"I'm at the theater, perform well, come on!"
Before the performance, Liu Yifei received a text message from Zhang Yuanjun.
Liu Yifei felt a little more at ease. She had already put on makeup and changed clothes, and was waiting for the show to begin.
Zhang Yuanjun's position was very ordinary. He was sitting on a chair wearing a hat and watching the show quietly.
It would be a lie to say that Liu Yifei's acting skills have made a qualitative leap since "Blind City" was released.
But the 20-year-old Liu Yifei was in the best state of her life. She entered the theater and rehearsed "City of the Blind" and "Teahouse" - she played Xiao Dingbao in "Teahouse", and it was staged in the second half of the year - she was very interested in acting. Zhang Yuanjun’s understanding and his own digestion and expression of this understanding have indeed made great progress.
It can be seen that she really devoted herself to the character she played.
Today is the penultimate day of the second round of performances of "Blind City". Even with Liu Yifei, tonight's attendance rate will inevitably go downhill, with less than 600 seats out of 800.
After the performance, the entire audience gave the actors warm applause.
Liu Yifei stood beside the two leading actors and bowed.
She scanned the audience, found Zhang Yuanjun sitting there, and waved in his direction on the stage.
Zhang Yuanjun nodded in response.
After the actors took their final bow, Zhang Yuanjun did not go backstage to visit the cast, but left the stage with the audience.
Liu Yifei finished her last performance the next day and flew to Hengdian overnight to restart the production of "Kung Fu King".
But Zhang Yuanjun still stayed in the capital. If there was a play in the theater, he would rehearse it. If there was no play, he would make his own announcement.
Zhang Yuanjun has to contact Yu Feihong every three to five days to ask about the restart time of "Love Is Afterlife" because although he will not sign with the crew for the time being, sometimes it is unavoidable to leave Beijing and go to other places, or even abroad to prepare for the upcoming film. To promote the release of "Buried Alive".
However, Yu Feihong told him that the crew would not be able to turn on the machine for a while and asked him to feel free to run his own announcements and promotions.
Today, Zhang Yuanjun came to the Beiben headquarters building.
Before filming an advertisement for Mercedes-Benz, he was asked to show up at the headquarters to build momentum for the new C-class sedan, which will be officially released in November.
The news that Zhang Yuanjun endorsed Mercedes-Benz has aroused a lot of attention in the industry. As we all know, luxury brands have very strict requirements for spokespersons, and among them, endorsements from luxury car brands can be said to be the most difficult to get among all kinds of endorsements.
Although Zhang Yuanjun has only received the Chinese endorsement of the new C-class car, he has already made his peers jealous.
Not to mention that Zhang Yuanjun is the first spokesperson of Mercedes-Benz China, which is enough to prove that Zhang Yuanjun has officially entered the eyes of Mercedes-Benz executives, and there is the possibility of deepening cooperation in the future.
Zhang Yuanjun will visit the Beiben Building in a decent manner today. In the later words, this is called sweeping the building.
This event was followed by reporters from the automotive and entertainment sectors.
Beiben Vice President of Marketing Si did not accompany Zhang Yuanjun, which shows how much Mercedes-Benz attaches importance to him.
Zhang Yuanjun and Si Wei came to visit Beiben's office area. The girls in the office all held up their mobile phones to take pictures of him.
Si Wei smiled and said, "They were so excited when they knew you were coming."
Zhang Yuanjun smiled and greeted the staff: "Hello."
The young girls screamed, "Can you sign your name for us?"
"Of course." Zhang Yuanjun did not refuse and took the pen to sign one by one.
"You're more handsome in person than on TV."
This statement made everyone present laugh.
Zhang Yuanjun lowered his head to sign and said with a smile: "You are also very beautiful."
Zhang Yuanjun visited the functional departments for about half an hour and was guided to the lobby downstairs.
He also had to listen to the Mercedes-Benz sales girl explain to him the product he wanted to endorse, and reporters followed him to take pictures, which was considered early publicity.
"Hello Yuanjun." The sales lady shook hands with Zhang Yuanjun and said, "The car in front of us now is our new C-class sedan that will be launched soon, C 200K..."
The sales lady was very professional and explained the history of the C-Class and the various configurations and advantages of this car.
Zhang Yuanjun's knowledge of cars was limited, and he would chime in to cheer him up from time to time, but he only half understood what he was saying.
After the introduction, the sales lady also invited Zhang Yuanjun to enter the car and experience it.
Zhang Yuanjun did as he was told. To be honest, this car couldn't keep up with the Volvo he was driving now, but after thinking about it, there was no point in comparing the Mercedes-Benz C to the Volvo XC 90.
So after the test ride, he still praised the car as "very luxurious and very comfortable", which was what Mercedes-Benz asked him to say.
After listening to the sales explanation, Mercedes-Benz held a formal signing ceremony for Zhang Yuanjun and officially announced Zhang Yuanjun as its new product spokesperson.
However, assistant Xiao Zhao's wishful thinking came to nothing.
Mercedes-Benz hired Zhang Yuanjun as its spokesperson, but did not give him a car to drive.
According to the contract, Zhang Yuanjun, as a spokesperson, cannot stand for other car brands in public events. For example, at a film festival, if another car sponsors the event, Zhang Yuanjun cannot take photos with the car of that brand like other celebrities.
But Mercedes-Benz did not require Zhang Yuanjun to drive their car in private. Mercedes-Benz would immediately regret such a rule.
The news that Zhang Yuanjun officially signed a contract with Mercedes-Benz was spread by the media:
"Popular young student Zhang Yuanjun officially signed a contract with Mercedes-Benz today and became the first spokesperson for Mercedes-Benz in China. It is understood that Zhang Yuanjun's first advertisement for Mercedes-Benz will also be launched in the near future. Mercedes-Benz marketing personnel revealed to the media that Mercedes-Benz is very excited about this cooperation. Attention, the commercial will be shot and produced to film-level standards, and will use gorgeous digital special effects to bring a different audio-visual experience to the audience."
Then, the next morning, a reporter photographed Zhang Yuanjun driving his Volvo out of Dongshan Villa and heading to a restaurant to share morning tea with Xia Yu.
After that, he drove the Volvo to discuss things with his producer friends.
After lunch, the Volvo drove back to Dongshan Villa. An hour later, Zhang Yuanjun drove out from home again and went to a writing shop in Panjiayuan to buy pens, ink, paper, inkstones and some writing supplies.
It can be seen from the footage taken by the reporter that Zhang Yuanjun is an old customer of the library store. He had a good chat with the boss. Zhang Yuanjun gained a lot from this trip and bought two large boxes of goods in the store. The staff in the store helped to put the boxes away. Move into the trunk.
After coming out of Panjiayuan, Zhang Yuanjun drove his Volvo to the People's Art Theater.
In the evening, Volvo left Renyi and arrived at a private restaurant. After dinner, Zhang Yuanjun drove home alone.
All day long, Mercedes-Benz people were going crazy!
I signed a contract with Mercedes-Benz the day before and praised their cars as very luxurious and comfortable. Today I drove around in the Volvo!
Don't play like this!
Mercedes-Benz brand marketing called Zhang Yuanjun's studio, but the studio staff said that Zhang Yuanjun had no work schedule today and it was entirely his private time. There was no requirement in yesterday's endorsement contract that Zhang Yuanjun must drive a Mercedes-Benz in his private life. There was nothing they could do if they were followed and photographed by reporters.
Volvo is crazy, it’s such a big advertisement for nothing.
Mercedes-Benz had to hold an emergency meeting to discuss response strategies. (End of chapter)
