Hengdian Hotel, banquet hall on the second floor.

A large red banner hangs on the foyer table.

[Tang Dynasty Film and Television and Light and Shadow Times jointly produced the large-scale Xianxia TV series "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" press conference! ] 】

At this time, the banquet hall was already full of reporters and media, carrying long guns and short cannons, looking at the side door expectantly.

"Squeak—"

In front of everyone, the side door was pushed open, and Cai Yinong and Wu Yuan led the leading actors of "Fairy Sword" into the banquet hall.

In an instant, the entire banquet hall was filled with "clicking" camera sounds, countless flashes were constantly exposed, and the eyes of the flashing people couldn't open them.

Unlike celebrities who are accustomed to this scene and have received professional exposure light training, Wu Yuan has always hated this kind of high-explosiveness, so he prepared a pair of sunglasses in advance.

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Wu Yuan indifferently walked to the interview seat on the stage and sat in the middle.

"Director Wu is so handsome." A female reporter couldn't help but shout.

The smile he had just shown was immediately retracted by Wu Yuan, and he glanced at the reporter who spoke out in embarrassment.

My buddy is a director, and he doesn't rely on his looks to eat.

"Ahem, let's all sit down." The host of the start-up press conference was a cameo by an assistant director of the crew, and he hurriedly beckoned the main creators of the crew to take a seat.

Director Li Guoli sat on Wu Yuan's left hand side, Cai Yinong sat on his right hand side, and the rest of the actors were arranged on either side according to the importance of the role.

After everyone sat down, the reporters in the audience immediately became agitated, and they all raised their hands and rushed to ask questions.

"The reporters from Sohu Entertainment in the first row, please ask questions first." The host stretched out his hand and gestured.

The one who shouted Wu Yuanshuai just now was this female reporter from Sohu Entertainment.

Sure enough, she stood up and raised the microphone at Wu Yuan: "Director Wu, the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" you shot in the United States has been released in the mainland for a month and a half, and the box office has exceeded 35 million yuan. ”

"The film has grossed $350 million in North America and $650 million worldwide."

"You've once again set a box office record for a mainland director."

"What do you think of the mainland film market, and do you think there is an opportunity for the mainland film market to develop on the scale of North America?"

I didn't expect the first question to be this.

Wu Yuan shook his head with black lines on his face: "It's the launching ceremony of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", and I won't answer any questions that have nothing to do with this TV series." ”

"Please journalists, please focus on our new TV series."

But he thought about it, and when the female reporter sat down disappointed, he said: "In this case, I will answer this one question, and please don't get into irrelevant topics in the next questions." ”

"I have always been very confident in our Chinese film market."

"China is a country with a large population, and since joining the WTO, the economy has also grown rapidly, and movies, as a kind of mass entertainment, have become more and more loved and welcomed by everyone."

"Dozens of movie theaters are being built across the country every year, and I believe that in the near future, our mainland film market will catch up with or even surpass that of North America."

"After all, we have a larger population, and the potential for movie consumption is greater!"

"I believe that the mainland film market will get better and better in the future, and I will also bring more good-looking Chinese movies to mainland audiences!"

Considering that it didn't seem appropriate to just talk about his own affairs, Wu Yuan looked at Hu Ge and Liu Yifei who were sitting on both sides with a smile.

"Let me tell you the news, the heroes and heroines of our "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" Hu Ge and Liu Yifei are not only the heroes and heroines of this TV series, but also the heroes and heroines of my new movie."

"This new movie has been filmed, and post-production work is being done, and I will meet with mainland fans and friends soon!"

"So, don't think that Hu Ge and Liu Yifei are newcomers, so they can't act in this TV series!"

The filming of "Your Name" was kept secret almost throughout the whole process, and Wu Yuan did not hold a press conference, let alone notify any reporters.

He was not bad at the early publicity exposure, but he was very disgusted with the trivial matter of being interviewed by reporters during the filming.

Wu Yuan prefers to focus on the publicity until one or two months before the official release of the movie.

Now mainland reporters are not so sharp-nosed, and they can't be compared with the Hong Kong Island paparazzi.

So now the outside world doesn't know that he has made a new movie.

Wu Yuan threw the bomb out, and the reporters, who were originally not interested in interviewing Hu Ge and Liu Yifei, immediately lit up their eyes and looked at the two of them in unison.

"Alright, next reporter."

Immediately, the next reporter who stood up to ask a question pointed the microphone at Hu Ge: "Hello Hu Ge, I am a reporter from Southern Metropolis Daily. ”

"May I ask as a newcomer, I can act in Director Wu's movie for the first time, and now I am the leading actor of the TV series "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", how is your mood, can you talk to us?"

"Of course, the mood is honored, but in addition to the honor, I am also very stressed." Hugo seems to have some kind of interview awesomeness, although it is the first time to give a public interview to the media, but there is no nervousness at all.

He not only talked to reporters about his pressure in the crew, the pressure on the actor of "Fairy Sword", but also praised a wave of Wu Yuan's directing level, Li Guoli's directing ability is not like a newcomer at all, but like an old star who is used to interviewing.

And the other heroine Liu Yifei is not to mention, this interview's main focus is on sincerity, what the reporter asks, she will say, and she is very serious.

"When I was filming Director Wu's new play, I had a great insight, which the director told me."

"It's just that as an actor, blindly pursuing something like acting power and explosiveness, it's actually a superficial performance."

"That is to say, the kind of very difficult performance requires the most natural reaction, not the so-called explosive energy."

"And this kind of performance with the most traceless and natural performance is also the most precious and difficult, and I am still in the process of exploring and learning."

"Actually, I think filming is also a different form of performance learning, which is also what Director Wu taught me."

"Then the teacher will ask me to write my performance experience after every filming."

"I'm not the kind of person who sharpens my knives on the spot, I write every day during the filming process, and finally accumulate an experience."

"Like after filming Director Wu's play, I wrote a very good experience and handed it to the teacher, and the teacher praised me in the class!"

"This time I filmed "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", I will also study the performances of my predecessors carefully in the crew and write my experience."

Sounds a little too fake.

But the reporters at the scene looked at Liu Yifei's sincere eyes, and inexplicably felt that this little girl was not telling lies, she was really summing up her experience and writing her experience every time she filmed.

Even in 2004, actors who worked so hard to take their performances seriously were really rare.

"Dragon Babu" has been broadcast in November, and Liu Yifei cannot be regarded as an unknown actor.

The role she played as Wang Yuyan in the play left a very deep impression on the audience.

Although there are not many scenes overall, the focus of discussion among netizens who are discussing the TV series "Dragon Babu" on the Internet is inseparable from Wang Yuyan.

Even she has been hailed as the most beautiful Wang Yuyan in history, and the title of "fairy sister" has also been widely circulated on the Internet.

But reporters and friends are still relatively unfamiliar with Liu Yifei, and they don't know what kind of person this little girl is in reality.

This press conference gave them the opportunity to get to know Liu Yifei.

And the more they get to know each other, the more they find that this little girl, who is only 16 years old this year, is far more mature and real than her peers.

Not only her, but most of the starring team of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" are actors who are not very famous in the mainland, including An Yixuan and Liu Pinyan.

For journalists, there is too much news to write about.

In contrast, Wu Yuan was left out a lot in later interviews.

There is no way, except for the identity of the investor, he does not answer other questions that have nothing to do with "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" at all, and after several reporters tried it a few times, they could only give up holding Wu Yuan and ask questions.

Anyway, he revealed his new movie, which is already big enough news for everyone to go back and write a report.

In this way, during the entire one-hour press conference, Wu Yuan watched others being interviewed in a leisurely and relaxed manner except for the first ten minutes.

"Okay, thank you for coming to this opening ceremony."

"This is the end of the interview session, please move to the restaurant next door, our "Fairy Sword" crew has prepared a sumptuous lunch for everyone."

At eleven o'clock in the afternoon, the reporter's interview meeting ended, and Cai Yinong left these reporters to pay for the carriage and horses, so that they could write more good words for "Fairy Sword".

The other crew creators quickly left the hotel after the curtain call.

Wu Yuan also took his assistant Xiao Zhang and got on the bus of the crew and went to the hotel where the actors stayed.

Next, the crew of "Fairy Sword" will have nothing to do with him, but he plans to rest for a night today and set off back to the capital tomorrow.

is such a big director, and there is no busy work next, so why rush so much.

Cai Yinong had already opened a room for him, which was the most upscale suite in this hotel, he lived in the inner room, and his assistant Xiao Zhang lived in the outer room.

In fact, this arrangement has connotations.

Now in the entertainment industry in the mainland, the wind of unspoken rules is gradually blowing.

Some of the young actors in the crew want to climb into the bed of the director, producer, and assistant director every day, so as to exchange for more and more important opportunities to appear in scenes.

It is common for actresses wrapped in bath towels in the middle of the night to knock on the doors of directors, producers, and investors.

For directors who don't want to accept this unspoken rule, or don't want to play with this kind of "unclean" woman, it's important to have a dutiful assistant living outside at this time.

In particular, it can prevent some actresses with ulterior motives from getting the key to the director's room from the front desk and sneaking into the director's bed in the middle of the night.

Otherwise, if you get this kind of thing, it's just yellow mud on the crotch of your pants, and it's not but.

There is an assistant guarding outside, even if Wu Yuan is drunk, he is not afraid of being taken advantage of, and he can sleep peacefully at night.

He really doesn't think much of this kind of unspoken behavior now.

In his dreams before, he passively accepted this unspoken rule a few times, but what level was he at that time, that is, the assistant director and executive director of the crew.

has a little power in his hands, but he doesn't have much power, and no one will suffer by making some willing deals with some 18th-tier actresses.

But with Wu Yuan's identity and status, he will not do it again.

Whether it is Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, Jiang Wen, Chen Kaige and other big directors, or later directors such as Wu Yishan, Ning Hao, Wu Jing, Wen Muye, Guo Fan, etc.

But whoever makes achievements will not engage in unspoken rules in his own crew.

Even if they want to play with women, they are more likely to find some direct money transactions such as young models.

Or talk about a primary three, a fourth, or a fifth.

Why?

It's a very simple reason, because they are responsible for their own film projects, and it is impossible to arrange roles for a woman in order to sleep with them.

At their level, the cost of arranging roles is too great, at least they are also important supporting actresses and even heroines.

The big directors are really reluctant to pay such a price.

And those little actors who knock on the director's door just for a small supporting role, they can't look down on them.

Those who love to engage in this kind of unspoken rule in the circle are mainly TV drama producers and assistant directors, and TV drama directors do not engage in this kind of unspoken rule, which is not cost-effective.

Not to mention film directors.

In their eyes, the movie is filmed well and the box office hit is the most important thing, but they will not arrange a role for her in order to sleep with a woman.

That is, the assistant director, they are not the person in charge of the film, and they are dominated by the lower body brain.

But the assistant directors can't decide who the leading actors and main supporting roles will be, and they can only dive to the 18th line or even group performances.

The hardest hit areas of the real unspoken rules are mainly in the TV series producers and the majority of assistant directors.

Wu Yuan used to be a member of this group, but he is now out of this group.

After returning to the hotel with his assistant, Wu Yuan said to him: "Xiao Zhang, if anyone you don't know knocks on the door in a while, you can send them away." ”

"Especially actresses."

"I'll go get some sleep first."

I didn't sleep well last night, and I came to Hengdian from the capital early in the morning, and Wu Yuan is a little sleepy now.

"Okay Director Wu!" On the first day of work, Xiao Zhang, who heard Wu Yuan talk about some chaos in the circle, immediately promised: "I will never let others disturb your rest!" ”

Wu Yuan waved his hand, took off his coat, and walked inside.

He slept until nine o'clock in the evening.

The dinner that Xiao Zhang ordered for him was cold and hot three times before Wu Yuan woke up.

"Whew, I slept soundly." He shook his somewhat stiff neck and got out of bed.

"Director Wu, you're awake."

"I've ordered dinner for you, and I'll put it on the table."

"Okay, I'm sorry for you." Nodding to Xiao Zhang with a smile, Wu Yuan walked straight to the table and enjoyed dinner.

But before he could eat a few bites of food, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Xiao Zhang, who had always remembered Wu Yuan's instructions, immediately got up from the sofa, walked to the door in three steps and two steps, and lay down on the cat's eye to look outside.

Two figures, one big and one small, stood outside the door of Wu Yuan's room, and they were all women!

Xiao Zhang's heart immediately became nervous.

However, when he saw who the person standing outside the door was, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and shouted to the inside: "Director Wu, there are Liu Yifei's mother and daughter outside the door, do you want to let them in?" ”

Wu Yuan, who was stuffing prawns into his mouth, was stunned, why did they come?

But he immediately said, "Invite them in." ”

Soon, Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli walked into Wu Yuan's suite one after the other.

Xiao Zhang also poked his head out and looked down the corridor to make sure that no one was peeking outside, so he closed the door with confidence.

"Sissi, Aunt Liu, is there something to do with me?" Wu Yuan asked with a smile.

Liu Xiaoli didn't reply, but just stood behind Liu Yifei with her hands on her chest, looking at Wu Yuan with a smile.

Liu Yifei walked to Wu Yuan with a smile and sat down, holding his face with both hands, and looking at him with sparkling eyes: "Senior brother, it's about to be New Year's Eve." ”

"I heard that there will be fireworks outside today, let's go to the rooftop on the top floor to watch the fireworks!"

"Huh?" As an authentic Chinese person, Wu Yuan doesn't care much about the New Year's Eve of the new calendar, plus he has no relatives at home, and he doesn't love the Lunar New Year very much.

So he didn't even care that today was the last day of 2003.

Glancing at his watch, Wu Yuan was a little helpless: "Sissi, it's only nine o'clock now, it's still early until 12 o'clock, right?" ”

"But fireworks have already started to go off outside." Liu Yifei muttered and stretched out his hand to the window.

Looking along her hand, Wu Yuan just saw a firework rising from a distance and exploding into a brilliant place.

"Okay." Wu Yuan nodded and sped up his action to eat dinner.

This is an invitation from the fairy sister, and it's really hard for people to refuse.

After finishing dinner in a hurry, he took Xiao Zhang and followed Liu Yifei's mother and daughter out of the door and went to the rooftop from the safe passage.

Coincidentally, just as they were walking onto the rooftop, a firework shot into the sky from a very close distance and exploded in front of their eyes.

The colors of the flowers, magnified and blooming in their pupils.

Liu Yifei raised his head and looked at this fleeting beauty, smiling very brightly.

"It's so beautiful~!"

"yes." Wu Yuan also smashed it, smashed it, and echoed it.

In Hengdian in December, it was really cold, even if you were dressed very warmly, you still felt a cold wind blowing into your neck when you stood on the rooftop.

But whether it was Liu Yifei or Wu Yuan, they didn't have the slightest coldness, so they looked up at the fireworks that kept blooming.

Behind them, Liu Xiaoli and Xiao Zhang stood together.

Ignoring Xiao Zhang's constant rubbing of his hands and stomping his feet, Liu Xiaoli looked at the backs of the two of them in a daze.

Liu Yifei, who has grown to 172 in height, stands by Wu Yuan's side, really very compatible, just looking at the back, it is extremely harmonious, and he looks like a handsome man and a beautiful woman.

But obviously a few years ago, she was still a little girl who would hug her mother's thighs and ask for candy.

Why did she grow into a slim girl in a blink of an eye?

Liu Xiaoli's thoughts flew wildly in her heart, melancholy mixed with sourness.

Liu Yifei's mood at the moment is very pure, only happy and joyful.

The new year is actually not special, and it is not worth her to be so happy.

What is special is that on this New Year's Eve, the people who accompany you.

Turning his head and quietly looking at Wu Yuan's side face, Liu Yifei said softly: "Senior brother, Happy New Year." ”

Wu Yuan also turned around.

Under the illumination of the fireworks, he saw Liu Yifei's bright and hot eyes.

For a moment, he felt his heart stop.

Pursing his lips, Wu Yuan looked away with some weakness.

"Well, Happy New Year."

(End of chapter)