美滋滋

Ch25 - Like a Teenager

“Teacher Li, let’s go through this again. You should remember that you might be a dandy but your respect and admiration for your father is no less than other people. If the mood of your performance isn’t in place, the later twists and turns of your character’s emotions will be too abrupt.” The director of Sky Song was very satisfied with Li Zhao’s performance and was even pleasantly surprised.

Li Zhao could keep up with the veteran actor and they also got along very well in private. However, the director didn’t think that Li Zhao would have trouble with the prominent father-son scene. 

“I’m sorry, Director Yang.” Li Zhao apologized to the director and opposing actor.

“It’s fine.” The veteran actor reached out and patted him on the shoulder. “It seems that your father is very strict with you at home. Thus, you look into my eyes and can’t show more respect, right?”

Li Zhao smiled, revealing his teeth.

“Teacher Li, let’s take a break while you look for the emotions.” Seeing that the child was stuck, Director Yang didn’t get angry. He stood up from behind the monitor and stepped towards Li Zhao. “Recently, you have been filming a lot and you might be too tired.” 

Li Zhao smiled at the director and held a small stool to sit in a corner with his head down. The rest of the crew knew he was looking for a sense of the scene and didn’t bother him. Although no one in the crew blamed him, Li Zhao knew that he wasn’t tired. It was that he couldn’t get a sense of the character’s emotions.

Before when he was younger than 10 years old, his image of a father in his heart was gloomy, liked to drink and liked to punch and kick Li Zhao. Perhaps God suddenly discovered that Li Zhao had been delivered to the wrong family. The teachers and police protected him, saving him from a life of being beaten and scolded.

The parents who used to scold him weren’t his real parents. If his textbook didn’t deceive him, a mother and father would take their child to the zoo and buy the child beautiful new clothes to wear. He had lost his parents and couldn’t enjoy it at all.

During his years at the orphanage, he sometimes secretly fantasized that when he woke up the next morning, a loving couple would walk over to him and say, “I’m sorry, Mom and Dad accidentally lost you. We are here to take you home.”

Later, he didn’t wait for them and had a happy life at the welfare home. Every year, good Samaritans would come to visit and the mothers of other children would knit beautiful sweaters for them. He didn’t know how a father and son normally got along so he was timid when acting.

“I heard you NG more than a dozen times in one scene?” Song Yu came over in his costume. It was a spacious place so he didn’t sit. He had his assistant bring over a chair and sat face to face with Li Zhao.

Li Zhao raised his eyes and looked at the other person with bright eyes. He didn’t have the shame or redness that Song Yu expected. This made Song Yu instantly lose his sense of achievement. He heard that Li Zhao was acting badly so Song Yu excitedly rushed out of the lounge, afraid he would come too late and there wouldn’t be a lively scene to see.

Li Zhao’s eyes inexplicably made Song Yu feel some embarrassment and he snorted. “What is the use of looking at me? I’m not the one calling ‘cut’ in your scenes.” 

“Brother Song, how do a father and son get along?” Li Zhao flattered Song Yu with a smile. “Can you tell me?”

Song Yu, “……”