I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 132 Yu Mei gets accepted as a prospective actress (but encounters a fake director who tries

Yu Mei has joined the union's girls' group and signs up for filming every night at eight o'clock. Yesterday, she went to a hair salon near her rented apartment to get her long, dark brown hair permed.

Girls must have long hair past their shoulders; short hair is not acceptable.

I registered in the group at 8 o'clock. Then, if the guild has a film crew shooting a movie or it's your group's turn to be a girl or a boy's group, you just wait for the group leader to call your name and tag you. Then you can reply with "Received".

If the group leader doesn't tag you, or if the leader has ulterior motives and secretly or openly gives the gift to the extra they want, you'll have to resort to connections and giving gifts secretly.

Then those who aren't in a role can go about their business. Those who are in a role should reply and then rest, then go to the designated meeting point (either the guild meeting point or another designated location) at the appointed time. If the meeting point is far away, take a taxi; if it's nearby, it's just a short walk; if it's nearby, use the parking lot. (Actors Guild)

Yu Mei anxiously awaited the group leader's message, her eyes glued to her phone screen. Finally, the group leader began calling roll, names flashing across the screen, but hers was nowhere to be found.

Yu Mei felt very disappointed. She knew the competition in the group was fierce, but she still couldn't help feeling bad. Seeing this, her roommate quietly suggested that she could try sending a small gift to the group leader to curry favor.

Yu Mei gritted her teeth, took out her meager savings to buy a delicate pastry, and delivered it to Qun Tou's building under the cover of night, along with a sincere note explaining her purpose.

The next day at 8 PM, Yu Mei once again eagerly awaited her turn in the group chat. This time, when the group leader called out names, hers was indeed called. Yu Mei's eyes welled up with tears of excitement, and she quickly replied, "Received."

Then she went to sleep. When she woke up, Yu Mei arrived at the filming location at the time and place notified her. The place was bustling with people.

Standing among a group of actors, she was filled with anticipation for the future and secretly vowed to perform well, strive for more opportunities, and carve out her own niche in the entertainment industry, which is full of opportunities and challenges.

The first film she participated in was called "The Hawthorn Tree in the Distance," a film about the era of educated youth sent to the countryside.

Yu Mei filmed this movie as an extra for seven or eight consecutive days.

Like the other extras, she arrived at the union meeting point, waited for the group leader to call roll, and then boarded the union-chartered bus for the film crew. They took a short trip to a location within the film studio suitable for filming scenes of that era. After filming, she got off the bus and went to the rest area designated by the male team leader to put down the chair she had brought.

Then, after queuing up, they received the costumes, clothes, and props from the film crew. They then returned to the rest area to change out of their own outerwear and trousers.

If it's neither too hot nor too cold, it's fine, but if it's in temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, it's even more inappropriate to wear heavy cotton coats, trousers, and shoes when shooting winter clothing!

Although the temperature in the filming area during winter was not as cold as in Northeast China, the damp cold was still quite bone-chilling. Even after taking off our cotton-padded coats and putting on summer clothes and ancient costumes, we were still shivering from the cold!

Even if artificial rain is brought in again, it will freeze into small icicles below zero. Put a pair of thick cotton insoles inside the black, strappy soles of your shoes. Wearing thick, flesh-colored cotton socks will keep your feet warm.

Sometimes, extras need to jump into icy water in winter to film, and when they come back ashore, they are sure to be shivering from the cold!

Filming lasted seven or eight days. Yu Mei truly felt that filming, whether as an extra or a major actor, required sufficient physical fitness and patience. Filming is indeed a challenge to one's own body!

It's just that big stars, no matter where they go or what profession they're in, will always have people around them who admire, flatter, and fawn over them. Extras, on the other hand, are definitely the lowest level in the acting world.

Even foreground actors receive special treatment in front of extras.

If the extras arrive at the filming location first, the team leader will find a place for them to rest and settle down. Then, a group of other featured actors arrive, happen to see the place where the extras have just been arranged to rest, and immediately ask the extras team leader to clear out that place for their featured actors to rest.

The extras leader had no choice but to suppress his anger and obediently call out the extras who had been arranged in advance to find a new rest area.

That's how it is in the arts and entertainment industry, and probably other circles are the same!

One day on set, the director was looking for extras for a small scene with a few lines of subtext. He asked the extras who wanted to try it out.

Yu Mei readily agreed to give it a try, and then she was taken to the film set by the young male team leader. There, she listened attentively to the director's instructions.

The day she called, she secretly vowed to do her best in every action, even if it was just a small figure in the background.

This gave her a small opportunity. The director was filming a scene of educated youth working, and Yu Mei was asked to carry buckets of water across a muddy road. She started to think of her father carrying water when she was a child in a rural courtyard, and then she acted out the buckets being only half full of water, making it look like her shoulders were carrying a heavy load.

This action was filmed in several takes, including long, medium, and close-up shots. Filming lasted about an hour, and at the end, they stopped to say a line. The line was, "..."

In the days that followed, Yu Mei continued to learn Mandarin, and when she wasn't filming, she would go to the union's registration office to learn acting theory and practice from professional acting teachers.

If she's working as an extra on a film set, she'll try to grab a few lines if given the chance. Otherwise, she'll quietly continue as an extra.

She wasn't content with being an extra; she longed to be a leading actress with a story. Although the road ahead was still long and arduous, Yu Mei was full of hope. She believed that as long as she persevered, she would one day gain a foothold in the complex and glamorous entertainment industry and realize her dreams.

Then she realized that getting a featured actor role would require a lot of effort and time. So she decided to first utilize her good qualities, get a leading role, and then work as a leading actress and extra while simultaneously studying hard to get a featured actor role, and then gradually work her way up!

Foreground actresses don't need to put in much effort; all they need is a naturally tall girl, around 1.68 meters, and slim, weighing around 80-90 pounds. Being pretty is a bonus.

And since Yu Mei had all of these, she followed the film studio's union on her smartphone's public account and learned when she could take exams for leading actors, featured actors, and special actors (men and women with very distinctive appearances).

Yu Mei's body is a little overweight now. In order to audition for a leading role, she started to eat less at each meal and tried to reduce her weight from 110 pounds to 90 pounds.

The reason why foreground actors are required to be perfect is that they need to stand at the very front of the extras on set. The filming will include footage of the scene being filmed.

Yu Mei has a big appetite, but she's very greedy when she eats. I wonder if she can successfully lose weight?

A month later, she really did lose weight and got down to 89 pounds. Then, thanks to her height of 1.68 meters, she successfully passed the audition for a leading role and joined the second group of leading role actors.

She currently has one group of female extras filming, and another group of foreground actors. When she has a foreground role, she asks for a day off from the extras group.

If there are no leading roles available, she will sign up for extra roles.

Of course, she mainly filmed background scenes. The background scenes and extras had the same amount of time, but the pay for a background scene was twice that of an extra for a day.

That day, she had a scene to film. During the filming, she met a man who claimed to be the assistant director. He offered Yu Mei the lead role in a movie that was about to start filming and asked her to go to his hotel that night to discuss the details.

As a result, Yu Mei believed it to be true and actually went. She was so tempted by the prospect of being the protagonist that she forgot all about her special ability to travel through time. Later, during the meal, she noticed a strange look in the man's eyes, and only then did she use reason to overcome her irrational desire to be the protagonist.

Then the fake assistant director asked her to stay in a hotel for the night. Yu Mei really wanted to escape. Could she really escape the fake director's unspoken rules?