui’s mind was so swarmed with the crew and cast, he failed to notice Luo Bingqi’s abnormal look. His eyes showed more dismay.
The launch of the movie was coming up, all the preparations were ready. But there was one role still empty, waiting for the perfect person.
They intended to find a young child rather than an adult. If the child’s appearance and acting skills match the character, they will be able to fill the role well.
But children are different.
For children who are only three or four years old, they cannot be expected to excel in their acting skills since they are clueless in themselves. Their importance lies in their spiritual aura.
Acting skills can be improved from practice, but aura is a natural gift.
The little girl on the screen appeared rather cute, but her looks don’t quite fit the role. Of course, this is not significant. After all, this can be fixed with a bit of makeup.
That girl’s audition just did not have the feeling of purity children have. Her eyes revealed a trace of maturity, which was unnatural for kids her age.
Fang Rui shook his head. That was not the feeling he wanted at all.
He recalled going to the kindergarten a week ago to seek a child actor to fulfill the final role.
As he looked around, he found a little girl had that spiritual aura that he was looking for. His eyes lit up. He just found a hidden gem.
So why did it change during the audition?
Was it because she was nervous?
He tried to recall the girl he saw for the first time in the kindergarten, but it was blurry. The only thing that remained was a pair of big shining eyes. The reminiscing feeling of purity and innocence was lost in the girl standing in front of him.
Surprisingly, her body seemed to have changed as well.
Fang Rui was puzzled. Maybe he just didn’t remember correctly?
In just this month, the team had visited dozens for kindergarten, seen thousands of children, and auditioned hundreds of girls. Out of all of them, how could he remember just one?
But as Fang Rui thought more and more about this ordeal, somehow his heart began to ache.
Fang Rui turned to Luo Bingqi.”Xiao Luo, bring the video you shot in Jinxin Kindergarten, I want to see it again.”
Luo Bingqi heard him, but didn’t get up. Instead, nervously clutching his palm, he said, “Director Fang, Xiao Zhou informed me this morning that all of the kindergarten video material was lost.”
“Why didn’t you tell me about this?”
“I didn’t think recording the video would be important. Plus you have been busy directing…… so I didn’t tell you.”
“You…!”
Fang eventually calmed down.
If the film couldn’t launch on time, not only would they lose hundreds of thousands of dollars, the pressure thrown towards the producers, management, and the actors would be unbearable.
Fang Rui felt a headache just by thinking about it.
But he didn’t just want to find some random child actor to fix the issue. This would not show responsibility towards his work, and would also be the destruction of everyone’s reputation.
Luo Bingqi saw Fang Rui, who has always been assertive, look like an eggplant that’s been left out in the frost*.
He looked up at the little girl resting on the side, recalling the promise of the girl’s mother, the guilt immediately disappeared.
He said to Fang Rui: “Director Fang, why don’t we give Zou Xinrui another chance? They are children, so coming to an unfamiliar place could be the reason for their bad performances.”
Fang Rui looked at Zou Xinrui, the little girl who was well-behaved, sitting in a chair with eyes looking around the set. But when their eyes met, the girl immediately lowered her head, and pretended to read a book.
Fang Rui sighed and shook his head.
“There’s not necessary.”
Modern society teaches parents the importance of education, for fear of children lacking behind their peers, losing right at the starting line.
But this method also pressures children to lose their innocence and childlikeness at a young age.
When Luo Bingqi heard this, he knew it was over.
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In the lounge outside the audition room, Zou Lixiang anxiously waited for the audition news.
This is the famous director Fang Rui’s film. If Rui Rui can audition successfully, then she can successfully enter the entertainment industry and become a child star.
Those child-born celebrities are surrounded with their success, fame, wealth, and happiness that they bring to their family.
When Zou Lixiang thought of her baby daughter becoming a big star, the smile on her face couldn’t be held in any longer, and she even laughed in a low voice.
Zou Lixiang saw someone passing by through the lounge glass doors, and immediately put away the smile. She saw Lu Lu sitting in the chair trying to take off her face mask.
She quickly went to put Lu Lu’s mask back on to prevent her face from being shown.
She wouldn’t have brought her today in the first place. In the past, she just locked the girl in the house and left.
But recently, a little girl next door was locked at home choked to death from walnuts.
After the neighbors learned of this, they came to tell her not to leave Lu Lu home alone, afraid of another accident.
Since Lu YuanZhou passed away in an accident, the neighbors have been talking behind her back, saying that she has taken over the family assets but treats Lu Lu badly.