I'm not mentally ill, I'm a master of a thousand faces!

Chapter 134, The Slap in the Face Came So Quickly

At 8 p.m., the entire Chengtian Jiahe Company was still brightly lit.

There are agents and artists.

"How's it going? Li Yun over there. By the way, what's with that expression of yours?"

After Zhang Baichen returned to Chengtian Jiahe.

I was completely bewildered.

I'm starting to question the meaning of life.

"The negotiation failed? So what if you failed? Don't look like a loser, it's embarrassing." Wang Jinghua looked at Zhang Baichen with slight disdain.

He's been a long-time employee of Jiahe for years, yet his emotional control is so poor.

If people find out, they'll think the company isn't professional enough.

"The deal didn't go through."

"It's normal that the deal didn't go through. The industry is short of everything except people. We can just look for someone else," Wang Jinghua said calmly. This wasn't an unacceptable outcome.

However, I'm still a little curious about the reason.

"Why? Is it because we're not treating them well enough?"

"He said we have too many resources and limitations, and the range of roles he wants to try is too broad."

Zhang Baichen explained Li Yun's requirements in detail.

Wang Jinghua was so angry at these demands that she laughed.

"Is he mentally ill? Does he think he's a genius?"

He was both insane and arrogant.

"The first requirement for an immersive actor is that they have a wide range of roles. I've never heard of such a requirement before."

"And there can't be any restrictions. If he loses money for me, am I supposed to pay him extra?"

"I want him to be here to make money for me."

Wang Jinghua shook her head at this moment: "Relying on himself, he definitely won't be able to get better resources than Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. In less than a year, his name will disappear from the entertainment industry."

At this moment, Zhang Baichen hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

"Is there anything else you want to say?"

"I ran into Stephen Chow's people while I was doing some business."

"That's pretty good luck." Wang Jinghua said with some surprise. With Zhang Baichen's professional skills, he would definitely be able to get some information out of him.

"Then their project was about to start filming, and the main villain was played by a rising star from Beijing's entertainment circle."

"Um?"

"The new generation? Stephen Chow?"

Wang Jinghua was somewhat shocked; which young person in Beijing was so lucky?

Have we been in contact before?

Wang Jinghua felt that it might be a new actor she had overlooked.

"That's Li Yun, the one we've been asking for."

"what?"

The slap in the face came so quickly.

He had previously said that he would never be able to access any good resources again, but I never expected to be proven wrong so quickly.

"We seem to have been paying attention to his activities in the TV drama industry," Jing Jinghua suddenly realized.

This Li Yun.

He works in both film and television.

Li Yun received the notice to join the cast of "Kung Fu Hustle" and did not hesitate for long. After making some preparations, he was ready to set off for Hong Kong.

Next steps.

It was probably after filming "Kung Fu Hustle" that he auditioned for the role of Erlang Shen in "The Lotus Lantern".

CCTV's project approval process doesn't go as fast as it does before filming begins.

After the audition for Lotus Lantern, the New Year celebrations should begin.

"What should I bring?"

"You don't need to bring anything, they provide food and lodging there." Li Yun said at this moment, "How about bringing some steamed buns? I quite like this shop downstairs, it has a kind of sour taste from traditional fermentation."

"You're practically a steamed bun connoisseur now. I have no idea when you started liking this stuff. Oh right, it was after you finished filming 'The World's Number One' that you suddenly fell in love with eating steamed buns."

"I don't like delicacies, I just love a simple steamed bun."

"Really?" Li Yun said, holding a steamed bun in her hand and eating it as she spoke, "It's like I've loved this stuff for a very, very long time."

"Your concept of 'long time' is really quite strange. There's some beef jerky here, take some with you. It's from my hometown, top-quality spicy beef jerky, good for replenishing energy and protein."

"I don't like beef."

Li Yun ate a steamed bun while thinking about his role.

Fire Cloud Evil God.

The ultimate villain of this comedy, the ultimate killer, a psychopath, and a user of Toad Style Kung Fu.

The first request Stephen Chow gave.

It has to be ugly.

It's all about making yourself look ugly.

Li Yun was asked to abandon all her natural advantages, use makeup to cover her appearance, and take on the role.

Because he can't be handsome.

He wants it to be ugly, he wants it to be ridiculous.

These are the qualities that the main villain in this comedy film needs to possess.

They must be absolutely devastating in both appearance and temperament.

Of course, as long as the image highlights this point, there are no other requirements.

Shorts, flip-flops, and a white tank top.

What a ridiculous image, a clown in a comedy film.

A clown.

In the end, the protagonist, who had awakened the Tathagata Palm, was captured.

It shares similarities with the villains in the New Police Story.

From their birth to their existence, they all exist as stepping stones for the protagonist.

That's what they mean.

At this moment, Li Yun arrived in the Hong Kong area.

Although I have been here many times before.

But this time they truly came with their heads held high.

When Li Yun arrived at the hotel, he also met another person who was there to film a movie.

Wu Yanzu, wearing sunglasses and a vest, is always the most stylish person wherever he goes.

They even attracted paparazzi to take pictures quite ostentatiously, with a poster for New Police Story right next to them.

Li Yun, this mainland boy, was holding a steamed bun in his hand, looking rather rustic.

"New Police Story also started filming around this time. Are Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan competing with each other?"

At this moment, Li Yun clicked his tongue.

They started promoting it before filming even began.

It became a hit even before it was filmed.

This is the Dragon of Success.

This is the King of Kung Fu Comedy.

They also act in a high-profile manner.

Quite high-profile.

The paparazzi were like dogs that had smelled blood, afraid of losing any of the buzz.

Stephen Chow's side, on the other hand, kept a much lower profile.

Just like Stephen Chow himself.

They kept a very low profile.

More money and resources are invested in the filming itself, and large-scale promotion and distribution will only take place after filming is completed.

They even built a Pig Cage Alley specifically for this purpose, alluding to the Kowloon Walled City of yesteryear, a place where all sorts of people mingled, but whose overall tone was inseparable from poverty and the lower classes.

Poverty and the lower class.

The hardship of being unable to make a living.

That's Kowloon Walled City.

It is "Pig Cage Alley".

Most of the scenes take place here.

The story focuses on this one stage.

The story of Kung Fu.

At this moment, Li Yun arrived at the place where Kung Fu was about to start filming, namely Pig Dragon Village, which was under construction.

Many people from the film set were here at that time.

Then you can hear Stephen Chow cursing.

"What's wrong with you? Are you a pig? Are you out of your mind? What kind of actor are you? You should go sell pork."

Stephen Chow was holding the script and cursing at the people on the other side.

It's "stir-fried with soy sauce".

At this point, Jiangbao nodded meekly and agreed.

Perhaps it's just a gesture, an expression; if you do something wrong, Stephen Chow will fly into a rage.

"And another thing, you bunch of trash, can't you pay attention? We're making movies for the audience, not for me. You can't even read a script properly."

Stephen Chow shook his head.

They had already been doing script readings for a while.

The reason Li Yun was able to join the cast later was simply because of the length of the role and the fact that he didn't have many scenes.

Although the position is that of the number one villain.

But their screen time will be significantly reduced.

Not many, but important.

It serves to highlight the main character's growth throughout the story.

Meanwhile, the actors also saw Li Yun, who had just joined the crew, and each had their own thoughts.

Even Yang Xiaolong was there.

This was originally the Fire Cloud Evil God.

However, at this time, he was not in the identity of Fire Cloud Evil God, but one of the martial arts instructors of Kung Fu.

This man, one of the Four Little Dragons of Hong Kong who once stood shoulder to shoulder with Bruce Lee, now serves as the martial arts director in this kung fu film crew.

"Greetings, seniors." Li Yun also displayed the proper politeness.

At this moment, Zhou Xingxing glanced at Li Yun and nodded slightly.

"Go get the script in a bit, and then you can participate in the reading session with the rest of us."

The person Li Yun was acting opposite was the leader of the Axe Gang.

The Landlord and Landlady from "The Return of the Condor Heroes".

Of course, there's also the protagonist who learned the Tathagata Palm technique.

"OK."

At this moment, Li Yun took the thin script.

As Stephen Chow said at the beginning, this character has a lot of discretion.

The bottom line is to portray the feeling of a mentally ill martial arts fanatic.

The rest is up to Li Yun to decide.

It's just that this freedom of expression...

To put it nicely, it's a matter of free rein; to put it bluntly, nothing he does affects the performance of the main character or the film.

The biggest villain.

The largest screw.

That's just a screw.

"She looks quite young and pretty. I wonder if she can pull off the ugly look."

Yang Xiaolong touched his chin, genuinely curious about the handsome young man in front of him.

He didn't really have any urgent need to play this role.

The comical and eccentric appearance of this fiery and mad god is merely a pretext to awaken the protagonist's true self and bring the plot to its climax.

There is nothing particularly emphasized in the text itself.

"But sending this young man was indeed a bit impulsive on Stephen Chow's part. After all, this is his second self-directed and self-acted film after Shakespeare Soccer, and he even specially invited us old guys to come out of retirement." Yuan Hua looked at Li Yun not far away: "I heard he was also an actor that Cheng Shilong didn't want."

"Of course! If Wu Yanzu is going to choose me, I'll choose him too," said Yuan Qiu, the landlady next to her, clicking her tongue in a straightforward manner.

"That's not necessarily true. This young Li's pay is far less than that of Wu Yanzu. I heard that Wu Yanzu's pay is almost 600,000, while this guy's is probably less than 50,000."

"People from big companies are expensive, I wonder how much of that 600,000 yuan salary will actually go to A-Zu."

"Ten thousand yuan is considered a generous gesture from the company."

Amidst idle chatter.

Yang Xiaolong touched his chin and said.

"Actually, overall, for us at 'Kung Fu Hustle,' his arrival just meant we had one more person to be criticized."

Expectations for Li Yun.

wrong.

Or perhaps I simply didn't have any expectations for the role itself.

It's enough to portray the 'madness' of a character who is so thin and stereotypical.

It's okay even if it's not acted out.

It's a comedy.

Once the shape is done, that's fine.