She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 952 - 836: Super Star 10 (4000)_3
Because earlier their picture together, Hua Yan had it developed and brought it to Zhou Yao, so Zhou Yao knew that she had photos with her.
Hua Yan also realized that she might have hit the jackpot, but this pie falling from the sky, is it poisonous?
She took out an ancient costume photo. Although she was just an extra, and her clothes were not luxurious, even rather shabby, because she took it with Zhou Yao, her mischievous expression and bright smile sparkled with intelligence.
The assistant director just glanced at it, nodded, asked for her phone number, and then left.
"Oh my god, Hua Yan, being noticed by the assistant director, maybe you’ll get a role with lines."
Hua Yan carefully inquired about the assistant director’s background and learned that it was a martial arts drama that had been remade countless times. If she could be noticed, she reckoned she’d only be playing the childhood of the main roles. Yet unexpectedly, when the call came, it was to audition for another palace costume drama, and the cast was a star-studded lineup, her role being the maid of the female lead as a child.
She couldn’t understand why they didn’t choose someone from the established cast and instead picked her, even Hua Yan found it inconceivable.
Throughout the process, there were no unspoken rules, just changing into costume, putting on makeup, being given a script, and acting according to the scene for audition.
Although it was only a little maid role, her performance surprised everyone, because the maid in the script was a spicy and strong-willed little girl, frustrated with her too compliant master. She just slightly grasped the character’s personality, and then collaborated with a few child actors. The scene included arguing and fighting, and after the fight, she had to pretend to be a victim to complain to the elders at home, acting meek and clever, earning significant part for this little maid.
The director group, which initially didn’t expect much from a recommendation by the assistant director, now had nothing to say.
Initially, a little maid role wasn’t taken seriously by the production side, thinking they’d just give it a try based on the assistant director’s suggestion. Unexpectedly, the result was quite stunning, learning that the young girl was only 11 years old, still in elementary school, unflinching in front of so many people, and delivering a steady performance, they suddenly felt it was a waste of talent to have her play a maid.
They wanted her to try for the role of the young female lead, originally a part where she was supposed to pretend to practice calligraphy in the study. Surprisingly, Hua Yan actually took up the brush and elegantly wrote a piece of plum blossom small script that looked absolutely professional to an outsider.
After finishing the piece of fine writing, everyone couldn’t afford to continue with the audition, clamoring to ask her questions about calligraphy.
She answered quite plainly: "I have been practicing since childhood,"
Later, the piece was shown to a professional calligraphy teacher, who was astonished and excited, eagerly came over to ask Hua Yan a lot of professional questions.
"I just learned with a teacher from the calligraphy class, um, the teacher is called Zheng Yun, don’t know if he is selected into the Calligrapher Association, um, currently only learned this one style,"
Of course, it wasn’t only this one style, but showing too much was not good, so when it was time to be modest, one should not be too vain.
As a result, because of this piece of calligraphy, she ended up against all odds, getting the role of the young female lead. Although altogether less than ten scenes, back in the day, this drama was quite popular for a while. This was more than just luck? It was like striking gold.
Actually, this drama had been shooting for a while, but because there were always scheduling conflicts with the child actors, probably due to exams, she guessed, unexpectedly, the opportunity fell into her hands. To be honest, Hua Yan wasn’t as excited as one might imagine, after all, she had planned her route to climb step by step from being an extra. But she didn’t expect her luck to be so good, with such a favorable opportunity falling from the sky, and it wasn’t toxic at all, which was worth pondering.
When Hua Yan signed the contract with the crew, they required her guardian to attend, otherwise, they wouldn’t sign, considering the legal responsibilities, and they were going to pay her twenty thousand for her involvement.
This fee might be too little for other already famous little actors, but for her, it was quite decent.
However, Hua Yan didn’t want Zhao Yun to know she was acting for the time being, partly not wanting to cause trouble for the other party, and also because there were many aftereffects of acting, Zhao Yun might directly refuse otherwise.
