The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 262
In 2004, the relationship between Hong Kong Island and the mainland was acceptable, and there were many tourists on the streets. Many people knew they were from the mainland just by their accent.

But the waiters on Hong Kong Island.

They are all a bunch of fucking people, they are not targeting mainlanders, no matter if they are from Japan, South Korea, or Xinmatai, as long as they don’t speak English, they will all look like dead fathers.

Li Shengyao and his two assistants came to a relatively high-end teahouse at this time, and they could still hear the waiters spraying some swear words in Cantonese from time to time.

Li Shengyao automatically blocked these negative emotions, lit the table, and looked out the window.

He came to Hong Kong Island this time because he wanted to invite an actor to film a TV series.

The waiters don't bother to care about their virtues.

Just sat down, less than 3 minutes, the person who met came.

In his forties, he maintains a very good figure, and his spirit is also very good. He is not an orthodox handsome guy, but overall he feels good, and he is a good-looking type.

He is the actor with thousands of faces - Liang Jiahui.

"Hi Director Li, I've been waiting for a long time. I'm very sorry. I set off half an hour earlier, but there was a car crash on the road ahead, so I waited for more than ten minutes."

"Liang Sheng, I just came here, so you're welcome."

"Okay, I'll take an order, you guys have a taste of Hong Kong Island's delicacies."

Liang Jiahui's Mandarin is very good, there is a little accent, just a little correction.

He is Lee Sheng Yew's ideal hero.

The Korean version of "My Uncle" is set to be a middle-level manager of a company in his forties.

This person is the kindest person in the show, he looks very good, graduated from a famous university, manages a company, and will be promoted soon.

But in fact, he was squeezed out in the company. His immediate boss was his junior, and this junior even cheated on him.

He also has two oil bottle brothers, and he needs to help them often.

The Korean version of the male lead Lee Sun Kyun was 43 years old when he played.

According to this condition, Li Shengyao set his sights on the Chinese entertainment actor in his forties.

He considered the "Uncle F4" of Tianya, but he gave up all of them.

Chen Daoming's aura is too strong, he has no sense of CP when he stands with a girl in her early twenties.

It's like the play that Ni Ni and Liu Shishi acted in later, Chen Daoming and Ni Ni stood together, it's not very good, there are more fathers and daughters than confidants.

Chen Baoguo is not like a person who is still entangled in being green. He will divorce directly, shouting "Why don't a man have a wife", and then find someone to beat the male mistress violently.

Zhang Guoli?It looks like someone who would hesitate for feelings.

However, Lao Zhang's modern clothes are not as attractive as his ancient clothes.

"My Uncle" has a vague love line. The heroine is 20 years younger than the hero, but there should be love between men and women.

The protagonist is set to be an attractive middle-aged uncle.

Lao Zhang's appearance and figure don't seem to attract girls in their early twenties.

As for Wang Zhiwen, although the 90s became popular all over the country.

But after 2000, the charm value dropped rapidly, too thin, no flesh on the face, not good.

Later, Li Shengyao also thought of Liu Yijun, Wu Xiubo and others, but these uncle circle bosses are actually too immature at this time.

He then turned his attention to Hong Kong Island and soon found three suitable people.

These three people are Li Ming, Zhang Xueyou, and Liang Jiahui.

At this time, Li Ming's appearance is still good, and he is quite suitable for playing that kind of entangled character.

However, Li Ming has joined the group "Seven Swords Under Tianshan" and has been training in a sealed manner.

Then there are Liang Jiahui and Zhang Xueyou next.

Considering that the mandarin of the song god is not that good, Li Shengyao was finally determined to be Liang Jiahui.

But at the beginning, he asked his assistant to contact Liang Jiahui's agent, but was quickly rejected.

Obviously there are concerns on the other side.

Li Shengyao then contacted Liang Jiahui in person, and said that he would go to Hong Kong Island in person, so there was this meeting.

Seeing the film king at this moment, Li Shengyao observed secretly, feeling satisfied in his heart.

Liang Jiahui is energetic and maintains an excellent figure, so he can play the male lead of "My Uncle".

Later, a remake was planned in mainland China, and Zhao Youting was chosen as the leading actor. Li Shengyao thought it was a good choice. Zhao Youting was 39 years old at the time, and he looked somewhat similar to the Korean version of Li Shanjun.

They all belong to the kind of handsome, good-looking people.

In fact, if you look carefully, Zhao Youstop, Li Shanjun is somewhat similar to Liang Jiahui.

Liang Jiahui personally ordered more than a dozen signature snacks, and then asked Li Shengyao to try the food.

Li Shengyao was not polite, picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

Seeing this, Liang Jiahui smiled even more.

When Li Shengyao was observing him just now, he also secretly observed Li Shengyao.

Although he is in Hong Kong Island, he has of course heard of Lee Sing Yew. Because of the cooperation between TVB and Fenghua, TVB often promotes Lee Sing Yew.

Moreover, filmmakers like Wang Jing and the others who went back to the mainland would also talk about Li Shengyao.

Everyone's opinion is
This person is very talented, but judging from his past interviews, he is not very friendly to the Hong Kong Island film industry.

Seeing Lee Sing Yew at this time, with no airs, just like an ordinary handsome boy, Liang Jiahui felt that being famous is worse than meeting him. Lee Sing Yew is someone who can be contacted, and he is not full of disgust for Hong Kong Island like the media said.

The two of them tacitly agreed not to talk about anything, first they ate, and then smiled at each other when they were full. Li Shengyao then said, "Liang Sheng, I want you to act in my new play, a TV series."

Liang Jiahui nodded, he knew about this a long time ago, but he had his concerns.

In recent years, Hong Kong Island's film circle has been declining, with fewer and fewer films and more exaggerated, but as a local actor, what can I do?

He is not Cheng Long, he has an international market and can go out.

He will also stay on Hong Kong Island to make movies.

Before the New Year's Eve, many film crews have already greeted him and asked him to set aside a schedule.

If he goes to the mainland to film TV dramas, it will take at least four months.

Although the filming took three months, since he is the leading actor, he naturally had to prepare seriously, one month is not too much.

In this case, he would have to push down seven or eight production crews.

That's right, there are seven or eight crews. Although Liang Jiahui's acting skills are top-notch, he has little appeal in Hong Kong Island.

In recent years, I have been playing supporting roles, and it is the kind of supporting role with very few roles, almost like a cameo.

He can appear in more than a dozen Hong Kong Island movies a year.

The remuneration is naturally not high, so it can only be done according to the amount.

This time he rejected seven or eight production crews at once, but when it got out, others thought he was climbing the ladder, and with a financial backer from the mainland, they forgot about his hometown.

In addition, he doesn't want to be separated from his family for too long. His family is in Hong Kong Island. They have a big house, and the family lives happily. He likes this living environment.

There is also a third point, that is, he is afraid of acting badly.

Liang Jiahui often watches various TV series and movies to improve his experience and acting skills.

Naturally, he also watches mainland dramas. Compared with the more lifelike performances of Hong Kong actors, the performances of mainland drama actors are obviously much more formal and serious.

He was afraid that he would not be able to fit in.

At the beginning of the year before last, he prepared for two months to film "Zhou Yu's Train", but when he was filming, he was still very worried about this issue.

Then he slowly expressed his decisions and concerns one by one.

He even apologized again and again, expressing that he will definitely cooperate with Lee Seung Yew in the future.

Li Shengyao shook his head, he was already prepared for Lao Liang's thoughts.

"Liang Sheng, regarding the first point, I don't think you need to worry. Hong Kong Island film circle is a very realistic place. If you become popular, they will immediately ask you to go back to make a movie, and you can even play the leading role. This is better than your filming. Ten movies work."

What movie did Liang Jiahui make last year?

"Fall in Love with Your Bed", "Courtship on the Sign", "20, 30, 40", "Amazing Dad", "Judo Dragon and Tiger List", "Thousands of Changes 2", "Three Shifts: Dumplings", " A1 Headlines", "The Brave Iron King Kong" and so on.

Except for Zhang Aijia's "20, 30, 40", the others are all messy movies. After the performance, there will be no repercussions except for the pay.

Li Shengyao didn't like these movies. With Liang's acting skills, playing supporting roles in these movies is really a pearl.

Liang Jiahui has acted in such a movie, and he has acted in a hundred, and he is still a supporting role.

It's better to play a play well.

Li Shengyao then asked his assistant to take out the script of "My Uncle" and handed it to Liang Jiahui, "Look at the script, I still have a few reasons."

Upon hearing this, Liang Jiahui took over the script, and then flipped through it.

Li Shengyao went on to say: "Hong Kong Island movies are becoming less and less good now, and there are fewer and fewer shows. You should come to the mainland to open up new markets."

"If you stick to this place now, there is no way out."

In fact, since [-], Liang Jiahui went to the mainland to act more and more frequently.

Such as "Taihang Mountain", "Apple", "My Teaching Career", "Song of Everlasting Sorrow".

There are not so many supporting roles for him in Hong Kong Island, so he can only look for opportunities in mainland dramas or co-productions.

"As for the issue of being separated from your family, it's only been three or four months. Our filming location is Shanghai, and the crew will arrange a five-star suite for you, so your family can go there together."

It is normal to arrange a five-star hotel suite for the leading actor.

If Liang Jiahui is not given, other people will be treated in the same way.

Li Shengyao went on to say: "As for the integration problem you are worried about, Liang Sheng, since I think you can do it, I have confidence in you."

"Everyone is watching your acting skills. If you can't get into mainland film and television dramas, others will be even worse."

Can play chess king, can play broken arm general, can play country teacher.

It can be said that the entire Hong Kong circle actor is Liang Jiahui.

Li Shengyao finally said: "I will give you a salary of 100 million, which may be less than your guest appearance in so many movies, but this TV series will be aired, and the invisible benefits it will bring to you will be very large, compared to "Zhou Yu" "The train" is much bigger."

Although "Zhou Yu's Train" has Liang Jiahui and Gong Li, and seems to have won some awards, they are all meaningless pork awards. The movie is actually no splash, and it does not help Liang Jiahui's career.

Upon hearing this, Liang Jiahui nodded while reading the script.

As a middle-aged uncle in his forties, he knows very well that he must be far-sighted and decisive in order to seize opportunities.

He still has a wife and children to support, and his first consideration is actually to make money.

The remuneration offered by Li Shengyao does not seem very high, but it is actually the first-class price in the mainland TV drama circle.

The Chinese version of this drama has a total of 25 episodes, which is [-] episodes. This is the price of Chen Daoming and Zhang Guoli.

Liang Jiahui knew that Li Shengyao was already very sincere.

What Li Shengyao said is indeed reasonable. Hong Kong Island movies are getting worse and worse. This year, he can still make guest appearances in more than a dozen movies by relying on word of mouth. Next year, there may be fewer movies to start. He wants to make a cameo, but there are no movies. can act.

At that time, he still had to go north to the mainland after all.

Instead of bumping into each other and looking for opportunities with a blank face, it is better to follow Li Shengyao to the north now.

After all, Li Shengyao's drama ratings are very good.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little moved.

In fact, he was not in the mood to read the script just now.

Artists from Hong Kong Island, it’s good to have food at this time, who will read the script seriously, it can’t be more outrageous than the movie scripts he acted in.

But it's not a trivial matter after all, he wants to discuss it with his family.

"Director Li, give me a few minutes, I'll discuss it with my family."

"no problem."

Liang Jiahui nodded, then left with his mobile phone, he went outside to make a call.

Li Shengyao knew that Lao Liang was moved, this matter is actually very easy to judge, a smart person should know how to choose.

The first time I refused, I was afraid that Fenghua was not sincere enough, and the salary would not be easy to negotiate.

He came here in person now, giving enough face.

Li Shengyao believed that Liang Jiahui would agree.

Three minutes later, Liang Jiahui came back, and he stretched out his hand, "Director Li, after careful consideration, I agree to your invitation. Please give me your advice for the next four months."

"Don't dare, we learn from each other."

He paused, and then said: "Liang Sheng, you will not regret this decision, you will see scenery that you cannot see on Hong Kong Island."

The next step is to sign the contract and some details.

For example, Li Shengyao gave the script first, and agreed with Liang Jiahui to meet in Shanghai in half a month, and then let Liang Jiahui meet other actors and get acquainted with each other.

The two chatted for about an hour before breaking up.

Liang Jiahui originally invited Li Shengyao to his house for dinner, but Li Shengyao refused. He was very busy, and Liang Jiahui had to read the script and say goodbye to his family, so there was no need to bother him.

……

Twelve hours later, in a villa in Mount Davis on Hong Kong Island, Liang Jiahui put down his teacup, and couldn't help saying, "It's really well written."

Mrs. Liang was sitting on the side reading a book, and said with a smile, "What is well written?"

"The story is well written."

Liang Jiahui met Li Shengyao during the day, and didn't read the script seriously. Only then did he realize that the script was very well written.

The description of the two poor people in the city is very vivid. Although the story is very mournful, the theme is upward. It is to tell the audience that although there are many misfortunes in life, we still have to find light in this life, treat others and be kind to others. Own.

Liang Jiahui was glad that he agreed to Li Shengyao. In his opinion, this story was better than "Zhou Yu's Train", and it was the best story he had received in recent years.

Mrs. Liang smiled, "Then it will be a good performance."

The two are an old husband and wife, and their relationship is very good.

Liang Jiahui nodded, "Okay, this time I will show my best form, and I can't live up to this story."

He thought about it, and then planned to start speaking Mandarin as much as possible tomorrow, and go to the gym to make himself look more attractive.

(End of this chapter)