Chapter 288: Extras Wang Baoqiang (1)
On the afternoon of the end of the celebration, Chen Lin and Liu Dehua had tea with two guests in the office and chatted about new movie scripts. The two guests are the great director Feng Xiaogang and the famous actor Ge Wei.
The new movie script discussed by the four is "No Thieves in the World".
Feng Xiaogang was very interested in this work, and after spending half an hour reading the script, he decided to cooperate with Jade Emperor Entertainment to take over this movie on the spot. Similarly, Ge Wei and Liu Dehua also agreed to participate.
The two sides reached a preliminary agreement, and a week later, Chen Lin went to Beijing to visit Director Feng's home in person, and the two sides finally reached a consensus on some details of the new film.
After the Spring Festival, Jade Emperor Entertainment and Feng Xiaogang Film Studio officially signed a contract, and the "No Thieves in the World" project was officially approved and entered into intensive preparations......
On February 6, 2004, just after the Lantern Festival, Beijing Film Academy ushered in a new batch of students.
In recent years, with the popularity of film and television dramas, more and more young men and women have begun to yearn for the glorious life of stars. Young people who think they have congenital conditions in appearance, or are talented, or have a good family background, have chosen to apply for art colleges to realize their dream of stardom, and there are also a small number of people, they do not have a prominent image and temperament, nor do they have a prominent family background, they have chosen another rugged road - extras.
Wang Baoqiang is an extra, he is 20 years old this year, not tall, only 161cm, and his facial features have nothing to do with handsome characters, the only advantage is that his body is relatively strong, and he has a little martial arts foundation.
Don't look at the young man's age. But he has been an extras for 5 years. Speaking of which, his experience can also be made into a micro-film.
Wang Baoqiang was born in 1984 in a small rural village in Xingtai City, Hebei Province, and his childhood was like that of other rural children. In his mother's memory, his clothes were all leftovers from his older siblings. Wang Baoqiang had the idea of acting in a movie because he watched Jet Li's "Shaolin Temple".
He began to practice martial arts at the age of 6, and from the age of 8 to 14 he was a lay disciple in the Shaolin Temple of Songshan in the south of the river.
Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, perhaps relying on their own learning of kung fu for 6 years, in 1999, 15-year-old Wang Baoqiang dared to run to Beijing alone and joined the Beipiao family. It was on the third day after he arrived in Bei*Jing. I got a job as an extra.
It's out of control. The extras have been doing it for five years, and this year is the sixth year.
5 years have passed, and he is still an extra, but it is conceivable that the food of the actor industry is not so easy to eat. On the other hand, it also shows that he is indeed ordinary. There are no memorable highlights on him. I've seen him in the morning, and I'm sure you'll forget what he looks like in the afternoon.
If you insist on finding something different from him, maybe perseverance and persistence are left.
5 years. Wang Baoqiang has seen all kinds of people, at the beginning, they all rushed in with the dream of being a big star, and it didn't take long for most people to persist for half a year, great persistence for a year, and then great persistence for three years before leaving this industry, only he did it for 5 years as an extra.
In the first two years of being an extra, Wang Baoqiang never bought himself a single dress, and wore old clothes sent from his hometown. Five years later, he is still wearing rustic old clothes, and the most valuable thing is a worn-out second-hand Nokia mobile phone.
Although the mobile phone is worn, it may be worth 300 yuan when sold to a mobile phone recycling shop, but Wang Baoqiang does regard this mobile phone as a treasure, because this mobile phone is the only tool for him to contact various crews, and sometimes you may even miss a performance opportunity when you answer a phone late, so he has not left this mobile phone for almost 24 hours.
It's 7:30 in the morning, Wang Baoqiang glanced at the Beiying students who came in and out with envy, turned around and left, and went to the gate of the nearby Beiying Studio.
When Wang Baoqiang arrived, dozens of extras dressed like migrant workers had gathered at the door of the Beijing Film Studio.
"Strong." Not far away, under a tree, a few familiar extras were calling him. Wang Baoqiang walked over, and everyone chatted with each other about the current situation.
"Hey~~" An extras suddenly sighed: "I haven't received any work for three days, I can't live this day, it's better to go to the construction site to do odd jobs." ”
"Yes, Lao Wu and Lao Lu went to work on the construction site yesterday, and I plan to go too."
"Baoqiang, I see that you haven't found a job in the past few days, what are your plans, why don't you go to the construction site with us another day."
"Go ahead, I'll wait a few days." Wang Baoqiang smiled and thanked them for their kindness, but what he didn't say was that he had not worked for two months, and he was also moving bricks on a nearby construction site to live.
Just when a few workers were still trying to persuade him, Wang Baoqiang's mobile phone rang, and he became happy when he heard the mobile phone ringing.
He hurriedly ran to the side to answer the phone, and a strange man's voice was relayed on the phone: "Hey, may I ask if you are Mr. Wang Baoqiang?" ”
The stranger spoke very politely, and few people called him Mr., Wang Baoqiang was stunned for a second and quickly replied: "Yes, yes, I am Wang Baoqiang, may I ask who you are?" ”
"My surname is Chen." The stranger quickly explained the reason for looking for him, and said: "I watched your movie "Blind Well" and thought you were very suitable for a role in one of my movies, and I wanted to invite you to audition." Do you have time now? ”
"I have time." Wang Baoqiang's heart pounded when he heard that he was going to audition, he knew that the role he wanted to audition for was definitely not an extra, and the extras didn't need to audition, so he hurriedly asked: "Boss Chen, what role are you looking for me to play?" Is there a line? ”
"Hehe, of course there are lines, let's talk about it when we meet, where are you now?"
"I'm under a big tree near the entrance to the North Film Studio."
"Then you wait for me there for 20 minutes, and I'll be there right away."
The other party hung up the phone, Wang Baoqiang was overjoyed, and finally there was another play, and this time it was not an extra, it was a character with lines.
He waited anxiously, but his imagination flowed.
20 minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and a silver Mercedes-Benz slowly relaxed and stopped beside Wang Baoqiang.
"It can't be Boss Chen on the phone, right?" Wang Baoqiang looked at the silver Mercedes-Benz in disbelief, and sat a well-dressed young man in his 20s in the back seat through the glass window.
The car window rolled down, and the young man smiled at Wang Baoqiang, if there was a reporter there, he would definitely recognize this young man as Chen Lin, the richest man in China. (To be continued......)