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After learning from Courtesan Sister's lessons, Jasmine got some ideas. To better understand the role, she encouraged Ben to accompany her to a high-end club. Feeling more confident, she mentioned trying it out and planned to find a skilled makeup artist to transform her to the point where even her mother wouldn't recognize her, then sneak into the group of box princesses for a real experience.
This plan was a bit too chaos, leaving Ben speechless.
"Isn't that unnecessary... sacrificing so much for just a movie?"
"It's my first time playing the lead role in a major film."
Ben took a look at this project, and the most amazing part is getting Chi Yan and Jasmine to play the male and female leads together, which can't be considered a huge investment, right?
After all, they are not exactly big names in the film industry. Jasmine's current value in the TV industry is relatively high.
Ben is not afraid of losing a lot of money, he is just worried that if paparazzi expose their identities and secretly take photos, the headline tomorrow might be a famous actress bankrupting her family to pay off debts at a club... If some naive netizens really believe it, would it be difficult to debunk the rumors?
To distract Jasmine from this idea, Ben was really racking his brains, but finally he came up with: "Madam, do you dance? Do you remember that dance move that was popular in nightclubs back then?"
...
Oh, right, there's also the dancing thing.
Jasmine remembered she needed to hire a dance teacher before tossing aside the VIP princess experience plan.
Ben breathed a sigh of relief.
He later shared this incident with his brothers in the chat group, and everyone sent comforting red envelopes.
[Heart aches for Brother Ben.]
[Brother Ben has it tough.]
[But Jasmine is really enthusiastic. I thought she was just playing around and would leave the industry, but she has already finished filming three movies, appeared on variety shows, and now landed a movie role?]
[Jasmine's movies... I have a feeling they will make money.]
[Which director's project is this? Need more funding? I have some spare money to invest.]
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The movie "Waiting for Dawn" is still in preparation, and it's estimated to start filming in winter. Before that, Jasmine will be working on the variety show "Actors, Please get ready."
After her stunning debut, she smoothly advanced and in the mentor group stage, she received a script for a palace intrigue drama and played a rose with thorns in the harem.
This role may not be as dazzling as Aroma, but the audience still likes it, and the mentor's evaluation is good.
How should we put it? This character naturally gives the feeling that she should be favored, whether she's acting cute with the emperor or being arrogantly oppressive, both are very likable. When the plot turns and she falls from grace, bullied by other palace concubines, some viewers even wish they were the emperor to comfort her and punish those who mistreat her.
After this round, Jasmine was snatched by director Guo Kaicheng to join his group.
Being guided by a top director is a good thing, but the downside is that Guo chose exceptionally strong individuals for his group. In the subsequent group elimination rounds, Jasmine's face turned dark as she was grouped with two strong male actors to perform in an original detective script.
It's about a heinous criminal committing a massacre and leaving behind the daughter of the victim for some reason, kidnapping her. On the other side, the detective in charge of the case follows the clues to finally confront the criminal.
The girl who has been tormented all the way becomes the criminal's pawn to deceive the police.
At his request, a certain elite detective is forced to enter the criminal's hideout alone and engage in a battle of wits to rescue the hostage.
Because there are two strong male actors in this group, they were given this script, which provides more room for the men to shine. Jasmine's role is relatively simple; she is a victim who is both hated and pitied, with no real twists or character development, just a crying scene to release pent-up emotions after being rescued.
The program team had their own considerations for arranging this.
On one hand, the station needs to be cautious and not always give Jasmine the most eye-catching roles, for fear of triggering audience backlash.
On the other hand, they fear that young actors may struggle with overly complex roles. Detective scripts themselves test acting skills, requiring much more emotional intensity than palace intrigue dramas, and young actors may not be able to digest such complicated characters in a short time.
Especially since Jasmine didn't come from a professional acting background and hasn't received targeted training.
Jasmine probably understood this reasoning, and she didn't complain much, it's just that, well, she didn't particularly like this script.
She doesn't like playing the helpless victim, mainly because this kind of role can't be purely completed through skills, it has to be brought in, how to bring it in? The only way is to recall when her mother had an accident, she was very young, and heard about it afterwards, feeling panic, fear, despair, helplessness, and confusion about the future, as if the sky had collapsed overnight.
Jasmine didn't really want to recall the situation at that time.
But if she didn't draw on this experience, she didn't know how to interpret this vulnerable and pitiful victim who lost all her family and was kidnapped by the killer.
How do you say it?
If you take on a job, you have to complete it, right?
Even though it's not a role that brings joy, Jasmine still did her best. Director Guo, including the program team and the acting coach, helped her a lot. Besides emotions, they taught her some small techniques, like what kind of posture and movements would make the audience feel compassion. Jasmine absorbed a lot of things in a hurry.
This might be the biggest reward for portraying this disliked role.
During the actual performance, Jasmine gave it her all.
The result of this scene was that she successfully portrayed herself as a white little flower growing in the open, being blown by the wild wind, drenched in heavy rain, petals falling, barely alive.
She appeared so fragile that it made people's hearts tremble and so pitiful that it made them ache.
Seeing her, you could really hate the perpetrator.
But she didn't advance because the mentors were more rational than the audience, they wouldn't send someone to the next round just out of pity.
How to put it?
Good actors do influence each other, they inspire and motivate each other.
Jasmine portrayed the little pitiful girl too well, on the one hand, it triggered the perverse nature of the "thug," making him more excited, while also igniting the faith of the detective who came alone to rescue her, he truly believed he was a detective and needed to do everything to save this fragile life...
In short, Jasmine played this particularly charming role so well that the two male actors on stage had explosive performances, making the audience nervous to the point of suffocation. The villain was defeated, the poor girl was successfully rescued, she collapsed in tears in the arms of the detective, and the scene made people's noses tingle.
It was another fantastic performance that made the whole audience stand up and applaud spontaneously.
All three contestants on stage were outstanding, Jasmine suffered a bit from the thinness of her role, although she was eliminated in the end, the two male actors she worked with took the microphone and said a few words.
"To be honest, I haven't been so invested in a performance for a long time. It was very satisfying.
I knew before that this girl was talented, but I didn't expect her to perform to this extent.
I only believed I was a policeman when I saw her. I came here to rescue this child. She's so young, she can't die here. The faith she portrayed in the role inspired me."
The one playing the criminal next to him joked, "Please, everyone, make sure to separate the character from the actor. If you're angry after watching, scold the character, spare the innocent me."
After the joke, he also gave his blessing, "Today I truly got to know the actress Jasmine, a tremendously talented actress. Our audience should be happy to have such a treasure. She's already so outstanding at this age, her future is limitless."
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Being eliminated might not make someone happy, but Jasmine was fine.
This scene was a bit poignant, she wanted to take a break and catch her breath, so being eliminated was just right.
The host wanted Jasmine to say a few words before leaving.
As soon as she took the microphone, the familiar farewell song of the variety show started playing.
Jasmine looked helpless, "Can we stop the BGM for a moment? Let's not do this, I'm really not sad. I took this variety show to introduce myself to the directors. I am actress Jasmine. I can play roles in youth idol dramas, modern urban dramas, and I can also challenge other genres. Please give me more opportunities, thank you."
After saying this, Jasmine waved gracefully and left the stage.
The live audience was still reluctant to see her go.
Don't just talk about the live audience, even after the show aired, netizens also made "goodbye Jasmine" trend on hot searches. Those who didn't watch the show almost thought something had happened to her.
The funniest part is the well-known writer Andrew Yan.
After getting to know Jasmine last time, he took the time to catch up on TV dramas and variety shows, and then joined the queue prepared by the drama queens.
When this round of competition aired, seeing Jasmine eliminate this person made him unhappy. He dug out his unused Facebook account from months ago and criticized the scriptwriters for the show.
Andrew Yan V:
@Actors, Please get ready
If Miss Jasmine's group's script was handed to me to write, I would have the criminal kill the entire family of the girl out of sick obsession and disguise himself as a savior, making the girl rely on and trust him. As their relationship progresses, the police uncover the truth of the murder and come knocking, leading to a three-way stand-off.
Your script, forgive me for being frank, is too simple and does not do justice to the actors.
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Andrew Yan.
Contemporary detective fiction writer Andrew Yan.
Who doesn't know this famous writer who disappears from the public eye when not working? He rarely posts on Facebook, only updating when a new book is released, so it's surprising he spoke out for this drama queen variety show.
And he didn't mince words in criticizing the poor scripts written for the show.
Netizens came with a 40-meter-long knife, but upon closer inspection, they found his words made sense. The characters in the Blue TV's script were a bit lacking, leaving the audience wondering why the culprit kidnapped the girl and why the girl had no room for character development beyond breakdowns. Following Andrew Yan's suggestion, she becomes both a victim and possesses a sharp weapon to wound the villain, making the motive for the crime clearer, the emotions more complex, and expanding the character's room for development.
— Truly a bestselling author, this script has been revamped to a whole new level.
— Why don't you write it then? Even if I know the gist of the story, I still want to watch it. Can't you cut the chatter and just present the script?
— Instead of writing the script, you go watch drama queens and dare to diss others on Facebook???
— How dare you criticize the thin character development of the girl? Aren't your characters just as shallow? How many of your main characters aren't just tools in your books?
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Since variety shows are pre-recorded, by the time it aired, Jasmine had already fully recovered.
Then, accidentally, she saw that #Andrew Yan diss Actors, Please get ready# was trending.
Curiosity got the best of her, so Jasmine clicked to see.
Oh my, he reinterpreted this script!
He thinks I'm not miserable enough and needs to add more drama to my life???
If the criminal wiped out my entire family, I still have to engage in a romantic storyline with him? Screw you!
Andrew Yan, you jerk!
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Mi Sister: ...ugh.