As soon as Zhang Yuanjun hung up the phone, there was a knock on the door.
The producer panted and said, "Follow me quickly. The TV station leader wants to see you by name."
"The actor contract I signed is not to sell my body but my art." In an instant, Zhang Yuanjun felt scared.
"Bah!" the producer spat, "You are too young. The leader doesn't like young people."
"It really does happen!" Zhang Yuanjun had never heard of such a thing.
"Isn't this weird?" the producer said, having seen a lot, "I'm tired of eating delicacies from the mountains and seas. I'm not telling you this. Come with me quickly."
"I don't know those leaders, why are they meeting me by name?" Zhang Yuanjun was confused, but he had already followed them out of the room.
The producer said, "'The young man on your crew who plays the role of Gui Hai Yida is good.' Then I came to find you."
After saying this, Zhang Yuanjun became interested.
TV station leaders will not criticize themselves for no reason.
Could it be that he was finally going to meet a noble person and rise to prominence?
Zhang Yuanjun thought to himself that he was not so lucky, so he also planned to meet him.
The crew's reception has entered the second half. After dinner, they sang and drank in the nightclub.
Only two of the leaders who came are still here, and the rest have gone back to the hotel early to "rest".
Zhang Yuanjun discovered a phenomenon. The average quality of girls in nightclubs around the film and television city is higher than that in other nightclubs.
For example, right now, the girls in the box are really as good-looking as the students at the film school. If there are financial backers, they might become popular.
The dim light in the box made it impossible for Zhang Yuanjun to see the other person's face clearly.
But through the introduction, Zhang Yuanjun knew that the other party was the leader of Jinling TV Station.
Zhang Yuanjun confirmed that he had never seen him before.
The leader held a little girl with one arm and said in Luling dialect: "My father and I are old classmates. When your father came to Jinling for an examination, he mentioned that his son was filming in Wuxi and played Gui Hai Yi Dao. You are the third child, right?" ?”
The word "ba" followed by "老三" sounds awkward.
"Yes, I am the third child." Zhang Yuanjun agreed. Since he is an elder and a friend of his father, Zhang Yuanjun raised his glass and said, "Come on, let me respect you."
“Forget it, what does a 19-year-old drink?
"You must act well, you know. Act steadily and be an honest person. Don't lose your father's face, let alone the face of us Luling people."
Nice words are nice, but the scene of him hugging two scantily clad young girls in a nightclub box and teaching the younger generation to work hard and be honest is as weird as you want.
Nothing happened, Zhang Yuanjun said hello and went back.
One thing Zhang Yuanjun didn't quite understand was that his father didn't go to college due to policy reasons, but his high school classmates could actually reach Jinling. This kind of friendship is really amazing.
The leaders of the TV station stayed with the crew for two days. During these two days, the crew's work was very relaxed. They usually only worked for half a day, and the rest of the time was spent entertaining the leaders to eat, drink and have fun.
Others previously only knew that Zhang Yuanjun's "family may have some money," but now they also know that "their family is also well-connected in TV stations and the entertainment industry."
The conscience of heaven and earth!
That's his dad's old classmate. How come he's "well connected in the entertainment industry"?
This relationship is not enough for the TV station to spend real money to buy dramas.
However, Zhang Yuanjun did benefit from this. Many people on the crew became more friendly to him, and the Hong Kong actors even invited him to eat and play together.
After the crew sent away the visiting TV team, they resumed intense filming work.
Wang Jing also left the crew to prepare for his "Little Fish and Flowers". Before leaving, I didn’t forget to tell Zhang Yuanjun about the investment.
Now even he believes that the Zhang family has energy in the industry and can help sell the drama.
After all, he is a foreign monk. Even if he is famous, he still needs to have good relations with big local companies.
But Zhang Yuanjun still means that, unless he is asked to play Hua Wuque, there is no need to talk about it.
Wang Jing would never agree to this request. In the end, he had no choice but to give up, but he also extended an olive branch: "You are suitable for this bowl of rice. We can cooperate more if there are opportunities in the future."
Wang Jing knew that Zhang Yuanjun would not sign a company, but it would be good for him to develop in the mainland if he made friends with Zhang Yuanjun and used Zhang Yuanjun more often in the future to improve the relationship.
In the last half month or so, Zhang Yuanjun's scenes have been very concentrated.
Mainly filming the plot after Gui Hai cuts off his hand with a knife.
In this plot, Zhang Yuanjun encountered difficulties. He is right-handed.
The crew's stand-ins can stand in for a while - yes, Zhang Yuanjun also has a stand-in, and he will use a stand-in for some dangerous moves, and those that he can't do at the moment - but many scenes still require him to perform in person.
This is nothing to avoid, and it does not involve professional ethics issues. Stuntman is also an important job for the crew. Jackie Chan and Lin Zhengying started out as stand-ins.
His stand-in didn't look like him, except in body shape and height.
Zhang Yuanjun also specially practiced the sword with his left hand, but he was never as sharp as his right hand. For this reason, the crew made a lot of jokes:
The way he draws the knife is extremely awkward and funny.
As he was slapping, his hands would not obey him. Several times, the knife suddenly dropped and the opponent actor failed to catch it. Zhang Yuanjun was almost injured.
Zhang Yuanjun felt funny when he thought about this.
He practiced hard, but it was still not ideal.
Finally, he was forced to panic and asked his assistant Xiao Zhao to tie his right hand. No matter in daily life or working on the set, he only used his left hand.
This is very painful for Zhang Yuanjun. He can't even use chopsticks when eating. Others can eat in ten minutes, but he has to eat for half an hour. He doesn't even accept the assistant's suggestion to use a spoon.
What makes him angry is that when eating next to others, he always bumps hands and chopsticks with others, causing others to roll their eyes.
"I don't need a substitute, and I don't know who to spend all this time on."
If eating and drinking with his left hand just takes more time, then the hygiene issue makes Zhang Yuanjun even more painful.
He couldn't use his left hand very well, and every time he went to the toilet, he felt like he hadn't taken care of it properly.
So much so that in those days he always felt that others were looking at him strangely, which made him feel even more unclean.
The use of his left hand also made it difficult for him to adapt to the calligraphy practice he had been practicing for 10 years.
He felt that he could no longer even hold a pen, and the words he wrote felt worse than a dog crawling.
He was so angry that he dropped several pens.
But the discomfort subsided after a week.
The handwriting is still like a dog crawling, and the left hand is still weak, but it is no longer inconvenient to eat, drink and poop.
Zhang Yuanjun's efforts were recognized by colleagues in the crew.
"Even though he is a young master from a wealthy family, he is not squeamish at all. He is still practicing so hard when he is almost finished."
Of course, they are not all good words: "It's just a casual meal, why are you so serious? If you don't have a stand-in, it will delay our filming progress."
During the filming, under the training of the action director, Zhang Yuanjun's left-hand knife dance was quite impressive.
