Actor: My Entertainment Era

The 19 Golden Rooster Awards awarded the Best Actor and Best Actress to Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei, which were well deserved.

Someone is unhappy!

Liu Yifei!
Her boss doesn't want to.

She is the fifth among the top three Chinese film actresses and the second among mainland China's top three actresses. "Fragments of a Woman" did not win any Golden Rooster Awards that year. Now Yongmei has won the Golden Rooster Award as the Berlin Film Queen, making her, the Venice Film Queen, an exception.

Among the three top film queens in mainland China, she is the only one who has not won the Golden Rooster Award. What a joke!
Bullying her because she is young? Not experienced enough?

Zhang Laosan won the Cannes trophy at the age of 24, and the Golden Rooster Award that year was also given to him. Didn’t they say at that time that he was young and inexperienced?

Liu Yifei said that she only cared about how well she acted, but in fact she was very noble in her heart and would not give up even an inch of what was hers.

But the winner of the award is a foregone conclusion, and no matter how unhappy Liu Yifei is, she cannot say anything about the Golden Rooster Awards.

As for Zhang Yuanjun, he was awarded the Golden Horse Award again in 19, but the popularity of #张元君第二观看三金# was obviously not as good as the Golden Horse controversy that night.

I won’t go into detail about the incident that night, I can only say that those two NCs directly killed the highest award for Chinese-language films.

From then on, none of the three Chinese-language awards had any value anymore, and it was useless even if the Golden Rooster Awards were reformed overnight.

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Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei are outliers in the circle, and outliers among outliers. The couple is so productive!

Is it wrong to be highly productive?

Wrong to the point of being right, it’s strange!
According to general rules, when an actor reaches the level of Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei, it will become increasingly difficult for them to get roles. Just look at how many years it takes Gong Li and Chen Daoming to film a single movie, and then look at how many years it takes Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei to film one movie.

Zhang Yuanjun has been in the industry for more than ten years. Starting from "Number One Under Heaven", he has appeared in at least one drama every year for more than ten years in a row!
Except for a year off in 17 due to childbirth, Liu Yifei is similar to her husband, with a drama hitting theaters almost every year.

These two are incredibly productive!

Their high productivity makes everyone in the industry jealous. Where do they find so many good shows!
But there are exceptions to everything. The black swan event that swept the world has plunged the entire industry into a cold winter. The cold winter of the industry means that no one has any films to shoot, including Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei.

The two's latest domestic drama is "My Motherland and Me". Zhang Yuanjun plays Gao Yuan in the "Encounter" unit; Liu Yifei plays Lv Xiaoran in the "Escort" unit.

It’s not that there are no roles to play, it’s that neither of them is filming anymore. Everyone is in a panic. It’s better to stay at home and accompany the children.

After taking a whole year off, Zhang Yuanjun had to start working again as John Wick 4 was about to start filming.

The third film, including the domestic box office, sold nearly $5 million worldwide. Even if Zhang Yuanjun didn't say anything, the company would urge him to train for the fourth film.

Zhang Yuanjun is quite busy this year. After finishing filming "John Wick 4", he will seamlessly join the crew of "The Wandering Earth 2" and play the role of Tu Hengyu. "The Wandering Earth 2" will start shooting in October, so he will join the crew in advance for training.

No one could have imagined that "The Wandering Earth" would become such a hit. As a result, Guo Fan became a legend, and no one could get into the crew for the second part even if they offered money.

After "Ball 1", Guo Fan no longer lacked investment, but he was still very generous and reserved 2% of the investment for "Ball 13.2" for Zhang Yuanjun. Zhang Yuanjun Studio is still one of the three main producers of "Ball 2".

But as the producer and leading actor, Zhang Yuanjun actually does not participate in the crew's early preparations. Guo Fan has his own mature team, and it is not convenient for him to get involved.

He reminded Guo Fan that judging from the script, there were obvious problems with the rhythm of "Ball 2". It was bloated, with too many things crammed in, and there were major problems with the narrative of the entire story.

He even talked about his own storyline: "Cutting out my line actually has no impact on the entire Wandering Earth project." This is the first time I've seen an actor say that cutting out his part will have no impact on the movie.

He also pointed out that Han Duoduo's role was somewhat unnecessary: ​​"Han Duoduo has almost no dramatic function, just to KO the villain with the last punch."

But a movie, especially a movie of the size of "The Wandering Earth 2", cannot be changed just by one or two people.

Guo Fan privately admitted that there were problems with this version of the script, but there was nothing he could do. This was already the best result reached through compromise among all parties. Whether it was good or bad, he had no choice but to accept it.

While Zhang Yuanjun was filming "John Wick 4" abroad, Liu Yifei received another new script. It has been difficult to carry out the project in the past two years, and the number of scripts in Liu Yifei's hands has dropped by more than 50%.

However, her team still held on tightly and only made movies, resolutely refusing to make TV series. Especially after "Shangyang Fu" flopped, her team didn't want to make TV series even more.

Why did Zhang Ziyi film "Shangyang Fu"?
It’s too much to give!
With a total pay of 8000 million, it’s hard not to be tempted.

After Zhang Ziyi "came down to earth", many film producers started to eye Liu Yifei.

In recent years, people who make TV dramas do have money. Relying on his good relationship with the couple, Sun Zhonghuai showed Liu Yifei a script called "Dream of Red Mansions" and paid her 1 million yuan for the film.

Liu Yifei was very moved and then rejected Sun Zhonghuai.

No matter how much the penguins praise this play or how well-made it is, it cannot change the fact that it is a historical idol drama.

In the opinion of Liu Yifei's agent, ancient costume dramas are not considered presentable, and an artist like Liu Yifei would not perform ancient costume dramas like a girl in her twenties.

This is hard to hear and is biased, but who doesn't have some pride? Now, another TV series script called "Go Where the Wind Is" was handed to Liu Yifei, not through her agent, but directly to Liu Yifei herself.

Liu Yifei herself still wants to act in movies, but isn't it too difficult to get movie projects started in the past one or two years, and there are too few scripts suitable for her, so she has to read some TV drama scripts.

She had seen the previous "Dream of Red Mansions" and thought it was neither good nor bad. It didn't matter whether she acted in it or not, and it wouldn't be a pity to turn it down, but she quite liked the script of "There is Wind" today.

It's very alternative and the production team is very bold.

Honestly speaking, both Liu Yifei and Zhang Yuanjun look down upon current TV dramas. They shout slogans louder than anyone else; they open their mouths and talk about the three realms and shut their mouths about the common people. You are a goddess and he is an emperor, but they are still acting out the same old things.

There will no longer be stories like Jingtian where a low-level gangster gradually becomes a hero.

Their intentions are not even as great as those in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy". In both "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" series, the gods can die for the people of the world, but nowadays, the gods, while shouting about the people of the world, are actually in love.

Fans no longer require the characters to have the world in their hearts, they only care about who has a more beautiful makeup and look, and blindly support each other. Fan culture can even affect the artists themselves and the work of the crew.

This is what Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei despise, and this is not the atmosphere in the drama circle they want.

But this "There is Wind" is different. The production team dared to shoot a play that uses rural life to heal a woman under the current trend. This is very rare.

The whole play does not pursue dramatic conflict, but only uses elements such as scenery, food, and friendship to slowly narrate the story, which is very attractive to Liu Yifei.

At least that's how the script Liu Yifei is reading now is written.

However, Liu Yifei has a habit of seeing the full script before accepting a role. She will not be impressed if the film crew just gives her a partial script.

This is certainly not in line with the usual practice in the industry, but she is Liu Yifei, so she is qualified to make such a request to the film company.

After learning that Liu Yifei liked the play very much, the crew of "Go Where the Wind Is" gave her the full script half a month later.

Liu Yifei finished reading the film in two days, and then, together with a literary planner she hired, made a request to the crew that they thought was very excessive: "Cut out all the love scenes between Xu Hongdou and Xie Zhiyao in the latter part! The two of them were just flirting from beginning to end, and they can't confirm their relationship and fall in love! Xu Hongdou can return to Yunmiao Village to open a B&B, but she can't fall in love with Xie Zhiyao."

This was the only request from Liu Yifei, and Liu Yifei's literary planner even gave the drama crew some suggestions for revisions.

"Everyone in the village knows about the two of them, but no one should break this layer of window paper. Let's keep it ambiguous to the end. Don't talk about love until the end."

This is a test of the screenwriter's skills. Love scenes are easy to write, as long as they are melodramatic, but ambiguous scenes that are about to break up are difficult to strike the right balance.

But there was no way. The team of "There Is Wind", from top to bottom, all identified Liu Yifei and unanimously agreed that she was the best candidate to play Xu Hongdou.

Only if Liu Yifei is signed up will this unpopular rural life drama have a chance to attract enough investment.

In order to win over Liu Yifei, the "There's Wind" team had to modify the script, and even reduced the original 40 episodes - a good number of episodes for romance - to 36 episodes for Liu Yifei.

After the National Day, the screenwriter of "There's Wind" racked his brains to write ambiguous scenes, and expanded the script to 40 episodes - more episodes means better sales - and sent it to Liu Yifei to read.

Liu Yifei's team negotiated with the production team again to modify some details, and finally finalized the script in December. Liu Yifei also agreed to play the role of Xu Hongdou.

After Liu Yifei was confirmed, the production team quickly selected the actors and even released the news to facilitate the process.

"Liu Yifei's first TV series as an adult!"

One stone caused a thousand waves!

The fans are happy.

"Sister finally came down to earth to film a TV series!"

"expect!"

The haters are even happier!

“Resource downgrade!”

"There's no more movies for Tianxian to shoot!"

"The film and television industry is in a cold winter, my husband is no longer useful, so I come to the drama industry to make money!"

But businessmen are the most realistic group of people. After "There's Wind" confirmed Liu Yifei, major platforms and advertisers flocked to the show, vying to give money to the crew.

There is no other reason, the three words "Liu Yifei" can sell for money!

She is the actress with the most commercial appeal! (End of this chapter)