Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 762 Don't ask anymore!
It's not that Rocket Girls rushed to curry favor with the director as soon as Li Qiutang extended an invitation to share the stage; it's not that exaggerated. "The Wandering Earth" wouldn't use its influence to pressure anyone like that.

After all, this promotional activity was added by the production team at the last minute and was not part of Rocket Girls' original schedule, so the production team had to fully respect the girls' opinions.

But when the Rocket Girls received the invitation from the "Wandering Earth" crew, especially when they learned that they would be sharing the stage with director Li Qiutang, they were indeed very excited!
Because all jobs in the Chinese entertainment industry ultimately lead to acting, and Rocket Girls' Meng Meiqi has already acted in four movies! She even landed a role in a major IP like "Jade Dynasty." Yang Chaoyue has also started acting.

Since they're going to act, Li Qiutang is a peak they must face.

Of the entire Rocket Girls group, only Meng Meiqi has any connection to "The Wandering Earth," but Meng Meiqi said she has never met Li Qiutang: "He didn't come to watch me record the song."

Have you seen "The Wandering Earth"? What's the movie about?

Meng Meiqi also shook her head and said she hadn't seen it. She said she would just go into the studio to record a song and watch the music video that was edited for her. Why would she watch a movie?

Because the invitation to perform on the same stage as Li Qiutang was added at the last minute, the girls wanted to go, but it was indeed difficult to schedule the time.

The agent's idea was that only one or two people should go. If everyone went, it would not only delay the schedule, but Director Li would also not be able to handle 11 people by himself. Not only would the scene be chaotic, but the publicity effect would also be lost.

The publicity team for "The Wandering Earth" also had this idea: just send two popular actors.

The agency also gave them a lot of face, directly sending the three most popular actresses, Meng Meiqi, Wu Xuanyi, and Yang Chaoyue, to do promotional activities for "The Wandering Earth" with Li Qiutang.

It's a business transaction, and there's compensation involved. Director Li doesn't do things like getting something for nothing.

The announcement of this temporary event caused a huge reaction, at least within the Rocket Girls' fanbase.

Li Qiutang has also recovered and was even able to perform on the same stage as Rocket Girls.

The event was held in Shanghai. The "Wandering Earth" film crew spent a lot of money to build a temporary science fiction experience center in Pudong to promote the movie. It just opened last week, and Meng, Wu, and Yang participated in the event as chief experience officers.

When Li Qiutang arrived at the scene, it was full of young girls!
In Director Li's eyes, these are all movie tickets for his movies in a few days!

You absolutely have to go see it!
To be precise, this experience center is also one of the peripheral products of the movie "The Wandering Earth," and it was developed in cooperation between Autumn Pictures and a certain offline real-world entertainment company.

Inside, there's a popular VR experience area, as well as various games and exhibitions related to movie plots.

Guided by the host, three girls, Meng, Wu, and Yang, went on stage first, singing and dancing, igniting the enthusiasm of the audience.

Then, the host invited Li Qiutang to come on stage.

Some people might think that Li Qiutang, such a big director, would actually lower himself to associate with a girl group.

This is for movie promotion, not work, and Li Qiutang really wouldn't want to come.

It's not that he looks down on girl groups, it's that he knows absolutely nothing about them.

Although "Produce 101" was a program produced by his company, he had never watched a single episode. He didn't recognize any of the 11 members who made it into the group; he only knew the names of three or four of them from the news.

Of all the songs they sang, he only knew one called "Calories," and he could only sing Yang Chaoyue's line, "Burn my calories!"

If the publicity director hadn't casually mentioned it, Li Qiutang really wouldn't have wanted to do activities with Rocket Girls.

For today's occasion, Li Qiutang followed the stylist's advice, got her makeup done, styled her hair, and wore a flashy coat.

Li Qiutang has had a cameo role in an idol drama, so her looks are definitely not a problem. It's just that she doesn't usually need to style herself and is too lazy to dress up. But today, with all this effort, she really looks presentable.

With a slicked-back hairstyle, you can easily blend into the "uncle" crowd.

Li Qiutang is a renowned director, and even if the audience members weren't fans of his films, most of them recognized him and had seen his movies. His appearance was met with just as much applause and cheers as when Rocket Girls appeared; after all, his status speaks for itself.

The three girls clapped along and took the initiative to shake hands with Li Qiutang.

The host even joked with the group, saying that the handshake looked very businesslike.

Although today's event was for movie promotion, Li Qiutang didn't keep bringing up "The Wandering Earth." The theme of today's science fiction experience center was "The Wandering Earth," and since it was the only hard science fiction film in the Spring Festival season, deliberately emphasizing it would have been a mistake.

Just honestly guide the audience through the experience of the venue.

However, we still need to talk about the movie. After the three girls experienced the VR experience of watching the planetary engine jet, Li Qiutang explained the concept to them: planetary engine, plasma jet, burning rocks as fuel, etc.

Suddenly, Yang Chaoyue asked a question: "If we put an engine on the Earth and it moves, do we need a steering wheel? Otherwise, how do we steer?"

"Hahaha!" No one could have imagined that Yang Chaoyue would ask such a question. What was going on in her head?

Li Qiutang laughed and said, "Giving the Earth direction is done by adjusting the direction of the engine."

"What about parking?"

"To stop, the engine is turned around to counteract acceleration and inertia. In space travel, a large portion of the spacecraft's fuel is used for deceleration. In our movie, it takes 500 years for Earth to accelerate, but 700 years to decelerate."

Li Qiutang knew that it wasn't a good day to talk about such things, so she focused on the entertainment and games at the experience center.

The host also randomly selected two lucky audience members to come on stage and play a 3V3 shooting game with the four of them.

Li Qiutang, along with Yang Chaoyue and an audience member, suffered a disappointing defeat. Yang Chaoyue even complained on stage that Director Li wasn't taking the game seriously, which prevented her from winning a gift.

Li Qiutang coaxed her, "I'll give you one later, but I have a better one."

That one sentence alone caused the fans in the audience to scream.

Li Qiutang was a little confused by their shouting. "What did I say that you all shouted?"

Since all three of them are already acting, it's inevitable that they'll talk about acting-related topics.

Having learned a painful lesson from Stephen Chow's on-the-spot test of the young male actors, the host did not allow Li Qiutang to test the three girls; there was no need to test their acting skills.

They only asked Li Qiutang to give some advice. As for giving advice, Li Qiutang knew that the audience was full of fans, so she just praised him.

As I said before, Li Qiutang has no problem with young male and female celebrities. It's okay if they don't understand, as long as they are willing to learn.

He even warmly welcomed people from different industries and disciplines to act, thus expanding the team.

Like gold being sifted from sand, only the best seedlings remain.

But when asked to give Meng Meiqi, Wu Xuanyi, and Yang Chaoyue performance advice, he really couldn't bring himself to say anything, because he didn't know anything about the three of them!
So he had no choice but to say, "Perform well and follow the rules, otherwise all your work will be for nothing."

The host quickly tried to smooth things over, saying, "Director Li's suggestion is truly simple yet to the point."

Continuing the promotional activities related to "The Wandering Earth," after the racing game competition, Yang Chaoyue, with her quirky imagination, asked Li Qiutang another question:
"Director, we've taken the Earth with us, what about the moon? Will it become a wandering moon and follow us?"

Li Qiutang was taken aback. Who told her to ask that?
The moon didn't even appear in the first movie!

Li Qiutang's mind raced as she tried to find a way to cover up the problem!
(End of this chapter)