Liu Yifei called Zhang Yuanjun's American manager Eddie, who said: "Zhao said that Zhang's girlfriend wants to act in "The King of Kung Fu."
Liu Yifei secretly blamed Xiao Zhao for being loud-mouthed, but she did not deny Eddie's statement on the phone. Instead, she humbly introduced her situation, hoping that he could introduce the relevant person in charge of "The King of Kung Fu" to her.
Eddie said that he could introduce her to her, but there was no guarantee that the audition would be successful. Liu Yifei expressed her understanding. Then Eddie asked her to come to the United States within three days, and Liu Yifei agreed.
Afterwards, Liu Yifei called her mother and said that the crew of "The King of Kung Fu" wanted him to go to the United States to meet the director.
Liu Xiaoli has no doubt about him. Liu Yifei is the current favorite, so it is normal for the director to want to meet her.
"Would you like to wait until I come back in the evening and go with you?"
"I'm already 20, and I'm still running around with my mom." Liu Yifei behaved normally on the phone, making fun of her mom as usual.
"That's fine, give me a call when you land."
That afternoon, Liu Yifei boarded the flight to Los Angeles alone without an assistant.
Li Ying received her and said with a smile: "She looks really beautiful."
Liu Yifei is so embarrassed now.
Li Ying is Zhang Yuanjun's future sister-in-law. What's going on if she comes to pick him up?
Li Ying drove and chatted with Liu Yifei, but Liu Yifei's mind was not on Li Ying at all.
She was thinking:
I met his sister during the summer vacation of 2004, and then met his mother during the action training for "The Condor" and had a meal with his mother. I also met his brother in the summer vacation of 2005 in Los Angeles, and now I meet his brother's daughter. Friend his future sister-in-law.
After all, except for Zhang Yuanjun's father, I met their entire family once.
What's going on?
"Yuanjun told me about you," Li Ying said with a smile, "The boss of Relativity Media is called Kavanaugh. He used to work on Wall Street and I know him. I don't know much about movies, so I'll give you a clue. You guys talk."
"Okay, thank you." Liu Yifei agreed softly.
"As a family, please don't say thank you." Li Ying said with a smile.
"No, Zhang Yuanjun and I..." Liu Yifei explained anxiously.
But Li Ying didn't listen to her explanation. He turned the steering wheel and said, "You don't need to tell me about your affairs. You can just handle it yourself."
Liu Yifei shut up obediently.
Without even having time to catch up on jet lag, Li Ying sent Liu Yifei to the hotel, and the two of them went with Eddie to meet Kavanaugh.
…………
"Love Has an Afterlife" has stopped production again.
This is the first time the crew has stopped working due to weather and external environment.
The crew has been working for more than a month, and less than a quarter of the footage has been shot. This kind of progress is not acceptable even for a director who is devoted to pursuing his dream. In recent days, he has been discussing with the assistant director how to adjust the shooting plan and improve efficiency.
Zhang Yuanjun looked at the heavy rain outside the window, but he had some understanding in his heart. In such a bad shooting environment, to put it bluntly, God would not allow Yu Feihong to be the director.
The filming was suspended, there was no entertainment in the mountains, and a bad atmosphere gradually spread among the crew.
Several people in the extras gathered to gamble.
It might be a bit excessive to say gambling, but anyway, they got together to play poker to pass the time.
The assistant director would still take care of it at first, but after a few times he couldn't stop this trend. He simply let them go out of sight and out of mind. In the end, it evolved into the situation where even the assistant director who coordinated the group performances was involved and even took the lead. Organize the game.
Zhang Yuanjun is the youngest in the whole group. He is usually familiar with the assistant director and extras, and they wanted to get him to play cards together.
But Zhang Yuanjun refused.
He would rather practice writing every day than play cards at this time. To put it bluntly, this really means that he does not take the director seriously.
Zhang Yuanjun has been in very good condition writing with the sound of rain these days.
A young lady like Yu Feihong must know how to calligraphy. Zhang Yuanjun had seen Yu Feihong's calligraphy and found that it was very elegant, without any trace of makeup.
"It's you," Yu Feihong saw Zhang Yuanjun setting up the calligraphy table on the set again, "I rarely see boys your age learning such delicate and beautiful calligraphy as Zhao Mengfu."
Recalling his experience of learning calligraphy, Zhang Yuanjun had something to say: "I started to learn official script. I learned regular script from Erwang, and then from Yan Zhenqing. I forgot how old I was. My dad took me to see a calligraphy exhibition, "Red Cliff". "Fu" is inside, forget about the feeling you get at first sight."
Yu Feihong naturally understands this feeling.
"I only had four words in my mind at that time, the spirit of a fairy. Later I read "The Stele of Danba", "Come Back Home" and "Wuxing Fu", etc. The more I read, the more fascinated I became, so I decided to write about Zhao Mengfu, and I have been writing until now."
Yu Feihong was not good at regular script, so he asked him which family he had learned in regular script.
"Which one should I study? The Second King will be enough for me to write about for a lifetime." Zhang Yuanjun said.
But this answer obviously does not satisfy Yu Feihong. Who in the world does not learn calligraphy from the two kings?
Zhang Yuanjun went on to say: "Besides the two kings, the main ones are Mi Fu and Dong Qichang. Cursive script is the way of Wang Xizhi, Zhiyong, Huaisu and Zhang Zhi."
Yu Feihong listened and nodded: "It is the inheritance of the two kings. Then why do you write Shoujin?" Zhang Yuanjun has been writing Shoujin recently.
"Writing for fun, hehe." Xiao Zhao on the side rolled his eyes.
"You have time to help me write the subtitles."
"Okay, you say." Zhang Yuanjun responded.
"Help me copy a volume of the Heart Sutra in lower regular script." Yu Feihong requested.
"No problem. I have written the Heart Sutra eighty times if not a hundred times, and I will give it to you next week."
"There's no rush, let's wait until our film is finished." Yu Feihong was under a lot of pressure because of the crew's affairs.
The rain didn't stop until dark. It was not safe in the mountains at night. Not only the actors, but also the crew did not want to stay in the mountains to shoot night scenes.
Yu Feihong had no choice but to order back to the hotel.
Not a single shot was taken today.
The next day was a rare sunny day.
Yu Feihong quickly arranged the crew: "Quick, quick, quick, let's take two more shots."
Today was still mainly indoor scenes. Zhang Yuanjun and Yu Feihong cooperated tacitly and finished filming three scenes before the hailstorm.
Hail crackled the cabin.
"This kind of weather only exists in Yunnan Province." Zhang Yuanjun, wrapped in a down jacket, sat under the eaves, enjoying himself in misery.
Assistant Xiao Zhao also sat on the side and said: "Yifei returned to China today."
"oh."
"I don't know how the conversation went."
"It depends on fate."
"If Huayi knew that Yifei had bypassed them and went directly to the film studio for an audition, she might have done something." Xiao Zhao's worry is not unreasonable.
"Soldiers are coming to cover up the water and the earth is coming. It's okay for Huayi to use such a big banner to deceive others, but you still want to deceive me?"
Zhang Yuanjun knew that Liu Yifei's careless mother had flirted with Huayi, which resulted in her being "banned" for two years.
Xiao Zhao also raised this concern: "What if Hua Yi becomes angry and wants to ban Yifei?"
"It's scary. Although he is the boss of domestic film and television, he doesn't have a monopoly. He can ban an actor at will. Not to mention that Yifei is now an actor at the National Theater, so he really can't ban him."
But Zhang Yuanjun still said matter-of-factly: "But Huayi will definitely use some disgusting tricks to deal with Yifei. After all, she does not follow the rules."
"Then what are we going to do?" Xiao Zhao asked.
Zhang Yuanjun was confused and said with a smile: "What we? She is her and I am me. When did we become us?"
"Now that the distinction is so clear, why didn't I make it clear when I called Yifei's introducer a few days ago?" Xiao Zhao said.
"What are you talking about? It's boring." Zhang Yuanjun was a little embarrassed.
(End of chapter)
