Chapter 106: Casting

  Su Jing quietly looked at the materials in front of her, which were the profiles of several students competing for the lead role. It didn't take long before Su Jing identified two candidates and then asked Liu Mei to notify them to come to the office for an interview, where the lead would be born from among them.

  Then Su Jin picked up the list of actors on one side and carefully browsed through it. In fact, compared to the protagonist, Su Jin paid more attention to these supporting roles. The play "Precise" was popular all over the country in later generations, and later people named this type of TV series as ancient costume youth idol drama.

  Unlike modern idol dramas and general ancient costume idol dramas, the play "The Case" is not centered around a single main character. Of course, it's not that the protagonist of "The Case" is unimportant, but rather that not all the attention is focused on the protagonist like in typical idol dramas where supporting characters become clowns.

  On the contrary, several supporting characters in "The Brightest Star in the Sky" are quite impressive. At least in Su Can's view, for example, Xiao Zisheng, who is handsome and talented. Cai Hesen, who comes from a poor family but is optimistic and upward-looking. Wang Zipeng, who comes from a rich and noble family but has a kind heart... etc., all left a deep impression on the audience.

  Even if it's the anti-hero Liu Junqing, while making people feel disgusted with him at the same time, they can't help but feel sorry for his fate. It can be said that in this play there is no real anti-hero, just different beliefs and ideas.

  So Su Jin attaches great importance to these supporting roles, even more than the main character. Su Jin nodded slightly as he looked at the cast list, and Liu Mei personally played the female lead Tao Suyan in the play. En, this decision is still quite recognized by Su Jin, Liu Mei's temperament is very similar to that of Tao Suyan. It's a natural fit for her to play the role.

  An Wenshu played Xiao Zisheng, Man Qing played Xiao Zichen. Mei Jiangyun played Xiang Jingyu, Zhao Fang played Yang Kaihui... Looking at the string of names, Su Jie furrowed his brow, many students he didn't recognize, a few had some impression, but most were completely unknown to him. Su Jie couldn't help but admit that he really hadn't interacted with his classmates much.

  It seems that after he came to the business school, he was always busy with this and that. Even when interacting with classmates, it was limited to the management layer of the Writing Club or the small circle of the First Writing Club. Even as a member of the ordinary writing club, although Su Jin often gave them lessons, only a few people knew him. When seeing his face, he might feel familiar, but couldn't call out his name.

  Helpless, Su Jin could only put the materials aside and ignore them. It is said that during the interview, Professor Ma personally took charge of it, and now he can only believe in Professor Ma's professionalism.

  Thinking of Professor Ma, Su Jin suddenly realized that he should immediately exchange professional books on film and television teaching. Then train these main characters and supporting actors. This is what he should be doing now. But who will explain it? Su Jin thought for half a day and still had to admit that this role could only be played by himself.

  Because he really can't trust others, if he cultivates a few film and television talents himself, he can still use them as geniuses, with surprising insight, or his own teaching methods to fool people. But if he hands this textbook over to someone else, how will he explain its origin?

  Anyone with a bit of professional quality knows the value of this textbook, and at that time, I'm afraid the best outcome for myself would be to live in hiding under government surveillance for the rest of my life. Su Jin thought about it and couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine. He decided that from now on, he would have to be even more cautious in his actions.

  After exchanging the video teaching materials, Su Jin glanced at his own fan value. Hmm, it's still pretty good. With the update of "Return to Ming", his fans are steadily increasing. Now he has 89,000 recognized fans, 3,200 appreciative fans, 507 respectful fans, and 98 worshiping fans. His current fan value is 95,782 points.

  Su Jian is quite satisfied with his own fan value, apparently, this fan value has made a leap in the near future. It's probably due to his performance in the flood relief efforts being reported by the media.

  Suddenly, Su Jing's gaze swept to his own attribute table, huh? This is: Position: Squad Leader. Subordinate Squad Leaders: 0/2. Subordinate Soldiers: 0/20. (Although you have already been promoted to a higher level, there is no doubt that you are still a vanguard role, also known as cannon fodder. Try to find enough subordinates, this will be very helpful for you.)

  Find soldiers yourself! Oh, I see. It seems that during the last upgrade, the system specifically mentioned it, and he was originally going to try it out when he had a chance, but unfortunately, he got busy with flood relief efforts and forgot about it.

  "It seems that I should try it out and see what this is all about. The system's performance looks quite impressive." Su Jin muttered to himself.

  Out of the system, Su Jin walked into the office, and Liu Mei notified that the two actors who were going to interview Mao Zedong had arrived.

  "This is the scene where Mao Zedong meets Tao Suiyuan for the first time, you two act it out." Su Jin didn't say any more unnecessary words and directly pointed to a section of the script.

  Two classmates looked at each other in dismay, it was clear that they hadn't made much preparation. In their opinion, as long as they came, it was an interview, and they didn't expect to perform in public.

  "This is the drawback of choosing student actors, no basic acting skills, and not even some common sense." However, he had expected this beforehand, so it didn't bring up any negative emotions.

  "On the contrary, Su Jin and Yan Yuese said: 'Since you are here to compete for roles, acting is a normal thing for you. In the future, you will still perform in front of many people, and your performance will be watched by audiences across the country. Now, isn't it normal to let you experience this first? If you can't even do this, how can we believe that you can play this role?"

  Two classmates exchanged a glance, and finally one of them took the lead. It was clear that he was still very nervous, his facial expression somewhat stiff. Although he seemed to be trying to convey the same ambiguous first-love feeling as Mao Zedong when he first met Tao Suiyuan, his overly stiff body made him look like a wooden puppet, somewhat comical.

  Su Jin couldn't help but shake his head secretly, if such a performance were to be put on the film and television talent market in Beijing, the director would probably pass him by at first glance. However, Su Jin finally restrained his emotions and watched his classmate's performance until the end.

  After this classmate finished, another classmate started performing. Su had originally thought that the first classmate's acting skills were already bad enough, but this classmate was obviously showing him what it meant to have no worst, only worse. Compared to him, Su suddenly felt that the previous classmate's performance was still passable.

  Su Jin finally chose the first classmate as his male lead. It wasn't until then that he knew this classmate's name was Rong Shan Sheng. It wasn't that he didn't want to change, but he knew that even if he did, the result might not necessarily be better than this one.

  It was already destined for this outcome since he decided to select actors from among the students. Now, he can only play the role of a system with strong enough skills in verbal and physical education.