This actor needs more money

"Brother Xiu, didn't you say you only read the script and didn't say you wanted to act?"

Yang Siwei was about to cry.

Ding Xiu, a big liar, asked her to bring over the script. She said she was just going to read it, but she didn't expect that she would act after watching it.

What's the difference between this and a man saying naughty and finally getting in?

Ding Xiu smiled slightly and said, "Yeah, look, aren't you optimistic now? So, I'll leave the rest to you."

"Actually, the role of Ding Li is not that bad. First of all, in the script, the male lead has more roles than the second male lead. This is not a big problem. As long as the TV series can be broadcast and our name is in front of Xu Wenqiang, then we will be the male lead."

"In addition, although the role has changed, the price has not changed. I insist on Xu Wenqiang's salary."

"In the end, in summary, the difference is not big. Why not get your favorite character at the right price."

Yang Siwei kept taking deep breaths, reminding himself that the person in front of him was the boss, the one who paid him wages, so he couldn't be angry.

After waiting for more than ten seconds, Yang Siwei forced a forced smile on his face.

"Brother Xiu, that's not how the accounts are settled. You have to know that the entire plot of New Shanghai Beach revolves around Xu Wenqiang. Although Ding Li is a line, his weight is still inferior to Xu Wenqiang."

"If you insist on playing Ding Li, I can only obey you, but as a qualified agent, I still have to explain it clearly to you."

"Do you think this will work? We ask the director to add more scenes to Ding Li, adding as many scenes as Xu Wenqiang, or to reduce the amount of scenes for Xu Wenqiang. Once he weakens, Ding Li will stand out."

Ding Xiu looked at Yang Siwei in surprise: "If you have the ability to convince the director and screenwriter, I will give you a salary increase later."

There are so many scenes in a drama. It is not a big problem to reduce the main character from ten to eight scenes. It is just a deletion of water.

Xu Wenqiang's role is reduced, and Ding Li's side can indeed stand out a little more.

However, this is not an easy thing to do. Director Ghosh is not a newcomer and he is only famous in the field of second-tier artists. He can delete scenes wherever he wants.

Yang Siwei said: "It's my job originally. I'll try my best to handle it well. Forget about a salary increase. The company can just assign me an agent assistant. The workload is a bit heavy."

In addition to being Ding Xiu's manager, she is also Qin Lan and Yang Mi's manager.

I have three people under me, and everything is very busy every day. I want to hire an assistant myself. I have to pay my own salary every month. It’s a bit embarrassing to ask the boss for the company to hire me.

Taking this opportunity to express yourself, hiring an assistant at public expense, and impressing your boss is the right thing to do.

Ding Xiu smiled and said: "If you can really handle it, I will pay your assistant's salary later."

Yang Siwei immediately issued a military order: "Brother Youxiu, your words make me relieved."

"But the ugly talk is ahead, don't mess it up." Ding Xiu said with a serious face: "I will definitely play the role of Ding Li. If you offend the director, Ding Li will be gone in the end. Don't blame me for pushing you to take the blame. .”

It’s hard to make money these days. Yang Siwei bit the bullet and said, “Don’t worry, Brother Xiu, you don’t know anything.”

A child can be taught. Ding Xiu waved his hand with satisfaction: "Go and get busy."

As soon as Yang Si Siwei left, Ding Xiu said to his assistant Zhao Liying: "Learn from others. They are not much older than you, but they are very capable of doing things."

Zhao Liying put down the ordinary world, shook her head and said: "I can't learn."

She often interacted with Yang Siwei and tried to learn something from her, but she still couldn't learn it.

If nothing else, let’s just talk about the company dinner. Yang Siweineng held a bottle of wine and drank with others at the table. The whole process was eloquent and eloquent.

She just can't do it.

Leaning his back on the chair, Ding Xiu joked: "That's right, your talent is not here. I think you have a good acting talent. When will you switch to a contract company?"

Zhao Liying scratched the back of her head and giggled: "I'm not that good. I'd better just be an assistant. I'm quite satisfied with this job at the moment. There's a lot of room for growth in the future. There are a lot of things worth learning."

In fact, she also feels that she likes acting. She often follows Ding Xiu on the set, helping him with his lyrics and watching him act. After a long time, she also wants to try it.

It would be good to think about changing careers and becoming an actor in the future.

It's just that the boss said this, so she had to be humble and not make her purpose too obvious.

Ding Xiu applauded: "Very good. You can clearly understand your position and what you want. I support you."

Zhao Liying: "..."

Too sloppy.

If I had known earlier, I would not be humble.

The career of a work assistant is indeed unfinished. It has come to an end for her, and the only way to move forward is to be an agent.

But being an agent is not that easy. It requires a lot of professional knowledge, such as understanding law, business, negotiation, and the world.

Marketing, public relations, selecting scripts, all of these are required.

She wanted to be an agent, but she didn't believe it would take three to five years of training, and she still needed someone to take care of her.

Unless he goes to work as an assistant to Yang Siwei tomorrow and learn from her.

But this is not what I like.

…

Yang Siwei went to negotiate with the producer, and Ding Xiu was not idle either. During this time, he was refining Chow Yun's French version of Shanghai on the Beach at home.

From afternoon to evening, the theme song played over and over again in the living room.

"The waves are flowing, the river is rolling thousands of miles forever"

"I've run out of things to do in this world."

"Mixed with a surging trend"

"It's joy, it's sadness"

“You can’t tell the difference between joy and sorrow in the waves”

…

"I love you, I hate you, I want you to know if you know"

"It's like a big river that never stops"

"Turn a thousand turns, turn a thousand beaches"

"The struggle has not been settled yet"

"I say, you two are almost done." Ding Xiu really couldn't stand listening to Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang's howls.

The two of them had made an appointment to visit each other in the afternoon. After hearing Shanghai Tang's theme song, they sang along every time.

While singing, Wang Baoqiang found a drink, and Huang Bo found a microphone, instantly transforming into a KTV scene.

"I, Mr. Huang, have been out of the music scene for many years. I finally sang to give you face. Why don't you appreciate it?" Huang Bo put down the microphone, drank a glass of beer in one gulp, and cracked a handful of melon seeds.

"Thank you so much." Ding Xiu rolled his eyes: "I only had a few days of rest, and you two came to visit me."

Wang Baoqiang laughed and said, "I've wanted to come to my house for a long time, but you haven't come back."

They all joined the cast earlier than Ding Xiu, and the filming time was also the same. Huang Bo, who joined the cast in August, even finished filming Crazy Stone and then filmed another movie, just waiting for Ding Xiu to come back.

Ding Xiu crossed his legs and half-lyed: "Have you finished filming your scene?"

"The filming will be completed after the new year. I want to play with you. I heard that you are doing commercials and acting, but I haven't had the chance."

Ding Xiu looked at Wang Baoqiang and saw that his skin was dark, he was energetic, and he could sit, stand, and walk quite normally.

"As expected, he just finished playing a military drama, and he looks a bit like a soldier."

"That's right." Wang Baoqiang smiled, and the serious atmosphere disappeared immediately. With big white teeth, he said stupidly, "I am now on the horizontal bar, five kilometers of cross-country, and five hundred push-ups. All of them are nothing."

When filming a soldier assault, the actors had to enter the army in advance to experience life. After a period of time, they felt very deeply.

Many rules simply subverted his outlook on life.

For example, there should be no garbage in the trash can and no people lying on the bed.

When the wake-up call sounds every day, you must get up at the specified time, tidy up your housework, dress neatly, and gather downstairs.

If you run slower, push-ups and laps are waiting for you.

During the time when you are standing in the military posture, the squad leader will personally check the housekeeping. If the quilt is not folded neatly, it will be thrown down from upstairs for you and you will be asked to pick it up after training.

If it rains during the trip, you're in trouble.

After a period of military career, Baoqiang felt that there are only two places in the world that best train people's self-discipline, one is a prison and the other is a military camp.

The people who come out of these two places are upright.

It's been a while since he finished filming, and now he still subconsciously stands at attention when he hears the sound of a whistle, and folds the quilt into dried tofu every morning.

Ding Xiu asked curiously: "Have you ever encountered a master in the army?"

Since ancient times, the place with the most masters is in the military. He has never been in the military and does not understand the situation, so he wants to ask Wang Baoqiang.

"Master?" Wang Baoqiang was stunned for a moment: "There are so many. There are sharpshooters who hit the target with hundred shots from 800 meters away, some great masters who ran the 500-meter obstacle course in two minutes and twenty seconds, and some who did abdominal crunches, pull-ups, and bullshit. batch."

"That's not what I asked."

"What is that? There are martial arts masters, right?" Wang Baoqiang recalled seriously: "During our usual breaks, we would do a talent show, and there was a soldier who knew the Iron Tou Kung Fu, and he would hit his head with four or five steel bars. , that’s called ruthlessness.”

"Guess what, there was a click and the steel bar broke. I doubt his head can push me to death."

Afraid that Ding Xiu and Huang Bo wouldn't believe it, Wang Baoqiang said: "I have checked the steel bars. They are very hard. They are real steel bars. They are not like those on the street who slap their foreheads with steamed red bricks."

"There was also a soldier who had very strong leg skills and kicked the steel pipe with his feet. Oh my god, it hurt me just looking at him. He just broke the steel pipe with one kick after another."

"There was a squad leader who was even more amazing. He said he practiced Tongbei Fist and could break a brick with one punch. I didn't believe in Xie and I had a fight with him and asked him to pat my arm, which almost didn't interrupt me."

The masters are among the people, so just listen to this. Wang Baoqiang feels that the masters are all in the military camps, and there are people with special skills in them.

There are people called water ghosts who can hold their breath underwater longer than ordinary people, and the distances they can swim are terrifying.

Those sharpshooters have terrible eyesight and very strong dynamic vision.

There are also people who play daggers, boxers, Sanda, and wrestlers. Talents are everywhere.

After praising the troops, Wang Baoqiang changed his tone and said, "But I have never seen anyone as powerful as Brother Xiu."

Ding Xiu frowned: "Is there someone in the special forces?"

He knows that there is a difference between ordinary troops and special forces. Special forces, the king of soldiers, are active on the front line all year round and often participate in life-and-death battles. Their combat effectiveness is different from ordinary soldiers.

Although what Wang Baoqiang said sounds scary, it is not surprising that there are so many people in the army that some have practiced.

In the final analysis, it was within Ding Xiu's expectation.

Wang Baoqiang shook his head: "I don't know about the special forces. I haven't had any contact with them, but I guess there shouldn't be any."

"Because I asked them how many they could hit with bare hands at one time. Some said two, some said three, and the most was four."

"I said you could hit ten, but they said I was bragging and it was impossible to hit so many."

Wang Baoqiang, who said he could kill dozens of people if given a gun, didn't say that.

Nonsense, even with a machine gun, he can kill dozens of them. If one of them is still standing, he loses.

The people in the special forces are also selected from ordinary troops. Basically, there is not much difference. If there is a big difference, it is also in marksmanship, combat experience, and psychological quality.

"That's it." Ding Xiu sighed: "Oh, masters are lonely."

He guessed that there were still masters, but Wang Baoqiang couldn't reach them, but there were certainly not many of them. They were all in other places, and he probably wouldn't have a chance to interact with them in his lifetime.

Wang Baoqiang said seriously: "Brother Xiu, leave your skills to me and I will carry them forward for you."

Ding Xiu replied with the word "Go".

Without experiencing life and death fighting, martial arts training will be just like that in the end. In fact, it is not very interesting. It is better to play basketball or jump rope.

Wang Baoqiang is starting to practice now and wants to master it in at least five years. He doesn't have the time or the effort to do it.

These young people fell in love with martial arts after watching kung fu movies and have no idea what it means to practice martial arts.

"Old Huang, when will the movie be released?" Ding Xiu didn't want to talk about martial arts, so he asked about Huang Bo's movie.

Filming started in August last year and should be completed before the end of the year. Now in March, post-production is estimated to have been completed.

"I heard that we are negotiating with theaters about the schedule. It may be in the middle of the year, or it may be at the end of the year. It's hard to say."

"No way. Liu Dehua and Mr. Han are the producers of your drama. Do you have to negotiate the schedule?"

Ding Xiu was surprised.

Let’s not talk about Liu Dehua for now. Who is Mr. Han? If I ask around in the circle, I don’t know anyone.

If there is a food chain in the entertainment industry, then the one at the top is Mr. Han. He is a little steel cannon, an old man, an international movie king and a movie queen. They are not enough to look at in front of him.

No matter how awesome you are, no matter how rich you are, no matter how famous you are, as long as your movie wants to be launched and released, you need the big boss’s nod and signature.

If he doesn't sign it, you can't film it or release it.

With such a big shot as the producer, it would be a big joke if Crazy Stone couldn't be released. That blind person dare not let it be released.

Huang Bo smiled bitterly: "It's just in name. The director is talking about the tiger's skin. I haven't been to the set for a day."

How could a small-budget movie shock Liu Tianwang and Han Sanye?

But in the early stages of creation, the director was lucky enough to be appreciated by Mr. Han and also received millions of investments from Andy Lau, so he shamelessly gave them the title of producer.

"Then you have to be willing to give you tiger skin." Ding Xiu raised his glass and said, "Don't worry, it will be released sooner or later. I wish it a great box office success."

Huang Bo clinked his glasses: "For your good advice, although I can't afford to book the venue, I still have a few tickets for the premiere. I will definitely invite you two to attend."

"You're really stingy about using the premiere to make up the numbers."

"What are you talking about? It's not like you can't watch movies at the premiere. There are few people, front row, good environment, and you can interact one-on-one with the main actors. It's much better than a messy movie theater. I'm doing this for the sake of my brothers. I definitely don't save money. the meaning of."