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"Yan He, are you okay?"

When Lily Williams suddenly asked him in a low voice on the set, Lu Yanhe suddenly came back to his senses.

"Huh? Me? I'm fine, what's wrong?"

"I saw you sitting there in a daze." Lily Williams said, "In the past two days, there have been people squatting at our door. I heard that when you came in this morning, you were blocked by someone."

"That's nothing." Lu Yanhe smiled, "I was just thinking about how to act in my last scene."

"That last scene?"

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded. "Didn't I let you go in the end in the last scene? Because you were the only one who didn't really want to burn us to death. You always thought you were just scaring us for fun. It wasn't until something happened that you realized what kind of devils your two friends were."

This is also a transformation of the film in the later stage.

Of the three targets of revenge, Arne and Simon were both killed, and only Lily was eventually spared.

The character of Lily also fills a loophole - after all, the film is released in European and American countries with a lot of white people, and the three white people cannot all be completely bad devils.

Therefore, in Lily's character, her evil deeds in the past became ignorant evils that were kept secret.

Lily Williams said: "It was written in the script that you just let me go and left."

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, "But I haven't figured out how to leave and how to end my last scene in the movie."

Lily Williams breathed a sigh of relief and laughed.

"So you were thinking about this. I thought you were in a bad mood because of what happened recently."

Lu Yanhe: "I wasn't scolded, why would I be in a bad mood?"

There was a smile on his face, as if everything was really okay.

Lily Williams said: "I feel like you don't want to deceive others."

"Huh?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised. He didn't expect Lily Williams to be so perceptive and capture his true emotions at once.

I can only say that actors are still actors, and sometimes they are really sharp.

Lily Williams: "Arne told me you definitely don't like the way the show is being marketed."

"Arne?" Lu Yanhe was even more surprised.

"Is he right?" Lily said, "In fact, he and I have watched your movies together. You acted really well in "Late Spring" and "Road to Glory". No wonder you are so popular in Asia."

Lu Yanhe: "You suddenly praised me, and I don't know what to say."

Lily laughed happily.

"It's a shame. We finished shooting this movie so quickly that we haven't even gotten to know each other yet."

The filming time of "The Mist" was indeed not long. For a movie, more than 30 days of filming time is considered to be relatively long.

However, for a horror film, this shooting time is not very long.

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "It's good that we know each other. There will be many opportunities to meet in the future."

Lily asked curiously, "Will you mainly focus on making Hollywood movies in the future?"

"No." Lu Yanhe did not hesitate to answer this question. "I have many projects in China, and I can't shift my focus to Hollywood."

Lily was a little frustrated and said, "Then you just lied to me. How come there are so many opportunities to meet?"

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "That doesn't mean you won't go there in the future. Besides, you can always come to China in the future. You are welcome to come to China to make movies."

Lily's understanding of Chinese films is basically at the stage of "basically no understanding".

In fact, many American filmmakers are like this. They don't pay much attention to foreign-language films. At most, they know about some award-winning works at film festivals.

Even though American films are generally recognized as inferior to those in Europe in terms of art films, they never think that they are really that bad.

In such a large environment, young actors like Lily's understanding of movies is basically based on the aesthetics created by American movies.

So, when they occasionally watch a movie like "Late Spring", they find it very fresh.

During the filming of this movie, Lu Yanhe actually had a pleasant collaboration with both Arne and Lily.

Working with the two of them gave Lu Yanhe a very different feeling - he found that everyone's performance system is still different. Arne and Lily's performances have a kind of explosive power. This kind of explosive power is not hysterical roaring at you, but a fullness of emotion.

In fact, it's not just them, Simon is the same.

Lu Yanhe studied them carefully later and felt that they all had this kind of unified explosive power, which might be related to the fact that all three of them had been performing on stage since childhood. Their stage performance experience shaped the completeness and fullness of their emotions. Many young Chinese actors are actually trained by the camera, and they rarely perform a scene from beginning to end without interrupting their emotions.

Each has its own advantages.

But overall, Lu Yanhe has to say that, judging from the movie "The Mist" alone, the young actors in the United States have much stronger overall strength than their Chinese counterparts.

Of course, this was Lu Yanhe’s first time working with a foreign crew, so his feelings were not representative.

Moreover, when it comes to the ability of top actors, they are no less capable.
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In fact, Lu Yanhe was quite moved.

Although many people on the Internet are questioning why he would go overseas to act in a horror film, those who really know Lu Yanhe basically don't ask him this question.

Even Chen Lingling, a director who had worked with Lu Yanhe twice and would soon work with him on the sequel to "River of Silence", only said one sentence when asked this question by reporters.

"For an actor like Lu Yanhe, no matter what role he takes, there must be a reason for it. Before the movie is officially released, I won't ask him why he wants to act in it. When the movie is available, I will go and watch it directly to see from the movie why he acted in this movie."

Liu Bige also responded in the comment section of his social media to a comment "You should go and persuade Yan He to stop acting": When Yan He was filming "Late Spring", how many people were also persuading him to stop acting?
Lu Yanhe really had a lot of choices, which were not understood at the beginning.

For example, when he took on the role of "Late Spring", a low-cost art film directed by a new director, many people said at that time that he was so desperate to win an award that he dared to act in a film with no quality, no reputation, or quality assurance.

For example, when he was a screenwriter and wrote "Lost on Journey" and "Rouge", many people laughed at him for thinking he was a great writer just because he studied literature for a few years.

For example, he ruthlessly left the "Friends" series and drew a clear line between the two. At that time, many people scolded him for being crazy and stupid, saying that he gave up such a popular series just to save his temper.

After going around in circles, looking back now, not a single step Lu Yanhe took was in vain, and not a single choice he made was wrong.

Lin Yu said in her show: "If an actor often makes the audience confused and questioned, when we can't help but feel nervous and worried about him, please don't forget that it is because he did not stay in his comfort zone and play it safe. He still chose to take risks and challenge himself."

Lin Desheng of Northern Lights Video asked him personally: Do you think this horror film you are shooting is worth buying back? Can it be shown in China?
Lu Yanhe told the truth: Don’t buy it, it basically can’t be released, it can’t be put on any video platform, it’s a movie with real ghosts, I play the ghost, if you want to cut it, you have to delete all my scenes.

Alex Lam: ...Why do you want to act in this movie so well?

This was the first person around Lu Yanhe who questioned his performance in "The Mist".

Lu Yanhe smiled.

On the contrary, this time, Maxine's Zhong Benshuo and HP's Tom White also started a new round of competition.

Not only them, with director Muken's fame in horror films, any streaming platform with a bit of fame is vying for the exclusive streaming rights for this movie.

The same goes for television stations.

Even though the movie hasn't even been released in any schools yet, the copyrights have already been fought over fiercely.

During this process, D19 Production Company was somewhat surprised to find that Lu Yanhe was actually a very important bargaining chip in the negotiations with the film producers.

Because during the negotiations, everyone mentioned that they hoped Lu Yanhe would participate in promotional activities in a certain market, and at least cooperate with XX promotions.

These contents are similar and put together only to show one thing: in the eyes of film producers, Lu Yanhe is the selling point of this movie for some markets.

D19 is not a big company.

It made its fortune by making independent films.

It also does not have a particularly strong and complete global distribution channel, especially in Asia, where D19's network is not well established.

Therefore, for a long time, their impression of Lu Yanhe was that he was a famous and popular actor in China, and Muken insisted on using him and admired him very much. That was all.

After all, this movie is not released in mainland China, so no matter how popular Lu Yanhe is, his popularity will be greatly discounted.

Who would have known that not only other Asian countries and regions, but also film producers in Europe and the United States were also interested in Lu Yanhe.

What D19 didn't expect the most was that several international film festivals took the initiative to ask whether they would be willing to have the film premiere at their festivals.

After chatting, it turned out that they were attracted by the popularity of this movie, and Lu Yanhe has been a frequent guest at film festivals in recent years. Almost every film festival wants to invite Lu Yanhe to attend. After all, Lu Yanhe has a huge amount of media attention and popularity.

The American company D19 heard about some of Lu Yanhe's brilliant achievements from different sources, which made them realize that they seemed to have completely underestimated this actor from the East.
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"The filming is about to be finished. It won't be so easy for us to sit together for dinner in the future." Hua Ruzhen came out of the kitchen carrying a pot of braised chicken. "This is a new dish I tried. I don't know how it tastes, but I'll give it a try. The other dishes are all my specialties, so don't worry about them."

Lu Yanhe smiled and nodded, saying yes.

During the time that Director Mu Ken was filming here, Hua Ruzhen always accompanied him and often invited Lu Yanhe to come over for dinner.

To be honest, Hua Ruzhen’s craftsmanship is indeed very good.

Therefore, Lu Yanhe was able to enjoy authentic Chinese food from time to time instead of eating Western food every day in Canada.

"Sister, after the filming of the movie, are you going back to the United States or Germany?"

Muken is actually a German. When he is not making movies, he usually lives in Germany.

Hua Ruzhen said: "After the filming, he went back to rest for two weeks, and then he had to go to the United States to oversee the post-production."

Lu Yanhe nodded. Hua Ruzhen: "D19 wants to release this movie in January."

"January?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised, because even though he didn't know much about the American film market, he knew when the peak season and the off-season were, and January was a well-known off-season.

When it comes to the best release date for horror movies, it’s usually Halloween.

Hua Ruzhen nodded and said, "We can't make it in time for the Halloween schedule. The pressure in the later stages is too great."

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized.

Hua Ruzhen asked, "What's your next movie?"

"Let's go back and record a show first, 'Young Days'. Sister, have you seen it?"

"It seems to have made an impression."

"It's a show I've been recording." Lu Yanhe said, "Then I'll be filming the second season of 'Seventeenth Floor'."

Hua Ruzhen was a little surprised and asked, "Are you still cooperating with Beijing and Taiwan? I thought you would never cooperate with Beijing and Taiwan again."

"I do think so, but we have to wait until the series of Seventeen Floors is finished, as it is a trilogy." Lu Yanhe said, "Director Jiang Lan, who is in charge of this project, has always been very nice to me. I am also very familiar with the entire crew and we get along very well. I still want to see it through to the end, and I don't want the show to be affected by my bad relationship with other people in Beijing and Taiwan."

Hua Ruzhen nodded, "It's good to be responsible."

Lu Yanhe smiled.

Hua Ruzhen said: "The movie "The Mist" is very popular now, but are you unhappy with the crew's current marketing method?"

Lu Yanhe looked at Hua Ruzhen in surprise: "Sister, have you figured it out?"

Lu Yanhe thought that it was okay for Lily to see through him. After all, on the set, he did not try to suppress his emotions like he did in front of Hua Ruzhen. However, despite this, Hua Ruzhen still saw through it, which shocked and surprised him, and also made him feel that his acting skills were in jeopardy.

How could this be?
Is he so incapable of pretending?
Hua Ruzhen said: "Muken told me that he guessed that you didn't like this marketing method and didn't want to win everyone's support and sympathy by being racially discriminated against on the set."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Actually, yes."

Hua Ruzhen: "I really want to say something to comfort you, but I have to say that this is true for movie marketing. It doesn't matter what an actor or even a director thinks."

"Sister, I don't know what to say. I also hope that the movie will do well at the box office, but I always feel that adding a big label of an Asian ghost killing white villains to this movie will really help the movie be liked by the audience?"

"No one can tell. If an outsider like me can give you an accurate answer, then those professional movie marketing professionals can just pack up and leave." Hua Ruzhen laughed after she finished speaking, "But it doesn't matter, Yan He. You may not be able to control how they want to market, but you can do things according to your own ideas. If you don't like it and don't want to cooperate, then tell them clearly and ask them not to use you as marketing material anymore."

"I did think so."

"In fact, you haven't made up your mind yourself, and you don't firmly believe that this marketing method is wrong?"

"Because... this matter is indeed helpful to the popularity of the movie and the future box office. This is visible to the naked eye. I can't say that I don't like it and stop the movie from getting more box office. To put it bluntly, it's because I am an actor in this movie. I always think that I have the responsibility and obligation to make the movie achieve better results. I can't become this stumbling block." Lu Yanhe sighed, "Even though I know that my inaction is actually a tacit connivance. This is where I am conflicted and entangled now."

"Because you want to be an honest person, but you can't be honest without scruples, so you can only remain silent in self-contradiction." Hua Ruzhen looked at Lu Yanhe thoughtfully and asked, "Right?"

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Hua Ruzhen smiled and said, "You are really young."

Her smile also shows some of the doting of an elder towards a younger person.

Lu Yanhe was at a loss as to what to do and didn't know why Hua Ruzhen had such an attitude.

Hua Ruzhen said: "In fact, Muken often encounters such situations. He is actually a very strict and serious German by nature, but there are many things in the film industry that conflict with his nature. He can't get around it every time, but he doesn't want to integrate into it. What should he do?"

Lu Yanhe listened.

"In fact, there is no other way. Muken can only stay out of it silently. I believe that if you were in a crew with more say, you would definitely intervene and stop it directly, and you also have the ability to do so. But in the crew of "The Mist", you don't actually have such ability. You also know subconsciously that your attitude is actually not important, and no one will pay for your attitude." Hua Ruzhen said, "So, silence is the only thing you can do. Before you have enough power to change all this, you can only do what you can do in silence. When you have your status and voice in the Chinese-language film industry in the European and American film industry, believe me, you can directly stop things like this. So, instead of being self-contradictory and silent, it is better to stay out of it and put it aside. Just like the first play, everything had to be decided by the company. Now in this play, Muken said that he wanted to use a Chinese actor. He insisted, and D19 agreed."

Lu Yanhe suddenly came to his senses.

If Hua Ruzhen hadn't said it, Lu Yanhe would not have realized that behind this matter, in the final analysis, it was actually the contradiction between his desire to change everything and his inability to change it all.
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"If I tell Yan He, he will definitely be confused and in pain."

When asked about such a marketing plan, why Chen Siqi did not take the initiative to tell Lu Yanhe, Chen Siqi had no intention of hiding it.

"Aren't you worried that Yan He might find out one day that the reason Simon came up with this plan was actually because you asked someone to tell his agent about it?" Lin Yu asked.

She was very surprised that Chen Siqi did not tell Lu Yanhe that this plan was thought up by Linyu, and it was Chen Siqi who managed to tell Simon's agent about it.

"I'm worried, but it doesn't matter," Chen Siqi said. "He knows that I've never been a kind, perfect person. I don't care if Simon is hurting himself by doing this. I only care that this is Yan He's first English film, and I hope it does well. Yan He might be mad at me for not telling him in advance."

"Are you afraid he'll refuse?"

"It would be better if he could just refuse directly. The problem is that we can all see how much benefit this plan will bring to The Mist, not to mention himself. He will then be caught in a dilemma between morality and interests." Chen Siqi said, "It is better to keep him in the dark. If he wants to blame me, he can blame me, but I know he won't."

"Isn't it true that there are no secrets between the two of you and you can talk about anything?"

"It's not a bad thing to have some secrets." Chen Siqi smiled and blinked.

Lin Yu actually knew what Chen Siqi was thinking.

To put it bluntly, Chen Siqi has a very simple mindset: I will be the bad guy.

Rather than saying that she was worried about Lu Yanhe getting entangled, it would be better to say that she didn't want Lu Yanhe to fall into possible entanglement and hardship.

Linyu knew that this was Chen Siqi's way of loving Lu Yanhe.

It's definitely not right, but that's the way she is.

Lin Yu couldn't say anything.
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"Look, as soon as this incident came out, several Hollywood film companies actually sent us scripts, asking Yan He to play a role that was discriminated against, bullied, and oppressed." Chen Ziyan put the English scripts in front of Lu Qingzhen in a speechless manner, "Whatever is popular will come."

Lu Qingzhen smiled.

"How great! This shows that Yan He has indeed caught the attention of Hollywood."

"What kind of attention? They are all from third-tier small companies." Chen Ziyan said, "No, we still need to find a reliable overseas agency for Yan He. The scattered connections now are inefficient and unfocused."

Lu Qingzhen: "Didn't you try to find them before, but the conditions weren't right and you couldn't come to an agreement, so you said you would wait until "The Mist" is released and Yan He has more capital before you go talk to them again?"

"But Yan He's situation has changed now, but..." Chen Ziyan was a little discouraged again, "I guess they still won't change the previous conditions. No, they still have to have real results. It would be great if Yan He could win the Best Actor award at a top international film festival right now. Big agencies still value this."

Lu Qingzhen: "Let's not talk about this for now. Although you may not like these scripts, I would like to recommend these Asian characters to some people."

"Ah?" Chen Ziyan said, "I haven't read the script yet, it might be terrible."

"It doesn't matter if it's bad. Many actors don't have any roles to play anymore. How can they care whether the movie is bad or not?" Lu Qingzhen smiled and said, "I need to support myself first."

Chen Ziyan: "Then take it. If you want to fight for it, tell me and I'll contact you."

"Yes." Lu Qingzhen asked, "By the way, when will Yan He come back?"

Chen Ziyan said: "Three days later, he will finish filming tomorrow."

"It was so fast, we finished filming in just over a month." Lu Qingzhen said, "The management of their crew is really amazing, we should learn from them."

"They have accumulated experience over hundreds of years. We can learn from them." Chen Ziyan said, "You and Yan He are expressing the same feelings."

"I think that the cost of each of our projects is getting higher and higher. If we can effectively reduce the shooting time and improve efficiency, our costs can actually be reduced." Lu Qingzhen said, "I saw a report before that said that a movie of the same difficulty costs a million US dollars in Hollywood, but a Chinese crew at least three million US dollars. It's nothing else but losses. The losses of ineffective shooting by our domestic crews are too great."

"This is a matter of industry and industry. If you shoot more, it will naturally improve slowly." Chen Ziyan said, "Even if you arrange for some people to go for further studies, they will not give you the key things."

"That's true." Lu Qingzhen thought for a moment and said, "But I found that most of the time, the filming period of Yan He's dramas is not long, which is quite impressive. The key is that the quality of the films is very high."

Chen Ziyan said: "The proportion of ineffective filming in Yan He's crew is very small. You can see it from the preparatory work of each of his plays. Basically, the actors read the script together, and the technical departments also have to hold meetings repeatedly to ensure that everyone in the crew knows how the play will be shot and what efforts they need to make. Some crews always improvise."

Lu Qingzhen: "Maybe Yan He can bring something new to our domestic crew with his filming of "The Mist" this time."

When Lu Qingzhen said this, she didn't expect that she was right.

Lu Yanhe didn't move his things to the crew immediately. Instead, as soon as he came back, he told Chen Ziyan and Lu Qingzhen that he wanted to do something.

What's the matter?

He said he wanted to do a variety show.

Ask what show.

He said that a program that allows actors to compete on stage in acting skills allows film and television actors to perform on the same stage without NGs, just like drama and stage actors.

Chen Ziyan and Lu Qingzhen said, does anyone watch such a program?

Lu Yanhe said, of course there is, and its name is "The Birth of an Actor".

Chen Ziyan asked, why did you suddenly think of doing this show?
Lu Yanhe said that this is because the overall performance level of the actors coming off the stage is really much higher.

Actors don't have the time or schedule to perform in dramas or stage plays.

But this kind of ten- or twenty-minute performance clip can also play the same role.

Lu Yanhe said, "Aren't you always trying to make outdated artists popular again? Those actors with good acting skills can also be invited to this show."

Chen Ziyan: "I thought the first thing you did when you came back was to participate in a variety show, but I didn't expect that the first thing you did when you came back was to do another variety show."

Lu Yanhe said: "Well, I think it's time." (End of this chapter)