Chapter 191 Qin Shi Huang and His Concubine

"Night at the Museum" started filming in Vancouver in January.

Originally, Fox had planned to film in Montreal, Canada. Everyone knows that several major cities in Canada have policies that favor filming, including tax cuts and cash back.

However, the leading actor Ben Stiller is more resistant to the city of Montreal, as if something unpleasant had happened when he was filming here.

So the crew changed the filming location to Vancouver.

It is worth mentioning that although the crew filmed the exterior of the New York Museum of Natural History, the natural history museum that appeared in the movie was actually rebuilt in the studio.

The crew's artists and designers rebuilt the interior structure of a world-class museum in the studio in Vancouver.

Most of the production funds for this movie were spent on building this museum.

In the middle of the night, Wu Yuan took Liu Yifei to Vancouver, a well-known city in North America.

"Brother, are we really going to guest star in this movie?" After getting off the plane, Liu Yifei was still a little unsettled, with a face full of curiosity and expectation.

Although it is just a cameo, the role will not be very big, but this is a Hollywood movie.

How many actors in China can act in Hollywood movies now?

At most, there are only three.

Cheng Long and Jet Li each count as one, Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi each count as half.

Apart from the four of them, no other actors in China can get Hollywood film contracts.

Even if some Hollywood movies need Asian roles, they will use their own people, and it is impossible to find Chinese actors.

In this era when Hollywood blockbusters are sweeping the world, being able to act in Hollywood movies is a rare opportunity for actors from most countries around the world.

Otherwise, Liu Xiaoli would not have thought hard about how to get Liu Yifei into Hollywood and become an international superstar.

"As the boss and you, the boss's wife, we still have to help our own movies." Wu Yuan nodded and replied with a smile.

But Liu Yifei was not stupid. She laughed for a while, shook her head and said, "It's you who helped me. How can I help this movie?"

She has no reputation in Hollywood. She was able to guest-star in "Night at the Museum" because of Wu Yuan's face, so how could she help.

Liu Yifei looked at Wu Yuan with tender eyes, tightened her arms around his arms, and shouted happily: "Let's go!"

The crew of "Night at the Museum" is in the film and television base in Vancouver, where a large number of studios for filming are concentrated, which is similar to the Huairou Film and Television Base in China.

Wu Yuan took Liu Yifei and, under the leadership of Daisy, soon arrived at the studio of "Night at the Museum".

This studio covers a large area!

In order to restore the appearance of a world-class museum, about 10 designers were busy designing different layouts for the exhibition hall at the same time.

Each exhibition hall has gone through several conventional steps in architecture, such as illustration, design, and construction.

In order to make it more realistic, the art masters spent more time on details, and the statues, models and specimens on display were all made by them.

As long as the exhibition hall of the New York Museum of Natural History needed to appear in the film, it was basically restored.

When he arrived at the studio, Wu Yuan met the director of this film, Shawn Levy.

There is actually nothing to talk about this director. He became famous in 2003 with two low-cost romantic comedies and was chosen by Fox to direct "Night at the Museum".

He did a good job in the "Night at the Museum" series, and Wu Yuan had no intention of changing people, so he accepted Fox's choice.

The director did not change, the producer did not change, and naturally there was no change in the choice of actors. The actors of "Night at the Museum" this time are exactly the same as Wu Yuan remembered.

"Wow, our big investor is here!"

When Sean Levy saw Wu Yuan, he opened his arms enthusiastically, "Daniel, welcome to guest star, the whole crew is waiting to meet you, the great director."

Although Wu Yuan's current box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is relatively scary at $700 million, in theory he is not a top director. There are at least a dozen or twenty Hollywood directors who have achieved such results.

But who told him to win the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes? Directors who walk on both art and business and have achieved good results are rare.

So although he has only two or three works released in Hollywood, he has become one of the recognized great directors. He is only one Oscar for Best Director away from the top.

The crew that was filming immediately stopped filming, and several leading actors all surrounded him.

The leading actors, led by Ben Stiller, wore various costumes of presidents, cowboys, and ancient characters, and greeted Wu Yuan enthusiastically.

He even saw a few Mongolians and Eskimos, and the scene was quite interesting.

At least Liu Yifei couldn't help laughing when she saw the actors' appearance.

There is no way, when you see President Roosevelt in military uniform and the Roman general wearing a red Roman helmet, this absurd scene is hard not to laugh.

"It looks like it!" Liu Yifei couldn't help but exclaimed.

"This beautiful girl should be Crystal, right?" Sean Levy smiled and stretched out his hand to shake Liu Yifei's hand.

He knew that Wu Yuan agreed to guest star in the condition that he would add this beautiful Chinese girl in front of him.

"Daniel, your and Crystal's costumes are ready. We specially ordered them from a Chinese studio that makes antique costumes."

"You can go to the dressing room to change and try them on first."

"OK." Wu Yuan nodded, followed the director's advice, and pulled Liu Yifei into the dressing room.

He was very accurate in his status. When he was a boss, he was a boss. When he was a director, he was a director. Now he is an actor, so he should do what an actor should do and listen to the director.

After a while, Wu Yuan changed into a black and red crown, wearing a tasseled crown on his head. In front of the tasseled crown hung twelve tassels made of colorful silk threads and colorful round beads.

This set of clothes is the most authentic crown of the emperor in the Qin and Han dynasties.

Liu Yifei also changed into a noblewoman's dress in the Qin and Han Dynasty style. It may be because the studio that made this dress did not know the dress system of the concubines in the harem during the Qin and Han Dynasties, so they simply made it according to the popular women's dress at that time, but the materials were more luxurious and noble.

This dress is mainly white, embellished with some bright red embroidery, and it may also refer to the appearance of Princess Yu Shu in the movie "Myth".

After Liu Yifei put on this dress, she immediately felt a fairy-like and ancient charm. Otherwise, how can we say that she is a chosen ancient person? She is really beautiful in ancient costumes!

The two people in ancient costumes, the man is handsome and the woman is beautiful. When they came out of the dressing room dragging a long dress, they caused the staff on the scene to exclaim.

"OMG, this is so beautiful!"

"Does the king of China dress like this? Why do you have so many beads on your head?"

"Daniel should be an actor. I bet he will be more popular than Jackie Chan!"

"How can Chinese classical costumes look so good?"

"No, it's because these two are good-looking. Even if they only wear a piece of rag, they look like they are walking in fashion week."

The idle staff were chattering, and Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei were also looking at each other with satisfaction.

"Brother, you look so handsome in this." Liu Yifei smiled and reached out to fiddle with the beads on the tassel crown. "It's just that you don't have the domineering aura of Qin Shihuang."

Yes, although Wu Yuan is also a man of his word in the crew, if you say that he has the aura of an emperor, or the aura of an emperor who unified the six kingdoms, then you are just thinking too much.

"It's not my fault." Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows. "How many actors in China can play the domineering Qin Shi Huang?"

Anyway, he had never seen an actor who could really play the magnanimity of Qin Shi Huang. The best actor was a teenager who worked during the summer vacation.

But it doesn't matter. "Night at the Museum" itself is not a serious drama. It takes the route of absurdity and comedy. The actors don't need to really fit the character image.

Wu Yuan's Qin Shi Huang is just a puppet with the ability to move by mysterious power, not the real Qin Shi Huang.

On the contrary, he sighed a little. The clothes prepared by the costume department of "Night at the Museum" are really restored.

It can only be said that Hollywood really cooks according to the dishes.

Don't they know that when Chinese historical figures need to appear, it is best to invite some professional Chinese historians and Chinese costume studios to make costumes?

But they just randomly match costumes for these characters in many movies with Chinese historical figures, and even let Chinese people wear Japanese and Vietnamese costumes.

Isn't it that the status of those actors is not important?

Now it is the turn of Wu Yuan, a native Chinese, to play a Chinese role. The costume team of "Night at the Museum" immediately went to a professional Chinese costume studio to customize the costumes, and the degree of restoration was directly maximized.

In a nutshell, it is because Wu Yuan is the boss of the production company, and they were afraid that he would be dissatisfied with the preparations of the crew, so they fired them all.

Even if you replace Li Lianjie, the crew will not prepare the costumes so carefully.

Putting these thoughts aside for the time being, Wu Yuan opened his hands and turned around in front of Sean Levy, "How is it, is it okay?"

"Perfect!" Sean Levy gave a thumbs up, "Let's start shooting after you put on your makeup."

"Your scenes with Crystal are very simple, mainly two scenes."

"One is when Jedediah, the western cowboy, and the Roman Legion dislike each other and cause an internal riot. You and your Terracotta Army are disturbed and lead a large army to attack and take down both of them."

"The other scene is at the end of the movie, you and Ben and the Roman Legion are united to fight against the thieves together."

"Are there any problems?"

"No problem." Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei looked at each other and nodded together.

They had read the script before coming here, and they had memorized the few lines. As a guest star, there really wouldn't be too many scenes.

"Okay, then go put on makeup!" Sean Levy said with satisfaction.

The title is exaggerated. In fact, there were no "concubines" in the Qin harem, only wives, eight sons, etc.