Chapter 154: Unfair Treatment
At the end of the awards party, several families were happy and some worried, compared with the zero awards of "Scary" and "Five Lucky Stars", "Crazy Stone" still has at least two trophies in the bag, and Wang Zheng did not run in vain.
After the warm invitation of Wang Zheng and Guan Zhilin, Liu Xiaoqing went to Causeway Bay for supper with the crew.
At the dinner table, because Liu Xiaoqing was invited by Wang Zheng, Zhou Xingchi, Liang Chaowei and others were very polite to her, among which Wu Mengda, who grew up in the mainland, was the most enthusiastic, which made Liu Xiaoqing, who was a little cramped, feel a lot easier.
"Miss Liu, you are so beautiful, I am an authentic Fujianese, where is Miss Liu from?"
In a siu mei shop in Causeway Bay, Wu Mengda greeted Liu Xiaoqing in awkward Chinese.
was praised for being beautiful, Liu Xiaoqing looked very generous: "Thank you, I am from Sichuan, and now I live in Yanjing." ”
Wu Mengda had a signature smile on his face: "Yanjing is good, I don't know when I will have the opportunity to climb the Great Wall of Badaling." ”
Wang Zheng smiled at Wu Mengda and said, "Brother Da, I think this opportunity won't be too long, we will go to the Great Wall sooner or later to film." ”
Wu Mengda was pleasantly surprised when he heard this, and together with Guan Zhilin and Zhou Xingchi, they were all looking forward to it.
Ignoring the few people who were looking forward to it, Wang Zheng asked Liu Xiaoqing: "How does Miss Liu feel about coming to Xiangjiang this time?"
Liu Xiaoqing said with a smile: "Xiangjiang is very prosperous, you can't see such a tall building in the mainland, and the clothes are very cheap, I bought a lot of beautiful clothes in Tung Choi Street (Ladies Market) in Mong Kok, and only sold them for five Hong Kong dollars a piece!"
Five yuan a piece of clothing made Liu Xiaoqing, who is the first sister in the mainland, so happy, it seems that after the Cultural Revolution, the economy of the mainland, as Shao Daheng said, is still very embarrassed.
Wang Zheng continued to ask: "Last year, Miss Liu and Xiangjiang collaborated on "Listening to Politics with the Curtain" and "Burning the Old Summer Palace", both of which achieved good results at the box office of 10 million in Xiangjiang, and the audience in Xiangjiang also loves the Empress Dowager Cixi played by Miss Liu very much, I wonder if Miss Liu has any intention of coming to Xiangjiang to develop?"
Although Zheng Fei Xingwei has not yet been established, Wang Zheng is ready to start recruiting signed actors in advance, and when he saw Liu Xiaoqing, who was popular in later generations, he couldn't help but send out an invitation.
After Liang Jiahui's private introduction, Liu Xiaoqing already knew that the young director in front of him was very popular in Xiangjiang, and when she heard Wang Zheng's invitation, she first looked happy, and then said gloomily: "Although I yearn for the prosperity of Xiangjiang, I have a contract with Yanjing Film Studio, and I am afraid that I will not be able to leave in a short time. ”
Wang Zheng thought that Liu Xiaoqing was dissatisfied with the results of the Academy Awards, so he hurriedly comforted: "At the beginning of the Academy Awards, many things are still being explored, and it is normal for unreasonable places to appear, I believe they are not targeting Miss Liu's identity as a mainlander." ”
Liu Xiaoqing smiled bitterly: "I'm not talking about the Academy Awards, Director Wang is a well-known director in Xiangjiang, you should know how much salary Xiangjiang's actors are, right?"
Wang Zheng was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know what Liu Xiaoqing meant by asking this, so he asked a few people next to him: "Xingzai, do you remember how much money a day was when we were running tricks?"
Zhou Xingchi thought for a while before replying, "At the beginning, it should be one hundred Hong Kong dollars." ”
Wu Mengda added: "There are only 100 people who come out of the wireless artist class, and the minimum appearance fee for ordinary dragon sets is 50 Hong Kong dollars. ”
"I didn't expect Director Wang to have a trick experience!" Liu Xiaoqing was obviously a little surprised.
Wang Zheng said with a smile: "This is a must-go procedure for our artist training class, Miss Liu hasn't told me why I asked this?"
Liu Xiaoqing didn't answer and asked: "Then Director Wang knows that on the set of "Listening to Politics with a Curtain" and "Burning the Old Summer Palace", how much salary can mainland actors get a day?"
Before Wang Zheng could answer, Wu Mengda preemptively said: "Maybe not as high as the salary of Xiangjiang actors, but half of it should always be there." ”
Liu Xiaoqing laughed a little self-deprecatingly: "If there are 25 yuan, I will not say that Xiangjiang filmmakers exclude mainlanders!"
Seeing that Liu Xiaoqing was so dissatisfied with the Xiangjiang filmmakers, Wang Zheng was very curious about the difference between the Xiangjiang dragon set and the mainland dragon set, and hurriedly asked: "Then how much is their salary?"
Liu Xiaoqing stretched out a finger and put it in front of everyone's eyes.
Wu Mengda shook his head and said: "Ten yuan is really a bit low, and it is not enough to eat in Xiangjiang." ”
Liu Xiaoqing sneered: "It's one yuan yuan, the same costumes and the same appearance, the actors in Xiangjiang can easily get a salary of fifty yuan, while the group performers in the mainland can only get a salary of one yuan in the end." ”
The salary of one dollar stunned Wu Mengda, Zhou Xingchi and others, they were all thinking about what they could buy in Xiangjiang for a dollar, although Wang Zheng had a certain amount of preparation, but he didn't expect the difference to be so big, but Liu Xiaoqing's words were not finished.
"Not only is the salary seriously unequal, but even the daily meals are treated differently, Xiangjiang actors are big fish and meat every day, mainland actors only have green vegetables and radishes, and even I, the protagonist, have to work on the floor with the group actors, and the Xiangjiang actors live in the guest house. ”
Zhou Xingchi said in disbelief: "Such unequal treatment, if I had stopped the show a long time ago." ”
Liu Xiaoqing glanced at Zhou Xingchi and said with a smug smile: "When the film is halfway through, I will stop the show as you said, and in the end, the producers of Xiangjiang had no choice but to change the food to the same, but the salary still hasn't changed." ”
Liu Xiaoqing's words made everyone present silent for a while, there is Wang Zheng in this life, Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda and others have a very short career, and they have not been treated unfairly on the set, after listening to Liu Xiaoqing's story, they can't believe that this is true, and they are also glad that Wang Zheng has supported them.
Liu Xiaoqing's words made everyone lose their appetite, especially Guan Zhilin and Wu Mengda, who were born in the mainland, although they have now become Xiangjiang people, they are also uncomfortable when they see mainlanders being treated so unfairly.
Everyone lost their appetite, and the supper ended in a hurry, and finally Wang Zheng drove Liu Xiaoqing back to the Regent Hotel.
When parting, Liu Xiaoqing said apologetically: "Director Wang, I'm very sorry, I shouldn't have said something like that, which ruined everyone's interest." ”
Wang Zheng smiled slightly: "No need to apologize, you just told the truth, it is precisely because of your words that we know the truth, although we are Hong Kong people, but we are also Chinese, hearing Hong Kong people treat mainlanders like this, it is inevitable that they will feel uncomfortable, there are always some people who become slaves of foreigners, they think that they have become superior people, and in turn bully compatriots to gain a sense of superiority." ”
After listening to Wang Zheng's words, Liu Xiaoqing said gloomily: "Our country is still too poor and weak to be treated so unfairly." ”
Wang Zheng encouraged: "This will not be too long, no matter how popular the stars or directors in Xiangjiang are in the future, they will have to rely on the popularity of the mainland, there are 1 billion people in the mainland, and the box office base is so big that it is not comparable to the five million people in Xiangjiang." ”
Liu Xiaoqing nodded heavily, and Wang Zheng finally smiled: "Rest early, it won't be long before we may meet again!"
Liu Xiaoqing didn't understand the meaning of Wang Zheng's last sentence, and when he was about to ask, the Porsche 911 turned into a silver lightning bolt and disappeared at the corner of the street.