Actor: My Entertainment Era

Zhang Yuanjun had a very full schedule when he returned to China. He attended the premiere and dinner in Shanghai the night before, and appeared at Louis Vuitton's fashion event in Beijing the next morning.

I showed up at the airport that afternoon and was about to fly to the United States.

While waiting for the flight at the airport, I even managed to do an interview.

"I went to Los Angeles. I filmed part of it in San Francisco before. I went back to Los Angeles to train. I have a big action scene to shoot later. I need to adapt to the location first."

The action scene Zhang Yuanjun was talking about was the scene where Arthur fights the villain in the corridor of the hotel in his dream.

The difficulty of this scene is the weightlessness, because this scene is in a dream, and the dream host is in the back seat of a moving truck at this time, so the whole scene feels weightless and even upside down.

In order to restore this scene, Nolan, who is a fan of real-life shooting, made a huge hollow cylindrical rotating steel frame, and built the corridor scene inside the steel frame.

Driven by the machine, the entire column rotates along with the corridor.

Zhang Yuanjun had to undergo 1-2 weeks of training before filming this scene to adapt to this strange machine and fighting movements.

The reporter asked him again: "After half a month of filming in the United States, what was your biggest feeling?"

Maybe Zhang Yuanjun is too sensitive. He felt that the reporter wanted to lead him to talk about the gap between Chinese and American crews on this issue.

So Zhang Yuanjun chose to answer conservatively: "The biggest feeling is to admire the imagination of the director and the staff behind the scenes. I have also filmed a lot of movies, but on the set of "Inception", I saw them trying their best to do some weird things. To restore the footage, I still admire their imagination."

The reporter simply stopped pretending: "What do you think is the biggest difference between filming in China and filming in the United States?"

Zhang Yuanjun was not fooled at all: "The biggest difference is that one speaks Chinese and the other speaks English."

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Zhang Yuanjun was impatient, so Xiao Zhao immediately came over to get rid of the reporter: "I'm sorry, Yuanjun has been very tired these days, please let us be quiet for a while."

The reporter had no choice but to leave.

Not long after, the two flew to the United States.

The crew gave Zhang Yuanjun up to 2 weeks of training time, but after a week, Zhang Yuanjun said he was ready to film.

Nolan, who was far away in San Francisco, didn't believe it, but Zhang Yuanjun's action director said: "Zhang's training is very effective. I think he is ready for filming."

So, two days later, Nolan and the crew returned to Los Angeles from San Francisco to start filming this important action scene.

Although Zhang Yuanjun is not a professional action actor, he has also filmed several action movies, especially "The Lonely Agent". In this movie, Zhang Yuanjun received strict action training and was involved in Sanda, fighting, firearms and daggers.

After the film was completed, Zhang Yuanjun also often hit sandbags. He found that occasionally hitting things and venting violence was very relieving.

Therefore, Zhang Yuanjun's movements are very beautiful, whether it is fists, feet or necessary firearms, he can play well.

Even Nolan was amazed: "Did you really only train for a week?"

Zhang Yuanjun said: "My last movie was a spy action movie, and I trained for three months for that movie, so..." Zhang Yuanjun shrugged.

Nolan nodded: "No wonder."

Zhang Yuanjun's abundant physical fitness and beautiful and skillful movements saved Nolan a lot of time. This scene was filmed in two days, and it took another three days to film the weightless scene of the same scene.

"Holy shit!" Zhang Yuanjun and Nolan exclaimed when they saw the actual shooting results.

Nolan glanced sideways at him, not understanding what he was talking about, but very confused.

In the studio in Los Angeles, Saito's castle scene will also be filmed. This scene does not include Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei, and it is Leon's one-man show.

Through more than half a month of contact, both Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei discovered that Leonardo has a characteristic, or that all big stars have this characteristic more or less.

Close but not intimate, there is an obvious distance in the enthusiasm, which makes you feel that it is impossible for you to have a heart-to-heart relationship with him, and that you and him are just colleagues.

Liu Yifei got close to Leon, but she could clearly feel that Leon didn't want to "be friends" with her.

Liu Yifei and Zhang Yuanjun also feel this way when they treat fans and other co-stars.

In general, it is a feeling of alienation from the outside world among big stars.They have been filming Leon these past few days, and Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei are not idle either. They go to the studio every day to watch the crew at work.

The key is that they want to see flooding.

Finally, on the fifth day, the show was about to begin.

Neither Zhang Yuanjun nor Liu Yifei were watching on the monitor. Instead, they entered the set with the staff wearing raincoats and stood three steps away from Leonardo by the camera.

Nolan was also on set, and the monitors were controlled by the executive director and assistant director.

This Japanese-style villa still needs to "collapse" before the flood floods.

Everyone hopes that this scene can be played over and over again, otherwise it will be troublesome and laborious to rebuild the villa.

"3 2 1, Action!"

The villa began to collapse, with bricks, planks, and dirt falling down.

Leon starts his show with a gun.

The collapse angles of all items are accurately calculated, and the materials are also made of lightweight materials. Even if they hit people, they will not be injured.

Zhang Yuanjun and Nolan followed the photographer's lens together and followed Leon running around the set.

The executive director shouted "click", and the villa stopped "collapsing". Leon stood in the ruins. Nolan stepped forward to talk to him about the scene, asking him to run slower so that the camera could clearly capture the collapse of the entire villa.

Leon nodded to express his understanding, and Nolan motioned to shoot again from the middle.

The filming went smoothly. Leon successfully completed the gunfight scene and stood at the top of the stairs.

Looking blankly at the empty front hall of the villa, I felt like something was about to happen.

Suddenly, a huge stream of water shoots out from each window - in the play, Leonardo is pushed out of the bathtub and forced to wake up from his dream.

5000 gallons of water pass through 26 tanks and flow through the windows into the interior.

Watching the filming on the set is more shocking than watching it on a monitor or in a theater.

But just knowing his shooting techniques, I feel a little uncomfortable.

"F*ck!" Zhang Yuanjun cursed again, and Liu Yifei hit him.

Nolan was very satisfied with the scene, watched the replay, and announced it.

Nolan then asked Zhang Yuanjun a question: "What the hell do you mean?" Nolan really didn't learn it.

Liu Yifei hit Zhang Yuanjun again and said in Mandarin: "I told you not to say bad words. It depends on what you taught me."

Zhang Yuanjun said: "You can't blame me. When I saw that scene, I couldn't think of anything else except that word. Otherwise, if I say Niubi, it wouldn't be a good word."

Nolan said: "I see you often say this word on the set these days. What does it mean?"

Liu Yifei did not allow Zhang Yuanjun to teach Nolan the word, and said to Nolan: "This is a dirty word."

Zhang Yuanjun disagreed: "Why is this a dirty word?" He turned around and explained to Nolan, "This word is a universal word in Chinese.

"It can express surprise, equivalent to oh my god.

"It can also be a dirty word, equivalent to shit and f**k."

Zhang Yuanjun patiently taught Nolan how to pronounce it. Damn it, he is always easier to learn than Niubi.

Jiang Wen can teach Quentin Niubi, and Zhang Yuanjun can teach Nolan how to say what the hell.

Liu Yifei had no choice but to watch the two of them talking about each other and felt that they were sick. (End of chapter)