waiting for your starlight

Chapter 54

Summer vacation has always been a good time for movies from all walks of life to compete for release and compete at the box office. Stars are extremely busy running promotions for new films and stirring up gossip. Reporters are also ushering in a good time of the year. News, big or small, always has something to report.In such a lively situation, it was a little difficult to grab the page in the newspaper, but in time, there was a siege from the Huadan niches, and one piece of news still broke through the siege and grabbed the front page headlines!
"Zhou Xingfang has been silent for three years before attacking, abandoning her arms and loving red makeup?" "

"...Since the "Emperor Yongle" three years ago, the audience has not seen the new work of director Zhou Xingfang. Recently, director Zhou accepted an exclusive interview with this newspaper in Beijing, and talked about the new work for the first time. Surprisingly, this A female director who was appraised by the outside world as 'better at shooting men than men', this time she made a bold transformation and aimed at the eternal empress Wu Zetian..."

The boss of Yonghui Century put the newspaper back on the table, and looked at Zhou Xingfang who was opposite, "The news has been released, and the funds of all parties are almost in place. Will it start up next month?"

Zhou Xingfang wore black-rimmed glasses, and without raising her head when she heard the words, she continued to write something in her notebook, "If there are no accidents, it will start up in mid-August."

The boss leaned on the leather seat and looked at her jokingly and seriously, "Have you thought about it? After all, Xia Ce is one of the main investors. Is it necessary for you to insist on offending them in this matter?"

"This matter?" Zhou Xingfang stopped writing, "Boss, this is not a trivial matter. If they like other characters, I can back down, but the two Wu Zetians are the soul of this drama, and I can't let unqualified people ruin it." My blood."

"But I heard that Guo Ziqian is not bad, and you were satisfied at first..."

Zhou Xingfang nodded, "She's not bad. If I haven't seen better ones, I'll probably use her. But unfortunately, the candidates behind are too strong, and I can't give up."

"I know, they told me. Is it the new Qin girl? But I don't believe it. They are all 20-year-old girls. How big can the gap be? Don't be too perfect, actors, you still have to The director is here to teach, I believe you can teach Guo Ziqian well..."

The video data of the audition that day was stored in the laptop. Zhou Xingfang didn't bother to argue with him, so she clicked on two of them, and then pushed the computer in front of him, "This is Guo Ziqian's clip, and this is Yixi's. You can check it out." .”

The boss looked at the screen, and Zhou Xingfang said: "You know, the girl Wu Zetian I'm going to choose this time is not like other TV dramas where I choose an actor for the protagonist when he was a child. He only has roles in the first two or three episodes, and then the character grows up." When she grows up, change to a big actor. She will continue to act until Wu becomes the queen. At that time, she will be 38 years old. It is not so much Wu Zetian as a girl, but Wu Zetian in the early stage. And the early stage is even more difficult to act than the later stage, because This is the period when Wu's character was formed. The ups and downs of experience have created her. The character creation has both changes and inheritance. It is very difficult to be precise. Guo Ziqian's acting skills are good, and the girl's longing and arrogance are well expressed. The adult The momentum and fierceness are obviously not enough. She is too exposed and looks unnatural."

On the screen, Guo Ziqian was reading the lines before Wu’s execution of Concubine Xiao Shu. The girl’s eyebrows were raised and her voice was stern, but she still looked like a young and vigorous girl, not Zhaoyi Wu who had gone through hardships and had already been deeply scheming. .

"To tell you the truth, when I decided to use Guo Ziqian, I had already planned in my mind to reduce the role of Wu Zetian in the early stage, let her act until she went to the Ganye Temple to become a monk, and then let Han Meng play in advance. Compared with playing Wu Zetian as a savage Arrogant little girl, I would rather let the audience laugh at her for getting old too fast."

The boss was speechless, but his curiosity towards Yixi was even stronger.From what she said, did this girl meet her request?

Click on the video, the girl's eyes are clean and clear, as if she doesn't know the world.He frowned, and wanted to say that this was not as good as Guo Ziqian. Guo Ziqian at least had a delicate and beautiful appearance, unlike this girl, who was as pure as a high school belle.As soon as this thought flashed across her mind, she saw on the screen that the girl suddenly burst into aura, sitting on the chair arrogantly and glamorously, looking down on the common people like a queen.

He was shocked in place.Zhou Xingfang walked behind and looked at the screen with him, her eyes sparkled with excitement and even fanaticism, "Do you believe it? She is still so young, so she has such acting skills. I have said a long time ago that some actors' talents are brought by them in their previous lives." It’s here, it’s in my blood. There was Shen Yilu decades ago, and now there’s Yixi. It was my luck that I met her.

"I have a hunch that she will make this character a classic. A Wu Zetian that surpasses any previous version and will not be forgotten even in another 20 years."

On August 8th, Zhou Xingfang, who had whetted the appetite of the masses for half a month, finally held a launch conference in Beijing, announcing the name of the new work "The Empress", and brought some of the main creators to the scene.It was also at this time that the reporters were surprised to find that the young Wu Meiniang who was about to play the role was actually the new Qin girl who had appeared at the press conference of "Seizing the Palace"!
Early the next morning, all major media rushed to report on the matter.The actor of Wu Zetian in the later period has not been exposed yet, Yixi, as a well-deserved heroine, finally doesn't have to get only a piece of tofu like last time, half of the front page headlines are Zhou Xingfang, and the other half is captured by her!

Wu Zetian was originally a highly topical historical figure, and every remake will attract widespread attention from the outside world. It was released, and the popularity has not yet faded. All of this is like a gust of spring wind, making this movie popular before it is shot, and it has a strong sense of presence on Weibo and Tianya.

But not all reviews are good. As we all know, although Lu Yan's "Wu Zetian" was highly hyped before its release, the box office was a mess.The investment was claimed to be 1.3 million, but the final box office did not even exceed [-] million. This is also the worst result that Lu Yan has handed over in the past five years.

Does this mean that audiences no longer like the subject of Wu Zetian?Zhou Xingfang chose to shoot at this time, will she encounter the Waterloo of her career like Lu Yan did?Can she master the subjects she is not good at, so as not to ruin the reputation accumulated over the years?

(End of this chapter)