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On the side, the horseback riding coach watched Angie's graceful posture and coordinated movements and couldn't help but praise her.

"You ride so well. To be able to perform the moves so precisely after only half a month, there are few actors in the crew who can do that."

Angie's mouth curled into a smile upon hearing this. She wasn't the main character in this play, just a special guest star. And with love&five becoming increasingly popular, she had numerous engagements and didn't usually stay on set, coming only when she had scenes to shoot.

Though she had spent a lot of money on a private riding coach outside, the actual practice time she could squeeze in was very limited— in total, she had practiced only three or four times, adding up to less than six hours.

Could I really be a natural talent at riding?

Angie thought to herself, brimming with satisfaction, completely forgetting how awkward she had been in her previous practice sessions, and the coach's suggestion that she shouldn't do live shooting.

Well, isn't this kind of thing also present in those cultivation novels? Suddenly having an epiphany. In the world of cultivation, they call this an "enlightenment," right? Yes, this is enlightenment.

Although the face of Ma Lu also flashed through Angie's mind, including the words he had said while ordering the dish.

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However, compared to believing that a dish could enable someone to master horseback riding, it was easier to believe she had an epiphany.

As Angie rode on, her confidence grew and her boldness increased. She began to rapidly tap the horse's sides with her legs.

The steed beneath her, receiving the rider's commands, also began to accelerate and gallop away.

The oncoming wind blew Angie's hair and the ancient costume she was wearing, making them flutter in the breeze.

But in her heart, there was not a trace of fear. Instead, she felt an urge to shout into the wind with excitement.

Because she could feel the steed beneath her was in sync with her intentions, every move under her control.

Man and horse sped past on the path, and a row of miscellaneous objects appeared ahead, presumably left there temporarily by the props team, including sandbags and carts.

Angie had intended to go around, but sensing the horse's eagerness to leap, she changed her mind, chose to go with the flow and did not pull on the reins, bravely facing forward.

The riding coach was the first to sense the danger. His smiling face froze instantly as he quickly mounted his own horse, trying to catch up.

He certainly did not want a popular idol from love&five to have an accident right under his watch.

Even if Angie and her team did not hold him responsible, the fans of love&five could tear him apart.

However, there was already some distance between them, and Angie was riding fast. It was already too late for him to catch up now.

Angie and her horse had already reached the pile of debris. She then leaned forward, suspended in the stirrups, and the horse leaped into the air.

They traced a beautiful arc through the sky!

Effortlessly clearing two wooden carts with one leap and then steadily landing back onto the ground.

Watching this scene, the riding coach, who had just climbed onto his horse, opened his mouth wide, looking like he had seen a ghost.

Not far away, a man wearing a black vest, black-rimmed glasses, a scruffy beard, and a stern expression also witnessed everything that had just happened.

However, he only caught a glimpse, seeing a figure from behind, so he pulled over the assistant director and asked, "Who was that person who just went by?"

"Which one?" The assistant director was communicating with the on-set producer and hadn't paid attention to what had happened before. At the request, he looked up and glanced in the direction indicated by Ma Lu.

By this time, Angie had already stopped her horse, and the assistant director, who was also in charge of coordinating the actors, quickly recognized the person on the horse and answered,

"That's Miss Angie from love&five. Her scene is coming up next, probably getting a feel for it ahead of time..."

He paused there because not long before, Angie's assistant had spoken to Director Xu about the upcoming horse riding scene for Angie. The assistant's suggestion was to change it to a close-up shot, using a small vehicle or tricycle to carry Angie.

They would only film the upper body, and then shoot the horse separately, combining them to create a complete horse riding scene.

This was actually a common shooting technique in the industry, not only in new series after the millennium but also in older dramas like TVB's "The Legend of the Dragon" where horse riding scenes were filmed with the actors on a carousel.

Similarly, the chase scenes in "Martial Arts Scholar Beggar Su" were filmed with the actors sitting on a tractor.

The biggest benefit of this was to protect the actors. After all, horse riding is a dangerous affair, and some actors also aren't skilled at it, becoming tense and rigid on a real horse, which actually doesn't look as good as when they are relaxed on a prop.

This method could also save costs for the production team, but Director Xu, being an internationally renowned director with a generous budget, had very strict requirements for his actors and was fond of real shooting.

In the past, for an explosion scene, he had used four thousand pounds of explosives in one go, leveling half of the film set to the ground.

Everyone in the production team was afraid he might get carried away one day and insist on shooting a murder scene for real.

The assistant director, who had followed Director Xu for four years, naturally knew his temperament but still braced himself and tried to persuade him.

"Director Xu, considering Miss Angie is just making a cameo with not many scenes, why don't we just step back a bit? A good man doesn't fight with a woman. Love&five has a lot of fans. Even if Angie just makes an appearance in the film, it could bring a decent box office to us."

The assistant director held up three fingers.

However, even faced with such temptation, Director Xu remained unmoved.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The assistant director looked troubled, but his respect for Director Xu grew deeper. No wonder he was an international director; his commitment and pursuit were beyond what a young director like him could compare with.

Then he heard Director Xu say, "Xiao Tao, what do you think about replacing the lead actress with Angie?"

"Ah..." The assistant director was stunned. "Well, there's really no need to go that far."

Although he said that, his admiration for Director Xu only increased. It took an international director like him to embrace the traffic so quickly, demonstrating a ruthlessness and decisiveness in self-contradiction that younger directors couldn't match.

However, he also noticed Xiao Yu, the lead actress, whose complexion had drastically changed and who was trembling. He felt sorry for her and quickly suggested, "But Xiao Yu is the one you selected from tens of thousands of candidates. Didn't you say she resembles Xie Ruru the most?"

Director Xu stroked his stubble. "But she can't ride a horse. She's been practicing for so long, and it's still not working. Seems like she lacks the talent. Xie Ruru came from a bandit background; other things are forgivable, but how can we accept bad horse riding? The audience won't feel immersed. Isn't it obviously fake at first glance? What, does she plan to have me shoot her scenes with close-ups too?"

Xiao Yu was just a junior at the Film Academy; she didn't have the guts to make such demands to a big director like Director Xu.

Hearing that Director Xu was considering replacing her, she had already lost her composure, her eyes reddened, as she looked pleadingly and pitifully at the assistant director.

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