Chapter 1091: Everyone is in Vanity Fair
Cheng Xiaoyu's filming work continued in an orderly manner, and the disturbances outside did not have much impact on him, and Catherine Blanchett was also very dedicated, and after that, she did not bring her emotions to work. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
FOR THE TWO LEADING ACTORS, SUCH A ROLE IS NOT A DIFFICULT CHALLENGE, JACK'S ROLE IS RELATIVELY EASY TO PERFORM, WHILE ROSE'S ROLE IS MUCH MORE COMPLICATED.
As a director, Cheng Xiaoyu also prepared a lot of homework for the actors, such as reading the history of that period, watching some movies about that period, and approaching something with her heart, but Cheng Xiaoyu did not explain these basic things to Catherine, she was ready.
Catherine is a quiet person when acting, and Cheng Xiaoyu also sees many things, she is indeed a very dedicated person, and after a slight response, she left everything around her, closed social networks, and began to enter the role, which few actors can do.
INSTEAD OF DOING SO, XIAO YU HAS BEEN WIDENING HER HEART, TELLING HER TO DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS, AND THERE IS NO NEED TO SUPPRESS HERSELF TOO MUCH, AFTER ALL, ROSE IS ALSO A PERSON WHO LONGS FOR FREEDOM IN HER HEART.
And the incident between Betty Crawford and Catherine continues to ferment as more and more people are involved.
It's not a big deal to watch the lively media, and the fire began to count the number of times Catherine Blanchett and Betty Crawford grabbed the role, and listed in detail the salaries and cumulative box office of the two, and even the number of fans on social networks had to be compared.
In terms of box office, Catherine Blanchett is half ahead of Betty Crawford, just before Catherine Blanchett takes over Cheng Xiaoyu's ship with 10 million, and her salary is also twice that of Betty Crawford.
And now, aside from the share, just looking at the fixed salary of both of them is 10 million, which is why Betty Crawford mocked Catherine Blanchett for lowering her value.
Betty Crawford has been deliberately tying up Catherine Blanchett hype, she does not have a good background like Catherine Blanchett, but she has a very high emotional intelligence, long sleeves and good dancing, and is more sincere with fans and collaborators, which has won her a lot of opportunities.
In fact, before participating in the audition for "To Heaven", Betty Crawford once publicly said that she was very envious of Catherine Blanchett, because Catherine's appearance was too dreamy, but unfortunately she deliberately showed favor and did not gain Catherine Blanchett's friendship.
She also took the initiative to say hello to Catherine when she auditioned for "To Heaven", but Catherine just laughed and didn't say anything, because Catherine rarely read gossip magazines at that time and didn't know who she was.
This made Betty Crawford feel very faceless, and after losing the audition, Betty Crawford secretly hated Catherine Blanchett, maybe this hatred was more jealousy, so as long as Catherine became a hot spot, she was bound to come out to rub the heat twice and disgust Catherine.
This behavior finally caught Catherine's attention and displeasure, but in fact Catherine was very inexplicable and had no idea when she had offended this woman.
But these are all things in the past, and the reason why Betty Crawford jumped out this time is to continue the previous strategy and use Catherine to promote her own fame.
After Catherine Blanchett refused to play in "Star Legends", she successfully won the role of Queen Victoria, which really made her feel proud enough, and she quite couldn't understand why Catherine could make such a stupid decision to turn down such a good opportunity to act in a film directed by Chinese.
Of course, she is also very grateful to Catherine for her stupidity, which fulfilled her, and she also knows very well that the reason why the "Star Legends" crew chose her is also disgusting Catherine Blanchett, which can be regarded as the reward for her constant hype of tying up Catherine.
However, what made her unhappy and disappointed was that the media was all concerned about the more topical "Big Ship", the ambiguous scandal between Catherine and Cheng Xiaoyu, and not much attention was paid to her winning the role of queen in "Star Legends".
So the disgruntled Betty Crawford sent "tweets" and "whispers", mocking Catherine Blanchett, who she felt was extremely stupid, and proudly let out a bad breath that had been suppressed by Catherine for so many years.
However, no matter how things fermented, Cheng Xiaoyu was still quite rational and did not join in tearing B, as for being ridiculed for his little white face, he just laughed it off, and this kind of thing disappeared when the spectators felt that it was not new.
But I didn't expect Betty Crawford's boyfriend Donald Stilwell to write a song, and the lyrics bluntly said: Catherine is a green tea, and she also satirized that she likes sissies, of course, this sissy is the rumored boyfriend Cheng Xiaoyu.
This time Justin Bieber was involved again, he was not familiar with Catherine, and the reason for avoiding suspicion here in Catherine and Cheng Xiaoyu himself did not speak out, and he did not stand in line openly, but now that his boss and benefactor are being ridiculed, he naturally can't bear it.
Justin Bieber immediately posted on social networks, directly @Donald Stilwell is just a nasty addict, mocking the songs he wrote as garbage, compared to Cheng Xiaoyu, it is simply a firefly.
Not to be outdone, Donald Stilwell posted a list of the awards he had won, and even the nominations were counted in dozens of them, which looked very scary.
Justin Bieber directly used his album sales to go back, and noted that all the songs on the album were written by Cheng Xiaoyu, and also attacked Donald Stilwell for plagiarizing other people's melodies and asking someone to ghostwrite some of the troubles.
This made Donald Stilwell angry and angry to ridicate Justin Bieber is a gangster and liar, like Cheng Xiaoyu, he is a weak chicken and a little white face, and he also made the song he wrote into a MV, and there are three puppets symbolizing Cheng Xiaoyu, Catherine and Justin in the MV that he wantonly fiddles with.....
The tearing has escalated again.
But Cheng Xiaoyu, who doesn't pay much attention to social networks at this time, doesn't know that he has just returned to Los Angeles from the set of McAbbie Beach and prepared a "gift" to meet Mary Hughes.
Mary Hughes lives in Beverly Hills' Mullholland.Estates, a gated upscale community where her villa is a traditional American classical mansion with no worse location and more privacy than Cheng Xiaoyu's.
For three generations, the Mary Hughes family has been a prominent figure in the most important city on the West Coast. Hughes was also a family that is said to be descended from the Duke of Brookloch, but the actual founder of her family line was the elder brother of Mary Hughes' grandfather.
Her grandfather's brother came to the United States in 1851 and bought a stand-in to fight in the Civil War, started a wholesale hardware business, and later participated in arms reselling, and now the family still controls the largest hardware retail chain in the United States, with an annual income of more than $3.3 billion.
Legend has it that her family is still a member of the "Skull and Bones Society", which is why Mary Hughes is difficult, she doesn't look at money, and she can not give face to anyone, even if Cheng Xiaoyu bought the most expensive mansion in Beverly Hills, in the eyes of this kind of self-proclaimed old aristocrat, he may be just a red nouveau riche.
Mary Hughes's house is even more luxurious than Cheng Xiaoyu expected, a bright and pleasing red and white Georgian colonial-era building facing the bay.
There is a large swimming pool on one side of the entrance, and it is a full fifth of a kilometre from the gate to the villa, crossing Japanese, brick paths and fiery gardens – before you reach the house.
One side of the house is covered with green ivy, and the front has a long French-style window, which is now glittering in the sunset, open to the warm afternoon breeze. Mary Hughes, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, stood at the front door to greet Cheng Xiaoyu.
Mary Hughes is in her thirties and has been married once, but the divorce is fast, Cheng Xiaoyu feels that this world-renowned lady has a slightly plump figure, which can be described in one word as plump/breast/fat/buttocks.
Her hair was golden straw-colored, and her two sparkling eyes had dominated her face, giving the impression of being superior, and although her demeanor was elegant, it could not hide the obvious arrogance.
She first looked at Cheng Xiaoyu with a scrutinizing gaze, and then said to Cheng Xiaoyu with a smile: "Cheng, I'm really sorry, I've kept you waiting, I still have a lot of things to deal with in Europe, and I really can't leave, so I called Stavon as soon as I came back." ”
In fact, she has been back for several days.
Maria Hughes's voice, with a hint of low hoarseness, did not give the high-pitched voice of her singing. The tone of her speech carried a tone of teaching by elders, even to Cheng Xiaoyu, which vaguely revealed this meaning.
Cheng Xiaoyu responded: "It's me who suddenly disturbed your vacation." ”
Mary Hughes invited Cheng Xiaoyu to the balcony upstairs to talk, and asked the housekeeper to prepare some snacks and tea.
They gossiped for a few minutes on the sunny balcony, but Mary Hughes never said anything about being a mentor.
"You see I'm in a good place. Mary Hughes held out a finger and pointed to the view, which included an Italian-style concave garden with half an acre of dark, rich roses.
"This place originally belonged to the oil magnate Des Moines. Then she explained with some pride.
Cheng Xiaoyu's purchase of a billionaire mansion is well known, but Mary Hughes wants to tell him that only those who have an inheritance are called nobles.
Cheng Xiaoyu didn't want to discuss these aspects with Mary Hughes, so he instead said: "Ms. Hughes, in fact, I'm still your fan!"
"Oh?
"Of course, listening to English songs, it is impossible to overtake you, Taylor Claessen and Liana Carly, in my mind you and Taylor Claessen are the top singers in the world, Ms. Liana Carly is a little worse, but compared to the overall strength, I think you are the most worthy of my admiration. ”
These three people are recognized as divas in today's world, and the general evaluation will put the three people on the same level, but Cheng Xiaoyu feels that the media and the public overestimate Liana Carly, and underestimate Mary Hughes and Taylor Claeson.
Mary Hughes had heard too much, but most of them didn't have any dry stuff, and she smiled with interest and asked, "Tell me why!"
Cheng Xiaoyu has been specializing in Mary Hughes these days, so he naturally came prepared, he smiled and said: "Ms. Claeson is known as the voice of platinum, and she is indeed the best in terms of talent and timbre, and Ms. Carly is a technical maniac with a more ethereal timbre, so the album is easier to sell, but there is still a certain gap between her and you and Ms. Claesson." ”
Mary Hughes nodded and motioned for Cheng Xiaoyu to continue.
"Although Ms. Claessen's vocal range spans three octaves, most people don't know that Ms. Claessen's falsetto can only go up to C6, but of course her true voice can go up to A5. And your falsetto can go up to G#7. The highest true voice has soared to A5. In fact, in terms of voice talent, you must not be inferior to Ms. Claessen. In particular, the quality of your sound is extremely high, both low, mid and high, and the treble is loud and transparent with a metallic texture. ”
Cheng Xiaoyu then comprehensively analyzed the music development history of Mary Hughes and Taylor Claeson, from album sales to Billboard rankings, especially focusing on Mary Hughes's 14-week streak record not only broke Claessen's record, but also created a 10-year crown list from 1996 to 2006, in which she surpassed Taylor Clayson to become the first sister in the world music scene.
But Cheng Xiaoyu continued: "It's a pity that your next album "Butterfly" has experienced a 'inverted voice' (inverted voice, the voice is suddenly abnormal, and it becomes hoarse, and the physiological inverted voice refers to the aging of the vocal cords, gradually losing its elasticity, and in addition to the change of timbre, the pitch of the voice can be gradually reduced, and you can no longer reach the state of your youth), otherwise I think you should still be as talented as you were now. ”
Of course, Mary Hughes is aware of this problem, and she also knows that she once over-consumed caused her voice to collapse, so that now her popularity has been declining, and she can't even release an album, but this problem is still very heart-wrenching when it is said.
At the beginning, Cheng Xiaoyu's comments scratched her itch, and she was extremely comfortable, but the last sentence knocked her back to the cold reality from the past glory, her face was slightly cold, and said: "Cheng, didn't you come here to talk to me about this today, right? If there is nothing to do, I still have a date to go to in the evening, and I can't entertain you for too long." ”
Cheng Xiaoyu didn't seem to hear Mary Hughes's unhappiness, he said very sincerely: "Ms. Hughes, I am now working on a program called "The Voice of America", which aims to select the young generation of singers with the most beautiful voices and skills in the United States and even the world. ”
Mary Hughes shook her head without hesitation and said, "American Idol has also invited me to participate in their program as a mentor, and even paid 30 million US dollars..... But I still refused, I personally reject this kind of talent show, you are just putting on a show, not choosing a singer, so don't mention this matter again, I won't agree!"
Cheng Xiaoyu hurriedly explained: "We can give a higher appearance fee, and our program is different from what you think, we don't look at the appearance and only listen to the voice, the right of the mentor ....."
Mary Hughes stood up and interrupted Cheng Xiaoyu with a cold face, "Cheng, you don't need to continue to talk, I will never agree to this, if there is nothing else, please go back first!"
Originally, she didn't plan to take over this talent show, but she just gave Stavin Bell, who is also a member of the "Skull and Bones", some face, and reluctantly met this red nouveau riche from China, but she didn't expect him to dare to poke the biggest pain in her life in person, so she naturally wouldn't show this young man with a little musical talent.
Cheng Xiaoyu also stood up, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket, handed it to Mary Hughes with a calm expression, and said, "Ms. Hughes, I only have one last request, please listen to this demo to make a decision!"
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