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Chapter 102 Role Arrangement

Huang Ze and Susanna met each other in a coffee shop near Warner Records.

This was a tall man who was nearly 1.9 meters tall, with a face full of flesh and a fierce look. When Huang Ze saw him for the first time, he was worried that he would say "mother fucker."

Um, the guy Huang Ze found is the one who is not well-known now, but will be the future Marvel Comics, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., the bald guy.

"Samuel Jackson." Huang Ze stretched out his hand.

"Hello, Huang!" Samuel Jackson held Huang Ze's hand tightly. At this moment, he was a little excited.

He had heard of Huang Ze, the singer Huang Ze.

After hearing that Huang Ze wanted him to play a role, he asked about director Huang Ze.

Although she is not very famous in Hollywood, she has made a name for herself in the three major European film festivals. Her debut film won the second prize in Venice, and her second film won three major awards in Cannes, especially the Best Director and Best Actress. You should know that Cannes generally does not award two major awards to the same work at the same time.

The most important thing is that for him, such an achievement is something he needs to look up to.

Don't be fooled by his age, he has been in the industry for a long time. Born in 48, he is almost years old now and has been in the film and television industry for more than ten years.

But I can still only hang around in the TV circle and play supporting roles, and I don’t know where to get ahead.

Now, being able to play a supporting role in a movie directed by a fairly well-known director is a big step forward.

At the very least, if Huang Ze's new movie can maintain his previous performance, he will have a resume worth mentioning, and maybe he can join the independent film circle in the future.

Samuel Jackson knew this very well, so he was humble. "Huang, I have no problem going to Hong Kong Island. Salary is not a problem either. Can I know what my role is like?"

"As an emotionally stable drug dealer, you don't need to make too many expressions."

"But I need you to add a rap feeling to your lines. Speak rap seriously. Got it?"

As he spoke, Huang Ze wrote down a line and handed it to the other party.

This line is about the protagonist group who robbed other gang members and sold the stolen hemp to a black market merchant. The black market merchant naturally had to find a buyer, and coincidentally sold it back to the drug dealer in the hemp-growing group.

Take the other party's goods and then sell them to the other party.

The slap in the face was too hard.

Then the drug dealer brought the black marketeer to his territory and started making threatening remarks.

After watching it, Samuel Jackson thought for two minutes and started.

"If you dare to lie to me, I will kill you."

"If you dare to play tricks on me, or if I think you are playing tricks on me, I will kill you."

"If you forget, I'll kill you too."

"In fact, you have to work very hard to save your life. Do you understand what I mean?"

"If you don't understand, I will kill you!"

After listening to this passage, Huang Ze had to say that Hey Man does have a talent for rap.

That’s quite right.

Huang Ze nodded and said, "I need you to rush to Hong Kong Island within a month and start training with the crew. Can you do it?"

"no problem!"

"contract."

"Leave your contact information and someone will contact you."

It was not a big role, so after the deal was made, Huang Ze left and called Gong Xing, asking him to send someone to draft a contract and sign Samuel Jackson first.

As for the remuneration and other matters, let my subordinates discuss it.

It's just a matter of at most 30,000 US dollars, it's impossible for Huang Ze to worry about everything.

……

August 10th.

Huang Ze finished filming the MVs for three songs, completed his work in the United States, and returned to Hong Kong Island.

The first thing I did when I returned to Hong Kong was to check how the screenwriting department had done in localizing the lines. After taking a look, I found it was pretty good. The money and the people were not wasted in vain.

Holding the printed new script, Huang Ze returned to the office, took a piece of A4 paper, and drew a diagram of the relationship between the characters of Two Smoking Barrels.

White people, gay people, and Indians are excluded. They are not very important roles. We can find them when the time comes. Hong Kong Island may be able to find enough. If not, we can find someone from England. As long as the acting skills are good enough, it will be fine. We mainly study the roles of yellow people.

First, the protagonists.

Even though they are the protagonists, there is a primary and secondary distinction. Business wizard A is the real protagonist of this film. Huang Ze can't act out the kind of "I know everything, don't try to fool me" and "can talk about everything" look, so that's the role of the company's top boss Liang Jiahui.

For this kind of versatile actor who can basically reach 80 points even if he can't get 100 points in any role, playing a role like this should not be a problem.

It should be possible in terms of time. "As Tears Go By" has been filmed for a month. I just asked Liu Zhenwei and he said that it is more than halfway through. His own "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" will take at least more than a month to prepare, which is enough time for him to join the crew by then.

Uh, that’s it. Huang Ze wrote Liang Jiahui’s name under the character.

Then came himself. Huang Ze had already thought about which role he would play, a more serious role of Chef B, which did not require much acting skills. With his MV level, this should be enough for him.

Even if it's not enough, there are only a few shots and they can be polished out.

For Ding, the son of the bar owner and a master card player, it required quite a bit of acting skills to play the scene where he lost all his money and even owed one million.

"By the way, it would be best to use a mainland actor. It would be really mean if I don't use more mainland actors."

Once this qualifier was added, Huang Ze had no choice.

Wang Zhiwen's song.

He is an old acquaintance whom I have used twice and he is also a fellow villager.

It is impossible for the other party to refuse your invitation.

The final street thug C needs to look more down-to-earth and not too handsome. In short, my crew does not allow anyone more handsome than me to appear!

Forget it, it’s you, Brother Wuying.

I don't know why, but the classic line by Zhang Xueyou came to my mind, so I just gave it to him.

Of course, you still have to ask if there is a schedule.

So, Huang Ze took the opportunity to inspect the crew of "As Tears Go By" to see if Wang Jiawei was getting carried away. After telling Liang Jiahui that he would be starring in the next movie, he found Zhang Xueyou, who had no scenes to shoot at the moment, and chatted with him, "There is a role in my new movie, one of the protagonists. I like you. It will probably be between mid-September and early December. Do you have time?"

"I will definitely be in Director Huang's scenes! Even if I don't have one, I will squeeze one out." Upon hearing that it would be one of the leading roles, Zhang Xue agreed without hesitation.

"By the way, you are playing a talkative street vendor this time. You can observe him when you have nothing to do and gain some experience."

"Understood. Thank you, Director Huang."

The main characters have been confirmed, and the remaining role for Huang Ze is more casual.

Just write down the first idea first, and then form a crew and let the assistant director and others find people.

Once we find the right people, it won't be a problem to bring them into the crew.

Which popular Hong Kong actor nowadays doesn't work non-stop? Running around with several crews?
Not to mention the supporting roles.

It's better to work than to do nothing.

As long as you can make money, why should you be picky?
That's not the treatment a supporting role deserves.

For the stupid thief duo, Huang Ze planned to find two people who are not very good-looking, but are slightly fat, have flesh on their faces, and have a sense of humor. Ah Le Chen Baixiang is one of them. After all, he is the one who can compete with the other in Stephen Chow's movies. That kind of mean temperament is very outstanding.

Another one, Huang Ze set his sights on the mainland and went directly to the top account, Chen Peisi. I offered Hong Kong dollars to recruit people, it was just a matter of how much money. The money was in place, and if he disagreed, his unit would also do its homework.

Besides, after saying it a few times during the Spring Festival Gala, Huang Ze and he became familiar with each other backstage, so it shouldn't be a problem.

The casino owner had two top generals under him. One of them, Huang Ze, wrote down Cheng Kuian's name, and the other one took his son to collect debts. He was ruthless and taciturn, and it was obvious that he was not a good guy. So he gave the position to Ji Chunhua, whose eyebrows could not even be seen.

He played the villain in both "Shaolin Temple" and "Shaolin Kid".

When these two films were released in Hong Kong, the box office was quite good, so there was no pressure to use Huang Ze.

The fat black market merchant is easy to deal with, any fat cat Zheng Zeshi will do.

But when it came to the underground casino owner, Huang Ze was in a dilemma. He didn't understand!
I simply found Liu Zhenwei and said, "Zhenwei, can you help me think of a suitable actor in Hong Kong? I need him to be at least 50 years old, have the temperament to play a gangster boss, and have good acting skills. It would be better if he is famous and not expensive."

Huang Ze still wants to get box office revenue in Hong Kong Island.

A bunch of the main actors are either banned, singers, or recruited from the mainland, so their box office appeal is limited.

It would be best if the supporting roles could have more box office appeal.

(End of this chapter)