Abstract Art Award Winner

Chapter 247 Getting a free meal is a piece of cake

Of course, the reasons behind this are definitely not that simple.

On one hand, Li Chen is too competitive on variety shows, which can be seen in many of the previous segments. On the other hand, Zheng Kai is more comfortable staying here because he has a close relationship with Baby.

On the other hand, it's because Li Chen just broke up with Fan Binbin, and now the internet is flooded with negative articles about Li Chen. Because of this, Li Chen even went to the airport to pick up Fan Binbin's mother, hoping to salvage the relationship.

However, under this pace, Li Chen's various business ventures have been greatly impacted, so continuous exposure and topics are needed to cover up these negative news.

Therefore, Running Man has a higher priority than the variety shows that Deng Chao produces himself, after all, there are excellent examples to follow.

On the other hand, after the breakup, Fan Binbin continued to release various negative information and articles about Li Chen, which Li Chen himself found extremely difficult to deal with.

During this period, he was helping Fan Binbin's younger brother, Fan Chengcheng, get into the Running Man show. In exchange, the Fan family had to stop spreading those negative rumors.

Otherwise, the two of them actually wanted to leave as well.

As for why Deng Chao, Chen He, and Lu Han left instead of taking Zheng Kai, who had a better relationship with Chen He, it was because Deng Chao suffered a serious injury during the filming of Running Man.

During that period, Sun Li hardly went out to accept business deals for a whole year, and just stayed at home to take care of Deng Chao.

Furthermore, Lu Han used his connections to help Deng Chao find a very skilled doctor for his arm, which naturally brought them closer.

Finally, there's positioning.

There's no need to go into details about what happened here before, but in the new variety show that Deng Chao is creating, Deng Chao is the senior figure, with both popularity and entertainment value. Lu Han, as a top star, still has a lot of popularity even though he has officially announced his relationship.

Chen He is simply a prankster, while Zheng Kai's role is rather ambiguous.

Zhou Le was brought in this time because he is too versatile; he is a combination of the three of them. In addition, he has appeared on shows before, either as a contestant in competitive variety shows or as a guest in an episode.

If "Five Ha" is scheduled for release, it will be Zhou Le's first variety show as a regular guest in his career.

The profit will definitely be the greatest.

As for who else to bring over later, that's up to Deng Chao and his team.

After finishing his work in Beijing, Zhou Le returned to Guangdong to continue filming.

Although filming has progressed to the middle, the most important part of this scene is undoubtedly the final king-versus-king fight.

Director Liu Haoliang had many concerns about this scene.

Because the film's overall style is realistic and there are many dangerous fight scenes, he was worried that the actors might get injured.

So on this day, Zhou Le and Wang Qianyuan were specially invited into the shed, and the others were dismissed.

"Gentlemen, our movie is almost finished filming. Zhou Le has some work to do around National Day, but when he comes back, he will have to prepare for that fight scene."

Our action director has now designed all the actions, but the scene still needs to be set up, and some props also need to be prepared.

My idea is to use stunt doubles to replace some of the dangerous scenes, and then make some props, using makeup and camera cuts to create a realistic fighting effect.

After hearing this, Zhou Le and Wang Qianyuan exchanged a glance.

Zhou Le spoke first: "Director, let's not use stunt doubles. Although it's dangerous, we can do what stunt doubles can do. I feel it's unnecessary. If we really get injured, Director Liu, you won't just abandon us, will you?" Liu Haoliang knew that Zhou Le was making a statement, so he immediately said: "Of course not. I will invite a professional doctor and an ambulance. If there is any problem, we will definitely treat it immediately. And even if we use stunt doubles, we can't just sit idly by if we get injured."

Wang Qianyuan nodded: "If that's the case, then let's really do it. We're both getting tens of millions from the production team, we can't be unwilling to even get this little bit of injury."

"That's what I meant too."

Liu Haoliang was overjoyed; all the time he had spent thinking about his words had been worthwhile.

Although both of them were very dedicated during filming, the nature of it is completely different when one of them voluntarily suggested filming for real, which resulted in the actor getting injured, versus when the actor suggested it and then got injured.

"But if it's just a minor scratch, that's fine. What if it's a serious bone or muscle injury?"

"It's alright, we'll see how it goes. If someone gets seriously injured, there's nothing we can do. Brother Chenglong used to work so hard in his acting career that no insurance company wanted to take his business. Our little troubles shouldn't be a big deal."

"Haha, that's impressive. It's because you're so famous now. With your level of dedication, those young heartthrobs would be crying for their parents."

Wang Qianyuan patted Zhou Le on the shoulder.

"Of course! If a stand-in can do it for tens of thousands of dollars, why can't we do it for tens of millions? Wouldn't people laugh at us if they found out?"

"Alright, brother, I'm the kind of person who usually leaves as soon as I'm done filming, so I don't make many friends. But with what you said, I'll consider you my friend."

"What? Bro, you've never considered me a friend before? What you said really hurts me. You have to treat me to a meal later, or this isn't over."

"Okay, let's have a meal. I'd be happy to treat my brother to some food and drinks."

Zhou Le nodded in satisfaction.

In fact, he knew that Wang Qianyuan was usually quite arrogant. As a movie star, he performed very well in the film. Although he was not the one who carried the box office in the movie, the appearance of his name at least represented the quality of the movie to some extent.

Even if he can't represent others, he can at least represent himself.

However, Wang Qianyuan was not considered a very obedient actress in the director's eyes.

In other words, there are powerful figures behind this show, so he doesn't usually arrive late or leave early as often. In the other show that he just finished filming, arriving late or leaving early was commonplace.

Zhou Le had heard about this.

The TV series was called "Seven Days," and it had more than twenty episodes. Wang Qianyuan was asking for more than 60 million yuan.

Halfway through the shoot, they directly stated that they wanted to settle all the remaining payments and that work would only resume once the payments were settled.

This information has been posted online, and even people outside the industry are spreading it.

Zhou Le was also aware of some practices where some fees were transferred to other studios or where performance service fees were replaced with cultural and creative service fees.

But this matter has nothing to do with Zhou Le. All he can do is pay his taxes diligently and just get along normally with everyone else.

Anyway, I got another free meal today, so it's a win-win situation no matter how you look at it.

(End of this chapter)