Chapter 584 Early April (9,000 Words Updated!)
March just passed and as soon as April arrived, the Jose Film Festival announced the shortlisted films for this year’s main competition unit.
Chinese-language films "Love Letter" and "Fake Death" were both shortlisted.
Not only that, there are three other films shortlisted for other categories.
As a result, the number of Chinese-language films at this year's Hollywood Film Festival suddenly increased.
"Love Letter" will be shortlisted, this is something Lu Yanhe has known for a long time. In a sense, he enjoys the treatment of a "direct descendant", and he was promised early on that he could be shortlisted for the main competition - of course, the Jose Film Festival will give this promise in order to prevent "Love Letter" from being ignored by other films. Taken away.
The same goes for "Fake Death".
Director Liu Bigo's second film after "Late Spring" - although it is a romantic comedy film, this genre has always been a frequent visitor to film festivals.
For a director whose first film won the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, it is not surprising that his second film would receive such treatment.
This also means that the two Chinese-language films in the main competition section of this year's Spanish Film Festival are going to fight.
According to media comments, Lu Yanhe and Li Zhibai will compete fiercely for the best actor at this year's Hollywood Film Festival.
Lu Yanhe couldn't laugh or cry.
He knew that his performance in "Love Letter" basically had no chance of becoming the best actor.
That is a completely symbolic role.
He himself has watched the film countless times, and he is very satisfied with his performance in the film. Considering that he has acted in so many films, he can still appear in the film in such a young, clean, and a little green state. He himself It’s hard to imagine.
The more pure and clean the state, the harder it is to act. But that's not the difficulty of acting. Lu Yanhe felt that if a vote was held for the audience's favorite character, his male character Aijing Shu might be able to win in this selection, but it is almost impossible to compete for the best actor in terms of performance, and there is no chance.
In fact, the movie "Love Letter" is not a movie that wins in terms of acting. Even if Chen Bige plays two roles, it is not the kind of performance that can win an acting award. It is a very special movie, incomparable to its artistry and depth, but because it captures the emotions of secret love and regret in life to the extreme, it has become a classic in the hearts of the audience.
It seems that the two films will be rivals at this film festival, but in fact, neither film is a favorite to win the award. Lu Yanhe feels that "Love Letter" may be able to compete for the Audience Choice Award or the Best Screenplay Award - unfortunately, the Jose Film Festival does not award awards for other technical departments except for the Best Cinematography Award. Otherwise, the Best Soundtrack Award should also be acceptable. Fight for it.
As for "Fake Death", Lu Yanhe has not seen the movie yet, so he doesn't know what style this movie presents. He didn't know whether Liu Bige handled it more commercially or with a more personal style. You have to watch the film to know whether it has any hope of winning awards.
"The pressure is quite high. Both films have been shortlisted for the main competition. Now everyone has high hopes for us. If we don't win the award, they will probably be very disappointed."
Lu Yanhe smiled when he met Liu Bige.
Liu Bige said: "There should still be hope for "Love Letter" to win the award, right? I like this film very much."
"I don't know, who knows." Lu Yanhe shook his head, "Although it was very artistic, I actually know that what it talks about is not the kind of proposition that the film festival favors most."
The value expression in "Love Letter" is too shallow and not deep enough.
Liu Bige: "The Hollywood Film Festival is an audience vote. Judging from the results every year, "Love Letter" still has hope of winning the award."
"It's really not necessarily true. I don't think audiences in Europe and the United States can accept the style of this movie." Lu Yanhe said, "However, whether they accept it or not, this movie is what it is anyway. I am very satisfied with it. That's enough." ”
"When is your movie going to be released?" Liu Bige asked.
"Probably in July, or around Valentine's Day in August." Lu Yanhe said, "Because the box office of this movie is expected to be between 100 million and 300 million, which is not a large box office, our choice of schedule is still relatively big.”
"Your box office estimates for "Love Letters" are so low?"
Liu Bige was surprised.
After all, the cast of this movie is gorgeous. Lu Yanhe and Chen Bige lead the cast, and are joined by Wan Xin, Li Songfan and other powerful actors. The cast list is posted, and it is a very shocking cast lineup.
Lu Yanhe: "This movie is not in a commercial style and is relatively restrained. With the current market situation, it is estimated that it can get 100 to 300 million on the bright side. The subject matter and style determine the quality of this movie. The box office is capped. But I believe that as time goes by, this movie will generate a steady stream of copyright revenue from video websites and other licensing.”
Especially five or ten years later, as this movie has become a symbol of secret love and regret in everyone's hearts, if it is re-released in theaters, the box office may be even higher.
These are all achievements achieved by the original film.
"Moreover, if this movie can get 100 million at the box office, it will start to make a profit." When Lu Yanhe was filming "Love Letter", he was very worried about making a mistake, so he controlled the cost very much.
Many people think that with the appeal of Lu Yanhe and Chen Bige, this movie will definitely hit a high box office, but Lu Yanhe himself is very calm and sober, and always uses the worst result to control the production of this movie, just to avoid too much pressure on himself later.
It is also because of this that Lu Yanhe can edit the movie completely according to the original appearance of "Love Letter" in the later stage, without making any commercial adjustments, and restore the original appearance of the movie to the greatest extent.
Of course, Lu Yanhe's movies are indeed different from other Chinese-language films.
There are many profit channels for his movies, and he does not rely solely on the domestic theater box office income. His movies, the overseas copyright alone can reach eight-digit US dollar income-this does not count the subsequent income.
And the basic income of his movie's overseas copyright can reach such a high level, not only because of his own popularity and appeal-in fact, there are only a handful of movie stars with such appeal in the world.
The main reason why this number can be achieved is that Lu Yanhe's Linghe Film and Television Production Company has established sales channels and maintained friendly cooperative relationships around the world in recent years, and "Love Letter" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Jose-La Mancha Film Festival, which enabled it to achieve such basic income.
To put it bluntly, "Love Letter" is a good product that has become popular before it was released, and a large number of audiences have been waiting to buy it. Linghe has a sales channel that basically covers the world. Although it does not have its own distribution network like Hollywood film companies, they can at least connect with many distribution companies to sell "Love Letter".
Why can Chinese-language films only rely on domestic theater box office in most cases? The most important point is that they don't have much contact with overseas distributors. Even if there are good works, in most cases, it is difficult to promote them on a large scale. They are only released in certain markets - the conditions and results of the release are still very average. Even if they are sold, the price cannot be sold.
In fact, must film and television works that are well shot in China be sold?
The actual situation is not like this.
For example, Tangren, which is considered to be far behind in the eyes of many people, has produced TV dramas and movies in recent years, which have basically failed. However, they may not really lose money. They rely on the advantages they have established in the early years. Even the most flopped dramas in China can be sold to many overseas TV stations and websites for broadcast.
For another example, if Chief Jia's movies really rely on domestic box office to make a profit, he would have lost all his money long ago. In fact, relying on the fame accumulated at international film festivals and the connections with distributors from various countries accumulated over the years, his movies do not need to be released in China. Just relying on the overseas sales is enough to make him a lot of money, and this little income is not enough.
The same is true for Lu Yanhe's movies now.
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Maxine, HP and Parameter, three streaming media, have all bid for "Love Letter".
Generally speaking, the price of other copyrights of a movie is often determined based on its box office performance in theaters, and the difference can be very large.
However, with the rise of streaming media, more and more movies are not shown in theaters, but directly screened on streaming media around the world, and the copyright pricing of streaming media has therefore entered a new stage.
Lu Yanhe's "Love Letter" will definitely be screened in theaters in Asia. As for Europe and the United States, whether it will be screened in theaters is not a requirement. Unless "Love Letter" can win an award at the Jose-La Roche Film Festival or get a lot of discussion, in this case, "Love Letter" may be able to get a box office of millions of dollars in Europe and the United States with the momentum of the Jose-La Roche Film Festival. Otherwise, with the subject matter and style of this movie, it is difficult to achieve a good box office result.
Maxine wants to directly obtain the global distribution rights except for mainland China, and screen it globally on Maxine instead of going to theaters. For this reason, they also offered a high buyout fee, which is a very attractive figure, 30 million US dollars, to buy out the five-year exclusive screening rights outside mainland China.
This figure is actually already very high. Of course, if "Love Letter" has a great reputation at the Jose-La Roche Film Festival, that's another story. Maxine is offering this price now, in fact, it is also taking advantage of the fact that it is still unknown what the situation of this hot work will be at the Jose-La Roche Film Festival, and wants to grab it first and grab it for themselves.
Lu Yanhe held a meeting with the company and rejected Maxine's current offer.
They all agreed that they could wait until the film premiered at the Jose-La Roche Film Festival to see the media's evaluation and then decide whether to show the film directly on streaming media or sell the distribution rights separately.
The special thing about the movie "Love Letter" is that everyone believes that this movie can achieve good box office results in several major Asian box office countries such as Japan and South Korea, because the theme of youth love has always been popular in these two countries. And Lu Yanhe himself is very clear that the movie "Love Letter" will definitely have a good box office in Japan, after all, the original version is a Japanese movie and has achieved great success.
Also, although the movie "Love Letter" is not a mainstream commercial movie, if it can win at the Jose-La Roche Film Festival, it will not be difficult for it to get tens of millions of dollars in box office in Europe and the United States with the influence of the Jose-La Roche Film Festival. In recent years, the hits of the four major international film festivals, even art films, can basically get tens of millions of dollars in box office worldwide, and the highest can even exceed 100 million.
"Rouge" also got tens of millions of dollars in box office overseas thanks to its reputation and awards at the Jose-La Roche Film Festival, especially in South Korea, where it has earned more than 5 million dollars in box office in this market alone. Otherwise, TVN would not want to remake this movie into a Korean drama so quickly.
Maxine did not expect that they all offered a high price of 30 million US dollars, and Lu Yanhe and his team refused.
HP After hearing this, Tom White immediately realized that Lu Yanhe and his team were definitely not dissatisfied with the price. 30 million US dollars is already a very high price for a non-commercial film. Is it a cooperation model? Tom White has always understood Lu Yanhe's ideas better than Zhong Benshuo. He soon realized that Lu Yanhe himself should still hope that "Love Letter" can be released in theaters.
Generally, film creators who have some aspirations still hope that the film can be released in theaters. This is because so far, no movie exclusively screened by streaming media has formed a super high influence and achieved the kind of cultural influence that exceeds that of theater movies. Even if many filmmakers can get twice as much pay as usual from a streaming movie, they will still choose movies from traditional film studios based on this consideration.
Whether it is media evaluation, audience impression, or mainstream awards, a movie that has achieved a box office of hundreds of millions of dollars is definitely more beneficial to a creator than a popular movie that has won the championship in a week on streaming media.
Everyone still recognizes the theater results of selling real money one ticket at a time.
It is not surprising that Lu Yanhe has such an idea.
Tom White thought about it and decided to give up the exclusive right to stream streaming media in the world except for mainland China. Of course, in this way, the price they offer will be much lower. However, Tom White believes that Lu Yanhe and his team will agree to this condition. Sure enough, Lu Yanhe did not reject Tom White's proposal immediately, but only said that he would discuss the specific details after the movie was screened at the Jose Film Festival.
This means that there is something to talk about.
For the current streaming media, the basic pattern has been formed, and the strategies of major streaming media have also entered the next stage from spending money to seize the market. The Asian region is a new growth point for their users. How to expand the Asian market as much as possible is what they have been working hard on in recent years.
HP is not as good as Maxine in this regard. "The River of Silence", "Friends", "The Seventeenth Floor", "Squid Game" and other Chinese dramas that performed well in the Asian market were all collected by Maxine. In addition, Zhong Benshuo played a role in the matchmaking, almost gathering the first-line creative talents in the Korean film and television industry. In recent years, Maxine's market share in Asia has always ranked first.
Of course, this cannot be blamed on Tom White. HP entered the Asian market later than Maxine. When Tom White came to be responsible for the Asian market, Zhong Benshuo had been operating here for several years.
In fact, under Maxine's offensive, HP can still maintain its current market share, which has proved Tom White's ability in this.
"The Seventeenth Floor", "Friends" and "Squid Game" are not the cooperations reached between Lu Yanhe and Maxine. When Lu Yanhe was doing these dramas before, his voice was not as high as it is now, and they were all decided by Jingtai and Northern Lights.
Now, because of the relationship between Tom White and Lu Yanhe, Lu Yanhe's new dramas are basically discussed more deeply with HP. Whether it is "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" that Lu Yanhe is preparing to develop, or the movie "Burning Fire" starring Lu Yanhe, they were contacted by Tom White early and reached a preliminary cooperation intention.
Tom White is not only interested in Lu Yanhe's project, but since Lu Yanhe recommended "Gold Rush" to HP and achieved good results, Tom White also bought "Washer" starring Li Zhibai, which was also broadcast well. After that, Tom White signed a cooperation agreement with Lu Yanhe, and Lu Yanhe became HP's recommendation officer - recommending suitable TV series to HP.
When these dramas were put on the shelves of HP, the promotional pictures would be marked with very eye-catching large characters: Lu Yanhe recommended.
In HP, there is also a search tag called "Lu Yanhe recommended", which has become a selection tag for HP users to watch dramas.
Basically, the TV series and movies purchased by HP after Lu Yanhe's recommendation can achieve a good result on HP.
The overseas broadcast rights of "Mountain Peak" were also won by HP. This drama is mainly about Yan Liang, who still has a certain influence and popularity among the user groups of overseas streaming media. Several dramas are named after him, so that even if everyone does not know who he is, they must have heard of the dramas starring him.
"Mountain Peak" was seamlessly put on HP as soon as it was broadcast in mainland China.
HP still attaches great importance to this drama and has specially made a series of launch promotions.
Among them, the main creators of "Friends" and "The Gold Rush" recorded videos to recommend the drama "The Mountain" to everyone.
Zhong Benshuo was very unhappy when he saw that the main creative staff of "Friends" collectively recorded a recommendation video for "Top of the Mountain".
However, it is impossible for him to lose his temper or anything because of this.
These two dramas still have many loyal fans overseas. As soon as the two promotional videos came out, "Top of the Mountain" immediately attracted a lot of attention.
HP is also very cruel. It announced three days before the broadcast that "Top of the Mountain" will not require HP membership, but will be available to global audiences and will be broadcast for free.
It’s clear that we need to use free broadcasts to attract registered users.
Of course, they were able to broadcast "Top of the Mountain" for free for the first three days because the procurement cost of "Top of the Mountain" was much lower than other self-produced dramas, so it can be used for such things. Business endeavor. And "Top of the Mountain" has a certain amount of buzz in itself. It has many publicity points such as starring Yan Liang, China's most popular drama series this year, and being recommended by the creators of "Friends" and "Gold Rush", which is enough to generate a certain amount of buzz and attract a group of viewers. Watch this show.
What the three days of free broadcasting brought to the drama "Top of the Mountain" was that "the global audience exceeded 5 million within 24 hours of its first broadcast."
This drama reached the fourth position in HP's global weekly hot list in just three days.
After three days, "Top of the Mountain" will be available for viewing as a subscriber.
According to HP's backend data, "Top of the Mountain" brought more than 200,000 new subscribers to HP on the first day it switched to paid subscriptions. These more than 200,000 new subscribers were the largest number ever. Users who do not have a top-up subscription with HP. HP's standard membership is US$12.99 a month, which means that "Top of the Mountain" directly brought more than 2.5 million US dollars in revenue to HP on this day. Not to mention, there are many viewers who are originally subscribers and who can potentially be converted into subscribers later.
Even because of the popularity of "The Top of the Mountain", another drama "The Gold Rush" starring Yan Liang on HP has also started to increase its data. After watching "The Top of the Mountain", many viewers clicked on "The Gold Rush" because of the protagonist Yan Liang. "Gold Rush".
Compared with the purchase price of "The Mountain", HP's return on the drama "The Mountain" can be said to be very impressive.
Going back to Yan Liang, whether it is "Top of the Mountain" or "The Gold Rush", in the scope of global film and television dramas, they can be described as high-quality dramas that are popular in a small area. Although it did not become a global hit, it has also accumulated loyal fans of the show.
Zhou Ping'an unceremoniously described Yan Liang as an internationally famous actor in his press release.
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"They are tied together. They are really not to be underestimated. Even Yan Liang has been pushed to such a high position."
In the circle of agents, the comeback trend of the drama "Top of the Mountain" and Yan Liang's luck in starring in several dramas have become the things they envy and discuss enthusiastically.
"We are all fighting alone, for fear of being taken advantage of by others. Oh, how can we compete with a few of them." Liu Zefan's manager Li Xia was very helpless. "They support and push each other. This is too cruel. There’s no comparison.”
In fact, Liu Zefan, who became popular again with "Squid Game", is not less popular and well-known overseas than Yan Liang, because the role of the young policeman played by Liu Zefan is indeed too popular. He is basically the most popular character after the male protagonist.
However, despite this, the limitations of an actor are reflected at this moment. No one pushed him, no one made connections. After leaving "Squid Game", Liu Zefan's other dramas were not in the eyes of those streaming media. Of course, other dramas starring Liu Zefan are still snatched up by major platforms in China, because Liu Zefan is indeed very popular, but compared with Yan Liang's situation, he is much weaker.
Both "The Gold Rush" and "The Mountain Top" were favored by HP because of Lu Yanhe's recommendation, and they relied on HP's attention and effective publicity to effectively broadcast the dramas on HP. No matter how others talk about Yan Liang, it is entirely because of Lu Yanhe that he has reached this point. At least now, Yan Liang has several popular dramas in hand, and his popularity, popularity, and influence have all solidly fallen on his head.
It turned out that Lu Yanhe was the one who stood out all by himself, leaving all the male actors of the same age behind him. Now, not only is he alone, but Yan Liang has also established a firm foothold in the drama circle after three consecutive explosions, and is vaguely aware of it. The momentum and achievements of the top niche actor in the drama industry seem to be comparable to those of Lu Yanhe.
Especially the overseas popularity and influence that domestic actors currently lack.
Yan Liang's few effective dramas have made him surpass other domestic actors of the same age.
"Zhou Ping'an's eyebrows have almost shot up to the sky recently."
"Why is his luck so good?" Another agent was puzzled and depressed. "One by one, one left, another one got up, one after another. Did he worship some Bodhisattva? To have such a good life?"
Li Xia's face turned dark immediately.
Mengli was her artist before, but was poached by Zhou Pingan.
Although Meng Li is not a fuel-efficient lamp in her hands, she is a first-line actress after all, and her annual income is seven figures. Is it an artist that Zhou Pingan poached? No, it's her property!
Li Xia took a deep breath.
"Actually, Sister Xia, you are very lucky. Zefan participated in "Squid Game", and so many people died in the first season, but the character of Zefan is still alive. It is obvious that he will be more important in the second season. His role is so enviable.”
Li Xia immediately waved her hand, "That was a role that Zefan won because of his hard work. Fortunately, Li Yuefeng gave up the audition, otherwise the role might not have belonged to Zefan."
"I heard that Li Yuefeng has a good relationship with Lu Yanhe now. Maybe Lu Yanhe will write another role for Li Yuefeng in the second season."
"That's hard to say. However, if that happens, he and Zefan have the same type. Will Zefan's role in the second season be weakened?"
Li Xia: "It all depends on Lu Yanhe's arrangement. What can we say? No? Who dares to make comments on the script written by Lu Yanhe? "
"Don't say that, you still have to fight for what you should fight for. Zefan's character is so popular. If I were you, I would definitely ask for Zefan to have more scenes in the second season, which is a reasonable demand in itself."
"What will you do if Lu Yanhe doesn't give you more scenes?"
"If he doesn't give you more scenes, then don't give him more scenes. Of course, there is nothing we can do about it, but maybe he will give him more scenes? He also hopes that the sequel of "Squid Game" will be more popular, right?"
Li Xia smiled and didn't take what this person said seriously at all.
She would be crazy to be instigated by this.
However, with the attitude Lu Yanhe showed now, as long as Liu Zefan didn't stab him in the back and continued to cooperate well, Lu Yanhe would never treat Liu Zefan unfairly.
They should also show more sincerity.
After being reminded, Li Xia immediately contacted Chen Siqi.
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Chen Siqi brought the mobile phone screen to Lu Yanhe and showed it to him.
"What?" Lu Yanhe was watching the latest episode of "Jump Up" when suddenly a mobile phone screen appeared in front of him and he looked down.
Chen Siqi said: "Liu Zefan's agent Li Xia sent me a message, asking if there is any play that needs Liu Zefan to act in the Jump Up Theater. If there is a need, they can coordinate their schedules before August this year, and he can come to shoot at any time. We can set the salary."
Lu Yanhe was a little surprised and said: "Did she send this message on her own initiative?"
"Yes." Chen Siqi nodded, "I didn't expect that she would take the initiative to send such a message."
Lu Yanhe said: "Liu Zefan is very popular now, right? He should not lack plays to act?"
Chen Siqi said: "Of course, he is much more popular than you now. You are popular, but the number of real fans may not be as many as his. His girlfriend fans are exaggerated. You can see it on his Weibo. Every forwarding and comment number exceeds one million."
Lu Yanhe: "Then why is Li Xia so humble and wants Liu Zefan to act in the Jump Up play?"
Chen Siqi rolled his eyes at him.
"Are you stupid? They want to return the favor and express their gratitude to us."
Lu Yanhe came back to his senses and exclaimed.
He didn't think in this direction, mainly because he didn't think Liu Zefan needed to express his gratitude to him.
Liu Zefan came to film "Squid Game" and got the role through an audition. He didn't use any backdoors or connections. During the filming process, he was also conscientious and hardworking.
He chose Liu Zefan because he was the best choice. Moreover, Liu Zefan was not a newcomer at the time. He was already the male lead of a popular fairy drama. It was a mutually beneficial cooperation.
What's more, Liu Zefan was going to film the second season.
Before Lu Yanhe started writing the script for the second season, he had already greeted Liu Zefan's agent Li Xia and asked them to reserve the time.
At this time, Liu Zefan really didn't need to do these things to express his gratitude. We will continue to cooperate later.
But Li Xia did it at this time.
Lu Yanhe: "Then see if there is a script suitable for Liu Zefan, and send him a script."
"You accepted it so happily?" Chen Siqi asked. She was a little surprised, thinking that it was not Lu Yanhe's usual style. Lu Yanhe hated being thanked by others, and he didn't like taking advantage of others at this time.
"What do you mean by happily accepted?" Lu Yanhe said, "Li Xia may think that letting Liu Zefan play in the Jump Up Theater is to express her gratitude to me, but I don't think so. The scripts that have passed the review of the Jump Up Theater are of good quality, otherwise they would not pass our three-party evaluation. He is willing to play, which is a win-win situation."
Jump Up Theater has not officially started yet, so it is still an unknown in the minds of many people. Only Lu Yanhe knows what a great thing Jump Up Theater is doing--
Although the plays of this theater are not invested much at present, and cannot be filmed into the kind of dramas with particularly exquisite and advanced costumes and props, the requirements at the script level are very high.
Every script that enters the filming needs to be evaluated by Yuehutai, Northern Lights Video and Jump Up. Otherwise, it will either be sent back to revise the script or a new screenwriter will be found to re-adapt it.
Jump Up Theater attaches much more importance to the script than the average level in the industry.
Lu Yanhe neither thinks that Jump Up Theater is taking advantage of him by asking Liu Zefan to film, nor does he think that Liu Zefan is lucky to come to Jump Up Theater. Lu Yanhe thinks this kind of cooperative relationship is very good. In this case, there is really no need to talk about giving back.
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That day, Lu Yanhe and Luo Yuzhong made an appointment to meet, and planned to quickly cast the cast of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" before the Jose Film Festival in May. After all, if "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" needs to start shooting in the second half of this year, the preparation work must be done quickly.
They have already decided in the early stage that due to the budget of the film salary, the three main female characters of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", Ling'er, Yueru and Anu, will all use newcomers.
Unexpectedly, Luo Yuzhong proposed to meet Yan Lingyu, the heroine of "Late Spring".
He felt that Yan Lingyu's temperament was quite suitable for Ling'er.
Lu Yanhe was a little confused for a while and did not react.
Lu Yanhe originally thought that the role of Ling'er was the most difficult to find an actor. After all, it is a classic role of the Fairy Sister. To find a look and temperament that can rival the Fairy Sister, the original time and space has spent twenty years without finding a second one, which shows how difficult it is. Who knows, Luo Yuzhong already has a candidate in mind.
But, Yan Lingyu?
When Lu Yanhe was filming "Late Spring", Yan Lingyu's acting was the most ordinary among the actors. She was completely close to Yin Yue in the story by her image and temperament, so Liu Bige took a fancy to her and asked her to play her true colors.
He subconsciously didn't want to work with an actor with average acting skills again.
But the person who proposed this idea was Luo Yuzhong, his teacher and the director he respected from the bottom of his heart. Lu Yanhe certainly couldn't refuse at this time, so he sent a message to Yan Lingyu and asked her when she was free.
Yan Lingyu is one year younger than him and just graduated this year.
Since "Late Spring", she has acted in two more movies, but there has been no sound, and the evaluation is not very good, including her acting skills, which have been criticized by many people. I don't know if it is because of this reason that Yan Lingyu has only acted in these two movies in the past few years.
Yan Lingyu quickly replied to Lu Yanhe, saying that she was in Yuming, but she didn't want to be an actor anymore, which confused Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe called her immediately and asked what was going on. Why did she suddenly not want to be an actor?
Yan Lingyu said: "I may not be very good at acting and I am not suitable for this profession."
Lu Yanhe: "..."
At this moment, Lu Yanhe suddenly felt guilty for his previous dislike of Yan Lingyu's poor acting skills.
"You just graduated from acting school. You will have many opportunities to improve your acting skills in the future. Why do you give up so early?" Lu Yanhe advised, "Director Luo wants to see you because Director Luo and I have a play to work together. There is a role in it. He thinks your image is very suitable and wants to talk to you in person."
Yan Lingyu said frustratedly: "Yanhe, please say thank you to Director Luo for me, but I really don't want to be an actor anymore."
Lu Yanhe was really surprised.
This was something he had never thought of before.
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