Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 100 The First in China

Gao Yuanyuan was visibly nervous, and not only her, but all the actresses at the scene who had the potential to win the Best Actress award had stiff smiles.

Cannes Best Actress, this is the Cannes Best Actress.

It can be said that she is the most prestigious actress in all film festivals around the world, and her title is universally recognized.

For actresses, it not only represents honor and artistic achievement, but also fame, reputation, and money...

"Her real emotional investment and highly infectious performance combine the complex aspects of motherhood and humanity. Her performance is delicate and real, deeply revealing the inner world of the character..."

At this time, not only the domestic media were paying attention to this award ceremony, but many people in the industry were no exception.

Especially many related actresses, many of them are staying up late waiting for news.

Due to schedule reasons, Zhang Ziyi did not get the audition opportunity for "Secret Sunshine", and she has been feeling angry about it. She herself doesn't know who to blame.

Cao Yang is a famous director. His movie started shooting in November, but she won’t be available until December, so she can’t blame Cao Yang for not waiting for her.

Zhang Yimou is also a big director. It is impossible for him to ignore so many big names in the crew and concentrate on filming just for her to meet the schedule.

This role was won after a long battle with Li Xiaoran. Can Li Xiaoran be blamed?

Yes, it’s all Li Xiaoran’s fault. If she hadn’t competed with me for the role, I might have considered it carefully and would not have accepted the supporting role with such a small part.

International Zhang let out a long sigh and suppressed the anger in his heart.

She just signed Lou Ye's "Purple Butterfly" a few days ago. The male lead opposite her is her classmate, Venice Best Newcomer and Golden Horse Film Emperor Liu Ye. She hopes that they can create a chemistry and win one of the three major European awards.

If you don’t win a big prize, you’ll be left behind.

In the past, there was Li Xiaoran, and later there was Yu Feihong, and now there might be more...

No, no, I hope not.

If another Cannes Film Festival winner emerges, it will be even harder to get endorsements from big-name brands.

Now we can still barely hype up the three great Qingyis, the three great international actresses, but after tomorrow, will the general news be about the four great Qingyis?

International star Zhang wants to curse people. Everyone is happy when a big director who can promote people comes out in China, but who knows how it feels when it’s not them who are promoted?

In addition to Zhang Ziyi, Xu Jinglei is also paying attention.

She had good resources and didn't care much about this kind of thing, but she missed an opportunity before, and this time it was because of this woman Gao Yuanyuan who snatched the heroine role from her, and she has been holding a grudge in her heart.

That’s right, she thought that Gao Yuanyuan had snatched the heroine role from her.

In order to get the heroine of Cao Yang's new movie, she used a lot of favors and found two groups of people who were closely related to Cao Yang.

One of them is Yu Feihong, who was Xu Jinglei’s teacher when she taught briefly at Beijing Film Academy.

But what Xu Jinglei didn't expect was that Yu Feihong actually rejected her and told her that with Cao Yang's current status, it would be difficult for anyone to influence his choice of people.

Xu Jinglei didn't believe it.

She asked Wang Shuo for help again. She didn't know what kind of connections Wang Shuo used, but in the end she ended up at Tian Zhuangzhuang's place.

But unfortunately, Tian Zhuangzhuang told them directly and rudely that they could forget about becoming the heroine, and no one could do anything unless Cao Yang nodded.

Xu Jinglei still didn't believe it. She thought that it was okay to temporarily associate her with Cao Yang as a supporting actress, but she didn't believe it. Men, huh.

Then, Tian Zhuangzhuang told her that Cao Yang agreed to let her play the supporting actress role. Before she could be happy, Lao Tian said that the leading actress had already been chosen, and it was Gao Yuanyuan.

Xu Jinglei almost exploded. How could Cao Yang be so short-sighted that he chose a woman with no acting skills as the heroine. Wasn’t he afraid that it would affect the quality of the movie?
Playing a supporting role to that woman, she wants to suppress me, but it’s impossible!

She was staying up late waiting for the news, just to find out as soon as possible, whether Cao Yang was really as amazing as the legend said, how could a woman with no acting skills become a movie queen? How is that possible!

Don't do that. I stole your things, but you suddenly didn't want them anymore and then you got angry, which made you look like a complete loser.

Tianya Community was also flooded with posts, and someone said that if Cao Yang could make Gao Yuanyuan a movie queen, then she would truly be a legend in the entertainment industry, or at least among actresses.

The “number one in the circle” didn’t sleep either. He was extremely envious and jealous of Cao Yang’s consecutive awards, which made him think that the top three European teams were no better than him.

This time, when he "held" Jiang Wen, he originally planned to go to Venice to try his luck, but when he heard that Cao Yang was going to participate in the Cannes Film Festival, he became competitive and the idea that he could do the same made him itchy.

Why not "face off" and kill Cao Yang?

Jiang Wen’s grandson just won the Cannes Jury Prize two years ago for “Devils on Doorstep”. He must have some good connections in Cannes, so why not make good use of them?
Yes, let’s go to Cannes.

So he asked Jiang Wen to find a way to send the film to Cannes, thinking that it would be easy to enter the main competition unit.

And then, nothing happened. The film was not selected and failed to make the shortlist for the main competition unit.

The “number one in the circle” is so angry. Damn Jiang Wen, he must not have tried his best, otherwise how could he not even make it into the main competition unit.

Bah, what a piece of trash. What a crappy movie he made. Next time I won’t let him influence my thoughts.

The “big brother in the circle” didn’t dare to brag in Tianya Community, fearing that he would be laughed at again, but he just didn’t believe that Cao Yang could really help a woman who became famous in commercials win the Cannes Best Actress award, which no one in China has ever won.

He is now holding back his energy, just waiting for Gao Yuanyuan to fail in the Cannes Best Actress award, and then he will go to Tianya Community to laugh at those people who follow the trend and lick the ass.

When Cao Yang heard the award presenter talk about motherhood and humanity, she felt that it was about time and the Best Actress award would not go to anyone else.

There was absolutely no problem with Gao Yuanyuan's performance, and she mobilized so many connections, with Berman helping her run around, just to get this award.

"The winner of the Best Actress award at the 55th Cannes International Film Festival is Gao Yuanyuan, Secret Sunshine. Congratulations."

Then, the big screen behind the award presenter played neither the scene of identifying the body in front of the stall in Asakusa nor the crying scene in the church, but the clip of Wu Qihua holding a mirror and Gao Yuanyuan cutting her own hair.

The scene presented on the big screen was that Wu Qihua was holding a mirror in both hands, and Gao Yuanyuan's face appeared in it, expressionless, pale, and motionless, very much like a posthumous portrait.

Then the camera turned, and the cut hair rolled in the wind, mixing with the debris on the ground. Under the sunlight, the hair was blown into the dark gap between the debris and was not exposed to the sunlight.

At the end of the scene, the name of the award-winning movie appeared, "Secret Sunshine".

Cao Yang couldn't help but think that the Cannes officials were quite interesting. The selected clips were edited together with the name of the movie, which was really appropriate.

Gao Yuanyuan had been covering her mouth with her hands, seeming a little bit unbelieving. She finally reacted at this moment, and quickly put down her hands. At the same time, she forced a normal smile on her face. Under the attention of everyone, she stood up and gently hugged Cao Yang.

"thanks, thanks……"

Her voice was noticeably trembling.

International actress Zhang slammed the table hard. She had a chance to get this role, but it was all... all Li Xiaoran's fault, bitch!
Xu Jinglei slammed the table hard. She originally had a chance to get this role, but it was all Gao Yuanyuan's fault, bitch!
The “big brother in the circle” slammed the table hard. There must be a shady deal.
(End of this chapter)