Actor: My Entertainment Era

The premiere of "Pieces of a Woman" is scheduled for the 5th, which is the fourth day of the festival.

Zhang Yimou originally planned to arrive in Shuicheng on the 4th, but both China Film and the film festival officials strongly requested the crew to attend the opening ceremony of the film festival.

China Film hopes that the crew of "Pieces of a Woman" can make an early appearance and gain first-round exposure for the film on the most glorious opening red carpet.

There are too few great directors at this year’s film festival, and Venice wants to take advantage of Zhang Yimou’s reputation.

Unable to withstand much persuasion, Zhang Yimou finally agreed to attend the opening of the film festival.

Zhang Yuanjun still has some unfinished work at home and will arrive in Venice on the 4th.

As the only Chinese-language film shortlisted for the main competition of this year's film festival, it is Zhang Yimou's return to Shuicheng and stars Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei. It can be said that "Pieces of a Woman" carries very high expectations in the country.

The industry hopes that the film can add another trophy to Chinese-language films in Water City.

But it is strange that "Pieces of a Woman", which was shortlisted for the main competition, has not been as popular on the Internet as "Old Paoer" since the shortlist was announced! !

Zhang Yimou + Zhang Yuanjun + Liu Yifei actually couldn't beat Feng Xiaogang + Li Yifeng + Wu Zhuan.

"Old Paoer" is only the closing film, "Pieces of a Woman" is the hope of the whole village that will compete for the Golden Lion Award.

But literary films are literary films after all, and cannot be compared to commercial films such as "Lao Pao Er". Li Yifeng and Wu Chai are the most popular young talents. The online fans screamed and thought they had won the Venice Best Actor. Woolen cloth.

The "Pieces of a Woman" team arrived at Marco Polo Airport on the morning of the opening ceremony. This was not Liu Yifei's first visit to Venice, but it was her first time to attend the Venice Film Festival.

Trivia: The Venice Film Festival is not held in the city of Venice, but on an 18-kilometer-long sandbank in the southeast of Venice. It is considered an outer island of Venice, called Lido Island.

The most convenient way of transportation from Venice to Lido Island is to take a water taxi, but during the film festival, taxi prices are extremely expensive, and the hotels on the island are equally expensive. The suite for Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei costs US$8000 per night.

This is how customers are ripped off all over the world.

After the crew checked in at the hotel, their respective staff got busy and started preparing for the red carpet of the opening ceremony in the afternoon.

It was already dark in China at this time, and Zhang Yuanjun had a meeting with director Gu Changwei to discuss the casting of "Redemption".

There are only three main characters in "Redemption", the protagonist Li Fuyong, Li Fuyong's nephew Li Jianming, and Li Fuyong's ex-wife Yang Huan.

Yang Huan is the nominal heroine, but she doesn't have many roles.

The difficult one to choose is Li Jianming. Li Jianming has a lot of roles and a lot of room for performance. Both Gu Changwei and Zhang Yuanjun wanted to choose a young man with good acting skills and high talent.

Neither Gu Changwei nor Zhang Yuanjun like to use amateurs, but there are not many young actors in the industry who can play Li Jianming, so there are relatively few to choose from.

Huang Bo half-jokingly recommended Zhang Yixing to him, saying he was his younger brother.

Zhang Yuanjun ignored Huang Bo's recommendation at all. Sometimes Zhang Yuanjun really felt that Zhang Yixing had some leverage over Huang Bo, Huang Sanshi, Sun Honglei and others. Otherwise, how could they be so nice to a newcomer and carry them with them wherever they go.

"There are too few actors born in the 90s." Zhang Yuanjun looked through the actor information collected today and complained to Gu Changwei.

Gu Changwei was smoking a cigarette and looking through the actors' information, but what he was looking at was that of Li Fuyong's ex-wife.

While watching, he responded to Zhang Yuanjun: "The oldest people born in the 90s are only 25 years old. Actors have not yet figured it out at this age."

The literary coordinator sitting next to Gu Changwei smiled: "Some people won the Best Actor at Cannes at the age of 24."

Zhang Yuanjun pointed at the person with his pen and said with a smile: "Wow, I don't like you."

"It's true." The coordinator smiled.

Gu Changwei also smiled: "You are an exception and don't count."

"Did you hear that? I won't count." Zhang Yuanjun smiled.

Zhang Yuanjun picked up a few resumes of actors, stood up and said before leaving: "I'm going to make an appointment to meet and chat with you. Sitting in the room reading resumes like this won't make you famous."

Zhang Yuanjun returned to the room and was about to wash his face and go out to find something to eat. When his WeChat phone rang, and when he saw it was Fan Bingbing, Zhang Yuanjun thought she had nothing to do with him, so he answered the call.

"Hello, Yuanjun." Fan Bingbing's pleasant voice came from the phone. "Hey, Sister Bingbing."

"It's so late, let's go out for a late-night snack." He said that nothing would happen to her looking for him.

"I'm not in the capital. I'm on a business trip." Zhang Yuanjun said.

"Where are you on a business trip?"

"Qingdao." All scenes about the sea in "Redemption" will be filmed here.

"Then do you know where I'm from?"

"You are not from Qingdao, are you?" Zhang Yuanjun really didn't expect that.

"Yes, I am from Qingdao." Fan Bingbing said in Qingdao dialect, "And I am in Qingdao now."

Speaking of this, Zhang Yuanjun couldn't help but suspect that Fan Bingbing was specially found.

Fan Bingbing must have known that Zhang Yuanjun would think so, so he explained: "Brother Chen and I are resting at home these days. I heard that you are also in Qingdao, so Brother Chen asked you to have a midnight snack, and he didn't have your WeChat account, so he Let me contact you."

"That's it."

Fan Bingbing asked directly: "How about a favor?"

"You have said so. It would be wrong of me not to go. But I have agreed, I will come empty-handed, and you two will make good arrangements."

"No problem." Fan Bingbing smiled.

The two agreed on a meeting place, and Zhang Yuanjun called his assistant and set off.

"The purpose is too obvious." When Xiao Zhao heard in the car that it was Fan Bingbing who was treating her, he knew what she wanted to do.

Zhang Yuanjun didn't know it, so he smiled and said: "It's okay, let's meet for a meal and chat."

Despite Fan Bingbing's reputation and her domineering appearance, she actually has a very good reputation in the industry, has many friends, and is amiable to everyone.

When they arrived at the agreed place, Li Chen's assistant was waiting at the door. When Zhang Yuanjun arrived, he ushered him in.

"If I weren't in Qingdao, it would be quite difficult to meet you." Li Chen said.

"I'm usually busy with work. Even if I'm not busy, I don't want to eat out." Zhang Yuanjun sat down with a smile.

"Those who are married are different, Gu family." Fan Bingbing smiled.

A few people joked a little, then ate and drank.

"I'll take a photo to make her jealous."

But in Fan Bingbing's view, Zhang Yuanjun's move was just a report to his wife: "If you report, please report. You are still greedy for others."

"I have to report to her when I go out for a meal? What is my family status?"

Fan Bingbing's purpose is of course to find out the news about "Redemption". Again, she is highly popular because she and her team can do it, but her actual film resources are not good.

But her emotional intelligence is obviously much higher than that of ordinary actresses. She did not take the initiative to inquire about the news of "Redemption". Instead, she gave the initiative to Zhang Yuanjun, letting Zhang Yuanjun serve as a narrator to tell her and Li Chen about coming to Qingdao. work, and then let Zhang Yuanjun tell the story of "Redemption".

This made Zhang Yuanjun feel very comfortable, so he exchanged some news about the crew with the two of them.

Chatting over dinner is nothing more than these things.

Of course, Fan Bingbing silently made a note in his mind that Yang Huan, the heroine of "Redemption", has not yet been cast.

After talking about "Redemption", Fan Bingbing turned the topic to Liu Yifei: "Yifei is in Venice now." "Pieces of a Woman" was also a resource that many actresses of her age were fighting for.

"Well," Zhang Yuanjun looked at the time, "the film festival should be opening soon." (End of Chapter)