Actor: My Entertainment Era

One night, when Liu Yifei was having dinner with her mother, Liu Xiaoli said to her sincerely: "I had a dream a few days ago. I dreamed of a little baby sitting in front of our house, calling me grandma, grandma."

"You want to be a grandma so much?" Liu Yifei said with a smile.

Liu Xiaoli also had this kind of dream a few years ago. She was very happy and thought it was a good sign that she was going to be a grandma. However, her daughter's belly remained silent, and over time she no longer believed in this kind of dream.

"This dream is different," Liu Xiaoli said seriously, "It's true. I remember the child crying and laughing, and the voice calling grandma. I remember it clearly."

Liu Yifei smiled and said: "Even if you want to be a grandmother, you have to wait until your son-in-law comes back. I can't give birth to a child by myself."

"You are so poor." Liu Xiaoli nudged her daughter with her foot.

A week later, Liu Yifei joined the group "Special Ward" and started rehearsing. When she came back in the evening, Zhang's mother called her from Brazil:

"Sissi, I just woke up. Let me tell you, I had a dream. I dreamed about our old house, his grandma's old house. A child opened the window and called me grandma outside. I was afraid that this dream would be forgotten. Forgot, tell you quickly. You don’t really have it, are you hiding it from us?”

Liu Yifei smiled and said: "My mother also said a few days ago that she dreamed of a child calling her grandma. I'm really not pregnant. I will tell you as soon as possible if I am pregnant."

After comforting her mother-in-law, Liu Yifei couldn't help but think about it. It was really strange that her mother and mother-in-law could actually have the same dream.

But Liu Yifei just thought about it and didn't take the same dream of two mothers to heart.

I think it's because they want children too much. The New Year has just passed and their desire is too strong.

Liu Yifei is still busy rehearsing for "Special Ward" every day, and goes to watch the later stages of "Wang Xiaofang" every few days.

"Wang Xiaofang" is still in rough editing and is expected to be completed in another half month and will be sent directly for review.

Compared with "Wang Xiaofang", the editing of "The Invisible Guest" was particularly troublesome.

It has been five months since the film was shut down, and Xin Yukun and the editor have just completed the rough cut of a three-hour film.

At the request of her husband, Liu Yifei went to watch the movie in advance. Her buttocks were numb just sitting there, and the movie hadn't finished yet.

Moreover, the rough cut has no subtitles, no soundtrack, no foley, no color correction, nothing, and it looks even more tortured.

But the three-hour story was complete. Liu Yifei was very immersed in watching her husband and Gong Li's performance, and said with a smile: "He also has a day when he is suppressed by others."

In some scenes, Gong Li clearly suppressed Zhang Yuanjun.

"Teacher Gong Li has such a strong aura," editor Hu Shuzhen said, "She has always dominated the indoor confrontation scenes."

Liu Yifei said: "Someone from the General Administration came to me yesterday morning and asked me how the progress of "The Invisible Guest" was and whether it could make it in time for this year's Beijing Film Festival. I said that I had just finished rough editing and I couldn't catch up no matter what."

Hu Shuzhen said: "Rough editing does take too much time. There is too much material. It takes six or seven hours to read it once."

Xin Yukun said with assurance: "The rough cut is done, and the rest will be quick. We don't have any special effects shots for this scene, so it will be ready in a month or two."

In any case, for a movie with simple scenes, simple characters, and no special effects shots, the rough editing took 5 months, which is really not what it should be.

Zhang Yuanjun did not put too much pressure on Xin Yukun, as long as he did his best and completed the post-production of the film in the first half of the year.

Zhang Yuanjun has already helped the crew contact the Montreal Film Festival, but whether to go to the competitive or non-competitive section has to wait until the film festival's selectors have seen the film before deciding.

After the rough cut is completed, director Xin Yukun no longer has to work in post-production and can take time to work on new projects.

"What other new projects do you have?" Liu Yifei asked casually. "It's still a crime movie." Xin Yukun is particularly fond of the crime genre. "Yuanjun bought the rights to a short film and wants to expand it into a feature film."

Liu Yifei really doesn’t know what copyrights her husband has bought over the years.

Xin Yukun continued: "It's called "The Tuner", a French short film. It tells the story of a male protagonist who pretends to be blind to tune someone else's piano, but ends up seeing a murder, and then the story gets out of hand."

Liu Yifei asked: "Why does he pretend to be blind?"

"In order to make customers think that he has keen hearing and superb tuning skills, he can also gain sympathy and ask for more money. The most important thing is that he also enjoys the pleasure of peeking into other people's lives."

Liu Yifei understood and nodded, thinking that the story was very good just by hearing it this way.

"How far has it been achieved?"

"I'm still working on the script. I'll be happy if it starts filming this year." Zhang Yuanjun only gave the 14-minute short film to Xin Yukun and ignored the others.

Liu Yifei sat with Xin Yukun for a while and then left. She still has a lot of things to do.

Before the performance of "Special Ward", the theater also gave Liu Yifei an important task.

I went with the team to the Film Academy to attend a symposium on youth performance education, and I also had to speak at the meeting.

Liu Yifei is young. Logically speaking, she should not be sent to participate in such external exchange activities. She can participate, just sit down and act as a mascot and listen carefully, but she should not be allowed to speak.

But who said the destination this time was Liu Yifei's alma mater? If she was going to China National Theater, Shangxi Theater or China Central Television, Liu Yifei wouldn't have to say anything.

Moreover, the person responsible for leading this event at the Film Academy was Wang Jinsong, Liu Yifei’s class teacher at the time and the current deputy dean of the Film Academy.

Can Liu Yifei say a few words about this?

Liu Yifei was very happy to receive this task and felt that she had received great recognition.

Youth performance education symposium, it seems that theaters and colleges recognize their achievements over the years and want to talk about performance education themselves.

Probably since the 90s, there has been a saying that "Nortel produces stars, and Chinese dramas produce actors." Some people say that the first thing directors from film schools do when they get a script is to go to the drama school to select actors.

This is of course a joking statement, but it doesn't make sense if you think about it carefully.

After decades of development, the film school has gradually realized its bottleneck in acting education, so starting last year, the acting school began to separate film and drama and recruit students in the two directions.

Liu Yifei is going to have a symposium with the first batch of drama students and relevant leaders today.

The person leading the team here at the theater is Wang Xiaoying, the deputy director, and the actor is led by Liu Yifei.

No need to be polite, we are all acquaintances.

"Ah! Qianqian." Liu Yifei never expected that the class teacher of the 15th undergraduate drama class at the Film School was her classmate Xu Qian. Liu Yifei was very excited to see her.

"I didn't expect you to come either." Xu Qian also didn't expect to have a symposium with her old classmates today.

After a few familiar words, the two groups from the theater and the academy sat on opposite sides, and the symposium began. (End of chapter)