Chapter 54 Audition
"It doesn't matter. It is just audition. I believe that Lola is qualified."
Lara smiled gently and turned to look at Lola, "Am I right?"
Lola was unhappy, because she suddenly had a contender for the role.
Upon hearing this, she raised her chin haughtily, "Of course!"
Freddie frowned.
Erica was a close friend of the leading actress. Her country and family were destroyed by enemies. She was a very restrained and reserved character.
However, Lola was so proud and innocent, it seemed that she was not very suitable for this character.
But they hadn't performed yet, so Freddie didn't want to say anything to affect her mental attitude.
So he just gave them the scripts with the underlined lines. He told them which paragraph they should choose and reminded them to analyze the characters, especially the characters' mental psychology.
After they got the script, they went to remember the lines respectively.
Erin brought Lola to one side. Lara did not leave. Instead, she sat down beside Freddie and smiled as she chatted with him.
Clarissa took Evelyn to the other side.
She whispered, "What do you think? Are you confident?"
Evelyn read the script and nodded firmly.
But in less than two seconds, she looked a little worried.
"No, Clarissa, what should I do? I'm so nervous!"
It was her first time to audition for such a bug-budget play, and this was really a rare opportunity for her.
If she performed well, she might become famous from then on. If she didn't perform well or she failed in the audition, she would have no chance to play this role.
Clarissa understood her feelings and patted her on the back gently.
"Don't be nervous. Think that you're Erica and forget everything around you. Imagine what you will do if you were her. Remember, don't think about anything else and don't care about Lara. You just need to firmly believe that you are Erica and act with all your heart. Understand?"
Evelyn looked at her and nodded heavily.
After comforting her, Clarissa walked back and sat in the seat behind Freddie.
From her point of view, she could see the situation on the stage directly, and she could see their performance from the camera in front of Freddie.
After a while, Lola and Evelyn said that they were ready.
Freddie asked someone to take them to make up.
The make-up of a costume drama was very important. Sometimes, it could better create the aura of a character.
It didn't take long for the two of them to put on makeup. After they changed their clothes, they walked out of the dressing room.
Lola used to be an online celebrity, so her face was not natural. Originally, her face was relatively sharp. Later, in order to make herself more trendy, she received a plastic surgery to cut the bone in her face. In this way, her chin looked even sharper.
She probably knew that she was going to see Freddie that day, so she received an injection of hyaluronic acid to make her face thinner in advance.
Unfortunately, the hyaluronic acid hadn't been absorbed yet and her face looked a little swollen. Her face looked so unnatural and strange.
But Evelyn was different.
Although she had a round face, her face was natural and cute. Clarissa originally thought that her temperament and appearance didn't match Erica, who was a strong and forbearing character.
But she didn't expect that Evelyn was so good-looking after she dressed up.
She not only made Erica's forbearing temperament real, but also looked indifferent and proud.
Erica was a very complicated person.
She used to be the noble princess of the empire, and she was born to be proud. Even if her country was destroyed and she could only pocket insults and remain alive, she was still arrogant and dignified.
Therefore, she had to hide her arrogance.
But she couldn't hide it completely, that was why she was a character who had a variety of temperaments.
After Evelyn came out, Freddie nodded with approval.
Lola gave a short performance first.
In this play, they needed to partner a middle-aged actress. Erica was captured by her enemies and asked to be an entertainment woman who sang and dance in brothel. The middle-aged actress played the instructor nanny, who was responsible for teaching Erica a lesson and forcing her to obey the order.
The performance soon began.
The instructor nanny sat there, while Erica was escorted to kneel on the ground by a few strong men.
The instructor nanny looked at her with a serious face, "I heard that you don't want to learn to dance?"
Erica had just been captured at this time. Although her country had been destroyed, she was still as pride and arrogant as a princess.
She stared at the instructor nanny with hateful and determined eyes.
"I'm the princess of my country. How can I learn such a shameful skill? You can kill me, but you can never let me give in!"
Crack!
As soon as she finished her words, she was striked with a whip.
Erica groaned in pain, and the instructor nanny sneered.
"Princess? Your country has been destroyed. You are just a humble slave now. You should feel lucky that His Majesty doesn't kill you and send you here. But you not only don't appreciate him for his kindness but also call yourself princess. How dare you!"
The instructor nanny said in a dignified tone, and Erica's face turned pale because of pain.
After a while, she gritted her teeth and blew a raspberry at the instructor nanny, "Bah!"
The instructor nanny went berserk because of her provocation.
She raised the whip and was about to strike Erica again. The servant beside her persuaded her to stop in a hurry.
The servant whispered in her ear, "Nanny, this is the person sent by His Majesty. He asked you to teach her, and he may request her presence one day. If you hurt her, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to explain to His Majesty."
The instructor nanny thought that he was right and could only suppress her anger.
After a while, he sneered.
"I can't teach you a lesson, but I can teach someone else a lesson! Bring them here!"
It was quiet on the stage.
No one came up.
Lola looked at the empty stage and was a little stunned.
Clarissa smiled with understanding.
In costume dramas, many scenes were not easy to be built. So most of the time, actors needed to be played in the direction of the green cloth.
Freddie intended to test them and make them perform without partners.
For a moment, Lola seemed to have realized this and she was a little uneasy.
She used to be an online celebrity and had never learnt how to perform. Although she had acted in a few movies in the past few years, those were all infamous movies.
Her partners in the movies were the same kind of people with her, and she was not fond of learning, so her acting skills didn't improve at all.
In addition, she did not like this play very much. Acting in a costume drama was very hard, and there were many fight scenes in the play. She knew that it would be very hard.
If it weren't for the fact that the role was very important and it was a big-budget play, she wouldn't be willing to play this role!
That was why she did not take it seriously at all. She thought that she just needed to perform causally and she would get this chance.
But she didn't even have a partner. How could she act?
The instructor nanny continued to say her lines.
"You are the princess of your country, so I dare not hit you, but these people are just a group of criminal slaves. Even if they die, no one will care about them. Even if you don't want to learn to dance, you have to listen to me today. If you are obedient, they can be alive. But if you are not obedient, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
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