From collapsed house idol to entertainment superstar

"Bah, bah, bah, bah!"

"Hey! Leave some for me! Don't eat them all!"

Liang Jiahui saw Ding Zhi sitting opposite him eating more deliciously than himself, and couldn't help but remind him!

Ding Zhi stopped chewing, raised his head, and looked at Liang Jiahui in surprise.

"You said you couldn't eat and were afraid of wasting it. I just didn't have lunch, so you asked me to eat with you?"

Liang Jiahui glanced at the big chicken drumstick in Ding Zhi's hand, then looked at Ding Zhi, thought about it carefully for a while, and then suddenly realized.

"I understand, you ate it so deliciously that I felt like I was at a disadvantage when I looked at it!"

Ding Zhi took another hard bite.

"No, Brother Hui! You are already a great actor, but Zhong Guhan is still so stingy?"

"You are also a great movie star, why don't you come to steal the food of a sixty-year-old man like me?"

The two looked at each other and suddenly laughed.

Hey! I feel comfortable now.

The little fat man sitting next to him without saying a word naturally took a deep breath out of habit.

There is nothing more uncomfortable than witnessing one person pretending to be Versailles, that is probably witnessing two people pretending to be Versailles.

It’s okay to have a character like Brother Zhi next to you, but now Brother Zhi has met his opponent!

It is estimated that no one believed it when it was spread. People like Liang Jiahui and Ding Zhi would actually hold two lunch boxes with chicken drumsticks in the crew, brag about it and eat with gusto.

After having enough wine and food, everyone picked their teeth and drank tea.

Ding Zhi looked at Liang Jiahui's legs.

"So, Brother Hui, you sprained your foot while riding a bicycle on the street during the crew's break. Then you returned to the crew and continued filming without any problems. As a result, it became more serious as you endured it? By the way, you strained the buried ligament?"

Ding Zhi resisted the urge to roll his eyes.

You said that Liang Jiahui is almost 70 years old, so why is he doing this like a child's play?

"Why did you say on the phone that you were injured while filming?"

Liang Jiahui smiled sarcastically, "Hey! Isn't this going to delay your next movie? Besides... I sprained my ankle while riding a bicycle. It won't be shameful to tell you! Who knew you would run over directly to see what happened?"

"Eh!"

Liang Jiahui said and suddenly smiled again.

"But if it weren't for this, I really wouldn't know that you care about me so much!"

"Hey! I'm afraid that when the movie starts, I won't be able to find the second male lead!"

"Huh? What are you talking about? The second male lead? Didn't you say that I am the leading actor?"

Liang Jiahui's eyes widened and he almost spit out the toothpick from his mouth.

"Brother Hui, this is the world of young people now! Seniors like you are not suitable to stand in the front and fight and kill. Let's wait for young people like me to take over!"

Ding Zhi just said with a smile.

Hearing Ding Zhi's words, Liang Jiahui did not blow his nose and glare. Instead, he smiled bitterly and shook his head.

But he understood the hidden meaning of Ding Zhi's words.

I'm not really talking about "The Intouchables" which has not yet started filming, but I am talking about "The King of Thieves" which he is currently filming.

As mentioned before, the character named "Lung Chi-keung" in Actor Leung is actually based on Cheung Chi-keung, one of the three major thieves in Hong Kong in the 1990s.

Liang Jiahui's age and the prototype character are almost completely different. Apart from anything else, Ding Zhi has not watched the finished film after all.

But just the look in Liang Jiahui's current dramas is very inconsistent.

Although an old man in his sixties still has to play the role of an arrogant and domineering young gangster, even an actor of Liang Jiahui's level cannot do it 100%.

After all, no matter how good your acting skills are, it can't erase the traces of time.

But whether it’s this truth or that dilemma, in today’s Hong Kong film industry, there are only a few people carrying the banner.

If Liang Jiahui can't get it, there really aren't many who can.

In the past two years, he has even reduced his mainland film engagements and prioritized filming local films on Hong Kong Island, just to support Hong Kong Island films.

In fact, they, the older generation of Hong Kong filmmakers, have experienced the glory of Hong Kong films from the 1980s to the 1990s, and have also tasted the loneliness of today's world.

To say that those who want to revitalize Hong Kong films most are none other than this group of people.

It's just that Hong Kong Island, a small and tiny place, was able to have such a glorious period in the film industry. To a large extent, it was the times that made heroes.

In fact, it is not so much a decline now as it is just returning to the position it should exist.

People like Leung Ka-fai and Zhang Wenqiang who are somewhat "sticky" to their homeland and are trying their best to continue to promote Hong Kong movies understand this truth.

But it’s just a feeling, or a responsibility.

Liang Jiahui shook his head and did not answer Ding Zhi's objection.

"If you are worried that my feet will delay things, there is no need to do that. In your script, I play a lame person! Get me a wheelchair, and then I will play the role of a lame person!"

"It's a paralyzed patient!"

"Hey! I'm in a wheelchair anyway, so my injury won't delay anything."

After finalizing the follow-up arrangements with a few words, the two continued chatting while picking their teeth.

"By the way, Dingzi, do you have any conflicts with Huang Zhixiong? I see you were slanderous to him the whole way in. What, is there anything wrong?"

Only then did Liang Jiahui mention the situation he had noticed from the beginning.

"..."

Ding Zhi didn't know how to reply.

In fact, it's slightly embarrassing.

Bi Zhi initially thought that there was a flaw in the crew's safety, which resulted in Liang Jiahui being injured just now.

Now that he knew that Liang Jiahui had accidentally sprained his foot outside and strained the ligament, Ding Zhi naturally understood that his attitude towards Huang Zhixiong just now was not very appropriate.

Thinking about it this way, Huang Zhixiong is really interesting. Although he was aggrieved overtly and covertly, he still seemed quite open-minded and seemed to be a normal person.

To put it mildly, according to people in Kyoto, this person is quite dignified.

But if you think about it more closely, Huang Zhixiong is also famous in Hong Kong circles for being able to adapt to the circumstances.

After all, he has been the chamber pot of the Xiang family in Hong Kong for so many years, and his ability to read the dishes is naturally second to none.

Ding Zhi also met many people in the industry, big and small, in Hong Kong. Huang Zhixiong has to say that he is indeed a very unique one.

"Director Huang? This is the first time he and I have met. How can there be any conflict?"

Ding Zhi didn't intend to talk about his thoughts in detail, so he explained it casually, which was enough to clear up the trouble.

"It'll be great if there's no conflict! Director Huang just wanted to ask me, since you're here now, if you can make a cameo here, it's like sharing a scene with me in advance!"

oh?

Ding Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly.

Good guy, Huang Zhixiong has such a good attitude towards love, and it seems he still has such thoughts!

It seems that he is indeed the most profitable director in Hong Kong Island for more than ten years. When it comes to creating momentum and using momentum, he is really at his best.

but......

"Guest appearance? My current worth is different from what it used to be. An ordinary "two-on-six" can't get rid of me!"

In the film "King of Thieves" currently being filmed by Liang Jiahui, the protagonists are actually two people.

One is Liang Jiahui, who plays the villain "The King of Thieves", and the other is the undercover agent Louis Koo who has infiltrated the King of Thieves' gang.

This person can be regarded as one of the last remaining mainstays in the Hong Kong film industry. In addition to being the principal of many hope primary schools in the mainland, he also shoulders the responsibility of the president of the Hong Kong Actors Guild.

Now that both the good and the evil are present, there is not much room for Ding Zhi to show off.

After all, with Yi Dingzhi's current celebrity status and popularity, no matter how friendly he appears, it is impossible to play the "two against six" (insignificant guy) like He Guozheng in "Cold War 2" a few years ago.

It’s not about how many scenes there need to be, but it’s about the level of performance and it can’t be missed.

But it was Liang Jiahui who made the request after all.

Not to mention that the two have a close friendship, it doesn't hurt to make a friendly guest appearance.

You must know that when Ding Zhi was not well-known a few years ago, Liang Jiahui used his old face to leverage a lot of resources for him in the Hong Kong circle.

It was only then that he came up with his epic work titled "The Hunt".

Liang Jiahui himself even played a guest role as a prison guard in it, protecting the small-budget movie with no big names at the time.

Therefore, Ding Zhi did not refuse at this moment. Instead, he made such a specific request as a joke.

That is, a guest appearance is okay, or even a small role, but the role cannot be too low-level.

After all, Ding Zhi and Liang Jiahui are different.

Actor Liang could play a prison guard or something casually at the beginning, which was no big deal, because his status in the world was already there and no one could influence him.

But Ding Zhi is different. Now he is in the limelight, but he is still on the rise. He is far from reaching his peak, let alone his status in the world.

So at this time, he has to be careful when choosing roles.

If Huang Zhixiong couldn't even find a solution to this request, then Ding Zhi would have given Liang Jiahui face.

However, after receiving such an answer, Huang Zhixiong responded quickly and came in person.

"Ding Sheng! Thank you so much! Thank you so much for your honor!"

Huang Zhixiong smiled more amiably at this time, and with his fat body and narrowed eyes, he looked quite happy.

"It's like this, there is a role, although it is a guest appearance, but in terms of temperament and quality, it has to be you, Ding Sheng!"

"Oh? What role is it?"

When Ding Zhi was chatting with Liang Jiahui, he roughly understood what their film was about.

Is there any character that can be so praised by Huang Zhixiong?

"Ding Sheng, it's like this. The title of our play is called "The King of Thieves". Now, we want you to be the second "King of Thieves" besides Brother Hui!"

"Actually, the prototype of the character "Long Zhiqiang" played by Hui Ge is from Cheung Chi-keung, one of the three thieves in Hong Kong. But besides him, there are two other thieves who are equally famous."

"oh?"

After hearing this, Ding Zhi became somewhat interested. Huang Zhixiong's words were obviously intended to make a guest appearance as another "King of Thieves".

"Director Huang means...which thief king do you want me to play?"

"Ji Bingxiong."

Huang Zhixiong said with a smile.

"There are rumors in the world that before Zhang Ziqiang was arrested, he actually got in touch with the other two thieves. Especially after Ye Jihuan was arrested and returned to prison, he actually wanted to join forces with Ji Bingxiong and run to the Red Army with 800 kilograms of explosives.

He will rob the prison and launch a 'Union of the Three Thieves of the Century'!"

The results are naturally self-evident.

After Zhang Ziqiang returned to China, he was arrested by the police while fleeing the mainland.

Ji Bingxiong, the last one to be arrested, was able to escape from the country after committing a jewelry robbery, shooting a British inspector (a nickname for a job in Hong Kong), and even affecting innocent passers-by.

He was even offered a reward of 2 million yuan and was jointly wanted by 178 countries around the world.

Finally, five years after Zhang Ziqiang was arrested, Ji Bingxiong, the thief king who had been running rampant in Hong Kong Island for nearly two decades, was finally formally arrested and returned to Hong Kong Island on Christmas Eve 2003.

It is said that in order to capture this big thief who came and went without a trace, the Hong Kong Island police dispatched dozens of Flying Tigers and broke into a house on Man Ying Street in Zuodun before finally successfully capturing him.

As the three thieves, he is the most low-key, but the only one listed as an internationally wanted criminal in 178 countries. His final luck is also the most powerful among the three.

Zhang Ziqiang paid the bill with a peanut, while Ye Jihuan died of illness in prison. Only Ji Bingxiong, who committed such a serious crime, actually escaped the death penalty and was only sentenced to 24 years in prison.

Even in the first two years, he was released after serving only 17 years because of his good behavior in prison.

Although he was already 60 years old at this time, compared to the other two thief kings who were equally famous but had passed away long ago, his fate was not much better.

Of course, there is a "rule" in this script creation, that is, all the "thief kings" must be dealt with before returning.

There are a lot of places to create here.

I have to say that Huang Zhixiong is really a quickie.

No wonder, after all, this man was known as the best "airplane guy" in Hong Kong Island.

What is called "Jibo Zai" means that during the heyday of Hong Kong films, filming was basically like going to the market, with swarms of people swarming in. In many cases, actors were hired, and the crew did not even have a complete script on hand.

So "Airplane Boy" came into being.

In fact, whatever "Airplane Boy" writes today, the crew will shoot today.

To put it bluntly, it is actually writing and filming at the same time, and the requirements for actors are very high, because actors are likely to receive the script the night before or at short notice, and they have to shoot whatever they receive.

Huang Zhixiong once set a record by filming a movie called "The Demon Cult Master" in just seven days.

In fact, Ding Zhi seriously suspected that Huang Zhixiong's decision to retain him for a guest role was most likely an impromptu move.

When he asked that "the character should not be too low", the yellow fat man quickly and reasonably found a suitable role.

Moreover, in terms of "historicity", Ji Bingxiong's character is no less famous than the protagonist "Long Zhiqiang", but he is only a character who has interacted with Long Zhiqiang. To a certain extent,

It won't appear to be overwhelming.

It can be said that it perfectly meets Ding Zhi's requirements.

Ding Zhi agreed without much hesitation.