Chapter 531

"The Liulaide Film Festival wants to invite you to serve as a judge for the main competition unit next year."

The day after talking about Director Gongjiang's play, Chen Ziyan brought another piece of news.

"Liulaide Film Festival?"

Lu Yan He had never participated in this film festival, only heard of it, knowing it was a relatively famous independent film festival in the United States.

Chen Ziyan said: "Do you want to go?"

Lu Yan He said: "When is it next year?"

"It's about October, just following Venice and Toronto," Chen Ziyan said. "Currently, you have no arrangements for that time."

Lu Yan He: "Then let's go. The national film festival route is all started, why not go to Liulaide."

It is also a very famous film festival anyway.

Chen Ziyan was a little hesitant.

"What's wrong?"

"I haven't thought about it yet. This is your first time serving as a judge at an international film festival. If the starting point is not high enough, will it lower your impression in everyone's mind?"

"That shouldn't be the case, right? Are there no big names who have served as judges at the Liulaide Film Festival before?"

"This film festival didn't set up a competition unit before, it only set it up in the last two years," Chen Ziyan said. "The lineup of judges they invited in the last two years is indeed relatively average."

"Then how is the word-of-mouth of the film works from this film festival?"

"That's still quite good. Liulaide Film Festival belongs to a relatively first-line film festival in the United States, and has produced many good works. In the last two years, there have also been award-winning works that entered the Oscar nomination list."

"Then there is no problem, let's go," Lu Yan He nodded after listening to the simple introduction of this film festival. "As long as the film festival itself has good word-of-mouth, it's OK for me to go, just treat it as watching a movie."

Chen Ziyan saw Lu Yan He say so and nodded.

"Okay, since you said so, then promise them."

Chen Ziyan said: "There is one more thing, the film *Phone* is ready to start filming."

"Oh?" Lu Yan He was a little surprised, "When?"

"It should be next month, if there are no other accidents."

"Finally."

"Yeah, finally," Chen Ziyan nodded.

Chen Ziyan just finished talking to him during the day, and in the evening, Jiang Yuqian called him to talk about the start of the film *Phone*.

"We are ready to start filming next month," Jiang Yuqian is currently participating in fashion week activities in France and is not in China. "Yan He, do you have time to come and see?"

"I'm still filming the second season of *Seventeen Layers*, I'll go see it after it wraps up," Lu Yan He said.

"Okay."

Lu Yan He asked: "Sister Yuqian, when are you returning to China?"

"It will take about another week to come back, why?"

"Just curious, I see you have been abroad all the time," Lu Yan He said. "I heard that a play that was originally intended to invite you to act was also snatched away by others in the company?"

"That's not the case, I pushed it away myself, and then it was given to others. Is it Fu Li?" Jiang Yuqian said. "Zhou Ping'an and she both took the initiative to find me and told me about this. I didn't have the schedule to act, so let it be given to her."

"That's good, I thought you were staying abroad for a long time and your own backyard was on fire."

"It's not impossible for that to happen over a long period of time," Jiang Yuqian smiled. "The company has changed a lot recently, but, Yan He, you shouldn't be renewing your contract with Star Entertainment, right?"

"Right, I won't renew it, now I'm just waiting for the contract to expire," Lu Yan He said. "There are still more than half a year."

Jiang Yuqian: "Quite good."

"Sister Yuqian, what about you? You have been in Star Entertainment for so many years, now Sui Xiaodie's contract has expired and she left, will you renew your contract with Star Entertainment?"

"I haven't considered it for the time being, Star Entertainment's help to my current career is not great."

Jiang Yuqian is also ready to leave.

However, Lu Yan He was not surprised by this point.

To put it bluntly, Star Entertainment's resources and what they can do for them are no longer applicable to their current stage.

Lu Yan He still maintained a little restraint, not moving his work focus abroad in one breath.

Jiang Yuqian, however, had no scruples at all.

"I plan to hand over my overseas agency contract to Williams Agency," Jiang Yuqian said another sentence. "They took the initiative to contact me, wanting to act as an agent for my overseas agency affairs. Do you have an agency company overseas?"

"Not yet."

"I originally wanted to ask for your opinion."

"I don't have any opinions worth your reference here," Lu Yan He said. "I might have to learn from you later."

Jiang Yuqian: "Less of that, I'm burning my bridges, wanting to take advantage of the momentum of *Squid Game* to rush up in one breath. Your foundation is much thicker than mine, you can completely steady and fight."

Jiang Yuqian smiled.

"Yan He, don't learn from me. I synthesized my own situation. I want to go to the next level within three to five years, and I can only take the path of internationalization to overtake on a curve. Otherwise, always fighting with Zhang Lan and those people, there will never be any big breakthrough. For the few of us, our talent is limited, unlike you and Chen Bige and others, who have such good acting skills. The more we get to the back, the more we understand the importance of talent. I want to rush out and occupy the top, I can only fight for something else. You don't have to be like this."

Some actors have mostly shining works in their resumes.

But some actors have gold panning in the sand in their resumes.

This, of course, does not mean that the latter is worse than the former.

Sometimes, looking back at the end of life, the former may have been defeated in just ten or twenty years, while the latter has stood tall for decades and become a legend.

Jiang Yuqian's planning for herself lies in recognizing that she cannot take the "Best Actress" route, but can only take the "Superstar" route.

Lu Yan He: "Waiting for you to take me to fly."

Jiang Yuqian laughed.

"Okay."

After Lu Yan He hung up the phone, he searched the internet for Jiang Yuqian's work activities exposed in the past few months. Only after searching did he find that Lu Yan He said she was almost permanently stationed abroad, which was not an exaggeration at all.

Jiang Yuqian flew around the world with a work intensity that had just debuted and was in the rising period, fashion activities, business dinners, film activities, relying on the popularity of the role in *Squid Game*, she brushed her face and exposure crazily in front of the global media, which indeed made her very popular during this time.

Especially in such an entertainment environment in China, Jiang Yuqian now belongs to a rare star who blooms internationally, and is still quite sought after—

No way, the competition in China is too fierce, if you want to stand out, if you want to pull the gap with others, you must have something others don't have.

Jiang Yuqian now has a unique advantage in "internationalization," and she is constantly consolidating and expanding this advantage.

When *Seventeen Layers* Season 2 was filmed halfway, Zhong Benshuo suddenly came again.

This time, he brought a Korean actor with him.

Lu Yan He also knew him.

The host of the Asian Television Festival that Lu Yan He attended, Kong Lingfan.

At that time, there was a little unpleasantness between the two.

Later, because of this, the management of TVN directly kicked Kong Lingfan out of the cooperation project.

This time, Kong Lingfan came to visit the set with Zhong Benshuo, and his attitude was very good.

All the way, seeing Chen Bige, Jiang Jun and others, they were all bowing one by one.

Lu Yan He only came out of his lounge later.

Zhong Benshuo immediately greeted Lu Yan He.

The moment Lu Yan He saw the two of them, a moment of alertness clearly appeared on his face, and then he showed a polite smile.

"Mr. Zhong."

Zhong Benshuo introduced enthusiastically: "Yan He, you and Lingfan should have met, right? He is a fan of your *Seventeen Layers*, and has always wanted to come to the scene to observe and learn the filming of the second season, especially you—he told me he is your fan."

Lu Yan He could only show a surprised expression socially and said: "Is that so? Thank you."

Kong Lingfan seemed to have forgotten the trouble he had caused Lu Yan He before, and greeted Lu Yan He very actively and enthusiastically.

"Teacher Lu, we meet again, I am really happy to see you."

His English pronunciation was not very pure, and Lu Yan He reacted for a while before understanding what Kong Lingfan was saying.

"Hello."

The two sides chatted awkwardly for a while, and Lu Yan He went to prepare for his next scene.

The actors discussed it privately.

Li Yuefeng was very strange and asked: "Didn't he just come here not long ago? Why is he here again? And brought someone with him."

"He is one of the investors and broadcasters of our show, isn't it normal for him to come here to turn around?" Yan Zhimeng said.

"He manages such a big place in Asia, is he so free?"

Li Yuefeng seemed to mind very much and was also very sharp.

"He brought that Kong Lingfan over, who knows what he is planning."

Li Yuefeng's words reminded everyone present.

"Kong Lingfan is quite famous in Korea, right?"

"Can't say how famous, but he did become popular because of a play the year before last," Lin Chan said. "I watched that play, and he also received a lot of attention in China at that time."

Li Yuefeng: "Our show is not popular enough to let a star who is quite popular in Korea come to visit the set specifically."

"What do you want to say?" Chen Bige looked at Li Yuefeng with a smile.

"I think Zhong Benshuo might want Kong Lingfan to cameo a role in our show," Li Yuefeng said. "Then, he can logically put him into the main cast of the third season."

Everyone looked at each other.

Lu Yan He originally wanted to say that although this show has Maxine's investment, the copyright is in Jingtai's hands after all, and they don't have the final say in putting people in.

Thinking about it again, given the nature of the Beijing Station and their various past underhanded tactics, if the two sides reached some exchange of interests, it might not be impossible for it to come true.

Lu Yan He and Chen Bige looked at each other.

Chen Bige saw this and asked Lu Yan He: "Do you think what Li Yuefeng said is possible to come true?"

Lu Yan He smiled, "Not necessarily impossible."

Zhong Benshuo actually really had this idea.

However, his idea was not just the third season.

He had already discussed with Jingtai that after the *Seventeen Layers* trilogy, Maxine will get the copyright and adapt the spin-off drama.

Zhong Benshuo's idea was to create a Korean version of *Seventeen Layers* through the role Kong Lingfan cameos in *Seventeen Layers*.

And Zhong Benshuo didn't intend to let Kong Lingfan cameo in the second season.

He just brought him to recognize the door in advance, and by the third season, Kong Lingfan will become one of the protagonists.

Kong Lingfan was a little uneasy. After leaving the *Seventeen Layers* crew, he was a little trance-like and had been worried.

Zhong Benshuo saw this and asked: "What are you thinking about?"

Kong Lingfan said: "Brother, I offended Lu Yan He before. Do you think he won't stop me from participating in the third season later?"

Zhong Benshuo: "Don't worry, I have already discussed it with China's Jingtai. This show is Jingtai's show, not Lu Yan He's show."

Kong Lingfan said: "But I heard that Lu Yan He has a lot of say in China. What if he is determined to stop me from participating in this show?"

"You don't know, the relationship between Lu Yan He and Jingtai has been very subtle for a long time," Zhong Benshuo shook his head. "The third season of *Seventeen Layers* will be his last cooperation with Jingtai. In this case, how could Jingtai care about his opinion."

Kong Lingfan was surprised when he heard this, "Was he banned by Jingtai?"

"He banned Jingtai, that's about it," Zhong Benshuo smiled. "China's film and television environment is still a bit different from our Korea. TV stations are not so strong now. You also try to ease the relationship with him. If you didn't tell me that your relationship with him is not good, I would find a way to let you act in the sequel to *Squid Game*."

Kong Lingfan sighed.

"I was too impulsive."

At that time, I just wanted to rub some heat, but I didn't expect to rub my own skin.

Zhong Benshuo: "But it's okay, there is an old saying in China that the feng shui turns around. Lu Yan He's temper is so rigid, there will always be a day when he suffers losses and setbacks."

Kong Lingfan looked at Zhong Benshuo unexpectedly.

He didn't expect that Zhong Benshuo also had opinions on Lu Yan He?

He thought the relationship between Zhong Benshuo and Lu Yan He was quite good.

After all, the two cooperated so many times.

Zhong Benshuo didn't say much. In fact, it was impossible for him to tell others that his cooperation with Lu Yan He still had discrepancies and friction when Lu Yan He was in full swing now.

Externally, he still had to create a close cooperative relationship between him and Lu Yan He.

"Look at you, worrying about heaven."

Shen Yue said to Li Yuefeng, "People didn't stay to cameo, okay?"

Li Yuefeng shrugged his shoulders.

"I also said at the time, it's just a possibility."

Lu Yan He also felt it was quite interesting. On this matter, everyone's attitude was surprisingly consistent, and they didn't want Kong Lingfan to cameo.

It may also be that the initial tone was created by Li Yuefeng as "unwelcome."

"The *Seventeen Layers* series is a sweet pastry," Li Yuefeng said again. "Even if Kong Lingfan doesn't come to cameo this time, after our trilogy is filmed, I don't believe there won't be other spin-offs developed. This is such a good theme to develop, replace all the actors, restart a story, it will still be very good to watch."

"That depends on how Jingtai arranges it." Jiang Jun smiled.

Li Yuefeng said: "Do you think Jingtai will develop spin-offs for our individual roles? Like American dramas."

"Roles with high popularity, not necessarily not," Lu Yan He said. "For example, your role."

Li Yuefeng: "My role with high popularity is already dead. I don't know how the audience will see my current role."

Speaking of this, he was a little depressed.

He is the only actor among the leads in the second season who has to worry about whether the audience will continue to accept him.

"Sister Bige, if another spin-off is developed for your role, would you be willing to act?" Shen Yue asked.

Chen Bige shook her head.

"Acted for three parts, and still act? Will be tired," Chen Bige said. "I won't consider continuing to act in this series in a short time."

Shen Yue: "Actually, if this theme could be developed into a film, it would be great. I think this theme developed into a film will definitely be very good to watch."

"Jingtai has no experience and channels for making films at all. Unless it is cooperating with others, it is very difficult," Chen Bige said. "Films and TV dramas are completely two systems, and the barriers are very deep." ===== CHAPTER 532 =====