Superstar's Development Diary
Chapter 410 - 411 Empathy

Chapter 410: Chapter 411 Empathy

He Jinxia’s spiky hair was one thing, but to have two black lines drawn on her face too!

Positioned just below the nose, they looked like two thick black mustaches from afar, and even up close they still resembled mustaches.

Deng Meili realistically touched the fake mustache with her other rubber-gloved hand, her voice raspy as she said, "What kind of fish would you like?"

"Cut!"

The director, wearing 3D glasses, carefully reviewed the footage and thought He Jinxia’s performance was quite amusing.

It wasn’t an attempt at making goofy faces, but a dignified and serious rendition of goofiness, or perhaps she didn’t realize she was being goofy at all.

After pondering for a moment, the director made a decision and announced, "That’s a wrap! Lawyer, get ready to enter!"

He Jinxia picked up the lively carp again, maintaining her previous action, and as the scene shifted, a lawyer appeared. He wore glasses and a suit and exuded an aura of "sharp and efficient."

He walked up to Deng Meili and said expressionlessly, "Hello, Ms. Deng, you have an inheritance to claim. Is it convenient to talk about it now?"

Deng Meili frowned and waved her hand, "Go away, go away, I have no money here. Go ask somewhere else; don’t bother me!"

The lawyer remained silent, just staring at her.

Deng Meili tossed the fish onto the cutting board, knocked the fish on the head with the flat side of her knife to stun it, and was about to begin gutting it when she saw the bespectacled man in a suit still standing in front of the stall. She looked up and glared at him:

"You’re in the way of my business!"

The lawyer repeated his statement, "You have an inheritance to claim. Is it convenient to talk about it now?"

Deng Meili, impatient, randomly grabbed a one-cent coin from the red bucket and threw it at the man in the suit.

The lawyer’s brows furrowed deeply, ignoring the one-cent coin on the ground, he continued to stare at Deng Meili, repeating the same sentence.

Deng Meili got angry, put down her knife, hands on hips, and said fiercely, "What, you think that’s too little? Looking at you, so young and able-bodied, you have the appearance of a decent person, yet you’re so keen on begging?"

The lawyer’s expression and frown tightened again, just about to speak, when suddenly the director yelled, "Cut!"

"Xiao Peng, you need to keep your facial expressions in check. When Deng Meili throws the money at you, you are angry, but your professional demeanor does not allow you to act rudely, so it’s okay to frown a bit, but you’ve overdone it. You only need to frown slightly."

"As for the second time when Deng Meili accuses you of begging, you have already realized what kind of person Deng Meili is, and you’re no longer afraid of her inappropriate actions, so the second time you don’t even need to frown, just repeat the line expressionlessly."

The director pulled the actor playing the lawyer aside to go over the direction in detail, and after confirming that Xiao Peng understood, they restarted the filming.

Having had the experience of a previous take, the subsequent filming went much smoother, and in no time, the scene was completed. After a minute or two of adjustments, they continued with the shooting of the next scene.

He Jinxia believed that acting required a good sense of drama and control. She had always thought that modern plays were different from ancient plays, but this filming experience had given her a new perspective.

When she was filming "Chen Xiaohui, Go Forward!" she was still at a stage of exploring modern plays, but by the time she shot "High Energy Classroom," she felt her acting had become much smoother and more natural.

Specifically, she seldom found herself pondering, as she had during "Chen Xiaohui," over how she should act in a particular scene, what expression to use. Now, as soon as a scene came into her hands, she had already sketched out in her mind what the character’s performance would look like—a dynamic picture readily coming to life without the slightest hesitation.

This was progress in acting!

An actor’s connection with a character is a profoundly mysterious feeling.

This feeling is hard to articulate, as if she could see Deng Meili right before her eyes.

In every scene, she could see how Deng Meili would look, what actions she would take, and then she would express Deng Meili’s expressions and movements.

Such a performance made not only He Jinxia believe that Deng Meili was alive, but also the other actors acting opposite He Jinxia, including the director, all felt that the Deng Meili portrayed by He Jinxia was alive.

Furthermore, during the acting process, He Jinxia would unconsciously discover that this or that scene could be performed with the feeling of an ancient play.

Although ancient plays and modern plays have different backgrounds, the actors are all human. As long as they are human, they will have joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. Under specific emotional expressions, people are all the same.

However, there are still many differences between ancient and modern plays, and He Jinxia still has a long way to go before she fully integrates them. She estimated that she has only reached the beginner level.

At night, He Jinxia lay in bed and opened a video call with Sheng Yan to chat about her thoughts and confusions.

Sheng Yan, recognized by the outside world as a genius in acting, immediately understood the state He Jinxia was in: "Empathy."

Seeing He Jinxia’s puzzled face, Sheng Yan fiddled with the buttons on his shirt, moved away from his original position, and after a while, he brought out a book from elsewhere, opened it to a certain page, and read out slowly and clearly.

"’Empathy’ is a state in the process of acting. It is when an actor and the character they portray are in strong spiritual harmony. The longer the actor contemplates the character, the more of an impression the character will leave in the actor’s mind. When these impressions reach a certain degree, they seem to come alive, as if they automatically become a person."

"In the state of ’Empathy,’ the actor and the character can engage in deep communication. Even when not acting, the character can pop up in their mind, reminding them of its thoughts continually..."

He Jinxia listened with great interest and, when Sheng Yan finished reading, she couldn’t help asking with eagerness, "That’s so mystical, but it’s indeed like what the book says. I feel like my mind is housing a Deng Meili. Why would such a state occur?"

Sheng Yan closed the book and slightly tilted his head: "One of the greatest scientists, Einstein, only tapped into twenty percent of his brain capacity, while average people only use ten percent. The brain is one of humanity’s most mysterious areas, and in the brain, nothing is impossible."

He Jinxia’s gaze became complex as if she was thinking of something.

Having lived through something as fantastical as time travel, to her, something like ’Empathy’ indeed seemed less extraordinary.

She asked with feigned curiosity, "Sheng Yan, since the human brain is so miraculous, what do you think—could there be a person who, at some moment, receives a bizarre memory? This memory is of a real event, but it comes from the far future, or from several decades in the past, or even farther back?"

Sheng Yan’s eyes narrowed slightly: "Why do you ask that?"

He Jinxia rarely acted spoilt: "Just wondering, just answer if it could happen!"

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