The Central Academy of Drama is the first higher education institution in Haitang Kingdom, a college directly under the Ministry of Education, and the highest institution of drama art education in Haitang Kingdom. It is the headquarters of the Haitang Kingdom Higher Drama Education Alliance and the Asian Drama Education Research Center. It is the activity base of the International College Student Drama Festival of the World Drama Academy Alliance. The Central Academy of Drama has a UNESCO drama education seat and is a world-renowned art school.

In terms of performance, Beijing Film Academy cannot compare with the Central Academy of Drama. The students of the Central Academy of Drama are trained for the drama stage, while the drama is not NG and have very high requirements for actors. Therefore, the Central Academy of Drama is particularly strict in teaching. Central Academy of Drama students will write biography of tens of thousands of characters in a school. Before they act, when they do desk work, they want to dig out all the grandfathers of the characters to analyze and analyze, and often tens of thousands of characters in biography and annotations.

Due to the extremely strict teaching requirements, the basic skills of actors from the Central Academy of Drama are relatively solid and their acting is relatively stable. Many directors from Beijing Film Academy like to use actors from the Central Academy of Drama, such as Chen Yimou's favorites Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi, both of them are from the Central Academy of Drama. However, with the expansion of the school in recent years, the performance department has changed from one class to three classes, and teaching has begun to become more popular.

In the eyes of outsiders, Central Academy of Drama and Beijing Film Academy seem to be somewhat hostile, but this is not the case. Most of the students of Central Academy of Drama and Beijing Film Academy know each other during the art exam. After they were admitted to the school, there were many activities in each school. The weekend theaters of Beijing Film Academy and Central Academy of Drama always contact each other’s circle of friends. For example, Xu Zhengdao and his director department usually need actors when filming homework. In addition to looking for them from Beijing Film Academy, they also ask Central Academy of Drama students to help. They have many friends at Central Academy of Drama.

When he arrived at the Central Academy of Drama, Xu Zhengdao took out his cell phone and dialed Yang Shuo's number 02, and called him out. Yang Shuo was a very enthusiastic person. When he heard that Xu Zhengdao was looking for Tong Liya of Level 04, he found a girl without saying a word and called Tong Liya out.

"Hello, classmate Tong Liya." Xu Zhengdao looked at the beautiful girl in front of him, and a stunning flashed in his eyes. This girl was a little dark, but she looked so beautiful.

Xu Zhengdao has watched two movies "The Calamity" and "The Purple House" starring Tong Liya. Both films were filmed poorly. If Tong Liya was not beautiful enough, it would be difficult for him to finish watching the two movies. He felt that the directors of those two movies were very low and did not present Tong Liya's beauty well, otherwise she would be more amazing in the movie.

Xu Zhengdao knew that Tong Liya was a freshman and had been in the Central Academy of Drama for less than a year. The Central Academy of Drama was not allowed to go out to film, unless the class teacher allowed her to give her permission. However, the filming cycle of "Zone B No. 32" was very short and could be finished in about a week, which would delay four or five days of class. As long as you talk to the class teacher carefully, it is possible to convince.

"Hello, is there anything you have to do with me?" Tong Liya looked at Xu Zhengdao curiously, with a hint of alertness in her eyes.

Looking at Tong Liya's beautiful and pure face and her smart eyes, Xu Zhengdao thought to himself that horror movies need beauty, and Tong Liya is undoubtedly a big beauty! It is very appropriate to let her play "No. 32 in Area B", but she doesn't know how she is acting. He smiled and said, "Hello. My name is Xu Zhengdao, a graduate student in the Director Department of Beijing Electric. Recently, we are preparing a small-budget movie and are choosing the heroine. Someone recommended you to me, so I will come to talk to you to see if it is appropriate."

Tong Liya's big eyes flashed, looking particularly agile: "Who recommended me?"

Xu Zhengdao was stunned for a moment. Tong Liya’s message was heard from the system. I couldn’t say it. I could only say vaguely: “It’s me a friend. You definitely don’t know me. You performed the Uyghur solo dance “Barangzi” at the Ministry of Culture’s Spring Festival TV Gala. After watching your dance, he was fascinated by you and became your fan. He heard that we were selecting the heroine, so he recommended you to me. I’ll come and take a look.”

Tong Liya felt very beautiful when she heard someone liked her because of her own dance: "So that's the case. However, our school stipulates that we are not allowed to go out for acting in the first and second year of the year. I am only in my freshman year and I can't act."

"Our movie is different from other movies. It is a pseudo-documentary. It is filmed very quickly and can be finished in a few days. Similar to "Blair the Witch", do you know "Blair the Witch"?" Xu Zhengdao saw Tong Liya shook his head and said, "This is not a place to talk. Let's go to your school's cafe and sit and chat."

Tong Liya smiled brightly and showed her two cute tiger teeth: "Okay."

Central Opera is located in Nanluoguxiang, which is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Peiping and was built in the Yuan Dynasty. It is the only traditional chessboard-style residential area in my country that has completely preserved the texture of the Yuan Dynasty hutong courtyard, the largest scale, the highest grade and the richest resources. Among them are the Senggelinqin Palace, the old house of Prime Minister Jin Yunpeng in the early years of the Republic of China, the former residence of Qi Baishi, the former residence of Mao Dun, the former residence of Chiang Kai-shek, etc.

A few years ago, when Xu Zhengdao went to Peking to take the art exam, it was not prosperous in Nanluoguxiang. It was just the most ordinary streets and alleys in Beiping, with bungalows and courtyards, gray walls and gray tiles, quiet and sparsely populated. But now there are more than 30 bars and coffee houses here, attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists every day, becoming a bar alley with the characteristics of old Peking.

Xu Zhengdao and Tong Liya came out of the Central Academy of Drama and walked into a cafe called Old Records diagonally opposite the school. As the store is named, the walls of this cafe are full of old records of all ages, and the decoration in the house is mainly nostalgic. The gray walls on the inner wall are filled with messages from people coming here. The postcards of "Old Things in Peking" and "Snow on Changdao" produced by the owner are left in the store for free for people to read, scattered in every place where they can be seen.

Xu Zhengdao ordered coffee and some desserts, and sat down with Tong Liya. He first talked about "No. 32, District B", talked about the role of Gao Yutong, and then brought the topic to Tong Liya and asked about her experience. It was not that he had any thoughts about Tong Liya, but mainly wanted to see if her experience overlapped with Gao Yutong.

Directors often have their own methods for casting roles, such as Chen Yimou, who likes to use newcomers. When selecting newcomers, he will find a group of actors according to the role needs, pick out good seedlings, and then repeatedly test the selected actors, constantly verify them, and finally select the most suitable actors.

Xu Zhengdao's method of casting is different from Chen Yimou. He will chat with the actors very carefully, talking about the actors' background, experience, preferences, etc. He will record what the actors tell, and when he hears a certain paragraph, he will ask in depth to explore more stories.

Xu Zhengdao believes that it is best to choose an actor who has similar experiences to the role. Such actors have a life experience, are quickly immersed in the role, and can accurately portray the role.

It is particularly important for an actor to have similar life experiences to a role. For example, if Liu Yifei asked her to play a rich lady, she could perform well because she was a rich family and had a life experience. But if you asked her to play a mountain village teacher, or a widow, she would definitely not play well because she did not have the corresponding life experience and did not know what a mountain village teacher or widow is like, and she did not know how they talk and how they did things. If she wanted to play a mountain village teacher, the only way was to experience life, like a mountain village teacher, and really live in a mountain village for a while.

Zhang Ziyi is a girl who grew up in the city. She played a rural girl in "My Father and Mother" and she performed very well. How did she do it? Because she had no rural life experience, she was thrown directly into the countryside to experience life by Chen Yimou. During that time, Zhang Ziyi lived in a fellow villager's home, digging potatoes, feeding pigs, and doing farm work with the old farmer every day. Two months later, she was able to easily control basic farm work like a rural girl, and naturally there was no problem in playing a rural girl.

What does an actor rely on to act? It depends on life experience and experience.

Therefore, Xu Zhengdao must choose an actor who has similar experiences and life experiences as the roles.

Under the guidance of Xu Zhengdao, Tong Liya began to talk about her childhood: "I grew up riding a horse in the northwest, and I have a natural boldness. I am not a very gentle and quiet girl in life. I am quite noisy and special in life. I am good at meddling in other people's business and care about everyone's affairs. When I was a child, I often played with local rural children, harvested wheat, stole corn, grazed sheep, lie on the edge of the cow pen and waited for the cow to pull a few shits, and then mixed the cow dung with cinders and rolled them into coal balls to keep warm in winter. I ran all day in the wild like a boy."

Tong Liya also talked about her experience of moving to Beijing: "I could have stayed in our local singing and dancing troupe as a dancer, but I still thought of Peking. I gave up the stable work of the local dance troupe and became an external actor in the Haitang National Anthem Dance Troupe in Baizhifangqiao. In the summer of 2003, SARS was raging and the whole city was empty. All performances were cancelled, but fortunately, the troupe was responsible for food and accommodation. I and a few dancing girls of about age could only stay in the dormitory most of the time, chatting with each other to relieve boredom. August 8th was my birthday, which was also the most "poor" birthday since I was alive. There was only a few dollars in my pocket. I went downstairs and called my mother with a magnetic card. My mother asked, "How was the birthday?"

During Tong Liya's story, Xu Zhengdao felt that Tong Liya's face slowly overlapped with Gao Yutong, the heroine of "Zone B No. 32". He felt that the character Gao Yutong was simply prepared for Tong Liya, and they had many similar things.

Xu Zhengdao believes that Tong Liya can play Gao Yutong well because Gao Yutong's identity is a Beijing drifter. Tong Liya has been a Beijing drifter, so she can feel the characters' hearts and be more happy and sad. The reason why the actors Xu Zhengdao auditioned before made him dissatisfied is that they have never been a Beijing drifter and cannot truly understand the characters' hearts.

Of course, this is just Xu Zhengdao's feeling. It is hard to say whether Tong Liya can play Gao Yutong and whether she can play this role well. After all, she is just a freshman and has only received the most basic elementary training and has not yet learned how to shape the role. Whether Tong Liya can play Gao Yutong and whether she can play this role well depends on the audition results.

After chatting until almost five o'clock, he came out of the cafe. Xu Zhengdao looked at Tong Liya and smiled and said, "Tomorrow at 9 o'clock, you will come to Beijing Television. We will arrange for you to take the audition to see the audition effect."
Chapter completed!