Chapter 205: It's Not Easy to Be an Actor
A lavish gala banquet.
At the party, countless beauties gathered in the "big wave" two conditions writhing on the dance floor.
At the door of the party, Qin Muchu, Stan Lee and the creators of "Iron Man" were raising their glasses.
has just finished filming the cameo scenes of Qin Muchu and Stan Lee, and the crew also took advantage of this venue to relax happily.
"Mr. Demolition, I'm sorry, I mean chin......"
Qin Muchu looked at Donnie, who was full of entanglement and wanted to pronounce the pronunciation of "Qin", and waved his hand with a smile:
"It's okay to call me Mu Chu, this is my name, the name of the people of the Celestial Empire is behind, and you are just the opposite."
I can't pronounce the sound "Qin" in English, and Donnie is so anxious that he is about to sweat.
Hearing Qin Muchu say this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then said seriously:
"I promise that I will work hard to learn Chinese from today, and the next time we meet, I will definitely communicate with you in fluent Celestial Dialect."
Qin Muchu was stunned.
Looking at Donnie's serious eyes, he wanted to ask, "Lao Tie, are you really serious?" ”
Just can't say your last name, you have to learn a language?
Fortunately, at this time, Jon on the side relieved Qin Muchu's confusion, and he patted Donnie on the back:
"Take it easy, man, your enthusiasm has scared sir."
Then he looked at Qin Muchu again:
"Sir, do you remember when I asked you about the Iron Man role?"
Qin Muchu thought back for a moment that after investing in "Iron Man", he did receive an email asking if he supported Robert Downey Jr. to play Iron Man.
Qin Muchu didn't know who Donnie was at that time, and the foreigner's name was always extremely difficult to remember.
However, the email included a photo of Donnie.
Qin Muchu looked at it, did he not beat the Iron Man himself?
I immediately replied to the email, I can't remember exactly what I replied to, but the general meaning is ......
If he doesn't act, he will return the money in Geneva!
"So, you mean, the reason Downey has this attitude towards me is because I supported him to play Iron Man at the time?" Qin Muchu said uncertainly.
No, according to Donny's resume sent by Jon, this uncle is not a nobody, he has acted in many movies, and he has also been nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor.
is also a coffee in Hollywood, and he is fully worthy of the role of Iron Man.
Jon and Donnie looked at each other, both with some apprehension in their eyes.
After hesitating for a while, Jon was about to speak, but was stopped by Donnie:
"I'll tell you, you've helped me enough, Jon."
Jon opened his mouth, but eventually patted Donnie on the shoulder, but didn't speak.
Qin Muchu looked at the two of them and also sensed that something was wrong.
Co-author, is there a secret in this?
"Sir, did Jon send you my resume?"
"Looked. Is that resume fake? Qin Muchu guessed.
"No, no, the resume is completely authentic, and you can find it all the time on the Internet." Donnie hurriedly shook his hand and denied it.
Then he said:
"However, that resume is incomplete."
Qin Muchu thought about it, that Donnie's resume was indeed only nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor, and there was no one after that.
But he didn't think much about it at the time, and now it seems that Donnie's later experience is not very good?
Donnie was a little embarrassed, gritted his teeth, and took a deep breath:
"After being nominated for an Oscar, I fell for it, I ...... As a result, he was also imprisoned. ”
Qin Muchu looked at Donnie in surprise, he didn't expect Donnie to have such a past.
"After that, I often went to the prison drug rehabilitation center because of the drug problem, and for a long time, I almost spent time in prison."
When Donnie finished, he was very honest and explained his problems thoroughly.
Then he waited anxiously for Qin Muchu's reaction.
He was a model of fame at a young age, a privileged family, nominated for an Oscar at the age of 27, and then fell at the peak.
Stained with all the vices that can be tainted.
And stinked his own reputation.
Downey has been abandoned by Hollywood, has become a rat in the stinking gutter, and has not filmed for more than ten years.
This time, Jon insisted that Downey play Iron Man, which was strongly opposed by everyone.
That's why he sent an email to ask for the opinion of Qin Muchu, the biggest investor in "Iron Man", hoping to get Qin Muchu's support.
Everyone prefers to let Nicolas Cage play it, and Cage also said that he is interested in Iron Man.
In fact, it was Qin Muchu's support that suppressed the opposition of the rest, otherwise Donnie's role would be dangerous.
This is also the reason why Donnie is so grateful to Qin Muchu.
……
Qin Muchu was silent for a while, and in Donnie's nervous gaze, he suddenly asked:
"How does that feel?"
"Forehead ......"
Donnie didn't expect Qin Muchu to ask this, he frowned and thought for a while, then raised his head and looked at Qin Muchu's eyes:
"It's like having a boring gun in your mouth, your fingers on the trigger, but you still fall in love with the smell of metal."
Isn't that suicide?
Qin Muchu thought about it and shook his head.
"Are you still like that?"
"No!"
This time Donnie replied decisively,
"Absolutely nothing! I can guarantee everything I have! ”
"If you are from the Celestial Empire, then you have been sentenced to death, I will definitely not use you, even if the filming is basically completed now, I will replace you, even if it will cause huge losses."
Qin Muchu's tone was flat, but the words he said made Donny and Jon feel a chill in their hearts.
They could tell that Qin Muchu wasn't joking.
"But you're an American, and since you don't take this very seriously, I'll follow the local customs. However, if you really want to communicate with me in Chinese the next time we meet, don't touch those again. ”
Qin Muchu patted Donnie's shoulder.
"Definitely, sir, I will never fail to live up to this opportunity you have given me."
Donny smiled and assured Qin Muchu as if relieved.
……
"I love Donnie's kid, even if I didn't approve of him playing Iron Man at first.
But now it seems that he has a lot in common with Tony Stark, and he has slowly changed from a bastard to a responsible. ”
Stan Li said to Qin Muchu as he walked.
During the filming of "Iron Man", he watched Donnie play Tony, and felt that it was simply the characters in the comics coming to life.
"Yes, he's a good fit for Iron Man." Qin Muchu also sighed.
Walking to the door, he stopped and said to Stan Lee:
"Old man, don't send it, go back."
Stan Lee stopped when he heard this, and beckoned:
"Then I'm looking forward to seeing each other next time."
Qin Muchu smiled, after coming to the United States for more than a week, it was time for him to return to China.
After filming today's cameo scene, I left and booked a ticket for the evening.
I just returned to the hotel and was about to clean up, and I happened to meet Liu Xiqian's mother and daughter who came back from outside the hotel.
They lived next door to Qin Muchu's room.
Liu Xiaoli's interest was obviously not high, with anger on her face, but Liu Xiqian was quite happy, with a smile on her face, walking and jumping.
Qin Muchu was a little strange.
The mother and daughter left after filming Liu Xiqian's cameo scene in the morning, and they were quite happy to see Liu Xiaoli at that time, but Liu Xiqian was very reluctant.
Unexpectedly, when they came back in the afternoon, the two exchanged emotions, and they didn't know what happened.
"Hey, you're back too?" Liu Xiqian smiled and waved to Qin Muchu.
I didn't come back, is it the ghost standing here now?
Qin Muchu glanced at Liu Xiqian and chose not to talk to the fool.
But thinking that he was going back to China in the evening, he still said hello to the mother and daughter.
They didn't leave today, and Liu Xiaoli said that she had something to do and stayed here for a few more days.
"Aunt Liu, I'm going back to China on my flight tonight, and I'll tell you." Qin Muchu looked at Liu Xiaoli.
"Oh, good."
Liu Xiaoli barely squeezed out a smile,
"Then you pay attention to safety all the way, Sissi and I will have to wait a few more days."
Qin Muchu looked at Liu Xiaoli's expression, and became more and more sure that she had encountered something.
But since Liu Xiaoli didn't say it, he wouldn't ask too much.
He is not surnamed Chen and does not want to be Liu Xiqian's stepfather.
Just about to go back to the room, I heard Liu Xiqian say:
"Mom, we don't have anything to do now, why do we have to stay for a few days, it's better to go back with Qin Muchu tonight."
"You!"
Liu Xiaoli glared at Liu Xiqian, and wanted to get angry when she saw her heartless appearance, but Qin Muchu was standing next to her and couldn't get angry directly, so she could only say:
"You let me in!"
……
"Sir, that lady wants to change seats with you, is that okay?"
On the plane, the flight attendant politely asked a middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man followed the direction of the stewardess's finger and saw a young and beautiful little oriental beauty, and then looked at the handsome oriental man sitting next to him.
Got something.
"I'd love to do it."
He stood up with a smile and changed seats with the little oriental beauty under the leadership of the flight attendant.
"Three grams of oil."
Liu Xiqian clasped her hands together and thanked her sincerely.
Then he walked towards the seat next to Qin Muchu.
Seeing that Qin Muchu was wearing an eye mask as if she was sleeping, she pushed Qin Muchu's shoulder:
"Wake up, wake up."
Qin Muchu heard Liu Xiqian's call, took off his blindfold, and looked at Liu Xiqian's eyes a little dazed.
"What are you doing here, aren't you sitting with your mother?"
Yes.
In the end, Liu Xiqian's mother and daughter chose to return to China with Qin Muchu.
However, the adjacent seat must not be able to buy it, and those who bought the same flight are all first class.
"My mom is asleep, I have something to say to you." Liu Xiqian whispered.
"If you don't listen, I'm going to sleep with jet lag."
Qin Muchu decisively refused, and he had to put the blindfold back on.
Jet lag?
Liu Xiqian counted with her fingers, they were a flight at ten o'clock in the evening, and it took twelve hours to fly to Yanjing, that is, ten o'clock in the morning American time to Yanjing.
And the difference between the United States and the Celestial Empire is twelve hours.
Then when they arrived in Yanjing, the time of the Celestial Empire should be ten o'clock in the evening.
I got off the plane just to go home and sleep.
So he patted Qin Muchu:
"You have a wrong jet lag, you can't sleep now, and now you sleep at night when you go to Yanjing, you won't be able to sleep."
"It's okay, I'm sleeping now as a nap, sleeping for six hours and waking up for six hours, and at night in Yanjing, it's just the night of sleep."
Qin Muchu waved his hand sideways, signaling Liu Xiqian not to disturb him.
But Liu Xiqian pulled him over again.
"Oh, what are you doing?"
Qin Muchu took off his blindfold.
It's annoying.
"I have something to say to you."
Liu Xiqian's willow eyebrows frowned slightly, and the expression on the goose egg face was chirping.
It's this face that saved you......
Qin Muchu shook his head and put the blindfold on again:
"Okay, you say, I'll listen."
"Guess what my mom took me to do these days?"
“……”
"I went to audition, it's really outrageous, she took me to some Hollywood crews and companies to submit resumes, and also wrote about my heroine of "The King of Kung Fu" and my participation in "Iron Man".
"I have applied for a lot of crews, but as soon as people see that I look like an Oriental, they don't think about it directly."
"Later, my mother lowered her requirements and auditioned for some roles with few roles, but they were all rejected. And guess why? ”
"You're ugly." This time Qin Muchu spoke.
Liu Xiqian slapped Qin Muchu angrily, and then slurred:
"When I tried the last crew, the producer said that the conditions were not suitable, but I just came out, guess who I met?"
“……”
"Zhang Ziyi! She also went to audition for that role, but after a while she also came out, and she was also brushed.
I was quite comforted that I couldn't be selected for such a big name, but then another black girl went in to audition, and I was quite strange, because the requirements for that role were Asian.
Then after a while, the producer came out and informed the Asian girls in the back that they didn't have to audition, the script was changed, and the original character became black......"
Speaking of this, Liu Xiqian's tone was a little lost:
"Later, Sister Ziyi invited me and my mother to dinner, saying that Hollywood is like this, many roles they would rather give to blacks than Asians, and Asians' salaries are also very low, oh, except for Brother Fang Long and Li Lianjie."
"Isn't that normal? White looks down on black, and black looks down on yellow. You grew up in the United States, and you don't know any of that? Qin Muchu said.
"I didn't feel it much when I was a child, it seems to have been, I can't remember it clearly." Liu Xiqian scratched her head.
"Your brain...... Well, reasonable. ”
Qin Muchu lowered the back of the seat a little and sat more comfortably.
"So what do you want to say? Are you discriminated against? ”
"Hmm."
Liu Xiqian nodded,
"More than that, I don't think Hollywood is really for me."
After a pause, she added:
"My mother also felt it, she took me everywhere to find the crew these days, it was very hard and tiring, but the results were not as expected."
As she spoke, she looked in the direction of Liu's mother.
Liu Xiaoli fell asleep not long after she got on the plane, which is probably also the reason for her exhaustion.
"Can your mom give up Hollywood?"
Qin Muchu was a little unconvinced.
This news is as shocking as the "relocation" of Meng's mother's three moves is not a migration, but a demolition.
Meng's mother was demolished three times and made a fortune......
"It should be, otherwise she wouldn't have promised to return home tonight. I saw it with my own eyes, and I heard Sister Ziyi say it again, so I should have given up. Liu Xiqian said.
Qin Muchu also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart when he heard this.
If Liu Xiqian really went to Hollywood, Huayi would say that she would be able to cope with it with one meal at most.
Huayi is busy operating the listing, and will not be unable to think about it at this time and contradict himself.
Xiao Wang may always blow up, but with the big king always pressing him, there will be no problems.
The main reason is that Liu Xiqian really didn't have much development when she went to Hollywood, and Qin Muchu really hadn't heard of Fang Long and Li Lianjie, and which other Celestial Dynasty stars had mixed up in Hollywood.
"Make a wise choice, expand your advantages in China, and be on a variety reality show in the future, and it will be very profitable to be a star."
Qin Muchu yawned, put the blanket of the plane on his body, and was about to fall asleep.
But the blanket was pulled down again.
"I want to be an actor, a real actor."
Liu Xiqian's serious voice came from his ears.
"Oh, okay, come on." Qin Muchu said perfunctorily.
was about to pull up the blanket, but the blanket was firmly grasped by Liu Xiqian in her hand.
"Let go, Liu Xiqian, I'll throw you a plane up." Qin Muchu threatened.
However, in the blink of an eye, the blindfold was removed.
The sudden light made Qin Muchu subconsciously close his eyes.
"Liu Xiqian! You ......"
Qin Muchu turned his head, and just wanted to cure this stupid goose, he saw Liu Xiqian frowning, and said word by word:
"I said, I'm going to be an actor! Real actors! ”
Qin Muchu understood a little, paused, shook his head and said:
"You don't have any talent, you can't do anything as an actor, be a star."
Liu Xiqian was a little unconvinced:
"I'm going to be an actor, where do I have no talent?"
"There are a lot, and there are almost no places where you have the talent to be an actor."
Liu Xiqian wants to be an actor instead of a star, and Qin Muchu, as a friend, doesn't mind telling her that this path is not suitable.
"You don't have a sense of spirituality and a sense of emotion.
The appearance and temperament are quite immortal, and it's okay to play some vases, but you can't play deeper roles. ”
Seeing Liu Xiqian staring at herself without saying a word, Qin Muchu touched his nose.
It seems to be a bit straightforward.
So he gave an example:
"If you're flying right now, you've been notified that one of your relatives is critically ill and you're called to go this time to catch the last time you see him.
How will you act? ”
Liu Xiqian withdrew her gaze from Qin Muchu, frowned and thought for a while, and said:
"I'm going to be in a hurry, I'm scared, panicked, worried on the plane."
Qin Muchu nodded:
"All right, what else?"
Liu Xiqian was at a loss:
"Anything else? Aren't that enough? ”
"Enough, but it's too ordinary. There's nothing brilliant about it that the audience can't remember. ”
After a pause, Qin Muchu said:
"I have one more answer here.
You will be very anxious, your eyes will look straight ahead, and then suddenly at a certain moment, you will not feel yourself crying, you keep wiping your tears, telling yourself not to cry, but the tears just can't stop.
The person next to you is very strange, there may be a kind aunt who hands you a tissue, you take it and wipe your tears, open your mouth to say thank you, but you can't say it.
It's just that if you keep shedding tears and don't make a sound, you just wipe it with a paper towel all the time, and the paper towel won't be thrown away when it's wet. ”
Liu Xiqian stopped talking, and seemed to be immersed in the picture constructed by Qin Muchu.
Qin Muchu didn't speak, and silently put on an eye patch.
A real actor, how can it be so easy to do......
(End of chapter)