Chapter 887: Advertisement, Advertisement Again
"Aren't you afraid that I will also go to that show, in case I win the championship and steal the limelight from Duo'er?" Cheng Xi asked Xiao Yaodao.
Cheng Xi told Xiao Yao that the subtext of this matter was "If I can't play Anna, I'll go to that show to steal the limelight with your girlfriend", although it is not a threat, but it is to make Xiao Yao more biased towards himself when choosing Anna's actor. Unexpectedly, Xiao Yao didn't follow the routine, not only did he not follow her wishes, but persuaded her not to audition. In desperation, Cheng Xi could only speak more clearly.
"Duo'er never said that if she went to that show, she would want the champion to come back! She only decided to go because Kim was going! If I asked you to dance with the company, I said it, she didn't mention it at all, so whether you go or not has no effect on her at all. Xiao Yao said, "As far as I'm concerned, I don't think a show can necessarily be popular with only one guest, and it doesn't necessarily be the final champion who is the hottest." You know each other so well, if you all go, let alone take care of each other in the show, at least the interaction in the show will be better, and it will be good for you. So if you go to that show, I'm happy to see it!"
"As for the role of Anna," Xiao Yao continued, "If you can play it, of course I am willing to let you play it, but regardless of whether you can play it, in terms of your personal development, I don't think it is much good for you to play that role." ”
"Yo, and in terms of my personal development. Cheng Xi said, "Then tell me, why is it no good?"
"First of all, that role is different from the roles you played before!" Xiao Yao said, "It will make the audience change your screen image." ”
"That's right!" Cheng Xi said, "The roles and images I played before are relatively similar, Sister Jiaying and I both want to seek some breakthroughs and make some changes on the way to the play." I can't always play Silly White Sweet and Little Sheep, right?"
"With your current situation, if you want to seek a breakthrough, it's good to transform on the acting road," Xiao Yao said, "But if you want to use the role of Anna to transform on the acting road, I don't think it's a good choice." ”
"Why?" Cheng Xi asked, "I think that role is still very different from the roles I played before." ”
"There's a difference!" Xiao Yao said, "But that character is not a pure villain, although it is not very likable, but it is not very disgusting." Also, in this drama, this role can only be regarded as the second or third female character. I know that you once played the second female more brilliant than the first female in a certain drama, but this drama was written by me specifically for Sister Xi, the heroine is very different from other supporting actresses, and Anna is a character who makes the audience's love and hate not very clear, and it is basically impossible for you to overshadow the female first in this drama with this role.
For an actor like Li Xiaorui who is still struggling to seek high popularity and a chance to show his face, this role is a very good opportunity, but for an actor like you who has no shortage of popularity and wants a role that can really be remembered and has characteristics, this role is a bit chicken!"
"But participating in that variety show is different. Xiao Yao continued, "The media has reported your life, and many people know that you are from a dance troupe, but knowing is knowing, not many people have really seen you dance. Even if you do, it's not the time for you to show your dancing skills to the fullest.
In the past, as a backup dancer, you were not the protagonist, you had to cooperate with the singer in front. Later, when you transformed into an actor, you had some opportunities to perform alone when participating in New Year's Eve parties or variety shows for promotional works, but those performances were relatively limited, either the technical level of the performance was not high, or the whole performance was incomplete and gave a limited impression. I think the time you showed the highest level of dancing on stage was when you danced with me in "The Singer". But you were still not the protagonist of the stage that time, and most of the attention was still on me.
This variety show is a competitive dance show, and it is a platform that allows you to fully show your dance level. In this show, you can show all your abilities in dance and let the audience see a new you. I think the effect of your participation in this show is completely comparable to that of my participation in "Singer" back then, which is much better than playing the second female lead in a TV series. ”
""Dancing with the Stars" is not "Singer", I am not you, it is comparable to you when you participated in "Singer", you are too exalted to me!" Cheng Xi smiled, "Speaking of which, you just don't want me to act in your play, let me go to the show with Duo'er!"
"Am I helping you analyze it?" Xiao Yao said helplessly, "If you don't believe what I said, come to the audition, I promise that I will choose the actor for this role fairly and justly." If you're not sure, I can avoid auditioning for the role, leaving the choice entirely up to the director and other producers. ”
"No, I believe you!" Cheng Xi waved his hand and smiled, "Although you are the second generation of stars and the third generation of stars, you have rarely used the resources of the elders in your family for so many years. Your parents don't care much about you, let you develop freely, just trust your judgment and ability. And you are indeed amazing, whether it is music or film and television, you can now be said to be a top-notch existence. How can I doubt your judgment?"
"Don't too hard. I'm just playing around, and my parents often say that I'm a hammer in the east and a stick in the west!" Xiao Yao smiled, "But I was serious about the analysis and suggestions just now!"
"Got it, I'll think about it!" Cheng Xi said, "But even if I audition for a role, you don't have to avoid it, just do what you want!"
"Okay!" Xiao Yao nodded.
Speaking of which, Cheng Xi and Chen Chen's matter of finding Xiao Yao was over. The three of them sat for a while, chatted for a while, and then went back to their respective homes.
The next morning, Xiao Yao went to the hotel again to pick up Zhou Jingyi and others, went to the modeling agency and finally tried on the dress that attended the awards ceremony in the evening. After revisions yesterday afternoon and evening, several inappropriate parts of Zhou Jingyi and Samion's dresses have been changed. After the two tried again, there was no discomfort at all.
The morning is basically a dress try-on. In the afternoon, Xiao Yao and the band members were going to rehearse at the awards ceremony, so they handed over Mu Ying and Zhou Jingyi to Zhao Rui and Xu Fei.
The award ceremony is not a theatrical evening, although there are performances, but the number of programs is not much, so the number of programs and personnel that need to be rehearsed is not much. After Xiao Yao and the band members arrived, it didn't take long for their turn to rehearse on stage. After rehearsing for most of the day yesterday, the tacit understanding between Xiao Yao and the band has recovered very well, and the rehearsal is just to adapt to the stage, environment and musical instrument sound equipment at the award ceremony, so the rehearsal went quite smoothly.
There is also a lounge for celebrities at the award ceremony. However, there are many stars attending the award ceremony, and one room per person is definitely not enough, and some stars do not necessarily use the lounge to attend the award ceremony, but the performers basically have to change their clothes during the performance, and the organizer has arranged an exclusive lounge for each group of performers.
Since there is an exclusive lounge, Xiao Yao did not plan to go back to the modeling agency to meet with others after the rehearsal, but brought the styling team when he came, changed clothes and did styling in the exclusive lounge, waiting for others to come to meet.
Half an hour before the start of the red carpet show, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei arrived at the scene with other crew members who were going to attend the awards ceremony to meet Xiao Yao and others.
Watching a red carpet show on TV, many times you see a car driving to the side of the red carpet, and the star gets out of the car and starts to walk the red carpet into the venue. However, due to traffic reasons, many times celebrities do not set off from their residences to the scene, but arrive at the scene in advance to prepare, wait for their appearance order and time to arrive, come out from other places on the scene, get into the vehicle arranged by the organizer, simply circle the neighborhood, and get off at the red carpet.
Zhao Rui and others came after doing a good job of styling. The distance between the modeling agency and the award ceremony was not close, and after arriving, they took a little rest. Tidy up your dress, touch up your makeup or something, and soon it's time for the red carpet show to begin.
Among all the films nominated for awards at this year's Golden Dragon Awards, Xiao Yao and his crew have not received many nominations, and the topic is not high, but the composition of this crew, the popularity and topicality of individual people are not small.
Whether it is the mixed crew of Chinese and foreign members, the combined appearance of Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, and Xu Fei, the team that initiated a new movement that is popular around the world, or the rise of young people such as Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, and Xu Fei representing an emerging force in the Chinese film industry, it is one of the topics that the media and the public talk about.
All things considered, the organizers arranged the order of the crew's appearance on the red carpet in the second half of the entire red carpet show, which is almost two-thirds of the whole process. Although it is neither the opening nor the finale, but overall, it seems that they are very important.
The whole red carpet show was about an hour, so half an hour after the red carpet show started, the crew went out and got in the car. After following the car in front of me slowly for a while, the car suddenly accelerated and stopped steadily on the edge of the red carpet.
Due to the large number of people in their crew attending the award ceremony and walking the red carpet together, the organizer arranged four courtesy cars for the crew.
Xiao Yao and Mu Ying sat in the first car. After the two got out of the car, a scream of fans shouting Xiao Yao's name sounded outside the guardrail next to them. Xiao Yao smiled and beckoned to the fans, but did not take a single step. After Xiao Yao and Mu Ying's courtesy car left, the car followed by arrived again. The entire crew walked the red carpet together, and Mu Ying and Xiao Yao had to wait for the crew members behind them to get off.
Zhou Jingyi and Zhao Rui sat in the second car. Walking on the red carpet is to get off from the same side and stand directly on the red carpet. The dresses of female celebrities are more troublesome, and they generally need a little help from men when they get off the bus. Zhao Rui, who was closer to the side of the red carpet, got out of the car first, glanced at Xiao Yao, and saw that Xiao Yao didn't move, so he stood by the car door and bent down to lead Zhou Jingyi to help her get out of the car.
Later, Sarmien was in the same car with the members of the band, and Xiao Yao also did not move, so Sarmien was led out of the car by Dean.
After a group of people got out of the car, everyone set off together, smiling and waving to the fans on the side, and walking to the other end of the red carpet.
Such a mighty group of people walked together with great momentum. The fans and viewers who were guarding the guardrail were also very excited, constantly shouting the names of the crew members. From the performance of these red carpet audiences, you can see the popularity of the crew members.
Among these people, the most popular is undoubtedly Xiao Yao, and the outside audience and fans shout his name the loudest. followed by Zhao Rui and Xu Fei.
Next, there is one of the leading actors who were not familiar to Chinese audiences, but they met through that movie, Chinese actress Kimberly Zhou, and Chen Xiaoting, who was originally well-known in China but did not star in the movie.
Further down the line, there are the band members. However, everyone is not too familiar with the band members, except for a few who call Sarmien and Dean, most of them call the band name "Immortals".
Director Mu Ying is a Chinese, and some viewers know him, but there are very few people who call his name, and his name is basically inaudible in the voices of other people, and the treatment of the other two American behind-the-scenes personnel in the crew feels similar.
The group walked up to the signature board for the photojournalists to take pictures and take turns signing their names on the signature board, and then the field host in charge of the on-site interview walked up.
"Director Xiao, Director Mu, hello everyone!" the host came up and said a simple hello, and then looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Your crew should be the guests of the group with the largest number on the red carpet of our awards ceremony!"
"The organizers originally wanted us to go separately," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "but we have a lot of foreign friends here, and when we came to China for the first time to participate in the award ceremony, we were a little shy and needed us to take them with us, so we all left together." ”
The organizer did think about letting the crew walk the red carpet separately, and in the absence of Zhou Jingyi, the plan was to let Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting go in a group, Mu Ying with two American staff members in a group, Xiao Yao with a group of band members, or let Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui, Xu Fei, and Chen Xiaoting in a group of four parkour veteran teams, and let the four members of the band go by themselves. However, because Xiao Yao has too many identities, he feels that no matter which one he is, he doesn't think it's suitable, and he can't split himself into several or repeat it a few times, so he finally decided to go with everyone.
"Americans are shy?" the host was stunned and said subconsciously.
According to the original script, here Xiao Yao should say that he has too many identities, and he can't divide them well, so he went together, and the host praised Xiao Yao's omnipotence by the way. But Xiao Yao didn't press the script, and the host was a little stunned for a while.
"Of course, there are also Americans who can be shy!" Xiao Yao stretched out his hand and pointed at Dean, "No, Dean is very outgoing," and then pointed at Samion, "Sammy is not either, she is cold." Finally, he pointed to George and Mike, "These two are, George and Mike are more shy. ”
"By the way, there's also Jin," Xiao Yao pointed at Zhou Jingyi again, "She's not the shy kind at first glance." ”
"Well, then I'll welcome foreign friends first!" The host could only follow Xiao Yao's path and said to a few foreigners, "Welcome to Huaxia!"
"Hello everyone!" the four members of the band and Zhou Jingyi all smiled and waved in Chinese.
"Oh~" Hearing the five people say hello in Chinese, the audience outside the guardrail let out a burst of cheers.
"Xiao Yao, do all the foreigners around you speak Chinese?" the host asked Xiao Yao.
"Not all foreigners around me will," Xiao Yao pointed to the two behind-the-scenes staff in the United States, "Kevin and Russell won't." ”
These people came to Huaxia to participate in the award ceremony, and Xiao Yao also tried his best to help them give others more impressions. Of course, the relationship between the two behind-the-scenes staff and Xiao Yao must not be compared with the relationship between Zhou Jingyi and others and Xiao Yao, this treatment is naturally different, Xiao Yao didn't plan to let them talk, it would be good to mention a name.
"Several of them know Chinese, and they are indeed influenced by me, but I did not let them learn it, but they took the initiative to learn it!" Xiao Yao pointed to Dean and the others, "They have known me for a long time and are interested in me, so they went to learn Chinese by themselves." Kevin and Russell won't be because they haven't been with me long enough!"
"Oh~" Zhou Jingyi and the band members can understand Chinese. Although Xiao Yao said the truth, Dean still gave Xiao Yao a boo, and Symen rolled his eyes.
"Hah!" Some viewers who were closer to the signature board laughed out loud when they saw the reaction of the two.
"I heard that all five of you are from warm Los Angeles," the host asked, "Do you feel that Yanjing is particularly cold?"
Because the number of people in Xiao Yao's group is particularly large, there is more time left for this group to interview. However, not everyone has to be interviewed in this external interview, and the specific interviewee can be controlled by the host himself.
"It's really cold tonight!" Zhou Jingyi, the best Chinese among the five, replied in Chinese, hugged her arms exaggeratedly as she spoke, and then smiled, "But fortunately, Yang prepared a special dress for us, so it feels okay!"
"Special dress?" the host looked at the dress on Zhou Jingyi and said, "This dress on your body is very beautiful, but I don't see anything particularly special!"
"You can touch it!" Zhou Jingyi smiled.
"Is that okay?" she confirmed, even though the host was a woman.
"Yes!" Zhou Jingyi nodded.
"Ah, it's warm!" said the host.
"Yes!" Zhou Jingyi said, "This dress is a new product of Yang's Xisi brand, and it is equipped with a specially designed thermal system. In such a dress, the exposed arms will still be cold, but the main torso of the body is warm, so the whole person does not feel particularly cold. The United States also has very cold winters, such as New York, and after returning to the United States, I am going to recommend such dresses to American celebrities, so that it will not be too uncomfortable to walk the outdoor red carpet in winter. ”
No matter how she felt about Xiao Yao in the past two days, Zhou Jingyi still agreed to the propaganda task given to her by Xiao Yao, and completed it wholeheartedly.
"No wonder!" the host looked at Xiao Yao and said, "There are many celebrities who also wear your brand dresses tonight, right?"
Celebrities walking the red carpet in the middle of winter is indeed a chore. Although most of the celebrities have a high level of professionalism and behave naturally in front of the camera, at some other times, there is no lack of real reactions to being frozen, and some people will even run into the venue regardless of their image after leaving the camera.
However, the restraint of celebrities when facing the camera is limited to facing the main camera or the found shot. Every year, from time to time, there are some celebrities who are shivering from the red carpet with cold, grinning and other candid pictures and videos of various expressions and actions circulated on the Internet. Later, there were even some viewers or reporters who would go to capture and secretly take funny photos of those celebrities.
Although this year's Golden Dragon Award ceremony is already in March, due to the arrival of the cold wave, the temperature tonight is extremely low, which is not much different from the winter. Some photojournalists are also specially guarding the side of the red carpet, waiting to capture the performance of those stars who are frozen.
As an outfield host, the host herself is also thinly dressed and frozen enough, and when she is not working, she will secretly observe the appearance of those stars being frozen. But according to her observation, the celebrities who feel cold tonight, especially the female stars, seem to be far less than what she saw when she was an outfield host in previous winters.
"Hehe," Xiao Yao smiled, "Tonight is the Golden Dragon Award ceremony, but it's not my brand's press conference, so I won't advertise here!"
"Don't advertise, you've already finished all the ads, okay?" the host complained in his heart.
"To be honest, it's really cold tonight, even if you wear a special dress, you will feel cold. Xiao Yao hugged his arms and said, "Is your outgoing collection over?" Do you think we can enter?"
Anyway, the coming and going of external mining is just those problems, and there is nothing new. After Xiao Yao's advertisement was finished and the publicity purpose was achieved, he didn't want to continue to stay outside and freeze.
"Yes, I also want to ask Director Xiao about your recent situation, whether you have completely transformed into a director and concentrated on the development of movies in the future. The host smiled, "Since you feel cold, then I won't ask, lest you freeze." If you get frostbite, I won't be able to explain it to your fans!"
"No, no, if I get injured or sick, it's basically my own fault, and my fans generally don't bother others!" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "Speaking of the recent situation, I can say a few more words." ”
Xiao Yao approached the host's microphone and said to the main camera lens and those audience fans outside: "My movie "Donkey Gets Water" is now in theaters. I directed the film independently, and I was also one of the writers and lead actors. I won't have any other movies released this year, so it's up to everyone to see if I can appear here next year!" Xiao Yao bowed as he spoke.
"Hey, Xiao Yao, this year's Golden Dragon Award hasn't been won yet, so you can pull up a ticket for next year's award!" The host said helplessly to Xiao Yao.
Although whether a film is nominated for an award or not is not necessarily linked to the box office, especially the Golden Dragon Award, which claims not to consider the box office factor, the range of films selected for the award is all films that have been publicly released in the previous year, and the judges rarely have not seen it at all, and the box office and word-of-mouth when the film is released will still have an invisible impact on the judges.
"Got it, we'll go see it, and we'll give it a good review!" laughed the audience and fans at the scene.
"It's good for everyone to see it, you can evaluate it as you want, and you don't have to deliberately give good reviews!" Xiao Yao said with a smile.
"Okay, we thank the crew of "Parkour Boys", please enter!" the host waved his hand and made a gesture of please, ending this off-site interview.