Chapter 5: Confidant Talk
When she arrived at the door of the cafΓ© private room that Assistant Director Zeng told her, Morning Star knocked lightly on the door, and Assistant Director Zeng opened the door for her, and was very happy to see her coming, and pulled a stool for her to sit next to her.
There are two men about forty years old opposite her, and the assistant director Zeng introduced one of the men with a mustache: "This is director Yang Yuhan, he is preparing to make a literary film, and the casting will be made public after a while, this is Director Yang's assistant Han Jiang." β
Yang Yuhan, Chenxing muttered in her heart, as if she had never heard of this name, but in recent years, film and television investment has been hot, and many people want to prove themselves by being directors, and novice directors have sprung up, and she has met several.
Morning Star's hopes have dropped a lot, novice directors, there are very few who can shoot the scene well, no wonder they are willing to see a lonely little actor like her.
Despite this, she still answered a few questions from Director Yang seriously, Director Yang heard that she was teaching herself swordsmanship, dance, music, lines, and other homework related to performance in her spare time, and her eyes were obviously not as contemptuous as at the beginning, he took out his mobile phone, carefully wrote down the name of Morning Star, and said to her:
"Your appearance is very distinctive, don't have plastic surgery, hone your basic skills, and you will come out one day. β
Morning Star nodded again and again, she agreed with Director Yang's point of view, and more than one director had persuaded her to have plastic surgery and make her round face into an awl face, so that it would look better on camera.
She has been unmoved, not only because of lack of money, but also because she considers from the perspective of the audience, if the girls on the screen all look similar, the audience is easy to get aesthetically fatigued.
Morningstar chatted with Director Yang for more than half an hour, and another girl came to knock on the door, and Morningstar guessed that he might have made an appointment with a few people at a time, so he said goodbye with a smile.
When she returned home, she called Xiao Han and told her about meeting Director Yang, and Xiao Han encouraged her: "As someone in our profession, no one knows where the turning point of their life is, know more people, maybe there will be a chance, take your time." β
Chenxing asked Xiao Han about filming in Hengdian, and Xiao Han told her that she played with Zhong Jieyu, the female number one in this drama, today, and found that Zhong Jieyu was very bad, extremely short-tempered, scolded people when she didn't agree, and scolded her assistant like a grandson.
Forget about the people who scolded herself, and kept stepping on their little supporting roles, she was taught a lesson several times today, and she was so tired.
What can be done, in the entertainment industry, the size of the coffee position determines the size of the right to speak, and the supporting roles are affected by the starring role, which cannot be avoided anywhere, in the difficult years when Morning Star and Xiaohan were small supporting roles, if it weren't for the two of them relying on each other to encourage each other, maybe they would have left the industry a long time ago.
The next morning, Morningstar went to sign a contract with the crew of "Brocade Clothes and Cold Jade", and her agent Tang Yun also followed, the price was set by the crew, and Morningstar had no chance to bargain at all.
For the fifteen-episode scene this time, the price offered by the crew to Morning Star is 100,000 yuan, which is already a lot of income for Morning Star.
Without waiting for Tang Yun to speak, Morning Star took the initiative to offer that after the salary arrived this time, she would give Tang Yun 10,000 yuan for communication expenses, she knew that Tang Yun was worried about her a lot, but there was nothing in return, sometimes she needed to make some connections, and she had to advance money by herself.
Tang Yun was not polite, she did advance money for her recently, she asked herself if she was still responsible for Morning Star, but Morning Star's foundation was too poor and rigid, no matter how she taught her, she didn't go to the Tao, it was really in vain for her hard work.
The contract stated that Morningstar would join the group fifteen days later, and Morningstar decided to practice his lines well before joining the group, hoping that his line skills would satisfy the director, and this time he could let her play with her original voice.
On the way back to the company, Tang Yun told Morningstar: "In the video of the last press conference, in the final edited version, you only have more than three minutes of footage, and they are all long shots, and you can't see your face clearly at all." β
"I begged the editor repeatedly, and the editor switched a few close-up shots for you, and then the reporter's interview, I communicated with the reporter for a long time, and the reporter agreed not to mention your original words, and to mention your positive views on the two leading actors in the press release. β
"You can have a snack in the future!" Tang Yun hated that iron could not become steel: "If you talk like this and beat people again, you will block your way!"
Morning Star nodded again and again, she was also very depressed, she couldn't learn the subtle and euphemistic way of speaking like others, she was used to going straight, no one had corrected her before she entered the showbiz, and now it was too difficult to let her change it.
Seeing her nodding, Tang Yun thought that Morning Star had listened to it, and said in her heart: "Morning Star, it's not that I underestimate you, in this circle, you don't have resources and opportunities, and it's very difficult to get ahead, if I were you, I wouldn't be so big-hearted and learn those things that maybe you won't need at all." β
"You are young and beautiful now, learn more flower arrangement and cooking, go out to socialize more, maybe you can marry a wishful man, like Jin Yuehua of Huajia Film and Television Company, although the drama is not good, people can marry into a wealthy family, how many people in the circle are envious?"
Morning Star has a moment of confusion, marrying into a wealthy family, is this the end of a woman's happiness? Just relying on being young and beautiful, can it attract a man for a lifetime? Beautiful women are stubble after stubble, if women are old and ugly, and men empathize and don't fall in love, how should women deal with themselves at that time?
Tang Yun then gave her a lesson: "Be flexible, don't hang yourself from a tree, with a personality and cultural level like you, even if you play a role and are welcomed by the audience, but you can't speak or interact with people, you may be banned and rejected by the entire circle at any time because you say the wrong thing and do the wrong thing." β
"At that time, you will understand that actresses need many conditions to become popular, and when you don't have these conditions, it's better to go another way. β
Although he knew that Tang Yun had good intentions, Chenxing couldn't agree with her: "Sister Tang, I just want to act, I can't do anything else, how can a wealthy family take a fancy to a woman like me who has no connotation?"
"I still don't want to be delusional, film honestly, earn some money to make ends meet, and be a self-supporting woman. When I came here, my father repeatedly told me: hard-earned money, for thousands of years, let's not do those things that disgrace our ancestors, and we don't earn money that shouldn't be earned. β
Seeing the insistence on Chenxing's face, Tang Yun was very disappointed, why is this kid so stubborn?
A farmer is a farmer, and his way of thinking can't keep up with this era at all, how can he succeed in the entertainment industry by hard work, blood and sweat alone?
Don't face the reality, there will be a day when you regret it, and when you are over thirty, you won't even have the opportunity to eat with your face!
The two of them parted unhappily, Tang Yun had already figured it out that she couldn't be led astray by Morning Star, and kept doing those thankless things, she still had to help her arrange dinners appropriately in the future.
Morningstar can only get more resources by seeing more of the world and getting to know more rich people, she doesn't understand now, there will always be a day when she will figure it out in the future, and then she will know how naΓ―ve her current ideas are!