By the way, Jiang Wen is one of the judges at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
The chairman of this film festival is the famous French director Patrice Jaap. The romance film "Intimacy" directed by this guy won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival the year before last, and at the beginning of this year he once again won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for his feature film "Dead Poets Society". Currently a popular art film director in Europe.
In addition to Chinese actor Jiang Wen, the other eight jury members are also familiar to the audience, including American sweetheart Meg Ryan and American director Steven Spielberg.
As for Jiang Wen's moji in Zhang Ziyi's mouth, Li Tang had already learned this lesson when he guest-starred in "Dad and Me" directed by Xu Jinglei. It should be said that Jiang Wen may be better as a director than as an actor.
Xu Jinglei's "Dad and Me" was also submitted for the Cannes Film Festival this time. It is said that it relied on Jiang Wen's connections, but in the end it was still unsuccessful.
But it’s normal to think about it. There are more than 2,400 films registered for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and a total of dozens of films have been shortlisted. You can imagine how difficult it is. At the same time, it also confirms the awesomeness of MK2 from the side. Without the operation of MK2, neither Diao Yinan's "Uniform" nor Ning Hao's "Incense" would have been considered.
"Oh, by the way, I heard that you are currently filming the TV series "The Shadow" directed by He Qun?" Zhang Ziyi then asked casually.
When she asked this question, her tone was more or less condescending, and a hint of superiority flashed on her face.
There's nothing we can do about it. Among the current domestic actors, she may be the only one who has never filmed a TV series but can still stay on the front line. Note, it's an actor, not an actress.
Think about it, big names like Jiang Wen and Ge You who can handle both box office and international awards have all filmed TV series back then.
Therefore, Zhang Ziyi is indeed qualified to be proud of this.
"Yes, we are filming now. I just came back from taking leave from the crew yesterday."
"How was the filming? I heard that the female lead is that one... Oh, Gao Yuanyuan!" Zhang Ziyi said with a narrow look.
"What's your expression? I'm warning you not to listen to the wind or the rain. She and I are really friends."
Seeing that he was anxious, Zhang Ziyi immediately smiled and said: "Okay, I'm not a reporter, you don't need to explain it to me so clearly."
In Zhang Ziyi's current position, to be honest, there are not many friends around her who can talk, and Li Tang is just one of them. To be precise, the two of them admire each other, and each appreciates the other's strength.
There is usually a popular saying in the entertainment industry: Little success depends on support, and big success depends on life. Li Tang and Zhang Ziyi both belong to the latter group. They each seized the opportunity and became famous in the film industry.
But there is another saying: Opportunity comes to those who are prepared. In other words, when the opportunity comes, it’s up to you to seize it.
Especially for actors, when an opportunity comes, the key to whether you can seize it or not depends on your ability.
Among the many new generation actresses in China, Zhou Xun and Zhang Ziyi are the only two that Li Tang admires. If Zhou Xun is a born actor, then Zhang Ziyi is an all-around player who works hard.
The two chatted and talked about the movie "Jasmine Blooms" that they are currently filming. It is not difficult to find that Zhang Ziyi has high hopes for this movie. After all, although she is currently very popular, except for the Best Actress Award at the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award when she first debuted, she has not won any decent awards.
As for the value of the Hundred Flowers Award, everyone knows it!
However, when listening to Zhang Ziyi's complaints about Jiang Wen, Li Tang felt a little hopeful. It is said that Jiang Wen has a mysophobia when it comes to acting. A scene has been filmed very well, but he always thinks that it might be better, so he repeats it over and over again until he is satisfied with it.
In fact, Li Tang has always had this idea. For example, a scene has various ways of expression, including the different emotions of the characters, the different body language, and even the emphasis of the lines, etc. But in actual shooting, you can't show them one by one. In addition to the cost of shooting, you also have to consider whether the opposite actor can catch it. So what he often says to his co-stars is: Come on, I can handle it.
This is not a big statement, after all, performance is not a one-person thing but requires cooperation. At this time, he really misses the time when he performed in stage plays in his previous life. He often rehearsed countless times before performing on stage. The cooperation between actors is formed through constant running-in. This is the real performance. Nowadays, except for the fight scene between him and Li Lianlian during the filming of "Hero", there are very few scenes where he can show his full performance.
The time for chatting was always short. After boarding the plane, he and Zhang Ziyi separated because the other person booked a higher-class seat than him, which was first class.
An international flight usually has only eight to sixteen first-class seats, and as many as forty or fifty business-class seats. Moreover, Xiao Zhang’s trip to Cannes was quite grand. In addition to his agent and two assistants, he also specially hired two stylists and makeup artists from Li Jiapo to meet in Cannes.
Every time I go to Europe to participate in a film festival, the long journey is always the most difficult. It takes 11 hours to fly from the capital to Paris, France. When I transfer at Charles de Gaulle Airport, I have to go through a temperature test because of the epidemic. I finally arrive at the Nice Airport in France. It was six o'clock in the evening local time, almost one o'clock in the morning on the 14th domestic time.
When everyone pushed their luggage out of the gate, they saw that more than a dozen movie fans had gathered at the airport holding photos of Zhang Ziyi to pick them up. Of course, most of them had Chinese faces and spoke fluent Chinese. When they saw Zhang Ziyi coming out wearing a mask, they immediately gathered around, calling Zhang Ziyi's name and asking for photos and autographs.
"Hey, good guy, there are so many movie fans in France!" Ning Hao, who was following behind, couldn't help but sigh.
Diao Yinan, who usually didn't answer much, unexpectedly said: "Why don't you call me an international star? Did you see that there are reporters taking pictures over there?"
The airport was picked up by film festival staff. The staff quickly stepped forward to stop the fans' actions and escorted Zhang Ziyi out. The reporters at the scene were also quite knowledgeable and did not go up to the pole to ask for an interview. They just took a few photos from the outside.
According to the airport pick-up arrangements for the film festival, Li Tang and Zhang Ziyi were considered a crew, while Diao Yinan and Ning Hao were picked up by separate cars. Classmate Xiao Zhang had a lot of stuff and a lot of people accompanying her, so Li Tang didn't join in the fun with her and got directly into Diao Yinan and Ning Hao's car.
It should be said that Cannes gave Lou Ye full courtesy this time. Of course, this time "Purple Butterfly" attended the film festival in the name of a French film and was considered one of its own.
The hotel arranged by the organizer for the crew of "Purple Butterfly" is one of the official partner hotels of the Cannes Film Festival and is also known as the Barriere Hotel, one of the three giants of hotels on the Croisette in Cannes.
This hotel is the same as the Carlton InterContinental Hotel, one of the three giants of Cannes Croisette hotels, where Li Tang stayed when he came to Cannes last year. They are located on the left and right sides of the Cinema Palace. The Carlton InterContinental Hotel is to the right of the Cinema Palace and the Barriere Hotel is to the left. The distance from the hotel entrance to the Film Palace is only a hundred meters away. During the film festival, it is the hotel where celebrities stay.
Of course, the Baril Hotel only accommodated Li Tang and Zhang Ziyi, and the staff accompanying them, including Diao Yinan and Ning Hao who were shortlisted for Un Certain Regard, were all accommodated in a nearby second-level hotel.
Just kidding, the normal room price for an ordinary double room at the Baril Hotel is as high as 700 to 800 euros, and even as high as 5,000 euros during the film festival. The film festival lasts for a total of twelve days from opening to closing, and if you include the start and end, if you live here for half a month, including the cost of meals, it may cost 700,000 to 800,000 yuan.
The second update, sorry, is a bit shorter.
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