Actor: Thank you.

Speaking of which, Song Jia's current situation is a bit similar to that of Mr. Jin's third wife.

They all found a successful man.

Mr. Jin is 29 years older than Lin Leyi.

Zhang Li is 23 years older than Song Jia.

The advantage of finding an older man is that it will be of great help in your career.

Lin Leyi wanted to study abroad, and Mr. Jin gave her money.

She wanted to be a journalist, and Mr. Jin used his own resources to support her.

Song Jia is in a similar situation now, having obtained a lot of resources with the help of Zhang Li.

If it weren't for Zhang Li, Song Jia wouldn't have had a relationship with Wang Jinhua.

He would not have gotten a role in the movie "Curiosity Kills the Cat".

This film is starred by Hu Jun and Carina Lau, two of Hua Jie's top figures.

The movie is about to be released.

Zhang Yuan felt that Song Jia and Liao Fan, who was still relatively unknown at the time, actually performed better in the film than the male and female protagonists.

Especially the role of the mistress Song Jia, who appeared topless in the film and had many passionate scenes with Hu Jun.

Of course, he is still not as passionate as Liu Ye.

Speaking of passion, the upcoming film also encountered some "small problems" because of this.

"Song Jia, I know. Come, have a drink." Chen Kexin stood up and clinked glasses with Teacher Song Jia.

Song Jia had just sat down and had not had time to eat something to fill his stomach when he had a glass of red wine with Director Chen, who is also the producer of "The Disciples".

"Waiter." Zhang Yuan waved his hand, and the guy waiting outside the private room opened the door and came in.

"I want some dry fried beef noodles, less oil."

"Okay, I'll be there soon."

After Zhang Yuan placed the order, he nodded slightly towards Song Jia.

[Received thanks from Song Jia, performance skills +1! ]

Once here, she must accompany the director to drink. Song Jia knew the rules and knew that Zhang Yuan was taking care of her, so she ordered a main course.

But at the same time, she understood.

Zhang Yuan is showing goodwill, but also keeping his distance.

Because ordering a staple food means letting her drink it herself and I won’t block the wine for her.

Song Jia has a clear mind.

She knew that she could come here today because of Zhang Yuan's help.

After Zhang Yuan "got rid of" Zhang Jing, he gave the vacant position to Song Jia.

Because this role has to meet two conditions.

Beautiful and good acting skills.

Zhang Jing is very beautiful and her acting skills are at the level of a movie queen.

Song Jia is also good looking and has a tall figure.

As for her acting skills, she is slightly weaker than Zhang Jing, but she is also an acting talent.

Besides, Zhang Yuan was already trying to win over this person.

Another point is that Song Jia is still Sister Hua's man, and he is just planning to poach an agent from Sister Hua.

Pretend to fight back and forth and throw some smoke bombs to confuse the opponent first.

Just when the red one was suppressed, here comes another one that is even more difficult to deal with.

For Song Jia, getting this role also made her very happy.

First of all, you can get into the Hong Kong circle.

The Hong Kong entertainment industry has not completely declined these days, and most actors still have expectations for it.

Another reason is because Zhang Jing appeared!
We have to talk about "Curiosity Kills the Cat" starring her, Hu Jun, Liu Jialing and Liao Fan.

Since 1979, the Radio, Film and Television Administration has selected several films every year to submit to the Oscars for the Best Foreign Language Film Award.

This is what the industry calls an Oscar bid.

Today's Olympic roster has just been finalized, two adults and two children.

The two major ones are "The Banquet" and "Curse of the Golden Flower".

These two blockbusters are undoubtedly great.

The two small ones are "Curiosity Kills the Cat" and "Aroma Journey" starring Teacher Fan.

The heroine of "Aroma Journey" is Zhang Jingchu.

Of course Song Jia was very happy to be able to squeeze out his opponent's role.

But we also know that getting a role in the entertainment industry comes at a price.

She knew that Zhang Yuan was not interested in her body, so what he wanted was her as a person.

And she was indeed considering changing her job.

Sister Hua’s side is good, but the biggest problem is that there are too many talented people.

Good roles, especially the leading female role, are never hers.

At this time, she saw Zhang Yuan making a "yeah" sign to him, which means he stretched out two fingers.

Song Jia understood what the other party meant. This was the second time, including the last time on "Love Call Transfer".

As the saying goes, nothing matters more than three things.

Song Jia understood that although the man next to him was young, he also had his fangs exposed sometimes.

If you just take advantage of others without giving anything in return, you probably won't get any good results.

After all, if you can squeeze out others, you can squeeze out yourself.

We chatted for a while, just some small talk.

Zhang Yuan noticed that Chen Kexin looked at Song Jia with a playful look in her eyes.

It's not that I want to sleep with her.

It's not uncommon for directors and producers to sleep with female stars. Teacher Song is pretty and has a nice figure, so she's definitely worth sleeping with.

The reason why Chen Kexin has a different look in her eyes has to do with the "small problems" mentioned earlier, which were caused by the stimulating content of the film "Curiosity Kills the Cat".

This little problem occurs when developing and printing film.

After the shooting was completed, the negatives were handed over to the Beijing Film Studio for development and printing to produce master tapes and copies for archiving and release.

But during the printing process, a printing technician felt that some scenes in the film were too exciting and refused to work.

The reason was that he had been punished for printing illegal films.

So far, things are reasonable.

After all, it's just a few hundred yuan a month, why would I risk my life?
I don’t care how your movie is, I have to make sure nothing goes wrong for me.

But then something went wrong.

You are a printing worker. If you don't want to do the job, then don't do it. Why don't you just replace it with someone who is willing to work?

Not only did this person refuse to do the job, he also withheld the film!
He doesn't wash himself, and he doesn't let others wash him.

Who is the producer of this film?
Imperial Capital TV.

This company is a wholly owned subsidiary of China International Television Corporation.

It is also an affiliated unit of CCTV.

Moreover, the film’s distributor in mainland China is still China Film Group.

How dare you deduct the film made by these two big guys together?

CTS directly hit the radio and television department.

The deputy director of the Film Bureau, whose surname is Zhang, is at the same level as Yang Buting of China Film.

I sent a fax directly to the Beijing processing factory, indicating that they agreed to continue processing and printing the film.

Then, the people from Beixi Factory simply took this person’s words as bullshit!

The excuse was that they were afraid someone would forge the fax.

Not only did they refuse to develop the film, they also withheld the negatives. When the producers went to ask for them back, they were turned away.

Is the Beixi Factory so arrogant that it even dares to disobey its superiors?

Do you take your leader’s words as bullshit?

Deputy Director Zhang was so angry that he sent an official letter personally and also called the factory director.

In this way, the producer got the film back and planned to hand it over to Shanghai Film Studio for processing.

But when I got the film, I found that the content was incomplete!

The Beijing film processing factory seized a large number of negatives on the grounds that the content was sensitive, and said that they would keep them to prevent them from entering the market.

It is obvious that this is not the work of the Beixi Factory; they do not have that much power.

Behind this incident is a battle between gods.

Across the country, in the film industry, who dares to slam the table against the radio, television and television authorities?

Only the radio and television itself.

Every unit has factions and positions.

Without backend support, would Beixi Factory dare to do this?

Because of this incident, the printing of copies of "Curiosity Kills the Cat" was delayed for a whole month.

It was delayed from early August to early September.

Why drag?
In fact, the release date is not important. This kind of low-budget genre film is not intended for box office success.

But the deadline for submission for the Formosa Golden Horse Awards is the end of August!

As soon as the submission deadline for the Golden Horse Awards expired, the Beijing Film Studio gave up on it.

"coincide".

But China Film and Television Corporation is not a pushover. Even though the deadline has expired, they still forced the film to be reviewed.

Zhang Yuan remembers that the biggest winner of this year's Golden Horse Awards was Chen Kexin's "If Love".

The Best Actress award also went to the leading actress Zhou Xun.

But "Curiosity Kills the Cat" was a complete failure.

It would be a lie to say that Chen Kexin had no involvement in this matter and had no knowledge of it at all.

Moreover, Director Chen is one of the Hong Kong directors who is closest to the mainland film industry.

In fact, when it comes down to it, it is still a struggle between the Imperial circle and the Hong Kong circle.

Even above, there are several factions.

Fighting openly and covertly, using all kinds of tricks.

Big stars fighting each other, directors swearing at each other, those are all child's play.

The struggle behind the scenes is cruel.

Everyone at the table has their own agenda, and five people can come up with more than a hundred ideas.

But perhaps, this is the norm in the entertainment industry.

The meeting dinner ended and Zhang Yuan said goodbye to everyone.

Tomorrow he and Song Jia will go to Er Dongsheng's Infinite Film Company for a simple audition. "Brother Hua, see you on the set later."

"Okay, take care of yourself."

Only when with Liu Dehua does Zhang Yuan not have to be too cautious.

Brother Hua is a relatively pure and sincere person.

"Oh, by the way, I asked Ning Hao to prepare the next film, and we will participate together then."

"Okay!" Brother Hua smiled and patted his shoulder hard.

Ning Hao is talented and famous, so his next film will most likely make money.

Brother Hua thought to himself that this guy not only doesn't eat alone, but also thinks of me when he makes money. It turned out that it was not in vain that I supported him in front of Er Dongsheng and Chen Kexin.

Song Jia stayed in the same hotel with him, so it was convenient for them to go to the audition together tomorrow.

Before returning to the room to rest, Teacher Song expressed his gratitude very sincerely.

Zhang Yuan had no intention of becoming a fellow traveler with Brother Zhang Li. After responding in a friendly manner, he went back to his room early to wash up and rest.

Silent all night.

The next day, Hongtu Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon.

Er Dongsheng's company is located in the office building here.

When shooting the company's first film, Love in a Fallen City, Er Dongsheng felt that he needed to communicate more with young people to inspire them.

So he found Chen Kexin.

That year, Er Dongsheng was 36 and Chen Kexin was 32.

Director Er's definition of young people is indeed questionable...

Since then, the two have often studied movies together, which led to the current "The Disciples".

"Do we need to make any preparations?" Er Dongsheng and Chen Kexin asked Zhang Yuan and Song Jia while sitting behind their desks.

"Can I drink some water first and adjust my breathing and state?" Teacher Song replied.

"Okay, what about you?" Director Er agreed and turned to look at Zhang Yuan.

"I'm available anytime."

Er Dongsheng raised his eyebrows and glanced at Chen Kexin beside him.

This guy is so cool!

Song Jia was also a little surprised. Don’t you need to adjust your state?
Although the two had met before on the set of "Night Banquet" and "Love Call Transfer".

But Zhang Li is a married man, so Song Jia cannot appear publicly in "Night Banquet".

When filming "Love Call Transfer", the two people's roles were basically staggered and they only met each other.

So she has never seen Zhang Yuan perform.

"Okay then, go ahead and give me the usual state of a drug addict."

Zhang Yuan raised his hand and made an OK gesture, and he was in the state the next second.

Relax your shoulders, hips, legs, muscles and joints.

He had been holding his head high and looking very high-spirited, but his body immediately slumped.

"Ha..." He squinted his eyes and yawned as if he hadn't slept for three days.

The originally sunny expression suddenly turned wretched.

It wasn't too difficult for him to act like a drug addict.

After all, the Axe Gang leader is a heavy smoker.

However, the drug in "The Disciples" is heroin, and the drug in "Kung Fu" is opium.

"Oh..." Er Dongsheng took a look.

No wonder he is so arrogant, he really has the ability.

He turned his head and looked at Chen Kexin again, who pursed her lips and nodded.

Whether in terms of physical condition or expression and temperament, his current image meets the standard image of a drug addict.

It would be difficult to reject a candidate that Liu Dehua strongly recommended.

But the process still has to go.

In case the result is too different from expectations, there is still time to make adjustments.

Now it seems that he is indeed not coming. What Brother Hua said was right.

Song Jia was also watching from the side.

Apart from anything else, she was very surprised by how quickly Zhang Yuan got into the state.

She knew that this was something she could never do.

Zhang Yuan maintained his state and spoke a few lines.

Er Dongsheng smiled and raised his hand to call for a stop.

"good."

Director Er thought about it and spoke again.

"What do you think can be improved in your performance just now?"

He thought about it.

"First of all, physically, I'm too strong. A heavy drug addict can't be in the shape I am now."

"In the next period of time, I will make some physical adjustments."

"Also, I made an appointment to go to a drug rehabilitation center, but I didn't get to go in time."

"We also need to take a closer look at the various states and behavioral details of Hai Xin drug addicts."

“I haven’t collected all the information.”

"It may be necessary to further deepen the character's logic from the three aspects of pathology, physiology and psychology."

"Hmm..." Er Dongsheng nodded continuously.

Well, it's good that he realizes this.

And what he said was more and deeper than I thought.

not bad.

Song Jia, who was standing by, was also secretly listening and taking notes.

The actors acting opposite her are so serious, she can't lose face.

The points others mentioned are also the directions I need to follow.

After he said that, my thoughts became clearer.

After chatting for a few more sentences, Zhang Yuan sat down to rest.

It was Song Jia's turn to perform.

This person watched some anti-drug videos in advance and imitated the changes in reactions of some female drug addicts before and after taking drugs.

The two directors were also quite satisfied after watching it.

I didn’t expect that both young mainland actors are masters.

People with connections are people with connections, and their abilities are not inferior at all.

"Okay, we've almost finished watching. Welcome to the crew of 'Disciples'."

"Everyone, please finalize the date, and I will send you the contract."

After chatting for a while about matters related to the film and finishing their business, the two said goodbye to the director and producer.

After going out, Zhang Yuan looked at Teacher Song.

"Are you going back to the capital now?"

"Yes."

"Let's go together then."

This was also the first time that Teacher Song followed him into the first class cabin.

"How much do you weigh now?" Zhang Yuan asked after he got on the plane and sat down.

"Why are you asking this?" Song Jiaxin thought, Zhang Yuan is usually very decent, why would he suddenly ask me such a sensitive question as a woman?
"My current weight is around 145 kilograms," Zhang Yuan said.

With a height of over 1.80 meters and long-term martial arts training, this weight is already the lower limit for maintaining the highest physical condition.

If it weren't for maintaining his image for filming, he would have wanted to gain more than ten pounds.

That's the way to punch with power, scale and justice.

"I plan to lose weight to less than 120 pounds."

"This is consistent with the physical state of an addict."

"Oh..." Song Jia understood what he meant.

The question was about weight, but what they were actually talking about was drama.

Since it's a play, there's no such thing as offense.

"I am now, ahem, I weigh about... about 100 kilograms."

"What time?" Zhang Yuan asked with narrowed eyes.

"About ten to twenty..." Teacher Song replied guiltily.

She lost weight deliberately when filming "Curiosity Kills the Cat".

After the filming, I ate and drank a lot as a revenge.

This girl is from Northeast China. She has a big frame and is over 173cm tall, so her weight is actually not exaggerated.

Among ordinary people, she is considered thin.

"You have too many zeros." Zhang Yuan said with a chuckle.

"I know, I'll lose weight too." Song Jia understood.

She was brought there by Zhang Yuan, and she couldn't embarrass him.

"Then I'll set it at 100..."

"90." Zhang Yuan gave a number directly.

"Why did I lose more weight than you?" Teacher Song was not convinced.

"You'll know why if you read the script yourself." Zhang Yuan was too lazy to reply.

In the script, her character, A-Fen, eventually died of a drug overdose.

The degree is obviously deeper than Zhang Yuan's role.

The closer you are to death, the greater your addiction becomes, and the thinner you will definitely become.

"Okay!" Song Jia gritted his teeth and agreed.

In order to shape the character, I gave it my all!

Seeing that she had made up her mind, Zhang Yuan said no more.

A number of people put on slippers, spread blankets, put on eye masks, and then entered the "lying board" mode.

A few hours later, the plane landed.

Say goodbye to Song Jia.

Zhang Yuan did not return to the courtyard to rest, but took a car directly to a high-end villa community called Ziyu Villa, which was about half an hour's drive from the Imperial Capital Airport.

A few months ago, Zhang Guoli just moved here... (End of this chapter)