Chapter 833

"You Chinese have an old saying called 'high art and bold courage'. I think this sentence can also be used to describe you."

Darren Wilson said to Lu Yan He on the phone.

Lu Yan He's response was: "Thank you for the compliment."

"Do you think it's easy for you to win an Oscar or be nominated for an Oscar?" Darren Wilson really couldn't hold back and asked.

Lu Yan He said: "I don't think it's easy, but I don't think I can't get it."

Darren Wilson said: "This is because you have been too smooth in winning awards and nominations before, becoming famous at a young age. You haven't seen how many actors have struggled for a lifetime and were rejected by the Oscars."

Lu Yan He: "Darren, I am indeed very smooth. However, my smoothness is not because of luck. You ask me if I think I want to win an Oscar is easy. Let's put it this way, if I am willing, I can have a movie shortlisted for the Oscars every year, whether it is acting or screenwriting. I am indeed very confident in myself."

Darren Wilson: "Okay, if it weren't for the fact that you just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, I would definitely say, you big-talking guy!"

Lu Yan He laughed.

"*The Boat* is about to finish filming," Zhang Yuezhen said to Chen Pinhe. "After this show is finished, let's make an appointment with Wen Shengming for dinner."

Chen Pinhe frowned in doubt and asked: "Why are we suddenly making an appointment with him for dinner?"

"My friend in Hollywood told me that Lu Yan He and Wen Shengming's PR strategy for this year has been set. Lu Yan He reports for the lead, and Wen Shengming reports for the supporting role," Zhang Yuezhen said. "Now the relationship between Lu Yan He and Wen Shengming is too close. Are you willing to see the relationship between Lu Yan He and Wen Shengming getting closer and closer? Through this matter, maybe we can bury a nail between the two of them."

Chen Pinhe asked: "What do you want to do?"

Zhang Yuezhen: "This movie is clearly a double male lead movie, why does Lu Yan He report for the lead and Wen Shengming report for the supporting role?"

Zhang Yuezhen smiled slightly.

Chen Pinhe immediately understood Zhang Yuezhen's meaning and understood what she wanted to do next.

Zhang Yuezhen said: "And, since the movie *The Pianist* has basically no play for nomination, why don't we send what we have to Wen Shengming!"

Chen Pinhe nodded.

"This is okay."

"Also, Maxine has confirmed that they will help you PR *Seventeen Layers: Reboot*, Golden Globe Awards, Emmy Awards..." Zhang Yuezhen said. "With the popularity and viewership of *Seventeen Layers: Reboot* on Maxine now, there is great hope for getting a nomination."

Now a show basically only needs high word of mouth, and the actors are big-name actors, the hope of getting a nomination is very great.

Especially compared to movies.

After all, drama awards not only have the distinction between comedy and drama, but also open a separate category for limited ones.

There are many more awards.

This is why Zhang Yuezhen wants to exert force on *The Pianist*.

Drama awards often favor movie stars more—

This is also a well-known fact.

Zhang Yuezhen said: "Originally, because of *Death Stranding 2*, Maxine was unwilling to help you PR *Seventeen Layers: Reboot*. Fortunately, this show has good data on Maxine, and there are two more behind it, plus a derivative movie. Out of commercial considerations, they believe that if they can PR one or two awards for *Seventeen Layers: Reboot*, it will be more beneficial to this series."

Chen Pinhe: "Did they find anyone for *Death Stranding 2*?"

"The script has been changed. Your role was not played by anyone else, but two new characters were added to share some of your scenes with the heroine," Zhang Yuezhen said. "The second season has become a big protagonist play for Wang Jiaqi's role."

Chen Pinhe: "Sure enough, you have to mix in Hollywood, this treatment is different."

Zhang Yuezhen: "Now the influence of Chinese-language film and television dramas is getting bigger and bigger in the world, our market is constantly opening up, and our works are constantly going out. In the future, such a gap will be smaller and smaller."

Chen Pinhe: "At that time, I will already be old."

Zhang Yuezhen: "How can it be so exaggerated."

Chen Pinhe: "Isn't it just like this?"

"In the prime of life, the data of *Seventeen Layers: Reboot* has only been broadcast for a month, and the number of viewers has exceeded 25 million on Maxine, ranking in the top fifteen of the year," Zhang Yuezhen said. "This is the best Chinese-language drama this year. *Flying Over the Grass* has been thrown far away. With *Seventeen Layers: Reboot* here, your global popularity will definitely rise sharply, one level higher than the *Death Stranding* period."

Zhang Yuezhen has great expectations for Chen Pinhe's development next.

If it weren't for Lu Yan He's achievements being more eye-catching and shining, Chen Pinhe's past few years would not be unsuccessful.

*White Pearl* and *The Pianist* were successively shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Venice International Film Festival, and the latter also won an award.

Starring in *Death Stranding*, a niche word-of-mouth work.

Starring in *Seventeen Layers: Reboot*, achieved one of the best results for Chinese-language dramas overseas.

*The Pianist* also helped Chen Pinhe get praise from a group of European and American media.

Next, there is a romantic comedy movie from a mainstream Hollywood film company and a movie by director Asimov.

For a Chinese actor, not being able to do projects in Hollywood by himself like Lu Yan He, being able to achieve such a harvest is already very top-level.

If Zhang Yuezhen didn't use her connections to walk around in Europe and America, this situation would not be realized.

Even if Lu Yan He is unstoppable now, Zhang Yuezhen is not nervous.

She knows one thing very clearly. In the entertainment industry, there has never been anything that one person can cover the sky with one hand.

As long as Chen Pinhe has what he should have here, no matter how capable Lu Yan He is, he cannot affect Chen Pinhe in the slightest.

Lu Yan He can use some means to operate *Doomsday* to Jiang Jun, but in this world, there are so many projects, can he take all the projects into his hands?

If *The Pianist* hadn't encountered a strong enemy this year, the Venice International Film Festival Best Actor would definitely be Chen Pinhe's.

This has nothing to do with Lu Yan He at all.

His hand cannot reach so many places.

It is precisely because she figured this out that Zhang Yuezhen now puts all her thoughts on Chen Pinhe's career development. Nothing else is important, what is important is that Chen Pinhe's own career must develop well enough.

"Why do this couple always make an appointment with me for dinner?"

Wen Shengming frowned.

"Refused it."

Wen Shengming didn't like Chen Pinhe much in the first place. After Zhang Yuezhen came to him last time and said she was willing to help him do North American awards season PR, he didn't like Zhang Yuezhen either.

Wen Shengming is not an artist who completely rejects all human feelings and sophistication. But he really doesn't like those people who are eager for profit. If Chen Pinhe usually takes himself too much as a performing artist and makes Wen Shengming feel that this person is too holding, then Zhang Yuezhen makes Wen Shengming feel that behind every smile and every sentence of hers, there are other plans.

As the top actor in China, Wen Shengming has met too many people like Zhang Yuezhen.

Of course, it is undeniable that what Zhang Yuezhen said is indeed tempting. But that is for others. For Wen Shengming, he really doesn't take it to heart. He is a person who has stood at the top in China for a long time. His vision and realm make him... to put it bluntly, not so "eager" for the Oscars.

You ask Song Dandan if she wants to win an Oscar? People can easily win it, of course they want to. But if you want people to do things that do not conform to her inner principles for this, to fight, to be left and right, what has the old lady not seen? Her mentality is no longer that thing.

Wen Shengming is the same.

He is willing to cooperate with Lu Yan He to do PR for *Storm Calmer No. 1*. One is because of the particularity of this movie itself, which makes him also hope to do his part to push this movie to have a good performance overseas. The second is that Lu Yan He's arrangements are all clean. All PR activities are nothing more than interviews, TV interviews, cocktail parties, etc., which need him to appear on such occasions, to introduce himself, to introduce the movie, and to help the movie get attention.

However, what is it to do some "alliance" in order to increase the possibility of winning a nomination.

What kind of thing.

Wen Shengming finished explaining to the agent, turned his head, and saw Lu Yan He stretching.

His assistant is sleeping on his lounge chair—

Lu Yan He himself stood aside, twisting left and right, occasionally running and jumping in place.

His bodyguard Zou Dong wore a headset, sat in the corner, and kept staring at Lu Yan He and his side.

No matter who in the crew wants to talk to Lu Yan He, communicate, or exchange, his assistant and bodyguard will not step forward to stop them.

Only when some strange faces appear will they alertly come to Lu Yan He's side to prevent any accidents.

Lu Yan He neither "drove away" the people around him, making it seem like he was really an ordinary actor, nor let his team gather in groups to guard him, protecting him tightly.

Wen Shengming had to admit that he really appreciated this young man more and more.

This world seems to be "the world is bustling for profit". But sometimes, one person's appreciation for another is unrelated to profit.

Wen Shengming heard that some people said behind his back that Wen Shengming supported Lu Yan He so much because Lu Yan He took out his best resources to help Wen Shengming "expand his overseas career". But when he said "I will always watch you" to Lu Yan He, it was when *Storm Calmer No. 1* was finished. One person's appreciation for another can be unrelated to profit, however, this does not need to be explained to others.

Because many people, their lives have never had such a "metaphysical" moment, you can't tell them that sometimes looking up, the sky is actually good-looking.

Therefore, when his agent told him with some dissatisfaction that the US side decided to report him for the supporting role and report Lu Yan He for the lead, he said this was very good. When his agent later came to explain with some guilt that the reason for reporting Wen Shengming for the supporting role was because the probability of getting a nomination for the supporting role was greater, and reporting for the lead was basically cannon fodder, this was Lu Yan He's concession—the US side originally wanted Lu Yan He to report for the supporting role, Wen Shengming was silent for a while, and only said, this is very good.

No matter what kind of decision, as long as it is made by Lu Yan He, Wen Shengming is willing to believe, and let himself believe, everything is accepted calmly.

This is what Zhang Yuezhen will never understand in her life, the support and trust of the elders for the younger generation, and, care.

Lu Yan He reporting for the lead does not actually make people feel surprised in Hollywood.

The movie *Storm Calmer No. 1* is promoted with Lu Yan He as the absolute core in Europe and America.

Reporting for the supporting role instead has a problem—

Everyone might feel that in order to win an award, he changed a role that could clearly report for the lead to report for the supporting role, which is too scheming.

Just like Rooney Mara in *Carol* back then.

Because of this behavior, it was controversial.

However, many people also admire Lu Yan He's choice. Because Lu Yan He almost gave up his journey in the awards season.

This is not Lu Yan He's problem.

The Best Actor this year is a big year, and there are many competitors.

"Lu Yan He certainly won't give up the subsequent PR activities," Chen Ziyan said. "Even if his hope of being nominated for an Oscar is very slim, the Golden Globe Awards still have a fight, and if Lu Yan He is absent from PR activities, the volume and presence of *Storm Calmer No. 1* will not rise."

Lu Qingzhen: "Then Lu Yan He's payment is quite a lot. He clearly can't get a nomination himself, but he still tries his best to do this."

"In this kind of thing, the vision must be put long-term. It is not that only an acting award nomination is helpful to Lu Yan He's career," Chen Ziyan said. "*Storm Calmer No. 1* as long as it can be shortlisted for the Oscars, whether it is Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Screenplay, or Best Supporting Actor, it is a milestone victory for this movie. The status of this movie in global film history may be raised a lot because of such a nomination. Yan He is the male lead, and the achievement of this movie is his achievement, and the success of this movie is his success."

Lu Qingzhen: "If this is the case, when Yan He changed to report for Best Supporting Actor at the beginning, wasn't the probability of getting a nomination greater?"

"Indeed, but such a shortlisting would be less meaningful than Teacher Wen's shortlisting."

"Less where? I don't understand."

"One is an actor who has already made a world in Hollywood, and the other is a Chinese actor who has never appeared in Hollywood. The representativeness is different," Chen Ziyan said. "Yan He's decision has his considerations. He is a person with long-term vision and big pattern."

"Okay."

At this time, *The Boat* also filmed the most critical scene.

Wen Shengming's death.

Lu Yan He needs to kneel in front of the bed, his eyes red, showing hidden pain, and promise his father: "Don't worry, I will support this family, I will take good care of my sister, and Bao."

Yu Mengling held Bao and also knelt on the other side, covering her face and crying.

This scene has almost no lines, all acting. The only line with information is this sentence of Lu Yan He.

Before officially filming this scene, Lu Yan He had repeatedly pondered many times how to act in this scene and how to say this line.

All kinds of ways have been tried.

However, he never made up his mind.

Therefore, the night before filming, Lu Yan He suffered from insomnia.

He hasn't suffered from insomnia for a long time.