Chapter 522

"Yan He, are you okay?"

When Lily Williams suddenly asked him in a low voice on set, Lu Yanhe suddenly came back to his senses.

"Ah? Me? I'm fine, what's wrong?"

"I saw you sitting alone and daydreaming." Lily Williams said. "In the last two days, there have been people squatting at our door. I heard that when you came in this morning, you were blocked."

"That's nothing." Lu Yanhe smiled. "I was just thinking about how to act in my last scene."

"The last scene?"

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded. "In the last scene, didn't I finally let you go? Because at the time, only you didn't really want to burn us to death. You always thought it was just scaring us for fun. It wasn't until the accident happened that you knew what kind of devils your two friends were."

This is also a transformation in the later stages of the movie.

Of the three revenge targets, Arne and Simon were both killed, and only Lily was finally let go.

The character of Lily also belongs to a loophole—after all, it is being released in European and American countries with many white people, so it cannot be that all three white people are devils to the end.

Therefore, in Lily's character, her past evil deeds became an ignorant evil that was kept in the dark.

Lily Williams said: "The script says you just let me go and then left."

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded. "But how to leave, how to end my last shot in the movie, I haven't thought clearly yet."

Lily Williams breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

"So you were thinking about this. I thought you were in a bad mood because of what happened recently."

Lu Yanhe: "I wasn't scolded, why would I be in a bad mood."

There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if everything was really fine.

Lily Williams said: "I feel like you don't seem to want to deceive others."

"Hmm?" Lu Yanhe was a bit surprised, not expecting Lily Williams to be so sharp, capturing his true emotions at once.

It can only be said that actors are indeed actors, and sometimes, they are really sharp.

Lily Williams: "Arne told me that you definitely don't like the crew's current marketing method."

"Arne?" Lu Yanhe was even more surprised.

"He wasn't wrong, right?" Lily said. "Actually, he and I even looked for your movies to watch together. Your *Late Spring* and *Road to Glory* were really well acted. No wonder you are so popular in Asia."

Lu Yanhe: "You suddenly praising me like this makes me not know what to say."

Lily laughed happily.

"It's a pity that our movie will be finished soon, and we haven't really gotten to know each other yet."

The filming time of *The Mist* is indeed not long. For a movie, thirty-plus days of filming time is considered relatively long.

However, for a horror movie, this filming duration is not very long.

Lu Yanhe smiled and said: "It's good that we know each other. There will be many opportunities to meet in the future."

Lily asked curiously: "Will you mainly focus on filming Hollywood movies in the future?"

"No." Lu Yanhe didn't hesitate about this question. "I have many projects in China, and I can't move my focus to Hollywood."

Lily was a bit dejected and said: "Then you just lied to me, how can there be many opportunities to meet?"

Lu Yanhe smiled and said: "It's not that I won't go in the future. What's more, you can also come to China in the future. You are welcome to come to China to film movies."

Lily's understanding of Chinese movies is basically at the stage of "basically no understanding."

Many American filmmakers are actually like this. They don't pay much attention to foreign-language films, at most they understand some award-winning works at film festivals.

Even in terms of art films, American films are recognized as not as good as those in Europe, but they never think they are really worse.

In such a big environment, young actors like Lily have a cognition of movies that basically stays on the aesthetics created by American movies.

Therefore, they occasionally watch a *Late Spring* and will feel very fresh.

Filming this movie, Lu Yanhe actually cooperated quite happily with Arne and Lily.

Cooperating with the two of them gave Lu Yanhe a very different feeling—he found that everyone's acting system is still different. Arne and Lily's acting all has a kind of explosive power. This explosive power is not hysterical roaring at you, but a degree of emotional fullness.

Actually, it's not just the two of them, Simon is the same.

Lu Yanhe studied it carefully later and felt that they all have such a unified explosive power, which may be related to the fact that all three of them have been performing on stage since they were young. Their stage performance experience shaped the completeness and fullness of their emotions. And many young actors in China are actually actors trained by the camera. They rarely have a situation where a scene is acted from beginning to end without emotional interruption.

Each has its own advantages.

But overall, Lu Yanhe has to say that just from the movie *The Mist*, the young actors in the United States are much stronger in comprehensive strength than their young actors in China.

Of course, Lu Yanhe is also cooperating with a foreign crew for the first time, and this feeling of his is not representative.

Moreover, if you really want to talk about the ability of top actors, it is not inferior.

Actually, Lu Yanhe is still quite moved.

Although many people on the internet are questioning why he went overseas to act in a horror movie, people who really know Lu Yanhe basically didn't come to ask him this question.

Even Chen Lingling, as a director who has cooperated with Lu Yanhe twice and will cooperate on the sequel to *River of Silence* next, was asked this question by a reporter, and Chen Lingling only said one sentence.

"For an actor like Lu Yanhe, no matter what kind of play he takes, there must be his reason. Before the movie is officially released, I will not ask him why he acted. After the movie can be seen, I will go to see it directly, and from the movie, see the reason why he acted in this movie."

Liu Bige also replied to a comment of "You go and persuade Yan He, let him stop acting" in his social media comment section: When Yan He filmed *Late Spring*, how many people also persuaded him not to act?

Lu Yanhe really has many choices, and at first, they were not understood by others.

For example, taking on the low-cost, new director's art film *Late Spring*. At that time, many people said he was crazy about winning awards, and he dared to act in a three-no film.

For example, being a screenwriter, writing *Lost in Journey* and *Rouge*, many people also laughed at him for reading literature for a few years and thinking he was a great writer.

For example, leaving the *Friends* series without hesitation and drawing a clear line. At that time, how many people scolded him for having water in his brain, being stupid, and giving up such a popular series for a breath.

After going around in circles, looking back now, Lu Yanhe didn't take a single step in vain, and not a single choice was wrong.

Lin Yu said on her show: "If an actor often makes the audience doubt and question, when we can't help but beat drums in our hearts and worry for him, please don't forget, that's because he didn't stay in the comfort zone and play safe cards. He still chooses to take risks and chooses to challenge himself."

Lin Desheng of Arctic Light Video asked him personally: This horror movie you are filming, do you think it's worth us buying it back? Can it be released in China?

Lu Yanhe told the truth: Don't buy it, it basically can't be released, video platforms can't even put it on, it's the kind that really has ghosts, I act as a ghost, if you want to cut it, you have to cut all my scenes.

Lin Desheng:... Why are you acting in this movie properly?

This is the first person around Lu Yanhe to question him acting in *The Mist*.

But Lu Yanhe laughed.

On the contrary, this time, Maxine's Zhong Benshuo and HP's Tom White also started a new round of competition.

Not only them, with Director Mukan's fame in horror movies, every streaming platform with a bit of fame is competing for the exclusive streaming rights of this movie.

The same goes for TV stations.

Obviously, the movie hasn't been launched in colleges yet, these copyrights were competed for until eyes were red.

In this process, D19 production company was a bit surprised to find that Lu Yanhe was actually a very important weight for this movie to negotiate with film merchants.

Because when everyone was negotiating, they all mentioned that they hoped Lu Yanhe would participate in the promotional activities of a certain market, at least cooperate with XX times of promotion.

These contents are much the same, and putting them together only explains one thing: in the eyes of film merchants, Lu Yanhe is the selling point of this movie for some markets.

D19 is not a big company.

It made its fortune by making independent films.

It also doesn't have a particularly strong and complete global distribution channel. Especially in Asia, D19's network hasn't been laid solidly there.

Therefore, for Lu Yanhe, their impression for a long time was that he was a quite famous and popular actor in China, and Mukan insisted on using him and appreciated him very much. That's all.

After all, this movie is not released in mainland China, so no matter how popular Lu Yanhe is, he has to be discounted by more than half.

Who knew, not only other countries and regions in Asia, but even film merchants in Europe and America also care about Lu Yanhe.

What D19 company didn't expect most was that several international film festivals took the initiative to ask if they were willing to put the movie on their film festival for a global premiere.

After chatting, it turned out that they took a fancy to the topicality of this movie, and Lu Yanhe has been a regular visitor to film festivals in recent years, and almost every film festival wants to invite Lu Yanhe to attend. After all, Lu Yanhe carries huge media attention and popularity.

This American company, D19, heard some glorious achievements about Lu Yanhe from different sources, making them realize that they seemed to have completely underestimated this male actor from the Eastern country.

"The movie is about to be finished, and it won't be so easy to sit down and eat together in the future." Hua Ruzhen came out of the kitchen with a pot of yellow-braised chicken. "This is a new dish I tried, I don't know how it is, try it. Other dishes are my signature dishes, eat with confidence."

Lu Yanhe nodded with a smile and said okay.

During the time Director Mukan was filming here, Hua Ruzhen had been accompanying him and often called Lu Yanhe over to eat.

To be honest, Hua Ruzhen's craftsmanship is indeed very good.

Therefore, Lu Yanhe was able to eat authentic Chinese food from time to time in this place in Canada without having to eat Western food every day.

"Sister, after the movie is finished, are you going back to the United States or Germany?"

Mukan is actually a German. When he is not making movies, he generally settles in Germany.

Hua Ruzhen said: "After filming, go back and rest for two weeks, and he has to go to the United States to watch the post-production."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Hua Ruzhen: "D19 wants to release this movie in January."

"January?" Lu Yanhe was a bit surprised, because even if he didn't know much about the American film market, he knew when the peak and off-seasons were, and January was the well-known off-season.

As for the best schedule for horror movies, it is actually generally Wan Shengjie.

Hua Ruzhen nodded and said: "Can't catch up with the Wan Shengjie schedule, the post-production pressure is too great."

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized.

Hua Ruzhen said: "What are you going to film next?"

"Go back to record a show first, *Young Days*, sister, have you seen it?"

"Seems to have some impression."

"It's a show I've been recording." Lu Yanhe said. "Then I have to film the second season of *Seventeen Layers*."

Hua Ruzhen was a bit surprised and asked: "Are you still cooperating with Beijing TV? I thought you wouldn't cooperate with Beijing TV again."

"I did think so, but I have to wait for the *Seventeen Layers* series to end. It's a trilogy." Lu Yanhe said. "Station Head Jiang Lan, who is in charge of this project, has always been quite good to me, and I am also very familiar with the whole crew and get along very well. I still want to have a beginning and an end, and don't want to affect this show because of my bad relationship with other people at Beijing TV."

Hua Ruzhen nodded, "Responsible, very good."

Lu Yanhe smiled.

Hua Ruzhen said: "The movie *The Mist* is quite popular now, but are you a bit unhappy with the crew's current marketing method?"

Lu Yanhe looked at Hua Ruzhen in surprise: "Sister, did you see it?"

Lu Yanhe felt that it was fine for Lily to see it. After all, when he was on set, he didn't deliberately hide his emotions as he did in front of Hua Ruzhen. However, despite this, Hua Ruzhen still saw it, which made him shocked and astonished, and at the same time, he felt that his acting skills were in jeopardy.

How could this be?

Is he so unable to pretend?

Hua Ruzhen said: "Mukan told me. He guessed you don't like this marketing method, and you don't want to win everyone's support and sympathy by being racially discriminated against in the crew."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said: "Actually, yes."

Hua Ruzhen: "I really want to comfort you with a few words, but I have to say that many such situations will indeed happen in movie marketing. As for the thoughts of an actor, or even a director, it is not important."

"Sister, I don't know what to say. I also hope the movie's box office will be good, but I always feel that adding a big label of an Asian ghost killing white villains to this movie now, will it really be conducive to this movie being liked by the audience?"

"No one can say for sure. If a layman like me can give you an accurate answer, then those professionals who do movie marketing can just pack up and leave." Hua Ruzhen laughed after saying this. "But it doesn't matter, Yan He. You may not be able to control how they want to market, but you can completely conduct yourself according to your own ideas. If you don't like it and don't cooperate, then tell them clearly and let them not continue to use you as marketing material."

"I have indeed thought about it."

"Actually, you haven't made up your mind yourself, and you don't firmly believe that this marketing method is wrong?"

"Because... this matter is indeed helpful to the movie's popularity, and also helpful to the future box office. This is visible to the naked eye. I can't say I don't like it, so I prevent the movie from getting more box office. To put it plainly, it's because I am an actor in this movie. I always think I have the responsibility and obligation to let the movie get better results. I can't be this stumbling block." Lu Yanhe sighed. "Even if I know that my inaction is actually a kind of tacit indulgence. This is where I am contradictory and entangled now."

"Because you want to be an honest person, but you can't be honest without scruples, so you can only be contradictory and silent." Hua Ruzhen looked at Lu Yanhe thoughtfully and asked, "Right?"

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Hua Ruzhen smiled and said: "You are really young."

There was also some doting of elders on the younger generation in her smile.

Lu Yanhe was at a loss, not knowing why Hua Ruzhen would have such an attitude.

Hua Ruzhen said: "Actually, Mukan also often encounters such situations. His nature is actually a very rigid and serious German, but there are many places in the film circle that conflict with his nature. It's not that he can bypass it every time, but he is also unwilling to integrate into it. What should he do?"

Lu Yanhe listened.

"Actually, there is no way. Mukan can only be silent and stay out of it. I believe that if you were in a crew with more say, you would definitely have intervened and stopped it, and you also have the ability to stop it. But in the *The Mist* crew, you actually don't have this ability. You also know subconsciously that your attitude is actually not important, and everyone will not pay for your attitude." Hua Ruzhen said. "So, silence is the only thing you can do. Before you have enough power to change all this, you can only do what you can do well in silence first. When you also have your status and say in the European and American film circle as you do in the Chinese film circle, believe me, for things like this, you can stop it directly. So, instead of being contradictory and silent, it is better to stay out of it and put it aside first. Just like the first play, everything has to listen to the company. Now for this play, Mukan said he wanted to use a Chinese actor, he insisted, and D19 agreed."

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized.

If Hua Ruzhen hadn't said it, Lu Yanhe wouldn't have realized that behind this matter, in the final analysis, it was actually the contradiction between his desire to change all this and his inability to change all this.

"If I tell Yan He, he will definitely be entangled and painful."

When asked why Chen Siqi didn't take the initiative to tell Lu Yanhe about such a marketing plan, Chen Siqi also had no intention of hiding it.

"Aren't you worried that if Yan He finds out one day that the reason Simon's side thought of this plan was actually that you found someone to blow it into his agent's ear?" Lin Yu asked.

She was surprised that Chen Siqi didn't tell Lu Yanhe that this plan was thought up by Lin Yu, and it was Chen Siqi who found a way to blow it into Simon's agent's ear.

"I will worry, but it doesn't matter." Chen Siqi said. "He knows that I have never been a kind, perfect good person. I don't care if Simon doing this is self-damaging, I only care that this is Yan He's first English-language film, and I hope this movie achieves good results. Yan He might be sulking with me, blaming me for not telling him in advance."

"Are you afraid he will refuse?"

"If he could refuse directly, that would be fine. The problem is that we can all see how much benefit this plan has for *The Mist*, not to mention himself. At that time, he will fall into a dilemma between morality and interests." Chen Siqi said. "It's better to keep him in the dark. If he wants to blame me, let him blame me. But I know he won't."

"Between the two of you, haven't there always been no secrets, and you talk about everything?"

"Having some secrets is not a bad thing." Chen Siqi smiled slightly and blinked.

Lin Yu actually knew what Chen Siqi was thinking.

To put it plainly, Chen Siqi just has a very simple thinking: I will be the villain.

Rather than saying she is worried about Lu Yanhe being entangled, it is better to say she just doesn't want Lu Yanhe to fall into possible entanglement and misery.

Lin Yu knew that this was Chen Siqi's way of loving Lu Yanhe.

It absolutely cannot be said to be correct, but this is her way.

Lin Yu also couldn't say anything.

"Look, as soon as this matter came out, several Hollywood film companies sent scripts, looking for Yan He to act as a character who is discriminated against, bullied, and picked on." Chen Ziyan put the English scripts in her hand in front of Lu Qingzhen with some speechlessness. "Whatever is popular, they come for it."

Lu Qingzhen laughed.

"How good, this