Chapter 264: 100 Versailles Yan Lu, exclusively favors _1
Nowadays, few people truly study the heritage of our ancestors.
Let alone spear techniques, they can’t even lift the longer weapons.
Being able to wield a long spear is considered a skill.
And the Bai Family’s army is most famous for its charging spear technique, not to mention actors, even the martial arts directors of “Great Yong” can’t properly use the charging spear unless they go to traditional schools to find those old folk artists.
If the casting isn’t done well, not only will the audience not buy it, but it will also affect the overall quality of the show.
They are not filming a web series, but a proper traditional drama.
What they need is a Bai Xiangjun that fits more closely with history, not one that relies solely on stunt doubles.
Man Xi, who can act decently and also handle a spear, thus became the director’s first choice.
But no one expected…
Yan Lu could wield a charging spear?
“Where’s the long spear?” After the director paused for a moment, he immediately instructed the crew, “Give her the long spear.”
There weren’t many people left at the audition, aside from Man Xi nobody had specifically learned the long spear, and the crew had already put the spear away.
Now, they hastily brought out the long spear.
The spear used for the audition on set was brown and longer than the spear Yan Lu was accustomed to, yet a bit lighter. She reached out to grasp the shaft of the spear, closed her eyes slightly, and remembered the teachings of Bai Lian that day.
And her practice over the past nearly twenty days.
Just by holding it, the director and everyone on set felt something subtle—
The modern circular hall seemed to recede at an accelerated pace; the wooden floor tiles beneath their feet gradually got covered by sand, and the surrounding walls turned into thousands of soldiers and horses, into towering loess mountains…
Yan Lu lifted her head, her eyes suddenly snapping open.
With her left hand supporting the spear and the right hand gripping it, she flipped her wrist upwards and pushed down with her left hand to thrust the spear!
The flexibility of the spear transmitted the force from the base to the tip, and everyone on set could see the front half of the spear vibrantly shaking!
The director and assistant director, who had the clearest view, stood up straight from their benches, eyes fixed on the quivering long spear, with only Yan Lu and her spear in their sights.
But that wasn’t all.
Yan Lu stamped the ground and turned her stride, as Bai Lian once said that her martial arts weren’t orthodox, so she could rely on technique without needing a very strong physical condition.
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