director of the millennium

Most movie fans don’t know that Hollywood capitalists are secretly keeping an eye on some Chinese actors.

Even most people in the Chinese film industry have not yet felt this trend.

But there are indeed several Chinese actors at the top of the pyramid who have received audition invitations from Hollywood.

They were very smart. Although there was no communication between them, they tacitly agreed not to spread the matter. It was only known to themselves and their agents, and they kept it a secret.

It was even less likely that Wu Yuan, who was filming "Riding the Wind" in Shanxi, knew about this.

He had a hunch about this. After all, one of the reasons why Liu Yifei was put into the cast of "X-Men: Days of Future Past" was to let Chinese actors appear more internationally.

Once Chinese actors succeed internationally and drive up the Chinese movie box office, it will in turn force Hollywood movies, especially those that want to gain more box office revenue from mainland China, to take Chinese actors seriously and use Chinese actors.

From the 1990s to the first few years of the millennium, there was a trend in Hollywood to use Japanese actors in Hollywood movies.

why?
This was because the Japanese film market was the second largest film market in the world at the time, and if Hollywood wanted to capture the Japanese market, the best way was to use some local actors who were familiar to Japanese movie fans.

Unfortunately, this attempt later failed.

But the reason for the failure is not the actors, but the film style that Japanese movie fans like, which is indeed different from Hollywood. The kind of literary and fresh and Japanese-style love movies that people like are really not something Hollywood can produce.

Special effects films and animated films are Hollywood's weaknesses.

Therefore, even though Japanese actors were used, in the end only the "Inception" movie was considered successful in Japan, and this was thanks to the Japanese investors behind "Inception".

In this world's "Inception", there is simply no Japanese investor involved, and the Japanese actor is replaced by Wang Xueqi, which makes the film's performance in Japan not as good as in the original time and space.

By the way, I have to mention that in “Iron Man 3”, Wang Xueqi still plays the doctor who performs surgery on Iron Man.

Well, after seeing the “special edition” this time, Wang Xueqi was much angrier than in his previous life.

In his previous life, Wang Xueqi had never entered Hollywood and had never filmed a Hollywood movie. He joined "Iron Man 3" with the mentality of giving it a try, but was fooled by Marvel.

But this life is different. In this life, Wang Xueqi went to the Oscars with Wu Yuan because of his outstanding performance as the male lead in "Gravity". Later, he also received invitations to several Hollywood movies. Although most of them were not very important roles, at least they all had a feature story of more than ten minutes.

Among them, "Inception" was successful again.

Wang Xueqi is not unfamiliar with Hollywood in this life, and he has had experience in cooperation. In this situation, he was still fooled by Marvel and honestly filmed more than ten scenes. In the end, only two or three scenes were edited into the feature film, and it was a special version for China. This made Wang Xueqi, a good man, very angry.

As soon as "Iron Man 3" was released, he distanced himself from the film and even gave a rare public interview to denounce the other party's behavior.

It is also because of this that Wang Xueqi has some PTSD about the invitation from Hollywood.

So, after the success of "X-Men: Days of Future Past", some Hollywood movies came to him and wanted to invite Wang Xueqi to star in them, but he refused immediately.

He really couldn't tell whether these invitations were sincere invitations, or were just for fun, or were just a name.

He is already in his sixties and no longer pursues honor and fame. There is no need to ruin his reputation for these invitations that are full of traps. It is better to just reject them all.

His refusal made several Hollywood film companies feel awkward. For them, if they wanted to invite Chinese actors, the first choice would definitely be Wu Yuan, the leading actor in Chinese films. There was no other reason, mainly because they were familiar with him.

Yes, Wu Yuan’s Chinese-language films are really familiar to Hollywood film companies. They are among the few films that they will specifically go out of their way to understand and watch.

Because the director's name is Wu Yuan, who is recognized as an outstanding director throughout Hollywood.

His films, including his Chinese-language films, are worth studying by Hollywood insiders.

In his several excellent Chinese-language films, the leading actor of the art films, Zhang Guorong, is no longer an actor, Li Xuejian is too old, and Hu Ge is good, but his level, popularity and status are not enough.

After counting, it is Wang Xueqi's best time.

Hey, in the end they refused and all were rejected.

This has caused great concern for those Hollywood film companies that wanted to try using Chinese actors to see if they could boost the Chinese box office.

But don’t give up hope completely!

"So, a Hollywood producer called you and invited you to make a movie in Hollywood?"

"Fuck, you're really popular now. Even Hollywood is interested in you?"

The corners of Wu Yuan's mouth twitched wildly, and he felt an indescribable strange feeling. He looked directly at the nervous Wu Jing and patted his shoulder hard: "Old Wu, listen to my advice. The water is too deep here, you can't control it!"

Almost in a flash, Wu Yuan figured out why this happened.

It's simply that Wu Jing came into Hollywood's attention because he was filming his new movie.

Then the Hollywood producers checked and found out that this guy was an action movie actor who started out in kung fu movies and later made police and gangster action movies in Hong Kong.

They are familiar with this one!

This is the type of actor that Hong Kong exported to Hollywood in the past!
The successful ones include Cheng Long, and the failed ones include Chang Wei, also known as Zou Zhaolong.

In short, Chinese action actors have always been a type that Hollywood is more easily and willing to accept, and their "Kung Fu" is something that European and American actors cannot perform.

It just so happens that Wu Jing is this type of actor. When Wang Xueqi is unwilling to go to Hollywood, it seems that Wu Jing is indeed a good second choice.

However, when Wu Yuan thought of the impression he had of "Wolf Warrior" in his previous life, he felt that this guy would not get along with Hollywood.
If he were to go to Hollywood to try his luck, he might end up fighting against those American capitalists.

Hollywood is really too deep for him and he can't grasp it.

It would be better for Wu Jing to stay in China and work on Wolf Warrior; the Chinese film industry also needs him.

If he were to go to Hollywood to play the role of an Asian male supporting actor in some second- and third-rate movies, and then Liu Peiqiang and Leng Feng would be gone, that would be really funny! (End of this chapter)