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The real reason for starring in Chapter 376 [When Happiness Knocks on the Door]
North America.

Hollywood.

On the set of "The Pursuit of Happyness".

Will Smith pulled his pampered son, Jaden Smith, to Zhang Nan.

"Call uncle." Will Smith pushed his son's shoulder towards Zhang Nan and asked him to shout.

Jaden Smith, who was born in 1998 and is only 8 years old now, still looks like a little black monkey and has not yet been trained by Will Smith. He will be a weirdo who will make shocking remarks in the future. He is very obedient and shouts to Zhang Nan. Say "Hello, uncle."

Zhang Nan smiled and nodded in response, brushed Jaden Smith's curly hair with his hand, looked at Will Smith, and pretended to be joking: "Why are you calling me uncle? Aren't we talking about our mental age?" ? I am the eldest brother and you are the second brother? You should be called uncle."

After hearing what Zhang Nan said, Will Smith's already dark complexion turned even darker.

Damn it, why were you deceived by this guy in the first place? What kind of psychological age judgment was involved? How could I, a 68-year-old, call this guy a 70-year-old brother?
What is this called?

But the deal was done, and Zhang Nan's popularity now far surpassed his, so Will Smith could only vaguely say: "Uncle and uncle are the same words in English, they are all the same."

"Can it really be the same? I..."

Zhang Nan wanted to continue to mess around, but seeing Will Smith's face getting darker and darker, he finally ended the nonsense and forcibly changed the subject: "However, you relied on 7000 million U.S. dollars last year. [Full name: Love Rival], who is responsible for the production budget, a superstar who has grossed US$3.71 million at the global box office, why is he working with a small budget now?"

Don't watch the movie "The Pursuit of Happiness". Future movies will get very high ratings and become very famous.

But now that this movie has not yet been made, its production fee of 5500 million US dollars is for Will Smith, who only returned to the top with "Full Name" last year.

"The Pursuit of Happiness" is a subpar project that doesn't fit well with Will Smith's status.

“After I suffered a loss with [Strike], I became much more cautious in selecting films. I no longer focused too much on the film production costs, but focused on the scripts.

After all, the high production fee represents the high risk. Naturally, the harvest will be rich, but failure will also result in heavy losses.

I don’t want to go through another trough period again, so if the script is not up to standard, I would rather take a gap period than act in it. On the contrary, if the script is up to standard, even if the subject matter is niche and the cost is low, I will be willing to lower the salary to star in it. . "

Will Smith sincerely explained to Zhang Nan why he starred in this small-budget film based on celebrity biographies.

Zhang Nan listened and nodded at first.

Because Will Smith of the original time and space has indeed done this in the past two years.

Films such as "I Am Legend" and "Superman Hancock" are all projects with relatively niche themes and excellent scripts.

It's just that... Will Smith has maintained this attitude towards film selection for the past two years.

Subsequently, Will Smith's attitude changed, and he took over all kinds of movies, especially those that were cold and unrestrained.

Of course, the change here is that Will Smith noticed that his age was gradually increasing and he was not popular anymore, so he wanted to make more money before he was photographed on the beach.But more importantly, it was because in order to support his son, he starred in several bad movies, which greatly damaged his reputation, so much so that he began to fall apart.

Ok?
Thinking of this, Zhang Nan suddenly remembered that Jaden Smith was in the movie "The Pursuit of Happiness".

And in the original time and space, Jaden Smith's first movie was "Men in Black 2002" in 2. However, under Zhang Nan's influence, the "Men in Black" series filmed the first one and there was no second one.

So this film "The Pursuit of Happyness" is Jaden Smith's first electric shock.

Then there is something wrong with Will Smith's sincere attitude just now.

So Zhang Nan pretended to be a joke and said: "Look at the script and choose the film? Will, are you targeting me, your eldest brother who is two years younger?"

Now Zhang Nan is cooperating with Warner Pictures on the "Harry Potter-Voldemort" spin-off, and the hustle and bustle caused by the US$6.5 million in remuneration is not over yet.

From [Harry Potter - Voldemort] to [Jurassic World 1], [Lord of the Rings - Sauron], [Pirates of the Caribbean 1.2], Zhang Nan's habit of taking on films, in the eyes of outsiders, is the key point. It has never been about the quality of the film's script, but how much the producer can offer him.

"No, I have no such idea at all. A celebrity of your level is in a completely different ecological environment than a little kid like me. How could I... dare to order you!" Will Smith explained softly. road.

But Zhang Nan did not blink and continued to stare at Will Smith and said, "Are you sure?"

Looking at Zhang Nan's look, Will Smith knew that Zhang Nan had seen through the loopholes in his sincere words just now, and sighed in his heart, no wonder Zhang Nan can do better than him, this sensitivity is too strong .

"I admit, what I just said was a bit false. In fact, the main purpose of my starring in "The Pursuit of Happiness" is to allow little Jaden Smith to have a start as a child star and prepare him for his future career in Hollywood. Mix it up and lay a good foundation," Will Smith explained.

Lay a good foundation?

The key is that your son's acting skills don't normally increase with age, but decrease with age!

How much foundation can withstand the disaster?

I guess it’s not even good to start [Titanic].

"But you want to lay a good foundation for little Jaden Smith..."

Zhang Nan paused for a moment and glanced around at the crew of "The Pursuit of Happiness", "This crew with a production fee of 5500 million US dollars is a bit too low-grade!"

When Will Smith heard this, his face darkened again, and he twitched at the corner of his mouth and muttered: "Zhang, do you think anyone can be like you, earning 3000 million as a guest star in a top Hollywood blockbuster with hundreds of millions of dollars invested? With a US dollar remuneration, how many more artists can be added to the crew?

As far as my current celebrity status is concerned, it is not a problem to star in a project with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, but it would be very difficult to follow my son Jaden Smith along the way.

Even if it weren't for the important supporting role in "The Pursuit of Happiness", which is the protagonist's son, I probably wouldn't be able to talk about it. And that's it. There is also the impact of me personally reducing my salary a lot, so I talked about it last. It became a collaboration. "

Listening to Will Smith's words about why not eat meat, Zhang Nan said with some confusion: "Is it so difficult? I remember that I was in the [Spider-Man] series, but I was a supporting role in the office. Take away I even took the office OL's clothes for a few days. Even in the "Fast and Furious" series, I didn't even show my face, and there were several supporting actresses included. Now the director of that series is me. Someone from the company."

(End of this chapter)