184. Chapter XXIII
Cui Qi didn't know how this qiē happened, the golden hair was wrapped around his fingers, and next to it was a slightly unfamiliar face. Autumn sunlight shines through the hotel's huge floor-to-ceiling windows, and in the distance is the Eiffel Tower glittering in the sun. How did he get started with a rare impression of last night? I can't think of anything. He felt that he had made a mistake, and then he chose to hide his sleepiness and continue to sleep, perhaps waking up with no worries at all.
When he woke up, he had no worries left, because he was the only one left in the room. Winnie left only a note, a flying "Byebye" with a lip print next to it. The American model? Cui Qi looked at it, crumpled it up and threw it into the trash, and then he took a shower.
After the completion of "Double Face", he traveled around Europe before returning to the United States, and what was waiting for him was a savage character. Cui Qi originally said that he wanted to play a subversive role after "Double Side", but Wilson really found him a different one. King Bear, as the name suggests, is a half-orc in fantasy works, and Cui Qi played a local supporting role in "Primal Battle". Wild, primitive, and powerful, King Bear's IQ is not high, and he is a thug throughout the whole process, as a small boss on the road to the original Star Battle, he was finally made into a bear skin jacket by the protagonist, how to look at it, in fact, Cui Qi acted very happily. Most of the hundreds of millions of investments in "Original Battle" were smashed into special effects, and the script, which is the skeleton of the movie, is so simple and crude that even the actors can't help but complain. The wolf king patted the battleship with his hand, and the elephant king rolled the spaceship, looking at the annotations in the script, the actors were definitely open-minded, and then looked at the simulated spaceship sent by the director...... Ah no, the simulated spaceship is too expensive, in fact, everyone uses cucumbers, and everyone is on the set to show how to angrily slap cucumbers, with a chopping hammer and splitting eighteen styles. Or, one second ago, talking about the latest technology of the latest warship, Captain Balabala said a lot of what the latest technology is used in our ship, what is the latest weapon installed on our ship, and the next second the latest human warship was torn apart by King Bear, and it was torn in half by his hands simply and rudely, and Comrade Captain also came to tell everyone with a sad expression, "Please be ready to sacrifice"...... The script is very heroic, in fact, the actors have too many grooves in their hearts and are panicking, and the actor who plays the captain is very dedicated to a tragic scene, as soon as the camera ends, he takes off his hat and laughs wildly, laughing until he rolls. Cui Qi had to admire people's acting skills, obviously laughing jubilantly in his heart, and his face was tragic, such a subtle micro-expression control zhì He looked very hot, how did he do it?
"Study micro-expressions, then practice, practice desperately," when Cui Qi was curious about this question, Matt, who was renting the same room, rolled his eyelids and disliked him as an experiential person, he could create an infectious natural character with one point of acting nine points, and for those of them who were not talented, they could only continue to temper their expressions.
Dead work, Cui Qi persisted for a few days and quickly gave up, he soon found that it was easier for him to control his expression through guò feelings, and seeing that he had a shortcut to the south, Cui Qi gave up the expression practice. The play of the bear king continues, although there are not many inner dramas, but the jumping up and down every day is full of action scenes, and he still wears the bear king leather suit, and he sleeps until he dies when he returns to the room after the play, he is too focused on work, he leaves everything else behind, but some things can be passed without being left behind.
In the new crew, Cui Qi met Winnie. Cui Xi's choice is still based on independent films, and after the filming of King Bear, he understands more clearly that he likes literary films more than commercial films, and Wilson has expressed his sadness more than once. Cui Qi doesn't care, he doesn't pay much attention to the salary, he plays what he wants to play, does what he wants to do, he is very satisfied with this state, but he is a little depressed when he accidentally meets someone he wants to avoid at work. Hollywood says that big is not big or small, there are so many people in the circle at the top level, there are big directors who want to come to a big production to win the trophy, and there are almost a few actors who are looking for actors in a circle of auditions, and maybe some special luck and good luck. It is not uncommon for Winnie to appear in the crew of "Las Gar at Midnight", her fame has reached a certain stage, she has to have good awards and praise to support her future development, pretending to be an idol is always outdated, in the fiercely competitive Hollywood, a good father, a good mother and a good aunt can't support her for a lifetime, Winnie consciously joined some literary film crews very early, such as the previous "Double Face" and now "Midnight Lasga". However, she is much easier than Cui Qi, the first is limited to the oriental face, Cui Qi still plays a supporting role, but Winnie plays the heroine in the film.
"Midnight Lasgar" is about how a cheating woman ends a tired marriage and starts anew, from feeling guilty to sinking to waking up and thinking about her original intention, the literary film is very delicate in terms of psychological changes. Winnie is obviously in a transition period, she is no longer confined to the role of a young girl and began to try more, Winnie, who has always been sweet and lovely, tried intimacy for the first time in this movie, and Cui Xi played the heroine's selfish, indifferent and macho husband in the play, in a way, the relationship between this role is slightly awkward, Cui Xi is even considering whether to let Wilson add an article to the contract next time: refuse to cooperate with Winnie Thurwell. Forget it, it's too hypocritical, Cui Qi thought about it and left it behind.
Cui Xuan has grown his beard for the selfish and indifferent husband character of "Midnight Lasgar", and he wants to look older. In fact, the director's original choice of husband was not him, Wilson played a trick and squeezed out his predecessor and replaced him, as a teammate of the old scoundrel's side, Cui Qi still has a good advantage. His appearance did not satisfy the director at the beginning, compared with the short, fat and ugly middle-aged exceed, Cui Xi was even more white-faced. Fortunately, the screenwriter was more satisfied with him, and he even changed his husband's status to that of an immigrant, an ambitious pure egoist who did not care about his wife's emotional needs, he cared more about face.
This is a useless and selfish man, who is outwardly dressed in a suit and leather shoes, but his messy short beard hints at his disobedience, the corners of his mouth are lowered, his eyebrows are deeply furrowed, and there is always a sense of condescension at home, and outside, he unconsciously hooks his back. Cui Qi's performance is no problem, but it is far from good, he found that entering the play with feeling is not something that every character can do anytime and anywhere, a large number of action scenes when the bear king covers up the problem of acting skills, and in "Midnight Lasga", the delicate emotional expression of the characters soon revealed the shortcomings of the acting skills, and Cui Qi seriously wanted to train micro-expressions.
The filming of "Lasgar at Midnight" took only 18 days, and the filming of the actors' feelings was extremely smooth, and they didn't even think about other time under the tight shooting schedule every day, and when "Lasga at Midnight" ended, Winnie came to him.
Listening to Winnie's invitation to "spend the night together", Cui Qi was stunned and a little unaccustomed to the American model, with half of his understanding, he generally wouldn't be so casual, and the remaining half was probably Matt, who rented the same room, brought a girl back from time to time, and then posted a note outside the room "on business", after the first embarrassment, Cui Qi had already habitually seen Matt bring the girl back and avoided it.
"To each his own, maybe we can spread some scandal," the sober Keeley is more difficult to get than the drunk Keeley, Winnie suggests that they can trade, and Cui Jun's face darkens. The truth is like a slap in the face, and if he wanted to, he could indeed climb the headlines with Winnie, because here he is just a little actor who is not very famous.
When I returned to the rental room, I found that Matt's door had a "errand" note hanging up again, and there was a creaking sound in the room, and Cui Qi didn't want to think about what they were doing in bed at all. He wandered the streets when he went out, there were a few homeless people in the park in the east corner, he would go there for a while when it was not too late, several homeless people knew him, only a few dollars of beer burgers, they were happy to chat with him, one talked about what movies he had starred in in the past, how much money he had made, one said that he could play whomever movie in the future, what kind of big star, a hypothetical school daydream, the same thing Cui Qi heard several times, he never said, hearing the voice always made him feel better, He thought he understood why some people loved to be boisterous. It was getting late, Cui had to leave, and the homeless man had to sleep, and then he wandered around the block. In the middle of the night, Cui Qi's range of activities is only in the neighborhood, the country does not ban guns and bullets, robbery and theft are frequent in invisible places, and a well-ordered neighborhood obviously makes residents feel more secure. At the entrance of the block, there is a bronze statue of a dancer, the sculpture from the classic movie "Dancer", it stands on the bank of the river, the cascading skirt flies up and solidifies in the air, Cui Qi often uses it as a chair, he does not do this during the day, he has no public morality, and the police in the community are very willing to give a ticket, and at night, he is more wanton on the empty streets. The stars are shining in the sky, he will be more homesick when he is alone, he did not go back for the Chinese New Year this year, and his passport was lost at that time and had not been replaced, and he was trapped here and could not go back. Since his grandmother's death, he has not even made many phone calls, the only few are for his aunt and sister, occasionally with his nephew, and the rest of the relationship is weaker, and several friends have their own lives. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he made a phone call to his aunt and sister, counting the time difference, he stayed up and sent a New Year's greeting, and the other firecracker on the phone was as lively as in previous years, and the aunt's voice was jubilant. Jiuquxi's house was finally demolished, and he got the news across the ocean, and the last bit of memory hidden in his heart was also moved, and he had nothing. There was nothing to lose, and for a moment it was incredibly calm, and my heart was so empty that I couldn't even float up.
As the car drove into the neighborhood of San Pero, Winnie saw a certain figure hidden in the shadow of the hem of his skirt, who seemed to like to curl up, and smelled of loneliness, and people couldn't help but want to pick him up. Winnie did just that, kicking her new friend out of her Ferrari and into the driver's seat herself. "Get in the car?" She asked.
Cui Qi raised his head and was stunned, then he opened the car door, he just needed some temperature.