Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“You can’t get up? What’s wrong?”
Bai Zhi was a bit startled hearing this. She knew this would be a difficult scene to dub, and it could be counted as the longest voice acting segnt out of both seasons. Needless to say, there was a large amount of physical strength that’s required, but most importantly, it was emotionally taxing.
She’d heard of so actors being emotionally stuck during a role and unable to withdraw for a long ti.
However, when she looked closer, she couldn’t contain it and burst into laughter. She couldn’t help but punch ng Fan. What was going on? How is this kid so troubleso!
Although she’d found his outfit last minute, the asurents were very accurate. Mango TV’s costu departnt was supposed to have great quality, how could it rip!
“Uhm, can you stop laughing!”
ng Fan wanted to cry. He’d seen similar situations happen in various TV shows. It was funny to see it happen to soone else, but when it happened to himself… It’s so awkward and very uncomfortable!
ng Fan took off his blazer and tied it around his waist. It basically covered the rip. He gestured towards the staff to bring him a new pair of pants.
People were all curious as to what was going on upstairs. Although they couldn’t see, so voices could still be heard that had the host chuckling from the main stage. “What’s going on upstairs? Did sothing interesting happen?”
The vocal assistant, who could also be considered a secondary host, was also present. Their faces were about to burst from laughing so much. They’d wanted to tell the audience about the entertaining situation, since they would have fild it anyways. But after hearing the main host talk, they imdiately began laughing again. “ng Fan ripped his pants when he sat down.”
With this, the audience erupted in laughter. They, too, could tell that the celebrity contestants and their guests in the external room laughing as well.
They had just been crying, but now this bast*rd had induced a cacophony of laughter.
ng Fan was innocent; he wasn’t trying to be humorous!
He’d originally wanted to hide the tear, but it seed unlikely now. Of course, it wasn’t bad enough that he’d bla the vocal assistant. Only, what the assistant was about to say really made him uncomfortable.
The vocal assistant proceeded with a chuckle: “It’s okay, a rip is fine. Don’t we have Bai Yueguang present? Her talent is tailoring repairs.”
This statent had an origin. There are many clips circulating on the internet of the empress, Bai Yueguang, sewing her dresses and costus, so even making the news. The articles had expressed this was because Bai Yueguang felt that her formal wear was too exposing, a low V neck or what not, and wanted to sew them up. There was even photographic evidence. Several people had found the news entertaining and had, upon seeing that she was one of the top grossing actresses in the industry, beca her fans very quickly.
The vocal assistant evidently saw an opportunity for this joke and reacted fast, too. Without thinking, it had also exposed the criticism she faced regarding her emotional intelligence and stubbornness.
She only tailored her own clothes, okay? And it was on her own clothes. If you want a girl to sew the pants of a man like ng Fan, and on the behind too… ng Fan didn’t know how other people would take it. He himself felt it would be an awkward situation, though.
The vocal assistant was quite pleased with the joke and continued to press ng Fan: “How about you ask Bai Yueguang to patch that up for you?”
ng Fan was speechless. How was he supposed to answer that? Not answering wasn’t an option, either. Since he was afraid she’d continue pressing, he hurriedly responded: “Bai Yueguang only tailors clothes for goddess level figures, and my na, ng Fan*, already shows that I’m just a mortal. How could I ask that of a goddess.”
*The Fan in ng Fan also ans mortal.
He then gestured to the staff to hurry up and find him so pants.
The celebrities in the external stage, including Bai Yuegang and the team that Bai Zhi had PKed during the “Director’s Show,” all began to laugh. The atmosphere had been salvaged and was no longer embarrassing.
At this ti, Bai Zhi lightly glanced towards the vocal assistant. She didn’t care if she was trying to be funny or if she succeeded or if it was all for codic effect. Bai Zhi smiled warmly and spoke: “You can’t take your personal issues out in a business setting on ng Fan because he hit that K-pop idol!”
At that mont, the atmosphere turned really awkward!
Of course, not everyone felt the scope of the awkwardness. Several faces inside the studio felt their expressions go dark.
So people understood the aning behind her words and felt that Bai Zhi was very daring. It was so satisfying, though.
“Uncle Kai, hang on! We have a wardrobe malfunction on our end.”
Bai Zhi didn’t care. She knew that the crew would edit out her retort just now and turned to follow ng Fan and the staff mber to the changing rooms.
He ended up changing into another tuxedo, courtesy of Bai Zhi. She’d insisted that ng Fan looked best in one. After squatting a few tis to test its durability, he gave in. The crew had already begun rushing them to the dubbing studio.
Returning to the dubbing studio, everyone was already acquainted. They pretended that that little scene didn’t happen, this ‘scene’ referring to Bai Zhi’s statent. As for what happened before that, Mango TV would most likely broadcast the entire segnt due to their history and reputation for making variety shows.
Toward this, ng Fan didn’t feel opposed. Since he agreed to film the show, he had to accept so consequences.
And after the interruption, ng Fan felt like he’d regained back most of his energy.
Going live again, the two walked hand in hand into the elevator and onto the main stage and began recording their collaboration act.
The first segnt of their collaboration was “Xiao Zhuang Mi Shi.” It’s a classic series where both actors involved demonstrated a high level of acting skills. Da Yuer was played by Ning Jing.
Whether it was her acting skills or her features, she was worthy of the saying, “There can be no more Da Yuers after Ning Jing.” So people even joked that Ning Jing was the only actress who could ta Ma Jiaozhu into submission. Evidently, in this scene, Ma Jiaozhu didn’t dare to upset Ning Jing.
“What’s wrong?”
“Xu Jiu is missing.”
“Empress dowager, what’s the commotion that you summoned so quickly.”
“I wouldn’t dare to summon the emperor regent. If sothing goes wrong, two white flags and a yellow one would have killed their way to Beijing…”
After teasing each other in the beginning, ng Fan and Bai Zhi were able to capture the characteristics of the roles as well as the psychology behind the plot.
Imdiately following, the two began the “love to death” dialogue, which demonstrated the ambiguity of the two characters and the results of their choices.
ng Fan held back tears as he hoarsely choked, a feeling of being wronged in his voice. “To die like this, Yuer, you’re cursing ! With our feelings for each other, you’re cursing ! For you, I gave up the throne that was at my fingertips. I was willing to dig out my heart for you, yet you curse .”
Bai Zhi’s eyes glistened as she held her ground, lips quivering. “I’m not cursing you, Duo Ergun. You’re doing this to yourself!”
Next, there was supposed to be a scene of Duo Ergun returning to his lair and crying amid laughter.
But since that scene didn’t contain Bai Zhi, ng Fan had requested it to be cut, thus ending their performance.
In this performance, ng Fan’s performance was naturally flawless, but Bai Zhi had stood out more. Her voice was very similar to Ning Jing, and her emotional expression was also excellent. It could be described as a three pointer, very tear inducing. Several people in the audience had teared up.
Of course, so people in the industry, including the vocal coach, Professor Di, could tell that Bai Zhi was able to give such an incredible performance because ng Fan had carried her. It wasn’t the type of carry where ng Fan purposely lowered his skills to match Bai Zhi but because he’d been able to bring out her emotions to their peak by articulating it so well himself. This was a difficult task to achieve.
Their interest in ng Fan was growing, especially from Professor Di. Last night, she’d learned that ng Fan was a staff mber at the Chocolate Factory and had called Director Charlie to clarify so questions. She even casually ntioned “borrowing” ng Fan, but now she was sure of this decision.
ng Fan didn’t just do a great job himself; he was also able to amplify the emotional performance of his partner. The latter was more appealing to Professor Di, who frequently assisted on TV series and movies.
After they finished dubbing for “Xiao Zhuang Mi Shi,” Bai Zhi adjusted her emotions and began the second clip, ‘I’m-Sherlocked,’ from “Sherlock.”
In this clip, Bai Zhi had less participation, since she’d picked the clip for ng Fan to stand out.
A deep and charming voice ca on. “NO!”
Irene from the film: “Sorry?”
At this ti, the cara panned back to Sherlock. “I-said-no. Very, very-close, but-no.”
Not everyone had seen “Sherlock” before, but everyone knew the Sherlock Hols that Benedict Cumberbatch played.
Of course, the scene was hard to understand if you weren’t a fan of the show. After all, Sherlock and Irene’s emotional encounter at this mont felt a bit inexplicable, not to ntion the fact that they wouldn’t know what ‘I’m-Sherlocked’ stood for.
This segnt to most people undoubtedly presented ng Fan’s English dubbing abilities. Most people couldn’t tell if ng Fan’s accent was Arican or British, but they could tell his pronunciations were on point. It sounded very comfortable and eloquent. At the sa ti, ng Fan’s vocal range was very similar to Cumberbatch’s. It was charming, and a deep voice was very attractive, too. Explosively crisp!
Of course, so phrases were sped up, which was very satisfying to hear.
“Incredible, incredible!”
Uncle Kai exhaled. He then invited ng Fan and Bai Zhi — who’d completed their recordings — to the center of the stage and began a series of interviews and interactions. He mostly questioned Bai Zhi and how she felt her performance had gone during the two performances.
However, Bai Zhi continued to divert the topic of discussion to ng Fan, as if she’d beco the guest contestant instead. Uncle Kai saw this and followed the script they had rehearsed. “ng Fan, your imitation of Sherlock just now, you did it in a British accent, right? Unless I’m mistaken.”
“I only imitated the original soundtrack for this scene.” ng Fan was modest and answered truthfully.
“I could tell from a few of the sentences. You’re very fast at articulating!” Uncle Kai continued to follow the script, but was curious to find out for himself as well. “Then do you think you could try voicing one of Sherlock’s faster deduction scenes?”
“I’ll give it a try.”
ng Fan nodded. The scene from “Hounds of Baskerville” began to play.
In the following 60 seconds, ng Fan’s mouth rattled off like a machine gun without pausing. His shots stunned the audience.
“Wow!”
Uncle Kai was srized. “ng Fan, you’re not an Iron Hero, you’re an Iron Turret! Your tongue is incredible, it’s like you’re in a shooter ga! Don’t you all think so?”
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