The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 407 What kind of female number one?
DreamWorks office building.

Zhao Jinmai pushed open the door and came out in a daze. Manager Fu Yan hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "How is it? Is there any drama?"

Although Zhao Jinmai is young, he has actually filmed a lot of scenes. He can be regarded as an "old actor" who has debuted for many years. His personality is relatively stable and precocious. At this moment, he can't help squinting his eyes into crescents when he comes back to his senses, and he is excited. Nodded: "It should be fine, Director Guo said yes, and Director Chen also said yes."

Fu Yan murmured Amitabha, and put his heart into his stomach: "Let me just say, for a role recommended by director Chen like this, the audition is just a formality."

Even so, she couldn't hide the excitement on her face.

Zhao Jinmai is not the biggest name in Fu Yan's agency, but she is indeed the most optimistic about this little girl.

First of all, the age advantage lies here. Actresses in Huaguo often try to look young when they are in their 40s and [-]s. Why?The market positioning is like this, and the role restrictions are like this.

Although the leading heroine is popular, the leading heroine in the Huaguo film and television industry is actually the heroine of a love drama.

Falling in love is required on campus, falling in love in ancient costumes is also falling in love, and falling in love is required in the workplace, and falling in love is required in all walks of life.

On the screen, audiences don’t mind middle-aged men falling in love with young girls, and there is even a market for them, but there is no market for middle-aged women falling in love.

This leads to actresses either trying their best to be tender, to be the leading heroine in a relationship, or to be a mother-in-law, or to be reduced to a supporting role, or to start acting in family dramas.

In short, the age of the heroine is preferably in her teens and 20s, and 30 is too old.

Of course, the tastes of audiences and the themes of film and television dramas are changing, and middle-aged actresses don’t have to play tender roles are also increasing, but this change is slow and uncertain, so youth is an advantage.

A child star like Zhao Jinmai naturally has such an age advantage. She is only 16 years old now, so she doesn't need to be tender, and her flowering period is at least ten years.

Of course, this is just an advantage of objective conditions. It is so easy to find two-legged people in the entertainment industry, and opportunities are the most important thing.

Because of the "contract turmoil", Zhao Jinmai was selected by DreamWorks and became the female number one in "The Walking Dead". This is a chance from heaven.

And the popularity of "The Walking Dead" is beyond imagination, especially overseas.

"Black Mirror" is far behind.

Although "Black Mirror" has a higher rating than "The Walking Dead" and has many loyal fans overseas, the darkness, novelty and depression of the content put it in a situation where it is not popular, but the audience is really not so many.

And "The Walking Dead" is also curious, but it's cool. Not only did the car run over zombies, but the protagonist team got guns from the police station when they arrived in Jiangcheng.

Moreover, the zombie culture originally originated in Europe and the United States, but DreamWorks has packaged it and put it in the urban background of the end of the world, so there is no obstacle for European and American audiences to accept it.

Thrilling, curious, hard-core, and refreshing to fight zombies, "The Walking Dead" detonated social media as soon as it landed on Netflix, creating a sensation from person to person.

Almost all programs in Asia, Europe, and North America on the Netflix platform topped the list.

The ins accounts of Yin Fang, who played the male lead, and Zhao Jinmai, who played the heroine, skyrocketed from a few hundred followers to tens of millions.

The number of viewers on Netflix has exceeded 7200 million, making it the most watched series in its history. Compared with many domestic netizens who feel that it is a bit harsh, the response of this series abroad is even more enthusiastic.

The main force of watching dramas in China is still mainly women. Even if it is an online drama, many female audiences who are used to watching love dramas will indeed find it too scary and harsh after watching one or two episodes of Amway, mainly domestic ones. The scale of TV is very tight, and viewers who often watch TV programs will naturally have to adapt to it.

But even so, the number of broadcasts of "The Walking Dead" in China has also set a record for DreamWorks dramas. Of course, it is still far behind other water-filled dramas. One point also aroused netizens and public opinion to question the falsification of online click-to-play data.

"The Walking Dead" is so popular that it has such a "little" amount of views. Where did your 300 billion 400 billion views come from?
TV dramas are popular both at home and abroad, and the leading actors are naturally rising.

Compared with middle-aged actors such as Lei Jiayin and Wu Yue in "The Martian", young actors naturally attract more fans.

Although Zhao Jinmai is not the kind of female number one who falls in love. In the play, she and the hero are teammates and siblings, but the role is still very good. In the second episode, the zombies broke out on the train, and there are highlights in the following episodes With her brilliant performance, coupled with her sweet looks, pure and good-looking, she has become a new generation of national sisters.

Among the florets born after 00, Zhang Jiefeng, who shined in "Tang Detective", has to be overwhelmed.

It is far more than Ye Shunan, who used to be the lead actress in "The Walking Dead". This child star who was called the little princess in the Beijing circle has now become the object of ridicule by netizens.

The contract turmoil of more than a year ago has long been forgotten by netizens. The two protagonists who once tore up DreamWorks on Weibo, and Li Hanjun, who was originally the actor candidate for "The Walking Dead", also played the domineering president in a self-made sweet drama on the video platform. .

Ye Shunan is still climbing up step by step in the film and television drama resources of Beijing Film Shop.

It should be said that both of them did not mix well.

But compared with Yin Fang and Zhao Jinmai's one-step soaring to the sky, they were naturally embarrassed and overshadowed.

Ever since "The Walking Dead" became popular, Li Hanjun and Ye Shunan have kept a low profile, and there has been no update on Weibo for several months - the weirdness of passers-by in the comments and the ridicule of DreamWorks fans can't even suppress the fans.

In order to avoid being asked embarrassing questions by reporters, even in the film and television promotion, he didn't say a word.

Zhao Jinmai has also officially become Fu Yan's most important artist. When Zhao Jinmai comes to DreamWorks for an audition, Fu Yan, the company owner, also has to accompany her personally, unlike other artists under her who are accompanied by assistant managers.

The reason why it is so important is naturally because the audition project is not simple, it is a heavyweight project of DreamWorks, the new movie "The Wandering Earth" directed by Guo Fan.

It is said that it is a sci-fi blockbuster with an investment of more than [-] million, and its ranking within DreamWorks is quite high, on the same level as "Inception" that Chen Jingxing is preparing.

Guo Fan is already recognized domestically as the director of commercial blockbusters second only to Chen Jingxing.

"Operation Mekong" is 25 billion, and "Edge of Tomorrow" is over 20 billion. If you add "You at the Same Table" before joining DreamWorks, the cumulative box office of the three films has reached 50 billion. Even Chen Sicheng was worse than all of them.

Moreover, Director Guo also has a "Operation Red Sea" that has been scheduled for next year's Spring Festival. There are precedents in "Mekong River" and "Spike II". "OPERATION RED SEA" is well-deserved as the No. 30 seed player, and the box office predicted by the media and netizens is [-] billion.

A heavyweight film project by a director of this level is likely to make people overwhelmed in the outside world.

In fact, although this movie has already been approved within DreamWorks, there is no leak from the outside world, otherwise Zhao Jinmai might have won it without such a simple audition.

And the reason why Fu Yan knew about this "big cake" was because the audition notice was sent directly to her by DreamWorks. As Zhao Jinmai's real manager, she was the only artist with the biggest names in the company. I brought it myself, and the play appointments for Zhao Jinmai were piled up with her first.

Ever since Zhao Jinmai became popular, film appointments have been pouring in like snowflakes. For ordinary film appointments, Fu Yan has to screen and investigate from the script to the cast partner to the production team.

Naturally, she would not "queue" for DreamWorks film appointments. She hurriedly dragged Zhao Jinmai to DreamWorks for an audition without even asking for a script.

DreamWorks' current film and television drama projects have a higher and higher demand for confidentiality, and generally do not send scripts to actors who are notified of auditions.

The so-called audition in DreamWorks is actually an actor changing into a costume, giving the actor a one-page script, asking her to speak lines in front of the camera lens, or to make a certain state, expression or action at the request of the director, and then the director The image and temperament of the actors in the camera do not match the characters in the script.

In the past two years, this kind of audition has rarely been eliminated, especially the audition with only one person, after all, all actors who know the basics are used.

This is also the fundamental reason why Fu Yan, a gold medal agent who has worked in the entertainment industry for more than ten years, attaches great importance to Zhao Jinmai.

DreamWorks loves to use old people. As long as you enter the circle of DreamWorks, you are very likely to receive DreamWorks roles in the future.

This is also normal, there are so many actors in the world, they are too many to count, Chen Jingxing and other directors are busy with their daily affairs, so where is the time to get to know a strange actor in depth and give you a chance to show yourself.

I don't have the energy to get in touch with unfamiliar actors.

Actors who have worked with each other and have enjoyed the cooperation process will naturally become the first choice when Chen Jingxing and other directors choose actors. If they are more suitable for the role, then there will be no surprises.

Although Director Chen seems to have a harsh attitude towards actors in the interview, he is actually quite nostalgic. This kind of character has long been recognized by many people. Otherwise, why would a first-line star like Chen Kun come to play a man with few roles? What about supporting roles?Isn't it just to become Director Chen's "old man"?

Wasn't Yin Fang, the leading actor in "The Walking Dead", recommended by Director Chen to "Operation Red Sea"?This lucky guy who has just been made famous by "The Walking Dead" will soon meet the audience at the Spring Festival stall.

With this role model in front, Fu Yan naturally looked forward to the day when Zhao Jinmai would be "turned over" again, but he didn't expect happiness to come so soon.

"Did Director Guo say what role it is?"

After Zhao Jinmai's excitement gradually calmed down, she began to pretend to be indifferent: "Female number one!"

"...What kind of female number one is it?" Fu Yan is a senior manager after all, so she thinks a lot.

There are many atypical female leads in DreamWorks movies, such as the female lead in "Gravity", the female lead in "The Martian", and of course the male lead in "Gravity" .

The difference is considerable.

"Forget it, even if the female lead in "Mars" is also the female lead, it's a fact." Fu Yan looked at Zhao Jinmai, who looked a little tangled, and sighed: ""The Wandering Earth", the name comes from The atmosphere is probably not smaller than the scene of "The Martian", if this level of production can be mixed, it is a victory!"

(End of this chapter)