Chapter 523 The Birth of an Actor (7,000 Words Updated!)

"Yanhe, are you okay?"

When Lily Williams suddenly asked him in a low voice on the set, Lu Yanhe suddenly came back to his senses.

"Ah? Me? I'm fine, what's wrong?"

"I saw you sitting alone in a daze." Lily Williams said, "In the past two days, there have been people squatting at our door. I heard that when you came in this morning, you were blocked by someone."

"That's nothing." Lu Yanhe smiled, "I was just thinking about how to play my last scene."

"The last scene?"

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, "In the last scene, didn't I let you go in the end, because you were the only one who didn't really want to burn us to death at the beginning. You always thought it was just to scare us for fun. When something happened, you knew what kind of devils your two friends were."

This is also a change in the film in the later stage.

Of the three revenge targets, Arne and Simon were killed, and only Lily was finally let go.

The role of Lily is also a loophole - after all, it is released in European and American countries with many white people, and the three white people cannot be all evil devils.

Therefore, in the role of Lily, her evil deeds in the past have become ignorant evils that are kept in the dark.

Lily Williams said: "It is written in the script that you just let me go and leave."

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, "But how to leave, how to end my last shot in the movie, I haven't thought it through yet."

Lily Williams breathed a sigh of relief and laughed.

"So you are thinking about this, I thought you were in a bad mood because of what happened recently."

Lu Yanhe: "I haven't been scolded, why would I be in a bad mood."

He smiled at the corner of his mouth, as if everything was really fine.

Lily Williams said: "I feel that you don't want to deceive others."

"Huh?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised. He didn't expect Lily Williams to be so sharp and capture his true emotions at once.

It can only be said that actors are indeed actors, and sometimes they are really sharp.

Lily Williams: "Arne told me that you definitely don't like the crew's current marketing methods."

"Arne?" Lu Yanhe was even more surprised.

"Is he right?" Lily said, "In fact, he and I have also looked for your movies to watch. Your "Late Spring" and "Road to Glory" are really good, no wonder you are so popular in Asia."

Lu Yanhe: "You suddenly praised me, and I don't know what to say."

Lily laughed happily.

"It's a pity that we finished shooting this movie very quickly, and we haven't gotten to know each other yet."

The shooting time of "The Mist" is indeed not long. For a movie, more than 30 days of shooting time is considered to be a relatively long one.

However, for a horror movie, this shooting time is not very long.

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "It's good to know each other. There will be many opportunities to meet in the future."

Lily asked curiously, "Will you focus on making Hollywood movies in the future?"

"No." Lu Yanhe did not hesitate to this question, "I have many projects in China, and I can't shift my focus to Hollywood."

Lily was a little frustrated and said, "Then you just lied to me, how can there be many opportunities to meet?"

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "That doesn't mean I won't go in the future. What's more, you can come to China in the future. You are welcome to make movies in China."

Lily's understanding of Chinese movies is basically at the stage of "basically not understanding".

Many American filmmakers are actually like this. They don't pay much attention to foreign language films. At most, they know some award-winning works of film festivals.

Even in terms of art films, American films are generally recognized as not as good as those in Europe, but they never think that they are really bad.

In such a large environment, young actors like Lily's understanding of movies is basically based on the aesthetics created by American movies.

So, they occasionally watch a movie "Late Spring" and feel very fresh.

In fact, Lu Yanhe had a pleasant cooperation with Arne and Lily in making this movie.

Working with the two of them gave Lu Yanhe a very different feeling - he found that everyone's performance system was still different. Arne and Lily's performances have a kind of explosive power. This explosive power is not hysterical and yelling at you, but a fullness of emotions.

In fact, it's not just the two of them, Simon is the same.

Lu Yanhe studied it carefully later and felt that they all had such a unified explosive power, which might be related to the fact that all three of them have been performing on stage since childhood. Their stage performance experience has shaped the completeness and fullness of their emotions. And many young Chinese actors are actually actors trained by the camera. They rarely play a scene from beginning to end and their emotions cannot be interrupted.

Each has its own advantages.

But overall, Lu Yanhe has to say that just from the movie "The Mist", the young actors here in the United States are much stronger than their young actors in China in terms of comprehensive strength.

Of course, Lu Yanhe is only working with a foreign crew for the first time, and his feelings are not representative.

Moreover, if we really talk about the ability of top actors, they are not inferior.

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In fact, Lu Yanhe was quite moved.

Although many people on the Internet are questioning why he wants to act in a horror film overseas, those who really know Lu Yanhe basically don't ask him this question.

Even Chen Lingling, a director who has worked with Lu Yanhe twice and will work with him on the sequel of "Silent River", only said one sentence when asked by reporters.

"For an actor like Lu Yanhe, no matter what role he takes, there must be a reason for him. Before the movie is officially released, I won't ask him why he wants to act. When the movie is available, I will go to see it directly and see from the movie why he acted in this movie."

Liu Bige also responded to a comment in his social media comment area, "You should persuade Yanhe to stop acting": When Yanhe was filming "Late Spring", how many people also persuaded him not to act?

Lu Yanhe really has a lot of choices, and they were not understood at the beginning.

For example, he took on the low-cost art film "Late Spring" directed by a new director. At that time, many people said that he was crazy about winning awards and dared to act in a three-no film.

For example, when he was a screenwriter and wrote Lost on Journey and Rouge, many people laughed at him for thinking he was a great writer after studying literature for a few years.

For example, he left the Friends series without mercy and drew a clear line. At that time, many people scolded him for being stupid and giving up such a popular series for a breath.

After going around in circles, looking back now, Lu Yanhe has not taken a step in vain, and not a single choice has been wrong.

Lin Yu said in her show: "If an actor often makes the audience confused and questioned, when we can't help but feel nervous and worried about him, please don't forget that it is because he did not stay in the comfort zone and play it safe. He still chose to take risks and challenge himself."

Lin Desheng of Northern Lights Video asked him personally: Do you think the horror film you are shooting is worth buying back? Can it be shown in China?

Lu Yanhe told the truth: Don't buy it, it basically can't be released, it can't be put on any video platform, it's the kind of movie with real ghosts, I play the ghost, if you want to cut it, you have to cut all my scenes.

Lin Desheng: ... Why do you act in this movie so well?

This is the first person around Lu Yanhe who questioned his acting in "The Mist".

Lu Yanhe laughed.

On the contrary, this time, Maxine's Zhong Benshuo and HP's Tom White also started a new round of competition.

Not only them, with director Muken's fame in horror movies, any streaming platform with a little fame is competing for the exclusive streaming rights of this movie.

The same is true for TV stations.

Obviously, the movie has not yet been released in colleges and universities, but these copyrights have been fought over.

In this process, D19 Production Company was somewhat surprised to find that Lu Yanhe was actually a very important bargaining chip in the negotiations between this movie and the film producers.

Because when everyone was negotiating, they all mentioned that they hoped Lu Yanhe would participate in the promotion activities of a certain market, at least cooperate with XX times of promotion.

These contents are similar, and they only show one thing. In the eyes of film producers, Lu Yanhe is the selling point of this movie for some markets.

D19 is not a big company.

It made its fortune by making independent films.

It does not have a particularly strong and complete global distribution channel. Especially in Asia, D19's network is not well laid out there.

Therefore, for a long time, their impression of Lu Yanhe was that he was a very famous and popular actor in China, and Muken insisted on using him and admired him very much. That's all.

After all, this movie is not released in mainland China, and no matter how popular Lu Yanhe is, he will have to be discounted by half.

Who knows, not only other countries and regions in Asia, but also film producers in Europe and the United States are also concerned about Lu Yanhe.

What D19 did not expect the most was that several international film festivals took the initiative to ask if they were willing to put the movie on their film festival for the world premiere.

After a chat, it turned out that they were attracted by the popularity of this movie, and Lu Yanhe has been a frequent guest at film festivals in recent years. Almost every film festival wants to invite Lu Yanhe to attend. After all, Lu Yanhe carries a huge amount of media attention and popularity.

D19, an American company, heard about some of Lu Yanhe's brilliant achievements from different sources, which made them realize that they seemed to have completely underestimated this actor from the East.

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"The film is about to be finished, and it won't be so easy to sit together for dinner in the future." Hua Ruzhen came out of the kitchen with a pot of braised chicken, "This is a new dish I tried. I don't know how it is, try it. The other dishes are my specialties, don't worry about it."

Lu Yanhe smiled and nodded, saying yes.

During the time when Director Muken was filming here, Hua Ruzhen always accompanied him and often asked Lu Yanhe to come over for dinner.

To be honest, Hua Ruzhen's cooking skills are really good.

Therefore, Lu Yanhe was able to eat authentic Chinese food from time to time in Canada instead of eating Western food every day.

"Sister, after the filming is finished, will you go back to the United States or Germany?"

Muken is actually a German. When he is not making a movie, he usually lives in Germany.

Hua Ruzhen said: "After the filming is finished, he will go back to rest for two weeks, and then he will have to go to the United States to supervise the post-production."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Hua Ruzhen: "D19 wants to release this movie in January."

"January?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised, because even though he didn't know much about the American film market, he knew when the peak and low seasons were, and January was the well-known off-season.

When it comes to the best time for horror movies, Halloween is generally the best time to watch them.

Hua Ruzhen nodded and said, "I can't make it in time for the Halloween schedule. There's too much pressure in the later stages."

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized.

Hua Ruzhen said: "What are you going to film in your next movie?"

"Go back and record a program first, "Young Days". Sister, have you watched it?"

"It seems to have made an impression."

"It's a show I've been recording." Lu Yanhe said, "Then I will film the second season of "Seventeen Floors"."

Hua Ruzhen was a little surprised and asked: "Are you still cooperating with Jingtai? I thought you would never cooperate with Jingtai again."

"I do think so, but I have to wait until the "Seventeenth Floor" series ends. It is a trilogy." Lu Yanhe said, "Director Jiang Lan, who is in charge of this project, has always been very good to me. I and the entire crew We are very familiar with each other and get along well with each other. I still want to have a beginning and an end, and I don’t want the drama to be affected by the bad relationship between me and other people in Beijing and Taiwan.”

Hua Ruzhen nodded, "It's good to be responsible."

Lu Yanhe smiled.

Hua Ruzhen said: "The movie "The Mist" is very popular now, but are you a little unhappy with the current marketing method of the crew?"

Lu Yanhe looked at Hua Ruzhen in surprise: "Sister, have you seen it all?"

Lu Yanhe felt that it was okay for him to be noticed by Lily. After all, when he was on the set, he did not deliberately put away his emotions like he did in front of Hua Ruzhen. However, despite this, Hua Ruzhen still saw it and let him I couldn't help being shocked and stunned, but also felt that my acting skills were in jeopardy.

how so?

Is he so incapable of pretending?

Hua Ruzhen said: "Mu Ken told me that he guessed that you don't like this marketing method, and you don't want to win everyone's support and sympathy by relying on the fact that the crew was racially profiled."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Actually, yes."

Hua Ruzhen: "I really want to comfort you with something, but I have to say that in movie marketing, many situations like this do happen. As for the thoughts of an actor or even a director, it doesn't matter. "

"Sister, I don't know what to say. I also hope that the movie will do well at the box office, but I always feel that adding a big label of Asian ghosts killing white villains to this movie will really be beneficial. Is this movie liked by the audience?”

"No one can say for sure. If I, a layman, can give you an accurate answer, then those who specialize in film marketing can just pack up and leave." Hua Ruzhen smiled after saying that, "But it doesn't matter. , Yan He, you may not be able to control how they want to market, but you can completely behave according to your own ideas. If you don't like it and don't cooperate, then tell them clearly and let them stop taking you for granted. Marketing materials.”

"I did think so."

"Actually, you haven't made up your mind and firmly believe that this kind of marketing method is wrong?"

"Because... this matter will indeed help the popularity of the movie and the future box office. This is visible to the naked eye. I can't stop the movie from getting more box office just because I don't like it. To put it bluntly, it's because I am As an actor in this movie, I always think that I have the responsibility and obligation to make the movie achieve better results. I can't be this obstacle." Lu Yanhe sighed, "Even if I know, my inaction is actually a kind of tacit approval. Indulgence. This is where I am conflicted and entangled now.”

"Because you want to be an honest person, but you can't be honest without scruples, so you can only remain silent in a self-contradictory way." Hua Ruzhen looked at Lu Yanhe thoughtfully and asked, "right? "

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Hua Ruzhen smiled and said, "You are so young."

There is also some pampering from the elders to the younger ones in her smile.

Lu Yanhe was at a loss and didn't know why Hua Ruzhen had such an attitude.

Hua Ruzhen said: "Actually, Muken often encounters situations like this. He is actually a very strict and serious German by nature, but there are many things that conflict with his nature in the film industry. Not every time he I can get around it, but he doesn’t want to blend in, what should I do?”

Lu Yanhe listened.

"Actually, there is no other way. Mu Ken can only stay silent. I believe that if you were in a crew with more say, you would have directly intervened to stop it, and you also have the ability to stop it. But in "The Mist", Crew, you actually don’t have such ability, and you know subconsciously that your attitude doesn’t matter, and no one will pay for it,” Hua Ruzhen said, “So, silence is the only thing you can do. you don't have enough Before you have the power to change all this, you can only do what you can do well in silence. When you have your status and voice in the Chinese film industry in the European and American film circles, believe me, things like this will You can just call it quits, so instead of being self-contradictory and silent, it’s better to stay out of it and put it aside. Just like in the first drama, you had to listen to the company for everything. Now, in this drama, Mu Ken said that he would use a Chinese actor. If you insist, D19 agrees.”

Lu Yanhe suddenly woke up.

If Hua Ruzhen hadn't said it, Lu Yanhe wouldn't have realized that behind this matter, in the final analysis, it was actually the contradiction between his desire to change everything and his inability to change everything.

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"If I tell Yanhe, he will definitely be entangled and in pain."

When asked why Chen Siqi didn't take the initiative to tell Lu Yanhe about such a marketing plan, Chen Siqi had no intention of hiding it.

"Aren't you worried that Yanhe might find out one day that the reason why Simon came up with this plan was actually because you asked someone to tell his agent?" Linyu asked.

She was surprised that Chen Siqi didn't tell Lu Yanhe that this plan was thought up by Linyu, and it was Chen Siqi who found a way to tell Simon's agent.

"I'll be worried, but it doesn't matter." Chen Siqi said, "He knows that I've never been a kind, perfect person. I don't care if Simon is hurting himself by doing this. I only care that this is Yan He's first English film, and I hope it does well. Yan He might get angry with me and blame me for not telling him in advance."

"Are you afraid that he will refuse?"

"It would be great if he could refuse directly. The problem is that we can all see how much benefit this plan will bring to "The Mist", not to mention himself. At that time, he will be caught in a dilemma between morality and interests." Chen Siqi said, "It's better to keep him in the dark. If he wants to blame me, he can blame me, but I know he won't."

"Don't you two have no secrets and talk about everything?"

"It's not a bad thing to have some secrets." Chen Siqi smiled and blinked.

Linyu actually knew what Chen Siqi was thinking.

To put it bluntly, Chen Siqi had a very simple mindset: I'll be the villain.

Rather than saying that she was worried about Lu Yanhe's entanglement, it would be better to say that she didn't want Lu Yanhe to fall into possible entanglement and hardship.

Linyu knew that this was Chen Siqi's way of loving Lu Yanhe.

It can't be said to be correct, but this is her way.

Linyu couldn't say anything.

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"Look, as soon as this incident came out, several Hollywood film companies actually sent scripts to ask Yanhe to play a role that was discriminated against, bullied, and bullied." Chen Ziyan put the English scripts in front of Lu Qingzhen in a speechless manner, "Whatever is popular will come."

Lu Qingzhen smiled.

"How great! This shows that Yan He has indeed been noticed by Hollywood."

"What attention? They are all third-tier small companies." Chen Ziyan said, "No, we still need to find a reliable overseas agency for Yan He. The scattered connections now are inefficient and unfocused."

Lu Qingzhen: "Didn't you find one before, but the conditions were not suitable and the negotiation failed? Didn't you say that you would wait until "The Mist" is released and Yan He has more capital before talking to them?"

"But Yan He's situation has changed now, but -" Chen Ziyan was a little discouraged again, "I guess they still won't change the previous conditions. No, we still need actual results. It would be great if Yan He could win the Best Actor Award at a top international film festival right now. Big agencies still look up to him. This."

Lu Qingzhen: "Let's not talk about this first. Although you don't like these scripts, I would like to recommend these Asian characters to some people."

"Ah?" Chen Ziyan said, "I haven't read this script yet. It might be terrible."

"It's terrible, so many actors don't have any roles to play. How can they care whether this drama is terrible or not?" Lu Qingzhen smiled and said, "Feed yourself first."

Chen Ziyan: "Then take it. If you want to fight for it, tell me and I'll contact you together."

"Yeah." Lu Qingzhen asked, "By the way, when will Yan He come back?"

Chen Ziyan said, "Three days later, he will finish shooting tomorrow."

"It's really fast. It took more than a month to finish shooting." Lu Qingzhen said, "The management of the crew is really amazing. We should learn from them."

"They have accumulated experience over hundreds of years, and we have a lot to learn from them." Chen Ziyan said, "You and Yan He are expressing the same sentiments."

"I think that the cost of each of our projects is getting higher and higher. If we can effectively reduce the shooting time and improve efficiency, our costs can actually be reduced." Lu Qingzhen said, "I saw a report before that said that the same difficult play costs one million US dollars in Hollywood and at least three million US dollars in China. It's nothing else but losses. The losses of ineffective shooting of our domestic crews are too great."

"This is an industry and industrial matter. If you shoot more, you will naturally improve slowly." Chen Ziyan said, "Even if you arrange for some people to go for further studies, they will not give them the key things. Yours."

"That's right." Lu Qingzhen thought for a moment and said, "But I found that Yan He's dramas, most of the time, the shooting period is not long, which is quite impressive. The key is that the quality of the films is very high."

Chen Ziyan said: "Yan He's crew has a very small proportion of ineffective shooting. You can see it from the pre-production preparations for each of his dramas. Basically, the actors read the script together, and the technical departments have to hold meetings repeatedly to ensure that everyone in the crew knows how the drama will be shot and what efforts they need to make. Some crews always improvise."

Lu Qingzhen: "Maybe Yan He can bring something new to our domestic crews with "The Mist" this time."

When Lu Qingzhen said this, she didn't expect that she was right.

Lu Yanhe didn't move things to the crew right away, but as soon as he came back, he told Chen Ziyan and Lu Qingzhen that he wanted to do something.

Asked what.

He said he wanted to do a variety show.

Asked what show.

He said a show that allowed actors to come to the stage to compete in acting skills, so that film and television actors could perform on the same stage without NG, just like drama actors and stage actors.

Chen Ziyan and Lu Qingzhen asked, does anyone watch such a show?

Lu Yanhe said, of course there is, the name is "The Birth of Actors".

Chen Ziyan asked, why did you suddenly think of doing this show?

Lu Yanhe said, because the overall performance level of actors coming out of the stage is really much higher.

Let the actors do dramas and stage plays, they don't have the schedule and time.

But this kind of ten-minute or twenty-minute performance clip can also play such a role.

Lu Yanhe said: "Aren't you always trying to make outdated artists popular again? Those actors with good acting skills can also be invited to this show."

Chen Ziyan: "I thought the first thing you did when you came back was to participate in a variety show, but I didn't expect that the first thing you did when you came back was to do another variety show."

Lu Yanhe said: "Well, I think it's time." (End of this chapter)