Chapter 148: Chu Fan's house
Lin Hui went back to school, because she was 115 pounds after filming "The Age of Innocence", and Zhang Wen gave her half a month to lose weight before she could appear on the scene.
Now she has scheduled two movies and a TV series, and has already interviewed at the end of March. From late May to early June, the company picked up a campus youth film for her, which was directed by actor-turned-director Li Meng.
Eleven days in mid-June, she will appear in a fantasy kung fu film, a film produced by a Hong Kong Island team. Hong Kong Island has always been known for its fast filming. I heard that the fastest films can be shot in three days. In the past, many films were shot in ten days. Therefore, as a female lead, she could finish the film in eleven days before and after.
In order for Hong Kong Island films to not be restricted by imported films, the main actors must be from the Mainland, so generally speaking, the male lead actors are from Hong Kong Island, and the actresses can only use Mainland Chinese funds. Because it is a fantasy kung fu film, the video of her casting was circulated on the Internet, and she was favored by the director of the action film.
In the 45-day schedule in July and August, she will shoot a criminal investigation drama based on a famous romance IP with a total length of about 36 episodes, and there will be no other schedules after that.
When she went back to school, she only took public classes, college English and performance theory classes, and did not take over the drama rehearsed by the class. The classmates also understand that she is busy, and whoever finds her to cooperate is likely to be released as a pigeon.
There are no classes after three o'clock in the afternoon, so she runs on the playground. Liu Mei finally waited for her to go back to school, but she didn't have a chance to talk to her. How could she miss the opportunity?
Liu Mei went to the playground with her, but Lin Hui ran too fast, and the current system was only 86 pounds. How could Liu Mei keep up. After Liu Mei ran a thousand meters, she could only walk. Seeing Lin Hui's physical strength like a long-distance runner, she was amazed.
Running from three o'clock to four o'clock, Lin Hui was sweating all over before she stopped and went to play the horizontal and parallel bars. Liu Mei couldn't help swallowing her saliva when she saw Lin Hui doing a belly wrap on the horizontal bar, and secretly said: Sure enough, she is a martial arts master and acrobatic master, not an ordinary person anyway.
"Lin Hui..." Liu Mei considered it for a while, and then said, "Jinfeng Media sent me an invitation to sign me. Do you think I should sign or not?"
Lin Hui didn't answer for a while, and did three more abdominal loops before going down to the horizontal bar, and then went up to the parallel bar to hang upside down. Liu Mei thought she was annoying her and didn't know what to say. But Liu Mei didn't have a big background in the industry, so she didn't know who to ask if she didn't ask Lin Hui.
Lin Hui said: "It is up to you to decide whether to sign or not, but the brokerage contract is like gambling. If you sign a brokerage contract, the company will hide you or earn your liquidated damages, you will be inside and out. not human."
Liu Mei said: "The outside world said you want to set up your own studio, is it true?"
Lin Hui said, "No, I'm pretty good at Tudou Brokerage. I have to take care of it when I set up my own studio. I don't have time to take care of it."
Liu Mei said, "If you have a studio, I would like to suggest that you sign me."
Lin Hui sighed: "It's not easy to mix in this industry now. No one supports it. It's hard to be the protagonist. I also rely on the boss to support me and contact me with resources."
Liu Mei said: "I just want to be an actor, whether it's a leading role or a supporting role, I want to play. Now the competition is so big, I don't want to find out that I need to change careers after graduation."
Lin Hui thought for a while and said, "In fact, in every brokerage company, only one or two are really popular, not even one. There are already peaks for the male actors in Tudou's brokerage. As for the actresses, Zhao Yang and Zhang Wen have already decided. Support me with all my strength, which means that other artists under the Tudou Agency can only get the secondary resources that the company can get. This is still good. There are some small companies, and the whole company can't even get secondary resources. Jin Feng himself They have a relationship with Kaile Pictures, and they have a lot of resources, but they have too many artists. A girl group has a dozen people, a boy group has seven or eight people, and a group only sings one song. The audience can't remember your face, and being a variety show artist, sitting in a group of people, there is nothing outstanding."
Liu Mei pondered for a while and said, "Otherwise, you can sign me."
Lin Hui was surprised: "Do I sign you? My own contracts are all at Tudou Broker."
Liu Mei said: "It's not impossible. You can set up a small company and sign a few artists. With your qualifications and connections, you are stronger than many brokerage companies. As long as I have a show, it's fine."
Lin Hui did a few upside-down sit-ups, rolled over and got off the parallel bars, wiped the sweat with a towel, and said, "Don't be naive, I'm so busy, I can't plan your acting career."
Liu Mei said: "I know that my conditions are average. Even if some resources are given to me, I'm not like you. I'm afraid I can't handle it or support it. I just want to be an actor who has a film."
Lin Hui smiled lightly and said, "Okay, let me ask Chu Fan for you what kind of invitation their company sent you to sign the contract. If it's all over the place for liquidated damages, don't sign it. "
Liu Mei said: "I'm just afraid, like how many young actors a company controlled by a big director has signed in a few years, the heroines in the original big IP dramas are all confused by her, and the best years are over. It's not enough to pay her all the money for a few years after the termination of the contract, and there are no resources to block even minor supporting roles in the circle, and this is terrible."
Lin Hui thought for a while and said, "Young people sometimes don't want to be too self-centered. After all, there are people who can endure more hardships than you and are willing to accept harsher contracts."
Liu Mei said, "I understand. Then... forget it."
"Okay, I'll help you to ask this time, it's not an example." Lin Hui took the mobile phone tied to her arm, put on her Bluetooth ear, and called Chu Fan.
After a while, Chu Fan answered the phone and said with a smile, "Roubaozi, do you remember to call your brother?"
Lin Hui asked, "Brother Chu, what are you busy with recently?"
Chu Fan said: "I just came back from Europe a few days ago."
"A vacation?"
"It's business, what kind of vacation? How about you, have you got a new show yet?"
"I just finished filming Director Zhang's film, so I can rest for a week or two."
"I'm in the capital, come out and dine with me! If you are here, my meal will be delicious." The half-blood clan drooled when they smelled the meat buns, and imagined the food as the smell of meat buns, making it even more delicious.
"Then I'll bring a companion, isn't it convenient?"
"Roubaozi, you already have a boyfriend? It can't be Xie Haotian, right? You and him are very good."
"What are you thinking? I am pure friendship with him!"
"Okay, come on."
"In the 'Jinghua Night Banquet Palace'?"
"No, I'll have someone pick you up."
Lin Hui rolled over to the ground and said, "Okay, let's go back to take a shower and change clothes. Let's have a meal together and ask again."
Liu Mei was surprised, is this okay? Lin Hui not only has a relationship with Zhao Yang, but also has a relationship with Deputy Director Li, and can call Chu Fan, the eldest son of Kaile Group and chairman of Jinfeng Group, at will. Liu Mei is more determined to follow her, at least there is a chance to act, even if it is a supporting role, maybe it will take more than ten years to play the leading role.
Liu Mei was born in the middle-class stage, and she has a sense of urgency since she was a child, and her thinking is relatively mature. Her family learned acting for her, and her parents, who were dual-earners, had relatively high incomes, but they still lived in an old building of more than 70 square meters. Even if she can't become a big star, she doesn't want to accept a career change, which will make it difficult for her parents to raise their heads.
She knows that she has no connections, no fame, and her appearance is not top in the circle of beauties.
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A BMW 760 is not very conspicuous on the road in Beijing. At this time, the commuting tide has weakened, and the road is not so congested.
Lin Hui was a little familiar when she saw this central villa area. It turned out that Xie Haotian was also in this area, but the two were still a five-minute drive away.
The car drove into a Chinese-style courtyard, and after getting off the car, what came into sight was like a garden in the south of the Yangtze River, with Taihu Lake stacked with rockery, peach and bamboo, and small bridges and flowing water. It was dark, but the craft street lamps in the garden were all lit.
There was a dining table on the terrace on the second floor of the villa. Chu Fan and a few others were waiting for dinner. He had already smelled her scent, and when he reached the terrace, he waved to her.
As soon as Lin Hui went to the terrace, she saw a middle-aged man and a young man present, and Chu Fan recruited her.
"This is Lao Chu, his son Xiao Chu, who just came over for dinner today."
The old Chu looked at Lin Hui with a smile and said, "Oh, Miss Lin herself looks better than on TV!"
Xiao Chu also said: "My brother's friends are not ordinary people. It's a pleasure to meet!"
Lin Hui hurriedly greeted each other and said again: "Brother Chu, I thought I was eating out. Liu Mei and I came here empty-handed, and only when we arrived did I know it was at your house."
Chu Fan patted her shoulder and said, "I know, come and sit."
After Lin Hui and Liu Mei sat down, the servant also started pouring tea for them, and Lao Chu said, "This time, thanks to you, if it weren't for you, Chu Ze would be finished."
Chu Fan said: "There are still guests, Lao Chu, don't be so polite. I haven't eaten with you for a long time, so I bought a good tuna. I can't finish all of them, so let's eat together. Otherwise, Lao Chu, you go back Bring some for Mrs.
"It's hard for you to still miss her."
Lao Chu didn't say much after seeing that there were two girls present. It turned out that Chu Ze was in trouble and was kidnapped when he was in Italy. It was Chu Fan who rescued him. Chu Fan is Lao Chu's eldest son in name, but in fact Lao Chu is Chu Fan's junior, and Lao Chu was supported by his previous identity. The Chu family also offered him a salary. This kind of offering was a contract between the big family and the psionicist, and the Chu family was covered by him, lest they be plotted against other people's sorcery. The money for this offering is of course a lot, but even if some families have money for a while, they cannot find a powerful psionicist to accept their offering, because after accepting it, there is a cause and effect.
Liu Mei suddenly whispered to Lin Hui, "Is that... Chairman Chu of Kaile Group?"
Lin Hui nodded and said, "It should be."
Liu Mei secretly said: Can I meet my parents so casually?
Lin Hui thought to herself: I don't know if they are ordinary people.
The chef sliced some sashimi for them on the spot, and then made sushi. Lin Hui took a bite of the sashimi and said, "Brother Chu, this sashimi is on time. The company wants me to lose weight. I can't stand the temptation."
Chu Fan said: "What weight loss is really a waste of (meat)."
"The actor is fat and can't be on camera. The previous role asked me to be fat. I have gained 18 pounds in total. I have to make a new movie in ten days, and I won't lose weight."
Chu Ze understood that it was difficult to talk about his troubles in Italy at this time, so he changed the subject and asked, "Is Miss Lin filming the big brother's company?"
Lin Hui said: "No, I have filmed his company's investment before."
Chu Fan ate the sashimi and said casually, "She met me in my company's movie before, and I saw her being full of happiness, but she turned out to be the old man."
Chu Wei snorted and said, "You can never be wrong, let alone Mr. Xie."
Lin Hui said, "That... I'm not someone else. He and I are seniors and juniors, half-teacher and half-friend."
Chu Wei said, "That's even more amazing!"
"Mr. Chu has won the award, I'm just an ordinary person." Lin Hui suddenly asked Chu Fan again, "Brother Chu, Jin Feng invites Liu Mei to issue a brokerage invitation, I want to ask you if Jin Feng Film and Television is interested in her. potential?"
Chu Fan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Miss Liu, right? Isn't she the only one who knows what potential she has? I don't know what the person in charge of Jinfeng Film and Television has planned."
Lin Hui smiled and said, "It's really watertight."
Chu Fan looked at her and said, "Can you drip blood? If you don't drip blood, it's the same as if you don't drip water."
Lin Hui said, "So, do you want to sign, or not?"
"Whatever." Chu Fan shrugged and smiled slightly, as if he had the illusion that he was very easy-going, but he used such a smile to keep a distance from others in terms of interests. After all, there were too many people who wanted to benefit from him. , not even a little socializing ability.
Chu Fan glanced at Lin Hui before saying to Liu Mei, "Miss Liu, this society is so cruel. In the past, there were only two paths for female stars in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, one was by pillows and the other by fists, but now it's the same. Didn't Hui rely on his fists at the time? Everyone said how important an actor's acting skills are. In fact, acting skills are only basic, and whether they are popular or not is really a metaphysics. The ecological environment of actresses is even worse than that of male actors. It took twenty years to be a middle-aged uncle. Have you ever seen a middle-aged actress become a first- and second-tier actress? You want to live simply, and you can’t accept the failure of competition. Whether it’s Jinfeng Yinfeng, don’t sign. I won’t either. Because Huihui's face greets the people below and gives you special care, unless you tell me that you can give me more profit than others give me, business is business. Remember, you are the only one who can make you break away from grassroots competition as soon as possible. "
Liu Mei lowered her head and said, "I understand."
Chu Zehu: "Brother, why are you scaring the little girl?"
Chu Fan said: "She is Huihui's friend and I told her the truth. In fact, even if I tell a lie, the little girl can still hold me accountable?"
Lin Hui said: "Brother Chu, Liu Mei is actually very hardworking among young actors, and her appearance is not bad. She is so thin."
Chu Fan said: "Huihui, just eat, let's not talk about that. If you come to me to eat for utility, I will be very disappointed."
Hearing what he said, Lin Hui could only shut up and talk to him about the dishes and the hardships of filming in the countryside.
After three glasses of sake, she remembered that she still had ten jars of wine in Xie Haotian's place.
Lin Hui said, "Brother Chu, why don't I invite you to dinner tomorrow. It's not a good place. You run the Jinghua Night Banquet Palace again. Go to the police uncle's house."
Chu Fan rolled his eyes and said, "There are a bunch of weird people in their family, most of them are vegetarians, I don't want to go."
Lin Hui patted him on the shoulder and said, "A friend gave me a few jars of good wine. I'll put it at the police uncle's place. I'll invite you to drink it."
Chu Fan hehe and said, "I haven't had any wine before?"
Lin Hui pointed at him and said, "If you said you don't want to drink it, don't regret it. Both Jin Yun and Mr. Ma stole my wine."
Only then did Chu Fan's eyes light up, and he looked at the "meat buns" and said, "Wouldn't it be you, Hongfu Qitian, have any adventures?"
Lin Hui said, "It's all blood and sweat." After all, negotiating with ghosts is not an easy job.
Chu Fan leaned on her shoulder and smelled the aroma of the meat buns. A certain meat buns didn't know that a half-blood was once only a few centimeters from her neck.
...
When she returned to school after dinner, Liu Mei was also very disappointed. She realized that success really didn't cut it, and she probably couldn't soar to the sky.
Liu Mei could only hold Lin Hui, and told her that she wanted to sign it under her name.
"I said that I'm also an artist, and I don't have a company."
"I'm really worried that I won't even have a supporting role in the future. I don't want to sleep with men, so I want to trouble you. I know you are a good person."
Lin Hui said: "Well, I can introduce you to Tudou Brokers to try, but you can't get the company's best resources there, because the best resources are currently with me. I can only promise, With my relationship, no one in the company dares to sleep with you."
Liu Mei nodded quickly: "Okay! Mr. Zhao Yang's company is also very good. He is a senior I respect very much."
Lin Hui suddenly asked about Meng Jing, and asked Liu Mei not to mention that she introduced her, but that Zhang Wen had seen her acting before introducing her to Tudou Broker. Lin Hui felt that it was good to introduce one person to the same company, but if she introduced two people to the same company, it would be difficult for her to do it in the future if their resources were too different and there was competition. Lin Hui is more inclined towards Liu Mei. She feels that Liu Mei works harder professionally, is more rational in the world, has a lower body, and has no temper when she is attacked.
Liu Mei said: "Meng Jing has signed with the agency. Now half of the students in our class have signed. After signing, most of them have no chance to film. There are very few people with resources like you."
Lin Huiqi asked, "What company did she sign with?"
Liu Mei said: "It's the company of the director of her previous online drama. She signed it shortly after school started. I heard that there is a chance to play the heroine of an online drama."
Lin Hui smiled and said, "That's not bad. Many online dramas now have more audiences."
Liu Mei was silent for a while, and said, "There is a price. I have no other intentions."
Lin Hui sighed, "This is someone else's private matter, so we shouldn't take the initiative to discuss it in the future."