Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 88 Busy (510 first order)
Of course Li Qiutang also wanted to go to the disaster area, but first of all, he did not have any earthquake relief skills. It would be good if he could go there and help with the work, but if he could not help, the rescue team would have to be distracted to take care of him, which would be bad.

Secondly, the crews of "The Sound of Wind" and "To Be Famous" really can't do without him.

If we can't go, we can only contribute money and effort.

The next day, Li Qiutang donated 100 million yuan to a related charity fund. He was also actively purchasing mineral water, instant noodles and other supplies.

At the CCTV charity gala on the 18th, Li Qiutang donated another 100 million on the spot.

Nowadays, celebrities' income is generally not high, and Li Qiutang's donation of 200 million is already considered good among the artist group.

Li Qiutang has to do charity fundraising work and the crew work cannot stop, so she is even busier.

"Are you a human being? You are raising the price now!" Li Qiutang yelled into the phone, "You are the only one selling instant noodles in China. I don't believe it."

Li Qiutang has been personally contacting for material purchases these days, but perhaps because the production capacity has not kept up, many materials were sold out at once. Some merchants had evil intentions and wanted to make even this money.

Li Qiutang hung up the phone while still cursing the dealer: "You're making money from the national crisis, you bastard!"

After much difficulty, they managed to raise dozens of tents, but Li Qiutang couldn't find a car for a while. When she heard that Liu Yifei had returned to China and was going to join the rescue team in the disaster area, Li Qiutang took the initiative to contact Liu Yifei for the first time, probably the first time.

Finally, the call was connected on the fifth call. Li Qiutang knew that this was not the time to be polite, so he got straight to the point: "Yifei, are you going to the disaster area?"

"Yes, we're leaving tomorrow." Liu Yifei knew without thinking that she must be very busy during this period.

"Do you have any empty cars? I have 52 tents here and I can't find a car. Can you help me take them over?"

"No problem." Liu Yifei agreed without even thinking, "Aren't you going?"

"I want to go too, but I can't get away from Yanjing." There were two crews, one about to be released, and the other in the critical preparation period. Hundreds of people were counting on him for food. He was really too busy. "Are you in Yanjing?"

"I'm not here, but the supply convoy is in Yanjing." Liu Yifei is already in the mountain city and will enter Sichuan early tomorrow morning. "I'll give you the phone number of their person in charge. Just tell them the truth. They will go to your warehouse to receive the tents."

"Okay, thank you. I'll thank you in person when you come back."

"Thank you for nothing, I'm just doing my part."

Li Qiutang wanted to ask about her audition in the United States, but Liu Yifei said, "I have a phone call coming in. I won't talk to you anymore. Bye."

Li Qiutang contacted the relevant person in charge of the Children's Foundation according to the phone number given by Liu Yifei. That night, he cooperated with the other party to count and load the 52 tents onto a truck, saying that they would be transported to the disaster area by plane early the next morning.

Within two days, news came from the ongoing Cannes Film Festival that Sharon Stone made a lot of remarks at the red carpet ceremony, calling the earthquake "retribution", which aroused the anger of all Chinese people in and outside Cannes!
Li Qiutang was interviewed by the media after a charity event and bluntly scolded Sharon Stone: "She was stupid and mean for saying this, and she must apologize publicly. ... She was still a celebrity when she was young, but now she is out of fashion. ... So I say she is stupid and mean, and she wants to rely on this kind of thing to gain fame and get the spotlight. You wait and see, this kind of person will get his comeuppance sooner or later."

After scolding Sharon Stone, Li Qiutang also took the opportunity to promote the upcoming movie "Get Famous": "I am very lucky to meet such a group of good actors." During the promotion period, directors and actors should praise each other.

"The one who surprised me the most was Gao Yuanyuan." As the leading actress, Gao Yuanyuan deserves special praise. "She is really amazing, that kind of immersion, that kind of expressiveness." Otherwise, what else can she brag about? "When we were on the set, Gao Yuanyuan was able to get into the role very quickly and then give me the effect I wanted. Sometimes when there was a cut, she was still immersed in Su Mengdie's emotions, very professional."

"Deng Chao is the funny guy in our group. With him on our set, there is always laughter. Many people in our group came to me to complain that Deng Chao was too noisy and they wanted to beat him up."

Li Qiutang joked, "Deng Chao is known as the person the crew members want to beat up the most, no doubt about it."

Deng Chao took Li Qiutang's words as a tonic in a later interview, and said very "shamelessly" that it was his comedic talent that brought laughter to his colleagues in the crew. On the other hand, the work of "The Sound of Wind" is also progressing intensively.

Huang Xiaoming is willing to challenge the villain again. It may be because he tasted the sweetness of "No One"; on the other hand, he feels that Li Qiutang understands him and volunteered to play Takeda.

Li Qiutang naturally knew that he could play Takeda well, but the problem was that Li Qiutang did not believe in his talent for languages.

Huang Xiaoming now actually has a strong self-esteem and he cares a lot about his face. The Taitao incident last month made him very embarrassed.

In the original time and space, Huang Xiaoming's Takeda used dubbing, which made him miss out on major awards.

But this situation is not allowed to happen in Li Qiutang's crew. "The Sound of the Wind" will use many Japanese actors, so the script was translated into Japanese and there are also many Japanese staff in the crew.

Li Qiutang told Huang Xiaoming: "We will speak Mandarin on stage and then dub it in Japanese later. You can afford to lose face, but I can't."

Huang Xiaoming was embarrassed by this. He really wanted to be lazy and not practice Japanese before coming here. He thought he couldn't learn it and there was no need to practice.

"If you don't want to practice Japanese, don't come here." Li Qiutang said this and Huang Xiaoming was sweating profusely.

But Li Qiutang still gave him a chance: "I'll give you Takeda's script. You can learn how Japanese people say it in Mandarin and Japanese. I'll give you one month. If you learn it, we'll sign the contract. If you can't, I'll replace you."

Huang Xiaoming has actually been very busy recently, but no matter how busy he is, it has nothing to do with Li Qiutang, and he cannot give Li Qiutang the effect she wants. Even if Wang Zhonglei intercedes for him, he dares to replace Huang Xiaoming.

For the sake of the role, Huang Xiaoming had no choice but to accept Li Qiutang's conditions.

The other roles are much easier to handle. A veteran like Jin Shenghuo is Yingda's comfort zone, which is why "Famous" chose him.

A tough guy like Wu Zhiguo is suitable for Zhang Hanyu.

Zhou Xun verbally agreed to play Gu Xiaomeng, but when the crew discussed the details with her agent, they were asked to increase Gu Xiaomeng's role, with the reason being: "Li Ningyu survived to the end, so Gu Xiaomeng's role in the middle should be more outstanding."

Perhaps she heard that Li Qiutang was fond of Li Bingbing's role of Li Ningyu, so she made this request specifically, hoping to surpass Li Ningyu in terms of role.

But when Li Qiutang learned of this request, she rejected it without hesitation.

The script has been finalized and no character's role will be added or deleted. The only way to add more scenes is to come up with better and more exciting ideas.

Zhou Xun's agent should have expected that his request would be rejected by Li Qiutang. He was not annoyed at all, but took the initiative to give in. He did not ask for more scenes, but asked the crew to ensure that Zhou Xun's pay was the highest in the crew. This was easy to say. If Zhou Xun agreed to act, she would be the most famous actor in the crew of "The Sound of Wind". Even if Li Bingbing participated, it was reasonable for the most famous actor to get the highest pay.

Secondly, Zhou Xun’s name must be ranked first on the cast list and movie posters.

This is easy to say. You are the biggest star in the crew, so you will definitely be ranked first.

Zhou Xun’s dramas are good, but now people do care more about these things. The ranking of celebrity status sounds boring, but these things are closely related to the actual interests of the artists, and there is nothing we can do about it.

　I’m not making this up, the young lady has really been there.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)