Schiller flipped through the script the director had sent over several times, but he always felt that something was off.
The school doctor he was playing was named Aldrich Buslatworo Terence Barton. Anyone could tell from such a long name that he was unlikely to be a mere extra. Besides, "Aldrich" meant "King of the Forest" in English. Schiller did not believe the screenwriter and director had not played some kind of word game with that name.
It was not that Schiller did not want to play a villain. Villains were actually easier to play in theory. All he had to do was keep a straight face, show little expression from beginning to end, toss out a few threats after being defeated by the protagonist, and make a smooth exit once filming wrapped. Getting cursed at online would not cost him a pound of flesh. At worst, he could just stop watching short videos.
What worried him more was that the directing team might pull a twist on top of a twist—turning a good person bad, then good again. Schiller was not a professional actor. If they made him play such a complicated character, his acting would definitely get torn apart!
But as the saying went, they were already here. The audition had been filmed, so it was too late to say he did not want the role. Besides, nearly everyone on Earth with anything to do with magic had come. Even the Sorcerer Supreme had personally joined the cast. None of them had acted before, yet they were still gathered together, red-faced and frantic as they memorized lines. Schiller truly had no reason not to do it.
With a take-it-as-it-comes attitude, Schiller first memorized the opening scene.
Movies were not usually filmed in story order. They might shoot the