Chapter 500 The Four Great Mentors Gather Together

"Speaking of which, Mr. Chen from your company wanted you to contact Gong Li to be a mentor for "Actors Please Take Your Place" last time, right?"

Liu Yifei, who reluctantly agreed to Wu Yuan's proposal, suddenly remembered another thing, and her expression became more lively and expectant.

If Gong Li is among the mentors of "Actors Please Take Your Place", it would be a good thing for her to be the so-called "convener", at least she can have more contact with Gong Li.

Although she and Gong Li have had a lot of contact in private because of Wu Yuan, the two have never filmed together, and Liu Yifei is not suitable to discuss acting skills with Gong Li in a private gathering.

But if she learns from Gong Li in the program "Actors Please Take Your Place", it would be a very reasonable thing.

"Of course." Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows and said proudly: "If I come, which domestic actor can't be invited?"

"I just called Sister Gong Li and told her about it, and she agreed readily."

In 1987, Gong Li was selected by director Zhang Yimou to star in the war art film "Red Sorghum" and made her debut. In a blink of an eye, she has been in the industry for more than 20 years.

After working hard to impact Hollywood in the first decade of the 21st century and only stepping into Hollywood, Gong Li has consciously reduced her production since 2010.

She has basically won all the honors she deserves. Among the three major European film companies, Gong Li is also the Chinese actress with the most honors in history.

After trying a few movies and confirming that her Asian face could not be taken over by Hollywood, Gong Li also gave up the idea of ​​entering Hollywood.

In 2010, she was promoted to the commander of the "Order of Arts and Letters" by the French Ministry of Culture, becoming the first female Chinese to receive this honor.

It can be said that in the field of acting, Gong Li has achieved the best and touched the ceiling of Chinese actors in the international arena.

Therefore, Gong Li, who has no pursuit of progress, has not taken any more roles since co-starring with Liu Dehua in the remake of the Hollywood comedy of the same name "I Know What Women Want" in 2010. She has entered a semi-retired state and even moved directly to France to live for a long time.

If nothing changes, it will be until 2014 that she will come out again at the invitation of Zhang Yimou to shoot the classic art film "The Return".

But now the situation is different.

It is not only Zhang Yimou who can invite Gong Li.

"Gravity" is still the highest-grossing commercial film starring Gong Li, which makes up for her embarrassing situation of not selling well in the "commercial" field, and also allows her to truly sit firmly in the seat of the first Chinese actress.

If Zhang Yimou is the person who discovered and achieved Gong Li in the field of art films, then Wu Yuan is the person who achieved Gong Li in the field of commercial films.

Perhaps Wu Yuan is not as important as Zhang Yimou in Gong Li's life, after all, the two have never had a deep love.

But when Wu Yuan took the initiative to invite her to help, Gong Li accepted the invitation without hesitation and flew back to China from France as soon as possible.

At this moment, while Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei were discussing the preparations for the variety show "Actors Please Take Your Place", the four proposed mentors had gathered in the Light and Shadow Times Company in Beijing.

In a small conference room of Light and Shadow Times, Zhang Yimou, Gong Li, Zhang Guorong, and Chen Daoming were gathering together and whispering.

Although the Chinese entertainment industry is large, the small group of people at the top basically know each other.

The three mainland mentors have more or less cooperated in the past, and they used to live in Beijing and had a lot of exchanges.

Zhang Guorong, who started to get in touch with the mainland film industry because of "Farewell My Concubine", was already very familiar with Gong Li, and Zhang Fengyi was also in the Beijing circle, so Chen Daoming and Zhang Guorong also had contacts.

There was no sense of unfamiliarity among the four people who met for the first time. They became familiar with each other after a few words, and talked about everything from movies to life.

It was also during the chat that the other three people learned that Gong Li had divorced her husband who had been separated for two or three years, but the news had not been made public.

"We divorced last year. It was just a private matter. I didn't want to talk about it in front of the public, so I never made it public."

Gong Li didn't think it was a big deal, and said casually: "If there is no love, then divorce. It is not a good thing for both parties to drag it on."

Faced with such a free and easy Gong Li, perhaps thinking of some things in the past, Zhang Yimou showed some emotion and trance on his face.

But before he could say anything, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and Li Xiaoping walked in with several members of the production team of "Actors Please Take Your Place".

The printed and packaged lists of contestants were distributed to the four mentors as soon as possible.

"Thank you four teachers for accepting our invitation to serve as mentors for this "Actors Please Take Your Place"."

As soon as she sat down, Li Xiaoping first thanked: "Whether it is Teacher Gong Li or Teacher Chen Daoming, they are both outstanding among our Chinese actors and have superb acting skills."

"Not to mention the two Directors Zhang, they are both excellent filmmakers who can both direct and act."

"To be honest, I didn't expect that I could gather the four top actors and directors in the circle to serve as mentors for this "Actors Please Take Your Place"."

"It's such an honor."

As a member of the Light and Shadow Era, Zhang Guorong immediately took over the conversation, laughed twice, and joked: "Why didn't Director Wu come to be a mentor?"

"I originally thought Director Wu would be the mentor, as this is a variety show produced by Light and Shadow Times."

"Yes." Chen Daoming, who looked serious but had a teasing look in his eyes, also said, "I thought Director Wu would be the mentor, so I agreed without hesitation."

"Now it seems that I made a mistake, and I lost money!"

"Why, do you look down on the two Directors Zhang?" Gong Li looked at Chen Daoming and deliberately joked, causing Chen Daoming to wave his hands repeatedly.

Zhang Yimou, who has always been introverted and rarely speaks about non-work matters, also laughed.

The atmosphere of the "speech" originally created by Li Xiaoping immediately disappeared completely.

They did not come to listen to Li Xiaoping's thanks, and they were not interested in such formalities.

Li Xiaoping understood what he meant, stopped talking tactfully, and took the initiative to explain: "The proposal for the variety show "Actors Please Take Your Place" was proposed by Director Wu. It can be said that this program was planned by Director Wu."

"And he will also participate in the recording of one or two episodes as a flying mentor during the recording."

"It's not that he is not involved in this program at all."

"Okay, let's talk about business first."

"The materials just sent to the four teachers are the profiles of the 50 contestants who passed the audition this time."

"The recording time of "Actors Please Take Your Place" this time will be from July to September, which happens to be the summer vacation time for major colleges and universities, minimizing the academic impact of the contestants."

"Teachers can take a look at the materials first, and then we will talk about the specific competition system and competition plan."

"Compared with singer variety shows such as "Super Girl" and "Fast Boy", our actor-type variety shows require mentors to devote more energy and undertake more tasks."

"I hope the four teachers can bear more!" (End of this chapter)