"Cut, it's over!"

As the director shouted to stop, Li Tang finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took off the heavy suit on his body. There is no air conditioning in the studio, and the surrounding lights are very hot.

The unknown Hong Kong advertising director ran over, spoke broken Mandarin, and greeted: "Li Laoxi, hard work!" ”

Li Tang waved his hand: "It's okay." ”

"Brother Li!"

At this time, Zeng Jia walked over quickly with his mobile phone, smiled and nodded at the Hong Kong advertising director.

The buddy was very interested, and said busily: "Li Laoxi, Miss Zeng, you are busy!" ”

With that, he said goodbye and left.

Li Tang glanced at his mobile phone in Zeng Jia's hand and asked, "Whose phone is it?" ”

"It's Sister Zhou Xun, she asked you to go back to the past after you were done."

It was quite surprising to hear Zhou Xun's name Li Tang, because in the past two years, except for greetings during the New Year's holidays or congratulations on winning awards, there have been almost no phone calls.

However, he was not busy going back immediately, but walked quickly back to the lounge next to him, because the oil paint on his face sealed the pores, and he couldn't sweat, which was very uncomfortable.

The coolness of the lounge gave him a long sigh of relief, and after taking a big sip of water, he sat down and let the makeup artist help remove his makeup.

Today he is making up for an endorsement suit advertisement, which is all work delayed by the previous busy filming of "The Third Man". And now that the number of my bank deposits has dropped to six figures, I am a little panicked, and I have to think about making money!

Recently, there have been quite a lot of scripts handed over, all of which are the themes of some popular costume dramas at the moment, and the salary is not low, but to be honest, none of them can be watched.

Although there were mixed reviews after the broadcast of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", he was also popular. At this juncture, word of mouth is very important, and Li Tang now tries to give as few interviews as possible and keeps a low profile. And in the choice of scripts, quality is not quantity, and it is better to abuse it. What's more, he now has the film appointment of "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou in hand, and his vision is naturally much higher.

After the makeup artist helped him remove his makeup, he called the phone back.

"Sister Xiaoxun, is there something wrong?"

"I can't call you if it's okay."

Zhou Xun's unique voice was a little distorted on the phone.

"No, where are you?"

"I'm in Hong Kong, making a movie."

"Hey, they're all going to Hong Kong, congratulations!"

With the decline of Hong Kong films in the past two years, many Hong Kong filmmakers have gone north to find work, while mainland stars are proud to go to Hong Kong to develop, including Zhang Ziyi, Xiaoyanzi and others.

However, Zhang Ziyi obviously used Hong Kong as a springboard, and successfully jumped to Hollywood after catching up with Li Yu and Cheng Long's big brother one after another. This also made many ambitious female stars in the mainland hot.

Although the two don't have much contact, they don't feel alienated at all. To put it in a fashionable phrase, the heart is connected. Of course, this heart-to-heart connection does not refer to love, but the thinking, opinions, opinions, ideals, pursuits, feelings, tastes, etc., of which are relatively similar and mutually recognized.

Li Tang has cooperated with many female actors, if he is asked to choose the one that is most in line with him, it is undoubtedly Zhou Xun.

After the two teased each other a few words, Zhou Xun said: "Do you play Guo Jing in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"?" ”

Speaking of "Shooting the Condor", there are a lot of rumors in the media at present, because of the controversy of "Smiling Proud", CCTV suspended the project of "Shooting the Condor", and at that time, Zhang Dabeard told Li Tang that "Shooting the Condor" must be filmed. Sure enough, not long ago, he just got reliable news that the investor of "Shooting the Condor" has been changed from CCTV to the Literary Association, and "Shooting the Condor" has begun secret preparations, and the producer is still Zhang Dabeard, but the chief director has not yet been decided, but listening to Lao Zhang's meaning, he and Huang Jianzhong will definitely not be able to cooperate this time.

Although "Shooting the Condor" is a secret preparation, according to Lao Zhang's consistent style of acting, it will definitely secretly release a little news, which will attract various speculations and reports from the media.

For example, director so-and-so teamed up with so-and-so producer to compete with Zhang Dabeard to shoot "Shooting the Condor"; "Shooting the Condor" locks on the ancient giant chicken, and Zhou Jie plays Guo Jing and Yang Kang; Whether Xiaoyanzi can play Huang Rong is still a mystery and so on.

Regarding this so-called exclusive information, Zhang Dabeard solemnly told the media not long ago that all this is nonsense, and I hope everyone will stop hearsay, and spread false rumors.

The media is not vegetarian, and a reporter asked Lao Zhang at that time: "I heard that long before the filming of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", there were special personnel responsible for creating fake news, building momentum for the crew, and illegally hyping up. ”

Of course, Lao Zhang would not admit it, and angrily denounced the reporter on the spot as a good thing, and hoped that these reporters would not make trouble for the crew again.

As for the actor issue that everyone is most concerned about, Lao Zhang neither admitted nor denied it, but only said that it is impossible to determine the actor candidate before the chief director candidate is determined.

So the topic of "Shooting the Condor" was lively in the media for a while.

Those who have a heart can understand at a glance that this is the regular routine of Zhang Dabeard. Of course, the reporters see through it and don't say it, Zhang Dabeard wants to hype, and the audience loves to watch it, so they will fry it.

Of course, the hype is naturally indispensable to Li Tang, who became popular because of "Smiling Pride", especially the old man Jin Yong also came out to brush up on his sense of existence, on the one hand, he praised Linghu Chong played by Li Tang in "Smiling Pride", and on the other hand, he said that Li Tang was the ideal candidate for Guo Jing. As for Huang Rong's candidate, the old man said that he had a soft spot for Xiaoyanzi.

Li Tang thought that Zhou Xun had seen the relevant report at this time, and said with a smile: "Do you think I look like Guo Jing?" ”

"No, you're quite similar to Yang Kang."

Hearing Zhou Xun's unhesitating answer, Li Tang couldn't help but be surprised: "Hey, have you seen it?" ”

"Hehe, I just read the script, and they want me to play Huang Rong."

"You play Huang Rong? Well, not bad! I didn't expect Lao Zhang to be quite discerning. ”

Although the news of Xiaoyanzi starring in Huang Rong is now boiling in the media, Li Tang never thinks that Xiaoyanzi is an ideal person.

Although the little swallow in "Returning the Pearl Gege" is out of the circle, he really can't connect the stupid and crazy little swallow in "Returning the Pearl" with the intelligent and eccentric Rong'er in "Shooting the Condor".

In fact, when it comes to quirkiness, then Zhou Xun is undoubtedly the best candidate.

Zhou Xun said: "I haven't agreed yet, so I called you to ask you, you play me too." ”

"Didn't you just say that I don't look like Guo Jing?"

"I mean that your personality and temperament are not like Guo Jing, and it doesn't mean that you can't play Guo Jing well."

"Don't, don't hold me up so high, I can't play Guo Jing. To tell you the truth, I will act, but I will not play Guo Jing, I will play Yang Kang. ”

"Wow, you really play Yang Kang?"

Zhou Xun's tone on the phone seemed to be quite surprised, but he couldn't hide his disappointment.

Li Tang smiled and said: "You don't have to ask me, you don't have to think about whether you play it or not, as far as I am concerned, you are quite suitable for the role of Huang Rong." ”

In fact, for Li Tang, playing Yang Kang is to repay favors. is just like the popular "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind" starring Zhou Xun and Chen Kun not long ago, but Lu Yi, who is popular, is relegated to the second male lead, and the role is not pleasing, just to repay Zhao Baogang's favor for bringing him to star in "Never Look Away".

For Zhao Baogang and Zhang Dabeard and the like, with the popular Lu Yi and Li Tang, they can determine the lower limit of a TV series, at least without worrying about the topic of no one's attention and publicity. The upper limit depends on the real male number one, and if it succeeds, the male number one will become popular, which is undoubtedly the maximization of benefits for the producer.

"Three Images" is quite successful in this regard, Chen Kun was unknown before the start of this drama, and after the broadcast, he and Zhou Xun have become golden boys and girls, and now the limelight is almost as good as Li Tang.

"My agent also said the same, but I don't know who Guo Jing will play, do you think it should really be the ancient giant chicken?"

Gu Giant Chicken, the male number one in CCTV's other big project "Deep Love and Rain" cooperated with Aunt Qiong Yu last year. This TV series has now been broadcast in Wanwan, and it is said that the response has been quite good.

Think about it, after all, there is Xiaoyanzi starring, and the majority of the audience has been looking forward to it for a long time.

However, when it came to the rumors that the ancient giant chicken would play Guo Jing, Li Tang groaned: "I think it's unlikely. ”

Don't look at the stupid head and stupid brain of the ancient giant chicken, which is quite consistent with Guo Jing in temperament. But with Li Tang's understanding of Zhang Dabeard, Lao Zhang, who was originally an actor, paid great attention to the acting skills of actors when selecting actors. A third-rate Hong Kong actor like Gu Juji, who was born as a singer, Lao Zhang looks down on him from the bottom of his heart.

Besides, "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and "Deep Love and Rain" were two key projects of CCTV last year, although "Smiling Pride" broke the record, it was widely criticized, which made CCTV have to suspend the project "Shooting the Condor". The unlaunched "Deep Love and Rain" and "Smiling Proud" are undoubtedly competitive, and Lao Zhang is currently most worried about the ratings and evaluations of "Deep Love and Rain". Therefore, Lao Zhang categorically will not praise the male number one in "Deep Love and Rain".

Zhou Xun on the other end of the phone was obviously relieved and said: "That's good, I don't like this person very much, it's too motherly." ”

Saying that, Zhou Xun asked again: "Hey, will you star in the third part of "Huanzhu Gege"?" ”

Speaking of "Huanzhu Gege III", there have been various gossip in the media in the past two years. And at the end of the second part, Aunt Qiong Yu left an easter egg next year, that is, Xiao Jian and Qing'er's glance for ten thousand years, and the third part can be imagined that there may be a main line of Xiao Jian and Qing'er.

But now it's different from the past, Xiaoyanzi and Fan Xiaopang have already terminated their contracts with Aunt Qiongyu's company. Compared with Xiaoyanzi's peaceful termination of the contract, he and Fan Xiaopang even went to court and tore his face. Besides, Xiaoyanzi is now squeezing into the film circle, and she starred in the TV series "Deep Love and Rain" before, on the one hand, it may be the favor of Aunt Qiongyu, but it is most likely for the sake of CCTV's face. Not to mention that Li Tang is now a popular group, can't he play a supporting role in the third or even fourth male role? Therefore, it is obviously impossible to gather the original team again.

And with Aunt Qiong's style of doing things or Taibazi's always shrewd and slamming temperament, the smartest way is to rely on the big IP of "Huanzhu Gege", find a bunch of newcomers, and make a big profit at the smallest cost.

The reason why Zhou Xun asked this today is nothing more than that not long ago, when "Love is Deep and Rainy" was broadcast in Wanwan, Aunt Qiongyu said frankly that she would continue to cooperate with Fulantai, and the long-awaited third part of "Huanzhu Gege" has begun preparations.

Li Tang shook his head and said: "I haven't received any news in this regard, if it is true that filming will start this year, I will definitely not have a schedule." ”

First update!

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