Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 756 Liu Xiaoli, who claims to be Song Tangtang's comrade
"I would like to, but I don't know how." The little girl raised her head and looked at her mother innocently.

"You can learn even if you don't know how. You didn't know how to dance at first, but now you dance very well. You even won an award." The young woman encouraged.

"I listen to my mother." said the little girl.

After dinner, her daughter started studying. Although children of her age rarely have homework in the United States, she still assigned some to her daughter.

Mainly English.

The young woman picked up the newspaper again, walked to the second-hand computer in the bedroom, wrote down her daughter's information according to the requirements in the newspaper, and sent it out by email.

It depends on my daughter's luck.

At the Warner Bros. headquarters in Burbank on the West Coast, Michael Barnathan from the Harry Potter crew received the email on his computer.

He looked at her carefully and said to Steven Spielberg who was reading the information next to him, "What do you think of this girl?"

Although he is the producer and can decide the actors according to his duties, he still respects Steven very much. After all, he is a famous Hollywood director.

Steven put down the materials in his hand, went to the computer and looked at it for a while: "I think it's probably not possible. Although this little girl meets other requirements, she has no acting experience. Of course, you are the producer and you decide." Steven shrugged and said.

"Let's let this little girl come. Otherwise, if no Chinese girl comes to audition, what will the Chinese think?" Michael picked up the coffee cup and said with a smile, "We have to pretend."

"OK!"

The Oriental woman in New York soon received an email from Los Angeles saying that after preliminary review, your child meets the requirements and please bring your child to the Warner Bros. headquarters in Los Angeles for an audition before February 2.

February 2th is the day after tomorrow!
It’s too late to take the train, so I have to take a plane.

The round-trip air tickets and accommodation are also a considerable expense.

But she didn't care about all that. The next day, she went to her daughter's school in person to ask for leave and boarded a plane to Los Angeles in the evening.

At the same time, Wu Tianmin and several others also flew from Yanjing to Los Angeles.

Although they went back home to reunite with their families for the New Year, no one was feeling very happy, especially Wu Tianmin and Zhang Yimou, both of whom looked gloomy.

After returning for more than half a month, they still hadn't celebrated the New Year well. They contacted female child stars in China through a good friend, and the two of them even went to Yanjing to meet Jiang Xiaohan and Guan Ling, but they were very disappointed.

Jiang Xiaohan is quite good, with good temperament, image and acting skills, but unfortunately she can't speak English. More importantly, she is currently filming for the TV series "As Long as You Live Better Than Mine" and will continue filming after the Spring Festival, so she has no schedule.

As for Guan Ling, although she and her parents agreed, she is a bit old. She is 15 years old this year and has become a graceful young lady, which is somewhat inconsistent with the role in the play.

Moreover, Zhang Yimou was not optimistic about her acting skills. Perhaps she had just finished performing in an indoor sitcom like "I Love My Family", and her expressions and movements were too exaggerated during the impromptu audition.

Zhang Yimou had no choice but to give up.

As for Jin Ming and Wu Tianmin, they called her family, but there was no response. They simply ignored them!

Yes, Jin Ming is now very famous in Taiwan, and has been offered numerous roles. Would she go to the United States to film? We can only rely on Michael Barnason and others.
This is a common idea between the two.

But they didn't hold out much hope.

How many Chinese actors are there in the American entertainment industry?

It seems like there are only two people, Lu Yan and Anna May Wong!

But they are all old ladies now, and those who went to the United States to get a green card like Chen Chong are not counted.

When they arrived at the headquarters of Warner Bros., they met the little girl named Sissi. Fang Minghua still spent her days leisurely in San Francisco, hugging her daughter, reading books, surfing the Internet, or taking a walk in the nearby park with Li Li holding her daughter. Now she has started writing the fourth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

It mainly tells the story of Harry Potter's gradual growth into an outstanding wizard after three years of study and training at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Expanding the wizarding world beyond Hogwarts and England through two international tournaments, the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Cup.

Starting from this book, Harry Potter and several of his friends gradually enter adolescence, and their lives are no longer so simple as they begin to face the troubles of growing up.

The atmosphere of the novel becomes dark and mysterious, and the plot becomes more tortuous and bizarre. Harry Potter and his friends accept and experience more severe tests and more terrifying adventures.

Although it is still two years away from publication according to plan, it will have to be written sooner or later so it is better to finish it quickly.

But he was not writing a novel today, but reading an email.

Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos sent him dozens of pages of documents, all of which were relevant materials for Amazon's listing!

According to the plan, Amazon will be listed on the Nasdaq on May 5.

It gives me a headache watching this.
Fang Minghua simply forwarded the email to his wife Song Tangtang, and asked the family and the company's financial minister to review it!
If you don’t understand, you can consult Zhang Qing Accounting Firm in San Francisco. Anyway, email is very convenient nowadays, so you don’t have to worry about it.

Just at this moment, the phone in the bedroom rang. Fang Minghua picked up the receiver and said, "Hello, who is this?" He spoke in English, of course.

But I didn't expect that standard Guanzhong dialect came from the other end of the microphone: "Minghua, I'm Tianmin, we are in Burbank now."

"Brother Wu, how is the casting going?" Fang Minghua was also very concerned about this issue. According to a call from his wife Song Tangtang, Wu Tianmin failed in the domestic casting.

"Several Chinese girls came, one of whom was Liu Ximeizi. After the audition, Yimou and I both felt that she was a good fit."

"Liu Qianmeizi? Why does it sound like a Japanese name?" Fang Minghua frowned: "The Japanese don't want it."

"No, she is a real Chinese. She came to the United States with her mother last year. Her mother said she knew you and that she was a comrade-in-arms of Mr. Song."

Tangtang’s comrade-in-arms?
I haven’t heard that any of my wife’s comrades-in-arms went abroad?

"What's her name?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Her name is Liu Xiaoli. She was a dancer in China. She was also in the cultural troupe. She danced with Mr. Song."

Liu Xiaoli?
Never heard of it?

However, my wife has served in several art troupes, so it is possible that some of her comrades have gone abroad.

Fang Minghua didn't want to dwell on this matter too much, so he asked, "Brother Wu, since you and Yimou both think this girl is good, that's a good thing, let her play the role of Ruifang."

"But the American side, especially Steven Spielberg, disagreed."

"Oh, does he have a suitable American child actor? Does he want to change the script to replace this role?" Fang Minghua immediately understood.

"This is what's happening. Now both sides are in a stalemate. How about, Minghua, you come over?" Wu Tianmin finally said.

"I'll go. Okay!" Fang Minghua agreed after a moment of hesitation.

Why didn't Wu Tianmin and Zhang Yimou choose the young actor they liked?!

What's more, the little girl's mother is my daughter-in-law's comrade-in-arms.

(End of this chapter)