Actor: My Entertainment Era

The entertainment industry is said to be big, and those who work as walk-ons in various film and television bases, and those who are better at acting in supporting roles and can be on subtitles, are also considered people in the entertainment industry.

It is indeed very small to say the least. There are only so many people at the top of the pyramid. If we only count actors, there are no more than 20 top-tier actors in the entertainment industry.

Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei are of course among these 20 people, as is Li Bingbing.

Li Bingbing has reduced her output in recent years. She is just not as popular as before, but her status in the industry has not been lost. She still sits in the front row at various parties.

However, Li Bingbing's production reduction was also forced. She is the oldest among the four actors and actresses. Everyone respects her, but they don't give her film dates.

After all, there are not many films in the market prepared for 40-year-old actresses.

But Zhang Yuanjun had it in his hands.

Far away, can the heroine of "Source Code" be played by an actor in her thirties or forties? Can the heroine in "Space Traveler" be played by a younger actor who is in her thirties or forties?

Closer to home, Cici in "Her", such a novel and unique character, must be Liu Yifei's voice? A "mother" like Bai Yating in "Miss Bai" is suitable for an actor in her thirties or forties.

Zhang Yuanjun is good at writing female characters, so Li Bingbing came.

"Are you there too?" Li Bingbing was surprised that Zhang Yuanjun was also on the set of "Miss Bai".

"I'll accompany Yifei." Li Bingbing wants to act, so Zhang Yuanjun will act with her.

Li Bingbing smiled and said: "He comes to the set to accompany his wife when there is no drama. He is such a good man. I'm here to see director Xiaolu."

Li Bingbing's visiting gift was hot drinks, and she brought a cart full of milk tea and coffee to the set.

Several people sat next to Xue Xiaolu in the director's studio and watched the scene.

Li Bingbing looked at Liu Yifei on the monitor and praised: "Yifei's performance is really good. Look at her eyes, she expresses herself so well."

"If you praise me again, she will take it as a tonic."

Xue Xiaolu shouted: "Take a break for 10 minutes."

Li Bingbing asked his assistant and the crew to pass out the drinks.

"There are drinks." Liu Yifei came to the shed with a bound, met Li Bingbing, said hello, and picked a cup of milk tea to drink.

"How dare you drink this?" Li Bingbing asked.

"I'm almost done, so there's nothing to drink now." Liu Yifei bit the straw and took a sip happily, and saw Zhang Yuanjun holding a cup of milk tea, "What flavor is yours?"

"chocolate."

"Let me have a taste." Liu Yifei leaned over and Zhang Yuanjun handed the cup over to her for a sip. "Give me your delicious drink."

With that said, he snatched Zhang Yuanjun's milk tea and gave him his own.

A few people were sitting in the director's studio talking, mainly about "Miss Bai".

"I'm very good at washing cars now," Liu Yifei claimed the credit, "I've washed several of the crew's cars."

"I watched the news," Li Bingbing said with a smile, "How many cars did you wash during those days when you were experiencing life?"

Liu Yifei did the math and said, "Forty or fifty cars."

"Did the boss pay you?" Zhang Yuanjun asked with a smile.

Only then did Liu Yifei react: "Yeah, I washed forty or fifty cars, but the boss didn't give me any wages."

Qin Hao asked: "How much commission do you get from washing a car? Three yuan or five yuan?"

Liu Yifei said again: "I forgot to ask! Even if I made three yuan, I still made more than a hundred, and he, he, he didn't give it to me." Liu Yifei was so excited that her mouth dropped.

"What about the massage parlor?"

"The massage parlor didn't pay me a salary either." Liu Yifei lamented, "I've been working for nothing for a few days." It sounded like she had lost millions.

Everyone was happy after listening to Liu Yifei's story.

When the break came, Xue Xiaolu reorganized and started filming. Liu Yifei took a deep sip, drank the milk tea in the cup in one gulp, and returned to the scene with satisfaction.

"When you eat like this, it seems like I'm treating you badly." Zhang Yuanjun said with a bitter smile.

During the preparations, Zhang Yuanjun walked out of the director's studio for a convenience. When he came back, he saw Li Bingbing smoking alone outside. When he saw Zhang Yuanjun, he said, "Want one?"

Zhang Yuanjun waved his hand: "I don't know how to smoke."

"It's okay not to smoke." There are only two attitudes towards smoking in the entertainment industry. Either you are a regular smoker, or you don't smoke at all. There is no middle-class person who can smoke or not smoke.

Zhang Yuanjun smoked cigarettes in the movie, but never touched them outside the movie. Li Bingbing talked about her smoking experience. Zhang Yuanjun had no choice but to stand and listen to her: "I learned how to smoke just for the filming of "The Wind", and I have been smoking ever since."

"Everyone on the crew of "The Wind" is a heavy smoker. Zhou Xun, Zhang Hanyu, and Wang Zhiwen steal cigarettes from the crew every day."

"Xiao Ming doesn't smoke," Zhang Yuanjun added.

"He smokes on screen, but doesn't seem to smoke off screen."

Zhang Yuanjun followed "The Wind" and praised Li Bingbing for his good acting: "Li Ningyu, you acted really well."

Li Ningyu is the representative role of Li Bingbing, and it was because of this role that she won the Golden Horse Best Actress.

Li Bingbing said modestly: "A good opponent can catch and give out." He blew out a smoke ring and said, "It's different now. We won't be filming like before. We eat and live together for a scene. , stopped and held a half-day meeting to discuss modifications."

Zhang Yuanjun quietly watched Li Bingbing install the cup, and found the right moment to agree with her: "Now that the money has come in, I am a little impetuous."

Li Bingbing nodded in agreement and joked: "You are an actor of the generation after me, but you still speak in such an old-fashioned way."

"I debuted early and caught up with the last few years."

"What were you doing during the year of "The Wind"?"

"Filming "Transcendence" on Hong Kong Island."

Li Bingbing smiled and said: "I won the Best Actor at Cannes in the second year. How old were you that year?"

"The year I won the award, I was 24."

Li Bingbing clicked his tongue twice, and Zhang Yuanjun laughed at himself: "I won't have much success in the future. I've been messing around until now."

Li Bingbing laughed and laughed at himself: "It's almost the same. I've been around since "The Wind". Now there are more people in the industry and fewer opportunities. There's not much good meat left in our hands." He lit another cigarette and seemed not to let Zhang Yuanjun go.

"I wish I were just like you." Li Bingbing looked into Zhang Yuanjun's eyes.

"Like me? What's good about me."

"It's not just that you can act, you can also write." Li Bingbing said, "If you don't have a good role, you can write one for yourself."

"I was forced to do so. I debuted at a young age. People who wanted to act didn't look for me, so I had to write for myself."

"Including this "Miss Bai"?"

"No, Miss Bai." Zhang Yuanjun said, "Yifei asked Teacher Shuping to write this play herself, and it took more than a year to write."

“What about ‘Pieces of a Woman’?”

"'Pieces of a Woman' was made by Li Qiang and I. Guangxian bought it, and then they asked Zhang Yimou. When we were writing it, how dare we think of Zhang Yimou to direct this drama."

"You are the screenwriter. Can you tell me what kind of heroine you want for "Pieces of a Woman"?"

"The acting skills must be good. The role of Zhou Ning is very good at acting. She is the star of the show." Zhang Yuanjun started to throw smoke bombs at Li Bingbing. "Actually, when Li Qiang and I were working on the script, we thought about hiring Zhou Xun or Yuan Yuan as the heroine. Complete."

Li Bingbing joked: "I'm standing in front of you, and you won't ask me to invite you?"

"You asked me to say it, and you're not happy when I tell the truth." Zhang Yuanjun smiled.

"You never thought about giving it to Yi Fei?" Li Bingbing probed further.

Zhang Yuanjun shook his head: "She is too young and may not be able to act. My script has been sold to Guangming, and it doesn't matter who I use as the heroine or who I don't use. It doesn't matter if I, the screenwriter, decide."

Li Bingbing has been in this circle for twenty years. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether what Zhang Yuanjun said was true or false, but he always felt that something was wrong. It seemed that today's trip was in vain.

So he asked Zhang Yuanjun: "Is it expensive to write a play with you?"

Zhang Yuanjun said: "It's very strange. No one asked me to book a script, not even a quotation. So I don't know how much my script costs."

"How much did Guangxian spend on "Pieces of a Woman"?"

Zhang Yuanjun shook his head: "I don't know, my agent helped me connect, I didn't ask."

"You are so good at writing about women, I will ask you to write scripts in the future."

"As long as the price is right, it's easy to negotiate." Zhang Yuanjun nodded and smiled.

Li Bingbing also finished smoking, and the two of them entered the director's studio together. (End of chapter)