I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 347 "Want to See You" continues to be popular (23)

"Bai Lu... I just asked her to come over to help, and then she came, and she didn't ask for any pay..."

"She has good acting skills, a good image, and most importantly, good relationships... She also has time..."

Then, the reporter asked a question that left Shen Liang speechless: "I heard that the romantic film "Love Like a Bouquet" that you are about to shoot is adapted from your own emotional experience?"

"No, this is just the publicity of the publicity team. In fact, it was based on a sentence on Douban: 'Before getting married, they moved their respective collections of books together. The identical books on the bookshelf seemed to confirm the compatibility of each other's spiritual worlds...', and I thought of the word soulmate, and then I thought about what would happen if two men and women with similar interests and hobbies were together... Then there was the first draft of "Love Like a Bouquet..."

"Then... why did you choose Li Yitong to play the leading female role?"

Shen Liang smiled and said, "Because I promised her before that I would let her be my heroine if I have the chance!"

"…Really? That's so romantic!"

Shen Liang rolled his eyes: "Of course it's fake... Just like when I was interviewed before, the media friends asked me how to protect my throat. I said, 'When eating rice, you must cut off the tips at both ends because they will scratch your throat.' They actually believed it! I was really impressed. Who would eat rice like this?

Actually, it was because I could save a lot of publicity money by casting Li Yitong... just like casting Bai Lu in "A Sun"; at that time, people were saying that she was my ex-girlfriend..."

"Is this also false?"

"Oh, this is real!" Shen Liang called out to Bai Lu: "Bai Lu, come here..."

Then he said to the reporter: "Ask her, aren't you curious about her?"

……

Bai Lu is now a little famous because of her role as Shen Liang’s ex-girlfriend, and the hits of “Swagger” and “The Blazing Military Academy”…

Oh, in “Swagger”, she is the second female lead!
Her character is a tomboy, a silly girl...

Whenever the media interviewed her, she would answer cheerfully and almost answer every question.

I said, "I have been in the industry for too short a time. Shen Liang is my only connection. If there is a play that wants me, I will definitely take it, no matter how important the role is..."

That’s pretty good. For now, there aren’t many competitors on this track.

If you deepen your impression through variety shows, it is quite easy to break out of the circle...

In the original time and space, this young lady did just that, but unfortunately, she later transformed in the direction of traffic - if you want to make quick money from traffic, you have to rely on naive people and beautiful women.

This conflicts with her inherent image!

On the one hand, there are all kinds of tomboy and silly girl images in variety shows, while in commercial activities and promotional materials, there are all kinds of charming, beautiful and sexy poses, which gives people a strong sense of inconsistency!
I feel like these artist teams are all sick, they all want to make quick money and are desperately trying to squeeze into one track...

The same goes for Yang Zi.

Funny and down-to-earth, this is the image she presented to the audience in the past few years.

It has become deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Then the fashion style should pursue naturalness, self-identity, freedom and individuality, rather than dressing up to be beautiful...

This is how the world is. Beautiful women want people to praise their acting skills, ordinary women want people to praise their looks, beautiful women want to be approachable, and approachable women want to be sexy...

After all, an artist’s image is 30% determined by fate, 30% by hard work, and 40% depends on whether the audience buys it!

……

After the Shanghai Film Festival, Shen Liang did not leave Shanghai—the filming location of "Love Like a Bouquet" was in Shanghai...

A city like Shanghai is perfect for love stories!
It's perfect for the kind of love where I want to sleep with her the first time I see her.

Li Yitong has already joined the group.

Shen Liang arrived at the crew and first apologized to the director and actors. After all, he was three days late...

This is understandable, after all, Shen Liang is promoting a movie. "Love Like a Bouquet", an urban love movie, usually takes 45 to 60 days to shoot.

Not every crew is like "The Ferryman". It took ten months to shoot a romantic comedy!
The role played by Shen Liang has a lot of scenes throughout the whole story.

But he only gave a 35-day cycle.

It's not that I don't want to take my time, the main thing is that I don't have the time to take my time, so after apologizing, changing into clothes, putting on some simple makeup, I started shooting directly.

The scene was shot of the two of them taking the last train together, and Li Yitong was still putting on makeup...

The beginning of "A Bouquet of Love" is very similar to "Before Sunrise" - reading the same book and watching the same movie...

In the noisy crowd, you and this person have built a spiritual space that belongs to each other alone, and even without any words, a silent communication has already taken place.

We call it resonance.

Of all the love stories, this is probably the kind of beginning that literary young people most yearn for, which is why "Before Sunrise" is so enduring.

Eric Rohmer particularly likes to portray this type of people. In his movies, the heroine meets the right person while reading Dostoevsky at the station.

Director Yao Tingting liked this beginning very much. Shen Liang smiled and said, "I have read a book. I forgot the title, but it was written by Coetzee. There is a passage in it that I still remember clearly: He put a collection of poems in his pocket wherever he went, sometimes by Hölderlin, sometimes by Rilke, and sometimes by Vallejo. On the train, he took out the book ostentatiously and concentrated on it. This is a test. Only extraordinary girls will appreciate what he reads and see an extraordinary spirit in him. But no girl on the train noticed him..."

"so…"

"This kind of love is just a fantasy of literary youth. If you really want someone to chat you up, you might as well drive a Lamborghini and park outside the bar..."

"That's not love!"

"almost…"

As we were chatting, Li Yitong came out, wearing a white shirt, black skirt, and a pair of high heels...

Seeing Shen Liang staring at her, Li Yitong deliberately turned around: "Does it look good?"

It is indeed pretty, but Shen Liang frowned: "It is pretty, but... it doesn't quite fit the character image. You have to wear white canvas shoes, and... dress in a more forest style. Your character is an artistic young woman! Who does the makeup and costumes for the crew?"

“…I haven’t changed my clothes yet…I heard you were here, so I came to say hello!”

"…There's plenty of opportunity to say hello, let's change clothes first…"

Li Yitong grabbed his arm: "Come with me..."

"what?"

"Can you tell me how Chen Yunru died?"

"... Chen Yunru... Oh, you mean "Want to See You"!"

Shen Liang reacted...

"Yes,"

Hearing the two people talking, Yao Tingting also came over: "I also want to know the truth about Chen Yunru's death!"

Shen Liang was a little surprised: "...No, you guys are actually following "Want to See You"?"

Li Yitong nodded: "A lot of people are following... They heard that I'm going to work with you, and they all called to ask about the follow-up plot!"

“…I can’t really say for sure. Just watch it for yourselves. That’s the fun of watching a TV series.”

"Want to See You" continues to be a hit...

Moreover, there are a lot more celebrities in the drama-chasing circle, and many of them have actively joined the discussion on the plot on Weibo. Regardless of whether they are trying to attract attention or not, at least it has added a lot of popularity to "Want to See You"!
The last TV series that attracted a lot of celebrities to take advantage of the popularity was called "My Love from the Star"...

(End of this chapter)