Huayu started from the fairy sword

Chapter 239 The Southern Zhou and Northern Cao's Battle for Best Actor!
Cao Jun told the truth: "No, I don't have a sports car, not even one."

Jay Chou obviously didn't believe it, and asked in disbelief: "How is it possible? Don't you like sports cars?"

Cao Jun said calmly: "Fortunately, I don't have much feeling for sports cars. For me, cars are used for transportation."

Jay Chou then asked again: "Then what are your hobbies?"

Cao Jun thought for a while and said: "Acting and singing, sports, more intense sports, and then investment..."

Before Cao Jun finished speaking, Jay Chou interrupted: "Wait, what did you say? Can investing be considered a hobby?"

Cao Jun smiled and nodded: "Of course, investing is not only a hobby, but also an art."

Jay Chou asked with great interest: "Then do you invest in any projects? Tell me a relatively successful one."

Cao Jun smiled and said, "I won't talk about investment, lest you think I'm bragging, but I can recommend a project to you."

Jay Chou asked curiously: "What project?"

Cao Jun said solemnly: "Buy Tencent or Moutai's stock, and after ten years, you will come back and thank me."

Jay Chou said disapprovingly: "Stock trading? I don't trade stocks, I'm not interested in stock trading."

Cao Jun asked back: "Then what do you usually invest in?"

Jay Chou said proudly: "My friend and I jointly opened a trendy brand store PHANTACi, which specializes in selling trendy clothes."

"I also opened an antique shop in Taipei..."

Listening to Jay Chou's detailed talk about his investment projects, Cao Jun didn't feel much about it. He just felt that it was a small matter, and it was difficult to make any big achievements.

Cao Jun joked with a smile: "If you invest indiscriminately like this, you might as well just speculate in real estate. If you randomly build ten or twenty houses in Beijing or Shanghai, I can guarantee that you will definitely make more money than opening a store."

Seeing that Cao Jun looked down on his business talent, Jay Chou was a little annoyed, and asked: "Who can't brag? You talk so much about yourself, can you name a project where you made a lot of money?"

Cao Jun thought about it. So far, he really doesn't have any big money projects, but he doesn't want to admit defeat.

After thinking for a while, Cao Jun pretended to be calm and replied: "Then let me tell you something. I just invested in a TV series called "Scary Step by Step", and it has been sold to three satellite TV stations."

"Excluding the production cost, I have already made a net profit of [-] to [-] million yuan, which is only a guaranteed profit."

"If there is no accident, there is a great chance that our drama "Scary Step by Step" will be broadcast in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Someone from Koryo has also approached us to talk, and we will definitely make another fortune at that time... ..."

Seeing what Cao Jun said so clearly, Jay Chou also believed it, but he was more concerned about saving face in his bones, and he didn't want to admit that Cao Jun knew more about investing than he did.

Jay Chou immediately replied: "What's so great about investing in TV dramas? If you want to invest, you should invest in movies. "The Untold Secret", which I directed and acted in, earned 3750 million box office in the mainland. You should have heard of it, right?"

Cao Jun said disapprovingly: "Your box office is nothing. Two years ago, Andy Lau and Liu Tianwang and I only invested 400 million yuan in a movie - "Crazy Stone". The box office is even higher than the movie you directed and acted in." high!"

The movie "Crazy Stone", after all, is a classic made in mainland China, and Jay Chou has more or less heard of it.

After some quarrels, neither Cao Jun nor Jay Chou convinced the other, and they were somewhat dissatisfied with each other.

The only thing that Jay Chou admires about Cao Jun is that Cao Jun's appearance is indeed handsomer than him, and he is much handsomer. He still has self-knowledge in this regard.

As for acting skills, music creation ability, etc., Jay Chou feels that compared with Cao Jun, he can be said to be evenly matched, and each has its own advantages.

Although many people say that Jay Chou's acting skills are poor and he doesn't know how to act at all, but Jay Chou doesn't agree with this statement, he also won the Best Newcomer Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

In order to convince Cao Jun of his acting skills, and to combat Cao Jun's arrogance, Jay Chou also deliberately brought out the "Best Newcomer Award at the Golden Statue Awards" in order to directly shut Cao Jun up.

Cao Jun was really pissed off, because he felt that Jay Chou's "Initial D" was his true colors, with no acting skills at all, and he was ruthlessly crushed by Mr. Chen's Ryosuke Takahashi.

In Cao Jun's view, Jay Chou's ability to win the Best Newcomer Award at the Academy Awards with the movie "Initial D" was purely a commercial means, and it was entirely because of his popularity, which was not convincing at all.

Wanting to be here, Cao Jun said bluntly: "Jay Lun, let's forget about your rookie award. You are not the best actor. I think you should sing better. You are really not suitable for acting. Time will tell. What I said is correct."

As the saying goes, it's not speculative to say more than half a sentence. After this debate, Cao Jun and Jay Chou didn't say anything more, they just competed secretly in their hearts.

Frankly speaking, in the past few years, Jay Chou has no rivals among Hong Kong and Taiwan artists of the same generation, whether it is music or film.

If there is, it can only be Cao Jun from the mainland.

Because except for Cao Jun, all other Hong Kong and Taiwan artists of the same generation did not make Jay Chou feel threatened at all.

It was also the appearance of Cao Jun, and this argument with Cao Jun, that made Jay Chou regain a sense of competition.

The more Jay Chou thought about it, the more angry he became, and he immediately declared war on Cao Jun: "Cao Jun, let's take a bet, whoever wins the Best Actor Award at the Golden Statue Award or the Best Actor Award at the Golden Horse Award first, how about it? Do you dare to bet?"

Cao Jun said disapprovingly: "You are from Taiwan, and you are better off from Xiangjiang. Of course, you have a better chance."

"If you really want to gamble, then count it as our Mainland's Golden Rooster Award!"

Jay Chou also knew the weight of the Golden Rooster Award in the mainland film industry, so he nodded immediately: "Okay, let's gamble! Who is afraid of whom!"

From this moment, the competition between Cao Jun and Jay Chou in the film industry officially kicked off.

However, there is one thing to say, Cao Jun will still watch people. With Jay Chou's acting skills, it will be very difficult to win the Golden Statue Award, Golden Horse Award, and Golden Rooster Award in this lifetime.

As for Cao Jun himself, he felt that with his acting skills, it would not be easy to win the actor, but the chances are definitely much greater than Jay Chou.

Of course, the argument between Cao Jun and Jay Chou was arguing, and they didn't really turn against each other, but regarded each other as competitors in their hearts.

Jay Chou was even accepting the commercial shooting. During the interview, he joked to the media: "I just made a bet with Cao Jun. We both want to know, between the two of us, who has the better chance to win the best actor, and who do you think will have the better chance in the future?" A chance to win the actor?"

In front of Jay Chou, the reporters certainly wouldn't say that Cao Jun had a better chance, they all said with one voice that Jay Chou had a better chance of winning Best Actor.

When asked this question by the reporter, Cao Jun did not deny it, and replied with a smile: "I did have a bet with Jielun. As for who will win the award first, we don't know. Maybe in the end, both of us will win the prize." If you didn’t get it, it’s possible.”

Although Cao Jun and Jay Chou discussed the bet in front of the media as a joke, their public bet quickly became the headline news in the entertainment industry.

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