In 2010, the filming of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" started, and the young Mao Xiaotong arrived at the filming site on the first day, and was told that she would be filmed offline on the same day, and she was a little confused.
That day, she cried stupidly from beginning to end, but she didn't expect to achieve a 15-second highlight in the play, and she was praised by the director for it. What's going on?
It turned out that Mao Xiaotong's role in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was a noble person, beautiful and quiet but with a tragic ending.
Although he lacked filming experience at that time, with a stupid energy of wholehearted dedication, Mao Xiaotong portrayed Ying Guiren very successfully and impressively, as if this role was tailor-made for her.
But who would have thought that when Mao Xiaotong entered the crew and got the role of Ying Guiren, it was actually an accident?
At that time, Mao Xiaotong, who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, was only 22 years old, and he was still a little-known young actor, with no resources at all, so he could only rely on himself to submit resumes to one crew after another to seek opportunities.
That day, when Mao Xiaotong was running the group, he found that there were many people queuing at the entrance of a place, so he asked curiously: What is this doing?
Someone told her that there was a costume drama that was auditioning. So, Mao Xiaotong also joined the team and began to wait.
Because there were so many people, I waited a long time before it was my turn. After entering, she didn't know what kind of role she wanted to play, but she just selected a piece of a few clips given by the director to audition, and went back after the audition.
In fact, in the process of queuing, she found that everyone was very beautiful, and other people's resumes were much more delicate than her own, and she didn't seem to have any advantages in comparison, so she didn't have much hope of being selected.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, Mao Xiaotong received a phone call informing her that she had been selected for that role.
After joining the crew, she learned that "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was such a big production, and there were so many big names such as Sun Li and Chen Jianbin who participated. This made her mood a little complicated.
On the one hand, it was a great opportunity to work with so many amazing people, but on the other hand, she was still a fledgling newcomer, and she was worried that she would hold everyone back.
What surprised her even more was that the first scene she was going to shoot after joining the group turned out to be the highlight of Ying Guiren's "white silk" by the emperor.
In this scene, the emperor Chen Jianbin , the queen Cai Shaofen and the Xi concubine Sun Li are all there. Seeing so many big names at once, Mao Xiaotong was so nervous that he couldn't do it.
In particular, at that time, Cai Shaofen said that the lines were in Cantonese, and Mao Xiaotong couldn't understand it at all, so she was even more flustered in her heart, for fear that everyone's progress would be delayed because of her relationship.
So, she pricked up her ears and listened carefully to the end of Cai Shaofen's speech, so that she could pick up her lines at the right time.
Although he was so nervous that he couldn't breathe, Mao Xiaotong quickly entered the role state, and performed the sadness of Ying Guiren's innocent suffering but powerless to fight.
It's just that she didn't know much about shooting skills at that time, and she started crying when she couldn't shoot her face in the big panorama, until the emperor ordered her to be dragged out of the picture by the guards and still crying.
As a result, she couldn't control her emotions all of a sudden, and she had already put on her makeup and cried before it was time to shoot the close-up, so the makeup artist had to keep making up for her.
In this way, the Ying nobles in the camera shouted "wronged" one after another, crying until their faces were full of tears, that sad appearance was really distressing, and they couldn't help but sympathize with this poor woman who was helplessly involved in the harem battle.
And this 15-second crying scene has also become a highlight moment for Mao Xiaotong in the play.
In fact, what can move people's hearts is never routines and skills, but the slightly clumsy but heartfelt sincerity.