February 16th.

The sky was just dawning.

"Smack!"

Fei Qi went to Lin Xiaoguang's house early in the morning, took out the script from his bag, slapped it on the table, and looked at Lin Xiaoguang.

Lin Xiaoguang had just woken up, staring blankly at a few scripts on the table.

"Why are you stunned, hurry up and see. Fei Qi unhurriedly took a cigarette in his mouth and said with a smile.

Lin Xiaoguang smacked his lips and said, "Brother Qi, can you let me go out for breakfast first and then come back to fight again?"

Fei Qi sneered: "No need, the bean juice fritters are on the table, and I bought them all for you." As he spoke, he pushed the script and said, "You take a look at this script first, and then eat it." ”

"Okay. ”

Lin Xiaoguang straightened up, sipped his slightly sweaty fingers from a napkin, and opened the title page.

The book is very thin, and there are a few big characters written on the top of it -- "The city is full of golden armor".

Lin Xiaoguang twitched the corners of his mouth, and said in his heart, this is the blockbuster script of the national teacher, and he was secretly happy for a while before he looked down.

Maybe it's a fault of the literati, the screenwriter's tone is extremely showy, not quite like a standard script, but with a little meaning, and the story written is very abstract, but very infectious.

However, Lin Xiaoguang's role in "The City Full of Golden Armor" this time is the eldest prince Yuanxiang, whose personality is completely different from his father, he is a timid and cowardly man who is hedonistic and does not dare to take responsibility for what he does.

The unruly love with his stepmother made him bear a heavy mental burden, and the young and beautiful new love accelerated his determination to get rid of his stepmother's entanglement.

But on the night of Chongyang Night, before he could wait for the biggest conspiracy to appear, he was pierced through the heart by his younger brother......

After reading the script of "The City Full of Golden Armor" from beginning to end, Lin Xiaoguang raised his head, tried his best to maintain a calm smile, and asked, "Brother Qi, can I push this film?"

"Don't like it?"

"Well, it feels like the characters are a bit pitted. ”

"How?"

"Brother Qi, then I'll tell you the truth, the script is good, but this character is ......" He put together the script and said: "It's so dark and dirty, it's better if I still don't take it, so as not to be scolded when I get it, I will trouble you to help me push it away." ”

"Okay, I don't think it's good to listen to you this time. Fei Qi didn't care.

Without waiting for Lin Xiaoguang to answer, Fei Qi then changed the conversation: "Don't say I didn't remind you, this is the script of the great director Zhang Yimou, I finally helped you grab such a heavyweight supporting role, just push it like this, are you really willing to do it?"

In recent years, many actors want to take on commercial blockbusters from big directors, but Lin Xiaoguang doesn't think so, he feels that the so-called blockbusters are basically special money fraud, and he pays more attention to the quality of the script and the character setting when choosing films.

Lin Xiaoguang thought about it, simply didn't do it endlessly, and said bluntly: "There is a give-and-go, such a role, whoever likes it will take it." ”

"Are you sure?"

"Sure. ”

"Okay, I also don't think this character is very likable, since you don't like it, then you have to cheapen Liu Ye. ”

Lin Xiaoguang was puzzled: "Liu Ye, the Liu Ye who played "Lan Yu"?"

Fei Qi nodded: "Director Zhang originally wanted you to go to the audition with Liu Ye, but I want to say it, it took a lot of effort to get lucky to cut off Hu halfway." ”

"So, Liu Ye also wants to play this role?"

"It's not, in fact, think about it, it's okay, if you don't act, I don't have to owe Sister Chang (Chang Jihong) a favor, besides, this role is really not good, she just feels sorry for Liu Ye, so she will go to the hospital so urgently. ”

"I'm sorry Liu Ye, what do you mean?" Lin Xiaoguang drank soy milk while eating fried dough sticks.

Fei Qi wanted to speak and stopped: "That's a long story......"

Lin Xiaoguang quipped: "It's okay, you say it slowly, anyway, I'll eat breakfast and don't delay my efforts." ”

"Then you hurry up and eat, don't listen to it patronizingly!"

"No problem!"

To a certain extent, Lin Xiaoguang and Liu Ye actually took two diametrically opposed paths.

In the dark, Lin Xiaoguang and Liu Ye, two old acquaintances, also unknowingly changed and affected each other's fate.

Back then, Lin Xiaoguang's acting career had just improved, and Liu Ye had already won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor with "Lan Yu", and began to become famous in the literary and art circles and director circles.

At that time, Liu Ye's vision was still online, and the next film "Lovers in the Sky" won the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival, "Balzac and the Little Tailor" was shortlisted for the Golden Globe Award, and "The Landscape of Love" recommended by Guan Jinpeng was also in good condition.

At that time, Liu Ye was evaluated as the first student in literary films, but he did not sign a contract with a brokerage company.

"Balzac and the Little Tailor" failed to win the Golden Globe Award in the end, but it firmly rewrote Liu Ye's acting path.

It turned out that the three protagonists of this drama were Liu Ye, Chen Kun and Zhou Xun, at that time Chen Kun and Zhou Xun were the first brother and sister of the company, and the two became famous because of the TV series "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind", and they were very well-known.

However, Liu Yegui is unknown as an actor, and Chen Kun will be surrounded to ask for autographs when he walks on the street, so he can only smoke and kick pebbles on the side to relieve his embarrassment.

For the sake of popularity and popularity, Liu Ye decided to act in a TV series.

The first TV series he chose was "What to Save You, My Love", directed by Zhao Baogang, who had just won the popularity of Lu Yi and Chen Kun, and the screenwriter was also the most popular Haiyan, who produced Hairun Film and Television, which had done "Never Look Away" and "Six Groups of Serious Cases", and his vision was very accurate.

During the filming, Hairun used his own film and television resources and Chang Jihong, the president of the brokerage company, to personally take Liu Ye as a condition to persuade the Golden Horse Award actor who was still swinging, and took Lin Xiaoguang's coveted "Blood Romance" male number one Zhong Yuemin as a gift.

In the end, Liu Ye signed his brokerage contract with Hairun, and Lin Xiaoguang at that time also rejected Hairun's renewal contract.

There is no doubt that this signing has become one of the important reasons why Lin Xiaoguang left Hairun at that time, and it is also the key to Liu Ye's acting career in the next ten years.

However, after Liu Ye signed the contract, there were not many suitable TV series resources that Hairun really gave, and there was only one, that is, Chang Jihong pulled Liu Ye and Sun Li and squeezed out the schedule to shoot "Blood Romance", which was the same as "What to Save You, My Love", which was a well-known fire work at that time.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and after the production of "Bright Sword", Hairun fell into the whirlpool of dramas and mother-in-law dramas, completely missing the hot period of new drama types such as court dramas and costume dramas in the market, and the former glory is gone, and its influence in the TV drama circle is getting smaller and smaller.

Liu Ye's TV series performance also collapsed with Hairun's depression.

Hairun and Chang Jihong's other signed artist, Sun Li, escaped, because the TV series "Happiness Like Flowers" co-starring with Lin Xiaoguang became popular because of the scandal, and temporarily maintained the coffee position in the TV drama circle.

The TV drama circle has stumbled, and in the film circle where capital is rampant, Liu Ye is no longer popular.

Because Hairun almost doesn't make movies and has no film resources, this is also the fundamental reason why Lin Xiaoguang resolutely left Hairun, and Liu Ye has always been an old man in the film industry, and the roles he received are either low-cost or supporting roles with few roles.

In the past few years, Chang Jihong has also signed in the movie "Wuji" by the great director Chen Kaige for him, I thought it was a good thing, but the reputation of the movie was very bad after its release, and it was almost the lowest point of Chen Kaige's career.

Liu Ye was scolded for this, the quality of the film and the character design are very bad, and he is a ghost wolf with ambiguous sex in "Wuji".

Maybe it's what people often say about making people happy, now Lin Xiaoguang has taken the initiative to quit the crew of "The City is Full of Golden Armor", and the role that Liu Ye is about to get is the feminine and sick prince Yuanxiang in "The City is Full of Golden Armor......

Subsequently, under the supervision of Fei Qi, Lin Xiaoguang turned over several scripts, including TV series and movies, but they were not very satisfactory.

until the movie script of "Li Mi's Conjecture" was revealed......

Lin Xiaoguang's spirit began to perk up, he looked very seriously, slowly uncovering page by page, Fei Qi smoked a few cigarettes on the side, but it didn't affect him much.

After about twenty minutes, Lin Xiaoguang put down the notebook and said, "Brother Qi, there is a question, I want to know." ”

"You say. ”

"Did the company tailor this script for me? or did you get it for me?"

Fei Qi pondered for a moment before he said: "Let me tell you the truth, it is neither the company nor what I asked you for, it is Zhou Xun who wants to cooperate with you by name." ”

"Really?" Lin Xiaoguang was a little flattered.

"Well, I'll tell you the truth, I originally wanted to recommend Deng Chao to take over the script, and I thought he was more suitable for this role, but Zhou Xun had to partner with you, and the company followed her, so it was okay. ”

Lin Xiaoguang thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "That's it, then I'll think about it, is it okay?"

"Okay, though, you'd better give me time and get back to me by next Monday at the latest. Fei Qi said happily, no dissatisfaction.

The actor picks the play, the agent gives advice, the division of labor and cooperation, each takes what he needs, it is natural, and you can't compromise because of favors.

"Don't wait until next Monday, will it be done in two days?" Lin Xiaoguang said.

"Cheng, you have decided, just write back to me. ”

In fact, Lin Xiaoguang's hesitation is not a matter of script quality, but a matter of standing in line.

Everyone knows that the current Huayi, Zhou Xun is a proper first sister, Fan Bingbing is basically cold, her departure from Huayi is a foregone conclusion, and although Li Bingbing is also overwhelmed by Zhou Xun, her status in Huayi is not inferior to Zhou Xun at all, which is also thanks to her sister Li Xue.

In Lin Xiaoguang's view, Li Xue, a woman, is unfathomable.

Lin Xiaoguang had just become friends with Li Xue, and now he was messing around with Zhou Xun, which seemed a little unreasonable......

In the end, Lin Xiaoguang thought about it for two whole days, and finally decided to follow his heart's wishes, take "Li Mi's Conjecture", and cooperate with Zhou Xun again.

Although Fan Bingbing and Li Bingbing have both shown their desires to the audience in a high-profile manner, in fact, Lin Xiaoguang knows very well in his heart that Zhou Xun, who has a low-key image, is not weak in her desire and combat effectiveness.