Chinese entertainment: Top stars have no holidays

On August 5th, the crew of "Rush to the Dead Summer" officially started filming at Guankou Middle School in Xiamen after holding a press conference.

During the summer vacation for middle school students, the production crew had to work overtime to finish filming the high school scenes so as not to delay the start of the school year.

The crew will then move to Shanghai to film scenes depicting the characters' lives after they enter the workforce.

The entire series is expected to wrap up filming in mid-to-late November, and Jiang Bai will be on set the whole time.

Zheng Hehuizi, however, did not have any high school scenes and left the crew after attending the press conference for the start of filming.

Thus, Jiang Bai's first day on set began with the male and female leads.

It's because the character he plays is a classmate of the male and female leads.

Jiang Bai takes acting very seriously.

Although he entered this industry for the money, he still had to do the job if he was paid.

Now that he'd received the money, Jiang Bai would naturally take his work very seriously.

Long before filming began, he had already worked closely with the acting coach to refine the script. Under the coach's guidance, he created a character biography and carefully analyzed the inner world of the character "Lu Zhiang".

I wouldn't dare say I can act exceptionally well, but it's definitely enough for an idol drama.

"Click!"

"Xiao Jiang acted quite well."

"He doesn't seem like a newcomer without formal training at all!"

Han Yang, sitting behind the monitor, looked surprised for a moment, then a smile quickly spread across his face.

He was prepared to face a novice actor who knew nothing, only how to stare, fake smile, and stutter.

I had several plans prepared in my mind for training the actors.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Bai's performance was excellent. He delivered his lines smoothly and with great emotion, and he conveyed the emotions that were appropriate.

Wearing a high school uniform, he perfectly embodied the image of a youthful and sunny young man.

No specific adjustments are needed at all.

In contrast, Chen Xuedong, who acted opposite him in this scene, performed rather poorly.

Fu Xiaosi's character is not very talkative, slow to react, and somewhat like an autistic boy.

But Chen Xuedong completely turned the character into a robot boy.

Being emotionally reserved does not mean having no emotions.

Being bad at expressing oneself doesn't mean one has no expression.

Chen Xuedong's robotic expression and emotionless delivery gave Han Yang a headache.

But what can we do? After all, he was the male lead chosen by Guo Jingming!

The funniest thing is probably because Chen Xuedong had previously acted in mostly Guo Jingming's projects.

Guo Jingming has always used an encouraging approach to educate this leading man in his life.

Therefore, he had no awareness of his own acting skills at all, but instead felt very good about himself.

As soon as the director yelled "Cut!", he eagerly ran to the monitor to watch the playback, and even proactively asked the director, "Director, how was my performance?"

"Not bad, right?"

As he spoke, Chen Xuedong wore a smug expression.

I must say, his expressions at this moment are much more vivid and natural than when he was filming!

What else could Han Yang say?

I could only grit my teeth and offer a few words of praise, then tactfully point out the problems and insist on keeping one.

I don't know what Chen Xuedong thought, but the second take turned out even worse than the first one!

Filming a TV series is not like filming a movie, where you can keep refining a single shot.

In the TV drama industry, there are three essential principles for passing a TV drama.

In other words, regardless of how well the actors perform, a single shot will only be tested a maximum of three times before the director approves it.

During the three-and-a-half-month filming period, a total of 48 episodes had to be shot, and there was no time for the actors to repeatedly make mistakes and retake the scenes.

After trying again and finding that Chen Xuedong was still at the same level, Han Yang gave up and decided to just use the first method.

Against the backdrop of this exceptionally talented male lead, Jiang Bai, the second male lead who considers himself to have only average acting talent, stands out remarkably...

At least he diligently studied acting one-on-one with an acting coach for five months and did thorough research for his role...

Among all the actors, Jiang Bai, a complete newcomer, actually had the fewest NGs.

Jiang Bai's life on the film set began just like that.

......

"Click."

The RV that the film crew rented for Jiang Bai was opened from the outside.

The assistant tiptoed onto the RV and said with a hint of helplessness, "Brother Jiang, the afternoon's schedule has been changed. It's all been changed to scenes with Teacher Chen Xuedong."

"Hmm?" Jiang Bai, who was reading the script, looked up and understood after just one glance at his assistant.

"Has Sister Shuangzi disappeared again?"

The assistant sighed, "Yes."

Jiang Bai pursed his lips.

The film crew has been shooting for a month.

What Jiang Bai found most uncomfortable over the past month was not the acting skills of the main characters, which were at a primary school level.

It was actually Shuangzi's amazing skill.

You could say she's unprofessional.

During the filming period, she arrived at the set on time every day, strictly adhering to the eight-hour workday. Regardless of whether the scenes scheduled for the day had been filmed or not, she would leave on time and not stay on set for even a minute longer.

You could say she's dedicated.

She doesn't come to the set every day!

Often, for no apparent reason, Sister Shuangzi would simply stop coming to the set to film.

When she's in a good mood, she'll even give a reason.

For example, if I'm in a bad mood today, it's not a good day for filming.

I'm not feeling well today and want to rest.

When she was in a bad mood, she simply vanished without a trace, leaving no trace.

Even her agent and assistant didn't know where she went.

She was only able to get in touch with him when she returned to the hotel that evening.

Faced with Shuangzi's unpredictable behavior, the director had no way to deal with her.

The only option was to rearrange the schedule when Shuangzi disappeared, changing the scenes originally scheduled for the female lead to scenes for other actors.

Who can blame her, Zheng Shuang is so popular right now!

"Love O2O" has already premiered.

The show achieved a viewership rating of over 1% on both satellite channels as soon as it premiered.

The number of online views exceeded 3 million in 16 hours, 6 million in 40 hours, 15 billion in 60 hours, and 40 billion in 10 days.

It unsurprisingly became the top-grossing TV series during the summer season and remained at the top of the charts for a long time.

It consistently ranks first in daily Weibo topic views and discussion, with a constant stream of trending topics, averaging seven or eight trending topics related to the show every day.

Even the game "A Chinese Ghost Story" featured in the drama saw a surge in registrations, daily active users, and revenue.

Today, "Love O2O" is a hit on television, a sensation on the internet, enjoys enduring popularity, and is a commercial success.

It became the hottest hit of the summer of 2016, setting a new benchmark for sweet romance dramas.

It's fair to say that Zheng Shuang is currently the most popular female celebrity.

It also boosted the popularity of Yang Yang, a future top male goalkeeper.

Under these circumstances, it seems that the investment promotion for the drama "Rush to the Dead Summer" will all depend on Zheng Shuang!

The production crew naturally had to accommodate her without any limits.

"It still has to be Sister Shuangzi!" Jiang Bai smacked his lips and exclaimed.

At the height of her fame, Zheng Shuang could indeed do whatever she wanted.

Jiang Bai put the script away, stood up, and said, "Let's go. This little actor can only go along with it."

Accompanied by his assistant, Jiang Bai hurriedly returned to the film set to prepare for the additional filming work.

But what he didn't expect was...

He had barely arrived on set, and before he could even discuss with the director which scene to shoot, the rumored missing Sister Shuangzi reappeared.

Wearing a bright red dress, Zheng Shuang walked onto the set with red eyes, looking as if she had just had a good cry.

Her assistant kept trying to persuade her, "Sister, let's go back to the hotel first, and don't film this afternoon."

But Shuangzi, with a stubborn look, shook her head and sat down on her special rest chair, looking like she was waiting to go on set.

Jiang Bai and the director exchanged a surprised glance.

"What's going on?"

Is this a sign of heartbreak?

Jiang Bai suddenly remembered that although Shuangzi and her very talented ex-boyfriend officially announced their breakup in March, it seemed that they had been dragging things out for the past few months.

According to paparazzi, the two seem to have gone through several breakups and reconciliations in private.

The song "Take It All You Want" seems to have been written by the man during this period of great suffering.

Shaking off all the gossip in his mind, Jiang Bai gestured to the director and asked uncertainly, "Director, the female lead has arrived."

"Should we still revise the afternoon's schedule?"