This star is from the earth

Jack was in a turbulent mood. After shaking hands with Han Jue and the others one by one, he wiped away his tears and left the audition room in a state of mind.

Young or old actors in the corridor outside the door looked up at Jack, and seeing Jack coming out wiping tears, they shook their heads secretly, looked away, bowed their heads to pray for each other, or thought about the roles they had prepared.

Jack ignored their gazes, but walked out of the hotel in a daze.

When he arrived outside the hotel, Jack felt the hustle and bustle on his face, relaxed his mind, and finally couldn't hide his excitement.

He cried and laughed, ran and danced, and nodded to everyone he met on the street.

Passers-by were infected by Jack's emotions, and responded with a smile, and even congratulated him.

The weather is getting warmer, and the sun is hitting the body warmly, which is just right. The expressions of passers-by are no longer the same haste and anxiety, some are happy and some are angry. Take a deep breath, and smell the aroma of the corner bakery, and the restaurant is getting busy. The dead branches on the side of the road are about to sprout new shoots.

The world seemed to open up before Jack's eyes in a brand new way.

Jack looked at everything around him greedily as when he first came to Shanghai.

He blamed himself a little. As an actor, he gradually lost his perception of life. As a person, I even forgot to look up and observe the beauty around me.

Jack understands that if he is not selected by Han Jue, he will return to the United States in despair. Looking back on the past ten years, I am afraid that the impression of Shanghai and performances in my heart is only gray that is overwhelming.

Fortunately, Han Jue gave him a chance.

Jack is grateful for fate.

Jack felt that his life had only changed from today.

After sitting on the bench by the side of the road for 20 minutes, Jack digested the great news. Instead of going back to the apartment right away, he walked over to the little restaurant he frequented, intending to have brunch first.

When we arrived at the restaurant, it happened to be a busy time for lunch.

Jack found a seat and sat down. To the rude and impatient waiter, he said kindly, "Hello, a basket of steamed dumplings, a serving of fried beef noodles, and a bowl of pork rib soup, please, thank you .”

Of course the waiter remembered the foreign man crying over a steamed dumpling. But when she heard Jack's sudden thanks, she frowned involuntarily and glanced at Jack quickly. A little surprised.

After she wrote down Jack's dishes in the order book, she replied jerky and quickly: "...you're welcome."

Looking at the waiter's expression, it was surprisingly softened a lot.

Jack's five fingers lit up on the table in turn like running water, and his mood was bright.

[Although the script cannot be given to you now, I can tell you first that your character is a time traveler, and the passage of time is meaningless to him. But the long time did not make the hero numb to life, nor did he use the ability to travel through time and space to commit crimes. After he and his wife formed a family, they slowly enjoyed every day of life, felt the beauty of life, and lived in the moment... By the way, your hair is too long, and you need to cut it off...]

Jack remembered what Han Jue told him.

[To feel the beauty in life. ] Jack is thinking.

The director and screenwriter of this "Time and Space Traveler" are Han Jue, who is new and cannot be newer.

If this matter happened when Jack was young and vigorous, he would have read countless movies and he would have scolded Han Jue, an arrogant guy, over and over again on the Internet, but now Jack is only grateful to Han Jue for giving him a new career in acting. hope.

However, after listening to the general plot described by Han Jue, Jack became curious about this love movie cloaked in science fiction. Especially the theme that is very suitable for the current state of mind, Jack's blood boiled all over at once, eager to try, and he couldn't help but want to act.

For the dream, but also for the desire to perform.

Jack had a vague feeling that this movie with English dialogue would not be as rushed to the end as he had imagined before. I'm afraid it will be a surprise to everyone who is not optimistic about Han Jue and the others.

【Hmm...a surprise for everyone who is not optimistic about us. 】Jack pursed his lips, feeling that he had to perform well to be worthy of Han Jue's appreciation.

It's a pity that he doesn't have an agency, and the producer has to wait until he signs a series of contracts before he can get the script for insurance, and he can't wait to study the first movie script in his life.

After eating at the restaurant he had visited hundreds of times, Jack bid farewell to the waiter, and returned slowly to the apartment shared by the four of them in a good mood. After entering the door, I went straight to the room, opened the suitcase, hummed Han Jue's song, and put everything inside back to the original place.

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"This Jack played pretty well, but come on," the temperamental girl turned to Han Jue after Jack left, "You really don't need to look back?"

"No need," Han Jue shook his head, "It feels right, it's right. You are also an artist, can you understand?"

"cannot."

"Then try to understand it a few more times." Han Jue flipped through the documents without changing his expression, without raising his head.

"When you met Xia Yuan, she was interviewing some performance artist like Wang. Now it's not good for you to play tricks in front of her."

"Then do you want to be told to cry in front of her?" Han Jue raised his head and glanced at Pei Qing.

"!!!" Pei Qing, a temperamental girl, was stared at by Han Jue's words, and immediately moved her chair to Xia Yuan's side, patted Xia Yuan's arm and made a small report: "Xia Yuan Xia Yuan, help me hate Han Jue!"

"I really want to see you cry." Xia Yuan also flipped through the materials of the actors, ignoring Pei Qing's childish sowing.

"You guys!" Pei Qing looked at Han Jue on the left in disbelief, and then at Xia Yuan on the right, and suddenly felt that Han Jue and Xia Yuan were united.

The remaining deputy director Sun among the four sat at the end of the long table, curled up his fleshy body, and tried not to get involved in the disputes among the big bosses of the crew.

Deputy Director Sun also saw that Han Jue and Xia Yuan Jialunsi communicated casually a few days ago, and their behavior revealed the atmosphere of PY transactions everywhere, so he knew that Han Jue seemed to be unscrupulous and tough. Director Zhao turned out to be quite emboldened behind it.

Although there were four audition personnel lined up for today's casting, the producer Xia Yuan and the investor Pei Qing were spectators, and they offered their opinions. In the end, only Han Jue could make the final decision.

Deputy Director Sun is really envious of movies without investors interfering in the creation and casting of actors.

[Zhao Wenfeng didn't complain about losing...] Deputy Director Sun felt sad for Director Zhao.

Although Pei Qing, a temperamental girl, has an outstanding artist temperament, she is not bad in appearance. She is the same age as Han Jue, but in the field of art, the name Pei Qing has become a brand. Even Guan Yi and his wife have heard of Pei Qing, a talented painter, and read many reports.

As the film's art director and also an investor in the film, Pei Qing has nothing to do recently, so he volunteered to participate in the casting.

But she soon discovered that casting wasn't fun, but tiring.

Some of the people who came to the audition this time were recommended by Amanda, like Jack. There are also some who saw the news on the association website and found it by themselves.

Casting is the same as the audition clips of "Fast Boy" and "Fast Girl" on the Internet: sometimes there will be reliable people, and sometimes there will be weird people who feel good about themselves.

Jack is considered to be the best performer among the leading actors in today's audition. Even the two amateurs, Xia Yuan and Pei Qing, can feel the gap between him and the previous actors.

So in the face of Han Jue deciding on the ownership of the male role on the spot, no one else objected.

The roles auditioned today are several important roles with many lines and heavy dramas, but the heroine is not included.

The heroine was recommended by Amanda, and an actress in the United States that no one would dare to use due to various reasons has been set.

"Now there are only the third female and the third male and the fourth male. Let's try to get them all done this afternoon." Han Jue put Jack's information away, and then he asked his assistants to notify the actors outside the door—the first male has been selected.

Young male actors were disappointed, but not many chose to leave.

The male number two is the role of the father, so for young actors, only the third and fourth males are left to audition. But lean meat is also meat, anyway, it is also an opportunity to show your face or get exercise, which is better than nothing. So the atmosphere became more tense.

During lunch time, the hotel distributed luxurious lunches to the staff and those who were waiting for the audition, and the aura of rich and generous local tyrants rushed over, which made the actors even more excited.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, all the important roles have been selected.

In fact, there are quite a lot of actors who are capable but have no chance. In the end, Han Jue announced that the audition was over, and they still stayed at the door, wanting to ask for roles, even if they only had a few shots and a few lines.

Han Jue couldn't help thinking of the living conditions of Asian actors in Hollywood in his previous life, so he softened his heart and asked Deputy Director Sun to audition for them for small roles with a few lines.

The young actors also cheered, thinking that Han Jue is a good person.

Han Jue doesn't know if he is a good person or not, because in order to make a movie recently, apart from preparing for "I AM A SINGER", his commercial performances and schedule have been compressed. This made Guan Yi and the others look terrible at Han Jue every day.

After Han Jue handed over the follow-up to the audition to Deputy Director Sun and Xia Yuan, he went home and planned to make music.

Make an episode for the movie "Time and Space Traveler".

The episodes and soundtracks in the movie had to be done by him himself.

Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black" briefly appeared in the movie. They are two songs that Han Jue likes very much. Although they are not episodes, they still have to be included in the movie as background sound.

The longest episode that appeared was "How Long Will I Love You" by Ellie Goulding, which Han Jue remembered. As for the other episodes, Han Jue had a vague memory, and had to look for alternatives in the music library.

Han Jue was very arrogant when he was working on multiple jobs for the first time when he made a movie. Han Jue was also worried, the pressure was so great that he often couldn't sleep well in the middle of the night, and he got up to perfect the shot and script. I pretended it by myself, even when I was kneeling.

Compared with a bunch of miscellaneous trivialities pouring in before the filming started, Han Jue is very happy when making music, it can be said that he is relaxing.

When Han Jue returned home and opened the door, he found that Jalens was holding his own adopted garden puppy, motionless on the sofa.

Han Jue was not surprised by Jaylens' appearance, because he asked Jaylens to feed him [Valentine's Day] lunch, so he gave him the key.

Han Jue put down the ingredients he bought in the supermarket, and while stroking the little black cat that rushed over to be petted, he asked the old god Jalens, "Are you still alive?"

"Of course, listen to the song! I want to listen to the song!" Jarrence looked forward like a robot, only his mouth was moving.

"You didn't listen enough yesterday afternoon?" Han Jue asked Jalens.

When he was doing a movie episode yesterday, Jalens came to show off his adopted puppy, but he heard Han Jue fixing things, so he lingered and listened to songs all afternoon.

But this time Jalens said ambitiously: "I want to listen to other songs! Last time I saw you have a hundred songs on your computer! Let me listen!"

"Don't make trouble, it's all semi-finished products, I played with it myself," Han Jue prepared dinner for himself in the kitchen, "Do you want to stay for dinner?"

"No unless you let me listen to music!" Jarrence said.

Han Jue rolled his eyes, wanting to really starve Jalens to death. But last time after he said "If you don't eat, don't eat", Jalens followed Han Jue like a shadow, without saying a word, just stared at Han Jue through the sunglasses, his behavior was very abnormal.

Han Jue wiped his hands, went into the production room, turned on the computer, played a few random songs on the stereo in the living room.

The stereo in the living room blared a new song that Jalens had never heard.

[Oh, to see without my eyes, The first time that you kissed me...

When I close my eyes, I can still clearly recall that time, the moment when the first kiss was imprinted...]

——"Mystery of Love"

Hearing Han Jue's winter-like singing and summer-like accompaniment coming from the stereo, Jalens quickly took out a bottle of chilled whiskey from the small plastic box at his feet, took out the wine glass, and poured it for himself. After drinking a cup, lighting a cigar, and sitting on the sofa while stroking the dog, drinking and listening to music, I feel that I am really a winner in life, and I can enjoy Han Jue's private custom concert that no one in the United States can enjoy.

When Han Jue saw it, he just smiled and turned to cook.

If it was an ordinary person, Han Jue, who was persecuted and delusional, would still be vigilant, but facing Jalens, who was rich in local tyrants and had a mind like a paramecium, Han Jue let him listen to these songs.

This is not the first time that Jarrence has come to Han Jue's house for dinner. Jarrence is very rich, but he doesn't care about what he eats, he doesn't pick anything, he can enjoy top-notch food, and he can settle for roadside food stalls, which Han Jue appreciates very much.

During the meal, Jalens said with a serious face: "Your stereo is not good enough, I will change it for you."

"How embarrassing... I will send you the link when the time comes." Han Jue was very happy.

"Your sofa is not very good..." Jarrence said again.

"Forget about the sofa, that style is commemorative to me."

"You don't have a wine cabinet here..."

"Don't, don't, don't," Han Jue felt very sorry, "The next door is very empty, and the next door is up to you."

"That's right, we can decorate a concert hall..." Jalens muttered to himself while bowing his head and digging.

While eating, Han Jue occasionally talked to Jalens about today's audition. Tell Jalens that all the roles have been selected, and if there are no accidents, the machine can be started almost after the reading meeting, and this season is just right for filming the winter scene.

Naturally, Jalens didn't know anything, but he would give some weird suggestions, such as going to England or Murray to shoot on location.

Han Jue used [If you shoot in China, you will have a higher chance of winning an award], Jalens did not refute, and he nodded in agreement with whatever Han Jue said. But in fact, Han Jue himself has no idea how many works he will produce in the end.

At the end, when Han Jue was packing the dishes, he suddenly thought of a question and asked, "By the way, what did you do with that Zhao Wenfeng in the end?"

"I gave him a sum of money to pay off his gambling debts." Jalens said calmly. It seems that everything that can be solved with money is not a problem for him.

"Will he ask the media to break the news? Although I am not afraid of making it public, my agent is very reluctant to see my directorship be made public," Han Jue asked, "at least before the film is shortlisted for the film festival."

"There is a confidentiality agreement." Jalens didn't take it seriously at all.

"Can he swallow this breath?" Han Jue was puzzled.

"Oh!" Jalens sneered slowly, "Who made him take the money?"

Han Jue nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

In the evening, Jarrence and the little black cat stayed together in Han Jue's studio, refusing to leave. Listening to those boring debugs and soundtracks is not boring at all. The difference is that one listens while sitting in a corner, and the other listens lying on the keyboard.

Han Jue didn't care about them.

The next day Xia Yuan called and said that all the actors had received the script, and a week later was the reading session.

Han Jue rubbed his hands, the real creative team has been organized, and the next step is to fulfill his ability as a director.

A few days later, in an early morning, Han Jue, who hadn't woken up, suddenly received a call from Zhang Yiman.

After Han Jue picked up the phone, Sha Niu said: "Hey, uncle, are you still sleeping?"

"still sleeping."

"Then wake up quickly."

"..." Han Jue closed his eyes and had no energy. He was inspired yesterday and made music very late. "Don't you know? One of the modern social etiquette is to talk about things directly instead of asking if you are there first."

"I don't know."

"Then you know now?"

"Hey hey~" Zhang Yiman laughed on the other end of the phone, Han Jue really didn't know what was so funny.

"Uncle, I heard you are going to make a movie?"

"Well," Han Jue said vaguely while lying on the bed with his eyes closed, "How do you know?"

"It's said on the Internet..." Zhang Yiman said softly, "Is it true?"

"On the Internet?..." Han Jue, lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes.

Han Jue turned his mobile phone hands-free, took the tablet on the bedside, opened the news software and turned to the entertainment section, and he saw what he had foreseen.

After reading it silently, Han Jue sighed silently.

"Uncle, are you okay?" Zhang Yiman asked.

"It's not good."

"Uncle, don't worry about them! Making movies is a very powerful thing! I support you!"

Han felt that he was supported by the little silly girl and smiled.

Han Jue said he was not good, not because he was afraid of the coming turbulent doubts, he just didn't like accidents.

However, in the world, how can people make everything go smoothly and get what they want?

Even to a certain extent, this matter was actually expected in the depths of Han Jue's heart. This is barely an advantage for persecuted delusions and pessimists-it is easier to accept when bad luck really comes.

During the conversation between Han Jue and Zhang Yiman, calls came to his mobile phone one after another. After Han Jue hung up Zhang Yiman's call, he saw that there were calls from Xia Yuan and some from Pei Qing. Guan Yi, who called the most and most urgently, called.

When the phone was connected, Han Jue preemptively said: "Hold on, we can win."

However, there was no sound from the other end of the phone for a long time.

Although it was not Han Jue's fault, Han Jue was still a little flustered. Because he knew that Guan Yi, like him, didn't like accidents in planned things. Guan Yi was already unhappy that Han Jue took private jobs without permission before, but when this incident came out, Han Jue estimated that Guan Yi would blow him up.

[Jarens, this hot chicken...] Han Jue wanted to complain when he thought of how Jalens seemed to be in control of everything at dinner that night.

While Han Jue was still thinking wildly, Guan Yi said, "Next, I'm serious. How sure are you that this movie will enter the film festival?"

Guan Yi's tone was quite serious.

After hearing this, Han Jue calmed down, thought about it in his heart, and said seriously: "Seventy percent."

"Enough." Guan Yi was silent for a while, "Afterwards, the schedule will be relatively reduced...you make the movie well. If it can be done, it may not be a good thing."

"It can be done." Han Jue said.

...

There is a lot of discord in the circle, and there are also a lot of secrets, but everyone thinks that the affairs in the circle are all inside the circle, and they will cover each other, and a lot of news will rot in the circle. And some unlucky ones will be caught by the media and made public.

But sometimes the circle is not always airtight, and occasionally there will be some traitors, or some fools.

This morning, a piece of news exploded on the Internet.

One of the parties involved is Han Jue from the recently popular "Workplace Couple".

[Director Zhao Wenfeng: Let me tell you a joke, Han Jue is going to be a movie director! 】