Chapter 888: Meeting Li Zhibai in New York

When Lu Yan He was filming *Men in Black*, Li Zhibai's image would pop into his mind from time to time.

To be fair, Will Smith's handling in many places, that kind of young man's cocky and stinky attitude, is exactly the same as Li Zhibai most of the time.

Including James deciding to join the Interstellar Immigration Bureau, coming here the next day, putting on a black suit, wearing sunglasses, and saying to Agent K somewhat cockily, "Do you know what the difference between you and me is? I make this suit look better on me."

One hundred percent Li Zhibai.

However, Lu Yan He also acted quite vigorously in such a role.

Especially the rivalry with Sick—

He has too many rivalries with Sick in this movie. Sick is also a veteran actor who knows how to act very well. The character settings of the two of them in the movie are very classic opposition and complementarity.

Lu Yan He feels that he has never been as lively as James in *Men in Black*.

He has a bit of cockiness that is not afraid of anything.

One moment he complains that the car assigned to them is broken, and the next moment he babbles that Agent K's speaking attitude is not good enough. It looks like he is awesome, and the car runs like a racing car when it starts. The fanatical push-back feeling makes him honestly shut his mouth.

After filming in the crew for about two weeks, Lu Yan He began to not need to think about performance anymore.

He just needs to keep this mood every day, go to the set, and leave everything else to feeling.

Sick is the same.

His handling of Agent K is very high-level. A gentleman who looks cold, speaks little, and seems to be silent, in fact, he is a kind person who cares about the young man James, and understands and accepts the world of the young man James in his own way.

Sick did not simply treat Agent K as a cold-humored comic character.

He still used his performance to shape him into a man with a past—and through countless details, made people can't help but be curious about his past, curious about how he gradually became the man he is now.

In front of Agent K played by Sick, James played by Lu Yan He is as clean as a bottle of boiling pure water.

It looks lively and endless, but in fact, you can see the bottom at a glance.

Every time he films, Lu Yan He can get some new feelings from it—Lu Yan He likes this state. If one day filming cannot bring him freshness, that is really terrible.

Today, Lu Yan He is resting and has no filming tasks.

He was able to meet Li Zhibai who came to New York two days ago.

Li Zhibai came to see a director.

There is a movie project here, and his agent here thinks it is very suitable, so he recommended him to the director.

The director is also interested in him.

When Lu Yan He met Li Zhibai, Li Zhibai had already met the director.

"How is it?" Lu Yan He asked.

Li Zhibai said: "The chat was okay, but I haven't thought about whether I want to take this movie."

"Ah?"

"It is adapted from a very famous novel, but to be honest, I don't even understand why that novel is so popular. That novel also has a Chinese translation, but I think the story is very ordinary." Li Zhibai said, "A very... how should I put it, maybe the novel is better, because the novel focuses on a lot of atmosphere descriptions, and there are some fascinating meanings, but this script is very boring. It tells the story of a young boy in high school who discovers an entrance to another world from his backyard, and then adventures in that other world, defeating the big demon king of that world."

"It sounds a bit mediocre." Lu Yan He asked, "Why does your agent think this script is good?"

"We didn't talk much specifically. I thought about meeting the director and chatting to see if there would be any change. As a result, his vision for this movie made me feel more like it is a children's movie, filmed for children, relatively young and childish." Li Zhibai said, "It's just that the male lead of this movie is an Asian boy, so they found me."

"Oh?" Lu Yan He was a bit surprised.

"Haven't you heard of this project?" Li Zhibai said, "Maybe your agent rejected this script directly."

"It's possible." Lu Yan He said, "However, I think you don't need to rush to make a decision. You can talk to your agent, because many movies, at the beginning script stage, are not very good. They are changed draft by draft. The key is whether this script has a place that makes you moved. If so, you can make requests to the film company and the director, put forward all your doubts about the movie script and the parts you feel are not good, and see if they are willing to change, and to what extent they can change. What if it can be changed to a degree that you are relatively satisfied with, like *Buried 2*?"

Li Zhibai: "This is also okay, it's just too troublesome. Why wouldn't I want to change your script?"

"Come on, your aesthetic for the script is largely established here with me. You already have a filter for me. Even if my script is really not good, you can't see it." Lu Yan He said, "Objectively, you are no longer the Li Zhibai you were at the beginning. You have your own aesthetic vision, so, putting aside these filters, your requirements are getting higher and higher, and more and more picky. This is the most normal thing."

"If you say so, the scripts I like are indeed getting fewer and fewer."

"Many scripts that actors read at the beginning may be completely different from the stories finally filmed, and the stories filmed may be completely different from the final edited ones." Lu Yan He smiled, "The script is very important, sometimes, for movies, it is also very unimportant. In fact, the most important thing is the people you cooperate with, whether that director has the ability to control a project as a whole."

Li Zhibai: "Okay, taught."

He suddenly remembered something and said: "Yin Xincheng is holding a wedding tomorrow. Don't forget to send a message to others. Yan Liang specifically told me to remind you. I almost forgot."

Lu Yan He took out his mobile phone, found the chat record, and took it to Li Zhibai to see.

"It's okay, he doesn't trust you much either. He sent a message to remind me two hours ago."

Li Zhibai: "Fuck!"

Lu Yan He laughed.

Li Zhibai: "Yin Xincheng, this guy is also quite fast. He is married so soon, he is not thirty yet, right?"

"Isn't that how it is to get on the bus first and make up the ticket later." Lu Yan He said, "Who is still waiting for you to be over thirty and then hold the child to take an oath with you."

"His girlfriend, tsk tsk." Li Zhibai suddenly sighed.

"What's wrong? Did she trouble you?"

"Oh, no, it's that once she saw Qianqian at a commercial brand banquet." To this day, when Li Zhibai called out the two words Qianqian, Lu Yan He couldn't help but have goosebumps—but he could only endure it. Li Zhibai didn't realize that the scene just now was particularly disgusting in Lu Yan He's eyes, and continued, "She said to Qianqian that she was her fan, can they follow each other on social platforms? Qianqian, seeing that she was about to marry Yin Xincheng, considered half an insider, so they followed each other. As a result, Qianqian saw her saying in a live broadcast two days later that she was a very good best friend with Qianqian."

"..." Lu Yan He frowned in disbelief, "Is it such a hard rub?"

"Yes, hard rub." Li Zhibai said, "Qianqian followed her, what can she do? Qianqian can't stand up and say a sentence at this time, ah, no, she is not her best friend. That's too embarrassing. Yin Xincheng is the lead actor of *Friends*. If you don't look at Yin Xincheng's face, you have to look at your face."

Lu Yan He took a deep breath and sighed.

"I have a premonition in the dark now."

"What premonition?"

"This person will definitely cause us trouble in the future." Lu Yan He put his hands together, "I hope God tells me with facts that I am a narrow-minded person who refuses to believe in others. I hope I saw it wrong. She is actually a person who is annoying on the surface but actually quite good."

Li Zhibai sneered.

"Then I think you hit the nail on the head."

Li Zhibai said: "Anyway, next time I see her, I must expose her habit of using other people's signs to operate her social accounts without leaving a trace."

Lu Yan He: "I really don't understand, is she short of money, or short of attention? She is about to marry Yin Xincheng, she shouldn't be short of anything, right?"

"What are you thinking about here? Is your thinking useful?" Li Zhibai said, "You might as well think about when Yin Xincheng is caught between her and you, to what extent you can tolerate it because of Yin Xincheng." ===== CHAPTER 889 =====