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Chapter 741 Extra Story 22 Master Cao Arrives at "Goose City"

Beijing, the crew of "I'm Not the God of Medicine"

In a steamed stuffed bun shop, Cao Xuan was wearing an old down jacket, with an unshaven beard and slightly greasy hair. With a cigarette in his hand, he looked impatiently at Zhang Songwen who was munching on steamed stuffed buns in front of him.

After the other party struggled to swallow a mouthful of the steamed stuffed bun, he unconsciously struggled, and the director Wen Muye not far away immediately called out. Obviously, this shot was useless again.

"Sorry, let's have another one."

Knowing that it was his fault, Zhang Songwen immediately raised his hand to apologize, but the staff was about to hand over a drawer of buns when Cao Xuan stopped him.

"Slow down, take a rest and take another shot."

"I'm fine..."

Afraid of delaying the filming, Zhang Songwen immediately signaled that there was no problem, Cao Xuan waved his hand: "It's been a long time, anyway, there's nothing else to do today, there's no rush, let's take a break first."

After finishing speaking, Cao Xuan communicated with the director, and then the director announced: "Take a break for half an hour, Teacher Cao invites everyone to have supper."

Zhang Ze is obviously more inclined to that side, Cao Xuan and Wen Muye can't replace the male lead with a supporting role.

In the entire crew list, Cao Xuan rejected one person, that is, he replaced Lu Yiyi's actor.

When the news spread to the Internet, countless netizens cried with envy, and there was even a trending meme of "It's not too late to resign and join Penguin now".

So the producer strongly recommended Qin Hao, who he likes, and took Cao Xuan and Wen Muye to watch his masterpiece "A Night Intoxicated by Spring Breeze" together.

From the performance point of view, this is a tricky or even lazy method, but I have to say that sometimes it really works. Zhang Songwen used to have confidence in his own strength, and he can get it done without relying on these.

It is not an exaggeration to say that these two people are unknown in the circle.

Cao Xuan ate 15 steamed buns and stopped for a while. Everyone would say that he was dedicated, even if he wanted to shoot, he had to stop him. Zhang Songwen ate twice as much. If he dared to delay everyone from finishing work, some people would call him hypocritical, and he would come back on the spot. possible.

No matter how powerful a person is, if they go hungry a few more times and are not allowed to sleep for a few days and nights, they will immediately become half human and half ghost, and they don't need to perform much.

Cao Xuan nodded, and played with the cigarette butt in his hand: "It seems to be when I was filming "When Men Are in Love", at that time, relying on my youth, I worked so hard that I was almost sent to the hospital for gastric lavage.

However, this kind of idea is too hurtful. In principle, Cao Xuan does not advocate it, but if Zhang Songwen is really unsure, it is okay to come here once in a while.

"You said so."

To put it mildly, he has a lot of practical and theoretical experience, which can help the crew and actors.

But this drama is indeed too important. Even if Zhang Songwen believes in his own strength, he still wants to do his best.

Later I realized that filming should be done according to one's ability, the body is one's own, and it is right to be dedicated, but one cannot be brave. "

You know, in TV dramas and movies, many actors eat scenes, and the audience thinks it is very simple, you can make money by eating, and I can do it myself.

Especially when I heard that Cao Xuan was going to be on stage at the annual meeting this time to join in the fun, countless people ran to the boss, begging for tickets to the scene.

There is one thing to say, the latter's experience in the entertainment industry is very common in the entertainment industry. The entire entertainment industry is full of depressed actors.

Tan Zhuo is okay, after all, he also acted in several female leading roles, including "Mr. Hello Tree" and "The Murder Chaser". Although Wang Baoqiang and Zhang Ze stole the limelight, there are still works of.

Seeing the honest and well-behaved Zhang Songwen, Cao Xuan admired it, but also had a little weird emotion.

Once or twice is fine, but if the number of times is too high, the actors will not be able to bear it, but they still have to hold on, and they have to act like they are well-fed, which is a great psychological and physical torture.

Speaking of it, in fact, the experiences of the two are somewhat similar. They are both children from small places, with no skills, and struggling to survive.

Many actors don't like to eat these props, because these dishes are in pursuit of the camera, they are not tasty, they taste bad, and they even have safety issues. Actors are not willing to eat them.

Even though "I'm Not the God of Medicine" has Cao Xuan, Lao Mouzi's first male lead in the movie is too tempting.

He is the boss's card. If he can't stand it, he can offer to take it easy, and no one dares to say anything.

The entire crew of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" knew that he was Cao Xuan's hand-picked general.

This kind of method is actually sometimes figured out by these performance directors, but few actors are willing to be so open-minded, but this is no problem for Zhang Songwen.

Director Wen Muye is quite appreciative, and Cao Xuan thinks it's okay, but he himself still thinks whether he should be thinner to fit the role.

More importantly, a scene needs to be shot many times, and many scenes have to be shot repeatedly. You finish all the dishes, and the table is full of leftovers. The filming does not look good, and it also affects the editing.

"I understand."

Not to mention Cao Xuan's impressions, but just talking about the script and characters of "I'm Not the God of Medicine", as well as the attention of the outside world, Zhang Songwen knew that this was his best opportunity in more than 40 years.

Then Qin Hao was not selected, Cao Xuan was very fond of Zhang Songwen, Wen Muye took a fancy to Tan Zhuo, and even changed the originally selected female lead actress for this reason.

On the black side, when Li Zicheng of the Jinmen Group he played dominated Xiangjiang, Gao Qiqiang was still selling fish in the market, and on the white side was Qi Tongwei.

And Zhang Songwen himself understands very well that this drama is probably an opportunity for him to jump into the dragon's gate.

Fortunately for Cao Xuan, he has a good face, and even more fortunate is that he has a successful life and a prosperous life.

"You mean..."

"Get ready."

Cao Xuan's filming of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was very low-key, and he only participated in one event during the filming, which was the Penguin staff meeting.

"Mr. Cao, do you think I am in good shape now? Do I need to be thinner?"

"Have you ever done that too?"

Zhang Songwen is about 175cm tall and usually weighs more than 130 kilograms. After receiving the invitation from the crew, he lost nearly 20 kilograms in a short period of time, and currently maintains at about 110 kilograms.

Cao Xuan came to the capital to work after graduating from high school. Zhang Songwen had a vocational high school degree and worked a lot of casual jobs. In the end, because he liked acting, he came to the capital to look for opportunities.

Cao Xuan still understood Zhang Songwen's mentality.

What's more interesting is that Cao Xuan has also been sought after by countless employees in the Penguin Park. There are many people looking for group photos and autographs, which even caused a certain scale of congestion and onlookers.

In the film, Cao Xuan pretends to be ugly and old. He doesn't have to deliberately act young. After all, he is a patient + low class. It is normal to be older, but in order to make the film sick, the director asked him to be thinner.

Judging from the realistic appearance, Zhang Songwen is much older than Cao Xuan, but in fact, he is one year younger than Cao Xuan in real age.

He was able to get to where he is today, thanks to Penguin, and Cao Xuan still has feelings for this company.

Although Zhang Songwen has a good resume, he is basically a supporting role, and he has no special memory points. He is a truly unknown person.

Cao Xuan, on the other hand, perfectly fits these positions. In terms of nationality, he is popular in all age groups, and in terms of business status, Xiao Ma and his drinking glasses are slightly lower.

In particular, Boss Cao has always been generous. In the past, most of the treats cost more than 100 yuan per person, which is quite impressive.

In fact, Boss Cao seldom shows up at Penguin, but the company is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and Brother Ma sincerely invites him, and Cao Xuan can't refute his face.

Zhang Songwen couldn't do it, his position was low and his voice was low, no one would speak for him, so he had to grit his teeth and support himself.

Even he himself didn't understand why Cao Xuan liked him, and he couldn't help asking privately within two days after he came to the set.

"I have experience, so it will be more comfortable."

The difference is that Zhang Songwen does have real materials, and he never forgets his original intention and takes acting as his ultimate goal. Even when the performance director has already made a name for himself, he deliberately lowers the focus of his work, just because he is afraid that he will turn the cart before the horse and no one will find him. He filmed.

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That's why he racked his brains and tried his best to perform the tricks well. First, he wanted to repay Cao Xuan's support and support, and he didn't want to embarrass him. Second, he also wanted to seize the opportunity to stand up.

But in fact, eating drama is also particular.

Like Zhang Songwen today, the only shots that are really useful may be a few stuffed buns, but for these few shots, he ate more than 30 buns in one night.

However, there are some scenes that require actors to eat, which will test the skills of actors and directors.

"Thank you, Mr. Cao."

Zhang Songwen took out the digestion tablets prepared in advance from his pocket, and regardless of the doctor's orders, he took out two tablets and threw them into his mouth.

As a performance director, Zhang Songwen knew exactly what Cao Xuan meant, it was nothing more than some external stimulation.

It's ugly, if you can't get a movie, you can only make a living from it, and expand your network by the way, in order to make a movie.

This guy won't turn around and backstab him, will he?
Gao Qiqiang in "Hurricane" really doesn't look like an actor, he seemed to see this guy likes to eat fish during the meal before.

Zhang Songwen himself knew that Cao Xuan's words were a joke, but it still gave him great encouragement, because no big person had ever given him such a high evaluation and expectation.

"You don't want to eat supper, take some digestion tablets to top it off."

Zhang Songwen knew that Cao Xuan was helping him out of the siege, so he was very grateful. Cao Xuan shook his head and joked.

If it were other skills, Zhang Songwen might still hesitate a little bit, and hard work can be regarded as dedication to a certain extent, and he is not guilty at all.

In many table scenes, the audience found that these actors only talked and did not eat, or simply picked up a few chopsticks, which seemed fake.

Zhu Shimao and Chen Xiaoer's skit "Eating Noodles" is very vivid. It is difficult for actors to shoot eating scenes once, and often they have to shoot multiple times.

Penguin, which was founded in 1998, happens to be its [-]th anniversary this year, so Penguin has a big business. As the largest shareholder, Cao Xuan was also invited to participate.

Greeting the assistant, he got a hand warmer, Cao Xuan handed it to Zhang Songwen, and motioned him to apply it on his stomach.

It can be seen from this that this is an old oily guy who often mixes with the crew, and he doesn't cheat or play tricks, and knows how to prepare medicine in advance.

This is rare in a big company like Penguin!

"Patients who are approaching their end of life, if they want that sense of depression and weakness, the best way is to stay up all night hungry. I don't need to teach you this."

Unless it is the kind of artist with invincible nationality, it can cause a certain degree of sensation,
Here, those who are really sought after and even admired are those entrepreneurs, technical masters, and industry elites.

Zhang Songwen was fed up, and Cao Xuan didn't want to talk to him, so as not to make him feel uncomfortable, but Zhang Songwen took the initiative to chat with him.

This is Boss Cao's "live concert"!

Zhang Songwen nodded, but only he knew whether he listened or not, and Cao Xuan didn't say much, and he also knew that his words would not hurt his back while standing up.

It's a little annoying to have to delay everyone's closing time, but if someone treats them to a late-night snack, it can still calm most people's grievances.

Cao Xuan made a move, and even took the initiative to eliminate the influence for him, which is more real than talking about these films.

Cao Xuan is also an actor, and has also filmed such eating scenes. He knows that it is not easy for an actor.

"It's fine in the normal state. If you don't worry, make a surprise attack on the scene of the death."

Mr. Cao came to the "Goose City" and quickly made the headlines of the hot search!
As the most powerful Internet company at present, the relationship between Cao Xuan and Penguin has always been talked about by others. This rare "dream linkage" naturally aroused heated discussions among the people who eat melons.

After all, it is a well-known large factory, and the employees who can work here have relatively outstanding academic income and knowledge. Many favored children from prestigious schools are just ordinary people here.

And before that, he had eaten several bowls of noodles. Although the shots of the noodles did not need to be eaten clean, there were still a bowl or two of them here and there. With the addition of these more than 30 buns, Cao Xuan was panicking for him. .

Cao Xuan did not specifically intervene in the casting of "I'm Not the God of Medicine". The cast members of the crew were all decided by the director Wen Muye and the producer, and then sent to Cao Xuan for review. Those who agreed were nodded, and those who disagreed were replaced.

Zhang Songwen is mediocre in appearance. Although he was recently admitted to Nortel's higher vocational class, it did not go smoothly.

People in the arena involuntarily!
Comparing my heart to my heart, if he were Zhang Songwen, he might not dare to stop. The life of an adult is always full of compromise and forbearance.

In such an environment, even the top stars may not be taken seriously by them. Even if they come, everyone will just watch the fun, and there are very few people who really follow the stars.

Everyone in the entertainment industry is desperately trying to climb up, but sometimes it's not necessarily for the money...

Aside from the "Longing for Life", since 2015, Cao Xuan only sang "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" on stage at the 2017th Annual Meeting of Stars in 20.

If it doesn't work, break it with strength!
Using Hawkeye is considered Cao Xuan’s bullying, not even Linghu Chong, Zhang Wuji, Jiang Asheng and other martial arts vests, just A Xuan from "New Police Story" or Chen Jun from "Taken" alone can pick their lair... …

This is because many dishes on the table are inedible, and the actors have to speak lines and dialogues, so eating is easily distracted.

"I can tell fortunes, and I can see that you are not a thing in the pool, and you must be a late bloomer, so I help you."

Under all kinds of auras, Cao Xuan, a major shareholder who may not show up for a few years, is even more popular than Xiao Ma and others.

At that time, the director wanted Zhang Ze, who became popular after "Operation Red Sea", to fill the vacancy, and Cao Xuan had no objection, but he did not expect Lao Mouzi to personally invite the latter to participate in the new film "One Second".

For Penguin employees, chasing celebrities to take photos and sign autographs may be a bit embarrassing, but after chasing Cao Xuan, getting it is blood money.

However, Boss Cao was quite indifferent, even Gao Qiqiang, he would be steadfast.

Even the social platform accounts of websites such as Alibaba and Baidu are crazy about lemons in the comment section of Penguin.

Of course, there are also happy ones, such as JD.com, Meituan, Box Games and other platforms that Cao Xuan participated in the investment, and he is thinking about looking back to celebrate the New Year, whether he should invite Boss Cao to "inspect the work"...

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