Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 105: Tearing
After promoting "Li Mi's Conjecture", Zhou Xun returned to the crew to shoot for a few days, and then took a leave to promote "Painted Skin".

These were all agreed upon early on, and the production crew also took this into consideration when compiling the shooting schedule, so there wasn't any delay.

But Zhou Xun was tortured badly by Li Qiutang. Li Qiutang refused to let her drink real wine. Zhou Xun couldn't get into her best state, so Li Qiutang kept clicking her.

During the two days when she came back to shoot, Li Qiutang cut her 20 times every day, and she almost went crazy.

Li Qiutang still said the same thing: "If you don't drink real wine, you can't act it out because you don't have the ability."

Zhou Xun left the crew angrily.

Li Bingbing and others watched Li Qiutang torturing Zhou Xun in silence.

"Painted Skin" is undoubtedly a highly anticipated domestic blockbuster during this year's National Day and even the entire year.

Zhen Zidan+Zhou Xun+Zhao Yanzi+Chen Kun, which one of them is not a big star?
It's interesting to say that the project of "Painted Skin" was originally proposed by Chen Jiashang and Zhen Zidan, but they couldn't raise money for the project in Hong Kong, so the two of them moved the project to the mainland. The project was valued by the Ningxia Film Group, which had been away from the market for a long time, and they jointly invested in it with Shanghai Film Group.

The original plan for this movie was to make it into a personal action show of Zhen Zidan, the monster catcher, with Zhen Zidan fighting from beginning to end, and there was no love scene.

This is the case with all the movies Zhen Zidan directed in the past. He really likes the feeling of the whole audience focusing on him alone.

But Ningxia Film and Shanghai Film Group don’t buy Zhen Zidan’s account at all. I’m the one who pays the money, so they have to listen to me.

So the story was changed to a love story between a human and a demon. Zhen Zidan was still a knight with great martial arts skills, but his actions took a back seat and were no longer the core selling point of the movie.

Ningxia movies are quite courageous, daring enough to challenge Zhen Zidan.

But there was no way. Chen Jiashang and Zhen Zidan didn't want to pay, and the investors wanted to change the play, so they couldn't do anything.

Zhen Zidan responded very "generously" at an early event that the main highlight of "Painted Skin" is love, not his actions. What he meant was that as long as the show is good, he is willing to sacrifice.

However, on the movie poster, the leading actor is still Zhen Zidan.

However, most of the time it is unlikely that a play can be released quietly.

Zhou Xun and Zhao Yanzi are fighting over the role!

Who is the heroine of "Painted Skin"? !

The fans of the two were arguing fiercely. Zhou's fans said that Zhao was box office poison, while Zhou Xun's acting skills and status in the film industry were higher than Zhao's. Moreover, the film was titled Painted Skin, which was about the fox demon Xiao Wei, so Zhou Xun was the heroine.

Zhao's fans believe that, according to industry norms, the male protagonist's partner is usually the female protagonist. Regardless of whether the male protagonist is Wang Sheng played by Chen Kun or Pang Yong played by Zhen Zidan, Peirong played by Zhao Yanzi is the common lover of the two male protagonists, so Zhao Yanzi is the female protagonist.

The fans’ quarrels will certainly affect the original poster.

Zhou and Zhao had never gotten along well in private, and after the incident of quarreling over roles, they interacted even less.

The two were at an event together, Zhou Xun called Zhao Yanzi "Xiao Zhao" and said that they had a "not bad" relationship. Zhao Yanzi didn't even respond to her with much enthusiasm, just nodded.

The two of them were just short of having "I don't know her well" written on their faces.

If Li Qiutang remembered correctly, this should be the first public battle for the role in the mainland entertainment industry.

During the filming of "The Forbidden Kingdom", Li Bingbing and Liu Yifei had a minor dispute over the ranking issue, but it didn't turn out like "Painted Skin".

Those who like to watch the fun never think it’s too big a deal, as long as Zhou Xun doesn’t do this in her own crew.

On this day, Li Qiutang was busy on the set, and his assistant called out, "Director, someone's visiting the set."

Li Qiutang had not received any notice of a visit before this. When she turned around, she saw that it was her parents.

"Why are you here?"

"It's the weekend, come and take a look, it's not far." It takes four or five hours to drive from Fengtian, and it's hard for my dad to be willing to drive.

My mother looked around the set and didn’t recognize anything: “Is this how you shoot your movie?”

"Yeah, if you watch me on the set you'll know how I usually work."

Without further ado, Li Qiutang returned to work.

His parents were tired after the journey, so Li Qiutang asked his assistant to take them to the hotel to rest first, and he would go back after he finished work.

As a result, Li Qiutang filmed until 11pm that day, and the summary meeting lasted until after 6am. Just after am the next morning, Li Qiutang got on the bus and left for the set.

The parents were heartbroken to find out their son had to work day and night.

But Li Qiutang didn't feel tired: "I'm not tired, these brothers are tired, they get up earlier than me and go to bed later."

"Hey, set up the lights, don't tilt them."

My mother asked, "When will you finish filming this play?"

"About two months. I'll go to Zhuolu to shoot next month."

"You can rest after the filming. Everything will be fine now."

"It's still in the later stages. I just need to pay attention. I don't need to watch it all day long like I do now."

"Don't delay the New Year."

"No delay."

"Then our whole family will go to Sanya to celebrate the New Year. It's a comfortable place."

"It's boring to go to Sanya. Why don't you go to Australia? You've never been abroad before. I'll take you there to play." Li Qiutang suggested, "The weather there is comfortable, too."

"I don't know anyone there, I can't even speak, what's the point of going there?"

"There are so many Chinese people there, and you can still have a good meal and fun even if you don't speak English." Chinese people in Australia have formed their own ecosystem. Not knowing a word of English will not affect your life over there, let alone eating, drinking and having fun, and it won't affect your life in weddings and funerals.

Li Qiutang made up his mind on the spot: "Why hesitate? I've never been abroad in my life, so I might as well go out and broaden my horizons, see foreigners and eat foreign food. When is the Chinese New Year this year?"

"This year the Chinese New Year is early, on January 1th."

"Then we'll leave on the 20th."

The family decided to go abroad to celebrate the New Year this year. My parents stayed in Bincheng for two days and left on Sunday afternoon.

Zhou Xun is not there, but fortunately her scenes have been mostly filmed in the previous episodes.

On the weekend when Painted Skin was released, Li Qiutang paid out of his own pocket to book a show for the crew.

"Keep the invoice and ask Zhou Xun to reimburse me later."

Watching "Painted Skin" again, Li Qiutang is still amazed at Zhou Xun's acting skills at this time.

That's really a fascinating spirit.

She herself has nothing to do with words like beautiful and charming, but the vixen she plays makes you think of the four words enchanting and charming.

This is called acting, this is called skill.

It can be said that this "Painted Skin" is entirely Zhou Xun's personal show.

Some people would say that Zhou Xun is like this in every role, with big, watery eyes, and now that she is young and full of collagen, the coquettish feeling brought by such facial features is always beautiful.

But isn’t this also a kind of talent?

Before she was 40, Zhou Xun could crush a group of actors with her lively and coquettish look, just like Liu Yifei before she was 30, the audience loved to watch that face when it appeared on the screen.

How can beauty not be considered a talent?

"Painted Skin" opened with a good result of 1500 million on the first day, aiming for 2 million, but the film company said it would break million.

Li Qiutang also said that "Painted Skin" could exceed 2 million.

"Because the enthusiasm for watching movies after the Olympics needs a blockbuster like this one to digest it."

　Those who understand naturally know what this foreshadowing is.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)