Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 21 You Can Kung Fu

Shooting Lou Ye's movies is very hard, because all of them are shot on location, and the on-site radio must not be disturbed. I often choose to shoot indoor scenes in the dead of night, and there are many night scenes, so I often have two or three in the afternoon. Start work at [-]:[-] a.m., and don't finish work until three or four in the morning.

In the final analysis, it’s all about the lack of money. If you have money, you can rent a studio in the film and television park, set up the scene, and all the indoor scenes can be done easily, without any interference.

Fortunately, after Zhou Xun joined the team, Li Tang felt a little more relaxed, at least the director would not stare at him alone.

There are very few roles in "Suzhou Creek", except him and Zhou Xun, Xiao Hong played by Naian, old B played by Lou Ye's buddies, and the bar owner who is a guest star of the assistant director and external producer Yao Anlian.

In fact, Lou Ye's buddy was only here to help the crew at first, but he ended up being the second male lead.This means that only him and Zhou Xun are the serious actors of the entire crew, and the other actors and crew have digested themselves, trying to save the actors' salaries as much as possible.

Xiao Hong, played by Naian, is Ma Da's ex-girlfriend, and old B is Ma Da's underworld friend. Xiao Hong has been with Lao B since leaving Ma Da, but still maintains a friend relationship.

It’s very interesting to say that the name of the character “Old B” was probably written by Lou Ye, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that B is two, or what, in the Chinese context, it is not a good word, it is a swear word , so the role of old B is a bad guy, the bad kind.

"It's time for dinner, it's time for dinner!"

Yao Anlian parked the van on the side of the road, opened the door and took out a foam insulation box from inside, shouting loudly upstairs.

The production crew was small, Lao Yao took the initiative to shoulder the work of drama management and chores in addition to the assistant director and outreach producer, and everyone recognized his work in terms of food very much.

It is said that he ordered the box lunch for the crew from a small window shop next to the Writers Association on Julu Road.The so-called small window shop is the kind that is opened in a resident's home and sells in a window facing the street.

This small window shop mainly specializes in local dishes, such as braised pork ribs, braised pork, sauced eggs, dry fried hairtail... The price is cheap and good, and the key taste is quite good.

"Is there any yellow sauce, I want to eat yellow sauce." Zhou Xun was the first to pop out.

Just kidding, after being tortured by the director all afternoon, she was already so hungry that her chest was stuck to her back.

"Yes, there are, I specially took care of them to keep, otherwise they would have been sold out." Yao Anlian smiled, picked out two lunch boxes and handed them to her.

Yellow sauce is a Shanghainese nickname for tofu-coated meat. Zhou Xun didn't know it at first, but thought it was chili sauce or miso sauce.After tasting it, I found that fresh minced meat was wrapped in tofu, and the rich and sweet sauce was wrapped in tofu, which was very delicious, and I fell in love with it immediately.

"Hey, I'll give you half of the meal."

She ate little rice and mainly ate vegetables, so she allocated most of the rice in her lunch box to Li Tang.

"Hey, such fat meat!"

Li Tang's vegetable box contains braised pork, which is very fat.

"Braised pork fat is delicious, do you understand! This is meat cooked in a big pot, the oil and water are cooked out, it doesn't taste greasy at all, it's sticky and fragrant."

"Really?"

"If you don't believe me, try it."

Li Tang smiled and handed over the vegetable box.

Zhou Xun hesitated for a while holding the chopsticks, and finally shook his head and pouted: "I don't want to eat, I can't eat it just looking at it."

"It's fine if you don't eat."

Li Tang mixed some broth into the rice, and took big bites of the fat braised pork, which was delicious.

After eating, I saw that Zhou Xun had eaten all the food, but only had a few mouthfuls of the small half box of plain rice.

"Hey, give me a cigarette."

Zhou Xun put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth with a paper towel, and stretched out two fingers to make a cigarette pinching gesture towards Li Tang.

"You don't have any?"

Li Tang reluctantly took out his pocket.

"It's over, hurry up, don't be stingy!"

Li Tang took out the cigarette case, took one himself, and threw most of the pack to her.

Zhou Xun smokes, and he is more addicted to smoking than him.

"Why do you always smoke foreign cigarettes? It's too aggressive." She lit a [-] cigarettes, frowned after taking a puff.

Li Tang glanced at her, and said, "My father used to sell foreign cigarettes, so he's used to it."

"Doesn't your family run a restaurant?"

"I'm talking about the past."

"So how old are you, you started smoking?"

"Let's go to junior high school."

"Your father won't beat you?"

"Smack it secretly!"

Li Tang remembered that when the original body was young, Lao Li was busy earning money and no one cared about him at home, so he let himself go, smoking secretly, hanging out with the little hooligans on the street, which caused his grades to plummet. After graduating from junior high school, he was still an old father. Tuo barely made it to high school.

Li Tang pinched his cigarette after smoking, cleaned up the lunch boxes for the two of them, and stood up with some difficulty: "Oh, it's hard, I have to move."

There is a large terrace to the north of the room, next to the Suzhou Creek. The early summer night wind is very comfortable on the face, but you can faintly smell the stench coming from the river.

Li Tang walked around the balcony twice, and then stretched carefully.

"Why do you exercise every time before filming?" Zhou Xun leaned against the door and smoked, already the second one.

"Exercise can secrete endorphins and dopamine." Li Tang said while doing high kicks.

"Uh, what do you mean?" Zhou Xun looked confused.

She seems to have heard of dopamine, but she doesn't know what endorphine is.

"Because these two substances can stimulate people's emotions and feelings, making people more relaxed, and warming up can also prevent injuries." Li Tang briefly explained.

Well, he already knew that the little girl in front of him was not from a major and had a low level of education. She seemed to have attended an art school for three years after graduating from junior high school.

It may be that there was a little girl watching from the side today. On the spur of the moment, after finishing stretching and warming up, Li Tang actually played the set of Cai Li Fo boxing.

He practiced this set of boxing for 20 years in his previous life, and picked it up again after time travel.

Zhou Xun was stunned, his face was full of surprise and excitement, and he said: "So you can also kung fu, it's amazing!"

"What's great?"

At this moment, Naian came over with a smile on his face holding two pieces of paper.

"Sister Naian, Li Tang knows kung fu, he is very good, very... very good-looking." Zhou Xun said excitedly.

"Are you good at kung fu?"

Naian was surprised when she heard it for the first time.

"It's just some martial arts routines, nothing more than beautiful fists and embroidered legs." Li Tang said.

"Oh, why didn't you say it earlier?" Naian sighed suddenly.

"what happened?"

Nai'an excitedly said: "It's great that you know kung fu. Now it's popular to shoot martial arts scenes. You are from a major. If you also know kung fu, you will be popular, you know!"

"That's right, "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" has a lot of martial arts scenes. When I was filming, I saw Teacher Zhang Fengyi practicing every day." Zhou Xun jumped aside.

"But my martial arts routines and real kung fu are two different things." Li Tang hesitated.

Naian didn't see Li Tang punching, but as a manager, every feature of an actor is a selling point, so he hurriedly said: "The filming is also fake, as long as you can make the appearance."

As she said that, she couldn't help giggling and said, "I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get a show for you, but now it's all right. I'll ask my friends later to see if there is any suitable martial arts show."

Li Tang knew that Naian had been taking plays everywhere recently, not only to help him take plays, but also to take plays for himself.

Without him, the production budget of "Suzhou Creek" seems to be stretched. As a producer, she can only subsidize the filming by accepting TV series.

In fact, Naian is still very popular as an actor. In the past few years, several TV dramas she starred in have won the Best Actress Award at the "Asia Pacific Chinese Television Festival" and the "Spring Swallow Award" hosted by Beijing TV.

Li Tang sometimes gets drunk thinking about it, Nai'an can earn a lot of money by acting, so he has to help Lou Ye make movies bitterly.As an agent, he went out to film by himself, and he doubted whether it was right or wrong for him to choose this agent.

"Oh, by the way, this is for you. The director made some changes tonight, so hurry up and take a look." Naian handed the two pieces of paper in his hand to them.

(End of this chapter)