Chapter 238 238 Actually Doing This

Chen Daoming hummed and said, "That's right. You young men all look pretty good. As long as your acting is up to par, even just one shot in Lu Xuan's movie can change the audience's impression of you and help you transition later on."

Chen Daoming's words directly helped Lu Xuan solve a bigger problem.

Originally, everyone was still struggling with this issue, but now they didn't have the guts to do anything about it.

Especially with Lu Xuan standing next to them.

Wasn't that what they agreed on before?

They thought that after giving so much money, they could at least get a good position on Lu Xuan's side.

But Lu Xuan was so uncooperative, only giving them a very ordinary role.

Not only that, but he also lectured them, telling them to either act well or forget about everything else.

Was he trying to PUA them?

If it were any other production team, they could have gotten a good position after giving so much money.

Even if they couldn't get the lead role, they could ask for a supporting role and even modify the script to increase their screen time.

But Lu Xuan's words meant that so many of them had to compete for a role and had to perform exceptionally well.

This made it very difficult for them.

Wasn't he just messing with them?

"What's wrong with you?"

Lu Xuan looked at their expressions and asked, pretending not to know, "What's wrong? That's what your company told me."

"Our company said we could only have a walk-on role?"

Several of the more daring celebrities looked at Lu Xuan, wanting to know if this was true.

After all, this situation was really unbelievable.

"That's right."

Lu Xuan nodded, indicating that that was exactly the case.

"If you don't believe me, I have a recording here."

Lu Xuan directly started playing the recording.

The voices of various company bosses kept appearing.

Everyone was completely speechless.

The young idols felt like they had been tricked, but they didn't know what to say.

But they felt very annoyed.

They could only compete for a slightly more talkative extra role.

As for the others, they could only be extras.

Everyone felt insulted, but they couldn't do anything about it.

They wanted to say something, but they found that Lu Xuan simply ignored their requests.

The young idols now wanted to give Lu Xuan a good scolding.

What exactly did he mean?

Three days later.

The young idols still felt that it was meaningless. So many of them were competing for an extra role with only five lines of dialogue. If they couldn't get it, they would have to be extras. Why!

"Director, I don't think our abilities are only limited to playing ordinary extras. Although our acting skills may not be as good as the seniors, we can't be so bad that we have to play the roles of those ordinary day laborers."

In their eyes, being an extra was something that those day laborers did to find work everywhere.

It had nothing to do with them at all.

Nor was it something they could be matched with.

"Are you saying that you think you are better than the extras?"

Everyone felt very speechless.

Wasn't that the case?

It was difficult for those extras to become popular, while they could become popular.

Why should they be compared to them?

"Actually, if your companies hadn't invested in me for this opportunity, I would have given the extra roles to those extras."

Lu Xuan said it very directly.

He wasn't lying.

The extras had all been through the mill in various production teams.

Indeed, they didn't come from formal acting backgrounds and didn't necessarily have very good abilities, but they had a lot of experience.

They might not be able to do very well in big roles, but they certainly wouldn't be worse than them in those extra roles.

"Didn't you know when you came here? My films are judged by the actors' strength to determine the roles and the amount of screen time they get."

Lu Xuan's meaning was very clear.

If their companies hadn't spent money to beg for this opportunity, they wouldn't even have been able to come to the production team.

"You're going too far! We have fans, we are liked by so many people, our..."

"What does that have to do with me?"

Lu Xuan said indifferently, "If you don't want to, you can leave, but that will be considered a breach of contract on your part."

As for the money, he would never return it.

Because their companies had said that these young idols could only come in to learn from the seniors.

Now they were causing trouble for him because the roles they were given weren't good enough.

Then it was very simple, just leave.

But it was impossible for them to get too good of a role in his production team.

"You!"

They were about to be driven mad.

In the end, they could only go back and call their companies to complain about the situation.

They didn't expect that Lu Xuan would actually do it.

They were just saying that as long as they could get into the production team, that would be fine.

Thinking that since they had spent so much money, they could at least get a little more screen time.

As a result, Lu Xuan really gave them a walk-on role.

This made the people from the major companies almost explode with anger.

They spent so much money, but they couldn't even get a slightly better role.

Wasn't that infuriating!

Moreover, even if those young idols returned to the company, it would be considered a breach of contract on their part, and the production team would not suffer any losses.

After all, they had said it clearly at the beginning that they would give money to get in and learn from the seniors.

This put them in a dilemma.

They could only let those young idols continue filming.

But they hated Lu Xuan in their hearts.

Just as Lu Xuan was actively preparing for casting, Li Jie, who was working hard in Hollywood, also saw this situation.

When he saw the words "Hero," Li Jie already felt that this movie must be very different.

Moreover, Lu Xuan, this genius who could always get the audience to accept and even praise his films, was actually casting for a new movie.

He immediately took action.

Moreover, the story of "Hero" also looked very attractive, and he felt that he liked it very much.

He even felt a sense of resonance.

He felt that if he played one of the roles, it would be very suitable.

So Li Jie didn't even think about it and declined the film collaboration that he was about to negotiate.

Ignoring the persuasion of his friends here.

He insisted on returning to China.

And he immediately called Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan was still very incredulous when he received Li Jie's call.