Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 338 Ambition, Jealousy, Comfort
"How is your new assistant?"

"It's okay, but it's the first time we met today. We chatted during dinner, and I feel that there should be no problem with my ability. Uh... Let's see, Jiajia helped me choose the person, let's get used to it for a while. , if it doesn’t fit, just change it.”

Li Tang and Zhao Luoyao had a buffet at the revolving restaurant on the top floor. When they went downstairs, they happened to meet their ex-girlfriend and Li Xiuxiu.They had just arrived and they also lived on the twelfth floor. They greeted each other and Li Tang introduced his new assistant.

On the surface, it seemed normal, acquaintances would greet each other when they met, but Li Tang and his ex-girlfriend only communicated through eye contact, and the meaning contained was not revealed.

Sure enough, it didn’t take long for the ex-girlfriend to come and knock on the door, and then the routine started...

The ex-girlfriend’s career has finally improved. She has been following Sister Hua and signed a contract with Huayi for more than a year. Now Huayi Brothers is said to be negotiating cooperation with a Hong Kong film company to help her win a second female lead in future co-productions. Role.

So my ex-girlfriend was in a good mood recently, and she was particularly engaged just now, as if she wanted to share her happiness with Li Tang.

The clouds and rain took a break, and we chatted casually during the break. Naturally, we talked about Li Tang's new assistant, Zhao Luoyao.

"It seems you quite trust your Jiajia!"

The ex-girlfriend said sourly at first, recalling the scene where they met at the elevator entrance before, and said: "I think your new assistant is quite good at getting things done. You are not a fuel-efficient lamp."

Li Tang agrees with the evaluation that "he's quite good at things."To be an assistant, you need to be able to handle things clearly and know how to look at things. Your ex-girlfriend's comments can be understood as a compliment.

As for the following sentence "It's not a fuel-efficient lamp", it is completely the negative emotional output of the ex-girlfriend.It's just that Xiao Zhao was too polite and familiar when we met, which inevitably made people feel a bit empty.

Li Tang smiled and said, "She is from the capital. Don't you know that you have been in the capital for so many years?"

People in the capital are famous for their ability to talk, especially when they meet for the first time. Every mouthful is yours, which is called politeness and makes people feel like spring breeze.But those polite words, such as "I'll treat you to dinner later", "I'm familiar with this, I'll take care of it", etc., just listen to them, don't take them seriously.

"No wonder!"

The ex-girlfriend snorted, then curled her lips and said: "I met Zhang Ziyi when I came over. It was such a pomp and circumstance, and there was actually a foreigner."

Li Tang especially likes to see the expressions of his ex-girlfriend and Xiaopang who are secretly jealous of others. It feels very real.

"I am now developing in Hollywood and am an international superstar. Is it strange to have a foreigner next to me?" Li Tang said intentionally.

In fact, the foreigners around Zhang Ziyi are the English teachers she hired. The first priority for Xiao Zhang to go to Hollywood is to pass the language barrier.

During the filming in Fushun, Li Tang chatted with this buddy. He had studied in China for many years and was now a teacher at an international school in Beijing. This time he was using his summer vacation to earn some extra money.

Learning English is actually not difficult. The most important thing is to have a language environment.Why is it said that Chinese people start learning English in elementary school and still speak dumb English when they graduate from college? In the final analysis, it is because of the lack of language environment.

Zhang Ziyi is very smart, so she has a foreign teacher by her side. On the one hand, she seizes the time to study, and on the other hand, she also needs a language environment around her, so that she can learn faster.Of course, it does not rule out the element of pretentiousness and showing off. After all, these days, Chinese people still generally have a mentality of "admiring foreigners".

Sure enough, after hearing this, his ex-girlfriend said even more sourly: "It's different from us after all. They went directly to the [-]th floor."

There are luxury suites on the fifteenth floor and above of the Jinling Hotel, and the price is more than [-].

Li Tang glanced at her and continued to stimulate: "Don't even think about it, how much your salary is, how much other people's salary is!"

"..."

At this time, if I use Shanghainese to describe my ex-girlfriend's expression, she would be "a complete idle talk."

Think about it, Zhang Ziyi's salary is 200 million, and that's the result of discounts.The ex-girlfriend’s salary of 40 yuan as the second female lead is simply incomparable.Not to mention that he previously starred in Cheng Long's "Rush Hour 2" and his salary was a real US$100 million.This salary is almost the ceiling for all Chinese actors except Cheng Long and Li Lianlian.

The ex-girlfriend was stunned for a while, and then she muttered: "It's really irritating to compare people to each other!" "Well, your conditions are not bad either. If you work hard, you might be able to surpass her one day." Li Tang laughed again at this time. He said comfortingly.

Looking back on their previous lives, at least Ada Wang and Zhang Ziyi are almost on the same level. Among Chinese actresses, they may only be one level lower than Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Liu Yifei, because the latter three have all starred in leading female roles in Hollywood's A-class productions.

Of course, strictly speaking, the last three are Lijiapo people, Malaysians and Americans, and they are not Chinese.

"Don't make trouble, I'm almost...well, I don't have the fate of being supported by a great director when I just debuted!"

My ex-girlfriend originally wanted to say that she was almost thirty, but turning 30 was really hard for a female star to talk about.

There is a six-year age difference between my ex-girlfriend and Zhang Ziyi. She was already famous at the age of 19, but at the age of 19, I was still a kindergarten teacher in the Northeast.Not to mention that when others are in their early twenties, they can get a salary of 100 million US dollars, but when I was in my early 20s, I was still complacent about earning 10,000+ for an advertisement.So it’s still the same saying “people are more annoying than others”.

But having said that, there was still a hint of unyielding look in the ex-girlfriend's eyes at this time.

The arrangement of the crew was quite humane. Knowing that Zhang Ziyi and Li Binbin arrived at night, they did not arrange for everyone to go to the filming site on the other side of the Yangtze River until the afternoon of the next day.

Just like football players need to go to the playing field before a game, actors also need to familiarize themselves with the shooting environment when they arrive at a new shooting location, and then move according to the scene conditions.

As usual, classmate Xiao Zhang was picked up by a special car, and her assistant and the foreign teacher buddy were in the car with her.Li Tang got into the crew's van with his ex-girlfriend and Heng Nakamura, who had been staying at the hotel for two days.

Li Tang chatted with him and learned that this guy and his assistant had been staying in the hotel for the past two days and did not dare to go out.It can be seen that they are well aware of the tragedy that happened here, but they just refuse to admit it.

Thinking of this, Li Tang was inevitably a little uncomfortable and lost interest in chatting with him. He felt that it was a sin for him to speak Japanese words here.Xiao Benzi clearly felt Li Tang's neglect, and then he stopped saying anything and just stared blankly outside the car.

Although the crew had said hello before departure that there would be a lot of onlookers at the scene, when they arrived, they found that there was a sea of ​​people at the entrance of Pukou Railway Station, all of them came to see Zhang Ziyi.

Seeing the crew's car approaching, someone might have seen Zhang Ziyi sitting in the car. Suddenly the crowd became commotion, shouting Zhang Ziyi's name. There were even people who looked like reporters, holding cameras and looking at the slowly moving car. Snap.

Fortunately, many police officers came to the scene to help maintain order, otherwise the car might not even be able to move.

Pukou Railway Station is an old-fashioned British-style building with a three-story brick and wood structure, beige exterior walls, and a large red roof.The single-column umbrella-shaped promenade extending directly to the platform and the arched rain corridor connecting the ferry terminal are connected to a three-story beige main building with the four characters "Lanjing North Station" written on the red roof.

Today, Pukou Railway Station is still responsible for some passenger transportation tasks of green trains. In order not to affect the normal work of the station, the crew used barbed wire to surround a section of the platform, including a pedestrian bridge connecting the east and west platforms and spanning the two railway tracks.

This pedestrian bridge made of steel is said to have been built during the Republic of China, and its rusty appearance has withstood the vicissitudes of time.The only certainty is that this pedestrian bridge must have been built after 1917, otherwise Mr. Zhu Ziqing's tearful essay "Back View" would not have been written.

The ex-girlfriend sitting in the car seemed very silent at this time.It's one thing to be jealous and unconvinced, but it's another thing to witness the audience and fans going crazy for Zhang Ziyi.

Perhaps it was then that she truly realized that the difference between herself and Zhang Ziyi was not only in terms of celebrity status and salary, but also in the audience's love and reputation.

When filming in Northeast China before, the scene was not so exaggerated.The reason is that the crew has done a good job of keeping it secret from the beginning. After the news came out, the filming there was almost complete.

But because the crew set up and prepared here half a month in advance, and with the news coming from the Northeast, fans and reporters came prepared. It is said that many people were waiting here two days in advance, and until today After learning the exact news, a large number of viewers and fans gathered.

No matter how well the crew kept the secret, they couldn't prevent the station from leaking the news.After all, the crew must report to the station in advance for every day of filming.

Zhang Ziyi may be used to this kind of scene, hiding in the car and not getting out at all.When Li Tang, his ex-girlfriend and his little book got off the van, the first thing they felt was the heat, and then they heard the crowd starting to chant the names "Li Tang" and "Li Binbin".

At this time, the ex-girlfriend finally showed a smile, and the cheers from the audience brought her some comfort.

　I'm in a very bad state today. I have a headache and backache. I wanted to be lazy and ask for leave, but after thinking about it, I still forced myself to code a chapter. The quality may be average and there is still some water. Let's just make do with it. I'm sorry!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)