Hollywood superstars: Start as a child star

Pick-up in Pudong

Lin Ning can be considered an old person in the “Everything About Claire Dylan” group in the Yahoo community. She usually transfers first-hand information from this group to domestic forums.

Her English scores were not good at first, but with her love for her idols, she diligently looked up the dictionary and translated the English information bit by bit.

Then share the translated article with fellow Tieba fans. In view of her contribution, she was awarded the position of bar owner at [Claire Bar].

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On this day, she surfed the Yahoo community at night as usual, looking for information about her idol.

“What? Claire is coming to Shanghai and Hong Kong to promote a new movie?!” Lin Ning looked at the information on the computer screen and was so surprised that she couldn’t believe it.

She repeatedly checked the words “China”, “Shanghai”, and “Hong Kong” on it, for fear that she might have read it wrong or understood it incorrectly.

She felt like she was going to be knocked unconscious by this happy ‘pie’. Claire is actually coming to Shanghai! Shanghai is less than 300 kilometers away from Ning City. Does she really have a chance to see her idol? ?

At the beginning of the 21st century, China had not yet joined the WTO, and economic and cultural exchanges at home and abroad were still very scarce. Although there are already many Hollywood movies being shown in cinemas, perhaps because their box office share is not high enough, major Hollywood companies have no plans to come to China to promote them.

But since “Titanic” caused a stir in the country, its box office contribution has made major film companies look at it, and they suddenly discovered that China is a box office with extremely high potential. They all started to pay attention.

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Lin Ning and her boyfriend Zhu Shuai discussed a plan to go to Shanghai to attend the “Spider-Man” promotional meeting.

“Zhu Shuai, we are going to post a small airport welcome ceremony to welcome Claire to the mainland for the first time.” Lin Ning said excitedly with her feet raised.

“Okay, I’ll go with you. Otherwise, I won’t worry about leaving you alone.” Zhu Shuai is a fan of Spider-Man. He didn’t expect Claire to be the star of the “Spider-Man” movie. He was very surprised.

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Claire’s flight took off from Sydney, Australia, and flew directly to Pudong International Airport, which had just been opened to traffic.

Shanghai, Pudong Terminal 1.

Lin Ning, her boyfriend Zhu Shuai, and other fan members of the Tieba, about fifty people, stood at the exit of the station holding banners, large posters, and the friendship flags of China and the United States.

Lin Ning kept staring at the flight information on the big screen at the exit, calculating the time it would take for Claire to arrive at the exit.

“Don’t worry, Lin Ning! The flight has probably just landed, and we will probably be here in another ten minutes!” Seeing how nervous his girlfriend was, Zhu Shuai quickly comforted her.

“Come on, let’s unfurl the banners! Raise the posters! Get ready, everyone! Show off our energy, you know!” The big

bar owner of [Claire Bar] is a girl, who speaks with a Beijing accent, is fashionably dressed, and is sassy no.

“Here we come!”

I saw a burst of footsteps suddenly coming from the empty exit, from far to near…

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This Shanghai Pudong Airport is so big!” Claire’s new assistant John looked around as he walked. , looking at the tall building dome, sighed, “And it’s very new and clean! Compared to this, it seems that New York’s JFK Airport is too old and too dirty!” Claire smiled and said nothing. This was the beginning of 2000, and another

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day In a few years, Shanghai’s urban construction level will definitely surpass 99% of cities in the world.

“Hello, Mr. Claire! There are fans of your movies gathered at the exit in front of the station. Do you need to change the exit channel?” The airport ground service girl who is responsible for entertaining Claire and her group hurried over with small steps. Is there any need? Very proficient in English to explain the situation ahead.

“No, let’s go over there!” Claire replied to the ground staff’s inquiry in pure Chinese.

“What? You can speak Mandarin!” The ground crew girl covered her mouth and looked at Claire in surprise. All have forgotten basic professional etiquette.

There are quite a few foreigners who can speak some Chinese, but most of them just parrot the language and know a few short words like ‘thank you’, ‘hello’, and ‘I love you’, and their pronunciation is also all kinds of weird.

But speaking such authentic Chinese Mandarin from the mouth of a blue-eyed foreigner scared the ground crew girl.

“Hahaha~ Don’t be too surprised~ I’ve been learning to speak Mandarin since I was a child! It’s no big deal to speak it so well!”

Claire was very happy to be able to show off in front of Chinese people. One word is so cool!

“Oh, I’m sorry, Mr. Claire! It’s mainly because you said it so well that I didn’t react for a moment. When I closed my eyes, I thought it was a Chinese person talking!” The ground staff lady originally felt that her English was not good. When he saw that Claire could communicate in Chinese, he immediately abandoned his plastic English.

“Let’s go, take us to the exit!” Claire ordered.

“Please come with me. The minibus is waiting at the door and will take you directly to the hotel!” The ground staff lady, who was still a little restrained in speaking English, suddenly changed her attitude after switching to Chinese to communicate.

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“Claire, I didn’t expect you to be so good at Chinese?” Director Sam Raimi came over and asked with a look of surprise, “What other languages do you also know? Spanish? Japanese? Even… the indigenous languages of Africa. Can you do it too?”

“Hahaha~ I can’t even do it. Remy, you have a really rich imagination!” Claire smiled and waved her hand: “I am a quarter of Chinese descent, so I followed my grandmother since I was a child. Learning Chinese.”

As he spoke, Claire and his group walked to the exit of the station.

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“Ahhhh~ Claire is here!”

“I can finally see him! It’s really not a dream!”

Lin Ning and the others, who had been waiting at the entrance of the passage for more than half an hour, became excited.

Lin Ning saw a tall and thin figure appearing at the gate not far away, the figure she had browsed countless times in magazines and websites. It’s Claire Dylan!

“Claire!”

Welcome to China! Welcome to Shanghai! "

“We love you foer!”

Everyone shouted slogans in unison, waving flags and posters, and expressed their strong feelings with the volume of decibels!

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Claire was attracted to them, looking at the friendly faces and the simple but attentive welcome ceremony! His eyes were a little sour. He had seen this kind of scene many times in Los Angeles, New York, and London, and the number of movie fans who welcomed him was much larger than this time.

However, this time there was a different kind of touching mood.

“Claire, it seems like your kid has really become popular this time! There are actually so many movie fans coming to pick him up on the other side of the world in China!” Sam Raimi joked.